Archive for June, 2008

A Cooler Cooler

So cool it practically says “Ayyyyyyy.”
Oh it’s just so awesome. It’s like hospital cart meets ice cream bike meets 50s ice chest. For some reason I have a love of coolers. I don’t know what it is. Plastic lake coolers, soft-side stadium coolers, picnic backpack coolers — I love them all. But I ESPECIALLY love [...]

Compost away your party guilt

Break it down! (Get it? Cuz it’s biodegradable?)
Yard-party season is here! I love barbecues. People come over, eat, laugh, and compliment my house and food. It’s awesome for me, really. But sometimes by the time we’ve mowed the grass, dragged the coolers upstairs, made the salad, marinated the steaks, baked the beans, chopped the crudites, washed [...]

Cheese, Glorious Cheese!

Apparently the words “cheese log” turn me into
a 10-year-old boy.
Last weekend we headed out toward the foggy coast with some friends in search of our first round of seasonal produce (olallieberries, if you care) for the freezer. On the way back, we stopped at a creamery called Harley Farms, and oh my dear lord, the [...]

Freeze Frame!

Once again, I get to suggest that there
are some Toros in the atmosphere.
So we’ve made room for a chest freezer. This is not an item I ever expected to own. In my experience, chest freezers live in two-car garages and are filled with Totino’s pizza rolls, a gross of Costco pies, and possibly deer meat. [...]

It’s just a crush

I will crush you. (You have to say it
with a Russian accent like a Bond villain.)
Crushed ice MAKES a beverage. Growing up in the South, we had easy access to the benchmark of all crushed ice: Sonic’s “rabbit turd ice.” What? We were teenagers. Of COURSE we called it that. And you know what it [...]