We haven’t really had to deal with excessive wind during recent El Nino years, what’s piqued my interest is it seems that the blob of warm water in the north Pacific (the same one responsible for the mild winter in 2015 and subsequent hot summer) seems to have partially returned. The blob alone was enough to make the…

For some reason, all the the pies I get from Papa Murphy’s have this issue where the sauce leaches away from the center of the pie and gravitates towards the edge. I don’t really notice it in the first few bites but it becomes more present, especially in clumps next to the crust.

Here’s the Turn It Around comp...it’s great little history lesson on the east bay scene, plus it has Crimpshrine on it as well.

If the shoulder pad makes contact first, it can’t be considered leading with the helmet. The defender also initiated contact from a sideways angle, leading with the crown of the helmet typically occurs when a player is leaning or lunging forward.

It’s candy that tastes like corn! Oh boy!

The joke’s on him, McDonald’s burgers can persist for 30 years outside the refrigerator.

My favorite beer is a double red called Shark Attack. There’s just something about red ales that puts them above the rest of the pack - it might be the holy combo of aggressive hops and malt notes. Unfortunately for me, it appears that even with increasing craft beer sections, the local grocery stores are barren when…

I didn’t much care for the taste of the beer that was commonplace at high school parties - you know, whatever cheap-ass swill we could actually get our hands on. I still wanted to get a nice buzz but I hated the taste of hard alcohol, so I mastered the art of drinking the beer without actually tasting it. I don’t…

The only people with mental issues are the people who listen to Kanye’s music and think that it’s anything better than mediocre.

It’s not close to 40% yet, but it’s over 30% and climbing (more like laborious, strained wheezing followed by keeling over) in practically every state. It’s also not going to get any better when people are convinced that they’re meant to be obese and that they should learn to find happiness and live with it instead of…

“I’M AN ALPHA MALE! I’M AN ALPHA MALE! I’M AN ALPHA MALE, DAMN IT! I’M AN ALPHA MALE!!!!!!”

I really have no idea why Hawaiian pizza is as bad as it is. Pineapple is delicious as a standalone ingredient but the second it hits pizza dough, the pizza is ruined. 

At least you won’t have to go very far to ask the Russians if they did. 

I have to say that I would revel in the anticipation of popping that cheese open as much as when I have a delicious fried/poached egg in front of me.

The first couple of times I roasted whole chicken, I went through the effort of sticking butter under under the skin. The skin didn’t really get any crispier than it would’ve had I just basted it with olive oil but the veggies underneath the chicken really loved that combo of melted butter and chicken fat.

I suggest attempting to stack a pie with as much of the various meats you have at your disposal as possible. It’s still going to be a fatty saltbomb but at least it’ll be a multi-note fatty saltbomb.

Yesterday, I made a pie in a 12" skillet and used 14 whole slices for the entire thing. Sure, I could stuff it to the gills with pepperoni but there’s no benefit of doing so. It doesn’t take much pepperoni to saturate the palate.

I found Waldo!