In your case the toilet is the problem.  I’ve been using Northern Quilted for decades as well as an American Standard Cadet 3 toilet.  Nothing clogs those things. 

As with harryB’s reply, you triggered a memory for me. We were traveling through Venezuela in the 80s and stopped at a little community for a pit stop. Our friend ordered what I would call a cornmeal pancake with queso blanco and served folded over like a taco. It probably has a name in Venezuela, but it was…

If you are using the sous vide method to cook your meat, there’s no need to let it rest as it has been cooking in its juices for an hour or more.

Check to see if your library has a book selling outlet. In San Antonio the Friends of the Library volunteer group operate the BookCellar in the basement of the downtown library. They collect books and media from all the neighborhood libraries as they discard them. They also take donations from estates or anyone,…

General Tso’s Casserole??? 

Yes, it’s like the baby food jars with pictures of the contents on the label. 

Exactly! This is a gringo kluge solution to a problem that does not exist. And what’s that about picking the insides up with your fingers if it falls out? I suppose you could, if you were a howler monkey, but I use either a spoon or a fork, whichever is handier. Or I shove the taco guts over into the rice and/or beans…

Once you know where the antennas are relative to your house, I recommend using Google Earth to draw a line between the antennas and your house. Then inspect that line at your house to know where to aim the antenna. You don’t need to mess with a compass or know the Sun angles. Google Earth will tell you to aim it at…

I don’t have the HDHomeRun yet, but it’s on my list. All my TVs have discrete antennas in the house. I would have rabbit ear antennas but they are not discrete nor are they compatible with curious cats. I’m 30 miles from the antenna farm south of San Antonio and get everything but PBS from the indoor antennas. If I…

50 years ago I found a recipe for ant bait that used only sugar, molasses, and yeast. Of course it only works on ants attracted to sugar, but it worked great. Apparently these ants are farmers. They take the sugar home to the nest and let it get covered in bacteria (or something) and then they eat the bacteria. But…

We recently moved and found an unopened 6-pack of bar soap that had not been unpacked during our previous move, 7 years earlier.  The old pack of soap had 6-ounce bars while the newer one has 4-ounce bars. 

Back around 1986 I rented an apartment in San Antonio which had a broken AC. The owner didn’t have the money to fix it, so the rent was adjusted down.  So that summer I slept in a Mayan style hammock stretched out in the living room. I had a window exhaust fan in one bedroom and opened a window at the other side of…

Years ago I dated a woman who was 4'11" tall. Coincidentally the thermostat in her house was 5 feet off the ground. In the winter she kept adjusting the thermostat warmer and warmer because the hot air at the ceiling clicked the thermostat off before she ever felt it. I felt the heat on my face and noticed the…

I see the colab roll is “made with CINNABON cinnamon.”  Here’s my observation after watching them making Cinnabons in the Sky Harbor Airport a few decades ago.  When they shook out the cinnamon I noticed it had red dots in it.  I asked the assembler what the red dots were and she replied, “I never noticed that…

Couple things: picture looks like a scene from The Godfather to me.

Back in the mid 80s I traveled in Venezuela and Panama. Their queso blanco is definitely different from what we can get in the US. I’ll never forget a corn pancake with queso blanco melted and folded over like an omelette. 

I’ve been frying shredded cheese in butter and pouring a broken yolk egg on top to cook. I’ll try a bit of MSG today and see where that goes.

Tried it. I’ll try anything with sour cream. I was hoping the sour cream would unlock the subtle and more delicate nuances of the Worcestershire, but no, not for me.  So I tried it with soy sauce.  Nope! 

I thought all airplanes got within 6 feet of crashing into the ground.  And then they land with a little less of a crashy feeling.  Certainly airplanes crash into aircraft carriers during the landing. 

Could it be he was tipped off by one of his congressional leg humpers?