Running Bear's March 2022 Coffee Shop

[Bruette]

Willie, those dockside crab cakes look good. I'll look for them on our next grocery run.
I looked them up online, but they only say real crab meat, not what kind or where they are from. I was not surprised to see they also use what I call imitation crab meat, crab surimi (Alaskan Pollack and or whiting) in addition to real crab meat.
I love seafood cakes. crab cakes, salmon cakes even cod fish cakes. I want to try these dockside crab cakes!
I like to use imitation crab meat in seafood salad. For this it is better than blue crab. Blue crab has such a delicate flavor it is easily lost. Even onion can over power it.

Louisiana has been used as a source for Baltimore restaurants in the winter months. I believe it still is.

The blue crab is delicate. It does not ship well. If refrigerated they become docile, hard to say if they are still alive. That's ok for restaurants if you know they were alive before refrigeration. Not good for selling them live for steaming at home. Crabs should always be steamed alive. There is no mistaking a crab that has been steamed after it died when you crack it open to eat it. I should say crack it open and throw it away!

This is the recipe my wife uses for crab cakes. She got it off the side of the "Old Bay" seasoning container.

Crab Cake Recipe | OLD BAY

This simple crab cake recipe makes a refreshing yet savory dish that's perfect for the summer months and beyond. OLD BAY® Seasoning, French's® Classic Yellow Mustard, parsley flakes, mayo and egg combine to form this deliciously golden-brown crabmeat patty. Served on a lightly toasted bun or...

www.mccormick.com

I honestly believe my wife makes the very best Maryland crab cakes. The recipe she uses is simple and brings out the flavor of the crab. Her crab cakes are my favorite because she fries them perfectly. First time she made them, looking at them I thought they were broiled. After tasting them I did not care how she cooked them! After dinner I saw the frying pan and wondered how she managed to make them look broiled, but taste fried!

I pretty good with deep frying, but my wife is a master at shallow pan frying.

 

[Bruette]

Caffeine free diet coke or caffeine free diet Pepsi for me please. I buy which ever is on sale.
Supply chain issues caused both to be in short supply or out of stock all together. Things have been better lately.
For some reason I don't like the other no calorie versions as much.

 

[MikeInHubCity]

Coke Zero or Diet Pepsi!!!

CZS for me(but I usually opt for Sprite/7Up ZS or flavored sparkling water). Can’t stomach the taste of either of the other 2.

Good morning...Coffee Flo in the big cup today. Made it to Friday, snow is all gone with temps in the 60's. Rain tomorrow so I'll be finishing up the last two engines with their updates.

It was 62 on Wednesday & now a chance of snow today. The heavier stuff is supposed to miss us to the south & east. Looks like Tom O & Greg(MF) are going to just get rain from this storm. Espee, too.

Willie, those dockside crab cakes look good. I'll look for them on our next grocery run.
I looked them up online, but they only say real crab meat, not what kind or where they are from. I was not surprised to see they also use what I call imitation crab meat, crab surimi (Alaskan Pollack and or whiting) in addition to real crab meat.
I love seafood cakes. crab cakes, salmon cakes even cod fish cakes. I want to try these dockside crab cakes!
I like to use imitation crab meat in seafood salad. For this it is better than blue crab. Blue crab has such a delicate flavor it is easily lost. Even onion can over power it.

Louisiana has been used as a source for Baltimore restaurants in the winter months. I believe it still is.

The blue crab is delicate. It does not ship well. If refrigerated they become docile, hard to say if they are still alive. That's ok for restaurants if you know they were alive before refrigeration. Not good for selling them live for steaming at home. Crabs should always be steamed alive. There is no mistaking a crab that has been steamed after it died when you crack it open to eat it. I should say crack it open and throw it away!

This is the recipe my wife uses for crab cakes. She got it off the side of the "Old Bay" seasoning container.

Crab Cake Recipe | OLD BAY

This simple crab cake recipe makes a refreshing yet savory dish that's perfect for the summer months and beyond. OLD BAY® Seasoning, French's® Classic Yellow Mustard, parsley flakes, mayo and egg combine to form this deliciously golden-brown crabmeat patty. Served on a lightly toasted bun or...

www.mccormick.com

I honestly believe my wife makes the very best Maryland crab cakes. The recipe she uses is simple and brings out the flavor of the crab. Her crab cakes are my favorite because she fries them perfectly. First time she made them, looking at them I thought they were broiled. After tasting them I did not care how she cooked them! After dinner I saw the frying pan and wondered how she managed to make them look broiled, but taste fried!

I pretty good with deep frying, but my wife is a master at shallow pan frying.

one thing I miss about the east coast is the access to fresh crabs. When my sister had her house in Hamilton, we used to wipe out a bushel of blue claws when we’d go down for a visit. Mostly Dad, sister, BIL & I, My EW’s brother had a great CC recipe, but crab is way too expensive up here for me to make. Usually the only seafood we buy is walleye or catfish if we can find it on special, or the occasion lobster tail. I like to freeze the tails & make a big Ol’ pot of Lobster Mac with them.

 

[D&J RailRoad]

This is a D&RGW L-131 a Brass locomotive that I painted and weathered up just a little. The model pulled 50 cars up a 1.5% grade. It did struggle but pulled its heart out. So many steam locos under perform here. Some wont even stretch the drawbars out in the yard. This one astounded me. A great puller, and did justice to steam locomotives in general.
Please carry on my friends.
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I have a Aux water car (Brass) too but no images yet.

Good looking model there Tom. I've seen that in history pages, I think in Arizona near Jerome.

 

[D&J RailRoad]

Made it through the night without waking up with the feeling of a bear trap on my ankle. That steriod shot in my back yesterday has made a huge difference.
I could post a bunch of pictures of my back, but I won't so ya all don't have to scroll through a bunch of stuff ya aren't interested in.

 

[bnsf971]

Caffeine free diet coke or caffeine free diet Pepsi for me please. I buy which ever is on sale.
Supply chain issues caused both to be in short supply or out of stock all together. Things have been better lately.
For some reason I don't like the other no calorie versions as much.

To me, diet Pepsi tastes like the can it came in. Diet Coke, Coke Zero, or diet Dr Pepper…

 

[Patrick]

What a difference 3 hours make:

Taken from the back window. Currently 34° and windy. 72° yesterday, high still expected to be 50° later and back to 70° tomorrow.

Fun times.

 

[bnsf971]

Looks like we may be making some tough decisions over the next few days/weeks.
Any good thoughts sent this way will be appreciated.

 

[Sirfoldalot]

Send you all sort of good thoughts if I new WTF you are referring too?

I have many pages to catch up with -- It has been bumping 80F for a dai;y high and 47F here bouts for a low at this time.
Skies are clear and sunny!

 

[beiland]

Willie, those dockside crab cakes look good. I'll look for them on our next grocery run.
I looked them up online, but they only say real crab meat, not what kind or where they are from. I was not surprised to see they also use what I call imitation crab meat, crab surimi (Alaskan Pollack and or whiting) in addition to real crab meat.
I love seafood cakes. crab cakes, salmon cakes even cod fish cakes. I want to try these dockside crab cakes!
I like to use imitation crab meat in seafood salad. For this it is better than blue crab. Blue crab has such a delicate flavor it is easily lost. Even onion can over power it.

Louisiana has been used as a source for Baltimore restaurants in the winter months. I believe it still is.

The blue crab is delicate. It does not ship well. If refrigerated they become docile, hard to say if they are still alive. That's ok for restaurants if you know they were alive before refrigeration. Not good for selling them live for steaming at home. Crabs should always be steamed alive. There is no mistaking a crab that has been steamed after it died when you crack it open to eat it. I should say crack it open and throw it away!

This is the recipe my wife uses for crab cakes. She got it off the side of the "Old Bay" seasoning container.

Crab Cake Recipe | OLD BAY

This simple crab cake recipe makes a refreshing yet savory dish that's perfect for the summer months and beyond. OLD BAY® Seasoning, French's® Classic Yellow Mustard, parsley flakes, mayo and egg combine to form this deliciously golden-brown crabmeat patty. Served on a lightly toasted bun or...

www.mccormick.com

I honestly believe my wife makes the very best Maryland crab cakes. The recipe she uses is simple and brings out the flavor of the crab. Her crab cakes are my favorite because she fries them perfectly. First time she made them, looking at them I thought they were broiled. After tasting them I did not care how she cooked them! After dinner I saw the frying pan and wondered how she managed to make them look broiled, but taste fried!

I pretty good with deep frying, but my wife is a master at shallow pan frying.

Do you recall Gordons Seafood in Balt,..took up the whole block along rt 40. We use to visit their resturant aroubd the corner ever month or so (from Aberdeen Proving Grounds). They had FABULOUS crap cakes and Imperial Crab

 

[McLeod]

Good Morning!

Both my wife and my son work at the same lumber mill in Blue Ridge, and both say the trains have not been coming in to pick-up product lately. I know CP is into some vicious labour contract talks, but, CP is in the south. I'm not sure if those talks are affecting CN up here in the north. My understanding is that Blue Ridge will be using trucks to transport product. It would be nice to know what's going on. Local news isn't helping.

28F here, and still too much snow for me to walk the tracks and see if I can get more rail photos. I don't like winter much.

Here's some photo's of a train coming out of Blue Ridge when it was picking up product. This load will be added to a train sitting in the Whitecourt staging area, and a few larger engines will haul the whole train to Edmonton, where it will be dispersed across the continent:

I took those photos while standing in the village of Blue Ridge during forest fire season. The switch turn into Blue Ridge mill is just beyond the end of the train, past the road crossing.

Terry - Very sad and sorry to hear about your present circumstances. Best hopes and wishes toward the wife. I do wish the situation improves dramatically, and soon. Thoughts are with you.

Thanks to all for the likes and comments on my simple posts.
I'm going to try and figure a way to build a river crossing on my layout work today. I've ordered a Walthers 20" bridge kit.

Have a good one!

 

[MilwRoader_Steve]

Greetings and good Friday morning to all!

Actually got home around 3pm so had the house to myself and a 1-1/2 hour to kill - so headed down to the train layout. I got the completion of the reverse loop laid out and the foam roadbed glued down. Here in a few minutes (after feeding the greyhounds) I will return to said train room and y'all can anticipate another wine train! This will be an exciting day as it will complete the main routes of the train. I have to admit, I am still thinking and pondering my spur traffic for serving industries and whatnot. Overthinking, no doubt. I plan to run the reverse loop straight, although it will eventually have at least one 45 deg grade crossing. I figure it will be pretty easy to cut the stright flex and install the 45. I hope I am right about that! Hmmm . . . . . starting to rethink . . . what if the straight flex run ain't perfectly straight??????

Must also do shopping for my daughter. She is having a Sunday afternoon party in honor of her birthday and I have an extensive shopping list: 2 cases wine, 1.75L vodka, 6 bottles Bloody Mary mix ...

Anyways, won't be here long

 

[TLOC]

Good morning global modelers. The snow in the immediate yards around the house I noticed this morning is gone. Flushed away by the constant rain in So. Central Wisconsin since 1pm yesterday. It’s gone just in time to be replaced by our weather guessers saying 2-3” of wet white slush. Not exactly sure what that means but if a Weather Weenie (WW) says it, you know it will happen!

As I mentioned I am a diet Dr Pepper fanboy. I will drink the Diet Coke if that’s the only thing around and I’m desperate. I am down to 1 daily diet Dr Pepper at wake up time. The balance of the day is then water and 1 of a few choices. Caffeine free diet A&W root beer, diet cream soda or a diet 7 up. The final 3 we can only find in the sugarless versions around here. Terry drinks 1 daily diet caffeine free Pepsi but lots of coffee and some water.

Trains. Instead of the 12’ planned of replacement track on the main 6’ got accomplished. I have about 30 more feet to go but the motivation is down. When frustration with the track removal occurred yesterday, I grabbed the grain receiving building still in its white styrene finish, grabbed the airbrush and contemplated. That was around 11am. Finally at 3 I started the process of painting it. Primer color airbrushed on. 2 coats of color added prior to dinner and another coat added after dinner. I will check it this morning.

Terry just reminded me of my Behavioral Therapy Specialist appointment at 10:30. Now my calendar alarm is going off, it will tell me the same.

Be good, be healthy
TomO

 

[TrucTrain55]

Good morning all,

We hit 52° yesterday! No wind to boot, the snow is really melting! Saw two robins yesterday, a sure sign of spring at our location.

Willie - Nice radius tool, way better than mine! Also, like the cow scene (er train scene), the green grass and cow calf pair very convincing.

Hughie - 80°? I am jealous.

Boris - I better get rid of my old Iphone before it starts a fire in my house. I guess you don't want to leave some of that stuff laying around

Lee - another nice train video

Terry - I hope your wife continues to improve

Patrick - we are having corned beef and cabbage for supper as well

McLeod - you are moving right a long on the layout

Troy - Print a waterhole? Elaborate, please

George - new windows look great

I made it to the train room last night, got some painting done. Also gradually unwrapping some of my packed away stuff, found this kit I assembled a couple years ago: trying it out on the new layout


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Thats all for now, more later

Dave LASM

Dave I love those old Jordan’s your looks really nice. Thanks for the complement too. I’ve built several of these and had at one time over 50 unbuilt ACMacks alone. I sold almost all of them right after they when out of Business people was giving Ridiculous prices for them I made a killing.

 

[BigGRacing]

This is a D&RGW L-131 a Brass locomotive that I painted and weathered up just a little. The model pulled 50 cars up a 1.5% grade. It did struggle but pulled its heart out. So many steam locos under perform here. Some wont even stretch the drawbars out in the yard. This one astounded me. A great puller, and did justice to steam locomotives in general.
Please carry on my friends.


I have a Aux water car (Brass) too but no images yet.

Its freakin beautiful !

 

[BigGRacing]

Looks like we may be making some tough decisions over the next few days/weeks.
Any good thoughts sent this way will be appreciated.

Positive thoughts and prayers headed your way BNSF

 

[BigGRacing]

Good morning as well everyone from outside Halifax,
Temperatures are slowly creeping up here as well, enjoying my coffee here during a break from work. Tiny bit of snow in the shady spots still in my yard but it is melting.
Working on the chicken coop this weekend and have to get some dowel for my masts.

 

[ctclibby]

Good Morning all!

36F headed for 50F later. Weather guessers say it is gonna be spring! Still have some white on the ground although it is going away fast!
Thanks for the likes on my NoSh.t post.
Finally unzipped and untared 23G of railroad pix I have taken over the years. Some are scans from chemical film taken with Pentax K1000 ( my first real camera ), also Mavica, K100 and K70 along with what ever cell phone I had when camera was not available. Anyway, here is a taste - as I get time I will post in Prototype Railroads.

Taken 7/20/2012 East Libby: Snap Switch?

 

[Smudge617]

Greetings and good Friday morning to all!

Actually got home around 3pm so had the house to myself and a 1-1/2 hour to kill - so headed down to the train layout. I got the completion of the reverse loop laid out and the foam roadbed glued down. Here in a few minutes (after feeding the greyhounds) I will return to said train room and y'all can anticipate another wine train! This will be an exciting day as it will complete the main routes of the train. I have to admit, I am still thinking and pondering my spur traffic for serving industries and whatnot. Overthinking, no doubt. I plan to run the reverse loop straight, although it will eventually have at least one 45 deg grade crossing. I figure it will be pretty easy to cut the stright flex and install the 45. I hope I am right about that! Hmmm . . . . . starting to rethink . . . what if the straight flex run ain't perfectly straight??????

Must also do shopping for my daughter. She is having a Sunday afternoon party in honor of her birthday and I have an extensive shopping list: 2 cases wine, 1.75L vodka, 6 bottles Bloody Mary mix ...

Anyways, won't be here long

I wouldn't worry about the track being dead straight, that would be weird anyway, I've never seen one anywhere yet, all my flextrack has slight kinks in them, makes it more like real track.

 

[Patrick]

Officially 1.5 inches of the white stuff, but it is really slush. Should be gone soon once the sun pops out and the temps rise a bit. Good news is we got over an inch of needed moisture.