Happiness is Natural Delights' Coconut Date Rolls

A naturally sweet dessert, just $4.99 the package of 17 at Meijer.

Happiness is a grilled hamburger with pickle, butter and onion

You slice a yellow onion into a sauce pan using a mandoline, add a tablespoon of butter and simmer over the heat until the onions are translucent.

Spoon the butter and onion onto your bun, add a hot grilled hamburger and top with a few of these babies.

Simple and delicious, done the old Wisconsin way.

Happiness is the sunshine today after this weekend's big rain event in Michigan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Needless to say, the outdoor wedding in the red area of the map had to be moved inside. She got married in a pole barn, and still nearly got flooded out.

Happiness is the little old bird woman, calling to you: Feed the birds, tuppence a bag

Video here.

Happiness is the compulsory scientific measurement of all adult male knees so that we can find out who's really English around here

And more importantly, who's not.

Roderick Spode, here, to his brother blackshorts.

Happiness is a musical cartoon history of Christopher Columbus from 1960

Watch the five minute video here.

Happiness is politically incorrect soap ads

Happiness is Norm Crosby, the Master of Malaprop

Watch him in action, here.

In Alaska happiness is a cake from a mix

From a delightful read in The New York Times, here:

“Cake mixes are the center of our little universe,” said Cynthia Erickson, who owns the only grocery store in Tanana, an Athabascan village of 300 along the Yukon River in central Alaska. “I have four damn shelves full.”

Happiness is this little fella takin' a ride on The Fun Slide

Video here.

In August 1944 happiness was the RAF Short Sunderland flying boat and U-boat killer

A Sunderland takes off after retrieving three airmen in the Bay of Biscay

"We had been flying all day long at one hundred fucking feet, The weather fucking awful, fucking rain and fucking sleet; The compass it was swinging fucking south and fucking north, But we made a fucking landfall in the Firth of fucking Forth."

Happiness is the English language

Seen here:

English is by far the most powerful language. It is the dominant language of three G7 nations (USA, UK and Canada), and British legacy has given it a global footprint. It is the world’s lingua franca. Mandarin, which ranks second, is only half as potent. French comes in at third, thanks to its prestige standing in international diplomacy. Rounding out the top five are Spanish and Arabic.

Happiness is becoming increasingly elusive

Don Williams has passed away, but the songs never will

The story is here.

If I Needed You, here.

My new favorite restaurant

"Police: Taco Bell Employees Fatally Shoot Armed Robber"

Happiness is a watchcat

Happiness is a broccoli joke

What's the difference between broccoli and a booger?

Kids won't eat the broccoli.

It's not really a joke.

It's snot.

Happiness is cheap, never-bitter, boiled egg coffee

For three cups of medium strength coffee, plus a little more:

1. Bring 18 oz. of water to a boil in the coffee kettle (You won't need the internal percolator parts or a filter because the egg holds the grounds together in suspension).

2. Beat a small egg in a bowl (If you're going to use the shell, wash the egg first).

3. Add 1/2 cup cheap ground coffee to the beaten egg, a tablespoon of water, and the shells if using, and whisk well.

4. Scrape this coffee mixture into the boiling kettle, and boil one minute.

5. Let it rest 10 minutes covered, then shock with another 6 oz. cold water, and let it rest another 10 minutes.

6. Rewarm and serve.

Betty Crocker's basic ratio, which is way too weak for me, calls for 1 egg for up to 5 quarts of coffee water, made with 1 1/2 cups of ground coffee, plus 3/4 cup cold water to mix the grounds and 1/2 cup cold water to shock. That works out to just 1/3 cup coffee grounds per quart of water. 

So you are at liberty to add more grounds to your recipe to suit your taste up to that 5 quart limit when using one egg.

Happiness is Lodge's Round Cast Iron Grill Pan and matching Round Grill Press

If you're square, buy the square one and matching rectangular press. :-\

I chose the round one because the lid from my ancient dutch oven fits the round grill pan perfectly.

It's for the times when you don't want to fire up the charcoal grill for a hamburger, or when you want a panino and you're too cheap to buy an electric grill press. 

Happiness is raw Star Thistle honey from Sleeping Bear Farms in Beulah, MI

Toast an English muffin, slather on some butter and add a teaspoon of this stuff. Like heaven in your hand.

I paid $20.45 for this jar at Harvest Health. Worth every penny.