Making of a Burley Klingon

  “Heels and red lipstick will put the fear of God into people.” — Dita Von Teese, on what she’s learned being a burlesque star But then add forehead ridges and bat’leth.  You’ll be thanking the stars that you were there. In January, I traveled to Austin to watch my sister perform with the Austin Burlesque Alliance’s…

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I Blame GBBO: Chicken Pie

“This is Desperate Dan territory. Making massive pies out of hot water crust pastry is always a good thing to do on a cold day. They’re warming and hearty and they set you up.” –Richard Burr, finalist in series 5 of The Great British Bake Off I blame The Great British Bake Off. I am…

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Wine Wednesday: Feb. 3, 2016

  “Here’s to the corkscrew – a useful key to unlock the storehouse of wit, the treasury of laughter, the front door of fellowship, and the gate of pleasant folly.” –W.E.P. French (poet and toaster)

January, 23: National Pie Day Steak Pie

As Mr. Sloan always says, there is no ‘I’ in team, but there is an ‘I’ in pie. And there’s an ‘I’ in meat pie. Anagram of meat is team … I don’t know what he’s talking about. -Simon Pegg as Shaun of Shaun of the Dead Last Sunday, I decided to serve up a steak pie…

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Wine Wednesday: Jan. 20, 2016

“Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures.” M.F.K. Fisher (American food writer from the introduction to Vin et Fromage)

Wine Wednesday: December 30, 2015

“Qui sait déguster ne boit plus jamais de vin, mais goûte des secrets.” Roughly Translated: “Who knows how to taste wine never drinks again, but tastes secrets instead.” — Salvador Dali (surrealist painter and owner of a fine moustache)

Wine Wednesday: Dec. 23, 2015

  “Beer is made by men, wine by God!” Martin Luther (seminal figure in the Protestant Reformation, craft brewer)

Wine Wednesday: Dec. 2, 2015

“Smooth out with wine the worries of a wrinkled brow.” Quintus Horatius Flaccus (aka Horace, poet of Rome)