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Stout bread.

Happy belated Thanksgiving, all ye Americans reading this. I hope you ate yourselves into the appropriate food coma. I for one am working off my Thanksgiving food ingestion by walking around the beautiful isle of Manhattan today with my Sami, and going to see the new Harry Potter movie. Oh, and eating, of course. I’m [...]


November 27, 2010

And out come the (were)wolves…

And the witches, and ghosts, and vampires, and zombies… and all the other fun and “scary” creatures that inhabit this time of year. Which is my favorite time of year, as you might know. I know I’ve done a little “history of Halloween” briefly before on here, but I thought we could all use a [...]


October 05, 2010

Jay’s birthday “Car Bombs.”

As I said the other day, tomorrow, May 23rd, is Jay’s birthday. And every year for his birthday I ask him what kind of cupcakes he wants, then I make him an entire batch of whatever he requests all for himself. Usually he shares them with his family or co-workers, since he’s not going to [...]


May 22, 2010

Shepherd’s pie for the alky’s.

Everyone is familiar with Shepherd’s Pie. If you’re Irish, then you definitely know Shepherd’s Pie. It’s classic pub food. The original name is “Cottage Pie.” Cottage pie refers to an English meat pie made with beef mince and with a crust made from mashed potato. A variation on this dish using Lamb mince is known [...]


January 29, 2010

Creepy chocolate stout cupcakes with white chocolate “funny bones.”

I wanted to say before I started this… Vic Mizzy, the writer of the Addams Family theme, passed away earlier this month on October 17th at the age of 93. So R.I.P., Vic! Your music will live on forever. “So get your witches shawl on, a broomstick you can crawl on, we’re gonna make a [...]


October 28, 2009