It’s been a long time, folks. Too long, too long. Sometimes it feels like the MLS off-season is longer than the Trail of Tears. “But,” you say to me, “you follow an English team! Your season never ends!”

The team I follow is Newcastle United, people. You want to talk tears, we’ll talk.

But enough of that foreign mish-mash and jibber-jabber. Our own top flight league has restarted and restarted in quite a fashion thanks to Seattle. But we’ll get to that in a little bit. This time around you’re ... Continue Reading

Do you smell what I smell? Do you see what I see?

That chicken breast is juicy and plump, dressed in the fabulous gown known as Italian spices and garlic herbs that have been soaked in lemon juices ready to be taken off by your palette that has been watering for almost half a year.

Those steak tips have been marinating in the fridge for a while now, and you cant wait to throw them into the crock-pot where they will absorb even the tiniest amounts of carrot, potato, ... Continue Reading