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03/06/2011 20:40 #53776

Elkalicious
Category: food
What happens when you want a cheeseburger but all you have is Munster cheese, brown rice and elk?

I cooked the elk in the broiler with a little bosari. Then I chopped it on brown rice and cut up some Munster and Cheddar to melt on top.

I paired it with asparagus, artichoke hearts, romainne lettuce and shredded carrot covered in olive oil and herbmare.

Then in the most cheeseburgerific way, I added some ketchup and mustard. It was organic, so maybe not too American.

For dessert, I had another one of those baby Thai coconuts but this time I mixed the coconut milk and flesh with hot vanilla pudding.

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tinypliny - 03/07/11 18:18
It tastes so good, it could have been illegal? :)
paul - 03/07/11 16:14
Oops, I meant olive oil.
lilho - 03/07/11 14:12
I love me some police oil! Mmmmm
paul - 03/07/11 09:17
Ya, its from that same store. Everything I have had from there is good.
jbeatty - 03/07/11 06:46
Yum, you are such a healthy eater. Did you get the elk from that Alaskan seafood store in Eden? I tried some salmon from there and was really amazed how delicious it was. I would never have expected a store like that outside of the city.

03/06/2011 18:13 #53775

The plow at the church of the ascension
This morning, when the plow ripped up the grass that it not only tore up the other side of the grass by the sidewalk, it even hit and riped up the brownstone.

How can this damage be worth it?

When we approached the church worker about this she said, "How can we expect them to handle the plow issue when they don't even have a priest."

If you can't even get a priest,maybe it's time to give up being a church. It kills me that they get tax free status. Its such bullshit when its like 10% church, 90% business. They don't even hold mass in the church anymore.

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johnallen - 03/08/11 22:52
We indeed have mass every Sunday and Holy days in the church, and careful what you wish for, soon enough we will be boarded up and there will be no maintenance done to the property at all except by the City. I hope you will be happy then.

03/06/2011 17:54 #53774

shrimp and seafood chlorine taste
Category: food
Its the first time I had pink gulf shrimp since oil spill. These ones looked yummy so I tried it. I got the idea from (e:hodown) who made springrolls a couple weeks back.

They did have a slightly weird taste but not a taste of oil it gasoline. Its like a chlorine taste that seafood has sometimes.

The taste often occurs in shrimp these days yet I remember were in Monterey eating a clam dish, at the viking lobster company in buffalo for My moms birthday one year, another time eating lobster in cape cod.

I looked all over the internet and people attribute it to three things.

  1. thawing in tap water too long the meat can absorb chlorine and get a bitter taste
  2. antibiotics in farmed sea food but these were wild caught
  3. chlorine used in the processing
  4. exposure to plastic in packaging
  5. iodine

The thing is shrimp/lobster doesn't always taste thus way nor do I remember it ever tasting this way years ago. I have yet to have the ones from Belize at Wegmans have that taste.

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03/06/2011 15:08 #53772

Total Recall at Dingens
Category: dancing
I dragged (e:terry) out dancing at Dingens Bar and Grill out in cheektovegas on the border of lovejoy last night.

I never expected to find myself out there but it was pretty damn fun. There were two rooms. One with hardcore and one with dnb.

There was a real wooden dancefloor as the one room was a banquet hall used for weddings and such but I spent a lot of time dancing on carpet which was difficult but I think it provided a better workout.

The highlight of my year was when this girl came up to me to say she and her boyfriend thought I was the best dancer. Its weird but I think I have gotten much better in the last couple years despite hardly ever going anymore. Something just changed after seeing Andy c at wemf 2008.

It does seem there is some sort of dance music resurgence occurring. In a way, I can't help but feel like my friend's parents who would have 60s themed parties in the 80s but it is fun regardless.

I mean, I never thought I would dance to shooting star again, but it happend.

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tinypliny - 03/06/11 15:19
You don't realize this but you have some sort of dancing and gracefulness gene super-activated in you... I have never seen you dancing (woe, all those missed chances...) though I have this constant feeling that you can beat the dancing daylights out of everyone around.

My dancing genes, on the other hand, are probably mutated towards extreme clumsiness. So you think Andy C can bring about epigenetic transformations? Maybe I should get a visa and experience this Andy C bloke.

03/05/2011 23:08 #53771

dear plow riding fucktard
Category: church of the ascension
This is why you can't drive a full sized street plow a full block down a sidewalk. I have to question if the amount of damage it caused was worth the 3 or 4 times it was plowed.

They obviously don't care about the character of the neighborhood. Between that and their ever expanding illegal driveway it looks like total shit right now.

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metalpeter - 03/08/11 18:01
The way things used to be is people who take care of the land during the summer and fall then do the plowing so if this is the case then maybe these people don't mind since they then do the lawn in spring anyways?
tinypliny - 03/05/11 23:43
After having seen their obnoxious plowing truck doing its dirty job the other day (e:tinypliny,53733) first hand, I don't think the Church of Ascension believes they cohabit a neighbourhood at all. They probably just think they are in the middle of a Gobi desert and can do whatever they want because they are protected by the sham religious nature of their decrepit building.

PS: You missed the "s".