I’ve got boxes of 80's BYTEs in our attic. Not sure why I kept them, except that I’m just that nerdy!

Sweet and salty can go so well together. We have a cookie recipe with bacon in it that we like around here.

I’m in Southern Illinois, and it has been wet over the past few years. I think it’s always been the prediction of climate change models that this part of the country would be a little bit warmer and quite a bit wetter. That so far seems to be playing out. We get warm, wet air from the Gulf moving north and cold, dry…

I could see AMC building that, if they were still around.

Extra salt? Until I got to that line, I was thinking it would be best to use lightly salted wavy chips. Does it really need the extra salt?

My Christmas cactus I’ve been nursing along for a more than 10 years has about a dozen buds on it! I’m inordinately excited about it.

Also “Reindeer Chow” around Christmastime, when it’s often made.

Glad you’re okay. We had a warning here last night, as well, but the tornado from our warning was 5 miles north of us, and was fairly weak and didn’t touch down. I’m about 40 miles from the Amazon warehouse that was hit.

Did you ever see pictures from the tornado in Joplin, MO, a few years ago? A half-mile wide strip through the middle of town where *nothing* was left. Basically every structure, tree, etc. gone, down to the ground. As somebody has already mentioned, a strong tornado is not like a hurricane, and nothing but a…

I’m glad you mentioned that it’s supposed to be equal amounts of fat and flour by weight. I had always heard when I was younger to use equal amounts, and I used to worry that I always had to add a lot more flour to make it come out right. At some point I either heard or read that it is supposed to be by weight. (very…

You have me thinking of all sorts of things now. French fried onions, crushed Doritos or Cheetos. The possibilities are endless!

Less than 2 gallons in the biggest one? We have an old Holmes 4-gallon unit in our bedroom, but on a cold day we can go through 5+ gallons easily, and still struggle to get the humidity above 40%. I recommend using some good humidifier water conditioner, as well. It not only helps with mineral build-up, but also can…

Less than 2 gallons in the biggest one? We have an old Holmes 4-gallon unit in our bedroom, but on a cold day we can…

I did that with my turkey gravy and turkey soup this year, too. I forgot to put a squeeze of lemon juice in the soup, though, so even with the gravy it ended up tasting a bit flat. It’s amazing how a little lemon juice brightens up chicken or turkey noodle soup. You want just enough that when you eat it you think,…

I’m not a chemist (although my dad was, and I did take a few chem classes), but the way I understand it is the sodium ions in the baking soda paste bind with the smelly sulfur compounds from the garlic, and then you can wash them away. It’s the same reaction that makes salt (also sodium ions), stainless steel (the nick…

Arby’s has some wraps that are kind of like that. I just had a Creamy Mediterranean wrap the other day, and it was extremely messy but pretty tasty. And a surprisingly reasonable number of calories, even.

If Arby’s would give me a couple of packets of their three-pepper sauce, I could put it on a hash brown from McDonald’s. That three-pepper sauce has some really nice flavor, without being excessively spicy.

I’ve been pretty satisfied first with my Fossil Sport and now with my Fossil Gen 6. The Gen 6, in particular, looks and runs great. I like the classic watch look of it a lot better than the candy lozenge look of these Pixel Watch renders. I remain puzzled about what people want smartwatches to do that they don’t…

Ha! To strudel should absolutely be a verb! I had two years of German in high school, so I can’t say I speak German, only remember a few words and bit of grammar. Last night I had a dream that I was in a German restaurant trying to figure out how to ask for the bill. All I could come up with was German for, “Can I…

Just make it the star of the sandwich! http://thetakeout.com/dear-god-what-have-i-done-behold-the-kfc-skinwich-1826061394

I’ve mentioned here before about having once followed One Lap of America as part of a media crew. That trip as a passenger in a Honda Element (1st-gen I think) was tough. There was a huge amount of legroom in the 2nd row, really an amazing amount. But almost everything else about that vehicle was really uncomfortable.…