I must admit to all readers of anotherkindofdrew. I am in love with cast iron cookware. While I don’t know when cast iron cookware was first invented (although I assume early predecessors were hand-forged in the blacksmithing shoppes of Europe) I do know that they are such fine pieces of cookware that you can use [...]
You just never know who you are going to work with I tell you. I deal with a number of people each day and not one of them has ceased to surprise me. We oftentimes forget that outside of 9am to 5pm our colleagues are people too; hobbies and all. One of the IT guys [...]
In the last post Scissors & Drumsticks suggested we try Dilly Beans. It occurred to me that everyone might not know what they were talking about. So, I thought I would post the recipe ©allrecipes.com
Yesterday I was mentally taken hostage by the thought of peach cobbler. I don’t know where it came from. Perhaps a subconscious view of one on a blog? Perhaps even reading some blogs posts about canning and preserving peaches. Whatever the case it was firmly planted in my brain – so much so that I [...]
This past weekend I saw staring at a bowl of medium size apples that were a bit old(er) and not so tasty looking. I didn’t want to throw them away and although my compost bin was calling, I felt like it was a good time to learn to can and jar. So, I broke out [...]
Well, Pan and I are in Virginia for a couple of days so we can spend time with my side of the family as well as ingest some gobble gobble goodies. I couldn’t resist this time of food to practice photography and get my head wrapped around some food styling techniques. So, here is my [...]
Not since the great meatloaf of ’08 [Britt cooked me up an amazing meatloaf just before I left for Paris] have I eaten such a meal. Starting in late October my eating habits changed dramatically. My calorie intake shrunk to only 1500 a day and the majority of my food came from boxes. I rarely [...]
