Category: Food

  • 31 flavors of ice cream in 30 days

    For the month of June, I gave myself the silly challenge of doing a Baskin Robbins: eating 31 flavors of ice cream. To count, I had to eat at least three spoonfuls of the flavor. I couldn’t cheat by standing at a counter in an ice cream shop and ask for a taste test. Plus, […]

  • Use a mason jar with a blender

    It turns out, most blenders fit properly with a mason jarmost blenders fit properly with a mason jar. We use this trick most often to make whipped cream. The blender whips it right in the jar, so if we have extra, it’s already in a jar for storage. And it is easier when it comes […]

  • How to have a whiskey tasting

    How to host a whiskey tasting 1. Know the difference between the types of whiskey. 2. Decide which whiskies you wish to share. 3. Be able to talk about a) whiskey in general, b) each individual whiskey. 4. Serve food. Recently, I held a whiskey tasting for a small group of friends. Over the past […]

  • Lanny’s Alta Cocina

    Lanny’s Alta Cocina Mexicana, located at 3405 W. 7th St. in Fort Worth, provides a welcoming, relaxed and upscale dinner experience. Inside an old, one story World War II era house, only a dozen or so tables are available for seating. I saw about ten tables of various sizes, small tables for couples, tables seating […]