Follow up
The corned beef was great. I bought two, while Kroger had them on sale, and I baked the smaller (2 lbs pre-cooked) one for St. Paddy’s Day. It was delicious, fall-apart tender, with intense, rich corned beef flavor. The mashed potatoes were , from Cook’s Illustrated Best Recipes and, really, there’s no way they’re not going […]
Corned beef & dog
Soooo…what’s been going on with you? Here? Oh, not much. I rescued a dog. A nasty dirty, horribly matted Shih Tzu*, who was moseying down Johnson Road (my street) in Southlake. I was driving home Tuesday afternoon when he wandered into my lane and started walking towards me as I approached. My choices were to […]
Horsey kind of morning
This is what I posted on Facebook: We were out late last night at a Official Dallas Stars game (which went to a shootout), and even later after being stuck in the astonishing traffic on 114 WB (one HOUR to go from the 121 merge to William D. Tate). So I was still asleep at six this […]
Wow!
Encyclopædia Britannica sends out an “On This Day” email every day (go here to sign up —it’s usually pretty interesting). The edition for today, 2/1/13, highlights an amazing fact: You wouldn’t think their influence would have been felt that far, would you? Even more amazing is the fact that the distance they mention, 32.7 million […]
Does anyone know…
…what I did with the paper window shades when I took them down last Fall? I came across another one I need to store with them. Anyone? No? Yeah, me neither. That’s what my memory is like these days. Oh! And the mystery dinner. Not great that night, cooked in the slow cooker. But the […]
Mystery dinner
So you take a grass-fed, antibiotic-free cow and butcher it. Cut it into more or less standard cuts, then take everything that’s left over and cut that into small pieces. Slap all those together, label it, “Stew meat,” and let some hapless home cook try to make something from it. I don’t doubt the quality […]
No more, ‘kay? Oh yeah! And happy holidays.
Sometimes these days the phrase, “Enough is enough,” stays in the forefront of my mind. I stopped watching media coverage of the horror in Newtown within about twelve hours. We were never fortunate enough to have children, though I very badly wanted to, so I don’t have a parent’s perspective on the worst loss anyone […]
Espresso, or why my kitchen looks that way
This is like mine. You can buy this one for $17 on eBay About a hundred years ago, I was given an espresso machine. It was a little Krups home espresso maker. Back in those days, it was considered a nice enough home machine. I had just discovered cappuccino—in Milan, thank you very much—and was thrilled […]
Chihuly, first visit
My sister Linda and her husband Al made a quick trick up from San Antonio this week to go to the Chihuly exhibit at the Dallas Arboretum. We all four schlepped over there (it’s a 53 minute drive from our house). It’s really spectacular! Well, the Chihuly pieces are amazing, but the Arboretum itself is […]
A quick note about two things
First, if you bought the most recent Groupon for , it expires on Wednesday, so you need to get there in the next couple of days. Second, if you get there in the next couple of days and they’re still getting okra from their garden, order the fried okra. Yeah, it’s not something you’d expect […]
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