Strawberry Jam on Toast with Hot Spiced Tea

It’s 2:30 a.m., I am up eating strawberry jam on toast with a cup of hot spiced tea and reading.  Perhaps I stepped out of a British nursery rhyme and am still quite asleep in my bed … The only thing that would make this better is if it were Christmas, snowing outside, the fireplace [...]

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Super Tycoons Facebook Update: From $100 Million to $14 Billion

On May 9th, I gave an update on the Super Tycoons game I’ve been playing every day on Facebook in which you have to build an empire and compete against other players. I’ve even convinced my grandma to start playing it as a steel tycoon. When I wrote about the game back in May, my [...]

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Creed Spring Flower Review

Creed Spring Flower was created in 1951 as a signature scent for the adorable Audrey Hepburn, star of films such as Sabrina, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, and My Fair Lady.  Hepburn reportedly wanted the famous House of Creed, which has served as the official perfumer to royalty dating back to 1760, to create a unique scent [...]

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How My Grandpa Dennis Could Have Turned His Pepsi Habit Into a 7-Figure Estate

I’ve written in the past about how nearly every American alive today has been confronted with perhaps a dozen different companies that they knew first hand because they enjoyed using the firm’s products for years (in some cases, their whole life) that turned out to be spectacular investments.  Yet, they never thought to research the [...]

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Cinnamon Apple Baked French Toast with Sweet Potatoes

This is another one of the unique breakfasts we had last week. It’s a cinnamon apple french toast that was baked in the oven with wheat bread base and apple butter glaze, fresh slices of apple, and cinnamon. The side dish consisted of “fried” sweet potatoes, which were really prepared in a pan over open [...]

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Breakfast of Tycoons by Carl Barks

We added Breakfast of Tycoons to the official Carl Barks collection at Mount Olympus Awards.  We’ve been selectively acquiring more and more of his stuff when the price is attractive and it just fits with all of the framed stock certificates and financial artwork. I’ve identified a few other pieces we are interesting in actively [...]

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Beef and Onions Braised in Beer by Julia Child

Tonight, we decided to try the recipe immediately following the Julia Child Beef Bourguignon recipe in Mastering the Art of French Cooking (I wrote about our experience with that recipe a few months ago).  The entree is called Carbonnades a la Flamande, which translates into Beef and Onions Braised in Beer.  This followed the Chicken [...]

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Eggs Benedict with Hollandaise Sauce for Breakfast

During Ashly and Ian’s visit from Ohio this weekend, and as part of our weekend of gourmet dining, they made us eggs benedict with a hollandaise sauce on Saturday morning.  The nutritional sacrifice was worth it (health food, this is most certainly not but 1,000 calories was a small price to pay). The eggs benedict [...]

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Rainbow Pancakes

I happened to be sitting at the dining room table, a cup of coffee in one hand, writing out plans for potentially launching a mutual fund this year (this time around, it’s a Parker Duofold rollerball in an amber check pattern from the recent shipment of fine writing instruments we received at Kennon Home Accessories [...]

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Asset Allocation Basics 101

Asset allocation is one of the most important concepts you must learn as an investor.  By practicing it, you can balance your portfolio against adverse market conditions, keeping more capital in your account so you can take advantage of the market crashes that will happen as an inevitable result of human nature. That is why [...]

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