Category: Food
昼まで温かいご飯コンテナー
外で昼食を食べるとき、おかずはコンビニサラダとかを買いますが、主食のご飯は家で炊いて持参しています。このご飯持ち運びはサーモスの保温ごはんコンテナーを利用しています。これを使うと、朝ホカホカご飯を詰めても昼まで冷めないです。（さすがにホカホカのままとは言えず、かろうじて温いくらいですが、、、） 私の場合は糖質管理のために雑穀米を詰めていますが、毎日美味しく食べられています。…
By yukikoya
A Product For Every Need
Many a parent has likely faced this at one time or another, a child who won't eat bread with the crust on. Into the consumer society where both parents work and there is little time do all that needs to be done, comes…
By robrose
Pig Pen BBQ
An awesome BBQ joint in Dripping Springs, Texas From the outside it sure doesn't look like much, and it wasn't all that easy to find the door. Our experience is that those BBQ places that have spiffy new buildings are…
By robrose
Fitzhugh Brewery
A change of pace today. The weather has been Texas summer hot, with today being no exception. My wife is not much of a beer drinker, but she likes to say she really enjoys a cold strong dark beer on a really hot day.…
By robrose
Desert Door Sotol Distillery
Alcohol can be made from many things, At Desert Door they make it from the desert plant called sotol. What a difference a day makes. Dipping Springs in just west of Austin, and it being a beautiful Saturday, the crowds…
By robrose
Dripping Springs Distillery Tour and Tasting
Back again today to Dripping Springs Distillery. We had arrived yesterday afternoon at a RV Park in the town of Dripping Springs since last night (Thursday) is the only night they have a Happy Hour. Today we were going…
By robrose
Dripping Springs Distillery
I've posted before about the gin that my other half simply loves. We are once again traveling in our RV, Sophie, and you can guess in which town we are staying for a few days.…
By robrose
Mango Margaritas
I had always preferred the traditional lime margarita, but that changed when we spent time in Mexico last fall. My wife had a mango margarita at the suggestion of a waiter. It took a couple of more visits to…
By robrose
Wine: Secondary Fermentation
The wines are now doing their thing in the glass carboys. I plan to wait until after we return home from our summer RV travels to bottle them. Then it will be two or three years before they are at their best to drink.…
By robrose
A Wee Bit of Wee Beastie
I can hear it now. How can you drink 5 year old Scotch? If it is Wee Beastie, "With Great Satisfaction" I answer. One person's Nectar of the Gods is another's hog slop, and so be it. To me boiled turnips aren't fit for…
By robrose
Wine as a Hobby
https://youtu.be/6IjqlGpdMsc In the past five years I have bottled over a thousand bottles of homemade wine The above is a short video of a batch during primary fermenting. What you see on the top of the must is a layer…
By robrose
Two More Try's at a Breakfast Burrito Photo
Label me stubborn, or maybe just an incompetent photographer who doesn't know when to stop. Actually I think this is my best breakfast burrito photo to date. Getting the lighting right is very difficult, especially…
By robrose