Daniel J Isom

This isn't going to be the longest post ever, but I wanted to share a recipe that we've been enjoying over the past month or so. Because we planted two types of cherry tomato plants this year, we've had an abundance of production and weren't sure what to do with them. We can only make so many tomato-cucumber salads and eat so much salsa or pico de gallo with nachos or tacos. The default thing to make with tomatoes when you tell people you have too many is...make sauce! I never considered using cherry tomatoes in sauce before because normally one blanches and peels tomatoes before making the sauce. The reason for this is because the skins of tomato won't break down if you're just simmering them. Having to peel hundreds of little tomatoes sounded awful, that was until I found many recipes that called for roasting them first. Roasting is probably my favorite form of cooking behind baking. You can make virtually anything taste good by drizzling on some olive oil, sp

Right about the time everything started to shut down and the world started to quarantine, I stumbled upon The Endless Honeymoon Podcast . It's hosted by Moshe Kasher and Natasha Leggero, a husband and wife who are both stand up comedians and they're both hilarious. They recently celebrated the one year anniversary of the podcast, so I thought I'd spread the word because it's one of my absolute favorites. Building off of their Netflix special, The Honeymoon Standup Special , Moshe and Natasha offer love and relationship advice to callers while also roasting them a bit. As funny as the answers to callers questions can be, the advice is always helpful and relatable to anyone who has ever been in a relationship. Sometimes they bring guests on the show to help give advice and they're almost always comedians that you've probably heard of like Patton Oswalt, Judd Apatow, and Seth Rogen. Adding one or two extra comedians to the calls often creates hysterical chaos. The

July was the month I've been hoping for all along. I did some blogging, we played some games, and there were plenty of tasty baked goods. I don't expect the rest of the year to go this way, but it was a great month overall. 1)  Write at least 2 blog posts each month Christine and I took a trip to  Chesapeake City and the Fairwinds Cottage . I shared one of my favorite YouTube channels,  You Suck At Cooking . 2)  Complete the 10 x 2 Board Game Challenge Thanks to our trip to Chesapeake City, Christine and I had some time to play some games for our challenge. We started off by playing our second game of Warsaw: City of Ruins. I really like how fast the game plays and how fast it ramps up in the later rounds. Split over two days, we played both of our games of Potion Explosion. Christine kicked my ass both times. The first game was closer than I thought, but the second was a bloodbath. We also got in one play of World's Fair 1893 and I pulled out a close victory. I like this a