It’s a snow day here! Not that you can tell that by the picture we took at 7:30am this morning. Our public schools decided at some point this morning to cancel all school. Now, bear in mind, we’re in the Willamette Valley of the Pacific Northwest and snow is a rarity here and the 34 [...]
I had the chance to take a couple days off this week and go to Seaside, Oregon. I have never seen it snow on the coast (“the beach” for you Californians), but to see the snow accumulating on the sand was perhaps something I won’t see too often in my lifetime. Late Monday night, we [...]
Creamed Mushrooms Thought a side dish recipe was in order for this morning. Hope you enjoy!
Steak Diane is one of my favorite dishes. I felt the need to prepare this recently for my wedding anniversary and went scouring my cookbook library. I found that I had 6 different versions among my collection so I compiled them all and made a few changes here and there. I hope you enjoy [...]
This will be the last meatloaf recipe you’ll ever need. I can’t brag on in enough. My mother found this years and years ago and it’s now a staple in my house as well. Hopefully it will become so in yours too.
Guitar players are a different breed and seem to be always looking for a new sound (tone). I know I am one, and I have an entire room stacked with pedals, rack mount effects, preamps, combo amps, and a host of guitars. While looking for my next tone, I ran across the Fulltone Ultimate Octave [...]
My wife’s favorite foods all come from the sea. In her top three are scallops so I’ve searched high and low for different preparations. This is her absolute favorite. This makes for a nice quick weeknight meal, takes less than 30 minutes from prep to getting it on the table.
Lately I’ve been wondering what’s happened to people’s ability to call BS when necessary. I’m not talking about the little, day-to-day things, such as co-workers that claim to have invented the Internet or who call in sick so much they make Typhoid Mary look like Louie Pasteur.
I had some bone-in, skin-on chicken thighs and was at a loss as to what to do with them. I went searching for a brasing recipe for a cool evening and this is what I found. It turned out better than even I expected, even the kids devoured it! Enjoy.
The cost of beer is on the raise because of the shortage of two main ingredients: hops and barley. Macrobrewers are talking about a retail increase of up to a $1 for a six-pack. While some of this shortage can be blamed on poor harvests in Europe, a big finger is being pointed at Ethanol. [...]
