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So much for the good luck black eyed peas! Or did she skip them in favor of root beers and cookies? Yikes. Glad they eventually found it and that her appendix juice didn't do even worse damage. 😬

Happy Birthday Big Bro! Cheers!

Have a great one Adam! Cheers!

Long live Mr DIYer!

Hosting fiends!

I've listened to a few frankly pretty lame mystery novels set in Ohio Amish country and they often include references to Amish white bread. While listening to the audio books I often think that I should bake some sometime, and whenever I think about it I hear "Amish white bread" in my head like the chorus to Foreigner's "Dirty White Boy." 🤘🏻 With that background, here's my first attempt which turned out pretty good and made the house smell wonderful. Small pieces with butter, with homemade tart cherry jam and with homemade apple butter all were tssty. I'll try a sandwich at some point soon.

Grahame and Joanne went all in and all out for a lovely evening at Chloe the Cat's house. And the banana actually did work well with the curries, especially when doused with lime pickle. Thanks again!

Guess where I'm having a curry...

Maybe he finally is in the front row ... RIP Bob

I still don't know where you got your burger, but the fact that the delicious burger at Amelie is rated so low and shockingly several ranks below the heinous Way Station bbq joint's burger negates the Marin Burger Club's credibility in my book.

Have a great one Graeme! Cheers!

My friend and former secretary has asked me -- and now Steve -- to build some cabinets for a pantry area next to the kitchen at her new house. That project will take a while to percolate but I decided to build here a kitchen island in the meantime to replace a table she has been using to expand her counter space. Her cabinets have a dark cherry stain so at first I was going to go paint grade to avoid clashing. Rooting around the shop, however, I found enough figured maple boards for the main pieces and thought that would fit well so I went for it. I had to buy the prefab butcher block top and maple 1x3s for the slats below, but all the other maple and one plywood for the drawers and cabinet bottom were in the shop. It's hard to tell from the photos but the figuring on the cabinet and drawer fronts is really pretty. She wanted a knife drawer and another for large cooking utensils, so that's what she got. The knife blocks are maple with non tarnishing felt. Very happy with the results, except that I don't love the coloring of the butcher block. Terri loves it but may not be able to use it fully until she can get over the idea of marring it. 😂

Who were you trying to ensnare?

Peter Yarrow was officially or unofficially the godfather of Claire's step cousin. We attended her wedding years ago and Peter played and sang Puff the Magic Dragon at the reception. Nice man.

Happy hopefully covid-free birthday Knucks! Cheers!

Hope it's been a good one, Renato! Cheers!

More of that^. Best of luck Knucks!

We have frozen leftovers and ran out of wrappers so we need to make some more soon. 😅

Last night Sophie and I made some pork belly mushroom chive dumplings and ginger scallion pork pot stickers. It's pretty labor intensive but they both turned out great, didn't fall apart, and were quite tasty with dipping sauce and chili crisp. We made a batch for my sister and niece next door who have covid together for a third holiday season, so I was very hungry and didn't take time for glamor shots or even as plated.

Did you do the whole or half recipe? 😆

How is your sainted octogenarian mother doing Knucks? Has anything frozen off of you? Hope things are looking better today.

Basics of green-chili-cheese eggs, please. @n_maher

Merry RicMas! I hope I can make you a couple of Manhattans again sometime soon! Cheers!

Wink Bot is getting annoying

Have a great one Ken! Cheers!