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Strawberry Rhubarb (second is not close)
Dutch Apple (so great when you drizzle it with caramel )
Cherry (sometimes simple is just better )
Boston Creme (a stretch for pie, but I count it )
Pumpkin (see number 3, but requires whipped cream )
Lemon Meringue (was my favorite as a kid, first one I learned how to make )
French Silk (can a pie be decadent )
Key Lime (wife’s number 1 )
Banana Pudding (once dropped a whole one , yes I cried )
Peach (warmed is best and requires ice cream)
Cranberry-Marshmallow Sweet Potatoes (dessert as a side, yes) Green Bean Casserole (what else are crispy fried onions used for) Broccoli Salad (a fan favorite for good reason ) Mashed Potatoes (staple #1 ) Pecan Sweet Potatoes (pecans are a Texas requirement ) Stuffing (staple #2 ) Cornbread Casserole (corn inside cornbread, yeah, my element) Rolls (simple is sometimes best , and staple #3) Angel Food Cake Salad (this one has grown on me over the years ) Mac-n-Cheese (kids, kids, kids )
Ranking
Green Spot
Egans Conviction 10yr
Jameson Black
Quiet Man – Blended
The Dubliner
Red Breast 12
Bushmills Black Bush
Slane
Tullamore Dew
The Busker
Glendalough
Malloye
Hell-Cat Maggie
Jameson
Dunville’s Three Crown Blended
Two Gingers
Writers Tears
Teeling
Powers
Killbrin
Kavanagh
Quite Man – Single Malt
The Irishmen
Dunville’s 1808
Sexton
Wolfhound
Cabinet
Method & Madness
Triple Dog
Shelf
Proper Twelve
Clontarf 1014
Blue Spot
Kinsale
High N’ Wicked
Two Stacks
Mr. Whiskey
Midleton
McConnell’s
Knockmore
Waterford
Dead Rabbit
Holly Jolly Christmas (Ives as a singing look-alike snowman in Rudolph, top that! )
When My Heart Finds Christmas (Connick at his best )
Rudolph (everyone and I mean everyone knows the words )
Little Drummer Boy (Bing and Bowie, can’t work can it? )
Winter Wonderland (always made me think of the Budweiser Clydesdale’s)
Silver Bells (ahh, reminds me of being in a big city at Christmas )
Oh Holy Night (religious, Groban, and greatness )
Let It Snow! (never said this growing up in Iowa, Buble’s version is a classic)
Christmas Wrapping (yes, a little ditsy )
Same Old Lang Syne (yes, a little sappy )
I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew (if you do not like the quote in the picture you do not like Dr. Seuss) C at in the Hat (btw, I would not tell her )One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish (funny things truly are everywhere ) The Lorax (greenies unit e) Green Eggs and Ham (not sure if I would try them ) Fox in Socks (the title is the easiest tongue twister in the book ) I Wish That I Had Duck Feet (one of these years I’m certain Blake will want to go as a Which-What-Who for Halloween ) And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street! (I love embellishment too!) Hop on Pop (one of the first books we read to Blake and Brayden) Oh, the Places You’ll Go! (graduation staple probably needs an update)
Snickers (what every other candy bar aspires to be ) Reeses Peanut Butter Cups (ever been a better combination? ) Hershey Bar (love the people that say, “you know that is just pure chocolate” ) Crunch (there is just something about a tin-foil wrapped chocolate rice crispies bar ) Twix (caramel, cookie, and chocolate, what’s not to like ) 3 Musketeers (is whipped really less fattening? ) York Peppermint Patty (a super large junior mint ) Kit-Kat (4 candy bars in one ) PayDay (both the day and the bar ) Mounds (yeah no nuts for me)
Calvin and Hobbes (hands down my favorite) Calvin and Hobbes (yes it was that good) Far Side (made me think every day) xkcd (best webcomic out there) Dilbert (computers, business & nerds, what’s not to love) Mother Goose and Grimm (funny because I did not have to think) In the Bleachers (far side for sports) Garfield (as a kid, this was the first comic I read every day) Frazz (comic with sports and triathlon roots, sign me up) Peanuts (enduring staple)
Coke (I’d like to teach the world…) Diet Coke (yes I’m one of the few that can drink both, but everyone loves real sugar) Pepsi (when coke wasn’t around) Diet Dr. Pepper (closest diet drink to the real thing) 7-Up (when you are at your worst this is at its best) Diet Mountain Dew (convinced this got me through college) Welch’s Grape (as a kid how could I resist showing everyone my purple tongue) Sprite (7-up with more kick) Root Beer (as a kid I just called it beer) Orange Crush (see number 7)
