I tried an experiment not too long ago.  A while back I posted what I call “Weiners Wellington” where you wrap crescent roll dough around hot dogs—what’s been called “Pigs in a Blanket” for a long, long time and a simple dinner that kids have always loved.

But… Read full post »

Today's a quiet kind of Sunday.  I read the San Diego paper and then walked up the street and bought a copy of the "North County Times" too. 

Isn't it too bad that the "local", suburban paper is actually a better paper than the "big city paper" the San Diego… Read full post »

There’s an old hayseed saying, “nothin’s gooder’n grits”.  I’ve always loved grits with breakfast—except you pretty much never want to order them at your favorite breakfast joint because they’ll probably be instant grits.  But real grits--with… Read full post »

The other night I was watching an episode of “American Pickers”.  Mike and Frank were checking out a guy who had some old-style soft drink machines where you put in the change, lifted the lid and snaked an ice-cold bottle of soda out—an 8 ounce bottle.  The kind where you… Read full post »

Have you ever made that motorboat sound with you lips—either pretending to be a motorboat or tickling the tummy of a toddler?  Well, that’s not the kind of boats Cheap Bastid is referring to here.  I’m taking about zucchini boats.

 Thanks to the Tauman Family B… Read full post »

Ed I Tor is way too young to remember Dick Clark.  But many of us grew up with him.  Gawd, who can forget "American Bandstand". 

It spawned a host of other shows--can you think of a few?  Like "Hootenanny", "Hullabaloo"  and "Lloyd Thaxton" to name a few. 

 But rat… Read full post »

Just a quick post today.  The weather’s getting warmer and sunnier and it’s time to start thinking about warm weather dishes and cookout and picnic food.

One of my favorites is summer slaw.  What I love about it is that I can make it in about 5 minutes and toss… Read full post »

My father had a favorite “endearment” for me, his youngest son, when I was a kid.  At various times, he’d look at me a say, “you’re just a gravy sopper”.  This was especially true when Mom would cook pork chops and there’d be 2 boys and my Dad elbow… Read full post »

Well, Ed I Tor put out a new "Open Call" for our "petty crimes" in celebration (I think) of this week's Supreme Court decision which leaves it up to law enforcement agencies whether or not to strip search a "petty criminal" prior to locking them up even for a short time… Read full post »

Cheap Bastid wasn’t going to post anything today because I haven’t been all that creative lately.  But, I feel just a little bit of responsibility for trying to rejuvenate Foodie Tuesday that I decided to go ahead and post a brand new recipe—I just cooked it for the second time… Read full post »

Last week, one of the Foodie Tuesday posters wrote on pizza crust.  I started making my own crust at home a while back and I concur, it’s easy and inexpensive. 

Here’s the thing, if you go to a pizza place or order take out you can spend $15-$20 for a… Read full post »

Just thought I'd throw this into the feed today before I check around to see if I can get the ESPNU streaming of the University of North Dakota vs University of Minnesota hockey game today to see who makes the "Frozen Four" next week.  Here it is:

Kind of says… Read full post »

Count me in! I'm as appalled by this as I've ever been appalled by anything. And I live in a neighborhood where it is not uncommon to see young brown men stopped wearing hoodies or oversized t-shirts and just for being brown.

And this is me with my own… Read full post »

Last week, “graciousjanesmithie” did a post on “Insanely Delicious Pot Roast”.  No two was about it; this was a tasty, succulent dish.  But, what do you do with the leftovers?  How do you take this inexpensive dinner and convert it to several more dinners that a… Read full post »

Yesterday was St. Patrick's Day and I couldn't resist the temptation to do a little "Show and Tell" today.  I cooked the whole traditional dinner of Corned Beef and Cabbage and even baked "Traditional Irish Soda Bread". 

 Man, the whole thing was good.  (One hint on the cabbage--… Read full post »

OK, so I’ve been mentally threatening myself to write this for the last couple of weeks—ever since I never got a response from Emily Holleman to a PM I sent her on February 28 about the demise of Foodie Tuesday.

In my PM I asked her and her cohorts to “bring… Read full post »

Doesn’t that sound good?  A big old double-stacker of Pink Slime.  Last week, “pink slime” leaped to the top of the standing in Google searches after a series of stories hit the news about 5 million pounds of it being sold to school lunch programs.

All of a sudden people w… Read full post »

Rick killed Shane last night.  So did Carl.  But we thought that Carl was going to kill Rick for killing Shane. How did Shane get killed twice?  Geez, that’s 2 characters killed off in 2 weeks.  First Dale and now Shane.  I wonder what’s going to happen next.

What… Read full post »

It’s March.  Time for March Madness.  The NCAA men’s basketball tournament has always been about my favorite sporting event of the year.  The only thing that tops it comes every 4 years and that’s the Olympics. 

Part of it is because I spent 15 year… Read full post »

Yesterday’s San Diego Union Tribune (a newspaper which is sliding inexorably downhill at an ever increasing rate) had an editorial cartoon which really got my attention and made me stop and think.

It seems as though we have been in the most insane political “season” that I can recal… Read full post »

I have to confess that I am follicly challenged.  Yes folks, I’m pretty bald and have been for a good long time.  I gave up long, long ago trying to disguise it or compensate for it. 

OK in the late 90’s a couple of times I tried to grow a… Read full post »

This is an election year.  I was going to say that it is a political year, but they all are, aren’t they?  And it seems like each election year things get just a bit worse.  More millions are spent from the deepest pockets that can be found on increasingly slanted and… Read full post »

Ann Landers once provided her definition of chutzpah in her column.  She wrote that chutzpah is the young man pleading for mercy from the court because he is an orphan—when he was being sentenced for murdering his parents.

That’s kind of what’s been going through my… Read full post »

You know, I keep probably 30 or more spices in my kitchen cupboard right next to the stove.  And I use pretty much all of them at least from time to time.  I can whip up a pretty good spice blend just by rummaging around with an idea in/… Read full post »

Interesting question isn’t it?  New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has been all over the national media in the last several days.

He’s professing his loyalty to Mitt Romney and his efforts to secure the Republican nomination for President.  He’s touting the official Republ/… Read full post »