The latest Great Food Truck Race winner was vegetarian, too.

Too much bun is a problem with a lot of sandwiches. That’s one reason I like the Whopper Jr. over the Whopper. The proportions are just better in the Jr. Actually, a Double Whopper Jr. with it’s two meat patties is just about perfect as far as proportions of ingredients goes.

I have a couple of go-to protein lunches I can make with stuff available from Walmart, which is very close to my office. Both of these make for a delicious and healthy meal.

Shadow/Sundance, too

A couple of years ago I made beef Wellington for Christmas dinner. I couldn’t get any foie gras, so I made a compound butter with potted meat, and used that instead. I figured that as essentially meat-flavored fat, it could at least serve the same purpose in the Wellington. As far as I could tell, it worked out fine.

So what I ended up doing yesterday was taking some sour cream (needed for a different recipe), and adding lemon juice, salt, pepper, rosemary, and honey to it. Turns out sour cream and honey taste great together, and I feel like it was a decent sub for the lemon curd. I marinated the chicken in it for around 3 hours,…

I bought an ‘85 Escort, my first new car purchase. My engine also blew at 68K! In later years I looked it up, and apparently there was a design flaw with that engine that caused condensation in the valve cover to drip into the oil. It ended up looking like a chocolate shake. The one good thing about that car was that…

Now that I’ve read this, I’m reminded that just a few weeks ago I bought a gift for my daughter and SIL that was listed here as a deal on The Inventory, and it came in a Sams Club box!

Well, you have to allow for me being in the middle of nowhere in the Midwest. I’m lucky to have anything other than Taco Bell.

The day in 2006 that I drove on that track the temperature was 110 degrees F. It was so hot that they waived the long pants rule and let us wear shorts. I had my most, uh, puckering, track experience that day, with my brakes really fading coming up to turn 8 after that long straight. I just barely managed to slow down…

My go-to test order at a new Mexican place is cheese enchiladas.

The company I work for has a small aluminum casting division, and we’re 3D printing something to make a mold right this minute. It’s a great quick, low-cost way to get a model to make a mold, and to experiment with various shapes for some things.

My road course experience is limited to a half dozen or so tracks, but out of the ones I’ve driven on, Heartland Motorsports Park in Topeka was the most fun. It had some long straights, some challenging (to a beginner) corners, and even slight elevation changes (which is always a surprise in the Great Plains :) ).…

Hmm. I might try something like this for the weekend. I was planning to grill some chicken anyway and make some kind of Spanish-inspired roasted potatoes to use up some spare potatoes. I don’t particularly want to make lemon curd, but maybe lemon Greek yogurt instead? It probably wouldn’t have the same sweetness, but…

When I was a kid we had this fiberglass thing we used as a kiddie pool. I don’t even know what it was supposed to really be. It was just this...tub-like...thing made from fiberglass and gel coated, about 6 feet square and 18 inches deep. Something like this, but bigger.

It looks more like half a shipping container than half a dumpster. And lined with fiberglass?

I dunno, this site is arguably made up of car people. I was kind of pleasantly surprised when the question the other day about what vehicle are you buying next had a lot of us answering that it would be something electric. Yes, I have some I4 turbo cars, but I’d be driving something electric to work if I could afford…

We haven’t had end-to-end analog in decades. For a very long time POTS calls have been digitized into 64K channels (or even less sometimes). HD Voice has more than twice the frequency range of POTS, and sounds much, much better than POTS ever did.

Yep, in the olden times the “freezer” was just a compartment in the top of the refrigerator, and there was only one setting for the entire thing. We had one of those type when I was a kid in the 70's, even.

I had them once hesitate to give me a photo of my family, in our living room, taken by a friend. Said it looked like a studio photo. I said, “Thanks, I spent a lot of time in Photoshop making it look this good.” They did finally give it to me, but I think maybe made me sign something saying I had rights to it? Dumb.