San Juan Tour

Sometimes the impromptu things end being the best, right? The last-minute let's-go-out-for-dinner plans with friends who also happen to be available? That's the spirit behind next weekend's Gourmet Game Night gathering on Orcas Island at Allium restaurant in Eastsound. Sunday night October 16 during happy hour (5:30 to 6:30), I'll [...]

2011-10-09T10:36:19+00:00October 9th, 2011|Travel|

That OTHER Game: Snacks for Super Bowl

Yep, she's right. My pal Tracy imagined aloud in a blog post that when I wrote Gourmet Game Night I was likely "thinking of Scrabble, poker or backgammon" rather than football. I don't care much for the game, actually. Never watch during regular season. The last Super Bowl I watched was [...]

2021-01-25T15:39:13+00:00February 3rd, 2011|entertaining ideas|

Game Night 2011: Small Is Delicious

Is it just me, or did this recent transition from one year to the next come with a larger-than-usual dose of year-end lists? Both of the looking-back-on-what-happened this past year and the ever popular crystal-ball-gaze toward what the coming year may hold. And food trends certainly stand out as one of the [...]

2011-01-11T10:50:25+00:00January 11th, 2011|entertaining ideas|

Game Therapy: Laughter

At one point during the evening Saturday I got up to close the sliding glass door alongside the dining room table. Not necessarily because it was getting too cool (a glorious warm spring evening it was, matter of fact). But out of worry that our raucous laughter might be disturbing [...]

2013-10-25T19:37:01+00:00March 29th, 2010|Family and Friends, Gourmet Game Night|

A New Project: Tasty Fun and Games

I've had a Blondie comic strip tacked just above my desk for a while now. In it, Dagwood's playing poker with his pals, shuffling the cards only to have them all fly out of his hands with a P-R-R-R-T (one of those clever comic sound effects). The others decide that Dagwood's [...]

2009-05-12T12:38:52+00:00May 12th, 2009|Cookbooks, Cooking at Home|
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