Banana Cake
A special holiday present for The Wife was cake decorating lesssons. A downside to that is that efforts to lose weight are hampered by the fact that now she’s baking cakes all the time. She made a white cake with… Continue Reading
Food
Things About Which I Must Exercise Restraint
#22 on the list: See’s Candy peanut brittle. The Wife gave me a box of it for the holiday. It’s thick, sweet, nutty, and utterly delicious. Resistance is futile. Moderation may be possible. Thank you, sweetie!
Social Grace
Last week I took a client out to lunch and he said grace before eating his meal. This was not a big deal because he did not ask me to participate in the prayer with him. I did not think… Continue Reading
Tea Time
On this day in 1773, patriots protested the Tea Act by dressing up as Mohawk and Narragansett Indians, boarding ships in the Harbor, and dumping over 90,000 pounds of tea into Boston Harbor. The water of Boston Harbor has been… Continue Reading
Houston Burger Porn
Sixteen awesome-looking burgers, available in and around Houston, Texas. We may have to take a trip to Friona when we visit my folks.
Vegetarian, Teetotaler Feast
The Wife invited over a friend from work and his wife for dinner tonight. Cool! I’ve met them briefly at a social event for her work and they seem like they’ll be a lot of fun. Here’s the catch: they’re… Continue Reading
Gresham’s Law Reverses With Product
Freddie at L’Hôte describes a process I went through about fifteen years ago. It’s a result of experiencing qualitatively better things to which you once were quality-insensitive. Suddenly, you go back to something to which you used to be more… Continue Reading
Give It A Whirl
Do you like wine? Of course you do. But wine is complicated. There’s a million different labels, hundreds of varieties and thousands of regions, and a mistake can be expensive. Do you want someone who’s going to give it to… Continue Reading
Grilled Cheese Night
The Wife and I were going to meet a friend at the art museum last night to tour some exhibits and have dinner together. However, we were all trapped on this side of the Newhall Pass by a wildfire that… Continue Reading
Candied Buddha Hand
The bizarre citrus fruit known as the “Buddha’s Hand Citron” is something I’d only ever seen on Iron Chef. Then, while stopping off at a fruit stand in Stinking Bakersfield while coming back from one of my innumerable trips there… Continue Reading