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stevestory



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(Permalink) Posted: Aug. 14 2007,19:30   

tonight: Burrito bowls, i.e., burrito contents eaten from a bowl instead of wrapped in a tortilla.

burrito contents created from

1/4 lb chorizo sausage
2 cups black beans
1/2 cup Herdez salsa
1/2 sauteed yellow onion
1/2 bell pepper diced, sauteed
1/2 red pepper diced, sauteed
3 jalapenos diced, sauteed
1 cup shredded mexican cheese blend
1/4 cup cilantro

   
Arden Chatfield



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(Permalink) Posted: Aug. 14 2007,20:06   

Quote (stevestory @ Aug. 14 2007,19:30)
tonight: Burrito bowls, i.e., burrito contents eaten from a bowl instead of wrapped in a tortilla.

burrito contents created from

1/4 lb chorizo sausage
2 cups black beans
1/2 cup Herdez salsa
1/2 sauteed yellow onion
1/2 bell pepper diced, sauteed
1/2 red pepper diced, sauteed
3 jalapenos diced, sauteed
1 cup shredded mexican cheese blend
1/4 cup cilantro

No habaneros?

You're going soft as you approach middle age, Steve. ?;)

(Still, it's better than those Tombstone frozen pizzas.)

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stevestory



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(Permalink) Posted: Aug. 14 2007,20:08   

You're right, I need to spice them up. They were still good, with just all the jalapeno.

and there are definitely Tombstone pizzas in the fridge.

   
Louis



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(Permalink) Posted: Aug. 15 2007,03:11   

Just FYI: The Dorset Nagas are on order.

I'm scared and they haven't yet arrived. I don't even know when they will!

Louis

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(Permalink) Posted: Aug. 15 2007,11:32   

Quote (Louis @ Aug. 15 2007,03:11)
Just FYI: The Dorset Nagas are on order.

I'm scared and they haven't yet arrived. I don't even know when they will!

Louis

If you suddenly quit posting, will we know why?

If we don't hear from you for a month should we send Stephen Elliott over so he can take pictures and post them here? "Well, you can see from the burn marks here and here that Louis actually suffered quite a lot before he finally..."

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stevestory



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(Permalink) Posted: Aug. 16 2007,18:14   

The week's fare has been kind of boring. I'm training for a triathlon several months away and so I'm eating more sensibly. Lots of veggies and no booze during the week. To make up for these absurd strictures, I go hog wild on the weekend. I need suggestions for the weekend blowout. Anybody got any favorite dishes?

   
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(Permalink) Posted: Aug. 16 2007,18:28   

Quote (stevestory @ Aug. 16 2007,18:14)
The week's fare has been kind of boring. I'm training for a triathlon several months away and so I'm eating more sensibly. Lots of veggies and no booze during the week. To make up for these absurd strictures, I go hog wild on the weekend. I need suggestions for the weekend blowout. Anybody got any favorite dishes?

This may not be "blowout" food, but you will like it, and it generates lots of leftovers, which makes the weekday cooking a bit simpler.

From Food and Wine. I recommend substituting some bacon grease for part of the oil/butter when you saute the leeks. Quick, easy, no fancy ingredients, and truly delicious.
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Pan-Roasted Chicken and Leeks

ACTIVE TIME: 30 MIN
TOTAL TIME: 55 MIN
SERVES: 4
Four Season Farm co-owner Barbara Damrosch roasts the chicken on a bed of leeks to infuse them with flavor. You can leave the dark green parts on the leeks, but they'll be too tough to eat.
ingredients

   * 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
   * 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
   * 10 medium leeks (3 pounds)&#151;trimmed, slit and rinsed
   * Salt and freshly ground pepper
   * One 4-pound chicken, cut into 8 pieces
   * 3 rosemary sprigs, halved


directions

  1. Preheat the oven to 450?. Melt 1 tablespoon of the butter in 1 tablespoon of the oil in a skillet. Add the leeks; cook over moderately high heat, turning, until browned in spots, 6 minutes. Transfer to a 9-by-13-inch baking dish, season with salt and pepper and roast for 10 minutes, or until beginning to soften.
  2. Wipe out the skillet. Melt the remaining 1 tablespoon of butter in the remaining 1 tablespoon of oil. Season the chicken with salt and pepper. Add the chicken and rosemary to the skillet; cook over moderate heat until browned, about 10 minutes. Set the chicken on the leeks, skin side up, add the rosemary and roast for about 20 minutes, or until the chicken is cooked through and the leeks are very tender. Serve hot.

wine recommendation Cabernet Franc-based reds from the Loire Valley have enough acidity to cut the richness here. Try the 2000 Charles Joguet Chinon Ch?ne Vert or the 2000 Bernard Baudry Chinon Cuv?e Domaine. (ed note - I also like a nice Zinfandel, eg Seghesio, with this dish. Beer-wise, IPAs go pretty well too)

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carlsonjok



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(Permalink) Posted: Aug. 16 2007,18:29   

Quote (stevestory @ Aug. 16 2007,18:14)
The week's fare has been kind of boring. I'm training for a triathlon several months away and so I'm eating more sensibly. Lots of veggies and no booze during the week. To make up for these absurd strictures, I go hog wild on the weekend. I need suggestions for the weekend blowout. Anybody got any favorite dishes?

How about Mesquite Crusted & Marinated Pork Tenderloin?

Using a 2-3 lb tenderloin, it obviously makes alot, so you probably should invite company.

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stevestory



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(Permalink) Posted: Aug. 16 2007,18:39   

Not sure what the booze is going to be. Magic Hat #9? La Fin Du Monde? Rogue? Beefeaters? Bacardi? Stoli?

   
Louis



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(Permalink) Posted: Aug. 17 2007,03:06   

Quote (stevestory @ Aug. 17 2007,00:39)
Not sure what the booze is going to be. Magic Hat #9? La Fin Du Monde? Rogue? Beefeaters? Bacardi? Stoli?

Nothing says "decadent" like a pint of creme du menthe.

Louis

P.S. Mind you nothing says "alcoholic" quite as well either.

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stevestory



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(Permalink) Posted: Aug. 17 2007,19:44   

We're going with a 6 pack of



and a little less than a pint of


   
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(Permalink) Posted: Aug. 17 2007,19:45   

Quote (stevestory @ Aug. 17 2007,19:44)
We're going with a 6 pack of



and a little less than a pint of


Not mixed together, I hope?  :O

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stevestory



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(Permalink) Posted: Aug. 17 2007,19:51   

Oh no of course not. The Beefeater in shots, and the ESB very gradually.

   
Louis



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(Permalink) Posted: Aug. 18 2007,06:20   

You should have combined them! Have you heard of a "Dog's Nose"?

Let me check my Tom Sharpe collection....

....Ah yes! The Grantchester Grind...

Lord Jeremy Pimpole

In there you shall find the recipe for the Dog's Nose:

7 ounces of Gin to 13 ounces of Bitter. Lord Pimpole's version is the other way around (roughly!).

Go you ahead!

Louis

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(Permalink) Posted: Aug. 20 2007,21:50   

Can we get Christopher Hitchens on this thread?

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Arden Chatfield



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(Permalink) Posted: Aug. 20 2007,21:57   

Quote (Richardthughes @ Aug. 20 2007,21:50)
Can we get Christopher Hitchens on this thread?

You mean to fill out a sort of "British drunks" theme?

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(Permalink) Posted: Aug. 20 2007,22:04   

Quote (Arden Chatfield @ Aug. 20 2007,21:57)
Quote (Richardthughes @ Aug. 20 2007,21:50)
Can we get Christopher Hitchens on this thread?

You mean to fill out a sort of "British drunks" theme?

Oh, you v\can't ever fill it out. Reality just isn't challenging enough sober..

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Louis



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(Permalink) Posted: Aug. 21 2007,04:53   

MY CHILLIS HAVE ARRIVED

MY CHILLIS HAVE ARRIVED

I have some jalapenos, some poblanos and of course two packs of the Dorset Naga (the hottest chilli in the world).

I touched the outside of the pack and then my lip and my lip can feel it already. These beauties are rocket fuel!

I'm not going to cook them yet, I am going to ask for chilli based recipe suggestions from the assembled connosieurs of all things chilli.

Have at it lads and ladies. How am I going to cook my super chillis?

Louis

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Albatrossity2



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(Permalink) Posted: Aug. 21 2007,06:11   

Quote (Louis @ Aug. 21 2007,04:53)
Have at it lads and ladies. How am I going to cook my super chillis?

Louis

More to the point, what is the address where we can send flowers for the funeral?

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Has been obligated from the beginning
To create an ordered universe
As the only possible proof of its own inheritance.
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Louis



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(Permalink) Posted: Aug. 21 2007,06:19   

Quote (Albatrossity2 @ Aug. 21 2007,12:11)
Quote (Louis @ Aug. 21 2007,04:53)
Have at it lads and ladies. How am I going to cook my super chillis?

Louis

More to the point, what is the address where we can send flowers for the funeral?

Don't joke, I'm genuinely afriad.

They're still in the bag, in a fridge and I can taste them if I walk into the tea area at work where the fridge is(People's tea might be spicier than expected). Bear in mind that I work in a lab, the exciting smell of stored chemicals and various noxious fumes is nothing odd to me. The sheer chemical heat these beasts give off through two layers of plastic and a closed fridge door is impressive.

I am tempted to take some gloves from the lab, take a teeny slice of one and taste it for real, but I have work to do, dribbling and shooting fire from any given orifice are not conducive to that process.

Fear the chilli, it is mighty and I am weak.

Louis

P.S. No flowers please, just some chilled toilet paper and Savlon.

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Louis



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(Permalink) Posted: Aug. 21 2007,09:38   

Ok so when I said I was tempted to try a bit of a chilli and that this would be stupid and therefore I wouldn't do it, I erm, well, was mistaken!

I did cut a bit off the chilli (wearing some gloves and using a new, clean scapel, on a clean paper covered surface!). I should have done it in a fume cupboard. Whoa are these things spicy!. I took about a square millimetre of the flesh and popped it onto the tip of my tongue. YOWZA!!!! This is unlike anything I have had before and I have eaten raw habaneros whole in a Mexican restaurant. It is genuinely the most searing chilli I have encountered, it also tastes great! Really sweet and fresh, just unbelievably spicy. I am going to turn one set into chilli jam/preserve and I am going to cook with the other set. Chilli for 4000 seems about right.

Louis

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Arden Chatfield



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(Permalink) Posted: Aug. 21 2007,09:53   

Well, Louis, there's always this.:p

Actually, there should be a lot of ideas here.

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k.e



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(Permalink) Posted: Aug. 21 2007,10:12   

Quote (Arden Chatfield @ Aug. 21 2007,17:53)
Well, Louis, there's always this.:p

Actually, there should be a lot of ideas here.

32 years ago in a restaurant in Bangkok I was 'treated' to a  local speciality that was 'tweaked' by some locals to give it some extra 'character'.
Let me just say it involved some beef and chillies.
I can say I have never been the same since and so could they, presumably.

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The conservative has but little to fear from the man whose reason is the servant of his passions, but let him beware of him in whom reason has become the greatest and most terrible of the passions.These are the wreckers of outworn empires and civilisations, doubters, disintegrators, deicides.Haldane

   
stevestory



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(Permalink) Posted: Aug. 21 2007,10:13   

Quote (Louis @ Aug. 21 2007,07:19)
Quote (Albatrossity2 @ Aug. 21 2007,12:11)
Quote (Louis @ Aug. 21 2007,04:53)
Have at it lads and ladies. How am I going to cook my super chillis?

Louis

More to the point, what is the address where we can send flowers for the funeral?

Don't joke, I'm genuinely afriad.

They're still in the bag, in a fridge and I can taste them if I walk into the tea area at work where the fridge is(People's tea might be spicier than expected). Bear in mind that I work in a lab, the exciting smell of stored chemicals and various noxious fumes is nothing odd to me. The sheer chemical heat these beasts give off through two layers of plastic and a closed fridge door is impressive.

I am tempted to take some gloves from the lab, take a teeny slice of one and taste it for real, but I have work to do, dribbling and shooting fire from any given orifice are not conducive to that process.

Fear the chilli, it is mighty and I am weak.

Louis

P.S. No flowers please, just some chilled toilet paper and Savlon.

I'm generally pretty opposed to toilet humor, but 'chilled toilet paper' was pretty funny.

   
k.e



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(Permalink) Posted: Aug. 21 2007,10:19   

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I'm generally pretty opposed to toilet humor, but 'chilled toilet paper' was pretty funny.


pfffft give me sand paper and a branding iron.

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Louis



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(Permalink) Posted: Aug. 21 2007,10:24   

Quote (stevestory @ Aug. 21 2007,16:13)
Quote (Louis @ Aug. 21 2007,07:19)
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Quote (Louis @ Aug. 21 2007,04:53)
Have at it lads and ladies. How am I going to cook my super chillis?

Louis

More to the point, what is the address where we can send flowers for the funeral?

Don't joke, I'm genuinely afriad.

They're still in the bag, in a fridge and I can taste them if I walk into the tea area at work where the fridge is(People's tea might be spicier than expected). Bear in mind that I work in a lab, the exciting smell of stored chemicals and various noxious fumes is nothing odd to me. The sheer chemical heat these beasts give off through two layers of plastic and a closed fridge door is impressive.

I am tempted to take some gloves from the lab, take a teeny slice of one and taste it for real, but I have work to do, dribbling and shooting fire from any given orifice are not conducive to that process.

Fear the chilli, it is mighty and I am weak.

Louis

P.S. No flowers please, just some chilled toilet paper and Savlon.

I'm generally pretty opposed to toilet humor, but 'chilled toilet paper' was pretty funny.

Toilet humour?

I guess you could flush the tissue paper after blowing your nose on its cooling wonderfulness (hot chillis do make your nose run after all, and the chilled paper cools the sore and chapped skins wonderfully). What did you mean?

Louis (Innocent as several new born lambs who've just been put through innocent school on an innocent scholarship for the amazingly innocent.)

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k.e



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(Permalink) Posted: Aug. 21 2007,10:28   

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Louis (Innocent as several new born lambs who've just been put through innocent school on an innocent scholarship for the amazingly innocent.)


FFS

I hope you get mauled by Argentina in the Rugby world cup, then eaten by Samoa.

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Louis



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(Permalink) Posted: Aug. 21 2007,10:37   

Quote (k.e @ Aug. 21 2007,16:28)
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Louis (Innocent as several new born lambs who've just been put through innocent school on an innocent scholarship for the amazingly innocent.)


FFS

I hope you get mauled by Argentina in the Rugby world cup, then eaten by Samoa.

Tchoh! The way we're playing, we probably will!

Louis

P.S. You do realise that that addendum after my name was a joke right? Have you been drinking again? If long words and cheeky phraseology upset you so, might I suggest a course of jamming your head repeatedly up your arse followed by a short stint of get over it? ;)

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carlsonjok



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(Permalink) Posted: Aug. 22 2007,08:24   

Experience British Dining, or An American Gourmand in London

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(Permalink) Posted: Aug. 22 2007,11:14   

Quote (carlsonjok @ Aug. 22 2007,08:24)
Experience British Dining, or An American Gourmand in London

Funny stuff... and probably 90% true.  It reminds me of a scene in European Vacation where Chevy Chase as Clark Griswold from Chicago pulls out a translation dictionary to try and understand what the English clerk says to him at a hotel.

I would expect Richard to have stories to tell about Bad American Service too.

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