Spring Rolls Hard to Roll

by | Jan 17, 2010 | Food

There is a skill to wrapping spring rolls with these wafer-thin rice-and-tapioca wrappers. And I don’t have it. My crumbled spring rolls resembled regurgitated food, with undigested vegetables.As instructed here, I soaked the brittle spring roll wrapper in water...

Little Apartment Third Drawer Down

by | Dec 25, 2009 | Food, Life, Water, Weird

INCIDENT: Yesterday morning I found her dead in the toilet in our guest bathroom. By the time I fished her out with chopsticks, rigor mortis had set in. The apparent cause of death was drowning. And I hoped  she didn’t struggle too much. At least, she...

Gabby’s: Best ‘Sandwich Shop’ in Sequim

by | Jul 4, 2009 | Food, Sequim

Where in Sequim, Wash., can you get mouth-watering gyro stuffed with thinly sliced beef and lamb, diced tomatoes, purple onions, feta and juicy tsatziki sauce? At Gabby’s Java & Gourmet Grub off Carlsborg Road. Gabby’s is an enduring gem in a world of...