I know, it’s all the fashionable, natural thing to do these days. I’m talking about serving up the perfect meal: Breast feeding your infant. A recent report on FoxNews.com, though, starkly shows the dark side of this trend. The article states that Toni Tramel, a 31-year-old female (I won’t say lady until there’s more evidence) [...] Read more »

In an attempt to catch up on some stuff that’s now only a year old bring you the latest in life-changing, fast-food news, we share with you an article recently shown in the new, improved Slashfood. It seems that a couple of budding young mixologist wannabes have “invented” (I’m sure that word is completely inadequate [...] Read more »

It’s Holiday party season, and you’re looking around for new ideas to wow the usual hangers-on cronies guests at your next soirée. You’ve made the same ol’ party punch for a decade now, and you’re too tired to get out the Crock-Pot for more fondue. What to do, what to do?
Well, if you’re really too [...] Read more »

Caffeine demand got me out of bed early today. I got the pot going, rubbing the sleep out of my eyes as my brain organized the night’s dreams into pictures. All I had to do was get them down into prose. Easy, right?
Well, it would have been. Except all I could find in the kitchen [...] Read more »

One of the world’s great commercial treasures, the Cajun seasoning company Walker & Sons (makers of the “Slap Ya Mama” line of Cajun seasoning), has taken the spice wars to a level not seen since the British East India Company sought to dominate the spice routes from far Cathay. You see, they’re suing “Punch Ya [...] Read more »

It’s not really up to typical Follies level, but there are some smiles (and a chuckle or two) in the news leading up to our favorite diabetic coma inducing holiday event: Halloween. Okay, it’s not our favorite overall; just our favorite in October…
Here’s one of the ultimate win-win scenarios you’ll ever see this week. At [...] Read more »

We made opening day (October 10) at the Texas Renaissance Festival this year. We hadn’t done that in a decade or more! We went prepared fore wet weather, as a cold front passed by during the night. We didn’t have any rain all day, though. There was quite a bit of water in the low [...] Read more »

A major portion of the Clan is making its annual pilgrimage today to the Texas Renaissance Festival near Plantersville. It’s opening day, and rain is expected; we know it’ll be slippy-slidy crazy good fun! Period music (Cantiga, The Burly Minstrel Jim Hancock, Wine and Alchemy, Istanpitta, The Bilge Pumps, The Gypsy Guerrilla Band, Tartanic) shows [...] Read more »