Category: Cooking

Some people have asked why I was cooking shirtless in the first place. Why not? Really, though, it was because I had just gotten back from racquetball, then showered, and I knew I wasn’t going out later, so I just put on pajama bottoms. Tonight’s cooking was a lot better. I had some fun with…

For the love of god don’t use a frying pan with hot oil without a shirt on. Ouch.

A couple tablespoons of vegetable or corn oil A couple handfuls of popcorn Heat up a fairly large pan on medium high heat with enough oil to cover the bottom of the pan. Put in a couple handfuls of popcorn (a handful is about 1/4 cup-1/3 cup). Stir until it stops popping. Hold the lid…

This is my favorite fudge recipe. I modify it all the time for different flavors (sometimes I use white chocolate, sometimes I don’t put in nuts, sometimes I mix half regular and half mint chocolate chips, sometimes I put in a few drops of peppermint extract).  Prepare the following ingredients. You will want to have…

Today was a good day. I woke up early and went skiing. It the last day at Bluewood, and there were lots of people there. The skiing was decent, but not perfect. It got a little warm and the sun melted a lot of snow, making it really heavy. We would hit a sunny patch…

325* for 20-25 minutes. Do it for less than you think, or they’ll get too hard and not chewy Mix dry ingredients together 1 1/3 cups coconut 1/3 cup sugar 2 tbsp flour 1/8 tsp salt Add wet ingredients 2 egg whites 1/2 tsp almond extract (vanilla works just as well for a different but…

After a very successful day at work in which everything went exactly as planned and I was more productive than a chainsaw in a bamboo field (you could argue that that’s destructive, but cut me some slack), and a good day of racquetball where my cheapo racquet was like a sword that struck down those…

Last night I made a decent dinner. Decent may be an understatement, but I’ll let you decide. Wild sockeye salmon in garlic butter, sauteed mushrooms (also in garlic butter), asparagus, a baked red potato, diced tomatoes in a spicy vinaigrette, and accompanied by sourdough french bread and chai tea. It was actually to my benefit…

1 tbsp peanut butter 3 oz chow mein noodles (just a bunch of noodles. you adjust the amount as you mix.) 16oz package of butterscotch chips. Melt and mix the pb and butterscotch chips on medium low heat. Remove from heat. Add a bunch of the noodles. adjust recipe to taste. Drop spoonfulls of haystacks…

350* 20 minutes Crust: 1 cup sifted all-purpose flour 1/2 cup butter 1/4 cup confectioner’s (powdered) sugar Topping 2 eggs 1 cup granulated sugar 1/2 tsp baking powder 1/4 tsp salt 2 tbsp lemon juice Blend crust ingredients thoroughly. Press evenly in 8x8x2 square pan and bake for 20 minutes. Beat rest of ingredients together….