When ever we go camping, we love to cook the food at the campsite and enjoy it there. However, if there are local restaurants nearby (not the fast food chains), we love to walk over and enjoy a meal. On our recent camping trip to Carpinteria, we discovered a local Thai restaurant SIAM ELEPHANT. SIAM ELEPHANT […]
Title: The Food Lab Author: J. Kenji Lopez-Alt Genre: Cooking Publisher: W. W. Norton Release Date: September 21, 2015 Pages: 938 A few years ago I stumbled on an amazing YouTube channel called “SERIOUS EATS“. As the name suggests, it’s a channel about food. Last year they started a new series called “THE FOOD LAB” hosted by […]
A trip to Trader Joe’s can never disappoint you. You go to buy milk and end up with a big brown bag (reusable? recyclable??) full of goodies. On my last trip I saw a sweet green box in the ” NEW” items labeled Organic Moroccan Mint Green Tea. Moroccan Mint Tea also called “Maghrebi […]
On April 20, 2010 eleven men died when the Deepwater Horizon Oil Rig exploded making it the worst oil disaster in U.S History. This event happened 41 miles southeast of Louisiana Coast. The spilling continued for 87 days. The details of this disaster can be read on Encyclopedia Britannica Peter Berg’s “Deepwater Horizon” movie, recreates this horrific […]
