Note: I posted this updated version of a 2013 post in Eat Seattle. Another stop in my culinary adventures has brought be to the Tokyo-based Kizuki Ramen and Izakaya in the Crossroads area of Bellevue. Ramen has the same sort of fierce loyalty and passionate devotees that […]

I am tired of getting blog posts forwarded to me that promote the health benefits of kale. Hippies have been eating the rich, dark-green, bitter leaves for years. Somehow the masses now know, and for me, that may be a problem. Me? I’ve known about […]

It probably goes without saying that fall and soup go together…well…like…fall and soup. One of my favorite ways to cook is to bring together simple, “poor people” food and hope to do mothers and fathers proud everywhere. You have heard me say before that food […]

Zuppa Toscana – Inspired by the Olive Garden OK I hate to admit it but you know we have all been there…yup that franchise of franchises. The one that many young men take their ladies to, or son’s take their mothers too, or maybe its […]

Chicken and Wild Rice Soup – Great Winter Warmer Everyone needs a soup or two on hand that doesn’t come in a blue or red and white can off of a supermarket shelf. Having some soup to reheat at any time on hand is great […]

Several years ago I had taken some time away from finance and tried to make a living out of my volunteer work by selling and delivering custom-built student mentoring programs for high and middle school students. One of my co-workers, a young black man named […]

Making chicken stock has always sounded scary and a daunting task. What is so easy to find in cans, cartons, and in cube form, and so dang cheap, can’t be easy to make at home can it? I am here to tell you that it […]

It is time to write about Pho. I have posted pictures, tweeted, and have single-handedly introduced more white people (especially my friends and family in Spokane) to this Southeast Asian delight than ANY OTHER WHITE PERSON EVER! Ok…I may have exaggerated a little, but it […]