The Coffee House

[smoke665]

I tried retirement. I failed at it.

It can be difficult, I find I have to "pace myself". I can only stand so much fun at once LOL

 

[davidharmier60]

The Pashgetti was good!
Ice cream pretty soon.

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[smoke665]

The Pashgetti was good!
Ice cream pretty soon.

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I think I saw you mention something about Blue Bell awhile back. Brand favorite around here also. Mint Chocolate, Rocky Road, and Sweet & Salty are favorites.

 

[davidharmier60]

My fave is Pralines and Cream!

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[jcdeboever]

I love ice cream but it don't love me. I had home made vegetable soup tonight with warm french bread, the hard kind, brikette? Baked apples for desert. I splurged and had a diet 7up mixed with cherry juice.

No time lately to use the camera, closing a lot of sales (new business, customers) while it's slow so I can continue to give myself a healthy raise next year. I strategicly focus on growth this time of year, it gets slow and competition seems to go to sleep in the last quarter. I put the pedal down and capitalize on their weakness. My 85 hours a week for the last quarter really pays off. My wife is amazed by my calendar, she thinks it's beautiful with color codes, charts, alarms, and detail. We share calendars and hers is blank....lol. she works with pen and planner, old school but she is very successful, so whatever works.

 

[Gary A.]

Gary has the Sous Vide working. It operates via Bluetooth or WIFI off a phone, tablet, et all. Pretty simple and Gary can turn it on/off when he isn’t hom via the Internet. It is actually quite nice operationally. The are a couple of steaks on the counter ready to go.

Which one did you get? They’ve been on my radar.

In other news, I made Kung Pow chicken that was roughly 30% more spicy than necessary. We all sweat while we were eating dinner.

In other, other news, my nanny’s kid bit my daughter today. Still processing that one.

The Chefstep Joule and a bunch of stuff to make s complete kit. When you’re ready Gary will send you the details. He did some sizable research. Gary was torn between the Gourmia Machine and the Joule Immersion Tool. Gary went with the immersion tool based upon the versatility and portability of the tool. The Joule is such a superior Sous Vide apparatus, that if there was no Joule, he would have purchased the Gourmia Machine. Gary has the Gourmia Siphon Coffee Maker and Gourmia Ice Cream Maker. Gary likes their products.

 

[smoke665]

We share calendars and hers is blank....lol. she works with pen and planner, old school but she is very successful, so whatever works.

Wife and I share a calender that synchs between our phones, tablets and computers, couldn't live without. We also use a shopping lust that updates and synchs with each other.

 

[vintagesnaps]

I don't know, on Top Chef when they sous vide they aren't hooked up to Wifi. I have this mental image of you calling your sous vide machine on the phone. I think I'd just call someplace and order a pizza.

How old Jon is the nanny's kid? Maybe feeling the baby was getting more attention and didn't quite like it. Some kids go thru that biting stage, not fun especially for the child on the receiving end, but it happens.

 

[vintagesnaps]

Smoke you have shopping lust?? lol Many probably do...


(I'm just kidding you, I know it was a typo.)

 

[smoke665]

Smoke you have shopping lust?? lol Many probably do...


(I'm just kidding you, I know it was a typo.)

Oops got my apps confused! LoL

 

[Gary A.]

Dinner was a total success. A guest said the steak was the best steak he had ever eaten. Mary Lou felt the Sous Vide steak was very good but different than the Kamado steak. Gary would agree with her assessment. Gary cooks his meats with constant montoring thermometers, which is an equal methodology to using temperature controlled water. Herbal tea and homemade watermelon sorbet to start. Next a flatbread with bacon and ham. Then dinner, steaks, rice, kale slaw, homemade cornbread and a Marimar Pinot Noir. All topped off with homemade chocolate ice cream and dessert vino.

 

[Gary A.]

What was nice is Gary cooked the steaks on the patio table. We were all at the table eating Sorbet, flatbread and sipping vino while the steaks silently cooked at the same table. Gary is very impressed with Sous Vide and the greater potential which it holds. Sous Vide is small, easy to use, quick to setup and pretty much fool proof.

 

[Gary A.]

Maggie’s first walk in the park.

 

[yamaha pat]

It looks like Maggie has different idea on which way to go.

 

[Gary A.]

Maggie was fine... it was her human that was confused.