Cooking has been getting in the way of the writing recently. And promoting the CBs, after all, is why we created this space in the first place, but communicating with the CB Nation is very important to CB Jim and I so we’ll get after the writing now starting with a few random thoughts from my fevered mind.

The Comfort Brothers had a large time on Saturday night springing a conspiratorial surprise 50th birthday party on a somewhat unsuspecting target, one Mr. Scott Oostdyk, also known as “Scottie O!” to his Princeton roomy CB Jim. I say “somewhat unsuspecting” because Scott is a lawyer, a damn good one, and when’s the last time you heard a barrister admit you pulled one off on him?

There might really be something to the connection between the food and the teams of the Super Bowl. As the game was a tale of two halves, so it was with the food. There was the consistently good, familiarly reliable versus the uncertain, upstart, new and different. The big plays went to the Saints and to my surprise and delight, it was the same with the food…

While the teams are making late preparations, so are we. They’ve assessed their health–who can go and who can’t, how they match up with their opponent, what works and what doesn’t and how they see it all unfolding. Simultaneously, we have pondered our menu, checked on available ingredients, what goes with what and what doesn’t, matched up main dishes with sides, and also assessed what works and what doesn’t and how we see it all unfolding…