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Pork Tenderloin and Failed Barbeque Sauce


Barbeque sauce is amazing and, like all good things, regionally divisive. Some love the tomato based Kansas sauces and others like the vinegary sauce from the Carolinas. I like them all. So much that I tried to make my own. And failed. Luckily, the dry rubbed pork tenderloin was good enough on its own.

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Freezing Tofu for Texture


I originally posted this to Flickr on September 2, 2009. I had just bought a G1 (a T-mobile phone running Android) and it had a 2 megapixel camera. I was so excited because I thought that meant I could start a food blog because I finally had a camera. Unfortunately, this picture stifled all of those dreams.

However, despite this picture’s lack of… quality, the motivation behind taking it remains. This was the first time I had made tofu at home that I was proud of. And the trick? Freezing it!

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Ginger Mint Wax Tea or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Blog


I have a mouth full of wax. I can feel little gritty pieces in my back molars and a thin sheen on the back of my front teeth. I am trying to pick it off, but am slowly resigning myself to the fact that I’m probably going to have to just gargle with some boiling water. Maybe that will also clear out the coating in the back of my throat that only constant swallowing has prevented from being lodged in my trachea.

Why do I have a mouth full of wax?

That’s an excellent question, the answer to which is: bees are jerks. And, of course: I am an idiot…

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