Our trip to Hillsboro became an adventure. It rained hard after turning north from the Hatch cutoff, in fact so hard that we stopped at the...

We ate last night at Sur Real, an upscale Latin-themed restaurant on Skyline Drive near La Costalotta. Reviews have been good, and the prom...

Hey, Mom, I finally re-created the sausage you and Dad and I had at that Guatemalan restaurant (aptly named "Guatemalan Restaurant...

With Grandma in rehab (that's physical therapy, for those of you who don't know her), the last few days we have fallen into a patte...

Patty ate one of the cat's toys, a tiny white mouse on wheels. The cat hasn't been eating her canned food lately, so Patty ate that,...

No cooking in this post -- nothing especially amazing in the Chinese takeout department, either -- but I was in love with this greasy bag ou...

I went to a conference of piano teachers over the last three days. We opened with a three-hour meeting of the board, with a break for "...

I am overjoyed to have a local pizza joint, the kind where we walk in and the waitress waves cheerfully and then ambles over to our table wi...

I've managed to eat pretty well considering I'm on a dorky business trip, working all day in an office building in an office park an...

This post may appear to have nothing to do with cooking, but there's nothing that makes me want to stay home and cook like a solid week ...