St. Patrick’s Day Dinner

How to make a home cured beef brisket using Michael Ruhlman’s book Charcuterie

Tell Me Thursday: Mama and her little monkey

Image by MrClean1982 via Flickr In honor of Mother’s Day this Sunday I got a little nostalgic and went through some pictures of my wife with our son from just after he was born.  Not only is this one of my favorite pictures of her with her little monkey, but it was taken just a [...]

Tell Me Thursday: Happy 1st Birthday Little Man!

OK, so posting a video for my Wordless Wednesday was kind of cheating, but it’s all good.  Obviously, this weeks installment was all about my little man’s first birthday party.  Yesterday was his actual first birthday, but we threw him a party the Saturday before because my wife’s weekend to work is this coming Saturday. [...]

Tell Me Thursday: Our little leprechaun

Image by cobalt123 via Flickr The background story behind my Wordless Wednesday post yesterday is pretty self-explantory.  Being partially of Irish decent, the celebration of St. Patrick’s Day was a big thing in our house growing up.  Since it was our little man’s first St. Patrick’s Day my wife’s mother sent this shirt as a [...]

Agave, it’s not just for tequila anymore!

Cover via Amazon So, it’s St. Patrick’s Day and with my very much Irish surname I should be preparing for the annual festival of my heritage that starts with corned beef and cabbage and concludes with imbibing copious amounts of Jameson and Guinness. Well, I’m sorry to disappoint, but while I will partake in the [...]

RMDM Kitchen: What’s on your holiday table?

“Twas the day before Christmas, when all through my kitchen, Not a spoon was stirring, since I was on a mission, The pans were all hung over the cooktop with care, With hopes that the Christmas roast will be nice and rare.”

Captain’s Chair #2: Paying the Piper

When I first learned that I was going to become a father my mind started racing about all kinds of things. I started thinking about the kind of father I wanted to be and the lessons that I thought were most important for me to impart to our child. There are lessons everywhere in life [...]

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