It’s that time of year when I start stockpiling cookie dough in my freezer to bake in the upcoming weeks. This is a new recipe, a cookie that’s made with cream cheese, dried cranberries, and white chocolate chips, rolled in confectioners sugar. It rates a thumbs up from the fellas! Continue reading →
I spied this on a trip to the local super market in a bin among a variety of Hot Wheels cars, and I couldn’t resist it. I was about six years old when Mattel rolled Hot Wheels out to the world, and I have never been able to resist a display. I always have to paw through these 1:64 scale diecast beauties.
For as long as the series has been in production, there has always been novelty cars. This one is no exception. It’s a funny car replica of Fisher-Price’s Chatter Telephone which debuted in 1961. I think every kid born in the 1960s had the toy phone. Now 60 odd years later, the same kids can have a miniature diecast replica on wheels.
I can’t imagine kids reacting to this as their grandparents would. It’s obviously aimed at Baby Boomers.
Post Thanksgiving, when we’ve had our fill of turkey sandwiches – there’s turkey soup with carrots, celery, and ditalini. This year, I switched it up and made these Italian soup squares. They’re very simple to make – eggs, flour, baking powder, parsley, and Parmigiana whisked together and spread out in a pan and baked. Basically, they’re like breadless croutons that garnish your soup. The soup squares sop up the broth, like soft pillows – they’re delicious! Continue reading →
It’s Black Friday, and while the shoppers in the West are killing each other over disposable junk manufactured in dystopian hellholes, I’m at home basking in my frugal nature with my 13-year-old Mac Mini brought back to useful life with an installation of a Linux Mint operating system.
It’s that time of year when I start stockpiling cookie dough in my freezer to bake in the upcoming weeks. This is a new recipe, a cookie that’s made with cream cheese, dried cranberries, and white chocolate chips, rolled in confectioners sugar. It rates a thumbs up from the fellas! 
I spied this on a trip to the local super market in a bin among a variety of Hot Wheels cars, and I couldn’t resist it. I was about six years old when Mattel rolled Hot Wheels out to the world, and I have never been able to resist a display. I always have to paw through these 1:64 scale diecast beauties.
