Mar 27 2010
We get a lot of birds around our house in the ‘burbs. I’m not an ornithologist by any stretch, but the longer I live here and the more birds I see, the more I learn about them. My interest was piqued last weekend as I was getting ready to make huevos rancheros for Sunday brunch. [...]
Mar 21 2010
I love huevos rancheros, but I hate lining up with hipsters to overpay for underperformed ones at the various brunch spots in Montreal. So I applied my usual solution: I made it myself. Before we move on, I should state that there is no one single definition of huevos rancheros (or more specifically, if there [...]
Mar 20 2010
Apropos of nothing in particular–aside from me being a wee bit hungover from last night’s YULBlog 10th anniversary party (and also wondering if I can write an entire blog post that contains not a single tpyo typo)–I present to you a photograph of a pizza I made last weekend: Sautéed spinach & garlic, porcini mushrooms, [...]
Mar 16 2010
Forgive me while I carve a rather meandering path to my point, but it begins last spring when I received in the mail a flyer from the Humber School for Writers. It indicated that Martin Amis would be the headliner, the star instructor, at Humber’s summer workshops for 2009. Martine and I both wondered what [...]
Mar 11 2010
In an unusual turn of events, we had nothing specific planned for dinner tonight. There were a few things in the fridge, but nothing in particular, and nothing that seemed like it could have a meal built around it. And then I thought: tapas! In about 45 minutes I banged out the following small plates: [...]
Mar 05 2010
My American (Express) journey (nightmare) continues. Remember the famous one-cent credit that existed on my AMEX Gold card after I canceled the account? How AMEX kept sending me statements every month, listing the credit, until I finally phoned them and said they could keep the goddam cent? That was quite the silly story. It ended [...]
