Got any leftover ribs from your beef roast?  Here’s something to do with them. Slather them with mustard.  Then cover them with bread crumbs.  Then put them in the broiler, turning as necessary, until they’re brown and crispy and sizzling. Eat them with your fingers, as your caveman ancestors did. I got this from Vincent […]

So here’s a shot of last night’s roast beast, fresh from the oven.  I splurged on a USDA Prime rib roast, the price of which quite startled me.  I sprinkled it with Indonesian white pepper, garlic, and allspice (the Finnish housewife’s best friend), and then dusted it with flour before tossing it in the oven. […]

This is the time of year for caroling.  But what do we actually know about carols? For one thing, carol services are very recent.  They were invented in 1880 by Edward White Benson, the Bishop of Truro.  And what do we know about him? He later became Archbishop of Canterbury and his whole family had […]

Here is Beach White 1 on the island of Peleliu, where a horrifically bloody, grinding and mostly unnecessary battle was fought in late 1944.  In the foreground you can see the treads of a Sherman tank, still at the waterline 70-odd years later.  In the middle ground is a weed-filled lagoon across which Chesty Puller’s […]