Both Ross and I would like to wish everyone Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Joyous Kwanza, Superb Saturnalia, or any other holiday you celebrate during this solstice season!
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Apparently, eating baked ham with black eyed peas and cabbage on New Years is a Southern thing. I never knew that until very recently. However, regardless of the holiday, ham is a great way to feed a lot of people cheap. You can usually get a real ham for between $.99 […]
The best fried chicken is very simple to make, but like all simple recipes, the details matter. First thing you want to do is go get a whole chicken and cut it up yourself. I would love to explain how to do that, but it really takes some practice and […]
This week’s Gamer’s Tavern is going to be late due to a combination of the holidays and a personal issue that prevented me from getting the editing done. I sincerely apologize to all our listeners that I let my personal life interfere with the podcast. I’ll have it up as […]
I’m half Cajun from both sides of my family – my mother and my father both are half Cajun. I can trace my paternal line all the way from my grandfather in Lake Charles, Louisiana, to several generations in Louisiana then back to Canada and finally France in the 1400s, […]
I want to try something new around here. I pride myself on being a graduate of the Good Eats Culinary Academy (if you don’t get the joke, I mean I’ve seen every episode of Good Eatsby Alton Brown multiple times each) and a fairly decent cook, so I thought I’d […]
If you listened to the most recent Gamer’s Tavern episode, you might have noticed that I seemed to be the Negative Nancy for Kickstarted games. I also probably came off as a Luddite, but my love for technology is a subject for another blog. I know I sounded down on […]
Okay, there’s been some confusion based on the title of the podcast and the website not matching, so after some research and a bit of work, we’re cleaning house. Welcome officially to the Gamer’s Tavern Podcast!! In addition, I’m also going to step back a bit in my on-air role […]
I wasn’t just adding color to the podcast to get into that fantasy tavern feel when I said I was drinking mulled wine on Episode 3. I started making it last winter and I’m in love with it. It’s also incredibly easy to make and a great way to get […]
The night of ghouls and goblins is upon us in a few short weeks, the night when the barrier between the living and the dead is the thinnest and spirits of the deceased return…and the Gamer’s Tavern is celebrating!! We’ve got a trio of Halloween themed episodes for you, the […]
Several years ago, I ran a 4th Edition Dungeons & Dragons game where I learned a valuable lesson about game prep. Even though I’ve always been an off-the-cuff DM, I still did hours of prep work for every session, creating massive decision trees of how the adventure would progress based […]
In last week’s podcast, John Kovalic made a point that I feel really should be explored more with some actual data to back it up. Gaming has one of the biggest returns on the dollar for entertainment time of almost any other hobby. I can honestly only think of a […]