Archive for December, 2005

Beijing Sesame-Fried Chicken

i don’t quite know how it happened but somehow i ended up a little bit last minute with the holiday shopping this year. usually i have everything done ahead of time, but with one week left i’m only seventy-five percent of the way there. i avoided the crowds and did some of my shopping online, [...]

wonderful each year, the beginning of december always marks not only the rush to the holiday season, but also the start of a string of birthdays one after another through the next couple of months. four birthdays down this week (vic, dom, my cousin, and my dad), and several more to go. i spent a [...]