30 Sep 2016 2 Comments
in Beverages, Recipes Tags: Ballast Point Sculpin IPA, beer, Don Schneider, foie gras, Germany, Oktoberfest, spätzle, Steve Hart, wild boar
My pal, Steve, was in Luxembourg — close to the German border — a couple weeks ago, and sent me a photo of the very large beer he was drinking.
“I’m celebrating Oktoberfest!” he said.
“It’s only mid-September!” I pointed out.
Don Schneider and his boar beard
“I guess they start early.”
So it seemed reasonable when our pals, the Schneiders, invited us for an Oktoberfest dinner on September 28. More
15 Apr 2011 9 Comments
in Cooking Tips, Good Gadget, Bad Gadget, Observations Tags: english muffins, gadgets, grilling, Kazue, Peri, spätzle, wasabi, wine
Summer is on the horizon. Which means it’s time for a new onslaught of absurd kitchen gadgets. (Next winter’s clearance items.) Kudos to kitchen gadget inventors everywhere for their continued creativity in coming up with an infinite procession of products we didn’t even know we needed. (And, if you’re like me, you’re just clamoring for new gadgets to fill up all that empty cabinet space in your kitchen.)
As usual, when I’m finished exploring the world of the ridiculous, I will delve briefly into the truly useful — which is, sadly, a much smaller category. But first, the Hall of Shame:
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This may be the worst kitchen gadget ever invented. Thank you, Suzanna, for passing this one along:
Tuna press — to press the oil out of the tuna can... I kid you not.
skinny girls & mayonnaise 