Oz ,'Same Time, Same Place'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Tonight's dinner is already made: Homemade beef stew.
1/2 purple onion, sweated in 2 T of butter. Then added 1lb of stew meat, floured. Browned that. Added 1/2 cup of red wine. Then added 16 oz of beef stock, coarse sea salt and coarsely group black pepper. Added a bag of frozen, sliced carrots and let simmer while I chopped up 4 medium, scrubbed potatoes. Added them to the pot and left to simmer.
There are currently three fires burning in NC, all near the coast.
Okay, that makes more sense. Although I swear one article made it sound like the actual fire was in Cary.
Really dark and bitter rather than hoppy or thin. Put it this way. The ideal beer for Welsh Rabbit is stale beer. But if you don't have beer around the house long enough to go stale then poor quality (in the sense of dark & bitter and not in a good way) is a really good second best.
I'm making beef burgundy tonight. Can't wait to finally use my new dutch oven for the first time!
Although I swear one article made it sound like the actual fire was in Cary.
As far as I know there are no major fires in Cary. Just a whole lotta smoke. There's more info here: [link]
As far as I know there are no major fires in Cary. Just a whole lotta smoke. There's more info here: [link]
Man, the purple area (aka, hazardous air quality?) is right where we're headed. I occasionally worry about hurricanes on vacation, but never thought to worry about wildfires.
I know this house is crazy falling down, but does it come with a little baby house? Or possibly 2?
I feel like every Australian holiday that popped up while I was on my last ship was a MUCH bigger deal because if we didn't go all out, the Aussies freaked out that the American ship wasn't catering to its passengers enough.
I know that's true, because an English friend (who is married to an American) was just bitching on his travelog about how there was a special "Dutch pancake" breakfast for the Americans on their ship. He was all "why just the Americans? Why not the 'non Dutch' people?"
I just blocked off my vacation time at work. Three weeks, August 29-Sept 18. Now I need to figure out where to go.
SF!!!!!!!
I don't understand, Vortex. Surely anyone could order the Dutch breakfast, right? I must be missing something.