Redhorse cafe

[gilisi]

Chuuy...Shaaao!

I wonder if Toolz is a Philly fan

Go Giants!

Just kidding

[gilisi]

Watch out for falling trees.I hope you don't have to leave your house like in Florida.

So...Imma call you Chanklazo ok?

What do people eat in Belgium?

Do you look like the guy that played 'Poirot' on that TV show?

[OLChemist]

So...Imma call you Chanklaso ok?

No shoes, no service.

What do people eat in Belgium?

Salade liegeoise, a delightful salad of French green beans, potatoes, and bacon. This is a lovely fall salad. It is a nice side with elk roast. The red wine vinegar dressing pairs nicely with game.

Vol-au-vent, puff pastry shells filled with chicken and mushroom in cream sauce. During the 1970's an Americanized version of these were popular among trendy cooks who watched too much PBS -- like my mom, who rezzed hers out by cheating and using cream of mushroom soup. (It was the early 70's, Campbell's was the universal casserole solvent.)

Moules-frites, mussels and onions steamed in white wine or beer, with a side of fries. I have only tasted the variety that is made in Jersey -- the Crown Dependency not the state with housewives.

Speculaas, a Christmas shortbread cookie flavored with cinnamon, cardamon, nutmeg, ginger and white pepper. These can be a bit tricky to make in the States since the real thing is made with baker's ammonia (ammonium carbonate).

Sorry had to be a know it all, LOL.

[gilisi]

No shoes, no service.

Seriously I WISH my nickname was that cool...

Salade liegeoise, a delightful salad of French green beans, potatoes, and bacon. This is a lovely fall salad. It is a nice side with elk roast. The red wine vinegar dressing pairs nicely with game.

Elk is soooo gooood.. Thats 50% of the reason we might move to Oregon one of these days

Vol-au-vent, puff pastry shells filled with chicken and mushroom in cream sauce. During the 1970's an Americanized version of these were popular among trendy cooks who watched too much PBS -- like my mom, who rezzed hers out by cheating and using cream of mushroom soup. (It was the early 70's, Campbell's was the universal casserole solvent.)

If Ruthie was here she would say "Muusss" Was it any good?

Moules-frites, mussels and onions steamed in white wine or beer, with a side of fries. I have only tasted the variety that is made in Jersey -- the Crown Dependency not the state with housewives.

Ok...hang on...that sounds AWESOME. LOOOOve mussels, LOOOOve fries.

[subeeds]

Some parts of Western and Central Georgia took a hard hit. Michael was still a Cat. 3 when it blew through there, so there's a good bit of damage and wide spread power outages. Since those places were almost wiped off the map, they aren't getting the news coverage like Florida is.

[gilisi]

Some parts of Western and Central Georgia took a hard hit. Michael was still a Cat. 3 when it blew through there, so there's a good bit of damage and wide spread power outages. Since those places were almost wiped off the map, they aren't getting the news coverage like Florida is.

What about you guys?

[subeeds]

We're good. Never even lost power. Around 2 this morning, the winds really picked up and were probably gusting to around 50, but they died down around 8 this morning. We dodged this one. Now, just watching the 2 systems that are spinning around out there. It's freakin' Oct., we have never had this much going on storm wise in Oct. that I can remember.

What did I miss in the Ask thread? I looked, but couldn't find anything.

[gilisi]

We're good. Never even lost power. Around 2 this morning, the winds really picked up and were probably gusting to around 50, but they died down around 8 this morning. We dodged this one. Now, just watching the 2 systems that are spinning around out there. It's freakin' Oct., we have never had this much going on storm wise in Oct. that I can remember.

What did I miss in the Ask thread? I looked, but couldn't find anything.

LOL... well, that would be more of a question for WD or OLC, but I was able to see the DNA OZ girl was responding to that recent " help with 2 dreams" thread...and that's when I asked for the pitcher and popcorn.
I dont have access to stuff in the que...and thats a good thing

[subeeds]

Just went and looked. I'm not approving that either."smirk" I did add a "Cheyenne" story in the Turtle Island thread, though. LOL!

[OLChemist]

Some iced tea please.

I'm playing my favorite game: "Why do I smell solvent? Where is it coming from? And why isn't it in a hood?"

It's a variation of another game I play often -- "I smell burning electronics. What are we letting the smoke out of and where is it?" This is a team game, usually played by myself, the plant maintenance supervisor and the automation engineer. This game isn't as much fun, because about 10% of the time, it turning out to be our boss' dark roast coffee, which smells exactly like a burning ballast.

[Chalako]

So...Imma call you Chanklazo ok?

What do people eat in Belgium?

Do you look like the guy that played 'Poirot' on that TV show?

Call me any time...lol.

We eat all the things OLC said and also Flemish stew.That's slowely cooked beaf with onions, a few clove's, bayleaf,a spoon of musterd and a bottle of dark beer.Served with french fries.
My favorite dish is chicory wrapped in a slice of ham, covered with creamsauce and grated cheese and putt it in the oven till it's golden brown..Before you wrap the chicory in the ham you have to boil it till it's soft.To get the bitterniss away slice off the top of the chicory and remove the hard part.Normaly we eat it with mashed potato's.

I don't look at all like Poirot.I'm much uglyer.

[OLChemist]

Elk is soooo gooood.. Thats 50% of the reason we might move to Oregon one of these days.

Must have sauteed morels with cream and a splash of sherry. Which actually is pretty good in a vol-au-vent

If Ruthie was here she would say "Muusss" Was it any good?

That depended on how much she was stretching the leftover chicken/turkey. If it was all dark meat from the turkey leg that escaped Uncle Chalmers and was stretched with lots of onions and peas, they could be a bit scary.

This was mom's way of serving leftovers to company. Haul out the frozen puff pastry and it doesn't look like leftovers. (My mom has huge deep freeze in the basement that holds all kinds of weird ingredients in suspended animation. The puff pastry was next to the frozen chokecherries and atop the haunch of wooly mammoth at the bottom.)

[OLChemist]

Chicory greens would be better known to consumers in the States as radicchio or Belgian red endive.

[Spiritflight]

Packages and parcel delivery acceptance. Over 60 tenants and parcels every week and the deliver guy rings at every door bell and most of those receiving parcels are never home so you get bothered and then your own parcel gets delivered to a neighbor but it was supposed to come tomorrow and I would have been home today if I'd known it. I dislike having neighbors being bothered with my stuff and also me being bothered with their deliveries. But this habit seems to be taken for granted and no way to complain, they don't care at the parcel customer services.

[Spiritflight]

We're good. Never even lost power. Around 2 this morning, the winds really picked up and were probably gusting to around 50, but they died down around 8 this morning. We dodged this one. Now, just watching the 2 systems that are spinning around out there. It's freakin' Oct., we have never had this much going on storm wise in Oct. that I can remember.

What did I miss in the Ask thread? I looked, but couldn't find anything.

And because it's freak.... October we are getting typical all out summer temperatures which is as crazy as anything this year. They said it maybe the warmest October since first ever recorded weather reports. Yes, usually people would be dressed up with padded jackets and stuff this time a year. But nope, they sit in T-shirts sun bathing eating ice cream in the city center. What's going on in the world weatherwise, so strange this year.