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I’ve been gardening for two years now and one of my most prolific plants is my tomatoes which I randomly pick and make small amounts of sauce with.
So one of the big pains of making tomato sauce from scratch is peeling the tomatoes. You’re supposed to score the bottom into a little X and then [...]

I’m not sure what it is, but I love grass jelly. It’s strangely bland and herbal tasting, but add a little bit of simple syrup and it’s so delicious and cheap! One can runs about 89 cents and they offer green, black, and yellow kinds now. I prefer the green but black is a close [...]

I should chronicle the cooking of my first solo pot of pho but I’m too lazy. As I was skimming the fat off the top of the broth like a good Asian soup cook, the bowl, slippery from the fat that had been collected in it, fell out of my hand and all over my [...]

Okay so I’ve become addicted to Yelp!. I have been for some time. It is my supplement to my Chowhound addiction when I want to find out more about a place I’m about to eat at. I find that it’s users aren’t quite as sophisticated as Chowhound’s but they do in a bind.
I finally registered [...]

Yesterday my co-workers and I were “forced” into having to work the Democratic Party of Orange County booth at the Orange County Fair. Lindsay and I managed to sneak into preferential parking by asking stupid questions and having the lazy workers put us in the wrong lot. Thank you teenage worker apathy, I applaud [...]

I’m terrible at giving movie reviews or describing to others what it is that makes me really enjoy anything, including movies. When I dragged Hung to see Knocked Up I wasn’t expecting too much other than possibly hype and buzz. In fact, buzz wasn’t enough to get the usual gang to go so I dragged [...]