Food
Posted on March 30, 2009
I love food. I don’t want to marry it, nor am I addicted to any one special kind of food. I just love food. Not sure I am a foodie or not. Recently attempts have been made at a food review website. Writing and food seem like a good mix. Growing up lower middle class limited my fine dining experience. I remember my first meal at the Blue Chip club in Cincinnati. Nervous about forks, my tie and what to order for the brunch meal.
These days I am happy to say that I am equally comfortable at the Oakwood Club or the Dixie Diner in New Lebanon. For all the food I love, and recently I have been eating more salads and seafood, than burgers and steak, I can not make a decision about food. This is not a problem for most people, but at least 5 times a week I am eating out with someone and a decision has to be made.
This is the one decision I hate to make. I don’t care, Asian Fusion, Classic American, Deli or Diner, Italian or Pizza joint. I don’t care. I have a friend in the same category. When we eat he is quick to eliminate the one place that we understand is sometimes not appropriate. His requirement? A good bacon cheeseburger. I may be having a great pasta dish, or a pizza, or even a good salad with seafood piled high, he wants a good bacon cheeseburger.
To avoid the decision making process I have begun to implement a new strategy. It goes like this:
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25 things
Posted on January 22, 2009
1. I am the son of a truck driver and a nurse.
2. I sleep on my stomach with two really flat pillows.
3. I didn’t know how poor we were until we weren’t poor anymore.
4. My first car was a ‘77 Chevy van, with one large sliding door and curtains in the windows. Green gingham, my mom made them.
5. That van had an eight track player.
6. I had 8 track cassettes that I played.
7. I was a Cub Scout and Boy Scout and raced BMX bikes.
8. In fifth grade the cool kids outed me for wearing generic knock off Reeboks. I now own over 25 pairs of shoes and could easily find 25 more pair that I like.
9. I once worked as a child abuse investigator.
10. My favorite comfort food is warm cornbread in cold buttermilk.
11. I have fallen asleep while driving two times.
12. I once sat at Senator Ford’s desk and ate some of his M&M’s to the dismay of this aides. I still remember his display of cigars, cigarettes, dip and snuf.
13. I didn’t meet my half sister until I was 16.
14. I have carried a pocket knife since 4th grade.
15. Jimmy Buffett is perhaps my favorite musical artist, have seen him 5 times.
16. I dont do wine.
17. I enjoy greasy spoons as much as a nice steak house. $5 for a burger or $50 steak. Its all good.
18. I have been to Cuba three times. Yes their cigars are better.
19. My dog is a soft coated wheaten terrier, he is pretty, but stupid.
20. My dad was 100% Alabama. You can take the boy from Alabama, but you take the Bama from the boy.
21. I can cook, I like to cook, and do it well, southern and cajun are my specialties.
22. I have fly fished for trout in Montana, shrimped in Florida, catfished in Alabama, fished for bass in Kentucky and caught my dinner in the Boundary Waters of Canada.
23. I was the first in my family to earn a bachelors degree. 16 aunts and uncles, 30 sumthing cousins, only two of us have 4 year degrees.
24. I got my first gun on my 6th birthday.
25. I once ran a half marathon. 13.1 miles.
Santa’s email has been hacked
Posted on December 17, 2008
Santa's email has been hacked
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Just saying hi!
Posted on June 8, 2008
There has been an unusual high number of readers lately from all over Dayton Ohio. Thanks for visiting. I hope my running story and camping information is fun for you. Check out Joe’s Family Blog. Its been added to the sidebar.
Aloha Joe!
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Stuff Christians Like
Posted on June 2, 2008
Great website.
http://www.stuffchristianslike.net/
I can say nothing more.