Cooking Safety Begins With Me Not Cooking
It goes without saying that the best way to maintain safety in a kitchen is to keep me out. But I said it anyway, and as it happens, the theme of this year’s […]
Tag: food
Was the Real First Thanksgiving All That Real?
Thanksgiving in America continues to be one of the most traditional holidays. It still features the original four hundred year old activities of overeating, football, and complaining about Black Friday. In the Hunter household, as […]
A Cookbook For Squares
A Cookbook For Squares An amazing amount of food is round. Are there other shapes allowed in cooking? Yes, I’m glad you asked. Just in time for early, early Christmans shopping is the cookbook: […]
The Forgotten Minority Group – Picky Eaters
Throughout our nation’s fractious history, there has always been discrimination, hatred and intolerance directed at people who were different. You might think, as someone who is a well-educated middle-class, white male who went to an all-boys […]
Wanda Wunder Wonders About Ants
Wanda Wunder turns her fertile brain to a long-standing problem. – Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D. Check out my latest novel, the hilarious apocalyptic thriller, Do Lutheran Hunks Eat Mushrooms? It’s published by HumorOutcasts and is […]
The First Thanksgiving Was … Healthy?
Thanksgiving in America continues to be one of the most traditional holidays. It still features the original four hundred year old activities of overeating, football, and complaining about Black Friday. In the Hunter household, as […]
Before I Couldn’t Spell Ciprofloxacin … Well, I Still Can’t.
As we enter the second month of sinus infection, hope among CDC personnel of a cure is beginning to fade. Yes, I still have that same super-powered sinus infection I wrote about several weeks before–kind […]
Bloomberg Declared War on Soft Drinks, but Still Loved Donuts
I don’t talk much about politics, but just to show I’ve always paid attention, I uncovered this piece from way back in 2012. I think you’ll find me on the cutting edge of activism: Now […]
Pack On the Carbs and … Lose Weight?
I have a healthy skepticism of dietary plans and weight loss “experts”. My diet book would be so clear and simple it would consist of only three pages: 1. Eat less. 2. Exercise more. 3. […]
Posole Rojo and O Sole Mio
Mexican Soup POSOLE ROJO INGREDIENTS – PORK 3 pounds pork shoulder or leg 60 ounces canned-garbanzo beans (aka chickpeas) 2 bay leaves 7 garlic cloves (4 more later) 3 quarts water INGREDIENTS – RED SAUCE […]