Last Post of 2007

Last week watched me scoot up to Long Island to set butt with the family for Christmas dinner, become infected with a miserable virus from an unknown vector, wing it back down to bucolic PA to roll around in a fever while my family visited friends in Westchester NY.
Meanwhile back at the farm, a five [...]

Last Post of 2007

Last week watched me scoot up to Long Island to set butt with the family for Christmas dinner, become infected with a miserable virus from an unknown vector, wing it back down to bucolic PA to roll around in a fever while my family visited friends in Westchester NY.
Meanwhile back at the farm, a five [...]

Don’t Let Donald Duck See This

No matter how much I may resent their agenda, I cannot not admire the moxy of the animal rights people who are trying to stop the production and consumption foie gras in f-ing FRANCE of all places. I wonder how you spell Sisyphean task in French? (God, and now you, knows it took [...]

Don’t Let Donald Duck See This

No matter how much I may resent their agenda, I cannot not admire the moxy of the animal rights people who are trying to stop the production and consumption foie gras in f-ing FRANCE of all places. I wonder how you spell Sisyphean task in French? (God, and now you, knows it took [...]

Work in Progress

I took a break from cooking for our party this evening to upload a few photos of the stuff I’m making. All but one of the dishes in the slideshow are finished (hence the title of the post) and there’s a lot more that I did not take pictures of.
The last dish in the show [...]

Good Morning

I’ve been too busy at the farm (two hogs, two lambs, 250 pounds of several types of sausage, bacon and chicken confit, pea soup, a gigantic cassoulet and more busy) and prepping for a holiday party at home to blog much this week. Maybe I’ll find some time tomorrow or later tonight to write [...]

Good Morning

I’ve been too busy at the farm (two hogs, two lambs, 250 pounds of several types of sausage, bacon and chicken confit, pea soup, a gigantic cassoulet and more busy) and prepping for a holiday party at home to blog much this week. Maybe I’ll find some time tomorrow or later tonight to write [...]

Worst Country Club Food in Hawaii

Yep, you guessed it. starbulletin.com | News | /2007/12/19/
The best sauce in the world is hunger.

Worst Country Club Food in Hawaii

Yep, you guessed it. starbulletin.com | News | /2007/12/19/
The best sauce in the world is hunger.

Xmas Food 2007

So I let my wife talk me into having a party on Sunday for some local friends. “Just do some hors d oeuvres,” she said “don’t make dinner. That’s too much work.” Oy, sure dinner is more work. But don’t think I won’t be cooking every spare minute between now and the first doorbell [...]