Short stories and photos shared with humor and love
I picked up some excellent tips on cooking and the fine art of French flirting during our recent trip to Paris. The tres beaux Chef Erich taught me the former; my own two daughters taught me the latter. It happened like this: Katherine, who can whip up a perfect triple chocolate marshmallow cookie faster than [...]
Valentine’s Day snuck up on me this year, as it does most years; its fat little ambassador likes to play games. Hints, in the way of thoughtful cards, showed up in my mailbox throughout the week and I thoroughly enjoyed them. But, in my mad rush to get to the end of each busy day, [...]
It looked so easy when the Quinn family served it up, so tender when the Duffys did. But, ask a Biskupic née Kostelnik to cook corned beef and you get a gristly mess. St. Patrick drove all the snakes out of Ireland, and I celebrated by boiling all the flavor out of my corned beef [...]
How many resonance structures does carbonate have? 3. What year was the Treaty of Burlingame signed? 1868. What is the derivative of a natural log function? 1/x. Who wrote The Devil and Tom Walker? Washington Irving. What does one do with 51/2 quarts of caramel corn? I'll get back to you on that. As finals [...]
As avid Packer fans, we thought we'd seen it all when it came to pre-game tailgating. Then we met Kris "the Burger Guy" Hutchinson and we found a bunch of new ways to feast. Creator of the "Hutch Method" of cooking burgers, Kris rolls up to his south-facing spot in Miami's Sunlife Stadium parking lot [...]