Making heart shaped pancakes.

tool bought at Le Gourmet Chef, Gilroy, Ca.

Campbell, Ca.

February 2009

I made these - Kra-tong Thong!

Mai Home Saigon Culinary Arts Center (cooking class): Soup and fish dish ready to eat.

Christopher Bacu was taking a tray of pies to the kitchen to bake at the The Lord of Life Christian Preschool on Tylersville Rd. in West Chester where this week they had a Cooking Camp opened to all kids ages three through entering kindergarten, today the little cooks where making little apple pies. July 27, 2011 The Enquirer/ Tony Jones

Cleaning up after cooking.

I took David, Radicaldreamer, and Tigerboy to a teen chocolate class at Viking Homechef, in Walnut Creek. They made two kinds of truffles (white chocolate rolled in oreo crumbs, and dark chocolate rolled in cocoa powder), chocolate hot lava cakes with praline sauce, and double chocolate dipped strawberries.

It was a blast!

The hibachi chef at work

At Nagasaki

Memphis, Tenn.

An Ikea kids cooking set, found at Frenchy's. P loves it!

Cooking Diner

This woman is starting a cooking fire on her front porch to cook nsima.

Package looks good.

Cooking the small rice cakes (dango) for the second recipe, Mitarashi Dango at the Austin Japanese Culture and Language Meetup Groups Japanese dessert workshop.

Typical fogon or cooking fire in Mayan kitchens.

Lachlan David Tavis

Cooking three different kinds of rice cakes wrapped in banana leaves for Tet, Vietnamese New Year. The monks and nuns at Plum Village are (mostly) vegan (yeah! how awesome is that?!) and generally do not eat sugar, caffeine, etc. However the rules are relaxed the New Year, especially

Artichokes cooking

Chris and I take a soba noodle cooking class offered by our host, Yasuhiro Kaji at Ars Locus, a community centre near our guest house.

Birthday 2014

Olympus OMD E-M5

M.Zuiko 12-50

I'm at ABC Cooking Studio! 4sq.com/1kCwPxq

Mayan boy standing by typical fogon or cooking fire in kitchen of his house. Notice how easily family members can get burned.

I have previously blogged about my best friend giving me this quote: “We all need something to do, someone to love, something to look forward to.”

I am grateful for the work I do (like Minimonos, and cooking for a friend). I am grateful for the people who allow me to love them. I look forward to the future, and all the amazing things these incredible children of ours will do. I look forward to the gathering tomorrow, and the honor of being asked to serve.

What service will you provide today? What are you grateful for?

Small dumplings with minced meat sauce

This photo was taken at a friend's house in Osaka.

My friend and his dad are exceptional cook and host. Having finish what I would describe as a banquet, we were invited over to the kitchen to learn how to cook Japanese egg roll. Not bad for our first try tossing egg in a square frying pan.