Today is the 13 Month Anniversary of my MadMania blog! To be honest, I’m kind of surprised I have stuck with it this long, but I’m enjoying it now more than when I started. Thank you to everyone who tunes in to see what I’m rambling about.
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Part three in the chronicle of my stove-buying experience (parts 1 and 2). So I was telling all this to my buddy Kaleb. He suggested I go to Nebraska Furniture Mart. I had never been there, so I asked him if they had a decent selection. He must have thought that was rather humorous. Christmas […]
In part 1 I detailed how the oven in our crummy Frigidaire range had died, and how we had attempted to purchase a new range at Lowe’s, but ended up ordering through bestbuy.com. The range we ordered was a high-end consumer model, a Whirlpool Gold gas convection oven with 5 burners, three racks, a split […]
Happy 2010 everybody. I hope you are having a wonderful holiday.
I gotta say that’s a darn good title for a blog post, as well as a good title for: a mystery novel (she walked into my kitchen like a 6-burner Vulcan range) an album an art-house flick that garners a bunch of Oscar noms and wins Best Cinematography Anyhoo, it turns out that Heather and […]
Did you ever wonder why spaghetti sauce is cheaper than just plain tomato sauce? Let’s put it this way: would you put carrots in your spaghetti? Heck no, you wouldn’t. You also wouldn’t add all the other stuff on the side of the can that those guys add. Today I made my best batch of […]
Just in time for Christmas New Year’s! You wanna make some yourself? Here’s the recipe: MadMan Dan’s Emerald Isle Stew 6 potatoes 5 carrots 5 sticks of celery 6 leeks 1-3 lb lamb shank / leg of lamb salt pepper thyme, (chopped fresh thyme is best, but dried is doable) chicken broth fresh parsley Hardware […]
That’s not a complaint. Last night I cut up all the vegetables for MadMan Dan’s Emerald Isle Stew.
Today Heather and I celebrate our 15th wedding anniversary. I knew I wanted to marry Heather a week after our first date. It’s been a long, bumpy ride, but I wouldn’t have missed it. We certainly rushed in (we dated three weeks before we got engaged, then got married 10 months later). We did some […]
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