Easy Fudge

Melt chocolate chips over medium heat until smooth. It is important that there aren’t any lumps as you will feel them in the texture of the fudge if there are…

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Recipe: Cheese Enchiladas

In a small frying pan (it just has to be large enough for one of the tortillas to lie flat in) pour about a half an inch of vegetable oil. Heat on medium heat.

Create a staging area like so…

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Recipe: Chimichangas

Pour at least one inch of vegetable oil into a pan and set it on medium high heat.
Warm the tortillas on a paper towel in the microwave for about 10 seconds to soften them.
Spoon a dollop of refried beans onto one side of the tortilla as shown, and add some diced onion and shredded cheese…

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The World's Most Complicated Drink

This is me in Sorrento, Italy. I’m enjoying something to eat and drinking a whiskey sour. I’m on my honeymoon. Life is good. What led up to this moment, however, was just bizarre.

We had taken the train from Naples to Pompeii, then after looking around Pompeii had taken the train to Sorrento. We walked down the long, winding road to get to the water’s edge and...
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What is up with fortune cookies, Part II

This is a followup to my previous article, What is up with fortune cookies these days? which I wrote after friends and I received some very strange “fortunes” in our fortune cookies.

Well, it’s happened again. Different restaurant. Three of these are just weird. One of those three is just stupid. Then the fourth one is just made of 100% pure awesome, and it was, appropriately, the one in my cookie.

The first weird one...
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What is up with fortune cookies these days?

When I was growing up, I seem to recall that fortune cookies contained things like “you will meet a tall, handsome stranger” or cute little “Confucius say…” type phrases. These days it seems like they’re…um…different?

We ordered Chinese delivered tonight and each of us got a cookie. Here is what our “fortunes” were:

“You have a sincere desire to improve”
This one actually works well with the “-in bed” suffix, so it gets my approval.

“Lucky you....
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Chocolate...uh...what? Soup? A recipe gone awry

I am currently on a quest. A quest to make a cake as close as possible to the amazing dessert I’ve had at Atlanta’s Après Diem, where they simply call it “flourless chocolate cake”. I’ve learned that they buy it from the Buckhead Bread company where it is sold under the name “Chocolate Decadence” (far more suitable a name). This cake is a dense cake, not overly sweet, not fluffy or spongy at all, yet...
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Vegetarianism: the why, the wherefore

“I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men. “ – Leonardo da Vinci, 1452-1519

Most people’s relationship with the cow, the pig, etc. is a predator/prey relationship. This page is my explanation for why mine isn’t. I am a vegetarian, and have been since...
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