The Coffee House

[Frank F.]

Buenas Dias Coffee Hosers, Another overcast and cool morning which most likely will burn off and leave a nice warm summer afternoon. ... Yep, Gary just checked, upper 70's this afternoon. Gary is wrapping up his second cup-o-coffee and eating bunches of Merlot grapes.

I will have a cup of coffee for dinner. I might become immune to coffee like I am to tea....

Often I ask myself if coffee only pushes me up because my expectations are such of of the biochemistry really does her job to keep me going..

 

[Frank F.]

The list I posted earlier is incomplete. Today I took the shopping list for the first week to collect the ingredients and there are lots of fruit, vegetables and even a bottle of red wine on the recipes that are missing from the master list.

Second observation is that here in the middle of Germany a lot of ingredients is seasonal while it seem to be all year stuff in the USA.

Northern USA is the same height as Southern Europe, Southern California is like Tunesia sunwise. So you factually got a greater selection of natural ingredients than us in the North...

Third is the whole Diet is rather expensive if you do it by the book my wife critzizes...

I cannot afford bad health so I invest in this super tasty food. Love it!!!

Gary still remembers the morning you wanted an orange juice, so I walked into the backyard and picked a bunch of oranges for squeezing.

You were so generous. And your wife. The photos I took of you that morning are in some gallery here. Mamma Google helped me find it:. Orange Juice

 

[jcdeboever]

Guests yesterday for dinner. As this was their first time over, Gary and Mary Lou seriously over cooked. If anybody is hungry come on over ... smoked Tri-Tip, salmon with a teriyaki crust, tomato salad, rice, flat bread, fruit salad, sauteed veggies. The guests brought pies ... we never touched them we were all soooo jammin' full. We drank champagne all evening topped off with a dessert wine. It was a vey enjoyable and pleasant evening.

Be there in 5 minutes.

 

[Gary A.]

Buenas Dias Coffee Hosers, Another overcast and cool morning which most likely will burn off and leave a nice warm summer afternoon. ... Yep, Gary just checked, upper 70's this afternoon. Gary is wrapping up his second cup-o-coffee and eating bunches of Merlot grapes.

I will have a cup of coffee for dinner. I might become immune to coffee like I am to tea....

Often I ask myself if coffee only pushes me up because my expectations are such of of the biochemistry really does her job to keep me going..

The body treats caffeine, similarly, as if it's a poison and accelerates one's metabolism in order to get rid of it. Over time, one's body will/can/might/may become more tolerant and accept higher levels of caffeine. Tea, generally, has half the caffeine of coffee. The body is open to expectations, lol.

 

[Gary A.]

Guests yesterday for dinner. As this was their first time over, Gary and Mary Lou seriously over cooked. If anybody is hungry come on over ... smoked Tri-Tip, salmon with a teriyaki crust, tomato salad, rice, flat bread, fruit salad, sauteed veggies. The guests brought pies ... we never touched them we were all soooo jammin' full. We drank champagne all evening topped off with a dessert wine. It was a vey enjoyable and pleasant evening.

Be there in 5 minutes.

Perfect, peach or berry pie?

 

[Frank F.]

The cost of laying the fiber far outweighs the potential revenue in many rural areas. With only residential and small business customers there is no way to recoup the huge investment required to provide high speed service.

Even in densely populated areas with large businesses, like Boston, the age of the infrastructure can be restrictive and make providing service a poor ROI.

Thank you for the insight. I feel in some areas of infrastructure the public hand should probably provide services the market can and will not provide. A road must lead to the small rural villages even if only ten people travel it per day. I feel the same shall hold true for Internet connection. In these small places there live people providing us with important goods and services!

What do you think?

Hope this is not political...

 

[limr32 1]

The list I posted earlier is incomplete. Today I took the shopping list for the first week to collect the ingredients and there are lots of fruit, vegetables and even a bottle of red wine on the recipes that are missing from the master list.

Second observation is that here in the middle of Germany a lot of ingredients is seasonal while it seem to be all year stuff in the USA.

Northern USA is the same height as Southern Europe, Southern California is like Tunesia sunwise. So you factually got a greater selection of natural ingredients than us in the North...

What experiences in the US - other than your visit to parts of Southern California - do you have on which to base your comparisons?

Crickets.

 

[vintagesnaps]

It feeeeels like August.

Gary what's the recipe for teriyaki salmon? That sounds good.

 

[jcdeboever]

Guests yesterday for dinner. As this was their first time over, Gary and Mary Lou seriously over cooked. If anybody is hungry come on over ... smoked Tri-Tip, salmon with a teriyaki crust, tomato salad, rice, flat bread, fruit salad, sauteed veggies. The guests brought pies ... we never touched them we were all soooo jammin' full. We drank champagne all evening topped off with a dessert wine. It was a vey enjoyable and pleasant evening.

Be there in 5 minutes.

Perfect, peach or berry pie?

Uuuummmm duuhhhhh, BOTH!

 

[jcdeboever]

I like pie

 

[smoke665]

I feel in some areas of infrastructure the public hand should probably provide services the market can and will not provide. A road must lead to the small rural villages even if only ten people travel it per day. I feel the same shall hold true for Internet connection. In these small places there live people providing us with important goods and services!

As part of my previous post ATT and many others took advantage of funds under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 to build infrastructure where there was none before. Of 7.2 billion funding almost 5 billion of that was to go to broadband access. Under the funds allocated anyone who would expand into a previously unserved area could not only recoup their cost but could make a nice little profit on the project. It never occurred to government officials that there needed to be oversight to prevent building fiber optic networks to nowhere. A lot of the companies who took the funds did so in good faith and went on to set up some fantastic networks. I have a friend that lives on a mountain 40 miles from the nearest town of any size. His electric provider added a fiber cable as part of their service, his Internet had to be throttled at 100 gb. Others like ATT at my location took the money and stopped, because further hookups were at their expense.

 

[Gary A.]

The cost of laying the fiber far outweighs the potential revenue in many rural areas. With only residential and small business customers there is no way to recoup the huge investment required to provide high speed service.

Even in densely populated areas with large businesses, like Boston, the age of the infrastructure can be restrictive and make providing service a poor ROI.

Thank you for the insight. I feel in some areas of infrastructure the public hand should probably provide services the market can and will not provide. A road must lead to the small rural villages even if only ten people travel it per day. I feel the same shall hold true for Internet connection. In these small places there live people providing us with important goods and services!

What do you think?

Hope this is not political...

Gary used to do Cable Tv Franchising ... Gary used to be responsible for putting together the bid(s) for government RFP's. There has to be a give-and-take and compromise between a purely capitalistic venture, government and the public. Even in a densely populated municipality, there are areas within the city which isn't profitable to install/build infrastructure. Areas which are heavy industrial and areas which are on the lower end of the economical scale make it challenging to make it all pencil out for a win-win for everybody. Gary remembers working closely with manufacturers/industry, government and environmental/waste experts designing a local recycling marketplace linking up all parties via cable in order to increase cable usage and revenues in heavy manufacturing areas.

 

[Gary A.]

It feeeeels like August.

Gary what's the recipe for teriyaki salmon? That sounds good.

Easy as pie. Gary marinades the fish in Mr. Yoshida, (a teriyaki sauce), for a few hours prior to cooking. In a lidded container, he seasons the salmon to his taste, (seasoned salt, garlic, lemon and orange zest and lots of black pepper), then adds Mr. Yoshida. He flips the fish and repeats seasoning. Gary uses a flat grill basket, (this), as the salmon easily sticks to the grill and easily falls apart. When on the grill Gary basks the salmon with more teriyaki sauce which caramelizes into a nice, tasty crust.

Gary finds that his charcoal Kamado grill, cooks the fish up better than a propane type of grill.

 

[vintagesnaps]

I can do that... well, the sauce part not the grilling part, but I don't see why it couldn't work in a pan/skillet just fine. I gotta watch stuff so finding some sort of teriyaki sauce that isn't so high in salt/sugar will be the thing - or I'll have to look for a recipe that works for me. Thanks! I don't know why it sounded like it would be more involved but it isn't!

If a recipe has along list of ingredients that's pretty much a deal breaker! lol

 

[jcdeboever]

Me thinks Gary should open a portable food truck. Ayala Mobile Bistro.