In which hey let’s fight

On September 21, 2014 By Luther M. SilerIn Cooking14 Comments

Is this chili, or not? 😛 #cincinasty #skyline

Not what I expected to be talking about

On September 14, 2014 By Luther M. SilerIn Cooking5 Comments

I just, somehow, got sucked into spending half an hour reading this brutal-ass report on everything Olive Garden is doing wrong nowadays. Warning: it’s a 290-page PDF file. Second warning: it is, somehow, despite being full of investorspeak and MBAtalk, startlingly compelling.

And, again, brutal. Whoever was responsible for putting this together pretty much thinks that everyone who works for or at Olive Garden, or any other restaurant owned by Darden, sucks, as well as all upper management and most of their investors. And he pulls no punches at all, ever. What can I say; I love invective in basically all its forms, and this is some great hate going on here.

The funny thing is, while I don’t have any real animus against Olive Garden, I don’t particularly like the place either. We eat there… yearly? Twice yearly, maybe? I’m a fan of Red Lobster, which at least used to be owned by the same people, but doesn’t seem to be anymore, and I don’t think I’ve ever entered a Longhorn Steakhouse. So it wouldn’t be any real skin off my back if Olive Garden went under. I know some people who might be upset, I suppose. I’m not one of them.

I might miss the Penny Arcade comics, I guess.

Breakfast of champions

On June 25, 2014 By Luther M. SilerIn Cooking5 Comments

Turns out you can cold-brew Thai iced tea!

Schadenfreude pie

On June 15, 2014June 15, 2014 By Luther M. SilerIn Cooking6 Comments

More details later. Not my recipe.

EDIT: The details, including an explanation of the name, can be found here, a link that’s worth clicking on and reading through even if you don’t intend to make the pie. The short version: Dark corn syrup, brown sugar, molasses, kahlua, chocolate chips, eggs, cinnamon, butter, and pre-made graham cracker crust. Eat a very small slice at a time (oh my god so rich) preferably warm and with a large glass of milk.

Delicious. But I’m totally diabetic now.

PS: It’s called schadenfreude pie, remember. I will be enjoying a piece during Game of Thrones tonight. 😉

OMG

On May 7, 2014May 7, 2014 By Luther M. SilerIn Cooking, Photography5 Comments

These. These things right here? Are the greatest fucking things in the UNIVERSE.

Shitty day. Soooo happy now.

IMPORTANT UPDATE: contents of mah belly

On April 15, 2014 By Luther M. SilerIn Cooking5 Comments

Bison meat. Peanut butter. Jalapeño peppers. Cheese. Onion. Bacon. And wedge fries.

Life is good.

Also OM NOM NOM.

In which I do one thing right and not much else

On March 23, 2014 By Luther M. SilerIn Cooking2 Comments

So breakfast was the highlight of the day, unfortunately. I managed to bake! Successfully! Without trauma or nonsense! The sausage gravy was a touch spicier than I wanted it to be but that was the sausage I used and not the recipe; other than that everything worked out beautifully.

Then the rest of the day happened. It was kind of a long stupid ugly day for no good reason and I’ve gone through nearly 900 comic books (three boxes out of the fourteen I’m selling) and recorded the title, issue number, publisher, price point, and whether I’ve got it in a bag or bag-and-boarded into an Excel spreadsheet, plus generated a few pie charts so I can see relative percentages of, well, everything. This will in theory make the collection salable. What it’s actually done, so far, is made my feet hurt from standing the whole time and made me blind.

Oh, and I’m exhausted way beyond anything reasonable for my activity level today and I still have six inches of grading to do before I can sleep tonight. And the boy is having a massive shitfit over his bath right now for no clear reason that I can figure out.

I guess “whining” is going to be one of my tags tonight.