About Fred
Fred Hicks does layout and art direction for role-playing games. He also publishes and plays them. He likes his television and he likes his cooking. He loves his wife and daughter. Life is good.
Tag Archives: food
Chicken Lazone
I’m going to try to talk food three times this week. It’s going to be light on words, unless there’s a recipe for me to offer in-post, but hey, you’ve got some eating to do.
First up is my new favorite dinner. It is not healthy, but it is good: Chicken Lazone.
Mushroom Beef Stew
I started to write this recipe up, and then got the odd feeling like I’d posted it before. Sure enough, I had, over a year ago back on my Livejournal, in my sole food-tagged post until this blog started replicating over there.
So! Scratch the rewriting, then. Instead, you get the illustrations the previous edition lacked. [...]
Sunday Family Outing
I always like to get a day of recovery after travel. This past Sunday was exactly that.
Our morning started with a trip to Mayorga Coffee down in south Silver Spring. Christie had gone there a few times as part of one of her moms’ groups, and had nothing but good things to say about [...]
Popovers
Popovers are ludicrously easy to make (though the cleanup afterwards can be a mild pain sometimes). I have deep, fond memories of the popovers of my youth. I’ve eaten them with strawberry preserves and butter with an accompanying lobster bisque while sitting by Jordan Pond in Maine. Everyone should have popovers in their lives — [...]
Poblano Corn Chowder
This is an alternative version (though not much changed) of a recipe I found by “Mudflower” over on Recipezaar. I change a few methods here and there to make the preparation easier, and often make a one and a half times sized recipe, which just fills our ten quart pot (so you’ll want a reasonably [...]
Chili
This is my Gamer Chili recipe — a modified version of one that Rob Donoghue (there he is again!) threw at me earlier this decade. It got the “Gamer Chili” moniker for being very easy to throw together the morning before a game, and with a big enough crock pot (I usually do a double [...]
Jeni’s
Origins Game Fair introduced me to Jeni’s Ice Creams in its original North Market location. In other words, bliss.
I love these “cow to cone” guys, but they’re local to Ohio, and while I do consider them reason enough to travel to Origins, it only happens once a year. So we’ve taken to making the occasional [...]
Phat Tuesday