The key to good sweet and sour chicken is good sweet and sour sauce.  And around wonkyland a good sauce is a homemade sauce.
The sweetness comes from sugar and the sour from vinegar. Here are my ingredients ready and waiting below.

3/4 cup brown sugar
1/3 cup white vinegar
2/3 cup water
1/4 cup soy sauce
1 tablespoon ketchup
2 tablespoons [...]

It’s ok to fail(catastrophically). It’s ok to start again. So the last two months of the Slackers Guide to Self Improvement(SGSI) have been an utter failure. OK, not an utter failure, I exagerate. Things haven’t gone well. I engorged myself on bad food and gained back some of the weight I lost.  I wasted more [...]

When I started this blog one of the things I wanted to cover was cheap non consumer ways to do things that would usually require me to run out and buy something.  I’ll be the first to admit that I haven’t done much of that.  Well I haven’t actually done much with this blog at [...]

Seeing as it is the start of Le Tour de France I’ve added a new wrinkle to my workouts. Actually it’s a really old wrinkle. I used to be a rider, a cyclist. A certain physical ailment has precluded me from long distance riding for awhile now. But I went [...]

Since this is a self-improvement blog I thought I’d do a post a series on self-improvement. First up why the slackers guide to self-improvement (SGSI) is working.
We live in a world obsessed with self-improvement. A several billion-dollar industry has spawned to help us help ourselves. Books, seminars, and support groups all [...]

Yes another post about running, but it’s also about cute ducks in love.  So I ran today.  According to my little niki  gizmo I actually reached my goal this week.  It’s been a slow slog but things are getting better.  My left foot shin area had been really hurting the last week when I would [...]

About five o’clock this afternoon I look at the outside thermometer.  Ninety-one degrees it blinked at me sadly.  That’s 32 in Celsius for my few European readers.  Hmmm, I am supposed to go for a jog today.  I ate that pizza for lunch as well and it aint sitting well.  Obviously the smart thing to [...]

This weeks home made pizza is a enjoyable artichoke and ham concoction.  I searched the intertubes for a regional recipe and I found that.  I in no way am vouching for it’s authenticity. I’ll fill out the instructions later.

As I said earlier I have added running to my workout regime, using the c25k program. Being old and fat I haven’t been able to keep up with the program as it’s intended.  I just finished week 2 but that was me doing week 1 twice.  There has been clear progress.  The first time I [...]

Well I don’t really have to walk.  I took a big step last month and sold my beloved car.  I loved my car almost as much as I love my cat.

My car was a shiny yellow mustang GT with over 300 horse power.  It made a glorious noise and the ladies dug it.  I made [...]