Part four of a series to run each Friday in February.
Links to Part One, Part Two, and Part Three.
Hello and welcome to Part 4 of “Anyone can cook!”  In the last segment, we went over some basic food safety topics and how to use the knife.  In this installment, we’ll continue with basic kitchen skills [...]

Not long after reading Edwin’s review of Pizzeria Ortica, I wanted to go myself – badly.  Since it had just been reviewed, though, the timing was not good for someone who hates to wait.  The thought had come and gone several times since then, but when I did remember, we had other plans that conflicted.  [...]

Pas.tu in Persian (Farsi) means: “a cozy tiny spot hidden in the far end of your desired spot which holds all treasures and special memories.”
I am not sure I have ever experienced a more well-named restaurant. My date and I happened upon Pas.tu, which serves French-Mediterranean cuisine, while meandering down Marine Boulevard on Balboa Island recently.  It was [...]

Hockey to Canada is what Baseball to Americans, Skiing to Norwegians, and Vodka to Russians. Winning the gold in hockey is Canada’s inalienable right. Its the only medal that Canadians cared about, and the only one that matters. They can lose in just about every other winter sport, as long as they win the men’s [...]

January 2010, finally a drop?
Sales were down and most of what moved was distressed.  Are the banks starting to clean out the closet?
Case-Schiller for Costa Mesa all SFR , and nicer condos and PUDs

Month
Sales
Price
SE
CS=
SEM
Equivalent
Date

JFM
15
479
22
182
8
(limited dataset)
Feb 2004

April
10
491
14
188
7
(limited dataset)
March 2004

May
27
532
15
184
5
March 2004

June
26
548
21
181
5
Feb 2004

July
37
516
17
184
5
Mar 2004

Aug
47
548
15
191
5
Apr 2004

Sept
37
548
23
177
4
Jan 2004

Oct
39
538
20
180
4
Feb 2004

Nov
29
518
25
180
6
Feb 2004

Dec
40
460
16
162
3
Aug 2003

Jan
20
516
27
161
4
Aug 2003

Feb
28
553
33
167
4
Sept 2003

Mar
43
510
43
179
5
Jan 2004

Apr
45
520
19
172
4
Dec 2003

May
47
535
28
176
4
Dec 2003

June
59
550
17
176
3
Dec 2003

July
58
525
22
176
3
Dec 2003

Aug
60
560
30
170
4
Nov 2003

Sept
53
556
21
180
5
Jan 2004

Oct
40
604
25
176
5
Dec [...]

Part three of a series to run each Friday in February.
Links to Part One and Part Two.
The first lesson in Culinary School usually starts with knife skill. But since this isn’t a school and I can’t demonstrate in person (my knife skills suck anyway), you’ll have to settle for on-line videos.  Knife skills are something [...]

Yesterday the HAMP data came out on the administration’s loan modification program.

As Calculated Risk points out, there is something funny going on with the numbers:
If there were 416,471 cumulative HAMP trial modifications in August – how come there were only 116,297 permanent mods and 60,476 disqualified modifications by the end of January? The [...]

“Don’t tell guys you meet what you do for a living.”
“What!?!”
“And especially don’t tell them how much money you make. Most guys can’t handle an independent woman who makes her own money.”
This is the scene from my not-so-distant past that comes to mind upon reading about a recent study by Richard Fry and D’Vera Cohn [...]