Underhill-Lounge

Cocktails, Food, and Gardening South of the hill in Bernal Heights, CA

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Category: Rambling

Moved Blog

27 November, 2007 (04:27) | Rambling | 5 comments

Hi!
Welcome!
Still working on the theme and getting things organized, so please forgive if it looks a bit sloppy.
But, will be posting here going forward, so please update your links, bookmarks, and RSS readers.
Cheers!
Erik

Chicken Saute

18 November, 2007 (22:51) | Rambling, Saturday Night Dinner | 5 comments

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 [...]

Anchor’s Genevieve Gin

6 November, 2007 (20:00) | Gin, Rambling | 6 comments

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. [...]

Giant Potatoes

16 October, 2007 (05:32) | Computer Games, Rambling, Weeknight Dinner | No comments

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 [...]

Bar Land

19 September, 2007 (19:47) | Rambling | 1 comment

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 [...]

Whip It Out (Explained)

14 September, 2007 (17:18) | Rambling | 5 comments

Ahem, Mrs. Underhill was giving me a bit of a hard time about my “spicy” language in the previous Whip It Out post.
So, I suppose I should explain.
The name is actually an allusion to a Mothers of Invention song called, “Ian Underwood Whips it Out.” The song begins with a little narration where Ian [...]

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