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Thursday, May 21, 2026

Tuesday, May 12, 2026

NINJA! 05/12/2026

I LOVE the Ninja...inexpensive, simple and brews good coffee...easy to keep clean...a GREAT way to start the morning...grind the beans...add the water and let it do its thing!

Monday, May 4, 2026

Fresh Bread 05/04/2026

Simple...freshly ground flour, water, yeast, a bit of brown sugar and finally a light dusting of caraway seeds on the top! So simple even I can do it!

Thursday, March 19, 2026

Hormone & Drug Free Grass Fed & Local

3.5 pounds of hormone and drug free grass fed local beef going into the crockpot tomorrow with a pile of veggies...probably for ~8-10 hours...first time doing anything this "exotic"...crockpot is a very forgiving tool so hopefully this becomes a good low mess low effort meal prep method. I am ALL for low mess with low effort!

Thursday, October 23, 2025

Brooklyn Coffee Dark Italian Roast

Time to move on since the bags of Eight O'Clock & Hills Brothers are finished. I really liked both of those dark roasts and since I have a 5 pound bag of Brooklyn I hope it is as good. Morning temps are cooler now...it's DEFINITELY Fall AND there is NO better way to start a cool morning than 20 ounces of hot dark roast coffee!

Thursday, September 11, 2025

More Coffee!

I've learned that I can not drink light or medium roasts...beans MUST be dark. Been trying these two and they work well for me. Eight O'Clock was the A&P house brand that I remember from back when A&P was THE BIG Grocery store and that was many decades ago. In the 1950s Cook Coffee would deliver in their spiffy painted trucks...things were so much simpler. To me both are quite good however the Hill's had a big price increase shortly after I bought a few pounds. Now that the mornings are getting cooler it's really a nice way to start the day...20 ounces of freshly ground dark roast!