Favorite Fancy Dinner

A week or so ago, I made my favorite "fancy dinner" (I think it's jwa's too). Seared ahi tuna, shitake-miso rice and cucumber slaw (I know! I have no idea why I like cucumbers here!). And, yeah, it's more diced than, uh, slaw-shaped, but, it's my menu and I'm callin' it slaw, damn it! The …

Better Homes & Gardens Cookbook Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe (the good one!)

My mother makes the best chocolate chip cookies ever. She would use the recipe out of the classic red and white checked Better Homes and Gardens Cookbook--the one with the stove burner imprint on the backside of it because she accidentally placed it on a burner once. But I digress, and I only mention it …