One of my favorite dishes these days is Chicken Piccata. A few months ago I had it in a restuarant and loved it. Since then I have been working on perfecting a recipe of my own to make at home. Before the recipe a little bit of history …
Piccata is not originally from Italy. Much [...]

Bryan and I (mostly Bryan) grew some organic broccoli this fall in our garden and it is so good. Normally, I don’t like eat broccoli raw. The stuff you buy in the store always has an odd taste when eaten raw. But straight from the garden it is awesome eaten raw. So crisp and fresh [...]

After many months of seeing advertisements for the Amazon Kindle every time I am at Amazon.com I finally gave in and checked out what the little device is all about, and I must say I am intrigued. Certainly not intrigued enough to drop $350 on the device, but definitely interested.
There is so much potential for [...]

I just had the most delightful dental experience. I actually walked out of the dentist’s office beaming! I have not had my teeth cleaned since I’ve been in grad school (that translates into about 3.5 years of no deep teeth cleaning). So, there was a lot of tartar build up. However, the hygienist was great. [...]

A couple weeks ago I heard Terry Gross interview a UC Berkeley Professor of Journalism, Michael Pollan. He wrote an open letter to the then next President Elect (I guess now the letter is directed to Obama). The letter was published in the New York Times Magazine. I just finished reading it and there is [...]