Category: food-drink
baking bread and other creative outlets
Sometimes, when the creative horse runs into your corral, you’ve just got to strap on the saddle and kick the spurs. In the past 24+ hours, I redesigned the blog. Simplified it quite a bit too. I like it much better.
Another creative outlet in recent weeks has been learning how to bake bread. From scratch. [...]
it’s Thanksgiving … have a blast
No, this is not one of those deepfrying-the-turkey-gets- out-of-hand stories, but it’s Thanksgiving: give thanks, eat heartily, drink well, enjoy some football, and generally have a blast — but not the kind of blast they had early yesterday in Danvers, Massachusetts. The 2:46 a.m. explosion at an ink factory “heavily damaged two dozen houses, left [...]
gumbo recipe, updated
We’ve continued our annual tinkering with the gumbo recipe, so I’ve posted an update. I think we picked a good day for it — it’s been windy, chilly, and raining most of the day, making it the perfect day for gumbo and drinking games. We added a fish head (porgy) to the seafood stock, made [...]
queer eye for the Super Bowl
Chili is, apparently, a big staple of New England football parties. I went to the store Sunday morning to get my ingredients for chili, and there seemed to be a lot of milling about in front of the shelves of beans as well as in front of the various canned tomato products. But when I [...]
baseball, apple pie, Chevy and Octodogs?
Marlin and I can’t stop giggling about Octodogs, the fun and safer way to eat hot dogs. Instead of eating a boring old hot dog, push your hot dog into the frankfurter converter, pop it out, and cook it up. You’re left with an octopus-shaped hot dog, complete with eyes. I’m not kidding.
The other thing [...]
about the food
One of the best parts about this vacation I’m still on (one week left!) is the food. We rent the house for a month, stock it, and eat at home about half the time. The menu always features fresh fish. Check out a few photos of fish in various stages on their way to the [...]