Tonight's menu: Chicken simmered in white wine butter sauce over steamed rice and broccoli with mashed potatoes aligot stuffed with garlic and mozzarella cheese. It was really good. … [Read more...]
Back to Business …
April 5, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Seriously, I am not running a food blog but those of you who know me keep calling and asking why I haven't posted each day's food selection because you want to know what we are having so you can try it yourself. I know we eat, and live, extremely well but I really don't like having to drop everything to go grab a camera before enjoying a red wine coq au vin from Julia Child. I'd like to get back to sitting in the dining room with my nightly stock reports and studying as I eat, not … [Read more...]
Beef and Onions Braised in Beer by Julia Child
February 14, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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 Simmered in Cream from yesterday, which has become our favorite Julia Child recipe (I haven't yet discussed it here but plan to add it sometime in the future). … [Read more...]
Misconceptions About Wealth
February 8, 2010 By 6 Comments
How The Marketing Industry Continues to Convince Average Americans They Know What a Millionaire Looks Like A few days ago, I quoted something from one of Dr. Thomas J. Stanley's books: "In the United States, there are three times more millionaires living in homes that have a market value of under $300,000 than there are living in homes valued at $1 million or more." For the past few days, I've been studying more about average household income in the United States and, specifically, the … [Read more...]
Gourmet Chili with Red Wine
February 3, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Aaron said he wanted to make chili. I said fine (this went on for a few weeks - he really wanted to try to customize his own gourmet chili recipe). It ended up costing $65 to $70 for the ingredients alone, making me wonder why everything we do tends to be in excess. Now, this is a good trait in some regards (we obsessively built our first online business, which was a great foundation due to the stream of earnings it provided us to invest in other things), and the same goes when we start … [Read more...]
Rainbow Pancakes
February 3, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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 and its retail store, Kennon & Company). As I was mulling over some ideas in my head, I was reading the blogs, which is my customary morning routine that began back in the … [Read more...]
I'm a private investor, author, and business philosopher who started with nothing and was essentially retired by my early twenties thanks to my first Internet startup. I went to school on a music scholarship and spend my days doing what I want and growing Kennon Green Enterprises, LLC, the family holding company. 
