Food & Drink

The cooking enthusiast's best friend and the most essential knife in the kitchen for cutting, chopping, slicing, and dicing fruits, vegetables, meat, and poultry. This high-performance knife has been created to meet and exceed the most exacting culinary… more »

Vegetables are not and never have been...impossible to grill, but they do tend to be inconvenient. This grill "basket" makes a significant difference. Gone are the days when an asparagus spear or a zucchini slice would slip between the grill grates.… more »

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001KYT6CS/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=petespage01&linkCode=as2&camp=217145&creative=399369&creativeASIN=B001KYT6CS I guess I have to admit that I was skeptical of these contraptions at first.… more »

It is a sad day any time the honeymoon is over. Consoling words never help. "It was a good run...while it lasted." "You will always have the memories." "It is better to have had $0.99 5-piece chicken nuggets and lost than to never have had $0.99 5-p… more »

I lost my Q-card. I am not happy about it, but there is nothing I can do about it unless somehow I happen upon it in the future. What is lost? Nothing really. Unless I happened to meet someone who would be overwhelmingly impressed if I showed them m… more »

If someone asked me to put fill a bowl with pure deliciousness, I would have to assume it would involve mashed potatoes, corn, gravy, fried chicken and cheese. What else could they possible add to this thing to make it better? I had one for lunch to… more »

I had lunch this afternoon with one of my sisters and our mother. We sat down together at a well-known Tex-Mex chain restaurant and had a decent meal. Almost everything went as you might expect. The confusion enters the picture at the time of payment… more »

One of my professors was telling our class the other day how she does not cook. When her children were growing up she said they would be disappointed to learn that she had made them a homecooked dinner. For Thanksgiving, she now buys the turkey, takes… more »

A few milestones involving both me and fish eggs: November 12, 2005: First time I tried caviar. November 12, 2005: Last time I will try caviar. more »

This is a formal goodbye to Arby's Big Montana. It pains me to do it, but I feel it is the right thing to do. The sandwich of sandwiches has been gone for a few months, but I have not been able to talk about it until now. Not until now have I been ab… more »