Tonight's Chinese. Challenging at first, then really easy. I hear there's some football game, but I guess it just isn't as relevant as playing touch football on the back lot with my droogs.
Ignoring the Super Bowel, Cooking Instead
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The Super Bowel......Hilarious!....but accurate. The biggest load of crap in the world of sports.
Frank
NYC
Frank
NYC
Daughter and possible future son in law just left the house. Taco soup, corn bread and almost two bottles of wine were on the menu. TV never came on and possible son in law said “This is the best super bowl party I’ve ever been to.”
We have a new member of the family that is an awesome cook. She made pasta and marinara from scratch for us tonight, and all of the girls are watching cooking shows tonight. The food was delicious.
I love Chinese. I subsisted on stir fry and Ramen all through college.
I've got a big bowl of C&D's new Light of the Universe going, and listening to The Band, From the Big Pink on vinyl in the studio. Sometimes, I just have to get away from the estrogen. :
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I love Chinese. I subsisted on stir fry and Ramen all through college.
I've got a big bowl of C&D's new Light of the Universe going, and listening to The Band, From the Big Pink on vinyl in the studio. Sometimes, I just have to get away from the estrogen. :
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My wife did home made chili with really good cheddar on top, along with Mex corn chips. I used to do some wok cooking, but now we go out from dim sum as our major local Chinese experience, or have some good Vietnamese or Korean food. I liked to stir fry bok choy, carrots, chicken and water chesnuts and serve 'em over rice. Not sophisticated, but good quick meal.
deathmetal; i am very fortunate to get "real" Chinese food when Xia cooks. I learned I have been doing many things wrong, and even though I try and copy what she does, mine always tastes "less". I have no idea why. We use the same ingredients, the same cooking utensils, but what I prepare pales, in comparison.
Regards
Michael J. Glukler
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Michael J. Glukler
Mike, Chinese food is like good pipe tobacco. Try as one might, getting it to taste the same requires the real original and not copies. You are a blessed man!
By the way, I am a big sports fan and loved last night's Super Bowl game. A real pleasure to watch and it went right down to the wire. Congrats to both teams for an entertaining evening.
By the way, I am a big sports fan and loved last night's Super Bowl game. A real pleasure to watch and it went right down to the wire. Congrats to both teams for an entertaining evening.
One of the best Super Bowls I have ever seen from start to finish. But I like cooking and the Band on vinyl as much as the next guy.
I watched the first half of S-Bowl, then opted for a PBS series on Queen Victoria (no less) that my wife and I both wanted to see, then jumped back to the end of the fourth quarter, so it was an unusual perspective on a unique Super Bowl game. The play where Forte was the receiver was too good to miss. Coach claimed they'd been practicing that one. I guess so. The Queen Victoria episode was about the Irish potato famine, also worth seeing, in a more serious vein. That caused a major migration of Irish to the U.S., where they were treated really badly (this wasn't in the Queen Victoria show...). My dad's mom, to whom I was devoted, was a Scotch-Irish second generation person who married into an old Yankee family, so the Irish immigration was a sort of invisible factor in my childhood.
I've never really had much interest in televised sports. It strikes me as an impotent activity.
This year, I have other reasons to avoid the drama as well. Any time a "fun" activity becomes propaganda, all sane people avoid it.
But I found some great recipe tips in this thread!
This year, I have other reasons to avoid the drama as well. Any time a "fun" activity becomes propaganda, all sane people avoid it.
But I found some great recipe tips in this thread!
I like a good game but I hate what it (major sporting leagues) has become. After cutting the cord 4 years ago, after my son was born, I can't watch regular TV because of the commercials. Forget about watching a football game.
That being said, it was a great game!
That being said, it was a great game!
I have avoided regular television for most of my life. I have a clearer mind because of it. But now, it's mainly a question of the legacy I want to leave behind. Will I have supported good things, or merely gone with the flow?
I just fail to appreciate the finer points of boys in plastic suits bumping into each other up and down a field. Now... girls beach volleyball, that's a real man's sport. ::
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Avoiding TV is a really wise thing to do. Especially now. I watch too much, and turn it off, or sneak away if possible if I am watching with others. Odd how even reading a book is stimulating and refreshing, whereas watching TV mostly is numbing and depleting. There are certainly exceptions. And I need to keep up with events in the world, such as they are, and such as they are reported. But you have to keep custody of your brain, to the degree you can.
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