Buckwheat

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.

It’s About Time

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

What Fuels Your Ring of Fire?

No really, what fuels your ring of fire?  Cause it better be this stuff…

Cash Plays LaMaze

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

Down Goes Frazier

I once compared the sting of

Pepsi Cucumber

Florida’s grid dangerously inadequate

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

Amazing Cookie Recipe – Fookies!

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

Snows prevent me from planting

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…

Butter shouldn’t destroy toast!

Tne one click butter cutter?