Category Archives: Confessions

My dad loves hamburgers

My dad makes me smile. He appears to be the most unemotional man on the face of the planet, but I’ve learned how to read him.

My mom doesn’t eat beef. Never has, never will. And while she claims that it’s okay if you cook it in her house, I’ve never tried. I suspect that there would be much fussing if I did.

So, when my dad and I get together without my mom, we eat beef. And there are few things that make me smile more than when my dad calls to say, “hi, just thinking of you. Wondering if you want to go for burgers this week.”

Lazy Sundays

I spent yesterday cooking dinner for 80 people. That’s right, 80. It was a fundraiser for the Nightingale School Breakfast Program, which provides breakfast to inner city kids.

Dinners like this are tricky. Even in hotels or restaurants, you need to have good people and a workflow to make things go smoothly. When you have one day and a handful of keen volunteers with varying levels of culinary and hospitality experience, it can be tricky to pull off.

It went well. But at the end of the day, I realized that it was a 14-hour shift and that my feet and back were killing me. How in the hell did I manage to do this before? I must be getting old.

Frazzled

Frazzled
(adjective) [fraz-uh-ld]

1. An abused egg that has been over-cooked to the point of rubbery grossness.

2. The current state of my brain.

Poutine, c’est tres bon!

After my poutine post yesterday, I thought I’d do something a little unusual: a guest post. Kind of.

My dear friend John is from Manchester, but please don’t hold it against him. He posted the following picture and words on a Facebook page, and it was just too good not to share. I think it also illustrates that I’m not the only crazy one who loves poutine. In fact, poutine bridges all cultural and generational gaps. I’m sure of it.

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Top five food moments: #1

Five.

Four.

Three.

Two.

One.

This one’s intense. I really mean it. If you could channel the energy that goes into this moment, you could probably solve the world’s energy crisis.

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