How cool is a book that gives you detailed instructions on how to make gunpowder? Pretty damned cool. Turns out there is more to making black powder-as author William Gurstelle prefers to call his gun powder-than Captain Kirk made it look when was kicking Gorn ass with a bamboo cannon. For one thing, you need pure ingredients. William advices that you make you own charcoal, since the stuff you use in a barbeque is full of all kinds of impurities. He recommends buying the sulfur and saltpeter. Once you have made the black powder you can go on to make…
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Del Rancho in OKC
My Dad would have loved Del Rancho, and I’m sure if he ever spent enough time in Oklahoma City to need a meal, that he ate there. Dear old Dad had a homing beacon for greasy dinners and most of my fondest memories of Dad are of my brother, me, and Dad sitting in a small booth with a tiny jukebox. It’s worth noting Dad died of multiple system failures at the ripe old age of 62. Anyway. Del Rancho is famous for it’s Chicken Fried Steak Sandwich. For those of you North of the Mason Dixie Line, a chicken…