This just in to the Chile Underground’s ever-vigilant News Desk: A disastrous accident in Wyoming has destroyed a massive quantity of an irreplaceable specialty. A cargo truck traveling on the I-80 near the famous burgh of Wamsutter, Wyoming crashed and caught fire. When firefighters arrived they went into their practiced routines when suddenly they found [...] Read more »

You know you’re going at it too hard when you have to take a day off from your vacation to rest up. We just couldn’t bring ourselves to spend another fourteen hour day overloading our brains with more lovely memories of Ireland! We needed to slow down, just a bit. Heck, we’d taken so many [...] Read more »

The post-feast roistering lasted into the wee hours. Beer and wine in appropriate quantities actually help me stay up late. Grad school training, I suppose. (Does this mean I’ve still got it?)
Getting a few nice presents helps too, like Flight Simulator X (with Acceleration Expansion Pack) and a Saitek ST290 Pro Joystick. I stayed up [...] Read more »

This post is coming up Very Late. We stayed up until the wee hours of the morning, opening gifts and playing games, watching movies and more. It was so late when we got started with the Clan’s traditional Stocking Orgy Presents Opening that breakfast had to be eaten in shifts, with some revelers asleep before [...] Read more »

It’s ten days to Christmas Eve, and excitement in the Clan is growing. So is the realization that we’ve got to get our act together.
Not on gift shopping; that’s mostly done, for a wonder. No, it’s the food…
You see, there’s going to be anywhere from a dozen to twenty people out at the Ranch at [...] Read more »

Image Shamelessly Borrowed from Truluck’s Website
During the Holidays my wife. daughter and I try to go to at least one fine dining establishment to celebrate. Regardless of whatever’s going on in our family or in the world, we always know there’s plenty to be thankful, even joyous, about.
Lessee; this year there’s Jessi’s graduation, winning a [...] Read more »

There’s no drink like punch for the Holidays…
Actually, I’m already tired of the “standard” party punch. Even mulled or spiced wines don’t excite me much anymore. Yeah, they’re good. They’re just everywhere. And there’s still more than two weeks to Christmas…
So I dug around in my “other” cookbook and found these four recipes for you [...] Read more »

Let’s say you’ve got an intimate little party planned, and then you find out (to your complete horror) that some of the guests don’t like zesty food! Now What?
Well, you could cancel the whole thing. But why be a Grinch? Or you could uninvite the troublesome guests and get some new ones. That’s good for [...] Read more »