One of the jobs I’ve always hated is the task of once in a while going through the refrigerator not only to clean it (which isn’t a bad job in itself really), and find the occasional mystery item that got put away only to slip behind or under something else and get forgotten. You know, [...]
Anyone that knows me will quickly agree when I say that my tastes are not always what you’d call “mainstream”. It’s not that I actually like genuinely nasty things, however some of the concoctions I’ve come up with over the years has left more than one family member shaking their heads in … um … [...]
While we don’t exactly have a huge library of cookbooks and stuff, there is a pretty good amount of them around here. It’s not just cookbooks either. There’s a whole stack of Rachael Ray’s magazine and loads of other magazines, printouts from web sites, and so on. There’s even three or four of those recipe [...]
Vanilla Beans come from the Vanilla orchid, which is native to Central America. The Vanilla orchid is also the only orchid that produces an edible fruit of any kind. It’s got a long history going back to the Mayan and Aztec civilizations. It has been considered an aphrodisiac and a cure for fevers. It’s often [...]
I know that probably most people in the US have heard of (and had) that wonderful creation, The Corn Dog. You know the one I mean, it’s the hot dog on a stick that’s dipped in a cornbread batter and then deep fried? Yeah, I know, they’re not supposed to be “good” FOR you, though [...]
