Daniel J Isom

To say I hate sleeping would be taking it a bit too far but if I never had to sleep again, I would do whatever it took to do so. I don't hate sleeping because I'm a poor sleeper or something. I imagine not being able to stay sound asleep each night has to be similar to the worst kinds of torture. When I fall asleep, ninety nine times out of a hundred, I am out cold and virtually nothing isn't going to wake me up. For those of you who live in Syracuse and remember the Labor Day storm of 1998, I slept right through it. I've slept through a few hurricanes since moving to Delaware too. Aside from crying children, even that doesn't do the trick every time, I can sleep through anything. But my ability to sleep like a rock isn't the point of this post. Sleep is overrated. Sleep is a waste of time. Sleep is a bane on society. I understand that we have to sleep because it's needed for our overall health. It allows our body to rejuvenate itself and restore what

If you know me, you know that I LOVE sandwiches. I even wrote a whole blog reviewing them when I live in Syracuse called, Syracuse Sandwich . I obviously stopped doing that blog when I moved but my interest in all things sandwich has never waned. I've wanted to do a top 10 sandwich list for a while but it's so hard to cut the list down to just 10. One thing to note is that I'm not including sandwiches that can only be found at one restaurant or chain. If that were the case, the sandwich menu from  The Blue Tusk  would take up the entire list. Shout out to the lobster BLT on a croissant. While all of the sandwiches on this list are delicious, I want to mention a few that you won't see below that I really enjoy: *SPOILERS* The salad group (Egg, Chicken, Tuna), the classic PB & J, Po-Boys, the Reuben, Bacon Egg and Cheese a.k.a. the breakfast sandwich, the parm group (chicken, eggplant, veal), Banh Mi, BBQ brisket, the BLT....I could keep going with this list be

Another month of 2018 is over so I'm back with an update on my New Year's Resolutions . After doing well in two of the three last month , this month I was hoping to find a better balance. The month didn't start off well for number three...again...but by mid month I finally found my groove. Let's see how things went across all three: 1) Bake more bread from scratch I mentioned in the last update that I wanted to make pretzel bites this months and had a recipe from Bon Appetit. I didn't end up using that recipe because it called for beer and since we don't drink, the left over would never get used in all likelihood. So I found a different recipe from King Arthur Flour and went to work. I think they came out great, a little flat on the bottom but they tasted just like the ones you get at the mall. Christine thought they were a little bitter and it took me a few to see what she was saying, I believe it was the amount of baking soda in the soaking solution,