I have been making crepes at home recently and they come out good and are easy to make-relatively. I would like to use Buckwheat flour like they do in France (and Montreal/Quebec). Trouble is, you can’t get it anywhere! Does anyone have a Buckwheat flour source? Let’s have it.
I just had cupcakes that have NO paper. You just grab and eat. No peeling them. It’s about time. Either that or make the paper edible.
Tommy has long arms. Really long. Like Walter Johnson long. I will try to photograph them but it’s hard because he’s squirmy when he’s showing them off. –fog
(This is the full bird cage. The sign is in the center above the chicken wire)
While in Florida in April, we were taken by my aunt and uncle to a bird sanctuary on the beach in Tampa or St. Pete, I forget which one. Largo really. Anyway, one of the poopy birdie stalls has this plaque on it and sure enough, it’s from Mary Ann to Mr. Howell! Who would have thunk it? I guess there’s real camaraderie on bad sitcoms. That white rivulet down the right hand side? Yea, that’s bird scat for all you scatologists out there. The bird place was neat. Especially the Owls. Any time you can get a good look at an Owl, take it. They are amazing animals and you just don’t see them in the wild unless you are a nature-boy AND lucky.
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Mrs. Pinetar and I want to know, is it immature for a grown man to watch an entire season of Rocky & Bullwinkle? Now I don’t watch all the Fractured Fairy Tales and the Dudley Doorights (and Snidley Whiplash) and the dog with the time machine, but I do get hooked on the serials with Rock and Bull and Peter Peachfuzz vs Boris, Natasha and Fearless Leader and Mr. Big (who floated away because he would not let go of the upsidasium) and who can forget the “light-fingered five minus two”? It puts me to sleep. It relaxes me. Is this bad? I mean, if you ask me: what’s worse, going to bed listening to Larry King or Rocky & Bullwinkle, I’m pretty sure I want the cartoon.
Larry King to Dr. Laura: “…ah, Dr. Laura, why are you and other conservatives so mean and evil?”
Larry King to Bill Clinton: “…Coke aw Pepsi, what’s yu favorite?”
–fog
No really, what fuels your ring of fire? Cause it better be this stuff…
Mrs. Pinetar and I finished the LaMaze classes last night. Near the end, the teacher spoke of when the baby’s head is crowning and stuff is stretching and she said that, “Midwives, might call this ‘the ring of fire’ but that’s not a medical term…”
And that was it. For the rest of the night, all I could hear were the Spanish trumpets: pah-pah, pah, pah-pah-pah–paaah …..puh-puh, puh, puh-puh-puh–puuuuh…
And then Johnny Cash of course: “I fell in to a burning ring of fire….I went down,down,down….and the flames went higher.
And it burns,burns,burns…the ring of fire….the ring of fire.”
All night.
No exceptions.
And on the way home.
I don’t believe any song ever written can get into your head and STAY there, like the Ring of Fire. And now you’re all hearing it. Hearing the trumpets. And humming it. Good luck. –fog
After returning from my first trip ever to Florida I have one very major beef. There’s an insufficient, ahh, let’s just call it “Coffee grid”. NO Starbucks to speak of. A few here and there but none on the highways. No Second Cup; No Tim Horton’s; No Seattle’s Best.
I’m not going to sugar coat it. It’s bad. I’m told that it’s the heat, but what about the caffiene? What if I need a blast? I have to find a deli and get that watered down, “institutional-strength” garbage, and pretend that it’s real coffee. It’s all the more perplexing when you consider the first generation Spanish headcount. Aren’t the Spanish big consumers of the bean? –fog
Another installment of: Cooking with Fog–
(Now, normally, you’d cover the Cap’n with cookies but to demo it, I have left spaces so you can see)
Use a basic Toll House cookie recipe and make a batch of dough. Then, in a baking pan, spread a half to three quarters of an inch of Cap’n Crunch cereal evenly. Spread the dough completely over the Cap’n Crunch and bake. Serve with milk. –fog
I got my 2 cherry trees in the mail on Monday.
Of course I have to wait all week to plant them in the yard… (more…)
