Category Archives: Food

Prep time: 15 minutes Active cook time: 2 minutes Total cook time: 4-6 hours Ingredients 1 English roast, 3.5+ pounds (chuck eye works too) 1 white onion 2 cloves of garlic, minced or through a press 2 medium carrots 1 celery stalk 1 C. chicken broth (optional) 2 tsp. sugar Salt & pepper Sprig of Read more...

Prep time: depends; is your chicken stock made? Active cook time: 35 minutes Total cook time: 35 minutes Ingredients 1 batch of chicken stock, or 8 cups of commercial stock 1 boiled chicken from chicken stock, or 3/4-1 lb of cooked chicken in small pieces 1 small to medium white onion, quartered (no roots) 2-4 Read more...

Prep time: 2 minutes Active cook time: 25 minutes up front, 10 minutes at the end Total cook time: 1.5-4.5 hours, the longer the better Ingredients 1 chicken, divided, skin and bones included 1 medium to large white onion, chopped 2 bay leaves 2 tsp of salt 1 Tbsp vegetable oil Water Tools Chef’s knife Read more...

I had oysters for lunch today; woot! I visited Emmet Watson’s Oyster Bar in Pike Place and had Hunter, Penn Cove, and Fanny Bay oysters. Oysters are salty and slippery and yummy and wonderful, and I’m very glad to have so many reasonably priced raw bar options here in Seattle. Emmet’s was a nice place Read more...

I owe a lot of money in student loans. A lot. I’ll take nearly any help I can get paying them down. Upromise to the rescue! Because I have some loans serviced by Sallie Mae, I can transfer my Upromise account monies to my loans. I’m pretty sure it works like this: Open an Upromise Read more...