I rolled back into town Saturday from a quick(ish) trip up to Chicago. Not long, two nights, but enough to make me miss all my girls more than a little. It also made me fear for our energy bill, since the missus has a way of ranging through the house in the evenings, living a […]
READ ONWhy do so many new restaurants have numbers in their names? A big part of the reason, apparently, is because internet search engines register numerals before letters, meaning restaurants with numbers in their names rank higher in Google searches. Who knew?
READ ONThere’s nothing like sitting back with a cold one and listening to your canned goods seal themselves in the next room. Ponk. Ahhhh…there’s another one that’ll be good ’till spring. For those of you who’ve never had the satisfaction, canned goods make metallic popping sounds as they cool. It’s all those contracting gasses you see. […]
READ ONWhat with the dearth of fruit in the lower Midwest this year, I’ve hardly gotten to do any canning. In fact, this tomato jam is all I’ve done. And that’s a bummer, since I’ve been just looking for an excuse to try out my latest equipment acquisition: my Big Kahuna Burner from Eastman Outdoors. Don’t […]
READ ONA friend asked me the other day if the tomato jam recipe I posted two weeks (or so) ago can be canned. The answer is yes, the recipe I put up is in fact intended for canning, and now that I’m back up and around I plan to do that very thing (maybe even today). […]
READ ONIn general I prefer to have my word be the last one and just leave it at that. Though I did receive another small flurry of nasty-grams referring to my stance on fast food (specifically, my refusal to denounce it as the work of Beelzebub). I’m not going to put up any excerpts, though suffice […]
READ ONLike most Americans, we in the Pastry household spent the day yesterday marking the anniversary of the death of Tomás de Torquemada. In the event you neglected to observe this world-historical holiday, you may do so today by going here.
READ ONYou don’t hear about it much in the popular press, but there’s been a steady mumbling in food circles the last few months about the changes that have been taking place at the Food Network. Specifically, that it’s gotten a lot less interested in teaching people about food, and much more interested in what some […]
READ ON…but I know I’ve been danced with. Still a little unsteady today but I may actually get around to baking something later.
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