Nerd Kitchen
Six of the Best Nerdy Recipes
Happy Wednesday! Josh is swamped with work this week, so I’m here with the top 6 nerdy recipes I want to try my hand at making. In our house, Josh cooks while I prefer to [...]
SIX OF THE BEST… things about starting a restrictive diet
I lost a lot of weight between November 2012 and November 2013. Then I gained almost all of it back. Last month I decided I'd had enough, and I was going to start a very [...]
Waffle Fried Chicken, Sa Da Tay!
Have you ever witnessed a group of white, almost transparent, 30 somethings sitting around eating waffles and fried chicken and snorting their MD 20/20 through their nose as they watched and quoted Pootie Tang? No? [...]
Striking Banana Car’s Buffalo Chicken Mac & Cheese Massacre
“LADIES AND GENTLEMEN! PUT YOUR HANDS TOGETHER FOR…STRIKING BANANA CAR!” The kick pedal thumps against the wood floor as the spiky haired drummer, Lithium, begins pumping a demon speed beat. Errol’s bass guitar churns in [...]
Cooking With Conan
Between the time when the patrons drank their wine and the rise of the soufflé, there was an age undreamed-of. And unto this, Conan, destined to bear the large white puffy toque upon a troubled [...]
Attack of the Killer Tomato Sauce Meets Great Expectations
This is one of those recipes that was born of necessity...which philosophers have explained to me is a mother...or something like that. Old college wisdom supposedly dictates that Italian-American food is a great hangover remedy. [...]
Exercise in Decadence: Orange Bourbon Syrup
The other night, Mrs. Twisted Pixie and I got the hankering for pancakes. It was one of those cravings that just had to be satisfied or it would haunt us the rest of the evening. So we ran [...]
Children of the Cornbread
Some years back my college roommate and I find ourselves (as we often did back then) drunk, broke, hungry, and watching horror movies..in this case Children of the Corn movies. After a half hour of [...]
Say cheese!
Captain Tech Support (CTS): Ahh, comfort food. You know the stuff we mean. Shepard's pie, nachos, and our personal favorite: Mac-n-cheese. When made right, this is food that fills your heart, as well as your [...]
A Clockwork Orange Cranberry BBQ Sauce
A few Black Fridays back I found myself being awakened by an early morning incessant knocking at the door. It was a longtime friend and fellow Black Friday widower, left sans female by the pre-dawn [...]