Salsa verde, one of my favorite home made snacks. Starting to get my appetite back.
You're new to Jacco, eh? 🙂
Breakfast burritos consisting of oven-roasted yam cubes, scrambled eggs, (bacon for our non-veggie types), and too much salsa verde are always a personal hit.
Breakfast burritos consisting of oven-roasted yam cubes, scrambled eggs, (bacon for our non-veggie types), and too much salsa verde are always a personal hit.
That reminds me of a time when I ran a salmon fishing lodge on the Margaree River, and I had a client from the south eastern US, I'll say Georgia, who was visiting us with his 2 sons about that age. I guess back home they had a pond on their property which held bass, and these boys fished that pond every day, after school, before school, weekends, etc. Their father only let them use flies, and oh my those lads could cast a pretty line. Shows what practice can do, and familiarity with a tool when it becomes an extension of your hand.
Mind you there were a couple of local kids in Margaree who could handle a fly rod with similar skill, but they had the disadvantage of winter.
My cheap android phone has a better camera than my tablet, and both will accept a USB stick using an OTG cable.
The Ho and ChatteHo d'Y are references to Chateau d'If.
Edmond Dantès, The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas.
(if I had to translate my thoughts/intentions to plain English, [either] you'd be bored by the post length and/or I would read dime novels for secretaries)
Started watching "Three Days to Kill" with my son this evening and I said I want some salty yummy snack with bacon. He replied Little Smokies wrapped in bacon.
Going to the Grocery store when hungry is never a good thing.
Going to the Grocery store when hungry is never a good thing.
Two culinary successes recently, and both involved eggs. Living in a cultural backwater I never had pasta carbonara before. Read about it somewhere and was intrigued. Made a bastardized version with farfalle and smokey bacon instead of pancetta, and lots of fresh herbs (I particularly like fresh sage with bacon). OMFG as the kids say these days, it was heaven.
Then I saw Omar Allibhoy's recipe/video for Spanish omelet. Another win! The simplicity of eggs, potatoes, and onions cooked just right. My wife had been out at the local fringe festival and had some cold when she came home, she said it took her back to her mis-spent youth stumbling home after too much to drink in Torremolinos and digging in to a fresh tortillas de patas. So I think that's a good review.
Then I saw Omar Allibhoy's recipe/video for Spanish omelet. Another win! The simplicity of eggs, potatoes, and onions cooked just right. My wife had been out at the local fringe festival and had some cold when she came home, she said it took her back to her mis-spent youth stumbling home after too much to drink in Torremolinos and digging in to a fresh tortillas de patas. So I think that's a good review.
nez - beautifully executed paragraph, that - and sounds like you'll
" get crackin' " even more now
Fresh basil and bacon - yum
" get crackin' " even more now
Fresh basil and bacon - yum
Good for you. The way I've come to appreciate it best is by using the thinnest cut bacon/pancetta, one should almost be able to breath through the texture.
(not a day goes by without me stroking my Berkel slicer, still dreaming of owning a flywheel model one day. Flywheel B116 - The Flywheel range - meat slicers)
A youth spent in Andalucia, I'm jealous
(Hannibal the Cannibal would fancy a slice of tortilla de patas, pata is Spanish for leg)
Ha, of course I meant to say "tortillas de patatas", though autocorrect just tried to "fix" it for me again!
Yes when the missus was in her 20's she and a girlfriend went to Europe for a few months. They spent some time in Greece, France, Italy, UK, Morocco, Canary Islands, etc but it seems like they spent the most time on the Costa del Sol, partying with various expats. I got a letter from Malaga once. I think the Greek part started well but 30 years later she still can't stand the smell of Ouzo.
Yes when the missus was in her 20's she and a girlfriend went to Europe for a few months. They spent some time in Greece, France, Italy, UK, Morocco, Canary Islands, etc but it seems like they spent the most time on the Costa del Sol, partying with various expats. I got a letter from Malaga once. I think the Greek part started well but 30 years later she still can't stand the smell of Ouzo.
I take it the MissUse is up and running 100% again.
(Not sure if that's a positive thing, after the background check info. I spent several summers in the south of Europe, partying with that crowd. On one occasion my family reached the stage of having an apb put out, after I'd gone awol for six weeks without even a postcard of a dance club)
(Not sure if that's a positive thing, after the background check info. I spent several summers in the south of Europe, partying with that crowd. On one occasion my family reached the stage of having an apb put out, after I'd gone awol for six weeks without even a postcard of a dance club)
I don't know if 100% is a realistic target since there may be some permanent damage, but yes her rheumatologist recently pronounced her in full remission, no traces of bad antibodies. She is off the cyclophosphamide and tapering off most of the other drugs. She still takes pregabalin (sp?) which they hope will repair some of the nerve damage in her feet. But she is certainly up and around, dealing with her mother's estate (now the insurance company won't cover the house until it is rewired to eliminate old knob and tube, which is going to cost about $10K) and writing for LocalXpress. That is the "strike paper" she and her fellow striking journalists are publishing online as an alternative to the dumbed_down scab paper the company prints, which is riddled with errors and embarrassments when they bother to print local news at all. The unionized employees have been locked out since January. The company says they will negotiate, but only after the union accepts the contract they have offered, which seems disingenuous at best. The starting position of the company was complex but involved a 27% pay cut, reduced time off, working for free, no union say in seniority or layoffss, about a 30% staff reduction, outsourcing of some positions, and removal of the clause that guarantees equal pay for equal work. When a government mediator dragged them back to the table in May, their new offer was worse. They have no motivation to sign a contract and management seem uninterested in producing a newspaper.
Ironically they were producing a non-union weekly in Cape Breton for the local market, but readership and advertising had declined during the strike, which the company ascribed to "a head wind of union support". Since industrial Cape Breton is full of miners and steel workers that would not be surprising. The company's response was to shut down the weekly.
Ironically they were producing a non-union weekly in Cape Breton for the local market, but readership and advertising had declined during the strike, which the company ascribed to "a head wind of union support". Since industrial Cape Breton is full of miners and steel workers that would not be surprising. The company's response was to shut down the weekly.
Pregabaline and Amiltryptiline (in very low dosage) are neuropathic pain depressants, don't actually do repair works, but make life more bearable while nature and the real cable-guy do their thing.
(Had to use both for a number of years, fortunate enough to own a congenital level-head, use/quiting can lead to depression or even suicidal thoughts in some cases. I have 24/7 chronic pain till my dying day, makes life of a hot-tempered hyperactive even more difficult. It's barometric- pressure fluctuation and temperature dependent, at 30C+ ambient on Curaçao I'm 100 percent, can spend the entire day in 28C seawater)
You should be stone-deaf by now for overweight talk, my sympathy.
Murphy's law, never a moment of rest.
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28C water == too warm
28F water == yikes.
Fingers continually crossed for your missus.
yup, it takes a lot below 32F to freeze seawater, but in the meantime it's a great heat sink (read extracts body heat with wicked efficiency)
I should asterisk this by saying I don't know how to "float around" in the water--lap swimmer here. 🙂
In my case that's about 10 seconds (probably start to recite pages of some comic book around 5)