Three things I learned this weekend

Just a quick note on some fun stuff that we did this weekend. Besides having some of the best home made chili ever and waking up to some very yummy blueberry pancakes the next morning. I learned that: My brother has a cylon toaster. That Ron Zacapa X0 is a very good rum. And finally, [...]

Mother's Little Helper

My mother was up to visit and she had good news all her health problems had gone away. What was her cure? What a lark, It is just another excuse to drink. Mom you lush. Possibly Related Posts: Three things I learned this weekend It is Darn Cold Out, It Must be Hot Chocolate Season [...]

It is Darn Cold Out, It Must be Hot Chocolate Season

It is that time of the year, Winter has set in. The fish pond is frozen solid, and snow flakes drift down lazily from gray clouds; we also found all those drafty areas in our house that bothered us last winter. Our winter hats and gloves lay piled by the front door for easy access. [...]

iPhone 3G Fixed, Zoo was Fun, Beef Good

Well we did a road trip to Indianapolis, Indiana to the Apple store. We had been to an Apple store in Madison WI to look at cases for our iPhones, but we did not expect the line and the interrogation we got before we could even go into the store. All went well though once [...]

Scorpion Soup

Our brother in law thought we would like this recipe. We do like crawdads and scorpions are kinda like earthbound crawdads. Scorpion Soup Ingredients ½ cup vegetable oil 30-40 live scorpions, washed 125g fresh pork 1 large garlic bulb, crushed fresh ginger root, about 3cm, chopped salt and pepper ½ litre water 1 handful dried [...]

Phylogenic Relationships between Chilli Peppers

The author the article Phylogenic Relationships of Capsicum had worked hard trying to identify different types of chilli pepper or bell pepper plants of the Capsicum genus, from around the world. In the end he tied it all together with this one image. The author said he had to grind up plenty of peppers to [...]

Steak on the Bone!

My brother cooked some 3 inch T-bone steaks for us a couple weeks back. Man was that good food, grilled and seared on the outside, tender and rare on the inside. Two pieces, just enough for four hungry people. Here is a picture during the prep work from my iPhone. The pic is a little [...]

Fresh Lobster Mailed to Illinois

Yup us Midwesterners tried something new this year for Geko’s B-day, we ordered lobster from Amazon.com. I was thinking of trying frozen lobster tail from our local supermarket and decided to check Amazon.com for recipe books on lobster. This all came about because this past summer we took a trip out to New England and [...]