Rufus Blooter

Growing up, we evolved a family tradition of having roast turkey etc on Christmas Eve, and going out for Chinese food on Christmas day. Now ...

The thought of eleventy jillion roast turkey carcasses getting tossed just kills me. Turkey stock is liquid gold. I don't know why turke...

I saw a nonsensical claim at the end of a MoneyWeek article published today, claiming, Here’s another shocker of a stat for you -  courte...

We're looking at a bit of genealogy as an interesting angle to a history project my youngest is working on. I don't take genealogy t...

The other day my butcher was so pleased to see me he gave me a couple lamb's kidneys for free after I'd gotten done picking out a co...

I have this really cool High-Powered Italian Meat Thrower. It spins up a stainless steel disc, and uses that to launch pieces of meat at hig...

Fired up the smoker and tried a few more things today: a couple of beef short ribs a slab of beef (chuck, maybe) a smallish piece of por...

The Olympics are over. Women's Modern Pentathlon, the last event, finished a while ago, and the Closing Ceremony is coming up. It...

Got a pellet smoker (GMG DB). Did my first cooking with it today: a chicken and a smallish pork shoulder for pulled pork. Used the same r...

It's like I'm a genius. Much improved! badly needed refreshing of a previously banksyed wall

put it out of its misery When the Banksy first appeared on the side of a building off Victoria Park Road, it was cute. It looked lik...

Stepping down from BurgerWeek was hard. Was tempted to extend the week with another visit to Lucky Chip but resisted. Saturday made a big sa...