Thoughts of a Middle Aged Man

Annette picked up a video camera this weekend, and I made a little cooking video based on the Spinach Ruben Sandwich that we had for dinner tonight. We are new at this and I hope we get better on upcoming videos. Enjoy

My Dad use to say the difference between a regular meal and a gourmet meal is the gourmet meal has more butter. Gary, one of the Seamhead Tour members, was asked by his kids his favorite food, in anticipation of preparing his answer for his birthday meal. His answer was sauce, anything with [...]

A while back I got a new chef toy, the Vita-Mix blender, and it has become my new cooking partner. With enough power to grind nuts, this machine will mix anything, anytime and in minutes. It all started when I needed a new blender to create a [...]

I have been playing around with my blog and adding a couple new links that people can explore. First I have added an ancestry database to my site. Just click on the My Ancestry link to the right and you can view a lot of my family’s ancestry. Its the [...]

I got my recipe page back up and running. Just click on the my recipe link in the blog roll to the right. In response to a special request, I posted a new recipe, my simple marinara sauce. I will work on getting the recipes site cleaned up, but at least everyone [...]

In my previous post Where am I going to shop?, I lamented about the closing of the local Whole Foods that was replaced with a much large Whole Foods that is farther away. But being a good foodie, I was willing to give it a try. Over the last week and half I [...]

The local Whole Foods store closed this week and opened a new larger store in an outdoor mall in a location that is slightly farther away and much more inconvenient. With this move, and with the kids now gone from the house it has made me evaluate my shopping needs. For the past [...]

I hate cooking in summertime. Summertime calls for cool foods like fruit, cucumbers, melons, mayo and grilled proteins like chicken, burgers and salmon. It also means that slow cooking like roasting or braising is out of the question as it heats up the house, when the house is already to warm. Even [...]

I would thought I would spend one post to catch up on a lot of past subjects, so here it goes

I ran 9 miles the last two Sunday’s with better times each Sunday. Yesterday I finished in 82 minutes, which is much faster than I planned. I am getting better at pacing myself, [...]

I accomplished my goal of five different breakfasts; one for each workday this week. Here is the breakdown.

Monday - Kashi Cinnamon Harvest cereal, blueberries and non fat milk. A light breakfast because I had a lunch meeting that day. Being cereal, it was quick and easy.
Tuesday - Whole wheat english muffin with [...]