%$#?! Airplanes

May 27, 2019Home, Terrific people, Westairplanes, Billy Buck, Branson, Colorado, flying

Choosing not to fly commercially, and a return to one of my favorite (and most remote) small towns in America – Branson, Colorado.

Have a beef with beef? Try Wiggins Meat Market, Rockland

May 16, 2019Good eats, Home, North, Terrific peoplecube steak, Jess Wiggin, Rockland, Rte 73 road work, Wiggins Meat Market

By Ned White

I get really annoyed when I buy beef and cook it perfectly and it has no flavor. That’s why we buy almost all our meat products at Wiggins Meat Market in Rockland. Angus! All steer beef! But there’s a hitch: Rte 73 roadwork is discouraging people from buying there…

Fluffy salt cod fritters… and the turbo-encabulator

April 28, 2019Funny-ish, Good eats, Home, Internationalbunuelos de bacalao, salt cod fritters, turbo-encabulator

By Ned White

Great fluffy crisp salt cod fritters… and once again, introducing the turbo-encabulator.

Pollo Alla Barontana – Tuscan chicken

April 10, 2019Good eats, Internationallying fallow, Pollo alla Barontana, Tuscan chicken

By Ned White

Thoughts on lying fallow, and a great Tuscan chicken recipe.

Santa Fe Chiles Rellenos

March 27, 2019Funny-ish, Good eats, Home, Westchile relleno, chiles rellenos, Joseph's of Santa Fe, New Mexico, New York Times crossword puzzle, Santa Fe

By Ned White

This is a repost, but I couldn’t resist. I saw the photo again and my stomach started yipping like a New Mexico coyote… Weird, mouth-watering New Mexico Back to New Mexico again, the unrivaled epicenter of wackiness in the U.S if not the entire planet, Ground Zero for the brilliant and bizarre, spectacular and spooky, […]

Chicken fried steak

March 18, 2019Good eats, Midwestchicken fried steak, flu, Pen Bay, Strain A

By Ned White

This post comes later than usual because I was lolloped by the flu last week, sacked out at Pen Bay. Skip over the flu part and dive into one of my favorite truck stop meals – Chicken Fried Steak.

A little love letter to Fort Kent

March 4, 2019Funny-ish, North, Terrific peopleAllagash, Can Am Sled Dog Races, Fort Kent, frost heaves, Route 11, UMFK

By Ned White

A brief sojourn to a town far, far away to the north – as far as you can go without a passport – to watch sled dogs race and marvel at 200 inches of snowfall.