My Grandad, who was a whiskey drinker always said you use Power's for a hot whiskey (cos either a decent whiskey like Jemmie's or Paddy would be wasted on it or Power's would stand up better to the lemon and hot water, not sure), I assume the same applies for Irish coffee. I stick to the rule of thumb: use a cheaper or generic whiskey for anything involving hot liquid.
There used to be a small restaurant in the basement of a commercial building in my downtown. It was nothing fancy, but to my mind they made the best steak and baked potato dinner in town. In the unlikely event there is such a place as heaven, my hope would be that you could relive your best memories. I had so many lovely dinners there with my mom. I would always get the steak and baked potato (with sour cream, of course) and mom would always get the spaghetti. Then, after dinner, I would usually have an Irish Coffee. I would give almost anything to have one more meal with my mom in that restaurant. It no longer exists, and neither does my mom.
Redbreast is another fabulous Irish Whiskey, but, like Writers’ Tears, is probably too good (and expensive) for Irish Coffee. Rather, it’s a slow sipper.
Though it’s as touristy as it gets, I had my first Irish Coffee at the Buena Vista Cafe on San Francisco’s Fisherman’s Wharf, and, despite the hype, it was thoroughly delicious. Later, I’d make Irish Coffee and pour it in a thermos for a sip while fishing.
There’s nothing quite like floating in a small boat, line in the water and mug of Irish coffee in hand, while watching the sun rise above a pristine, trout-infested mountain lake. With some good weather and great fishermen friends, it’s a peak life experience.
I bought a half dozen gorgeous champagne flutes today. They are all shaped the same, but each one has different etching on the glass. I'll take a picture once the champagne is chilled and I can pour a glass.
"Post-Constitutional" is a very polite way to put it. We wouldn't want to upset Mr. Bezos, my Prime membership might go up again. More Irish Coffee please (yes, that is a euphimism)
I should have already done it, but 1) I have a student membership, so it is cheaper and 2) my wife wants us to finish all seven seasons of Elementary first. But as soon as we finish Elementary, or I finally take the last class for my masters degree, I’m breaking up with everything Bezos.
An isolated but mighty band of snow whipped up Thanksgiving mischief for travelers in Wisconsin on Thursday. Over a several-hour period, a localized zone of occasionally heavy snow dropped a couple inches on places not far from Eau Claire — and the primary culprit was exhaust from a nearby glass factory.
Supercooled water droplets — below freezing, but in liquid form — had largely remained suspended in the clouds in the early morning. Just a few random snow flurries fluttered. At least until relatively warm and moisture-rich exhaust from the factory got involved.
That small bit of added lift, plus the critical tiny particles of the steam cloud, were enough to freeze the supercooled water droplets and get them to fall out of the natural cloud deck as snow downwind.
The new kilo of (this time only 2-yr aged) parmigiana reggiano di Vacche Rosse di Emilia-Romagna arrives today, as well as another case of bottled organic Italian tomato puree, no laborious de-seeding necessary. Huzzah.
Mannnnnnn, if I have one top cooking recommendation, though, it is ESTRATTU. The hand-made tomato paste from Sicilia, scraped and smoothed in the sun on the rooftops, for several days. Holy SHIT.
There are several small producers and it is nearly always out of stock.
I have been watching the stream a lot since Nov 6 and watched some yesterday. Other than the "Where are they now" bits where the old performers do a quick clip, I can't see a difference between the Thanksgiving day stream and the stream on every other day.
The stream of names from Space Mutiny is wonderful.
"Mexican lawmakers voted to abolish the freedom-of-information institute and six other watchdog agencies, deepening fears that President Claudia Sheinbaum is using her landslide electoral victory to eliminate checks and balances essential in a democracy."
I would save it for when they start to bitch and then put on a "...and now you Find Out" t-shirt while replaying it for them and pointing and laughing at their tears
I have to wonder if they are self aware enough to know what it looks like or they’re just not observant enough to know how to match their hero Trump’s movements.
People seem to think they should go buy stuff now before tariffs come, but you know, that actually means companies will just start raising their prices right now.
As I noted on a previous thread, Amazon is already doing this. But, as another Wonketeer rightly pointed out, right now this is just price gouging that they're going to try and pass off as "responding to tariffs."
This is tariff price-gouging as opposed to normal price-gouging. By driving everybody out of business with taxpayers' help, Amazon controls the market on most manufactured items.
Well, we pushed all the cooking and eating back to today, as we had a long drive yesterday and were too pooped to deal with it when we arrived, but then I apparently left the turkey and lobster meat out overnight, so I guess it's off to the supermarket.
My Grandad, who was a whiskey drinker always said you use Power's for a hot whiskey (cos either a decent whiskey like Jemmie's or Paddy would be wasted on it or Power's would stand up better to the lemon and hot water, not sure), I assume the same applies for Irish coffee. I stick to the rule of thumb: use a cheaper or generic whiskey for anything involving hot liquid.
There used to be a small restaurant in the basement of a commercial building in my downtown. It was nothing fancy, but to my mind they made the best steak and baked potato dinner in town. In the unlikely event there is such a place as heaven, my hope would be that you could relive your best memories. I had so many lovely dinners there with my mom. I would always get the steak and baked potato (with sour cream, of course) and mom would always get the spaghetti. Then, after dinner, I would usually have an Irish Coffee. I would give almost anything to have one more meal with my mom in that restaurant. It no longer exists, and neither does my mom.
Redbreast is another fabulous Irish Whiskey, but, like Writers’ Tears, is probably too good (and expensive) for Irish Coffee. Rather, it’s a slow sipper.
Though it’s as touristy as it gets, I had my first Irish Coffee at the Buena Vista Cafe on San Francisco’s Fisherman’s Wharf, and, despite the hype, it was thoroughly delicious. Later, I’d make Irish Coffee and pour it in a thermos for a sip while fishing.
There’s nothing quite like floating in a small boat, line in the water and mug of Irish coffee in hand, while watching the sun rise above a pristine, trout-infested mountain lake. With some good weather and great fishermen friends, it’s a peak life experience.
So, who broke Disqus? Am I doing this right?
I bought a half dozen gorgeous champagne flutes today. They are all shaped the same, but each one has different etching on the glass. I'll take a picture once the champagne is chilled and I can pour a glass.
yes, please
I dozed off for a while and now it feels kind of late to open a bottle of bubbly. Tomorrow, I promise.
that's great 😊
in the meantime, please enjoy Stewart Copeland
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYr1G5X4d4g
"Post-Constitutional" is a very polite way to put it. We wouldn't want to upset Mr. Bezos, my Prime membership might go up again. More Irish Coffee please (yes, that is a euphimism)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/08/russ-vought-trump-second-term-radical-constitutional/
I should have already done it, but 1) I have a student membership, so it is cheaper and 2) my wife wants us to finish all seven seasons of Elementary first. But as soon as we finish Elementary, or I finally take the last class for my masters degree, I’m breaking up with everything Bezos.
Once I had a love and it was a gas
Soon turned out had a heart of glass . . .
𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐦 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐚 𝐖𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐧 𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐟𝐮𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐚 𝟏𝟎𝟎-𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝐛𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐬𝐧𝐨𝐰
An isolated but mighty band of snow whipped up Thanksgiving mischief for travelers in Wisconsin on Thursday. Over a several-hour period, a localized zone of occasionally heavy snow dropped a couple inches on places not far from Eau Claire — and the primary culprit was exhaust from a nearby glass factory.
Supercooled water droplets — below freezing, but in liquid form — had largely remained suspended in the clouds in the early morning. Just a few random snow flurries fluttered. At least until relatively warm and moisture-rich exhaust from the factory got involved.
That small bit of added lift, plus the critical tiny particles of the steam cloud, were enough to freeze the supercooled water droplets and get them to fall out of the natural cloud deck as snow downwind.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2024/11/29/steam-powered-snowfall-wisconsin-thanksgiving/
"water droplets — below freezing, but in liquid form"
This does not comport with my grade school-level of understanding science.
FWIW, without a some particle to seed the crystal or other nucleation event you can get water to remain liquid below its freezing point.
There's a bunch of videos where they bang a bottle of supercooled water on a counter and it almost instantly turns into ice.
Expect MAGATs to start complaining about weather manipulation.
The new kilo of (this time only 2-yr aged) parmigiana reggiano di Vacche Rosse di Emilia-Romagna arrives today, as well as another case of bottled organic Italian tomato puree, no laborious de-seeding necessary. Huzzah.
Ooh . . .
Mannnnnnn, if I have one top cooking recommendation, though, it is ESTRATTU. The hand-made tomato paste from Sicilia, scraped and smoothed in the sun on the rooftops, for several days. Holy SHIT.
There are several small producers and it is nearly always out of stock.
Why did JD Vance depict himself as a Trad Wife?
https://www.mediaite.com/weird/trump-and-wife-jd-vance-stun-social-media-with-all-time-turkey-day-post-what-the-ever-living-fk-is-this/
I saw. I think this is the proven rapist Trump’s crush in eyeliner’s way of coming out?
And the Republican Party will support him in this, because it means he'll divorce Ushe, and she's brown.
Stooopitt AIs sometimes drop verbal turd bales. You'll get used to it, I'm sure.
Where's Trumps' other hand?
Up Vance's ass?
I prefer to think they’re going furniture shopping later.
Our new fascist leaders are sick f***ers is why.
(eyes the clock; 32 minutes to alcohol)
Honestly, I had my first drink in a very long time yesterday despondent over the future.
(watches 'Space Mutiny' on the MST3K Turkey Day stream)
Big McLargehuge!
Punch Speedchunk!
BUFF DRINKLOTS
I have been watching the stream a lot since Nov 6 and watched some yesterday. Other than the "Where are they now" bits where the old performers do a quick clip, I can't see a difference between the Thanksgiving day stream and the stream on every other day.
The stream of names from Space Mutiny is wonderful.
DIRK HARDPEC
Butch Deadlift!
Yes, they are!
I'm going to start doing an extra workout set with every reference You People make to that damn show, heh heh.
We put our faith in Blast Hardcheese!
(chortles)
That’s DOCTOR chortle!
No joke. I'm about to start the ballet barre battement butt nonsense!
“She’s presenting like a mandrill!”
My vote for funniest non-name line of the movie.
Ugh.
"Mexican lawmakers voted to abolish the freedom-of-information institute and six other watchdog agencies, deepening fears that President Claudia Sheinbaum is using her landslide electoral victory to eliminate checks and balances essential in a democracy."
𝗠𝗲𝘅𝗶𝗰𝗼 𝘀𝗵𝘂𝘁𝘀 𝘄𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗵𝗱𝗼𝗴 𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗲𝘀, 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗳𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗰𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘆
𝘗𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘊𝘭𝘢𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘢 𝘚𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘣𝘢𝘶𝘮 𝘴𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘶𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘢𝘳𝘺. 𝘊𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘴 𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘰𝘭𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘢 𝘱𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳 𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘣 𝘣𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘶𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘺.
https://wapo.st/3VcPgAR
She’s going to make Donnie so jealous!
Authoritarianism is increasing its' oppressive grip globally.
*** [It's] Happy Hour (Again) ***
Thanks for the Barenaked Ladies ear worm...
WTF did I just watch, Gary?
https://bsky.app/profile/glegum.bsky.social/post/3lc3rwzvugc2g
Lazy fuckers. Don’t they know that they’re supposed to be jerking giraffes when they dance? They looked like they were doing pony handjobs at best.
And they are enraged we don't want to spend the holidays with them.
Our new fascist leaders are sick f***ers is why
There's a lot of economic anxiety on display there. No hot dogs or eggs in view because they are too expensive.
I would save it for when they start to bitch and then put on a "...and now you Find Out" t-shirt while replaying it for them and pointing and laughing at their tears
The most amusing part of that is nearly none of them do the two dong pull correct at all.
They're too embarrassed to. They know what it looks like.
I have to wonder if they are self aware enough to know what it looks like or they’re just not observant enough to know how to match their hero Trump’s movements.
Don’t you remember that time we all danced like Kamala?
I really nearly DID barf the first time I saw that. No second viewing....
I would leave, barricade the house, and set fire to it.
Nice! I would help you.
I would immediately declare myself an orphan and take to the streets.
JFC
People seem to think they should go buy stuff now before tariffs come, but you know, that actually means companies will just start raising their prices right now.
My goal is to not buy anything that isn’t absolutely necessary for the next four years. Other than booze and coffee.
Booze and coffee are absolutely necessary. Your statement is redundant.
As I noted on a previous thread, Amazon is already doing this. But, as another Wonketeer rightly pointed out, right now this is just price gouging that they're going to try and pass off as "responding to tariffs."
This is tariff price-gouging as opposed to normal price-gouging. By driving everybody out of business with taxpayers' help, Amazon controls the market on most manufactured items.
Just finished posting pics and recipes from yesterday, so here goes:
Turkey breast sous vide with crispy skin: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/58999984/
Sausage-Apple dressing: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/39850078/
Hazelnut green beans with dates and prosciutto: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/58993998/
Miso-glazed carrots with scallion gremolata: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/58994717/
Pumpkin-cranberry bread: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/25266476/
All of it looks/sounds incredible!!!!! High five, *SLAP*!!
I've never made the carrot and green bean dishes before, so there was an element of risk involved. Still, the damage would have been self-inflicted.
And i WANT that bread!!!!!!! Pass the butter!!!
I don't like pumpkin pie, so this is a great substitute. The cranberries add a little tartness.
Same, and zowie, I'm looking for a reason to make this, W!!!
(grins) Thank you!
The prosciutt', as my Brooklyn Italian brother-friend calls it, was genius!!!
It was amazing.
Sous vide is my favorite way to turkey. I’ve done a whole turkey that way (well, deconstructed into four parts).
NOM.
Yeah, this turned out way better than any turkey breast I've ever had.
Well, we pushed all the cooking and eating back to today, as we had a long drive yesterday and were too pooped to deal with it when we arrived, but then I apparently left the turkey and lobster meat out overnight, so I guess it's off to the supermarket.
Go, me.
: /
Then again........ PIZZA!
Oh FUCK.
Shit--sorry.
Oops.
Oops indeed.
Still, I imagine that a lobster stuffed with turkey would have been Interesting.
I think they were intended to have been separate dishes, but I could . . . almost see that?
(grins)
Obligatory ref. and rec. to SterWonk's repeated note posting yesterday/Wednesday of the TURKRAKEN!
LMAO