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>I love the snow, I really do…I’m a born and bred Buffalonian. But I find as I get older I really miss the summer. Maybe it’s the sunlight…or more specifically the lack of it this time of year. When it starts to get dark at 4:30 in the afternoon it can bring me down sometimes.Continue reading “>Winter”

It saddens me, it really does, when I see this stuff. I recently came across an article about these videos in a well known food magazine. When I googled them I couldn’t believe it…I still can’t. There are tons of them, and apparently they’re pretty popular. They’re videos of a child that is dubbed LittleContinue reading “Little Gordon Nightmare”

>It saddens me, it really does, when I see this stuff. I recently came across an article about these videos in a well known food magazine. When I googled them I couldn’t believe it…I still can’t. There are tons of them, and apparently they’re pretty popular. They’re videos of a child that is dubbed LittleContinue reading “>Little Gordon Nightmare”

>St. NicholasThis past week was St. Nicholas night. I still celebrate it with my son each year (who is now way past the age of believing in Santa). It’s a tradition that was passed down to me from my mother, who learned it from her mother, and so on. As a child I only knewContinue reading “>Weekly Thoughts”

St. NicholasThis past week was St. Nicholas night. I still celebrate it with my son each year (who is now way past the age of believing in Santa). It’s a tradition that was passed down to me from my mother, who learned it from her mother, and so on. As a child I only knewContinue reading “Weekly Thoughts”

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Two more items I’ve recently carried (with ease) on my Mundo Yuba. One was a 15 gallon stock pot. I had a catering event to work and the pots were not big enough so I decided to bring my own…on my bicycle. The other was a twenty pound pumpkin. The only problem was that IContinue reading “More on my Mundo”

>Two more items I’ve recently carried (with ease) on my Mundo Yuba. One was a 15 gallon stock pot. I had a catering event to work and the pots were not big enough so I decided to bring my own…on my bicycle. The other was a twenty pound pumpkin. The only problem was that IContinue reading “>More on my Mundo”

>A while back I read an interview of a Chinese chef, though I can’t remember who it was. Actually, it may have been a radio interview. Who am I kidding, I’m not sure who it was or where I heard it, but I’m pretty sure I remember hearing that you should not eat chop sueyContinue reading “>Tso What?”

A while back I read an interview of a Chinese chef, though I can’t remember who it was. Actually, it may have been a radio interview. Who am I kidding, I’m not sure who it was or where I heard it, but I’m pretty sure I remember hearing that you should not eat chop sueyContinue reading “Tso What?”

So there I was…tooling down Elmwood Avenue on a beautiful late summer’s morn. I was on my new and fully loaded Mundo Yuba, and feeling pretty cool. I was proud of myself for being early for work for a change, and was just going slowly…minding my own business and enjoying the ride. Then a CityContinue reading “Morning Commute”

>So there I was…tooling down Elmwood Avenue on a beautiful late summer’s morn. I was on my new and fully loaded Mundo Yuba, and feeling pretty cool. I was proud of myself for being early for work for a change, and was just going slowly…minding my own business and enjoying the ride. Then a CityContinue reading “>Morning Commute”

> Noah carried the slabs of meat into the kitchen and cut it into small salting blocks, and Ma patted the course salt in, laid it piece by piece in the kegs, careful that no two pieces touched each other. She laid the slabs like bricks, and pounded salt in the spaces. –John Steinbeck, TheContinue reading “>Really Slow Food”

Noah carried the slabs of meat into the kitchen and cut it into small salting blocks, and Ma patted the course salt in, laid it piece by piece in the kegs, careful that no two pieces touched each other. She laid the slabs like bricks, and pounded salt in the spaces. –John Steinbeck, The GrapesContinue reading “Really Slow Food”

>Isaac and I rode up to Windmill Quarry last week. We took the Friendship Trail. Here’s a 12 second video of him taking his last jump of the season. http://www.youtube.com/get_player

Isaac and I rode up to Windmill Quarry last week. We took the Friendship Trail. Here’s a 12 second video of him taking his last jump of the season. http://www.youtube.com/get_player

>S0 it’s been three months since I’ve updated this blog. It seems that on the one hand I’ve had such a busy summer that I haven’t been able to get anything done (the checklist on my refrigerator that I wrote in the spring for a summer “to do List” does not have one single thingContinue reading “>Frontyard Corn”

S0 it’s been three months since I’ve updated this blog. It seems that on the one hand I’ve had such a busy summer that I haven’t been able to get anything done (the checklist on my refrigerator that I wrote in the spring for a summer “to do List” does not have one single thingContinue reading “Frontyard Corn”

>Between the early burst of hot and steamy weather, followed by two weeks of on again-and-off again torrential downpours, the garden is flourishing. Here are a few before and after photos. The first set were taken in early May, the second set just this week. Here’s the garden in the front yard. I’m trying somethingContinue reading “>Before and After”