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Author Archives: Mike Lesiuk
Banana Bread with Streusel Topping
The recipe is an amalgamation of two recipes. The banana bread recipe comes from here at Recipe Zaar. It uses sour cream. I already had another banana bread recipe, but I wanted to try something new. I adapted the recipe a bit to include chocolate chips. And because there were a lot of nuts in [...]
Don’t change your printer’s toner when it tells you to
Two months ago my printer (an HP-2170W Laser Printer) told me it refused to print anymore pages. It told me I was out of toner and I had to replace the cartridge. But it was lying to me - there was plenty of toner left. In fact, since that time, I have printed hundreds and [...]
Soft and Chewy Oreo Cookie Cookies
A long time ago I came across this Chocolate Chip Oreo Cookie Recipe at Two Peas and Their Pod. The recipe was good, but it was mostly a chocolate chip cookie with a few chunks of Oreos in each cookie (which, indeed, is a perfectly fine idea for a cookie). But I wanted an entire [...]
Old-Fashioned Oatmeal Cookies (thin and buttery)
It took me a surprisingly long time to find an oatmeal cookie recipe that I wanted to try (about 10 minutes, which is practically forever if we’re talking about “Google time”). I just wanted plain, thin, and buttery oatmeal cookies. I finally adapted a Chewy Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies recipe from All Recipes, and in [...]
Sir Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe and Real-Life Trial by Combat
I’m studying Ivanhoe right now, and I came across some interesting articles about the book and its connection to a real-life trial by combat… in 1817. So I thought I would blog about the details, because though I think it is really interesting it will probably never make it into my paper. Anyways: The Ashford [...]
Banana Bread with Walnuts and Chocolate Chips
I still haven’t discovered anything worth putting on a good banana bread. Butter, peanut butter, Nutella–all of these fail to improve upon that which is perfect. Although I have found that Banana Bread is a good bread for French Toast, even if it is a quick bread without all that fancy yeast. I’ve seen others [...]
Two Victorian gentlemen enjoy the effects of opium
GENTLEMAN 1: What! What! Eh… eh, oh, by God! By God! GENTLEMAN 2: Great Scott! My face is positively melting! (He begins clawing at his face.) GENTLEMAN 1: By… God! GENTLEMAN 2: (pointing) And so is yours! GENTLEMAN 1: By… God! (Outside, an over-dressed fop with a brightly coloured overcoat walks past the window.) GENTLEMAN [...]
Serious Chocolate Chip Cookies with Walnuts