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The other thing that was interesting about this series was that the GM of Chicago (Theo). And the Manager of the Indians (Terry) were both with the Red Sox when they won their first after 86 years.
November 3, 2016 at 6:45 am in reply to: Did You Cook Anything Interesting the Week of October 23, 2016? #5367Last week I went back on the South Beach Diet - my pants got a little too tight - always my sign to rein in my eating. It's not that I eat a lot (so I tell myself); it's just that I eat the wrong thing - whole grain Cheez-Its are still Cheez-its and half a box does not make a good dinner (well, yes it does, but not a healthy one).
Sunday, just before I decided to go whole hog on the diet, I made a batch of my vegetable barley soup which is always super low everything and delicious. I had that for lunch every day which was a big help. So I've been experimenting with healthier meals - last week I made a balsamic marinated chicken breast from the original book - the flavors were great, but the chicken was dry.
I also made a batch of Tangy Salad - spring mix, apples, golden raisins,sunflower seeds, blue cheese and green onions - to take to a potluck at work.Hey Len - Congrats - I posted a message for you on the Trick or Treat thread.
No lemons here yet - unless someone else found the box 🙂
I baked a dessert to take to a dinner party - a Triple Chocolate Bread Pudding with Bailey's Chocolate Sauce from Simon Pearce's cookbook. It was delicious and a big hit, but mine did not look like the photo at all. I think I'll have to contact the restaurant to find out why. One minor disappointment - I mixed up the custard and poured it over and left overnight as the recipe said, but I know I'll have to mix better next time - some of the bread chunks did not get soaked all the way through. The sauce is made with cocoa powder and I think you can control its taste by the type you use - I used the Double Dutch and I loved that it was not too sweet and you could taste the Bailey's.
Hey Len, Congratulations on your Cubbies!! How does it feel? I know that in 2004, we all felt great for years after the Red Sox won the first one.
We currently live in a condo complex (they're called "villas" - one story connected houses). Will didn't even decorate this year. When I got home from an event at work about 7:30, there were only one or two porch lights on and it appeared that no one had decorated their units at all.
I made an Irish Chocolate Cake and discovered that if you don't let the chocolate cool enough you get a denser cake with that little bit of pudding texture near the top of the pan (the bottom of the cake when you turn it out.
With just two of us, we run it every 2 or 3 days - we wash the pots and pans and prep dishes by hand. You know I've been cooking up a storm when I pull out the dish rack instead of letting them dry on a towel.
October 25, 2016 at 7:22 pm in reply to: Did You Cook Anything Interesting the Week of October 16, 2016? #5260I did find a recipe for sheet pan fajitas which was very quick and very successful. My only problem was that the recipe saris it was for a crowd - I halved it usingn1 pound of chicken and Will and I polished it off. I don't know any crowd that would be fed with 2 pounds of chicken ?
One of my favorite captions from the hurricane in Florida was of a man "pulling a wagon down a road full of sand." That writer certainly needed to know how to diagram a sentence!
Aaron, another interesting site I have been following (although I haven't been making much pizza lately) is the Baking Steel site http://www.bakingsteel.com/pizza-blog/
They have posts from Peter Reinhart and Kenji Lopez-Alt as well as a variation on the no-knead I want to try. Obviously, the purpose is to sell baking steels, but it's still very interesting.
Lots of trees down. Minimal water damage because the storm went further off shore. The thing that kept us away for so long was that the wastewater treatment pumps lost power so we had to wait til that was clear. Good news no contaminants in the water. The crews have done an amazing job cleaning up. We're all thankful we didn't get the floods around St. Augustine or NC
Some of us were at work today cleaning up. The generators that power the coolers didn't go on - yesterday the back of house (kitchen for the uninitiated) staff went in to clean everything out. I understand it was nasty. Today they brought some us in from front of house to clean everything in the kitchen and do some reorganizing. Tomorrow a few will be going in to get the restaurant ready for service tomorrow night. And, we'll be back at work Friday morning.
Made mac and cheese (baked) for dinner last night. No baking quite yet, but probably be n the next couple of days. No eggs at the market yet
We got home today!!!?
We're heading back tomorrow morning hoping to avoid some of the traffic. Tonight we'll know when they let phase 2 in, we are phase 3 - residents which should quickly follow. Current issue is getting the waste water treatment system up and going and there is a boil water alert. Our intention is to get back on the island, but we do have a friend we can stay with tomorrow night if we can't.
I just feel so badly for the people in the Carolinas - they got hit so badly and it was never expected to go that way. There were 2 couples from Hilton Head in our hotel and they said Harbor Town was pretty much decimated. The 18th green (for those of you golfers who watch the Heritage) was completely covered with debris. This morning they got news of surging water where it had been dry after the storm had passed.
People have been allowed on the mainland but we're getting mixed messages about the islands. Another resort said they were told the earliest would be Weds, but everyone's hoping tomorrow. For those left on the island, reports are that the water never got that high, but there's no power and they're not even letting a few people on. Hopefully, we will be able to get there
We got lucky. By the time the eye was east of Brunswick (we're the barrier islands east of Brunswick), it had wobbled east and passed about 100 miles from us. This was great for us, but unfortunately went straight into the SC coast between Hilton Head and Charleston. For Mike's friends (I hope they are safe), the storm did not turn east as quickly and is going to be at least a tropical storm. It did get downgraded to a category 2 before it passed us.
We should be able to go home tomorrow. They're waiting for the PM high tide because we could still get storm surge. After that it's clean up and hopefully back to normal soon.
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