Tragedy – I am addicted to the lazy susan.

Comedy – Some nights I’m too lazy to turn it.

Ever since I bought the lazy susan, I cannot stop making smorgasbord dinners. Sure, we have a few more tiny dishes to wash, but that job ends up in the husband department, perpetuating [...]

Act 2. Because we grilled an extra pork tenderloin the night before, we get to, or should I say the family gets to make a meal that falls somewhere between a chinese hot pot and a Japanese ramen noodle dish. Wait until you see how our cup ‘o vegetables put cup [...]

Parents have been debating Battle Hymn’s assertion that in order to raise highly achieving kids, like many Chinese-Americans, we need to brow beat them (the kids, not the Chinese-Americans) into working hard and prevent them from participating in anything social or extracurricular unless it’s learning to play piano or violin. [...]

Eric Ripert, if you don’t know or if you haven’t lived on the east coast or if you’ve never seen Avec Eric or Top Chef, is the executive chef of Le Bernardin a four-star New York restaurant known for exceptional service and sublime French cuisine presenting exquisite foods from the [...]

Planning one vegetarian dinner a week is a simple way to a healthier diet. Unfortunately, we scientists confused y’all in the 70′s by obsessing that vegetarian meals needed to contain all 26 “essential amino acids.” Cross-referencing tables of ingredients is not conducive to whipping up meals for hungry families. Moreover, [...]