1. Recipe for a quick lunch: Drain a can of black beans and puree with cilantro, cayenne, and lime juice. Spread the goo on a tortilla with some cheddar and microwave. Hey, it's a burrito! 2. Recipe for a successful black and tan: Use a glass with straight sides. Curvy sides will make the stout and lager mix. Learned this the hard way. 3. Recipe for a man's sock: Cast on 72 st with Trekking on size 1 needles. After knitting 6 inches of cuff, decide it's way too big for dainty girly feet. Regroup. Find a man. 4. Recipe for disaster: Carelessly run sweater shaver on favorite orange sweater. Cut load-bearing thread in cuff, gasp in horror as cuff begins to disintegrate. Revise plans to be buried in said sweater. Run some almost-matching Frog Tree alpaca through the cuff stitches and save for later.