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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

Pater’s Plays

Father, Dear Father by Dixie Reelers

Roots Country (late 1930s) in Bad Dad vein. POV of child at bar begging father to come home where the fam freezes in dark. Download to hear Little Billy’s last words. Play on portable before you stop for drinks after work.

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Pater’s Picks

Black and Decker Cordless Chainsaw

Be a lumberjack with this cordless chainsaw from Black and Decker

Be a lumberjack and be okay, ecoweenie-wise. Little dude (8-inch bar) cuts better than you’d think, with no emissions ‘cause it’s powered by…

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