Today is Tuesday and it’s Fandango’s 127th Story Starter. Fandango provides the start, and the rest is up to us. I have had a number of vivid dreams lately, but the one I had about you last ...
Today is Tuesday and it’s Fandango’s 116th Story Starter. Fandango provides the start, and the rest is up to us. You should have seen the look on his face when… …he answered the door tha...
A little over 18 months ago I bought a bread machine and started baking bread. The loafs were ok, but I didn’t like their shape and I didn’t feel like I was really baking bread because there ...
https://michaelsfishbowl.com/2023/09/13/no-bread-winner-am-i/
I recently discovered a tea shop downtown while walking through the skyways. I stop in and get an ounce of this and an ounce of that, peppermint or ginger, decaf Earl Grey. I went out on a limb a...
This past summer I bought a bread machine and started baking. It was fun at first because it was all new, but the results were underwhelming and it soon stopped being fun. I didn’t like how the...
I like Food Network’s cooking shows and the network’s celebrity chefs. One of my favorite celebrity chefs is Bobby Flay and the Ragtag Daily Prompt for today, caramel, made me think of this t...
https://michaelsfishbowl.com/2022/12/01/the-most-important-meal-of-the-day/
I bought a bread machine a few months ago and have been busy making a lot of bread. The bread was ok, but there was a problem with the kneading paddle taking out a chunk of bread when removing th...
“You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I’m not hungry enough to eat six.” – Yogi Berra You could call me a Papa Murphy’s fan. I’m not sure they’ll ever win any ‘Best of�...
https://michaelsfishbowl.com/2022/03/04/papa-murphys-oh-papa/
This is a great time of year if you like candy and you don’t mind overpaying for the stuff. I’m guilty of both and my justification for buying the overpriced snack-sized candy is that it’s ...
https://michaelsfishbowl.com/2021/10/21/halloween-and-candy-and-mms/
THE DETAILS: Friday Fictioneers: 1 picture, 100 words, scores of people from around the world sharing their creativity and vision. Feel free to join in, just visit Rochelle Wisoff-Fields to fin...
I make a lot of rice. White rice, brown rice, basmati rice, wild rice. I listen to Tony Rice a lot and at one point I read some Anne Rice. My favorite drummer is Buddy Rice. Wait, strike that… ...
Years ago there used to be a place in south Minneapolis called The Pizza Shack. They sold pizza. They sold pizza with single crust, a double crust and a triple crust. They sold garlic bread that ...
I’ve been thinking of Cream of Wheat lately. No, thinking about warm breakfast cereal isn’t some weird manifestation of social distancing and isolation that I’ve suddenly started experienci...
I was reading Chelsea’s blog this morning and I want to share a post she wrote titled The Diet: It Sucks But It Works. Please take a couple of minutes and go over there and read it because it�...
From The Haunted Wordsmith is the Elemental Writing Challenge April 10. For this challenge, we will explore one of the four elements: air, earth, water, fire. This week’s focus is Fire Today�...
This is a little embarrassing and I wasn’t going to say anything to anyone, but two days of hindsight has kind of blunted the whole incident a little so it doesn’t seem so bad. Also, I supp...
You know that feeling when you’re making Black Bean Burgers and you have the beans rinsed and drained and you have the onions and red pepper chopped and you have the ketchup and all the spices ...
https://michaelsfishbowl.com/2018/05/14/making-black-bean-burgers/
I made a baked potato last night. It was one of the regular brown russet potatoes and when I cut it open and got ready to drizzle a little ketchup on it and I found this big, ugly, black crusty-l...
I like food and when I eat I try and follow a compassionate diet. What that means for me is a plant-based diet that causes no harm to animals and doesn’t involve the exploitation of animals and...
https://michaelsfishbowl.com/2017/10/10/but-dont-you-miss-the-taste-of-meat/
Kiwifruits are tasty and nutritious so why do they only make them in the small size? (Random thought #27A: why is “kiwifruit” one word?)
https://michaelsfishbowl.com/2017/09/29/random-thoughts-27-kiwifruit/