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 […]
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Month: December 2009
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 […]
“I’m a big woman; I need a big inbox.”
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 […]
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.
About three years ago Heather’s dad went hunting and shot a black bear. If you have never tried it, let me tell you that it is amazing. It is glorious. It is quite possibly the best meat I have ever had. Contrary to what most people ask me, no, it is not greasy. It is wonderfully […]
A lot of you out there ask me for computer advice. I don’t mind; I like feeling important, and giving advice helps me do that (so does making my own blog). Probably the question I get the most often is, “What kind of computer should I get?” My answer is, always, “You should get an […]