LGBT – The Spamwise Chronicles

Roast Chicken Salad with Haricots Verts and Mustard Vinaigrette

B is headed to Las Vegas this week to keep […]

Weekend Rituals

B and I have been together since May 2013. If you count since we’ve been living together, it’s been 3 1/2 years. I prefer to start the clock from the […]

cooking

A San Francisco Treat — Part 7

Once upon a time, there was a hobbit who lived in a city full of glass towers. And the hobbit swore to himself that he’d move to San Francisco back […]

food

Pasta all’ Genovese

I lived in Astoria, Queens, between 1990 and 1997. It was a three-bedroom apartment in a little brick-faced building across the street from a parochial school and church. I had […]

California

San Francisco Street Art Snapshots

Regular posting (recipes and food photography) will resume after I return to New York City this weekend. Clicking on any of the tiles on the mosaic below will bring up […]

American cuisine

Gramercy Tavern Snapshots

Gramercy Tavern is one of my favorite restaurants in New York City. It opened in July 1994 to rave reviews. It’s always been a showcase of New American cuisine with […]

cooking

Chicken with Mustard

A few months ago, I bought “My Paris Kitchen“. It was roughly around this time that I decided to change my habit of rarely cooking directly from cookbooks to more […]

food

A San Francisco Treat — Part 4

Last in a series of four posts. Clicking any of the photographs below will bring up a slideshow. Enjoy the pix.

LGBT

A San Francisco Treat — Part 3

Clicking any of the photographs below will bring up a slideshow. Enjoy.

California

A San Francisco Treat — Part 1

Clicking any of the photographs will bring up a slideshow. Enjoy the pix.

Alice Waters

San Francisco Snapshots

I’m just getting around to posting these pix. I was on vacation in January and the early part of February, during which I visited B’s parents in Austin, TX, and […]

food

Hummus

In a way, my search for edible hummus is a story about this blog. When I first began blogging, I didn’t know what I wanted to talk about. At first, […]

autumn

A 3,000 Mile Love Letter

If you had told me a while ago that I’d be dating someone long-distance, I’d have probably laughed in your face. Fast forward to 2013. It’s been a little over […]

American cuisine

A Greenmarket Dinner

Credit for tonight’s dinner goes to Homer of Homer’s World. Homer doesn’t know it but when I started regular foodblogging in 2008, I decided to really become attuned to what […]