Fresh, Hot Wastes of Time

Halloween is here, and in the air is a strong scent of bacon. WTF? Why does the street smell like bacon? It’s been bacon-smelling since we took the kids trick or treating an hour and a half ago. Now the smell is so strong, it smells like bacon in the house. Not that I’m complaining. [...]

Restaurants we’ve been to lately: Dirty Martin’s Kum-Bak Place. Still excellent after all these years. The back room now has three, count ‘em, three window air conditioners, so it’s frigid in there, yet still smells funky. Their sirloin sandwich is to die for. Cheese tots are a must. The kids (after complaining about the temperature [...]

Quickie update – Cuervo’s still staying at the vet, but they have been calling us daily with reports. He’s “scarfing down food” and keeping it down. He’s also said to be in good spirits. The only problem is that they had to stop treating the big bad long-term problem in order to treat the big-bad [...]

Hub and I went to the Backstage Steakhouse for dinner tonight, and we were completely blown away. We started with the Jalapeno Corn Cake with Crawfish and Gorgonzola with a Mustard and Red Chile Sauce – the corn cake itself had a nice crunchy texture to it, and the crawfish was nicely spiced. Then we [...]

After hearing for years about their fabulous enchiladas, the family and I went to Dart Bowl today for some bowling and dinner. We entered the restaurant area around 6:20, and ordered at 6:25. At 6:45, still nothing. A customer from another table went to the kitchen and stood in the doorway until someone finally acknowledged [...]

We visited two restaurants this weekend. Last night, around 9:00, we decided to go out to eat. I checked around on Opentable.com to see what restaurants were still open late, and Truluck’s in the Arboretum area (although not in the darned Arboretum) was listed, so we decided to try it. This was the first time [...]

Okay, I am a real tamale snob. I get really turned off by substandard tamales. I’m not exaggerating when I say that these tamales rival the best tamales I’ve ever bought from someone else. They’re not hard to make, but they are time-consuming. It takes about one minute per tamal to spread the masa, add [...]

It’s tamale time again. We’re getting started really late, and we’re about to be out of town for two days, so we need to have them done by then. Ten dozen down, about fifty dozen more to go. But boy, are they gooooood.