I found Guyot Design’s SplashGuard at REI this weekend. It’s a plastic insert for the top of your wide-mouthed Nalgene bottle that keeps you from spilling the contents down the front of your t-shirt when you try to take a sip from it on the elliptical trainer at the gym.
Up in Seattle at Potlatch. We started with a man threatening to jump off the Space Needle. A friend took a bunch of us visiting fans to Mashiko in West Seattle. Amazing. Ask for the omakase dinner and put your self in Hajime-sensei’s hands. Ron Drummond, and John Berry announced a 25th anniversary edition of [...]
[ via Boing Boing ] v-2 had a great retort to those who beat up on Ikea and Starbucks: in a global economy someone was going to find a way to mass market the Scandinavian furniture and coffee drinks that you thought you had a hipster monopoly on. I’ve heard the same complaints about Amazon [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]