Category Archives: Comfort Food

Homemade Pasta

I’ve been cooking pasta for years.  I’ve scorched it.  Left it nearly raw.  Turned it into mush.  But mostly I’ve cooked it just fine.  It got a lot easier a couple of years back when Mrs. CB gave me my … Continue reading

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Bolognese Sauce Cheap Bastid Style

 In case you haven’t guessed, we like ‘sketti.  All kinds of ‘sketti.  ‘Sketti with meat sauce.  ‘Sketti with meatballs.  Baked ziti.  Lasagne.  ‘Sketti Abbazabba (Mrs. CB’s term for Spaghetti Carbonara.  Shrimp ‘n ‘Sketti.  You name it.  We like it. It’s … Continue reading

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Saint Patricks Day Favorites

On St. Patricks Day everybody is a leprechaun for the day.  We wear green.  We drink green beer.  We eat corned beef and cabbage.  Come to think of it, about the only things there that are genuinely Irish are corned … Continue reading

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Jambalaya

Before I sat down to write this today, I pulled up a You Tube video of Hank Williams and his original version of “Jambalaya”.  You know, the one that starts out: “Goodbye Joe, we gotta go oh, me, oh my-o…Son … Continue reading

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Feta

At least two days a week I don’t get home from work until at least 9:30 at night.  On those days I’ll usually get a text from Mrs. CB asking me if I want a “Mega” when I get home. … Continue reading

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