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Ok, this is just weird.
For the second time, my back has ceased up the day before my Good Bite shoot.
Isn’t that bizarre?
The first time it happened, a month or so ago, I got really freaked out. It was the day before the shoot, and I had a day of shopping and prep ahead of [...]

Scene: Me getting out of the shower. Bren brings me a towel from the other room. I take a sniff, make a face and immediately yelp at Bren.
A: Baba! Gross!
B: What?
A: Is this the same towel that you wrapped around your sweaty, stinky, post-Krav Maga body the other day, when you [...]

Like you, I’m having a hard time wrapping my mind around the fact that Mr. Jackson (if you’re nasty?) is dead. I know, I know, he may or may not have done some awful things in his life, but since I’ll never know the truth, I’m just going to withhold judgment. That’s between [...]

This little Indian girl hasn’t camped all that often in her life.
Hence my slight trepidation when invited to accompany our friends, the band Helios Jive, to the Elysium Festival just outside San Diego this past weekend. My husby, Bren, is one of their dancers. You probably recognize a few of the members from [...]

A little while ago, I mentioned that I was involved in a super-secret project.
It’s secret no more!
It’s called GoodBite — a cool channel for those of us who love food, but aren’t fussy about it. If your weekly blog roll includes the likes of Smitten Kitchen, Simply Recipes, Gluten-free Girl or Steamy Kitchen (just [...]

The Giddy-up Steak was big hit on this blog earlier this year. I still remember the ecstatic comments I got from Mandi and Ross about it — they made my day!
So, having garnered some new friends through the cooking show (welcome!), I thought I’d make it on tee-vee.
Grilling season is upon [...]

From just a minute ago.
Me: “You love me!”
Bren: “Don’t start rumours.”
Me: “BRENDAN MCNAMARA LOVES ME!”
Bren: [laughs]
Pause.
Me: “Why?”
Bren: “Why what?”
Me: “WHY do you love me? Say something nice about me.”
Bren: “Because… you’re lovable.”
Me: “WHAT? That sucks. Say something else.”
Bren: “Because [sticking finger up] you’re silly, [sticking two fingers up] you’re pretty aaaaaaand…”
Me: [waiting [...]

I’m reading John Piper’s Pleasures of God… but not without being a cliche and literally judging the book by its cover. I looked its generic nature scene and decided, eh, that book is not going to to be for me.
But then Bren read it, and couldn’t stop talking about how it good it is, [...]

As promised, here’s the recipe for mint chutney, a fetching bright green condiment that just yells out, “Eat me! I’m fresh and fancy-free!”
It does. Really! Make it and see! And no wonder. This is the chutney that accompanies those special afternoon snacks: the samosas, the pakoras, anything deep-fried basically! [...]