USMB Coffee Shop IV

[Foxfyre]

Good night darlinks. I really do love you guys.

And we continue pray and/or send good vibes and/or positive thoughts and/or keep vigil for:

Harper (Save's granddaughter - next surgery scheduled August 21
Pogo’s friend Pat and special comfort for Pogo,
Nosmo's mom,
Rod, GW's partner,
Kat's sister,
Dana, Foxfyre's friend recovering from heart transplant
Strength and stamina for gallantwarrior in his relocation project,
Ringel's injured shoulder and general wellness,
ricechickie for trouble free healing and wellness,
BigBlackDog for comfort and effective treatment
TK
Sixfoot for an accurate diagnosis and wellness,
Wellness for Foxfyre's sister and Hombre's sister
Healing for Ringel and Mrs. R's Gizmo
Gracie
Hombre's sister
The Ringels moving in difficult transition

And we keep the porch light on so that many others scattered here and there can find their way back.

 

[Sbiker]

About a week and a half ago I bought certain ingredients for a dish I love but the wife hates.
So today I finally got around to making it before the individual ingredients started spoiling.
Sauteed an onion in olive oil and garlic, added a cut up head of cabbage then diced up and added a large summer sausage (with cheddar cheese and jalapenos). That should make me around 5 meals, obviously I'll have to freeze it, not going to eat it all in one sitting.

Wow! I like it, but stewed, not fresh. Cabbage + sausages + tomato sause + a bit of water = stewed cabbage. Add some pepper and have it easy!

 

[Sbiker]

BLT soup....Olive Garden

Hmm, interesting, what's the recipe?

 

[Sbiker]

I assume Montrovant is on his Florida trip now. Wonder how that is going with his 'naturally air conditioned' car?

It was hot.

I bought a battery-powered fan, but it ended up useless. I got a tan on one arm. At least my car didn't break down going there or coming back.

Oh, on the way down I went through a mini-monsoon. The rain was coming down hard enough that I could barely see with the wipers going full blast. A car in front of me actually stopped in the middle lane of the interstate because of it. It only took about 5 minutes to get past it, though. Florida, pfft.

Hope, I'll have a chance to visit Florida in future... Maybe, to raising any startup at US market? :-\

 

[Ringel05]

Woke up to "soup" this morning, humidity at 90%. Almost like being back home in Virginia........
BTW, it's not going all that well for the wife at the new job, she's horribly frustrated and already fed up with management (who she claims are more immature than the kids) and looking to find something new.

 

[Foxfyre]

Woke up to "soup" this morning, humidity at 90%. Almost like being back home in Virginia........
BTW, it's not going all that well for the wife at the new job, she's horribly frustrated and already fed up with management (who she claims are more immature than the kids) and looking to find something new.

Sorry to hear that. Somewhere there has to be the right job for her.

 

[Nosmo King]

I've been watching craftsmanship of the highest order work it's magic. The house directly behind the Luxurious Pimplebutt Estate is a cottage of similar size. When they developed this neighborhood during the post war housing boom, the lots accommodated large homes of 2,000 square feet or better. But the end lots, the lots facing Anderson Boulevard were divided in two allowing cottages of just under 1,000 square feet. Pimplebutt is one of those smaller homes.

The house behind me has been empty for better than a year. The occupants, my good neighbors Bill and Kate are now dead and their children grown and gone. Bill was a beaver. He built a small garden with raised beds, a flower trestle and a bench. He built a two story playhouse for his grandchildren. He built a flower bed featuring a hand pump of his own design. He built carrousel horses at one third scale and sold them on eBay.

But they are gone and only the structures remain. The new owners are renovating the house to either rent or flip. But that playhouse had to go. So the new owners hired a couple of highly skilled craftsmen to demolish the playhouse and clear the debris.

So Saturday morning they came with tools in hand. First they used a reciprocating saw to cut the playhouse in two along a horizontal line half way up the structure. That went as well as could be expected until they came to the corner Bill had re enforced to hang a door on. The crew left the reciprocating saw in the cut as they secured nylon straps around the top half of the playhouse.

This does not do good to the blade of the saw, but that wasn't the hazard. When they grabbed the saw to complete the cut, the cord had loosened from the saw. When he squeezed the trigger, a shower of spark and flame rained down from the saw! Zap! Poof!

They unplugged the saw and grabbed a circular saw. Placing it at shoulder height in the horizontal cut, they tried again to cut the building in two. Of course the saw bound up. And then, as they tried to run the saw backward, it kicked itself free of the kerf and spun out of control.

Time for hand tools. One of the crew took up a hatchet and flailed away to the remaining corner. He was hitting it with the hammer head side of the hatchet, not the blade side. When he swiped with one more blow, he lost his grip on the hatchet handle letting it fly toward his companion. Fortunately it was a dull blade that caught his buddy in the thigh.

They went back to the nylon straps and with the aid of brute strength, gravity and profanity they finally separated the top half of the playhouse from the bottom. Sunday was spent smashing the remains with a sledgehammer. They gathered the debris and loaded it on a trailer.

It's a joy to watch competent craftsmen ply thei skills. Anybody know where I can go to watch that?

 

[Foxfyre]

This isn't Hombre and me, honest. (Though it could be.)

 

[Michelle420]

About a week and a half ago I bought certain ingredients for a dish I love but the wife hates.
So today I finally got around to making it before the individual ingredients started spoiling.
Sauteed an onion in olive oil and garlic, added a cut up head of cabbage then diced up and added a large summer sausage (with cheddar cheese and jalapenos). That should make me around 5 meals, obviously I'll have to freeze it, not going to eat it all in one sitting.

I just slow-cooked cabbage two days ago

 

[Foxfyre]

I will admit most of those food photos the last couple of days look like something I would at least taste.

 

[Michelle420]

I will admit most of those food photos the last couple of days look like something I would at least taste.

My boyfriend and stepdad text food pics back n forth when they go out to a really good eating place. Like a giant burger or a steak haha, food porn.

 

[Foxfyre]

I will admit most of those food photos the last couple of days look like something I would at least taste.

My boyfriend and stepdad text food pics back n forth when they go out to a really good eating place. Like a giant burger or a steak haha, food porn.

Speaking of 'food porn', today, August 13, is National Filet Mignon Steak Day. I think I must be weird since I prefer a lot of entres over a steak and on the occasion that I do have a steak, there are cuts that I prefer to filet mignon?

But speaking of 'food porn, if you are going to have a filet, which is how you want it?

No. 1

No.2

No. 3

No. 4

 

[Michelle420]

I will admit most of those food photos the last couple of days look like something I would at least taste.

My boyfriend and stepdad text food pics back n forth when they go out to a really good eating place. Like a giant burger or a steak haha, food porn.

Speaking of 'food porn', today, August 13, is National Filet Mignon steak. I think I must be weird since I prefer a lot of entres over a steak and on the occasion that I do have a steak, there are cuts that I prefer to filet mignon?

But speaking of 'food porn, if you are going to have a filet, which is how you want it?

No. 1

No.2

No. 3

No. 4

My mom hates steak. I love steak and all red meat but have been off it because it raises cholesterol. I love the food porn pics haha

 

[Foxfyre]

I will admit most of those food photos the last couple of days look like something I would at least taste.

My boyfriend and stepdad text food pics back n forth when they go out to a really good eating place. Like a giant burger or a steak haha, food porn.

Speaking of 'food porn', today, August 13, is National Filet Mignon steak. I think I must be weird since I prefer a lot of entres over a steak and on the occasion that I do have a steak, there are cuts that I prefer to filet mignon?

But speaking of 'food porn, if you are going to have a filet, which is how you want it?

No. 1

No.2

No. 3

No. 4

My mom hates steak. I love steak and all red meat but have been off it because it raises cholesterol. I love the food porn pics haha

Just add a daily half handful of chia seed and/or a tablespoon or two of freshly ground flax seed --(grind it yourself in a coffee grinder because it loses potency within 20 minutes of grinding)--to your diet and you can likely still enjoy red meat now and then with no cholesterol worries. And they add a lot of healthy omegas in the right proportions to your diet too.

I put the ground flax seed or the chia seed--you don't have to grind the chia seed--into smoothies, in salads, soups, mashed potatoes, etc. etc. etc.--there's all sorts of ways to work them into your diet.

 

[Michelle420]

I will admit most of those food photos the last couple of days look like something I would at least taste.

My boyfriend and stepdad text food pics back n forth when they go out to a really good eating place. Like a giant burger or a steak haha, food porn.

Speaking of 'food porn', today, August 13, is National Filet Mignon steak. I think I must be weird since I prefer a lot of entres over a steak and on the occasion that I do have a steak, there are cuts that I prefer to filet mignon?

But speaking of 'food porn, if you are going to have a filet, which is how you want it?

No. 1

No.2

No. 3

No. 4

My mom hates steak. I love steak and all red meat but have been off it because it raises cholesterol. I love the food porn pics haha

Just add a half handful of chia seed or some freshly ground flax seed --(grind it yourself in a coffee grinder because it loses potency within 20 minutes of grinding)--to your diet and you can likely still enjoy red meat now and then with no cholesterol worries.

I have a pound of chia seeds that I never used for smoothies. I wonder if they are still good.

 

[007]

I just made a big pot of goulash.

Hotter 'n hell here... again. They're saying it's going to cool down. I sure hope so.

 

[Foxfyre]

I will admit most of those food photos the last couple of days look like something I would at least taste.

My boyfriend and stepdad text food pics back n forth when they go out to a really good eating place. Like a giant burger or a steak haha, food porn.

Speaking of 'food porn', today, August 13, is National Filet Mignon steak. I think I must be weird since I prefer a lot of entres over a steak and on the occasion that I do have a steak, there are cuts that I prefer to filet mignon?

But speaking of 'food porn, if you are going to have a filet, which is how you want it?

No. 1

No.2

No. 3

No. 4

My mom hates steak. I love steak and all red meat but have been off it because it raises cholesterol. I love the food porn pics haha

Just add a half handful of chia seed or some freshly ground flax seed --(grind it yourself in a coffee grinder because it loses potency within 20 minutes of grinding)--to your diet and you can likely still enjoy red meat now and then with no cholesterol worries.

I have a pound of chia seeds that I never used for smoothies. I wonder if they are still good.

Not sure. They don't last forever. I order organic flax seed and refrigerate or freeze it immediately and try to use it within a few weeks or months.

 

[Foxfyre]

I just made a big pot of goulash.

Hotter 'n hell here... again. They're saying it's going to cool down. I sure hope so.

Yesterday was delightful here with a high in the low 80's. Today will probably hit 90 but that's still low for us this time of year. Can't complain.

 

[Foxfyre]

Can you say that three times fast?

 

[007]

I just made a big pot of goulash.

Hotter 'n hell here... again. They're saying it's going to cool down. I sure hope so.

Yesterday was delightful here with a high in the low 80's. Today will probably hit 90 but that's still low for us this time of year. Can't complain.

We pretty much went from high 30's, low 40's straight into summer up nort' here, aye, and it's been HOT ever since, and up here high 80's, low 90's with the humidity is almost unbearable for us northerners. I can't wait for the 50's and 60's again, with no humidity. That's just awesome weather. You can work outside and there's no heat to sap your energy, have a campfire and enjoy it, and days are just fresh and crisp. Fall is the best time of year in Wisconsin. Just try not to think about winter being right around the corner. I'll be bitching about that again too...