Food Archives
Gin-Flamed Tilapia - Fish, Fireworks, Wowza
Have a tough time selling young'uns, pisca-phobe spouse on food that swims?
Light Up Dinner With Super Easy Lit-Up Fish
Always looking to have it both ways, is our Girl Child… On the one hand, her first-grade social set frowns on fish and God forbid she should defy an Ewww!… read on »
April 27, 2010
Killer Cake - Half The Sugar, Twice As Good
Care to share your own favorite recipe tweak?
Let Home-Baked Treats Stand Up And Be Tasted
Stay with me, this is not about good nutrition, a concept I believe to be incompatible with home-baked desserts. To claim healthiness with a straight face, I’d have to make… read on »
March 23, 2010
No-Brainer Pancake/Waffle Batter
What do you put in front of kid(s) for breakfast?
Scratch-Made Batter Easy As Box Mix
Over-fathering in this house begins right after Minerva takes off for the city, at which point Girl Child chooses a made-to-order hot breakfast that I have, if I’m lucky, 10… read on »
February 24, 2010
Brotherhood Of Isolation
Why Don’t SAH Fathers Hang Together Like Moms?
A Man Must Do His Chick Stuff Alone
When I was just out of grad school and pornography was still analog old media, I ran into a guy I knew in a porn shop. A good friend, actually,… read on »
December 7, 2009
Pumping Pumpkin
Got personal tricks for high-impact baking?
Recipe Hacks, Presentation For Primo Pie
Okay, listen up. Tuesday we got the PTA Election Day Bake Sale at Big Brick Elementary School. Pie from this kitchen going up against bundt cake, Nana’s rugula, Italian mamas’… read on »
October 29, 2009
Pater’s Plays
Look To The Rainbow by Petula Clark and Fred Astaire
Living bequest of Irish-oid wisdom from Dad to Daughter, celebrated by both in sentimental duet. More sentimental if you, like Pater, are a fan of Fred Astaire, pushing 70 when this was recorded. Message in the song for us dads: Your good words can be a lifelong treasure for your kid(s), better than gold, which the titular Finian (Astaire) loses.
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BAD KITTY Books by Nick Bruel
Bruel's brill books starring psycho cat has our seriously reluctant reader second-grader poring over the pages for half-hour stretches, even more, without threats…
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