Rufus Blooter

Snowing in London again this morning. Windy and damp and cold right down into the boots. Nearly at LHR for a drop off when a horrible shud...

All the years I lived in Chicago I never once went to the top of the Sears tower. I went into the Sears tower, sure -- I was quite fond of M...

There was a discussion on huffpo live the other week about futures and "the futurization of swaps" [scary! buy another AR-15!]. T...

Very simple. So far, works great with cheddar or parmesan. No reason other cheeses wouldn't work. No need to use a melting-friendly chee...

New Year's Day main course: goose-breast reubens. Goose breasts were soaked in a heartily spiced brine for 12 hours, dried overnight,...

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...