Rules

Just a few things I’ve noticed:

  • Homemade pie dough needs vodka as well as water. The vodka keeps the gluten in the dough from getting too springy and makes a more tender crust.
  • For your guests, tomato sauces need just a little bit of sugar. It greatly reduces the acidic effects on digestion.
  • Sometimes the friends you make in the most bizarre of places, even like this blog, end up meaning more than you can express.
  • There is no point in making a sandwich if you aren’t going to make it well. Toast or grill the bread, use quality meats, add a little pesto to the mayo if it warrants it. Like life, it is about the quality you put into it, not the quantity or speed in which it gets done.
  • Advocate for more parallel parking spaces. Most people can’t handle them these days so I almost always find a place.
  • From someone else: Never make someone a priority if they consider you an option.
  • If you’re buying a log home, invest in a powerful pressure washer. Every few years you’re going to want to really clean the place off.
  • Carpenter bees suck.

8 Responses to “Rules”

  1. on 15 Sep 2008 at 12:36 Tori Lennox

    I totally agree with the third one. Some of my best friends are people I met online long before I ever met them in person. Come to think of it, some of them I still haven’t met in person. :)

  2. on 15 Sep 2008 at 14:16 jck

    Gotta try the vodka… Have never made great pie crust, but even if the vodka in the pie crust does not work… the left overs will take the edge off!

  3. on 15 Sep 2008 at 19:21 Jean

    priority/option…I totally agree.

    You are such a sweetie :-)

  4. on 15 Sep 2008 at 22:54 Richmond

    Good rules – one and all…

  5. on 16 Sep 2008 at 14:53 HomefrontSix

    So very true. All of it. I hope your days are getting better.

  6. on 18 Sep 2008 at 12:52 jenn

    i have never made a pie… but i would have probably just used a store-bought crust. Now that i know about Vodka, i think i may need to take up baking!

  7. on 18 Sep 2008 at 16:12 oddybobo

    Love your rules. And my very best friends, I met on-line through my humble blog.

  8. on 18 Sep 2008 at 21:33 T1G

    Thanks, bro.

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