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One of my favorite Christmas cookies, from my childhood, were the Candy Cane Cookies my Mom used to make. They are still one of my favorite cookies and my Mom still makes sure that I get some every...

Tis the season to be baking. Fa La La La La… This past week both my wife and I got off our butts and did some holiday baking and candy making. I really didn’t have much of a choice as I had...

The Christmas season is in full swing, and at our house one of the things that means is the drinking of copious amounts of hot, spiced cider. For as long as I can remember the holidays, both...

Tonight we picked up our last box, of the season, from our CSA. Well, technically the last regular season box was delivered a few weeks ago, but we had also opted for the late season storage share....

Thanksgiving is quickly approaching and I can’t wait!! I love Thanksgiving; a day of cooking, eating, chilling in front of the TV, eating, playing board games, eating, hanging with family and/or...

When my wife and I first started dating the very first meal she made for me was her Chicken Paprikash. Being of Hungarian descent (her Dad’s family escaped Hungary in the 1950′s) this was a dish...

Well, it’s November 1st and I survived another Halloween, which is getting more difficult as my daughter gets older and becomes more of a force to reckon with when she’s hopped up on massive...

Okay, one more post about beets, and I promise I will be done for awhile. As a kid I wasn’t fond of beets, to say the least. The first time I really enjoyed beets is when I finally gave in and...

It’s been a long, hard couple of weeks the last few weeks. Work has been difficult as I’ve had supervisor out sick so I’ve covering her shift, along with all of my work. It finally culminated on...

It’s Fall and that means that our CSA box is starting to fill with root vegetables. Onions, potatoes, celery, and beets have all made appearances in recent weeks. Hopefully they will continue to...

Well, I’m finally back up and running. What a pain that was. If you read my previous post you know that my computer got hit with a major virus that left me without a computer for the past few...

As you can tell, it has been awhile since I have posted anything on here. I apologize, but my computer got hit with a really nasty Trojan virus that my anti-virus software didn’t catch....

Back in Feburary 2010 I posted a recipe for one of my favorite Mexican dishes, Carnitas. You can find the post here. While I was happy with the recipe I posted, I am always looking for ways to...

I don’t know why I don’t make crepes more often. They are relatively simple to make, don’t take a whole lot of time, and my wife loves them. Besides, like so many of the things I like to cook, they...

Meet Genevieve, AKA Gigi, Munchkin, Baby Girl, Cheeks, and Bugaboo. She’s my 4 (almost 5) year old daughter and she has shown up on the blog a couple of times, in pictures, usually helping Dad stir...

I’m a bachelor this weekend. The wife and daughter decided to head down to Grandma house since I had to work. That means a nice, quite house with just me, the dogs, the cats and the fish. It’s...

It’s late August and that means I am right in the middle of that 2-2 1/2 month window when I will eat a BLT. While I try not to be a “food snob” too often, when it comes to BLT’s I have to admit, I...

Don’t adjust your computer monitor, the sauce on the pizza, in the picture is yellow. Don’t worry, it’s supposed to be that way! In general, I am not a big fan of BBQ pizzas. To me, and I know this...

This past Saturday the family and I headed down to Wauwatosa (a suburb of Milwaukee) for the #MKEfoodies Potluck Picnic. #MKEfoodies is a group of food bloggers, food writers, food enthusiaists and...

Confession time. I love Stumbleupon!!! It has become my favorite internet time waster ever!!! Late at night I can literally waste hours upon hours surfing the web, using the Stumbleupon toolbar,...

For the second week in a row we have been blessed with a good amount of cherry tomatoes in our CSA box. Last week, my wife got her hands on them and I never saw them again, so this time I made sure...

I first discovered Elote when I was living in Chicago. There were all these Mexican street vendors in my neighborhood pushing carts and selling, what I discovered, was corn on the cob. But this...

I’ve been rather lax, the last few weeks, letting you all know what kind of goodies we have been getting in our weekly CSA box. It’s not because we aren’t enjoying everything (although I can do...

It’s that time of year, and the tomatoes have started popping up in our CSA share. I always look forward to these additions to our weekly boxes. For most of the year I’m not much of a tomato fan,...

I think everyone should keep a package or 2 of puff pastry in their freezer, ready to use at a moments notice. I’m not talking about homemade puff pastry, but the stuff you can find in most grocery...

A few weeks ago I was approached by the kind folks at Easy Canvas Prints offering me a free 8×10 canvas print, of a photo of mine, to review. Looking over their website, I was intrigued and just a...

So its been awhile since I last posted, but, at least, this time I have an excuse. I was off at a family reunion for the past week, and since I don’t own a laptop computer I didn’t have any way of...

I realize that I have been kind of lack in posting recently. I had all intentions of posting well before this, but things happen. On Friday, I confess, I just wasn’t in the mood to sit in front of...

This week I had the pleasure of meeting an awesome guy, Erik Bendl, aka. WorldGuy. On Tuesday, while driving to work, I passed a man, walking along the roadside with a giant, 6′ inflatable globe,...

It was Week 3 of our CSA deliveries and if I’m not mistaken our boxes are starting to feel a bit heavier…not a lot but a bit. I expect over the next few weeks they will increase in weight as early...