The Coffee House

[smoke665]

My high school French only gets me so far.

Sadly the gist of my foreign language skills are limited, to "where's the restroom", and "Beer please", plus a few dirty words here and there. I always had good intentions of learning other languages, but just never got around to it.

 

[davidharmier60]

One skillet had Italian pasta and shrimp.
One had Cajun pasta and chicken.
A bit of each. And later am going to try Blue Bell Ice Cream Cone.
My Sister got all that and much more from our across the road neighbor Rita.
So while we are pretty much broke until next Wednesday we will have stuff to eat.

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[davidharmier60]

Good night y'all. 4am one more time this week.

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[snowbear135 66]

Thanks @ceemac. If you look at a map, Washington, DC looks like a diamond with the left 1/3 chopped off. Arlington and Alexandria (Virginia) make up that 1/3 - Alexandria being the southern-most piece..

Well, I went to Sur La Table to take their Knife Skills 101 class. Six of us diced, minced and julienned veggies for pepper and tomato soup, crudites, and green goddess dressing. I learned how to dice an onion with two sets of cuts, rather than the three I'm used to, and picked up some good pointers for the other cuts.

I also went shopping with a discount and picked up a utility knife to go along with the chef's knife I got earlier this year. I sent some general snaps of the "toy store" to MLW. She called me after the class and told me to go ahead and pick up the dutch oven that was on sale (lobster or steamed crab orange).

 

[smoke665]

Knife Skills 101 class.

What a difference local makes, I grew up with a very different set o "knife skills" LOL

Happy belated birthday!

 

[Gary A.]

Ouuuuuuuh ... Gary would have loved to take the knife class with you.

(Being Latino, knife skills are more on the innate side of the spectrum. Did they offer switchblade skills?).

Seriously, I truly would have loved to have joined you.

 

[snowbear135 66]

Thanks, guys. It was fun.
#1 son in town this weekend and wants to help cook, so I can play.

 

[Gary A.]

Mary Lou and Gary are at the local theatre for A Night with Janis Joplin. OMG!!!

 

[Gary A.]

It is halftime... it is a great show. The show is a combo of Joplin’s life and the music/artists that influenced her music. The songs alternated between Joplin’s songs and songs from those that influenced her. Everything ... everything is high octane... the theatre is rockin, Fortunately in California, we are used to buildings rockin’ ‘n’ shakin’.

 

[davidharmier60]

Morning peeps. Good coffee without ants.
Ants have been problematic around here.

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[davidharmier60]

Lordy but I hate Saturday morning.
Nobody takes 5am seriously.
Waiting on a freaking keyholder.

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[smoke665]

Got a rude wake up call this morning on my trail walk with Sadie - KEEP YOUR EYES OPEN STUPID. She and I both walked right over a small copperhead lying in plain view in the middle of trail. As I was stepping over the snake, my brain finally kicked in. I guess the only thing that saved us, was the fact that the temperature was so cool this morning that the snake was really sluggish, or one of us probably would have been bitten.

 

[davidharmier60]

Finally at 5:32 Rachell showed up. Got everything done. 32.20 for the week.
Yeah, stepping over a Copperhead has got to be tough on the heart..



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[vintagesnaps]

We need to do a TPF cookbook. This reminds me Gary posted a good sounding recipe and I forgot to jot it down and now I'll never find it! And how do you cut an onion 2 ways instead of 3? Now I'll be trying to figure that out! lol

 

[snowbear135 66]

We need to do a TPF cookbook. This reminds me Gary posted a good sounding recipe and I forgot to jot it down and now I'll never find it! And how do you cut an onion 2 ways instead of 3? Now I'll be trying to figure that out! lol

I like the idea; count me in for jambalaya and cottage or shepherd's pie (the difference is the meat used).

The onion: first set of cuts (on a half onion) are wedges (think orange slices), then chop from stem end to root end, completing the dice. The layer rings will break apart. MLW will take some snaps while I cut a couple of onions (for practice and soup).