"Electric Grains" Rockstardaddy Kitchen.

  As an admitted sugar junkie for most of my life, I've made the effort, post thirties, to become a more health conscious chef. Not only to benefit myself but obviously for the family too. Oh sure I slip plenty but, slowly the change within occurs.
  Along this journey my learning process has included some scary lessons about the food we consume in America, but more importantly the knowledge quest leads to all sorts of new exciting foods that won't sit in my gut and wreak havoc. Quinoa, one of the ancient staple grains including faro, barley, etc., has found it's place into my kitchen. I'm so happy about this stuff and how healthy it is, I had to rock out about it. This is just a little ditty about slipping Quinoa into the boys meals, so when they start whuppin' my ass on the golf course they'll have Quinoa to thank...and an inherited natural swing!

Country Rockin' Rebels "Indian Wind" at Shakedown

  And here's what happens when dad gets to boogie with the big boys! The second of a two gig night, we gets the lead out! Enjoy and thanks to Joe Stevens at Starlit!

Monday Quotables

From Isaac, while enroute to Ocean Beach park.
"I don't think I want ta go to the ocean park because the ocean is so wet and that would probably get me wet."
 "Isaac are you scared of the water?"
"No I just don't like to get wet at the park."

Monday Quotables

To illustrate the pure 180deg. difference between these fraternal twins, just drop in on any conversation.
Isaac: "Daddy when it's  my birthday in Feb-u-bary, I wanna share my cupcakes with Jax and Micah and Miss Carey and mommy, and..."
Evan: "I want cake."
Me: "Who are you going to share your cake with."
Evan: "Me."

Electric Organic Kitchen Blues

  Well at long last we take our blues to the kitchen. Homemade biscuits it is today with an orange honey gastrique. What is a gastrique? It's a sweet sticky glazey type of sauce, to get technical. It just takes some sugar and vinegar boiled down in a sauce pot with whatever flavor you are going for. Today we are using honey and some fresh oranges and tangerines from my mom's citrus trees. I'm just a free wheelin' home chef so I will not be posting measurements or secret recipes. Mostly because I don't measure much and my recipes are usually a secret to me. I'm just doing this to demonstrate and preach that food made from scratch with fresh healthy, non-GMO! ingredients is the way to go. It's really not that hard, when you use my approach of trying and failing a hundred times first!
  How do I accomplish this mission you might ask? Well if you watch you will notice I'm holding a kid while I'm cooking, can't be that hard right! Also my ingredients are almost all organic, you will see whenever I post these cooking segments, I'm very against filling my kids up with chemicals and genetically altered material. For the biscuits I used some wheat flour, which is almost a biscuit sin, just so I could justify indulging with the boys. Enjoy in good health! And don't worry about the mess!

Monday Quotables

"A penny saved is a penny eaten...in my house." -Rockstardaddy

Walking the Amazon

  After the sun dipped into the Pacific like the ember of a cigarette and exploded in a thousand colors, and the evening clouds turned silvery ash until night swallowed the remains, Marie and I found a moment to collapse. Silence and stillness for however long it would last were embraced fully. All three kids were asleep finally. A survey of the damage began after one of us rallied to the fridge for a couple cold ones.
  One bathtub almost full of puke soaked clothing, bedding, and towels.
  Two infected ears for Tristan to go along with all the other stuff he's been going through
  Three boys taken down by the flu
  Four straight days of dealing with what nature likes to drag us through sometimes
  I was already dreading the next morning since yesterday because I knew Marie would have to go back to work and be the bread winner and I would be trying to manage this natural disaster and maybe try to figure out the bread maker in the process. Brutal. Yet as I sipped on the days reward I felt good, calm, I had reached the point where I knew I could deal. How so?
  After Marie got back from the doc with Tristan's antibiotic, mommy called the ear infection, he immediately fell asleep on me in the glider chair and remained crashed out for two straight hours. My butt and arms were numb, I however was hardly aware as I had been caught in the spell of a documentary called "Walking the Amazon".
  A British guy named Paul Stafford made the entire coast to coast, four thousand plus mile journey of the Amazon river on foot. He began in 2008 and completed the expedition over two years later. Along the way he suffered through enormous struggles against nature from jungle rot, parasites, flesh-eating disease, daily dehydration and starvation. He passed through the Peru drug corridor where most of the worlds coke is produced risking a bullet to the head with every step. After his trek up and down the Andes set him behind schedule he arrived at the Amazon basin at the height of flooding season and slogged through waist high swamp teeming with way too much stuff that could kill you, for my taste! By the time he made it to the Atlantic with one of the guides who joined him along the way he had passed through natures toughest tests. I was beyond inspired, no I won't be doing anything that insane sometime ever, but it gave me that moment of perspective I needed to stay in the ballgame and not let my mind drag me into that area that can drag the day out forever.
  So this blog kind of works out to be a congrats to Mr. Stafford for dreaming and doing the crazy and wild and a thank you for helping me walk my Amazon!

Monday Quotables and the 2014 Blues

  Well happy 2014 everyone from Rockstardaddydizzle! No pics to show or RSDaddy Electric Organic Kitchen vid to debut. Instead we've started out this new year with a visit from my old buddy Freddie the Flu. He took me down new years eve, and has since paid a visit to each of us in turn. The general mood is best conveyed by Isaac's Monday quote.

Dad: How do you feel buddy? Do you want a drink of water or a cracker?
I: I don't want you to talk to me.
Dad: Okay buddy you let me know if you feel sick or you want something okay?
I: Stop talking to me.