Inaugural Treat
Time for a contest! A week after learning my sensitivity to gluten is approaching normal, I celebrated by consuming which of the following previously-verboten food items: A 3-piece original-flavored KFC meal, complete with extra biscuit 4 Krispy Kreme donuts (you can really taste the arteriosclerosis!) A pint of Ben & Jerry’s chocolate fudge brownie ice cream [...]
Mujadara
I wrote this a few days ago, and promptly forgot to post it. No photos, as my kitchen is not conducive to after-dark photography. “Do I really feel like chopping up two pounds of onions and sauteeing them for nearly an hour? Do I really?” I posted this mostly-rhetorical question on Facebook awhile ago, as [...]
The Dreaded Gyro Monster
I went out to lunch alone on Wednesday, having forgotten to take anything in from home. There’s this wonderful coney island place not far from work, and they serve fantastic salads. I settled in with my Nook, ordered a Michigan salad and some coffee. Five minutes later, my food arrived. Nestled against the salad bowl [...]
Landing
For about a decade, I’ve struggled with an inability to focus on things I’m not interested in, and an inability to remember things associated with that subject. Ask anyone at Liquid Web, or Mike Neir, about how many stupid computer-related questions I have asked over and over again. The information does not stick, and sometimes, [...]
A Quick Recipe to Start the New Year
Yesterday at noon, it was nearly sixty degrees here on the Michigan homestead, or so sayeth the EnginNeir’s weather gadgetry. By sundown, however, it was snowing. Good times, Michigan weather; good times. Today, a light snow continues, and I found myself wanting soup. I also found myself not really wanting to spend hours in the [...]
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Now Reading
Planned books:
- Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food by Wendell Berry
- The Lovely Bones by Sebold Alice
- A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
- Luka and the Fire of Life: A Novel by Salman Rushdie
- The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg Larsson
Current books:
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The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry by Wendell Berry
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The Girl Who Played with Fire (Vintage) by Stieg Larsson
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Poachers: Stories by Tom Franklin
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Song of Ice and Fire Set: A Game of Thrones, a Clash of Kings, a Storm of Swords, a Feast for Crows, by George R. R. Martin
Recent books:
- Ill Wind by Nevada Barr
- A Superior Death (An Anna Pigeon Novel) by Nevada Barr
- Track of the Cat by Nevada Barr
- Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter. by Tom Franklin by Tom Franklin
- Safe from the Sea by Peter Geye
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