Highly recommended DVD – the Cheese Nun. Here is the description on the back of the video: “The Cheese Nun profiles the adventures of Sister Noella Marcellino – a champion […]
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Ice Fishing for Perch
Caught some nice perch on Ballston Lake including this nice 12.5 inch perch: It turns out that the reason it looks so fat is that it was a pregnant female. […]
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Winter Camping Trip
I just returned after 3 days of camping and hiking in the high peaks region of the Adirondacks. We started at the Adirondack Loj, and hiked to a lean-to in […]
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Ice Fishing
A friend took me ice fishing today. He managed to catch a 14+ inch crappie. I’ve never seen one before. It’s a lot like a sunfish, only this guy was […]
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Trinidad Doubles Recipe
I came across a fantastic recipe for Doubles (a Trinidad street food consisting of curried chick peas, or “channa masala” on pieces of spicy fried dough, or “bara”). The channa […]
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Ice Sculpture
I’m not sure how this happened, but over the course of 2 weeks, our garbage can somehow completely filled up with water and then froze solid into a giant garbage-can-shaped […]
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Hogan's Alley
I was walking through Troy today and I found myself walking down a classic 8-bit video game alleyway like none other: (Check it out in Google Street View). I thought […]
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Kitchen Microscope
I’ve been thinking about adding a microscope to my list of must-have kitchen appliances. I now have a basic one to play with. The idea is that maybe I can […]
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Thanksgiving
We did Thanksgiving dinner here for the first time. Mmm! The turkey was delicious. The recipe came from here. One of the big tricks with this recipe is to cook […]
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Homemade Cheddar Cheese
This weekend, we ate the wheel of cheddar cheese that we made in April. It has been aging in the basement for 6 months or so. The wax had a […]
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