Grilled Sticky Pork Lettuce Wraps Serves 4 Ingredients: 2 Tbsp soy sauce 2 Tbsp honey 2 Tbsp brown sugar pinch cinnamon pinch five-spice powder 4 thin-cut pork loin steaks 1 carrot, sliced into matchsticks 1 lime, juiced 1 tbsp canola oil ½ cucumber, cut into matchsticks 16 soft lettuce leaves (I like Boston bib or […]

On more than one level, “DC League of Super-Pets” falls right between “The Secret Life of Pets” and “The Lego Movie.” Like “The Secret Life of Pets,” the movie is an animated comedy that follows domesticated animals whose voices can’t be understood by humans as they learn to make friends for themselves without their coddling […]

Avocado and Fresh Summer Fruit Salad Serves 8 3 medium ripe avocados, peeled and thinly sliced 3 medium mangoes, peeled and thinly sliced 1 cup fresh raspberries 1 cup fresh blackberries 1/4 cup minced fresh mint 1/4 cup sliced almonds, toasted Dressing: 1/2 cup olive oil 1 teaspoon grated tangerine or orange zest 1/4 cup […]

Doing something you are scared to do changes you. You are not the same after that. I can’t explain what the change is. Maybe it’s different for each person. But acting in the face of fear has a morphing effect. In January 1991, my Combat Engineer company was a mile inside Iraq. We had been […]

“Where the Crawdads Sing” is being pushed as one of those literary adaptations that kicks off a whole litany of adaptations. We had magic and fantasy with “Harry Potter,” supernatural romances with “Twilight,” dystopian ordeals with “The Hunger Games,” and that weird trend of relationships complicated by increasingly rare diseases with “The Fault in Our […]

Potato & Green Bean Salad Serves 10 Ingredients: 2 pounds red potatoes (about 6 medium), cubed 1 pound fresh green beans, trimmed and halved 1 small red onion, halved and thinly sliced 1/4 cup chopped fresh mint, optional Dressing: 1/2 cup canola oil 1/4 cup white vinegar 2 tablespoons lemon juice 1 teaspoon salt 1/2 […]

I’ve learned to be less ambitious. Over the years, I’ve tried to establish certain good habits, but have not been able to sustain them. Exercising every day, for example. I’d vow to work out with a kettlebell, do yoga, and run each day for the rest of my life. But suddenly, months have gone by […]