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Monthly Archives: February 2010

Superbowl food, one day old

My plan for superbowl food this year was Buffalo chicken tenders and baked beans. I made the beans overnight in the oven on Saturday, and thawed out the two packages of tenders I’d had in the bottom of the freezer for who knows how long. But best laid plans … I had to attend the […]

GrillN4Peace, more photos

Here are the “official” shots, from up in the cherry picker.

GrillN4Peace 2010

What a difference a year makes – last year we were soggy and freezing at the same time, wet feet in 6 inches of cold water on thawing ice. This year was almost too easy, sunny, in the high 20s. I made stuffed grilled flank steak.

The hazards of eating

I’m sitting at the hair salon listening to the singer from 10,000 maniacs – oh Natalie Merchant; only took me 2 hours to recall her name – with a lotta horns behind her, dabbling at my bleeding mouth. I wolfed a slice of toast in between getting home from work and getting in the car […]

Cooking from an empty larder

I’ve been trying to keep the pantry pretty bare, except for buying ingredients for the dinners. It’s been working surprisingly well, except for the times I’ve kinda hung onto a little bit of this or that for too long – like the salad dressing I put on my work lunch salad last Friday. The greens […]

My kid’s on YouTube

I know, I know, not so exciting, millions of people’s gots kids on YouTube …. But John got a new camera, and shot this vid of a building that burned down in Milwaukee. It was a pretty popular pizza place, plus the fire blocked off a major road in the city for a few days, […]