Archive for Mellow Food
The Pleasures of Mild Curry
Okay, this is a blog that celebrates chiles. However not everything has to be blazing hot! I’ve loaded four new curry recipes on the Recipes du Jour page:
Butter Chicken (Murgh Makhani)
Quick Lemon Curry Chicken
Thai Mussamun Curry
Burmese Ginger Curry Pork
Butter Chicken is not for those on low-fat diets. But since that only covers about two readers [...] Read more »
Monday Pepper Picker-Upper
Since it’s a Blue Monday, all we need are red and white peppers to complete the Trifecta. (Don’t get me started on Big Frown, and how he’s probably gonna cause me to be homeless. Anybody want some used Belmont bet stubs?)
To celebrate, I’m putting a couple new recipes up on the Recipes du Jour page. [...] Read more »
Restaurant Review: Joe DiMaggio’s Italian Chophouse
The years roll by, and before you know it, you are celebrating 21 years together. (Yes, it could happen to you; if you’re lucky, that is.) Paula Jo decided we should celebrate with a special meal, just the three of us. We loaded up our favorite Designated Driver and headed over to a new restaurant [...] Read more »
A Sad Admission
Okay, I gotta admit it: I didn’t eat spicy food yesterday.
Early in the morning we loaded up Sonia and Sam, the happy Goldens, and about half our house’s plunder and headed out. Road Trip! Destination: Boerne, Texas. Where I grew up. Because of all my travel, I hadn’t visited Mom in way too long. Of [...] Read more »
Just Another Day in Paradise
This morning the dawn sky was clear, a foreboding of evil heat to come. Yesterday’s rain, and its relative cool, were long gone. But I’m getting tougher after being here in Singapore for so long. I can even go outside for a walk these days and not immediately melt down into my shoes. (And if [...] Read more »

