easy recipes!!!! i just figured out that easy recipes are needed when i don’t want to go out to have meal and my final tasks are chasing me to deadlines. don’t want to drown myself into ice creams again.. haha…

The LA Times reported today that food prices have jumped as much as 25% in the past year. The primary reasons given were higher fuel costs (it costs more to ship in asparagus from South America) and the increased costs of corn thanks to ethanol production for our cars.

But here’s the thing. I’m a regular at the farmer’ markets here in LA and I haven’t seen any price increases for fresh fruit and veg grown locally. And that is despite the freeze that strangled so many farmers.

So here another reason to shop local and eat fresh.

Blink and the garlic is burned.

I can’t decide what to have for dinner tonight. I want it to be quick and easy, tasty and without meat (on account I ate beef for dinner last night and lunch today). Suggestions welcome please.

Would somebody please tell me once and for all how to spell chili?

Tonight was a total punt. We got home late and had little in the fridge. My wife was reaching for the phone to order Chinese. But instead we pulled out some chicken thighs, fresh sugar snap peas, some firm tofu and some cold noodles and fried them all up with some olive oil, vinegar and soy sauce.

It was quick and easy. And not only was it better than take out, but it was pretty darn tasty.