Underhill-Lounge

As you can well imagine, Thursday morning started a bit slow.
Between being out of sync with the time change and being out late drinking, I was a bit slow getting out of bed.
We were staying in Tribeca, and Mrs. Underhill, having gotten there a bit earlier had already researched the breakfast situation. She had [...]

Mrs. Underhill was called away to work in New York last week.
After going over our options, we decided it would be more fun for me to travel there and meet her, than for her to quick fly back for Valentine’s day.
Before I get to the details of the trip, I just have to say how [...]

There’s a fantastic feature on San Francisco area bartenders in today’s San Francisco Chronicle Wine Section:
Bar Stars: The Chronicle honors bartenders who are defining Bay Area cocktail culture
Includes profiles and cocktails from Daniel Hyatt of Alembic, Camber Lay of Epic Roasthouse, Martin Cate of Forbidden Island, Neyah White of Nopa, Carlos Yturria and Dominic Venegas.
Also [...]

When we discovered that the Packers would be playing in the NFC championship, as good expatriate Wisconsinites, we, of course, had to stay home and watch.

Pot roast seemed like a fun idea. Football games take three or four hours to play themselves out, and so does a pot roast.

Pot roast reminds me of Sunday [...]

Sometimes Jon Carrol writes about cats, and sometimes children.
Sometimes he is right on, as in this column he published last Thanksgiving.
Gratitude
“Gratitude is the antidote. It is useful in combating a variety of diseases, from something as vague as the discontents of civilization to something as specific as personal grief. Thanksgiving is the holiday of gratitude, [...]

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When I first lived on my own in college, I soon discovered I had almost no cooking skills.
At home or in the dorms, I had never so much as lifted a finger beyond making myself a sandwich from cold meat or baking some cookies. Fried potatoes with onions, eggs, and cheddar cheese were pretty [...]

It seems like every other day there is a new Gin on the Market.
Everyone hypes their new wonderful ideas for flavoring their Gins. Grape flowers. Unusual spices and herbs.
All of these products are designed to make Gin more appealing to the “modern drinker,” whoever it is the particular liquor companies think that is. [...]

Hey, there’s a burger in the background.
Ugh, I dropped Mrs. Underhill’s digital camera just before she went on a trip, so I had to sacrifice my camera for the greater good.
Now I am trying to make do with my barely functional old Konica Minolta Camera.
Ahem, I accidentally also dropped the Konica Minolta a couple years [...]

Weird things happen in Bar Land.
Normally I’m kind of a stay at home kind of guy. Wife, cats, small groups of friends.
But, last night I met up with an acquaintance to chat at a bar.
We had a couple of drinks, and there was a woman sitting next to us at the bar, I guess [...]