Food For the Soul

I enjoy cooking. Even more I enjoy watching others cook.


Alton Brown This guy has to be one of the funniest guys in the cooking show business


Rachael Ray is a down-to-earth italian cook who cooks like 90% of the population.

Who needs Strawberries in Spiced Wine with Olive Oil-Flavored Ice Cream? It takes 4 1/2 hours for a professional chef to make, which means about 8 hours for me. Also, if I had a professional chef to make it for me it would probably taste delicious but it would taste like crap when I would make it.

These Guys (Alton Brown and Rachael Ray) make things like Crunchy Vanilla-Almond French Toast with Fancy Fruit Topping and Stuffed Grilled Pork Chops that each take less than 45 minutes to make and even when I make it, taste great.

MP K9

Ok, so I know that MP's (Military Police for those not in the know) have K9's that they used in regular service around base.

What I always wondered is what they do with them when they deploy.

Now I guess I know.

GeoCaching...get the bug

OK, so I have found a new and very fun thing to do. As most everyone knows by now I have a new toy, my GPS. To get further use out of it I have started doing some GeoCahing.

I heard about it on our last trip to Arkansas. Someone in the family, and for the life I do not remember who (if anyone remembers who it is let me know so that I can thank them), told me about it. It is like a grown up version of "Hide and Seek" where someone hides an object and gives you coordinates to find it.

The nice thing for the kids is that inside of most of these objects are little trinkets for the kids to trade something that they have. We have found several here in town and even a couple down in Nashville.

Well enough about that, time to get back in the woods and look for more hides.

Decipher me now

8CH84 K6PPL 1UMRP YW021 NNYP8 W9F69 YX221 6EY14 IVXXW OCDIS 7H8C9 NHEPO U8I0P 9M226 TX98S D6NYP 82W7T IZHQD 16IX7 A

If you are having trouble, look up gorgonbox

http://www.gorgonbox.com/index_flash.htm

Oh yeah, I made this on the 20th

Pet Peeve

This last week I had the chance to take a long drive in the rain.

As it never fails it rained at least one travel day during our vacation. This happened on the day of our return from Arkansas. Now I don't mind a little rain but this rain was some of the worst I have driven in thus far. Let's say that it was so bad that at times I was leaving finger marks from griping the steering wheel too hard.

The rain would pour down, and combined with the spray from the tires of other travelers, I could only see about 150 feet in front of me. Trucks would pass and throw sheets of water onto the windshield. Even with the wipers on full speed it was not enough to see through until the truck passed. For several seconds it was like being submerged under the water.

So now I get to my Pet Peeve. You need your headlights on when you have on your wipers. While I was driving I would keep my speed up to match that of other travelers and not get rear ended. As I approached other vehicles I would notice how hard it was to see them if they did not have their lights on.

In most if not all states it is required by law that if the wipers are on, the headlight have to be on. Well I did a little research through several bulletin boards to see what other thought. To my surprise I found several comments like "I have day-time running lights and I don't need to turn them on" or "I just turn on my fog lights." I could not believe what I was reading. Do they not understand that the headlights also work the rear lights as well? I have day-time running lights in my truck but I still turn on my light switch when I have my wipers on. I guess if they were headed for me their reasoning would work great. But on an interstate highway if they are headed for me then one of us is doing something really bad.

Well as you can tell by me writing this, I made it home fine. I guess the only thing that I can really do is hope that eventually all of the new cars will have an automatic switch that turns on the headlights when the wipers are on. Until then the only thing I can do is watch out for others drivers who do not think about how others drivers might see, or not see them.

Tell me what you think.