Fresh asparagus from the farmer’s market in Reston this week. Nothing like a fresh start for Spring.

I made this recipe today… it wasn’t good, so I’m not going to write about it.

Part of my duty as a food blogger is to edit myself and to make sure I’m sharing things that are worthwhile. Unfortunately, if Thomas Keller had descended from the heavens, hand-selected each ingredient, and then spent a full day just cooking this dish, it probably still wouldn’t have tasted good.

Consider it my gift to you for not posting this. Enjoy your day!

I started off with good intentions for this Asia trip, updating after the first day of travel in Taiwan.

However, things have gotten predictably too busy to keep posting during the trip. We are out all day and most of the night. I haven’t had much time to update the blog, but I have a lot to post once I get home later this week. Until then, I’m posting some quick pictures and thoughts to my Twitter. We’re in Tokyo for a few days right now.

I’m off to Asia for a couple of weeks, taking photos and eating a lot of food. Talk to you in a bit!

I haven’t posted much about homebrewing recently – but it continues ever on. We’ve done a brown ale, a pumpkin ale, and just today opened up the fermenter and bottled this beautiful taddy porter. Can’t wait to taste the result.

On another note—we’re leaving for Taiwan (and a short visit to Japan) this week. This brew should be ready by the time we return. See you all some time in April!

I love snacking almost as much as cooking—ok, maybe even more. From street food to ice cream, a great snack, in my book, can be just as memorable as a Michelin-star meal.

One thing I haven’t covered much in my Japan posts are the little bites we found and loved. We’re about to return to Asia in a couple of weeks, and I couldn’t think of a better time to share some of my favorite snacking experiences from Japan. While some snacks serve the purpose of merely filling a stomach between meals, others are worth traveling to the ends of the earth for.

Steve jobs died today. We heard about it here tonight via Teresa’s iPhone, after we had just eaten dessert. It took a few minutes before the irony set in – three of us sitting there on the couch, reading about it all on each of our three Apple devices we never imagined we would want 5 or 6 years ago.

I grew up in the 80s and 90s, when macs were considered toys for people who didn’t understand technology, and us “real” computer people were building our own PCs. We used Winamp instead of iTunes, we installed our own video cards and RAM, and we thought we knew it all. We laughed at the mac users, and at Apple in general. I remember thinking that the people at Apple, as well as their users, must have no idea what they are doing.