Cooking
Well, dressing a monkey is harder than I thought. But I'm happy - Miss Monkey is going home with Cassidy tomorrow and my taxes are done. Yippee!
- Hungry Monkey: Book Review
Hungry Monkey is the funniest book I've read all year. It might seem odd that I would even bother reading a book about "a food-loving father's quest to raise an adventurous eater" since I don't have kids myself. I only review things here...
- Spice Hot Chocolate Recipe
Tonina, Chiapas, Mexico Lid of vessel with monkey and cacao pods, AD 600-900 ceramic, 18.3 cm (7 3/16); diameter: 33 cm (13) Museo de Sitio de Tonina, Chiapas -INAH, Mexico Photo: Javier Hinojosa Once upon a time the snake-footed god K'awiil threw...
- I Can't Like That
A while back, my three year old neice, Cassidy, and my brother came to my house for dinner. I thought I'd come up with an ingenious plan to get her to eat the tomato and chickpea dish that I was serving. I put a little of the pureed mixture (sans...
- An Error In Judgement
Perhaps choosing to make, rather than order, pizza for our weekly 'Classic Movie & Pizza Night' wasn't such a good idea. Outside, the temperature is somewhere in the mid-nineties. Inside? Well, the oven's set at 450. I'm sweating while...
- One Ring To Bind Them
Yes, I had to use that particular phrase for this post. You can all give a collective groan (for the pun, not the event) as I announce that An Obsession with Food is now a part of the Foodbloggers web ring run by Tang Monkey. Call me conformist if you...
Cooking
Crafts & Stuff: Miss Monkey hits the road
Well, dressing a monkey is harder than I thought. But I'm happy - Miss Monkey is going home with Cassidy tomorrow and my taxes are done. Yippee!
- Hungry Monkey: Book Review
Hungry Monkey is the funniest book I've read all year. It might seem odd that I would even bother reading a book about "a food-loving father's quest to raise an adventurous eater" since I don't have kids myself. I only review things here...
- Spice Hot Chocolate Recipe
Tonina, Chiapas, Mexico Lid of vessel with monkey and cacao pods, AD 600-900 ceramic, 18.3 cm (7 3/16); diameter: 33 cm (13) Museo de Sitio de Tonina, Chiapas -INAH, Mexico Photo: Javier Hinojosa Once upon a time the snake-footed god K'awiil threw...
- I Can't Like That
A while back, my three year old neice, Cassidy, and my brother came to my house for dinner. I thought I'd come up with an ingenious plan to get her to eat the tomato and chickpea dish that I was serving. I put a little of the pureed mixture (sans...
- An Error In Judgement
Perhaps choosing to make, rather than order, pizza for our weekly 'Classic Movie & Pizza Night' wasn't such a good idea. Outside, the temperature is somewhere in the mid-nineties. Inside? Well, the oven's set at 450. I'm sweating while...
- One Ring To Bind Them
Yes, I had to use that particular phrase for this post. You can all give a collective groan (for the pun, not the event) as I announce that An Obsession with Food is now a part of the Foodbloggers web ring run by Tang Monkey. Call me conformist if you...