I love to eat and drink while watching a movie. To that end, we are blessed here in Austin to have the Alamo Drafthouse. Along with their normal screenings, they put on special movie/menu events. This weekend you can have a themed meal while watching the new Harry Potter movie. Butterbeer, anyone? Alamo Draft House celebrates […]
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Site Update
I just expanded the functionality of the site. So, if you like, you can post a comment to any of the entries. Also, you can follow with RSS. The transfer was smooth, except the post dates got screwed up. So, now it looks like my site is only one week old and I posted 450 […]
Bolognese To The Rescue
Simmering a Bolognese sauce for hours in your kitchen while you are trying to hold out the 100+ degree Summer heat can be daunting. I start early in the morning, when the house is cooler. Usually I make a big batch consisting of eight or ten servings and freeze them. It’s nice to have rich […]
Another Good Idea: Hospital Food
This is a good idea. British chef Heston Blumenthal (owner of the famed Fat Duck) is on a quest to improve hospitals in England: “Mealtimes should be something to be celebrated in hospital.” He’s a year into a project with the NHS which is looking at ways of improving the flavor in the food and […]
Corn Is OK (Maybe)
I have weeded out of my diet products that use processed (scientifically scrambled) corn. I’m just trying to stick to the gifts god gave us (things that have not been hydrogenated). In no shape or form does that mean I don’t like them as kernels. As a matter of fact, I just labored over a […]
Things Might Be Getting More Interesting
I am on the record saying that the Food Network is going down hill fast. Not only have we lost shows that could actually teach you something about core food prep techniques, the shows that are debuting are watered down with puff pieces on how to re-heat food and have it match the color of […]