Category Archives: Food and Drink

Sharkey’s

Imagine walking in to Sharkey’s in the early 1990’s and ordering a hamburger made with 6 ounces of certified-organic, locally-raised, grass-fed, free-range beef. I can’t, either, but it’s on the menu now, right above the bison burger.

Martini

I have a few extra minutes this evening since Andrea is working on another of Rachel Ray’s 30 Minute Meals.
My favorite cocktail is pretty simple - gin and tonic. I’ll try other things and certainly enjoy many of them, but it remains my steady favorite. Over the last few years, I’ve been slowly working […]

Relativistic cooking with Rachel Ray

Rachel Ray is one of those Food Network hosts who always seems to have a couple of shows on the TiVo. I first remember seeing her show $40 a Day, about the Sedona, AZ, the town where my mother lived at the time. In my experience visiting Sedona, most of the food available there was […]

Do you like Micro-Brew?

After driving to one of Kirsten’s favorite eats in Baltimore, Iggies, and finding it to be closed, we headed over to Little Italy to park, then walked to the Inner Harbor.
Since we were trying for pizza anyway, we decided to eat at Uno’s.
I noted a line on the beer menu telling me to […]

Evans loses its best salsa

Moe always says he knows burritos, but let me tell you, his salsa his from a can and it SUCKS! Until a few weeks ago, I didn’t care much about Moe’s salsa. I’d been to the Mullin’s Crossing location a couple of times since it opened, just to check it out, and one time I […]