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Up for a cooking contest?

March 20, 2011 By PJ Mullen 4 Comments

The Perdue Verifiably Good Video Contest is back for 2011 with bigger prize

Filed Under: Digital Dads, Featured, Food Tagged With: Arts, Chicken, contest, North Carolina, Prize, Video camera, Writers Resources

Can a pancake be better than a Krispy Kreme?

February 13, 2011 By PJ Mullen 12 Comments

Accidentally recreating my first Krispy Kreme experience in a pancake

Filed Under: Digital Dads, Featured, Food Tagged With: Cooking, Doughnut, Home, Krispy Kreme, Krispy Kreme Challenge, North Carolina, Pancake, Raleigh North Carolina

My 15 minutes of fame have been extended

June 17, 2010 By PJ Mullen 11 Comments

By now many of you have heard about my win in the Perdue Verifiably Good Video Contest back in April. Especially after I less than humbly declared myself the Chicken King, albeit of North Carolina and its sovereign territories.

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Blog, Charlotte Observer, email, Glossary of blogging, North Carolina

I’m the Chicken King!

April 27, 2010 By PJ Mullen 29 Comments

Chicago may have Abe Froman the Sausage King, but Charlotte has me, the Chicken King!

Back in early March I wrote about my entry into my very first cooking competition in a post entitled Winner, Winner, Chicken Dinner. Well, I’m pleased to report that yesterday my dish, Braciole di Pollo, was awarded the grand prize in the Perdue Verifiably Good Video Contest.

Filed Under: Dad in the Kitchen Tagged With: Arts, Chicago, Contests, Fleishman Hillard, North Carolina, Prize

Redesign on a Dime

July 13, 2009 By PJ Mullen Leave a Comment

Welcome to the new look RMDM! I’ve been toying around with the idea of revamping the blog from the free theme I’ve had since I launched in November 2008, but had been avoiding it mostly because I saw lots of dollar signs. Personally, I don’t have enough knowledge of html, css or php to do [...]

Filed Under: Midnight Feedings Tagged With: Blog, Coupon, Home, Homemaking, Income tax, Mortgage, Mortgage broker, North Carolina, Thesis for Wordpress

Not So Random Bits: PENNDOT Edition

June 23, 2009 By PJ Mullen 5 Comments

We completed our first official family road trip on Saturday (now I know why Jason chastised me for attempting to call it a vacation), where I spent a total of 28 hours in a packed minivan with a grumpy toddler, so pardon the rant this morning. Roughly 1,800 miles and $393 spent on gas and [...]

Filed Under: Random Thoughts Tagged With: I-79, NASCAR, North Carolina, PENNDOT, Recreation, Rochester, Society and Culture, Travel, Travelogues, United States, West Virginia

Don’t fathers matter?: The birth certificate

April 3, 2009 By PJ Mullen 23 Comments

Image by taberandrew via Flickr In the first two installments of this series I have gone from annoyed to tongue in cheek regarding issues about fatherhood and the manner in which our roles can be diminished by society. In this third installment, however, I’ve gone straight to angry. Almost a year after my son’s birth [...]

Filed Under: Don't Fathers Matter, Fatherhood Friday Tagged With: Birth certificate, Family, Father, fatherhood, Marriage, North Carolina, paternity, Rocking chair, Soap opera, Sperm donation

Fatherhood Friday: Time diaries and 1040′s

February 20, 2009 By PJ Mullen 8 Comments

Image via Wikipedia Recently I was contacted by a PhD student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to inquire about my interest in participating in a study on fatherhood. The study is on married fathers who are serving as the primary caregivers for children under the age of 18. This is the [...]