Making sauce tomorrow (San Marzano D.O.P.):
Meatballs
Sausage
Braciole
Ricotta gnocchi
Eff Rao’s
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Meatballs
Sausage
Braciole
Ricotta gnocchi
Eff Rao’s
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Went on a bike ride date tonight with a group. What a blast. Ordered dominoes at her house after the ride and got in the pool. Paddling tomorrow.
Cracked the Weller Full Proof tonight.
*Really good* but not worth the secondary price tag that's still attached to it. Maybe this time next year it will hopefully settle in nicely <$100.
This week's overnight freeze burnt the **** out of my Japanese Maples. Bummer.
Speaking of Japan, if you put Last Samurai as one of your top 5 Tom Cruise movies I don't know how you effing operate.
- Rain Man
- Cocktail
- Top Gun
- Risky Business
- Jerry Maguire
- Edge of Tomorrow (honorable mention)
- My wife has upgraded from spending obscene amounts of money on useless throw pillows --- to area rugs. Do we really need a Ballard Design HAND WOVEN area rug for a 3YO's room that is already carpeted? FFS.
*Really good* but not worth the secondary price tag that's still attached to it. Maybe this time next year it will hopefully settle in nicely <$100.
This week's overnight freeze burnt the **** out of my Japanese Maples. Bummer.
Speaking of Japan, if you put Last Samurai as one of your top 5 Tom Cruise movies I don't know how you effing operate.
- Rain Man
- Cocktail
- Top Gun
- Risky Business
- Jerry Maguire
- Edge of Tomorrow (honorable mention)
- My wife has upgraded from spending obscene amounts of money on useless throw pillows --- to area rugs. Do we really need a Ballard Design HAND WOVEN area rug for a 3YO's room that is already carpeted? FFS.
Little man learned how to ride a two-wheeler, big-boy bike today. Nothing is sweeter and pure than seeing a 6 yo kid give a proud little grin as he’s whipping around.
A good day.
A good day.
Food post cause there's no sports and nothing else is going on:
Re: Spaghetti sauce. I used to try basically every sauce in the store. Rao’s is good, but it’s like $7 more than some of the others – and the kids don’t seem to appreciate it any more than anything else. I switched back to Prego original but now doctor it up. My main move is after pouring the contents of the jar into the pan, pour some sweet vermouth into the jar and shake it around to get the rest of the sauce out and then dump that into the jar. Adds some nice flavor.
Been doing a lot of work with basil pesto lately. Got a big jar of it and have been throwing it on everything. Best result so far is a bow tie pasta with chicken. Nice little butter cream sauce with the pesto.
Homemade fish and chips has been solid too. Dark beer, flour, paprika, salt – mix into the consistency of pancake batter. Dip the fish in some flour, then in the batter, and then fry. Simple as that. Bought a bunch of frozen cod at a restaurant supply store and that comes out nicely.
Bread making has about run its course. I’m still doing naans and chapatis for Indian food, but bored with anything else.
Lastly, one more recipe for you and I have no idea where it came from, but a huge hit with the wife and kids. Cut chicken into cubes for kebabs. Marinate in curry powder and olive oil – with some additional salt, paprika and garlic powder. Grill the chicken. Serve with grilled vegetables (I prefer red onions and peppers) and rice. Also, make a sauce of 3 parts sour cream, 1 part mayo. Throw in a teaspoon (or more) of garlic powder, a pinch of salt, some pepper and a squeeze of lime juice. If you want to get real fancy, make some naan or chapati (very simple to do) and serve all that stuff in a wrap.
Re: Spaghetti sauce. I used to try basically every sauce in the store. Rao’s is good, but it’s like $7 more than some of the others – and the kids don’t seem to appreciate it any more than anything else. I switched back to Prego original but now doctor it up. My main move is after pouring the contents of the jar into the pan, pour some sweet vermouth into the jar and shake it around to get the rest of the sauce out and then dump that into the jar. Adds some nice flavor.
Been doing a lot of work with basil pesto lately. Got a big jar of it and have been throwing it on everything. Best result so far is a bow tie pasta with chicken. Nice little butter cream sauce with the pesto.
Homemade fish and chips has been solid too. Dark beer, flour, paprika, salt – mix into the consistency of pancake batter. Dip the fish in some flour, then in the batter, and then fry. Simple as that. Bought a bunch of frozen cod at a restaurant supply store and that comes out nicely.
Bread making has about run its course. I’m still doing naans and chapatis for Indian food, but bored with anything else.
Lastly, one more recipe for you and I have no idea where it came from, but a huge hit with the wife and kids. Cut chicken into cubes for kebabs. Marinate in curry powder and olive oil – with some additional salt, paprika and garlic powder. Grill the chicken. Serve with grilled vegetables (I prefer red onions and peppers) and rice. Also, make a sauce of 3 parts sour cream, 1 part mayo. Throw in a teaspoon (or more) of garlic powder, a pinch of salt, some pepper and a squeeze of lime juice. If you want to get real fancy, make some naan or chapati (very simple to do) and serve all that stuff in a wrap.
We have the Tovala smart oven and just eat meals from its meal service almost every night. Peel the plastic, scan the QR code, and pop ‘em in. Our phones & watches let us know when they’re finished. It’s great.
Joey is about a month away from ingesting all his calories in pill form and downloading his brain into a hard drive, imo.
That’s a damn toaster oven Joey. GFYS.
I do keep a heathy supply of Soylent in the house. It gets better with every new version.
Tovala is not a toaster oven, it’s a combi-steam oven. You guys will all be using them in a few years - if you’re not already. Don’t fret, you’ll figure it out eventually.
Is there a consensus best glass to drink bourbon from or do different bourbons pair with different glasses?
If I can’t drink it out of a regular glass then HARD PASS this is getting ridiculous
Supposedly... Jefferson’s Presidential 16 is good, but in a Norlan it’s a game changer. So before I pop that MF, you can be sure I will have a Norlan by then.
otherwise, I use a Glencairn.
To drink out of it doesn’t matter, but these snobs/nerds like to nose stuff from glasses with a narrower opening.
I found that out when I brought all rocks glasses to the barrel pick, and 2-3 guys brought their own glasses that were weird shaped(not glencarin).
They swear if you nose it then wait a minute the taste is different too.
I found that out when I brought all rocks glasses to the barrel pick, and 2-3 guys brought their own glasses that were weird shaped(not glencarin).
They swear if you nose it then wait a minute the taste is different too.
Blue, not red.
Wtf? Do we need different type forks for different types of meat? Pretty sure people make this stuff up to feel important or special, ridiculous.
Starting to side with the pandemic tbh
The Norlan Whisky Glass has been developed through a process of combining fluid dynamics modeling and bio-mimicry, out of a love for whisky matched with a frustration by the poor glassware available to whisky enthusiasts.
Yeah, GGP DIAF
Yeah, GGP DIAF
I only drink bourbon out of these. Leave the Norlans to the Hoi polloi.
*If you can't have people over for a pour, just drink it out of the damn bottle and save resources.
*Ribs on the smoker and cold beer in hand. Wife thinks I'm nuts for sitting outside (covered) watching tv...too cold for her, I guess.
*30 pack took a beating, apparently.
*Tim Riggins as David Koresch is a bit distracting. Not as bad as Ruth from Ozark as a holy roller.
*The last 2 months hasn't really changed for me outside to going to a restaurant. Guessing because I still go to work every day and get out in the neighborhood for a while. Still, can't wait to be able to have people over for a few. I'll separate the bottles I took swings from (I haven't, yet). I'd do it now on a nice day where we can sit outside and distance ourselves.
*Ribs on the smoker and cold beer in hand. Wife thinks I'm nuts for sitting outside (covered) watching tv...too cold for her, I guess.
*30 pack took a beating, apparently.
*Tim Riggins as David Koresch is a bit distracting. Not as bad as Ruth from Ozark as a holy roller.
*The last 2 months hasn't really changed for me outside to going to a restaurant. Guessing because I still go to work every day and get out in the neighborhood for a while. Still, can't wait to be able to have people over for a few. I'll separate the bottles I took swings from (I haven't, yet). I'd do it now on a nice day where we can sit outside and distance ourselves.
Nose stuff/it
I believe the term you’re looking for is “smell”
I believe the term you’re looking for is “smell”
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Is it all that much of a mystery that smell and taste are connected? Whose mother didn’t tell them to “hold your nose” when taking medicine as a kid?
I drink my Bourbon out of regular Bourbon glasses and don't know what brand my socks are. I feel like a commoner.
Ikea basic cocktail glasses over here.
1. Drink bourbon
2. Get drunk
Works 100% of the time
1. Drink bourbon
2. Get drunk
Works 100% of the time
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