This is basically how I feel anytime some new diet craze comes along. I am not the healthiest person in the world, but when I will myself to do a couple of simple things better I do lose (some) weight and felt a lot better. Eat whole food, or as close to it as possible. For a long time there was nothing that came in a…

Fresh n Easy, when it existed, use to sell higher end lunchables of their own brand. I use to love them, although they were a bit pricey. Sadly a few years before they shuttered they stopped selling them. Now I just make my own. Way less expensive, but that goes for pretty much every convenience meal.

No worries. My wife and I are just about to enter into the foster/adopt world, so correcting those errors is a part of that. Hopefully a nice car project will be something that they’re interested in.

My dad and I were never close growing up. He focused mostly on my sisters, so by the time they’d left and the focus drew onto me, I was already in my rebellious teen years and I wasn’t the typical jock son that he wanted. I was a nerdy artist kid who would rather play video games than go camping. We fought a lot. I…

I generally fall into the eye roll group. A lot of that is that I am a semi-professional baker now. One of the first questions I get at one of the markets I sell at is “do you have any gluten free bread?” It usually comes with this snide smile like they’re looking for a debate. I get this after they look at my table…

I am the youngest child in my family, and the second son. I can say that this is probably true. Both my brother and I didn’t do great in school, and had our share of delinquent behavior, but I was by far was. I was arrested, kicked out of one high school, did drugs (granted I was introduced to them by my other sibs),…

Some elementary schools operate this way to some degree. There is also the MOOC branch, SPOCs (Small, Private, Online Course) when faculty take a larger MOOC and scale it down to an individual class.

I think I’ll have to try this out this weekend. My wife usually isn’t too hungry that early in the morning, and isn’t a big fan of the american breakfast either, so this might be a great alternative. Not to mention that it is supposed to be around 110F here on Sat. A heavy meal in hot weather is never fun.

The problem is that the windshield wiper fluid cap clearly looks like a windshield and wipers/fluid goes there. Also the oil filler is right on the engine. If you think windshield wiper fluid would be any part of an engine, you probably shouldn’t be opening the engine bay. Also, I think (I’d have to open my Mini’s…

Another good element of this is that it introduces these kids to what many would consider “scary” people. It can show them that these scary people are just people, and more often than not, nice and warm hearted.

Oh man. So many things.

This happened to me for the majority of my early sex life. The only times it stopped was when I was in serious relationships that lasted at least 6 months. It still pops up from time to time with my wife, who I’ve been with for 15 years, whenever stress is pretty high. It really is frustrating. We usually just stop…

The junk food element came up a lot during our training. It is an easy coping mechanism for kids, as most junk food hits all of those pleasure centers in the brain. We went through it ourselves a couple of years ago when we tried to cut out fast food. It is hard. Finding the pleasure of cooking helped a lot. Some of…

My wife and I are going through Foster-to-Adopt and the subject of getting the kids to eat properly came up multiple times. While initially struck off-guard by the topic, my immediate reaction was to have dinners be a communal event where they can, hopefully, help me in the kitchen preparing it, and then we all sit…

1 - What kind of sandwich can you make better than anyone else? Made this recipe on a day I got halfway through making a sandwich and realized that we were out of lunch meat. Fried up some red and golden potato slices and added them on. So. Friggin. Good. Recipe is pretty simple, grilled sourdough (homemade whole…

Is Budlight a reward or a punishment?

My wife and I did this a couple of years ago to try to get healthier and save some money. The process is actually pretty darn easy. Just eat more of the other stuff on the plate. Instead of cooking a chicken breast for each of us, I now cook one breast that we share. Then we load on the salad and/or veggies. If we are…

My wife is a huge fan of mac n cheese add-ins. For the basic kraft stuff she will add in curry powder or mustard. Basic, yes. Usually for the more “dinner” style, like cracker barrel or velveta she always adds in pepperoni. I am not a fan of add-ins, so I guess I live a boring life.

I remember jumping into my buddy’s ‘66 Mustang thinking that I was going to tear up some asphalt, and then laughing as I floored it and the thing just crawled to a cruising speed. Granted it was a straight 6 that badly needed some love, but the illusion was ruined. When I bought my 67 Ranchero I drove it back from…

As a baker, thank you.