This week we tried a few new beers, a shockingly blue cake and my husband got me a bottle of rye. The beers were from Shock Top, a craft type company owned by the giant Anheuser Busch. They were in a sampler pack of various flavored takes on their unfiltered wheat ale. Twisted Pretzel – … Continue reading From the Kitchen and the Bar – beer, cake, bourbon and rye
Author: clubschadenfreude
intelligent, female, atheist, science fiction fan, great cook, excellent alewife, cat lover
Not So Polite Dinner Conversation – addressing “An Open Letter to An Atheist”
This post is an answer to a post I found while rummaging through WordPress's accumulator for posts on "atheism". It made some of the classic bad classic false claims that many Christians make so I thought it would be a good example on how to respond to such things. Again, plenty of these point have … Continue reading Not So Polite Dinner Conversation – addressing “An Open Letter to An Atheist”
From the Kitchen and From the Bar – experimenting with roots, a pie and a bottle of mead
The local large grocery store has a small section of unusual fruits and vegetables, at least unusual to me, she who grew up in very white, very Protestant rural Pennsylvania and who hadn’t a chance to talk to someone who had skin any darker than her pale pink until she went to college. I decided … Continue reading From the Kitchen and From the Bar – experimenting with roots, a pie and a bottle of mead
Not So Polite Dinner Conversation – a list of questions
My current guest Christian, logicinlife, has asked the following questions in the comments here. If you are long time reader, the answers will be no surprise to you. Many of the questions are loaded questions or have some a priori assumption associated with them. You are invited, atheists, agnostics and theists, to answer the questions … Continue reading Not So Polite Dinner Conversation – a list of questions
Not So Polite Dinner Conversation – a small interlude
Hello my subscribers. I received a very long comment on someone else's blog and wanted to take the time, and space, to respond to a Christian who is sure I am wrong and that they are the OneTrueChristian. So, this is a rehash of much of the same. This is just to give our OneTrueChristian … Continue reading Not So Polite Dinner Conversation – a small interlude
Not So Polite Dinner Conversation – “What does God need with a starship?”
It’s been awhile since I blogged about the claims of Rabbi Gellman of the one person God Squad. But today we have a curious column from him in my local paper. The title comes from Star Trek: The Final Frontier, where Captain James T. Kirk encounters a god, something that happens with some regularity to … Continue reading Not So Polite Dinner Conversation – “What does God need with a starship?”
From the Kitchen – my first venture into gluten free baking
I made my first venture into gluten-free baking this weekend. I find the whole gluten-free craze to be largely nonsense, especially when people would ask us in the meat department if a steak was "gluten-free". However, a friend has muscular dystrophy and prefers to avoid gluten. I had been curious on how the flours worked so … Continue reading From the Kitchen – my first venture into gluten free baking
Not So Polite Dinner Conversation – Roe v. Wade
This day is an anniversary of the date that women won the ability to control their own bodies here in the US when it comes to childbirth and abortion. This was the famous Roe vs. Wade decision. Pleasantly enough, I have just read that the GOP majority in the US House of Representatives have failed … Continue reading Not So Polite Dinner Conversation – Roe v. Wade
From the Kitchen and From the Bar – Cake and Sake
This weekend we were stuck close to home thanks to my husband being on call. I decided to get a new alcohol to try and finally got around to making the chocolate bundt cake with coconut filling that I mentioned back in November. The alcohol was Tozai Snow Maiden Junmai Nigori Sake. This sake has … Continue reading From the Kitchen and From the Bar – Cake and Sake
Not So Polite Dinner Conversation – religious tv – yes, you knew it was going to be awful
Here’s a pair of reviews of the tv shows I’ve mentioned in earlier blog posts. The “History” channel has a “docudrama” called Revelation: End of Days. I briefly mentioned it here. Oh my, the nonsense. I fast forwarded through most of this unadulterated piece of shakey cam crap. Here’s a bit of a stream of … Continue reading Not So Polite Dinner Conversation – religious tv – yes, you knew it was going to be awful
