Great Grandpa B.'s Kiwanis Club Chicken
Update Note: My grasp on family lore was apparently mistaken. Note the corrected portions.
With Father's Day behind us, we're into the grilling season proper. My family rang in the summer last weekend with an old family standby: Great Grandpa Blomquist's "Award-Winning" Chicken. Family legend has it that the recipe was actually my [...]
Toddler Observation Of The Day, Occasioned By The Consuming Of Potato/Cheese-Filled Dumplings
I am paraphrasing here, but:
Pierogies, while certainly fierce in their own right, differ from the mighty T. Rex primarily in their lack of teeth or, indeed, any discernible biting abilities whatsoever.
Also, they lack spines, unlike the porcupine. They are good to share and eat, in any event.
Texas Travelogue '08, Days 3 And 4
This entry is part 4 of 5 in the series Texas Travelogue '08
Day 3: Monday, March 10th
We spent most of Monday of our first week at the Dallas World Aquarium in downtown Dallas. However, I have little photographic evidence of said trip, as Yours Truly forgot to charge both camera batteries and thus the [...]
Euuuugh.
Ahhh, good old-fashioned German engineering. Who but the Krauts would think of Cheeseburger in a Can?
Wondering what it looks, feels and tastes like? Wonder no more, for intrepid Something Awful forumdweller "Honk" has conducted the test for you. The results are largely what one would expect:
I'm not sick and I say [...]
A Query, A Plea, A Shot Into The Night
Is it just the Northeast, or are peanut butter Twix unavailable all across this great nation?
I ask, because the caramel variant is a poor relation, an imitation, a candied poseur of the first order whose continued existence in vending machines and on store shelves is unexplainable. Their wrapper is a mockery of proper palates, [...]
Our Own Southern Strategery
Last week was a week full of fun, family, friends, frivolity and lots of driving.
Brad has already admirably covered our brief stint in Norf Caruhlienuh, so I will decline to comment upon it except to note that I look far more like John Belushi as "Samurai Delicatessen" samurai than the prototypical Westernized depiction of Jesus.
So [...]
