Tag Archives: Food

All I need is a little buzz

McDonald’s is giving away free medium iced coffees on Mondays in August. They’re not great, but they’re not bad, either. I’m scared of the white powder they use for sweetner/milk-like substance.
I ran out of my supply of Northwest Coffee a month or so ago, and Starbucks, by comparison, is like drinking tar mixed with battery [...]

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There’s food on my television

I’m onboard with most cooking/reality shows — Hell’s Kitchen had its finale Monday night, and was rather anticlimactic — but I find very little to dislike about Top Chef, other than wanting to punch Tom Colicchio in his smug face (even though a dinner I had at his craftsteak outpost in Las Vegas was one [...]

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July in Indiana

It’s been a day of sweat. I started Sunday morning with a breakfast of biscuits and sausage gravy, and then spent the next two hours installing shelves in my mom’s closet. There was sawing and nailing and drilling and all of that. I didn’t feel much like cooking this evening, but the wealth of summer [...]

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Whole Epiphany

I woke early yesterday morning in Arsenland, and as is my custom when I do so, I made a quick trip to Northwest Coffee for my daily caffeine fix and a couple of pounds of beans for home.

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McStarbuffins?

I stopped at Starbucks for a cup of coffee while running errands this afternoon and saw the new breakfast sandwiches in the pastry case. Further proof that Starbucks is the new McDonald’s? I just … I can’t. There are two independent coffee shops in Columbus, but they keep odd hours and are terribly inconvenient to [...]

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Delicious

One of the many advantages of spending most of the last year at home is that I’ve had time to cook, an area in which I’ve always had a fair bit of skill. I’m a good Indiana boy, and my culinary repertoire runs toward “home cooking,” for lack of a better term. Yesterday, after the [...]

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