Archive for May, 2007

DOTW: The Sober Pirate

Sunday, May 27th, 2007

Over at Married With Dinner, they have a feature called Drink of the Week. I enjoy reading it, because experimenting with mixed drinks is exactly the sort of thing I’m never going to get around to now that I have a kid. Unless I can send that kid to bartending school. To that end, Iris […]

Holy Bertolli

Friday, May 25th, 2007

For those of you seeking the sauce formerly known as Five Brothers, they’ve changed it again. The product is now called Bertolli Vineyard Premium Collections: Marinara with Burgundy Wine. The label is now purple. But I am assured: “New look! Same great taste.” Next year it will be Bertolli Romanée-Conti Grand Cru Burgundy Wine Sugo […]

Paging Abe Froman

Friday, May 25th, 2007

Iris: Can I have some more sausage? Me: Sure. It’ll take one minute to warm it up. (20 seconds later) Iris: Dada? Me: Yes? Iris: Could you please do me a favor and give me the sausage now?

Big and scaly

Friday, May 25th, 2007

My Culinate column this week is about kitchen scales: Weighing In But if you love to cook, kitchen scales are downright exciting, and I’ll try to demonstrate this without resorting again to cheap sexual innuendo.

Junkin’

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007

Sorry for the lull. I’m at a professional conference. One of the speakers today was a TV producer whose network, Turner South (now SportSouth), aired a show about flea markets. (I googled and can’t figure out whether it’s still on.) The show was called Junkin’. This was pretty much the most awesome thing I’ve ever […]