Recent content by Hercule

Goodness we seem to be sensitive today.

Wife is delivering son to California for Stanford's summer session for HS students. She'll stay about a week. She better NOT come back sounding like a valley girl!

Chicken breast stuffed with feta and covered with bruschetta and baked, buttered brown rice and a salad. Son will have plain chicken breast poached in hot sauce instead of the feta chicken.

When somebody tells me to have a good day I so much want to reply "NO, MAKE ME!!"

I try, but I'm not always successful. I can actually remember, as a very young kid, being utterly consumed with wanting various things. As I look back on it, it wasn't at all a pleasant feeling. Now, as an aging adult, I find there are few things I actually want beyond what I need. And then...

I found quite some time ago that with maturity comes a transition from quantity to quality. In other words, when you grow up you tend to appreciate finer things.

Overnight, under cover of darkness, gas prices went up $.40. I'm glad I filled up on my way home yesterday.

Ooooh, I'll have a bacon, cheddar, tomato omelette please. Oh, and burnt rye toast.

Agree regarding blue cheese! As for limburger, my one and only exposure was in Germany when I was on a highschool tour. Partucularly nasty yet the old folks with us at the time devoured it. I didn't get past the smell. I wouldn't mid giving it a try now that I am more refined. What I absolutely...

Hirtenkaese is a cows-milk "feta." As opposed to true [Greek] fetta which is a sheep/goat-milk product. "Cottage cheese" as Americans know it is something different. Perhaps you would know it as "quark" ? Clearly I was wrong about the Farmer's cheese, which is more akin to fresh mozzarella...

If I like anything in mine (and I prefer small curd, full fat) it is a bit of dill. I like that as a dip with potato chips. Most often, though, just plain spread on burnt, buttered toast - Jewish caraway rye preferred. The problem I mostly run into is getting cottage cheese that is firm...

I have found that store brand dairy products are often superior to the name brand versions.

I hear your pain. Those solicitations are bothersome. Within a month of buying and moving in to our new house we began receiving cards, letters and calls asking if we wanted to sell. When my wife gets such calls she simply replies "but where will I live then?"

Good for you! In this day and age of everything being so complicated it is very rewarding to be able to do things for yourself.

Like most, I like and can appreciate the creativity behind some of the commercials seen on TV and heard on radio, enjoying them perhaps even more so when I can identify with their tongue-in-cheek elements. But I find myself kind of offended by Progressive’s “Progressive can’t save you from...