One of the better positives to come out of the negative that is being locked down at home has turned out to be a lot of my friends trying out neat things like creating great foods at home. I myself tried making mustard at home to great success. Many others have gotten into making bread … Continue reading (Almost) Entirely Homemade German Meal
I've been trying to get out more in order to break the monotony of being stuck inside all day. This ended up almost getting me in big trouble, which I'll get into later. But I decided to take a hike along the coast, a hike I had taken many months ago. I drove an hour … Continue reading Neah-Kah-Nie Mountain
Jacksonville's Historic Cemetery - Located in Jacksonville, Oregon, which is a location we learned about during a hike with Volksport. We were instructed to start up the steep road to the cemetery located at the very top of the hill overlooking the small city. Since the cemetery is very old and vegetated by huge old … Continue reading Jacksonville Cemetery
Yes, yes...I know we haven't been writing during the last week. So we apologize, however, we have been traveling and now that we're sort of settled into our Lake House in Wisconsin, we wanted to share some observations. To start with we always have to take three separate planes to get from our house in … Continue reading Travel During Pandemic
As you can probably guess from a few articles I've written, I have a special fondness for roadside stands that sell unhealthy American food. It's one of the reasons I miss the gym so much since I have to cut back on it a bit. As I mentioned when talking about Mike's I'm forever looking … Continue reading Roake’s Hot Dogs
This one has always been a favorite of my parents and me. It's a relatively simple meal once again utilizing the chicken breast technique that I've used a few times now. It's a great, quick, healthy meal that uses lots of veggies and creates a flavorful sauce. 2 Chicken Breasts 1 Onion, Sliced 1 Red … Continue reading Mediterranean Chicken
Pet ownership is great most of the time: but, sometimes it can lead to some real hair raising moments. Like yesterday when I turned my back for a few minutes with the balcony door open and Purriosa somehow jumped off, fell two stories, and ended up goodness knows where. It was double worried since I … Continue reading Purriosa Gave Me a Real Scare
We saw someone post a question about Vodka Sauce for Pasta on Reddit. They were asking if the Vodka actually added anything to the sauce or did it just melt away. There was quite a discussion about it, but as usual in cases of food J. Kenji Lopez-Alt from Serious Eats had already done the … Continue reading Pasta With Vodka Sauce
This is a classic recipe, one of many, I learned when in culinary school since it uses a lot of extremely basic, but important techniques in order to learn cooking. I decided to dust it off since I was craving a protein dish with a nice mushroom flavor and the acidity of wine. 2 Chicken … Continue reading Chicken Marsala
One of my favorite things when I was growing up was a fruit smoothie. We would drive to one of the many malls in Massachusetts and get one from a local chain. We eventually learned how to make them ourselves. But the real beauty of them is the fact that you can alter the recipe … Continue reading Fruit Smoothies
