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Jan 01
Buying a stove shouldn’t be this hard, part 2
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 …
Dec 30
Pasta in Black and White
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 …
Dec 29
MadMan Dan’s Antimario Pasta Sauce
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 …
Dec 28
MadMan Dan’s Emerald Isle Stew
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 …
Dec 22
My fingers smell like leeks
That’s not a complaint. Last night I cut up all the vegetables for MadMan Dan’s Emerald Isle Stew.
Dec 17
15 Years Today
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 …
Dec 12
Review: Julie & Julia
I just finished staying up with Heather watching Julie & Julia, a 2009 movie about two women: Julie Powell, as she spends a year cooking her way through all the recipes in Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking while living in post-9/11 New York with her husband. It also tells the story of Julia …
Dec 11
Happy Birthday, Mrs. MadMan
For those of you who didn’t know, yesterday was Heather’s birthday. I can’t say how old she is, but I will say she has been with me almost half her life.
