Good morning DFO!
Welp, this is THAT weekend. This is the weekend that I’m venturing out into a globally infected world in an effort to actually “do shit.”
Later today Eldest right and the 2 oldest granddaughters and I are off to Hollywood for the Immersive Van Gogh exhibit. To make everyone’s lives that much more challenging the producers of the event decided to host it at the old Amoeba Records building right at Hollywood and Vine.
How very fucking thoughtful of them.
Think there will be traffic?
Think there will be a serious effort to find affordable parking?
You can go ahead and answer in the affirmative to both of those questions.
I’m still very much looking forward to it though.
The real fun comes tomorrow when I’m off to Long Beach Airport and a flight to Denver. Tomorrow night is Black Crowes at Red Rocks. Should be quite the active day between the flight, the Metro rail to downtown Denver from the airport, the checking into the hotel, the finding the shuttle to Red Rocks and maybe finding a spare minute to grab a bite somewhere.
I’ll have all day Tuesday to spend in Denver.
Final question: Think my ass will be fully fucking masked and carrying hand sanitizer with me everywhere I go? That’s a great goddamn BIG 10-4 good buddy.
Yes, I’m rattled as fuck to be doing this but then again I’ve held these tickets for almost 2 fucking years and the show is scheduled to go on. I really want to have an amazing time, see some live music and turn this entire trip into a positive mental experience.
I’ll keep y’all updated as I travel.
Anyway.
Final preseason weekend people. Next week we have us Labor Day Weekend and then it’s time for kickoff.
Oh fuck yes.
Before we get there though we’ve still got a couple of episodes of Sunday Gravy to get to.
This is one of them.
Got a fun and tasty recipe for you today.
Feel like getting after some empanadas and maybe a couple of homemade salsas?
Sorry, that was a question too.
AWAY WE GO!
We will start the proceedings by making our two types of salsa. One red and one green.
Let’s start with the red.
Procure yourself some chilies. I will be using these today.
Obviously when working with dried chilies we will need to reconstitute them.
I used about 1/2 cup of the chile de arbol pods and steeped them in about 3/4 cups of hot water. I also threw in 3 cloves of garlic. Let this steep for about 30 minutes. I had the lid on the blender.
People…
This was the moment that I basically fucking pepper sprayed myself. I took the lid off of the blender and for some dumb ass reason decided to take a biggol’ whiff.
Motherfucker.
I teared up, coughed a handful of times then had to sprint to the bathroom to blow my runny nose. It was quite eye opening.
I dumped out about half of the water then added in 1/2 teaspoon of cumin, equal amounts of oregano, salt and a grind of black pepper then I gave it a spin.
It was exactly as hot as you think it was. Fucking hell.
Back to back kicks to the nether regions.
After a quick mental assessment I added in a full 14 oz can of tomato sauce and gave this a blend.
Still hot but very, very delicious.
The green salsa requires a bit more effort.
Gather the needed vegetation.
Hatch green chilies – CURRENTLY IN SEASON! – and jalapenos. Obviously 2 of each today
You’ll need a few of these too.
Tomatillos! Shuck them out of their little jackets and give ’em a slice.
Roast in a 375 degree oven for 20 minutes.
The hatch chilies and the jalapenos will roast at the same temperature as the tomatillos but for a total of 30 minutes, turn them once at the 15 minute mark.
Place the roasted chilies into a paper bag or just put them in a bowl and cover with foil for a few minutes to help to remove the blistered skins.
Into the blender we go with 3 cloves of garlic and just enough liquid to form an emulsion. Unfortunately I didn’t have chicken stock on hand so this was about 1/2 cup of water.
I also added 1/2 teaspoon of cumin, 1/2 teaspoon of coriander and some salt to taste.
This is goddamn delicious stuff right here.
Both salsas will go into the refrigerator for an overnight rest.
Next day we’ll start with the beans first since they cook the longest.
Standard prep with 1/2 bag of beans, 3 cups of water, 1/2 medium onion minced, 4 cloves of garlic minced, 2 pods of chile de arbol and season up with cumin, chile powder salt and pepper. Simmer for about 2 1/2 hours. Finally cook about 3 strips of bacon and add the bacon grease right at the end.
Empandada time!
recipe inspired by therecipecritic.com
For The Dough
3 cups flour
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 cup cold butter cubed
1 large egg
3/4 cup cold water
For The Filling
2 tbsp olive oil
1 medium onion – minced
4 cloves of garlic – minced
6 oz. boiled diced potato
1 tbsp tomato paste
1 or 2 pickled jalapenos – diced
16 oz. ground beef – wait until you see what we used today
1 tsp salt
1 tsp chili powder
1 tsp paprika
1/2 tsp cumin
1/2 tsp marjoram
1/4 cup frozen peas
1 to 2 finely chopped green onions
egg wash for basting – one egg white and 1 tablespoon of water
Start with the dough.
Get some cubed, cold butter and put it in the food processor.
Next add in the flour and salt and give this a few pulses until the butter resembles, that’s right, small peas.
Then we add the water and the egg and give it a spin.
Pretty fucking cool how quickly the dough comes together in the food processor.
Grab some plastic wrap and wrap that shit up tight.
Into the fridge you go! I made the dough right after starting the black beans so it rested for a couple of hours.
Since we’ll be using potato in the empanada filling mixture, go ahead and grab a spud and peel it and cube it up.
Cook and drain the spuds. This will only need to cook for about 4-5 minutes. They’ll have two additional cooking sessions before service.
Get your work station ready.
Since empanadas usually call for a green olive inside and I’m not a huge fan of the green olive unless it’s nestled in a very frosty martini, I improvised.
Remember these?
There’s some of our homemade pickled jalapenos that we made a few weeks back.
Thought these might be a good substitute for green olives since they’ll add that bit of tang and acid from the pickling process.
Mince them up.
I’ve noticed an interesting trend at the grocery store lately. Particularly in the hamburger section. It’s not just your basic 80-20, 85-15 ground beef selection anymore. They have ground chicken, turkey, pork plus the veggie based “Impossible” and “Beyond” options.
I found this shit and just had to give it a try.
We’re going wagyu motherfuckers!
Next assemble the spice collection needed.
Cumin, salt, pepper, chili powder, marjoram and paprika.
Get one last check of the beans before we get to the speed round.
Looking really tasty there!
Time to make the filling mix.
Onions first.
Cook until translucent then add the wagyu!
Cook for a few minutes until the pink has been cooked out.
While it’s browning add in the spices, the garlic, green onion, the tomato paste and finally the peas and the cooked potato.
This will simmer for maybe 5 minutes to allow the flavors to incorporate.
Let this cool down a bit and we will turn our attention back to the dough.
After removing the dough from the refrigerator prepare a space to roll the dough out.
Look! It’s a lightly floured surface.
Flatten out that dough already.
Try and get this to about a1/4″ thickness. Doesn’t have to be exact.
Using a large biscuit cutter cut out the circles for the empanadas. Wish I had a picture of this step but my hands were gooey. Shape up the empanadas. I have a set of graduated biscuit cutters and I used the largest one. It was about 5″ across.
Grab a spoonful of the filling and place it on one half of the dough. Not too much filling. Just a good scoop. Add on a bit of the diced jalapeno, carefully fold the dough over and seal the edges.
If you’ve had empanadas before or watched a cooking show where they roll up and seal the empanadas into these perfect little half-moon disks and have the lovely fluted edges then you know what they should look like.
First time, people. Keep that in mind.
Mine looked like this.
It’s a start, dammit! It’s pretty important to seal the edges well so the filling doesn’t cook out. I dipped my fingers in water and applied that to the edge of the dough prior to folding over. It seemed to work pretty well. Notice the use of parchment paper on our baking sheet, this is pretty goddamn important.
After filling and assembling all of our empanadas I still had a decent amount of leftover filling mixture.
This shit will make a fucking killer burrito later in the week. Splash some of that leftover salsa on there?
Preheat your oven to 375 and get ready for bake-age.
Baste the empanadas with the egg wash and let these bake for about 15-25 minutes. You want a golden brown finish. Pretty sure I pulled the empanadas a little early because I was worried about the dough getting too tough. That was unnecessary.
Let’s get them fuckers out of the oven already!
Nice! Not too much leakage or anything!
Time for service.
Get the two salsas out and ready them for dipping.
Lovely contrast with the bright green and dense red.
Grab yourself a plate and get busy.
Get a scoop of beans on there.
Feel free to add cheese to the beans if you like and don’t forget the salsas. That red salsa would go great with the black beans.
Grab an empanada or two and apply some salsa.
Let’s take a few different looks at our subject, shall we?
Can we get a little closer yet?
Those salsas really stand out don’t they?
Take a look at the empanada by itself.
One plate wasn’t gonna do it today.
Back for seconds I go.
See! There’s nothing wrong with their shape after all!
First note: you can absolutely fry these in oil rather than baking but I chose the path of lesser cleanup today.
The structure of the dough held up perfectly but I may make something a little closer to a standard pastry dough next time. I.E. no egg, but this worked well.
The filling is smoky, sumptuous, slightly spicy and has that tang of the jalapeno. The paprika is a star player and there is obviously going to be a cumin flavor. Fresh burst from the peas and green onion adds a contrast. The dough is fluffy and slightly flaky and when you add on the salsa you are working on something magical.
The green salsa may look familiar to some of you since I use several variations in different cooking applications such as when I make chile verde. It is so damn good here. It has a fruity, slightly spicy note but it’s more floral than spice-forward. Just perfect with the empanada.
The red sauce has more bad fucking intentions but dear god is it ever delicious too. Brings a little more anger to the empanada but it also has a smoky, garlicky presence in addition to the tomato taste.
Both salsas add terrific elements to the dish and I really liked the contrast between the 2. I would recommend both.
That was also a close to perfect batch of black beans today too.
I made these the day of my first live fantasy football draft of the season and it was pretty easy to find yourself sneaking into the kitchen between draft picks to grab a quick bite or two.
Delicious, delicious stuff.
There we go folks!
Just one week of Sunday Gravy left and then it’s all football all of the time.
Wish me luck as I head out of my lockdown cave into a slightly infected and fully insane world. I sure hope I don’t need it.
See you next week for the season finale.
Until then…
Be Safe.
Be Well.
PEACE!
New thread is up.
Is there dead hoboes????
There’s a moratorium.
Parmesan garlic potato chips turn out to be really fucking good. I don’t why I’m surprised.
You are an ex up here person. Do you remember Old Dutch Onion and Garlic?
I don’t think so. I definitely ate my share of Old Dutch chips, but I don’t recall that one. I wasn’t that into funky chip flavors in those days.
Parmesan/garlic/onion anything smells like a Roman vomitorium, but tastes sooo good.
Giving toaster oven bacon a try – I figure it’ll create about as much heat as frying, but I won’t have to stand next to it the whole time!
My experience with that has been “delicious but messy”. I don’t know why but I just find it more satisfying to cook in a pan.
It turned out quite well I think, I used a rack over a deepish pan, so all the grease collected in the pan below and I can still use it to cook with. Also didn’t need to flip the bacon since it was already getting even heat from both sides. And yes, delicious!
I had forgotten how much I love watching penalty flags wipe out every play result in every game, all the time, all the flags, every day, PENALTY PENALTY PENALTY.
In their defense, it is the Raiders.
Finished the tiktok test, it was basically figuring out a measurement plan. I was WAY too wordy because it turns out I have no idea what 150 words look like.
Tell me about it.
Just woke up Deci yelling at the teevee. This is why I go to matches!
https://robertdavidsteele.com/pfizer-vaccine-approved-for-mass-murder-by-the-fda/?utm_content=12859941&utm_medium=Email&utm_name=Id&utm_source=Actionetics&utm_term=Email
This guy is more fun than most because he was a genuine conspiracy theorist and people are doing things like numerological analysis to show that his death was somehow part of some grand scheme. Like, the numbers add up the same as “gone with the wind” and somehow that shows it’s part of a government cover-up.
That’s one of my favorite aspects of conspiracy theories: they hypothesize that there’s a secret cabal that plans out all sorts of dastardly crimes in near-perfect secrecy, but then decides to leave little “clues” that any member of the public can “decode,” because… it’s just more sporting that way?
It’s like they think the Illuminati or whoever are the Riddler from Batman, stricken with a compulsion to leave clues to their scheme.
I’m just fascinated that people refuse to believe the obvious, most likely scenario (Occam’s razor, -ish) in favor of increasingly crazy conspiracies.
There are plenty of bad people out there pulling strings, yes, but no one is “out to get you.”
I think they regard it as a game where they prove how smart they are.
QAnon started doing it in reverse: they spent all this time trying to decipher the “Q drops” for revelations about the conspiracy and predictions of when and how “the Storm” would arrive. Because, you see, Q can’t just flat out say these things in plain language or else “they” would know, so he has to speak in code. A code which his followers then discuss openly in forums that anyone — including “the conspirators” — could be reading.
It makes zero fucking sense, because it’s not really supposed to.
> It makes zero fucking sense, because it’s not really supposed to.
I thought that it makes zero fucking sense because the practitioners are idiots.
I think you’re absolutely right.
It seems to involve a bit of Dunning-Kruger: “I’m so smart I figured out the code that even the code-breakers couldn’t. Now I know what they don’t.”
One would think that, after seeing the prophecies and predictions fail to come true over and over and over again, they’d all give up, but clearly that hasn’t been the case.
And yet it hasn’t occurred to them that these voices that are whipping them into a frothy Santorum are also the voices telling them to take horse dewormer
Stealing this from someone on Twitter, but: it’s ironic that the people who call the rest of us “sheeple” are the ones using livestock medication.
https://twitter.com/debdrens/status/1431997555525791751
What’s going to happen with all those “personal and business lawsuits” that Doug filed?
They’ll be worked on by unethical lawyers until a) the money dries up, b) *they* contract COVID, or c) they get disbarred.
This is one of Doug’s sympathy cards
A lot of these people will use a “pizza party” background on facebook to announce that they’re in the ICU. I don’t think it’s on purpose, but it’s definitely hilarious.
The Bengals first drive involved two badly protected runs, a dropped JaMarr Chase pass, a Bengals late hit on a non-fumbled that only occurred because all the refs simultaneously brainfarted on the play, and the Bengals may have punted on 3rd Down if the TV was right.
But Joe Burrow did walk off the field, so I’m calling it a win.
Reading some stuff about the Carolina Hurricanes RFA offer sheet to Jesperi Kotkaniemi, and I remain baffled at how sports writers and fans absolutely lose their minds about the money professional athletes make. I can’t even attribute it to “white folks getting indignant at players of color making big money,” because we’re talking about a white Finn.
People who are paid to write are actually claiming that this guy really made a mistake in accepting an offer for more money from an employer who actually values him, instead of taking less money to continue working for the employer who publicly doubts his abilities. Or that there will be too much pressure on this guy if he’s making $6.1 million in Carolina, as opposed to the much more relaxed, low-pressure environment playing in Montreal, a city renowned for its low-key approach to hockey. Montreal fans will totally not freak out about a former 3rd-overall draft pick’s performance if he’s only making $2-3 million….
How many of these people would ever dream of refusing more money for the same position in a less-stressful environment for an employer who actually seems to like you?
Uggh this illness. I just saw my crew on the teevee at the match. Fuck. I just didn’t want to infect my mates.
Did you get COVID test results back?
I hope it’s just a cold or something and nothing worse.
Yep, head cold.
Okay, good. I hope you recover quickly!
Whew!
https://twitter.com/ZTPetrizzo/status/1431478569457393664
Please be COVID
Please be COVID
Please be COVID
Please be COVID
Is it bad to wish ill on a person? Normally, yes. Is it bad to wish ill on Candace Owens? Absolutely not.
Oh hell yes, if anyone deserves to choke to death, it’s her.
Just had a live shot from New Orleans on The Weather Channel. Jim Cantore and some other guy bracing themselves against the wind dressed head-to-toe in water-proof gear.
Two guys in jeans and T-shirts casually stroll by in the background, one checking his phone, the other wagging his fingers at the preening weather guys.
Any of you former submariners/spouses of former submariners care to comment?
https://twitter.com/ByYourLogic/status/1432040258514923521
Gumby sez he doesn’t have time for that shit, he’s busy getting his makeup on for halfway night! WTF is clownstep?
It’s like dubstep, but with more honking
Welp, those were all words? NeverforgetIAmOld! POUNDSIGN
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I paid your bus fare. YOU OWE ME!! – Cabbage Head, Toronto, ON
And that Grand Slam did not just drop out of the heavens on to your plate Cara!
That used to be worth something…
Mmm Cobb Salad
Leonard Smalls!
I could go for a good one, with homemade Green Goddess dressing. Sometime next week, for sure, thanks for the idea!
Prison Girlfriend’s Jaguras are well in front of the N-GCp. What’s going on here, Bluebunny just playing his 3s and 4s all game?
Gotta get a hard look at Gilbert Gottfried as the back-up QB
I had no idea his head was so tiny. Fucking freak!!
I somehow suspect that Gilbert’s tiny head might be the least of my Non-Gendered favoUrtie team. I know it’s pre-season, but they have looked less than good at football so far.
Think I’m gonna do the 2 hour timed take home test for tiktok at noon, then finish up the one for Instacart later tonight. Until then, crossword puzzles!
Tiktok is surprisingly fun, it isn’t just for the youngs!
only the “young at heart” and I’ve felt like a grumpy old man (in spirit) since I was, like, 2
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMRkkPnEk/
They have futballs stuff
THIS GRAND ISLE CAM I CALL IT LAZARUS OF BETHANY CAUSE IT IS BACK FROM THE DEAD!
Would you be willing to sign up somewhere as a Pretend Prayer Warrior to do a Boots on the Ground?
Good God, no.
Damn it, was such a GREAT terrible idea!!
MOAR LIKE Rikki-Tikki-ETERNAL-LIFE-N-CHRIST!!!!
Litre’s Calvary lot – on a SUNDAY, no less – are getting YYYYYUUUUUUUGGGGGEEEE odds in AL Classico. +450 HT and FT now.
Michael Irvin’s nostrils are enormoUs. You would not like to split an 8 ball with him.
I tell you what, you can pay the dope man, then SPLIT. – Michael I., Coral Gables, FL
You’re going to have an amazing time, can’t wait to hear the updates!
I am curious about the ground waygu, do you think there was a perceptible difference from standard ground beef? I’ve had a waygu burger and while it was good, I wouldn’t say it was significantly different from any other ‘luxury’ burger. The teppanyaki waygu in Japan on the other hand is miles ahead of any other beef.
It was definitely richer in taste and mouth feel. It wasn’t that much more expensive either. About 8 bucks for a pound. I’ll definitely try it again. I kind of want to do some tacos with it. Same seasoning profile as this recipe.
I am also checked in for my flight tomorrow. Took your advice and bought early boarding. My anxiety is slowly being replaced with excitement.
It’s actually pretty neat to get a chance to experience the excitement that comes along with something being new again for things we already know we love. It’s like a second childhood, but with more money and the ability to legally buy booze!
My Starboy! Let’s go! LETS FUCKING GO!
You can still React Reasonably about the Ronaldo silliness, yeah?
/I am sticking with picking y’all for the title, as I refuse to pick the Shite, Pep wants Shempions as his white whale, and Tuchel’s act will start wearing a bit thin down the stretch.
…and the camera is gone. Press F to pay respects.
FFS, United need a midfielder in the worst way. They look like they’re in the Bagel formation again
This is why any title pressure for United is bullshit. You can’t expect a team with massive holes to win it all. You can’t do anything with all these great forwards if they cant get on the ball.
The commentator actually hit the nail on the head in this instance. Ole isn’t playing Pogba in a position he’s comfortable in, and Fred doesn’t really seem to know what his responsibilities are. Having Matic in the squad might help calm things down, but I think Ole is actually the problem here rather than the players.
It’s both. Pogba definitely should be on the wing with how hot he’s been.
Fred and McSauce can do a shift, but it’s not viable long term. Same with Matic. He’s not consistent enough as he’s too old. Donny was amazing against Wolves last year, but Ole doesn’t trust him.
As for Ole, he’s definitely looking like the guy who is setting up the table for the next manager to win. His tactics and his adaptability isn’t good enough.
DE GEA WITH THE SAVE OF THE YEAR!
I shrieked so much Mrs. Cola thought that something was wrong.
Yeah Right we went to the Van Gogh thing today up here. It was superb!!!
I have a friend who went to it extremely high. He said it was great, but when he first went in he was completely overwhelmed with sensory overload, and he had to stand completely still for a few minutes and concentrate on breathing slowly.
I am on cold meds so it defo was trippy.
I’ve heard great things about it. Did you take Deci with you?
We sure did. It is an hour long and he lasted 50 mins so all in all a good outing.
The best part is Eldest right is picking me up so no driving required.
Adama Traore is covered in so much oil, the US Army is about to invade him in the name of democracy.
Fucking United’s tactics against WOLVES is to play the long ball. Ridiculous
Bruno Lage looks like a much younger Christoph Waltz. Is that a bingo?
Just waiting for the Dr. Mrs. to come downstairs and ask why I am sitting here watching a cam feed of a bunch of splashing water.
It is amazing that this thing has lasted this long. Truly a marvel.
Ben Shapiro’s wife asked him the same thing.
There was no splashing involved. No moisture of any kind.
Manchester United looking tactically inept, again. For all the good Ole has done in rebuilding this team, he does the dumbest shit. Pogba has 5 assists in 2 games on the LW. Why is he the fuckin holding mid, so Dan James can play?
As for Fred, Ronaldo is legit going to walk off the pitch the first Fred “pass” he receives.
This is what I’m watching re: Ida
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vcbk3NcScRM
Super jealous and makes me want to go get empanadas. Did you think about making chimichurri for these? Or am i just biased toward Argentine empanadas?
Argentine empanadas are delicious
Wakezilla head to Unimarket in our town for phenomenal Empanadas both Columbian and Venezuelan. There is a location in the north and a huge one in the south.
The idea never came to mind for some reason and I love chimichurri. The 2 salsas I made were delightful though.
Rod and Tod strike again
https://twitter.com/newsdaytonabch/status/1431770446282768388?s=21
Good riddance.
Yeah we’re gonna throw the challenge flag on that
Rod and Todd are at church right now, but they are keeping their eyes peeled in case Andre Jacque and John Pierce get their “angel wings” and happen to drop by.
Looks like my Leeds season prediction was as dire as wrt King’s Afrikan Water Pistols (h/t Good Cecil Rhodes)
SUDDEN CHANGE, eat shit Team White Lives Matter!!
My royal friend, you should never trust a team with an Argentine manager! They’ll have you believing in things that simply aren’t true — in fact, Bielsa probably still thinks that the Falklands belong to Argentina!
Looks way gud if u noe wut I meen
I wonder if tomatillos are difficult to grow.
Fronk I sent you a message on Slack. Hail Gamblor.
Have a fantastic time at Red Rocks, Chef! I hope the Crowes open with “Sting Me”.
And by “open with” I obviously meant “after they play another album in its entirety”.
I can only imagine what it would be like to hear the opening riff from “Twice As Hard” as the stage lights up.
I saw them many years ago, great show!
First time was in Devore probably 1996? Then again in 2004-ish at the Long Beach blues festival. Chris’s wife, Kate Hudson was backstage holding their kid.
That was a great show because it was on a Sunday and they do “Sunday Service” when they play on Sunday.
Christ, hurricane Ida looks scary as hell. Store water, charge devices, sedate the elderly.
Or the children; “I’m scared” or “I’m bored” could be less tolerable than never ending anecdotes or “I told you so we’re going to die!”.
Jeebus got tired of killing the anti-vaxxers one by one, so he’s gonna drown the entire Gulf region. If they don’t believe the guv’ment about medicine, why would they heed weather warnings?
Yeah, I’ve been watching that thing for days and I’m really happy it hasn’t taken aim at my dad and stepmom in Pensacola.
This hurricane, like the evil bitch Katrina, is happening on my dad’s birthday. I blame him! He was alive for Katrina. One of the worst fights we ever had was about George Bush’s inadequate response to it. At least this time we have a competent, compassionate prez.
Surprise! Trump sold FEMA to Putin. No help coming
3 Lesser footy games on today, but 2 are playing simultaneously. The EPL never learns
Yeah, last year was great how they spread it all out.
I really thought supporter demand would keep them from regressing all the way to the old system. As usual, Hippo is wrong.
Heh heh. Nor bad for a first time. My first were a lot uglier. Those look mighty fine and delish.
My mom made empanadas (“pastelillos”, down here) for sale and for home. Same way: put filling, circle the edge with water, fold, fork, and run your finger across the edge.
Last time my mom made pastelillos was two weeks ago, for lunch. She favors gouda cheese filling and fried.
Lunch appetizers, rather. Pastelillos, raviolis, dumplings… I could eat 20+ in a sitting.
Gouda would be an amazing filling. I seriously debated cheese for a filling but first attempt is usually traditional.
You should have seen the first time I made pierogies. Looked like a bomb went off in a flour factory. The pierogies themselves could have been made by a classroom full of extremely dumb 1st graders. I’ve made better ones since, but mostly I leave it to Mrs. T.
My wife’s from Morgantown WV, and I’m from Huntington WV. She never heard of cole slaw on barbecue or on chili dogs, and I had never heard of pepperoni rolls or pierogies.
Ohhh man, pepperoni rolls! I’m from western PA, originally Pittsburgh, grew up in Ligonier.
Oh, man.
The Black Crowes (AWESOME!) at Red Rocks (AWESOME!)? I am insanely jealous.
Have fun!
3rd time for the Crowes and 2nd time for Red Rocks. Two years ago this combination presented itself and I said to myself no matter what happens I’m going to that show.
I had little to no idea what would happen in the subsequent 2 years.
Okay, here’s my proposal: I fold myself up in your suitcase and you take me with you. I can sleep on the floor of the hotel and pay for my own food and drinks. We’ll have to figure out a way to smuggle me into the show, but that’s future us’s problem.
If you can get to Union Station in downtown Denver at 4 PM tomorrow I have a ticket to the show and a ticket on the shuttle to Red Rocks and I swear to God I’m fucking serious. Brother DJ TAJ can’t do the trip. Something about crippling anxiety.
I’m 100% serious.
Mannnnnnn, I wish. Unfortunately, I think Mrs. In TX would commit homicide if I just said, “I’m headed to Denver, have a great week!”
But if it was just me in the house, I’d tell you “look for the sorta tall dude in the blue polo shirt”
Yeah Right and I connected at the James concert at the Greek Theater. It’s fun to be able to look halfway across the venue and say “hey, there’s that friend of mine!”
Come on Rikki, you can get to Denver by 4 tomorrow. I’ve got an extra bed and the breweries in Denver are incredible.
I would really hate to waste this ticket.
New Orleans in store for another devastating hurricane? Why didn’t they move the whole city to central Iowa after what happened last time, did they learn nothing?
Prior to Katrina, my friends’ joke regarding New Orleans and hurricanes was always “that city could use a regular shower anyway.”
We, uh… we don’t make that joke anymore.
The shower isn’t as effective when the drain clogs up and the whole bathroom fills with raw sewage I guess.
Iowa locked their door when they saw how athletic Naw Leans was
Happy Trails, safe travels. Relax, if you’ve been vaccinated and just use common sense you will be fine. Let us know how the show was, I hope the boys still put on a good one.
They haven’t failed me yet. Fingers crossed. They’re playing “Shake Your Money Maker” from start to finish to open the show.
This looks absolutely
I only have one thing to say:
