Half-Mind Weblog

Breakfast or brunch-time hash party? Or just a party? This stuff kicks ass! Bloody Mary Mix Ingredients Base 1 cup beef base 1 small bottle Tabasco Sauce Worcestershire Sauce, to taste salt & pepper, to taste celery salt, to taste 1/4 cup horseradish (not the creamy kind) The Rest 4 qts tomato juice vodka garnishes [...]

Yum . . . spag bog! Several years ago, when I was putting the Half-Mind Cookbook together, an Australian harriette inadvertently posted a shopping list to the international hash e-mail list. The line that caught my attention said “mince for spag bog.” Spag bog? That could only be some sort of Australian dish, right? Like [...]

Now that it’s getting cold . . . There’s nothing like Glüwein to warm hashers’ hearts! Pick’n’Flick’s Glüwein (Hot Mulled Wine) Ingredients 3 cups water 1 cup sugar 1 whole lemon peel 1 smidgen lemon juice 1 handful cloves (18 whole cloves) 5 cinnamon sticks 1 large bottle Lambrusco wine Directions Bring all ingredients (except [...]

You say potatoe, I say potato . . . Now that cooler weather’s returned, hungry Hash House Harriers want hot food at on-afters. Baked potatoes are easy, filling, and tasty, and you can make it a group effort by asking others to bring the toppings. This is one of Pick’n’Flick’s most successful hash recipes. If [...]

What do you make to feed 50 hungry hashers? Caesar salad for 50! The hash got rained out yesterday . . . oh, all right, a few diehards proably hashed, so it’s more like I got rained out . . . but if 50 hashers had hashed and were looking for something good to eat [...]