I received several compliments on the wine punch I made for New Years Eve. Here’s how you make it.
Berry Wine Punch
Based on a LJ post by drood. The originator suggested using white zinfandel, however, and I have to intervene.
Ingredients
Three (3) 12 fluid oz. cans frozen lemonade concentrate
Two (2) bags frozen raspberries or mixed berries
Eight (8) [...]
Dotty Dumpling’s Dowry was the place to get a hamburger back in Madison. The expansion of the downtown civic center took out the building it leased. Via Rick Kier, I learn that it’s back, with less antiques on the walls, and bigger burgers a year and a half later.
Found Thomas Jefferson’s recipe for vanilla ice cream while searching for a frozen custard recipe. Damn, I can’t read his handwriting at that resolution.
I was in the desert this weekend, so stop me if you’ve heard these links already
Frodo gets directions from an online map service. [ via the Badger ]
Of course, the page should be encoded as UTF-8, and use Tengwar.
If Samwise thought to pack a pressure cooker, they could had made some tasty fried chicken on [...]
The first berry from the strawberry bush in my balcony planter was ready for picking today. It was juicy, but not very sweet.
When one of my coworkers, who eats healthier than I, walks into the office with a couple of bags of pork rinds, I was puzzled. Then he says the magic words: “no carbs.” Oh, it’s Atkins food…
I told him about a scary product my friend Evan, back in Madison, found at a Anything’s a Dollar [...]
I’d never known the inside story of the cake Lizzard made for my birthday unless she reported on it. I’m glad nobody was hurt in the process.
Today is the birthday of Scots cultural hero Robert Burns. You sing one of his poems every year after kissing your sweetie, and knocking back a glass of sparkling wine of California origin. There’s a tradition of getting together on the night of his birthday and celebrating Burns’ verse.
Interaction, the 63rd World Science Fiction [...]
Aside from running up to the City last night to see Los Lobos at the Filmore, I’ve been busy baking cookies to send to the family for Christmas.
I made several dozen snickerdoodles and chocolate chip cookies which will go into tomorrow’s mail.
This morning’s San Jose Mercury News food section features the jams and jellies made by my friend Karen Schaffer. She and her husband Mike Ward have a big craftsman style house just west of downtown and she makes her jams and jellies, marketed under the Elegant Table brand, from what they grow in their gardens.
INeedCoffee bills itself as Non-Commercial Caffeination Information. They publish articles on how to brew it, cook with it, and live with it. A good Monday morning coffee link.
I just heard an American Radio Works documentary on the changes McDonald’s — the largest buyer of ‘raw’ food in America — ordered two of its suppliers, egg farms and slaughterhouses, to make to improve the welfare of hens and cattle.
In the documentary, [ transcripts are on the site as well as Real Audio ], [...]
[ via the Muted Horn ] Here at Whump dot com, we’re puzzled by people who make ill-informed statements such as “how can you believe in the theory of evolution?” One can no more believe in a the theory of evolution than you can believe in special relativity, quantum mechanics, or Kepler’s third law. They [...]
What is it with the Bushes and food? At least he didn’t throw up on the Japanese Prime Minister’s shoes as his dad did. But according to the BBC, W exercises, and that probably kept a weird thing from being a bad thing.
He said that he was coming off a cold, so I completely sympathize.
But [...]
I was watching Battle Pumpkin on Iron Chef on Food TV. After Iron Italy defeated the challenger (it was rigged, I tell you, rigged!) Martha Stewart came on. Her guest made an incredible stew from sausage, crushed tomatoes, and onions with polenta as a side dish. I made it tonight and brought it over to [...]
