The food thread

^ "And remember, it’s just a story."

My life is a story unto itself.

When I show up at Saint Peter's it's gonna be a while, while Peter and I have a few brews and cigars and shoot the breeze about steaks, taxi rides, haircuts, amplifiers and how to make friends... inside the gate, of course.

Peter: "So, Tony, did you really say that to Nelson when you first met him?"
Yours Truly:" Yeah, well, it seemed like the thing to do. His writings are so first person, it felt like I knew him already".
P: "You really need to learn how to introduce yourself to people... slowly... here, have another Lagunitas IPA... and thank for bringin up those 1990 Partagas Perfectos"
YT: " No problem, you're welcome, my wife has no clue what was in the humidors any.... yumm, good brew!"
P: "We brought up your Macho SIT and the A2s, Linn with the P3 and Maggies... did you bring a preamp?"
YT: "I think so... I hope so.... is Señor ZM, The Aleksander, around?"
P: "Not for a thousand years... he's in Purgatory for naming that amp a Sissy.. imagine that!"
YT: "Yeah, whenever I showed that amp to my friends I told them it was a FW SIT-3 clone... Sissy, indeed! Oh, did Nelson bring up his stash of SITs?"

The good thing about Heaven is that you can drink a six pack of Lagunitas IPA ( 9% ) and not get drunk nor have a hangover the next morning so you can have a nice prime steak cut just for you... with some cage free eggs, over easy, unbroken.

Did you know that in Heaven all food is organic? You know.. "carbon based"... no silica based eggs for me...

Don't worry if you're stuck behind me in line waiting to get in for what seems like ages... you're not going to Hell, nor Purgatory... hopefully Peter won't be too tipsy when your turn comes.

"Huh.. Cal... what's this about stories?"
 
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Lol, I suspect Tony and I were cut from the same cloth. Maybe a generation apart, though.

No dinner pics, my sweetie made a nice shrimp scampi and Caesar salad for me tonight.

Mixed up 420+ grams of a levain tonight. Unfortunately I did it after I cracked open my second Lagunitas after work beer, but before dinner. I needed 200gr of levain, so I mixed 200gr flour and 200gr water plus 20gr starter. 200+200=400 🤦‍♂️

Oh well, I guess I'm making 4 loaves of bread. I have flavors I want to experiment with anyway. Expect some new, fun, colorful bread pics in the coming days!

Thats a 16" mixing bowl for scale.
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Have you ever eaten an actual Dogfish?
aka Mudshark?

@Fast14riot... never had Dogfish IPA. I've been drinking High Altitude Malbecs lately. Hi Times Liquors in Costa Mesa brought a bunch, for under 12 bucks a bottle. Yum.

@Cal Weldon

I've been there... many times.

..."
There's a motel in Seattle, Washington, called the Edgewater Inn . . . The Edgewater Inn is built out on a pier . . . so that means that when you look out your window you don't see any dirt, it's . . . got a bay or something out in your backyard

Mud Sh-sh-shark

And to make it even more interesting, in the lobby of the aforementioned motel there's a bait and tackle shop where the residents can go down and, whenever they want to, rent a fishing pole and some preserved minnows and schlep back up to their rooms, open the window, stick their little pole outside and within a few minutes actually catch a fish of some sort that they can bring into their motel room and do whatever they want with it, you know what I mean?
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Mud Sh-sh-shark

"

Right now listening to Penguin In Bondage.... Roxy & Elsewhere...

Dummy Up!

..."You mean if I smoke that, it's the same as this
As if I was at college?
Roll it on up!
Roll it on up!
Roll it on up!
Give me that!...

No no, the college degree is stuffed with absolutely nothing at all
You get, you get nothing with your college-degree..."
 
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Just went and peaked at it. Its been bulk fermenting just about 27 hours now, is at 130% rise. It will get shaped and into baskets for proofing. I can proof it as little as 2-4 hours or I can do a cold retard for another 18-24 hours. I find that after about 3 days it loses its structure a bit.

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