I have been wanting a larger mixer for the last couple of years. With all my baking and bread, I have pretty much run the one I have into the…
A few months ago while visiting family in Columbus, I wanted to visit a kitchen store in the Short North. I had checked to make sure the store was still…
Anyone who knows me knows I’m not a huge people person, or much of an extrovert. If I had my druthers, I’d be all alone on a deserted island with…
Although the time in the kitchen was less this year than last, with having to go back to the office, I still enjoyed making a few new things, and finally…
If you haven’t had a chance to eat at a Coopers Hawk, please make it one of your places to eat in the new year. One just opened up near…
Baking is an interesting endeavor. If all of the ingredients are mixed in the right order and in the right amounts, most things turn out as expected. It is the…
In case you didn’t know, it is a little challenging to write when your dog is like a second skin. Right now she is cuddled right up next to me…
My heart was set on eating at either Gordon Ramsey’s Burgers or Giada’s during my Sin City stay. However, the Strip apparently wasn’t going to have any of it. Giada’s…
Tis a great Thanksgiving! I had several of the people who mean the most to me all around the dinner table. Then our three older children called us on their…
We have started a tradition of having Sunday dinner with the Papas now that they live close to us again. There are new recipes and the tried and true. This…
These are the inner wonderings and thoughts of a middle-aged man who happens to be a father, husband, grandfather, friend, brother, son, and thinker.