Slide of the Week

“Make a gingerbread house fly” was one of my answers when the fine folks at the L.A. CO Arts Commission asked me what I was planning to do this year to get in the mood for the holiday season. They said “Great!, can we make a video of you and your attempt at gingerbread house flying?”

See Frosty melt and learn how to make your own cheeseball man in the latest video from the Charles Phoenix Test Kitchen.

My latest test kitchen concoction is pretty much proof that the spirit of Christmas has hijacked my seasonal sensibilities and skyrocketed them into the stratosphere of culinary kookiness!

Being somewhat of a culinary crafter, it may not surprise you that I like gingerbread houses. Well, OK, I’ll admit it, I LOVE gingerbread houses!

There aren’t too many bakeries that I know of where gingerbread men, women and houses are the specialty. But they sure are at Streit’s German Bakery in Downey, CA.

This slide isn’t about the black of night, the turquoise curtains, the honey blond cupboards, the kitchen counter or what’s scattered all over it. This slide is about that delicious golden butter brown roast tom turkey. He’s trying to wave goodbye while he still can!

Being more of a gentleman about town than a nature boy, I don’t usually find myself scampering around National Parks. But, last week, destiny delivered me to Zion in southwest Utah. And was I ever glad it did!

Age has made this slide look as though emerald green ectoplasm has just exploded all over this homey, honey-blond wood-paneled room with matching door and delightful diamond print curtains. It’s everywhere. Even all over Mr. and Mrs. Martian. The pumpkin may not be looking at them, but I sure am.