My Desultory Blog

RichC | May 11, 2023

Saw this double-tortilla inspired grilled Mexican sandwich on Twitter the other day and wanted to save to my food and recipe categories with the thought … I might try this!

Category: Food, Ideas, Recipe, Social Media | No Comments »
Tags: food, idea, mexican, mp4, sandwich

RichC | February 9, 2022

Last week I had dinner with my buddy Jeff after taking him to pick up his car from a seat repair/re-upholstering job. He previously planned it so we could go to our “old” favorite Acapulco Mexican Restaurant (which is no longer tolerated as well in my digestive track as it was 20 years ago). He […]

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Tags: acapulco, bike, book, Humor, jeff pitts, jeffp, mexican, photo, pink onesy, puddle, Restaurant, trivia

RichC | October 1, 2021

What once was a weekly or at least bi-monthly lunch with my friend Jeff, has shifted to once every 3 months or so since COVID19. It’s not all due to the pandemic as changes in work habits and eating out habits has contributed to neglecting getting together. Nevertheless, it was enjoyable to spend an hour […]

Category: Business, Financial, Friends, News, Personal, Politics, Science | No Comments »
Tags: china, cold war, covid19, economy, fas.org, friends, hami, inflation, jeffp, lunch, mexican, missile, nuclear, pandemic, Restaurant, silo, yumen

RichC | May 30, 2020

It has been a couple weeks of more states and localities re-opening. Brenda and I stopped at Fazoli’s to pick up something last weekend, but instead decided to try something new .. at least since restaurants shut down. We donned our face masks and ordered our meal sitting every other table. All was good. Then […]

Category: Health, Human Interest, Humor, Personal, Photos | No Comments »
Tags: coronavirus, covid19, crochet, face, fazolis, Humor, mask, mexican, normal, ppe, Restaurant

RichC | April 14, 2019

It is hard to believe our local El Rancho Nuevo Mexican Restaurant has been around for 9 years now (photo from opening in 2010) … but as the competition has increase, entrepreneurs have had to step up their game. This restaurant is one of the greatest small business example of why capitalism works: with increased […]

Category: Business, Local, Marketing, Politics | No Comments »
Tags: america, capitalism, competition, dining, example, exceptionalism, improvement, liberty township, mexican, ohio, Restaurant

RichC | April 30, 2010

With a new El Rancho Grande Mexican restaurant opening close to home, I won’t have to drive as far to get my chips and salsa ‘fix.’ Unfortunately being so close is going to be a real temptation.

Category: Local, Misc, Travel | 2 Comments »
Tags: el rancho, food, mexican, Restaurant