The Caffeinated Penguin

musings of a crackpot hacker

Seekrit project

| June 19, 2011

So, I’ve been working on this for the past week. Take: An old swingset A reciprocating saw with a metal blade A couple cans of Rust-Oleum Misc hardware Cutting it down: Painted: Know what it is yet? Here’s the burner (which I had already) And a pot and pulley: Anyone still not sure? Turkey fryer [...]

Happy Thanksgiving

| November 26, 2010

I hope everyone had a nice Thanksgiving and got plenty to eat. AB’s brined turkey recipe is quite good. The turkey was wonderfully seasoned and juicy. His cranberry sauce, not so much. It’s okay, but the Ocean Spray canned stuff is better. To go with it, we had stuffing doctored up with mushrooms and apples, [...]

Force carbonating soda at home

| January 31, 2010

These things are neat. The flavors pretty well suck, but using a fruit juice concentrate or some lime juice or something is quite nice.

More photos – Food

| October 9, 2009

This is a collection of food-related bits and bobs from the past couple of years – gardening things, hunting things, etc.

Update

| July 6, 2009

Been busy, but still here. I’ve updated the blog to WP 3.8. I also had a bit of an overloaded meltdown a couple of weeks ago. Basically, the working theory was that we weren’t going to work on the house or do anything until after the potatoes went in (which happens about the second week [...]

An open letter to Kraft Foods

| July 6, 2009

Dear Kraft Foods: I was going to submit comments or send an email via your website, but the “Contact Us” link brings me to a FAQ, with no discernible way to actually contact you. Therefore, you get a public letter which everyone can read. I recently purchased one of your “Miracle Whip – All Out [...]