Well another year gone by and Fred Foodie is now two years old. It seems like just yesterday that I wrote my first Happy Anniversary post. I also took this time last year to look at my goals for the blog. I am sad to say that I didn’t really meet them. On the plus side that just means [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘The Good Life’
October 27, 2009
Current Top Chef Odds
You’ve got to love having Top Chef in Vegas. Where else are you going to have the bookmakers giving weekly odds on the contestants? They are updated following the week nine restaurant wars episode and Bryan is still in fourth. No surprise Kevin still holds the top spot. I wish I had access to the betting. It [...]
October 6, 2009
Black Ankle Vineyards
After all this time I finally got a chance to visit Black Ankle Vineyards. They have been open for about a year if I recall correctly and on my list of places to visit since I heard of their opening. So one recent weekend Mrs. Fred and I along with my brother and sister in law headed [...]
June 22, 2009
Banana Daiquiris
Forget that awful corn syrup laden; spawn of a chemistry set daiquiri mix. Here is a recipe that hearkens back to the true roots of the drink and is already a regular in our rotation:
Put 1/2 to 3/4 oz freshly squeezed lime juice, 1 heaping tablespoon sugar, 2 ounces of light rum, and 1 cup of cracked ice into a [...]
January 30, 2009
An Outstanding Cookbook
The sleeper hit of Christmas has to be the book I gave Mrs. F called Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day by Jeff Hertzberg and Zoe Francois. In short this book is amazing. We have always dabbled in baking but this book is head and shoulders above any bread book we have in both ease and sheer [...]
January 29, 2009
Fred’s Not Dead
Sorry readers for the month hiatus. Two factors at play here. First, and foremost I have been swamped at work. Don’t construe this as a complaint- given the current state of the economy I am extremely grateful for this. Secondly I hurt my foot running. Nothing major, but I am on an NSAID, so wine consumption [...]
November 18, 2008
Happy Anniversary- Part III: A Look Ahead
This is the last post in my anniversary extravaganza. I wanted to let you know of some things I have planned for the blog. New Year’s resolutions if you will.
1. I want to increase the number of wine reviews. As you may tell wine is my passion and I want to continue to highlight good values that are [...]
November 16, 2008
Happy Anniversary- Part II: Things I learned
In reflecting back on my one year anniversary here are some things I learned in the first year of doing this. Some of them may be blindingly obvious but here they are (in no particular order):
1. Good writing is hard. I can hear some of you crying saying ’Fred what the heck do you know about good [...]
