This morning, during my shower, while I was getting dressed, and riding in the car on the way to the office, I rough-drafted a post in my head. It was going to talk at length about how the rise of mega-chains has killed diversity and local flavor in pr… more »

We'd been anxiously awaiting Valpo Brewfest for months!  We got VIP tickets which meant we'd get a neat Tshirt, early entrance and access to some food/beer pairings.  Huzzah! It was a cold and rainy morning the on Sept 24th, so when we set forth for Va… more »

One thing we've always noticed about our local food business community is that, at least to us - admittedly outsiders, not employed in the business - it seems that the businesses are very friendly and supportive of each other.  There does not seem to be… more »

The earliest email I can find referencing it is from November 2010 - so it seems its been about 8 months that we've been involved with the "Chicken Cabal," and now our first batch of chickens is done. We did a "trial run" of 20 birds on Tuesday the 7… more »

So it's been a while since I've posted (as usual). Not really a ton going on, at least nothing new and thus "blog-worthy," but I am still playing Rift and don't plan to switch games...in a way I haven't felt since EQ1 was the dominant game. A lot of… more »

Short one today. Just wanted to mention that the fine folks @ D&R Market recently gave us a bunch of surplus venison from their processing season. Some loins, stew meat cubes, and a few packages of ground. So yesterday we took a pack of the groun… more »

Our weekend was extremely varied and exciting! Did a lot of new stuff, and something we hadn't done in ages. So we knew this band-with-a-cool-name, We Are Hex, was playing at The Black Sparrow (best bar in all of Lafayette, perhaps the world) on Fri… more »

Today Lizz and I went to Wabash Mountain Farm to help(and learn how to) process 2 guinea fowl roosters. Please note that by "process," I do mean kill, scald, pluck, eviscerate, and cool said birds, so that we can eat them. Given that, some of the ph… more »

We started our second batch of beer on Saturday. It is a Northern English Brown Ale (BJCP style 11C), from a recipe of mostly my own design - (click for link to recipe on Hopville). Dead Like Me was a great show. ;) Nothing overly special, but should… more »

Before I get onto the main subject of this post, I just want to mention I took a couple bottles of our first-ever homebrew, a black IPA, to the club meeting on Tuesday and it was well-received. "Doesn't have the typical 'kit flavor'" was said by more t… more »

For years, we've liked quality coffee. We'd been ordering fresh-roasted whole bean coffee from Intelligentsia, located in Chicago. We'd have our coffee within a few days of it being roasted, as opposed to mass produced commercial coffee, which may hav… more »

Last Tuesday, I got my first tattoo. It's healing, so I'm not ready to post a picture yet, but if you have me friended on Facebook, there is a rough picture there. By next week it should be ready for photos. Lizz is getting her second tattoo today, a… more »

Couldn't think of a "B" word for planes. :D My first batch of homebrew is coming along exactly as it should. On Saturday evening we transferred it from the primary fermenter to secondary, drawing a small sample to test for specific gravity. It was… more »

I'm still alive - and we're still planning to do the "CD A Week" project. I've just been taking a little break from the "ZOMG MASSIVE INPUT/INFO COMING AT ME 24/7" world of Twitter and Facebook for a little while. Sometimes it gets to be a bit much an… more »

Yesterday we, along with about 10-12 other people, met to discuss costs, work, and other things involved with setting up a cooperative effort to raise and process chickens for food. Turns out the cost isn't too bad, and neither is the work. Chickens a… more »

Yeah, it's been a while since I've written...again. There's just a ton going on, and not much of it is blog-worthy. Not that this is, either, but... I like to write. ;) I guess the "biggest" thing would be that we've purchased all the equipment we… more »

It's been quite a while since I've written here. Mainly we've just been busy doing a ton of new things, and I haven't had much time to write. That, and to be honest, most of the things we've been doing aren't overly appropriate for discussion on a pub… more »

Ok, so, I went from 1-2 posts a day (or most days) to almost nothing, and with it went, I feel, my writing skills. I've got to get back to it!We've been fairly busy of late. With our various food-related hobbies, bicycling, Ham radio, and my gaming… more »

How's that for an interesting collection of unrelated hashtags!? Well, that's what happens when you blog about everything you're doing, rather than focusing on one subject. ;)I haven't written much lately, mainly because there hasn't been a lot to w… more »

As mentioned in my wife's recent post ( more »

Being a steady customer at a local business absolutely has it's benefits. Not only are you helping your local economy directly, they generally take awesome care of you as a customer. Patrick and Tad at D&R Market have really been bringing in a… more »

That, dear readers, is picanha. We were at wonderful D&R Market, and the owner/butcher/meat god Patrick asked us, "Hey have you guys heard of picanha?", and I said "You mean that beef cut that they have at Brazilian steakhouses?" He said yes, and b… more »

Yesterday I mentioned I was considering putting in a preorder for Star Trek Online. Well, not only did I put in said preorder (and CE no less), ... I'm Lifetime. :D It's 4 months of my hobby budget, yes, but - it gives me a game I can play anytime I wa… more »

I haven't done a Monday AM mish-mash in a while so here goes! :D Had a totally awesome weekend! Saturday started off with a trip to the Feast of the Hunter's Moon. It was our first time going. Yeah, we've lived in Lafayette for 6 years now (and M… more »

The Pem-Tech Screamin' Green Meanie is basically done! Of course, I won't launch it without paint, as this is a "looks" rocket rather than a performance rocket, but it's still nice to have it essentially done. It was a fun, easy build too. I'm looking… more »