If you’re from the silent or boomer generations, there’s a good chance you grew up with the dread, yet somehow nostalgic, “tuna noodle casserole”. You know, that one mom threw together in exasperation just to get something on the table. While a recipe for something approaching it, Noodles and Tuna Fish en Casserole, first appeared… Read More Tuna Noodle Not-Casserole
When I was growing up, my impression of Boston basically came from two things – history classes that involved Paul Revere’s midnight ride, colonists throwing tea in the harbor, the infamous massacre; and, Charles from MASH (whose personality and demeanor were years later reinforced by Fraser). And, sorry to say Bostonians, but there’s always been… Read More The Mid-Day Ride of Paul Revere
Five days back in NYC for a whirlwind visit with friends. Almost none of my old friends till live in the city, having moved to either close or distant places, ranging from Yonkers to Sicily. I think just over half of the people I saw this week made the effort to come into town to… Read More Barely Grazing New York City
I have just spent five days in Panama City, my first ever visit there. Now, most people who put the metropolis (is it a metropolis?) on their bucket list do so because of that canal thingy. The canal was never on my list. Come to think of it, I don’t know that I really have… Read More Panama says, “Bite Me!”
Welcome to the Eleventy-first of these entries! Since first encountering the idea in Tolkein, I’ve always liked the idea of an eleventy-one or eleventy-first… anything. I actually have, in the works, a local restaurant guidebook destined to have eleventy-one entries. Just because. Today, we have a very mixed bag of spots. I wanted to slip… Read More Bite Marks #111
Getting ready to head out on the annual vacation – or what used to be the annual vacation, something we somewhat fell out of doing during that viral kerfuffle. Destinations to appear, magically, on these pages. But let’s wrap up the April and May dinners at Casa SaltShaker. And maybe I’ll squeeze in a Bite… Read More April Showers May Flours
After our brief venture for Tex-Mex tacos last month at Órale Juanito Palermo my mind turned towards more classic Mexican street tacos, one of the best street foods on the planet. From just a few years ago basically all of the Mexican restaurants here in town serving up crunchy corn tortilla style tacos, and most… Read More “Oh yes, El Guapo. You have a plethora.”
Yes, I finally broke down and bought myself a corzetti stamp. I did swear to you I wasn’t going to for a pasta that I don’t generally make. But is that a self-fulfilling dictum, after all, without a corzetti stamp, I can’t make them, so I don’t. But regardless, I didn’t throw away a ton of money,… Read More Stamp Out Pasta!