It’s been a long while since I’ve participated in a Thursday Thirteen, but with Thanksgiving just a week and a day away I thought it would be a good time to list a few things that I am personally thankful for this year.  I’ll not bore you with the details of the ups-and-downs we’ve faced, everyone has lows, and nobody wants to listen to someone elses’ problems.  I’d rather focus…

For those of you who have missed the claws coming out on Thursdays, you’re in luck. Today I’m directing a bit of snarkasm on FN’s Bobblehead Extraordinaire. I’ve just been nice for too long, it seems.
Cry havoc, and unleash the dogs of war!
Ah Giada. To some she’s the Food Network’s beauty queen.  Others think she is a time traveling chef from the distant future. (You can’t make up stuff like…

With my wedding anniversary coming up this Friday, there really was only one logical choice for this week’s Thursday Thirteen, The lovely and incredibly talented Mrs. seat of her Pants, a person whom I could not be more proud of or in love with.
Truthfully, thirteen things does not begin to cover everything I could say about my wife, there’s a lot more to her than that.  She is exceptional…

Everyone has their go-to ingredients.  These are the things that you grab when you’re cooking that you may not even realize you use almost every day.  At least until you run out of them, at which point you find that you’re staring blankly at the spice cabinet and the food that’s begun to burn in your skillet without the faintest idea what to do next.
I ran into this problem…

Some weeks just don’t go like you expected.  All the planning in the world simply can’t make up for the things that didn’t go the way they should have, and I suppose that’s the real reason for this TT.  No matter how hard I tried, something always got in the way of researching what I actually wanted to do this list about.
So instead of that list, which I will…

Techno-babble.  We’ve heard it used when referring to Star Trek and Star Wars, but did you know that every industry has its own form of techno-speak?  Most often these are words that are used among just people in the industry and we understand them just fine.  It’s when they’re used among “civilians” or the “uninitiated” that we either sound like geniuses or complete idiots.
As a professional web developer for…

There are things that each of us does on a daily basis.  Some of them are for our personal amusement, some are for health reasons and some are things we’d really rather not be doing, but end up doing anyway.
For me each day is usually a combination of all three of these things.  As a Work At Home Dad, it sometimes means that the workday either lasts well into…

I thought I’d take a break from my usual adoration/bashing of all things TV Chef related and simply dish up a list of helpful tips for your day-to-day kitchen life. These tips are in no particular order or by any degree of usefulness, I just grabbed thirteen that I thought would be helpful.
If you like the idea, I’ll add a once per week kitchen tip to the regular lineup…