My local Safeway has a bakery which regularly turns out delicious cookies and pastries and breads and rolls and so forth. For years part of Mom’s everyday lunch has been two of its bakers’ oatmeal raisin cookies. They’re great. They are packaged in a big square plastic tray with a clear lid similar to this. …
Hey, look! A commercial for the roaster I plan to cook turkey in this afternoon! Yep, we still own one from the 1950s. It still works fine, although I think the “On” light doesn’t come on until the desired heat is reached rather than during preheating. I’ll find out a little later if that’s right.
It’s certainly not Hawai’i. I grant you that I quit drinking in 2000 and had been a Bud drinker for years before that, so I’m no connoisseur. Nonetheless, I’ve had one local beer in the past year, and it didn’t impress me much. Maybe it’s just that I’ve been away from the taste of beer …
Mango tree trimmed, two loads of laundry done, dog persuaded to go outside, aspirin taken to counteract the cold. What could be better? Take-out dinner!
About every six months there’s a guy driving a meat truck around our neighborhood, ostensibly making deliveries to customers who’ve ordered in advance. Personally, I think he’s prospecting rather than delivering. He’s stopped at our house maybe four times to try to sell me on his products, which are frozen steaks in various cuts, pork …
We had late reservations at the Oceanarium Restaurant at the Pacific Beach Hotel in Waikiki this afternoon, but they hadn’t run out of food. I am still stuffed at 7:45pm. This is our go-to place for Easter. I’ll bet we’ve been there a dozen times over the years. It never changes, and the food and …
Occasionally I see a recipe on Facebook which looks worth trying. A friend who works for Cabot Creamery has been celebrating Grilled Cheese Month (who knew, right?) by posting pictures and recipes, and this one looked great: Spicy Sausage and Creamed Corn Quesadillas. There are excellent photos at that link, but I took one of …
A while back I bought a pound of Italian sausage for use on pizzas. I’d bought it before, of course, but the difference this time was that I bought it ground rather than in links. Then I put the whole package in the freezer without thinking about how annoying it was going to be to …
We’re set in our ways out here. Every morning I give Mom a plate that looks like this: Clementines and some form of pastry (in this case a slice of something Safeway calls a pudding ring: typically a cake laced with blueberry or lemon or raspberry). From Events Me? I have one of these: From …
You remember the Cold War, thought to have died umpty-ump years ago when Gorbachev’s perestroika and glasnost helped knock down the Berlin Wall and the Warsaw Pact? It’s back, and the culprit is yogurt. The US Olympic team likes it, so Chobani thought it would be great PR to send them 5,000 containers of the …
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