Author: gryphn

I think I’ve finally found my favorite coffee.  I tend to float around and drink whatever coffee is at hand.  I’ve had really bad coffee and really good coffee, but there was never a coffee that stood out and said, ” Hey you, yeah you! You want to drink me!”.  That is until I had…

So if you remember recently I made root beer. And I just realized it’s still outside!  Crap I hope it doesn’t make the bottles explode. Anyway, the recipe for the brew called for 20 inches of pencil thick sarsaparilla root.  Well I didn’t have whole root, but I did have shredded and sifted root, so…

I know it probably doesn’t sounds the greatest, but damn it’s pretty good! I was going to have tomato soup for lunch today, but then thought ‘hey, I’ll throw in some cheese curds and it’ll be even better’. Then something unexpected happened.  The Spinach I had had in the fridge thawing called out to me……

We cleaned out the deep fryer for the chimis we wanted to make and that led to all sorts of fatty goodness.  I love my deep fryer and now I feel bad for ignoring it.  I made beignet, those littel french doughnuts you get a Cafe du Monde in New Orleans, and smothered them in…

Flour tortillas from scratch are fairly easy to make and they rawk hardcore!  I made a batch, without consulting my Mexica friend, which proved to be less than optimal.  I cooked them on the griddle for too long and they came out a bit … hmmmm… shall we say crispy.  We’re going to try again…

So I tried making root beer Friday.  I’m still waiting for carbonation to finish in the bottles, then we’ll see if it’s any good.  I’m hoping it is, but it seems a little heavy on the sarsaparilla. If I make it again, I think I’ll filter it through some cheese cloth.  There seems to be…