more game food: podin’s pulled pork

Well, the NIT has started, the Big Dance had its play-in game last night, and tomorrow is the first of two awesome days of NCAA basketball. As such, I thought I should share yet another game day favorite – Podin’s pulled pork. This recipe makes enough for a crowd, and it’s done in the slow [...]

What time is it? GAME TIME! (and time for chicken wings!)

So, we are entering one of my favorite times of the year, when almost all professional productivity takes a serious dip as a result of one of the greatest inventions of all time: NCAA March Madness. This week is Championship Week, where many of the conferences have their end of season tournaments, leading up to [...]

relaunching the blog

Hi everyone,
Welcome (again) to the blog. We have just made the blog more “public”, so that it will now appear on search engines like Google. Cheers!

Introducing Macho

Macho is a nickname that my niece and nephew gave me because they were unable to pronounce Masako when they were wee little ones. Now they are 9 and 7, but they still call me Macho. My contribution to the foodie collaborative will be mainly sweets but I may post a Japanese dish here [...]

His Majesty…

This weekend, I went out for breakfast at a local place called Lazy Jane’s Café and Bakery. This place is famous for it’s scones, and I can attest that they make the second best scones in town (after Masako’s, naturally).Lazy Janes is one of those places where you stand in line, order your food, [...]

Introducing Padraig

Gina invited me to be the foodie collaborative’s resident drink specialist. After deciding that her invitation was a compliment and not an “intervention,” I happily agreed. My first drink that I can remember was a sip of my dad’s scotch and soda, when I was about seven years old. I didn’t like [...]