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[Foxfyre]

Well congratulations. I think I posted here. . .or maybe it was just on Facebook. . .that I found an old hot roll mix in the pantry and decided to make some hot rolls for dinner that night. But they came out much more biscuit like. Hombre liked them though and I fessed up that they weren't really good biscuits but rather were really crappy rolls. Well tonight I found a tube of refrigerated crescent rolls in the back of the fridge and, thought hey were 45 days out of date-thought I would risk it. And yep. They tasted just like biscuits. But they tasted pretty good.

I enjoy making quick breads, too (biscuits, cornbread) - and mr. boe loves to eat them!

But slow food yeast bread is my favorite. The gluten develops more structure and the flavor is better, imo. Now that we're organized again, I'm going to revive my sourdough starter again. I need to test the oven with Real Bread.

Red Lobster biscuits or sourdough breads, yum.

I've never had Red Lobster biscuits, but I bet my homemade buttermilk biscuits would smack 'em down in a cage match.

There is cheese and garlic butter.

We don't even have Red Lobster around here. We have REAL seafood restaurants here on the east coast.

For sure you live in the prime area for great seafood rivaled only by maybe New Orleans. But believe it or not you can get some decent seafood even here on the high desert and Red Lobster actually does have a winner or two, but I do think their food is too often overrated and over priced.

 

[Ringel05]

Coffee........ Need more coffee.......

 

[Montrovant]

Dogs........need fewer dogs........

 

[Ringel05]

Dogs........need fewer dogs........

With cats the biggest issue is generally cleaning up puke (hairballs). What makes it "fun" sometimes is the discovery process...... cold wet hairball disguised on an oriental rug........ when getting out of bed...... bare footed......

 

[Foxfyre]

I just finished baking and packing up the dinner rolls for Christmas - yay! My first project in our new oven - and they turned out poifeckly!

(This is why I miss our dear Syrenn - she always appreciated a good baking project.)

Well congratulations. I think I posted here. . .or maybe it was just on Facebook. . .that I found an old hot roll mix in the pantry and decided to make some hot rolls for dinner that night. But they came out much more biscuit like. Hombre liked them though and I fessed up that they weren't really good biscuits but rather were really crappy rolls. Well tonight I found a tube of refrigerated crescent rolls in the back of the fridge and, thought hey were 45 days out of date-thought I would risk it. And yep. They tasted just like biscuits. But they tasted pretty good.

I enjoy making quick breads, too (biscuits, cornbread) - and mr. boe loves to eat them!

But slow food yeast bread is my favorite. The gluten develops more structure and the flavor is better, imo. Now that we're organized again, I'm going to revive my sourdough starter again. I need to test the oven with Real Bread.

Red Lobster biscuits or sourdough breads, yum.

I've never had Red Lobster biscuits, but I bet my homemade buttermilk biscuits would smack 'em down in a cage match.

There is cheese and garlic butter.

Garlic butter works in seafood recipes but I was taught that fish and cheese is a no no. Garlic butter on toasted Italian or French bread is great for Italian cuisine. Not so sure I would like it or cheese on biscuits though.

 

[Montrovant]

Dogs........need fewer dogs........

With cats the biggest issue is generally cleaning up puke (hairballs). What makes it "fun" sometimes is the discovery process...... cold wet hairball disguised on an oriental rug........ when getting out of bed...... bare footed......

We have a cat as well as the two annoying dogs.

Today, I woke up and took the dogs out. It's raining, so they stayed by the porch and just peed. OK, I gave them their food and decided to wait on my own breakfast so I could take them back out in a bit. Less than half an hour later I get my jacket and hat on to take them outside, and lo and behold, there is dog shit all over the living room floor.

I got the puppy and put his face by it, telling him it's bad. I get it, negative reinforcement isn't as effective as positive.....whatever. I use mostly positive, but sometimes you just need to put their faces in it. I get the older one to do the same.....he starts growling and twisting his head like he wants to snap at me. Fucking dogs!

After putting them in the dog cage, I go to clean up the poop.....and see one of the presents under the tree has a big hole in the wrapping on top. That is almost surely from the cat.

Not happy with the animals today.

 

[saveliberty]

Dogs........need fewer dogs........

With cats the biggest issue is generally cleaning up puke (hairballs). What makes it "fun" sometimes is the discovery process...... cold wet hairball disguised on an oriental rug........ when getting out of bed...... bare footed......

Hey! We left it in plain sight for Pete's sake!

 

[Ernie S.]

So far behind....
So Sunday at 5 PM, Doc Holliday's closed it's doors to the public and opened the bar to staff and 40 invited guests. We had a couple of folks down with the flu, but we had a fantastic time. Many brought food and deserts Fare went from barbecue to escargot and home made ice cream to banana cream pie.
We opened to the public at 8 PM and I was still escorting severely impaired people to cabs and cars at 3 AM.
I love this bar!

 

[Ernie S.]

Yeah, kind of like that except we don't have fights and chicken wire on the stage.

 

[Ringel05]

Yeah, kind of like that except we don't have fights and chicken wire on the stage.

We could "fix" that.......

 

[Foxfyre]

Okay I'm off to the grocery store the day before Christmas Eve. Pray for me.

 

[Ringel05]

Had a rotisserie chicken a couple of days ago (we ate about a third of it) then used the leftovers to make stirfry last night. Since then I've had the bones, skin and gristle simmering to make chicken stock.

 

[saveliberty]

Okay I'm off to the grocery store the day before Christmas Eve. Pray for me.

Will send a search party out on New Year's Eve.

 

[boedicca]

Cheese and garlic butter are not unique to only Red Lobster, bub.

But you are not my next door neighbor.

How do you know that? Hmmmmmmm?????

 

[boedicca]

I just finished baking and packing up the dinner rolls for Christmas - yay! My first project in our new oven - and they turned out poifeckly!

(This is why I miss our dear Syrenn - she always appreciated a good baking project.)

Well congratulations. I think I posted here. . .or maybe it was just on Facebook. . .that I found an old hot roll mix in the pantry and decided to make some hot rolls for dinner that night. But they came out much more biscuit like. Hombre liked them though and I fessed up that they weren't really good biscuits but rather were really crappy rolls. Well tonight I found a tube of refrigerated crescent rolls in the back of the fridge and, thought hey were 45 days out of date-thought I would risk it. And yep. They tasted just like biscuits. But they tasted pretty good.

I enjoy making quick breads, too (biscuits, cornbread) - and mr. boe loves to eat them!

But slow food yeast bread is my favorite. The gluten develops more structure and the flavor is better, imo. Now that we're organized again, I'm going to revive my sourdough starter again. I need to test the oven with Real Bread.

I love to bake bread from scratch too and I hand knead it though that has been difficult to do with my ailing shoulder. But as that gets better I'll return to making bread from scratch. By no additives in the flour, does that mean barley free flour? Does that affect the texture? I've been told it does though I haven't done any experiments to test it.

I mean preservatives and boosters. My preferred flour maker is Bob's Red Mill. The unbleached Artisan Bread flour is quite good. I use that and their whole wheat flour for my basic flours.

 

[boedicca]

Well congratulations. I think I posted here. . .or maybe it was just on Facebook. . .that I found an old hot roll mix in the pantry and decided to make some hot rolls for dinner that night. But they came out much more biscuit like. Hombre liked them though and I fessed up that they weren't really good biscuits but rather were really crappy rolls. Well tonight I found a tube of refrigerated crescent rolls in the back of the fridge and, thought hey were 45 days out of date-thought I would risk it. And yep. They tasted just like biscuits. But they tasted pretty good.

I enjoy making quick breads, too (biscuits, cornbread) - and mr. boe loves to eat them!

But slow food yeast bread is my favorite. The gluten develops more structure and the flavor is better, imo. Now that we're organized again, I'm going to revive my sourdough starter again. I need to test the oven with Real Bread.

Red Lobster biscuits or sourdough breads, yum.

I've never had Red Lobster biscuits, but I bet my homemade buttermilk biscuits would smack 'em down in a cage match.

There is cheese and garlic butter.

Garlic butter works in seafood recipes but I was taught that fish and cheese is a no no. Garlic butter on toasted Italian or French bread is great for Italian cuisine. Not so sure I would like it or cheese on biscuits though.

Au contraire! Conquilles St. Jacques is divine!

 

[Montrovant]

I just finished writing the little one's 12 clues of Christmas. I'll have to put them in their proper places after she goes to sleep tomorrow night. Hopefully I don't fall asleep too; she'll probably be in my bed, she likes to sleep with someone when she gets the chance, and we only let her do it when it's not a school night. I plan to watch some Christmas shows with her tomorrow night while she's going to sleep.

Unfortunately it's very wet outside, and is supposed to be for quite a while yet, so I can't leave any of the clues outside. She's going to get one of the cardboard ponies when she finds the sixth clue (I gave the other pony to the neighbor's daughter, she and the little one have been friends for close to 4 years now), she'll get Spongebob with the eleventh clue, and her presents from me will be in the dryer after the twelfth clue. I'll have to see if my employer wants her to do the clues before she unwraps the rest of the presents.

Crossing my fingers she has a great Christmas!

 

[Nosmo King]

The last, and I do meanTHE LAST of the Christmas running around is done! Mom got her big poinsettia from me this morning. I give her a massive poinsettia each Christmas, a gorgeous Easter lily in the Spring and a mum in the Autumn.

Daisy enjoyed a walk early in the afternoon and then endured sitting in the car as I went to buy gift boxes for some of the garments bought online. Then off to the grocery store that was packed to the bulkheads with shoppers. The 'express lane' was just a rumor. The gallon of milk, English muffins and jar of sugar free Jiff peanut butter were almost consumed by me as I waited in a line that stretched a good 18 shoppers long. Those at the non-express lines faired worse.

I have to start this wrapping business, an activity I absolutely dead. If I could wrap gifts with skill and style, I would not fear doing it so much. But my gift wrapping could easily be shamed by any three year old born without thumbs.

I still have one coat of tung oil to apply to the pencil post bed. That tung oil stuff takes its sweet time to fully cure. It should be ready by late next week.

I was thinking about Christmases past. The most memorable is
Christmas 1968. That year held more history and tragedy than it could bear. But at Christmas, the Apollo 8 mission orbited the moon. As a twelve year old, the Space Race had held my attention since Alan Shepard blasted off just five years earlier.

The astronauts provided a stunning view of our planet from the lunar orbit. They read from the Book of Genesis and showed the world what a fragile place we occupy in the vast universe.

But that's not what made that particular Christmas so memorable. No, that Christmas was the Christmas the Christmas of the Hong Kong flu. The whole family was down with that virus. The whole family, except for me. I shuttled from bed to bed with orange juice, hot coffee, boxes of Kleenex and warm, moist wash cloths to salve my family's suffering.

Uncle Alex would stop every evening at the Big House with supplies of food and medicine. He would drop off the parcels and bang on the front door, then retreat swiftly to his car. It was as if we were suffering with Ebola instead of the flu virus. I'd gather up the cartons of milk and cans of frozen orange juice concentrate and store them in the old Fridgidaire.

This seemed to go on well past Christmas and on to New Year's Eve.

That's when the Hong Kong flu strain finally hit me. As luck and the human immune system has it, by that time the rest of my clan had recovered. And that gave me all those family members back to shower attention and care on me.

Needless to say, we all recovered, but that Christmas was one that was framed by true family care and love. Funny how such a Christmas calamity can stick in my mind. I was never more thankful.

 

[saveliberty]

Cheese and garlic butter are not unique to only Red Lobster, bub.

But you are not my next door neighbor.

How do you know that? Hmmmmmmm?????

Cause, if a really good baker lived in my neighborhood, I'd know.

 

[Nosmo King]

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Merry Christmas from Daisy the Mutt!