Homer: Can you let me out of the boat?
Brazilian Kidnapper: What for?
Homer: [Whining]I have to go do a piss.
Brazilian Kidnapper: [Annoyed] Again?
Homer: I'm sorry, I have a bladder the size of a Brazil nut.
Brazilian Kidnapper: We just call them nuts here.
Simpsons, Season 13: Blame it on LisaWe made Spanish Rice Monday for dinner - we are on the ( Read more... )

Dinner Sunday was shrimp alfredo with pan-roasted asparagus on the side:

Asparagus and tomato from a local farmstand
Shrimp from the restaurant supply store
Pasta from the Bulk Store
Spices bought online
Alfredo and Parmesan from BJ's Club
Wine from Six Mile Creek Vineyards, bought during the Cayuga Wine & Herb trail last weekend ( Read more... )

For Easter Sunday, as a change from the Incredible Simple Cake we made for St. Patty's Day, we made a "traditional bread" that involved milk, eggs, leavening, sugar, and rum (as well as fruit and the normal ingredients ( Read more... )

On weekends when we're feeling like taking the time, we like to eat steel cut oats. They're chewier and earthier tasting than rolled oats, but they can be very time-consuming (and really irritating to do in the microwave. Boil-overs everywhere!)

This is one of our go-to recipes, modified from The Kitchn's Baked Pumpkin Steel-Cut Oats ( Read more... )

The sun is out! My sandals are on! The weather is beautiful again! Summer must be here.. .*knock on wood ( Read more... )

Today, I spent several hours or so sanding down my old dresser - and by old, I mean I'm pretty sure my Mom got it at a garage sale when I was 6 or so, so it's been in our family for 30 years, more if I'm right about the garage sale.
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Yesterday's dinner was a chicken soup (from thigh bones & left over rotisserie chicken), heavy in the rice & beans ( Read more... )

The Daylight Savings Time Fall back thing seems to have confused my internal clock as much as the cat.("It's early. Or late. Or something, and I'm hungry. Feed me?"). I woke up late today and was nearly late to work... but now am Very Awake ( Read more... )

Not a lot to share lately; life has sort of focused down to apples and nano ( Read more... )

Woo! This weekend, we picked more apples (the cold snap had not hurt those still on the tree, thankfully, so we managed to get another 2 buckets and 2 boxes worth ( Read more... )