Monday, December 30, 2013

QUIRKY

Back in September, I caught an episode of the Jay Leno Show and saw this ingenious company called Quirky and was amazed.  I had to check the company out for myself and was even more amazed so I joined and started influencing new ideas.  Here is the video.




One of the products I thought was so cool is the Egg Minder dubbed "THE SMART EGG TRAY". Have you ever been at a grocery store and was not sure how many eggs you have?  Well that is the thing of the past this baby links up with your smart phone and lets you know how many you have and how old they are.  I know that I have had that very problem. Go check that company out. And there is a bonus you can actually earn some money by influencing ideas, check out my profile on Quirky.

Thursday, December 26, 2013

The Best Coffee I have EVER Tried!


I have been an avid coffee drinker for years and the best coffee I have had is Pooki's Mahi coffee brand. If you have never tried it here is your chance here are a few of their items give them a try you will love the flavor and they also do tea.


Paleo Diet Eat and Avoid

Ever since I started this new career in the professional truck driving field I haven't been able to drink alcohol in fact I went without alcohol for just 46 days. Being in the culinary field I have heard of the Paleo Diet, only I never tried to follow it, although I pretty much was doing it anyway other than the alcohol consumption. Now that I am a truck driving I realized that this my be the perfect diet or health plan for me. I am now going to start down this path so here is what I should eat and avoid.


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Cooking With Christopher Walken


Christmas Dinner

So what did everyone have for dinner this Christmas?   I an the family had lobster,

Courtesy of the Collective Evolution 

ham, chicken, sour cream chive mash, mixed seasoned veggies and yes the lobster squealed.  

Mrs. Fields Cookie Under My Nose



Here I am looking all over for a Christmas gift and it was under my nose all the time. A Mrs. Fields cookie tin and on top of that I live in Minnesota and this Timber Wolves tin is perfect. wish I thought of this earlier but this would also be great for New Years Eve.

Monday, December 23, 2013

What's Your Favorite Eggnog Recipe?

Since it is the holidays I was wondering what is your favorite eggnog recipes? Heck what about your favorite holiday recipe?  Please leave a comment and share your recipe if you wish.


Build Your Own Wood Burning Pizza Oven.

I love pizza any type any combination and some of the best pizza is made in a wood burning pizza oven.  How many of you out there have had a great pizza cooked in a wood burning oven. I recently came across this tutorial on how to build such an oven and I thought I would share this sponsored program with you. Wood burning pizza oven. The great thing is you can cook or bake much more than just pizza in an oven like this.


Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Watched "Hey Boo, Harper Lee & To Kill a Mockingbird"

I started reading comics when I was in 6th and 7th grade I started out as a poor reader, my reading was that of a third grader.  Comics however taught me to enjoy reading it was about that time I discover "The Hobbit" and Dungeons and Dragons, which to play that game reading and math become important.  Over all I still did not enjoy schooling yes my reading improved but I still had to repeat 7th grade, so with two years of that grade plus 8th and 9th reading became an obsessive thing to me. When I got to tenth grade I had and English class and in that class we had a required reading book "To Kill a Mockingbird" at this time I was more interested in fantasy literature and science fiction it was real hard for me to actually open this book to read it because it may have been a fiction writing but it was base on the real world.  When I finally read that first chapter I found myself unable to put that book down I then devoured it a second time before we were tested on this book.

When it came to the day of testing I dreaded it because at this time I did horrible on test and the teacher stated she would grade us on a curve because of how hard the test was, "No ever got an "A" on this test." She handed out the test and we all took it finished it and handed it in. It was Friday so we had to wait until Monday came around after the weekend.  I remember feeling I had done alright on the test not very confident though since I usually got a "D" just passing tests. On Monday when we got to class our teacher said she had bad news as I stated earlier she was grading the test on a curve but now that curve was busted. The good news was that for the first time someone in class had gotten all the questions right everyone one, and that the essay was the most informative essay she had read on "To Kill a Mockingbird" from a student.  Because the curve was busted everyone who would have received "A's" received "B's" and only one person was getting an "A". The person with the next most right out of a 100 questions only had 95 question correct while only one person had all questions correct.  I remember everyone looking at Beth our best student in class an "A" student all the time. My classmates started harassing Beth lightly and in jest well at least most of them some just moaned.  Our teacher quickly interrupted us and said, "Beth, I am sorry but you scored 95 out of 100."  Then I remember her looking at me and she said, "Eric, you got every question correct."  It was the first time I had ever felt real good in school not out of place. I also started applying myself in all my classes and by the time I graduated I was a bronze honor student.

"To Kill a Mockingbird" is perhaps the greatest American novel I have ever read and holds a firm place in my heart.