Running Bear's January 2024 Coffee Shop

[Smudge617]

 

[Bill Tidler Jr.]

Good morning!

 

[troyphoto]

I am basically a grill and smoke kind of guy, but this experience has opened my mind to this method of cooking. Next time I am going to try it with the searing first to see what difference it makes. But first we'll have the leftovers later this week.

The two main differences I hear about are
Smokey Flavour being missing
The bark not being formed as well, just sort of baked on.
Any thoughts on those?

Troy I see they both have sords. Are they dragon slayer's or something?
Swal

Saving a Celtic Goddess who is being challenged for her sovereignty

I know AI driven graphics and stuff are way cool but I don't want photo realistic representations of my mythic or fantasy heroes and characters. They don't have cameras in those worlds usually. I much prefer a good hand drawn representation. Helps spur my imagination.

This is not directed at Troy. Just my random thoughts from seeing lots of AI driven images lately everywhere. They all look so stale and sterile.

That's actually a step down from photo realism. I just left them big when I uploaded. Due to how the files will look on a printed cover, I need the extra detail on computer screens to make up for the wash-out and pixellation in print.
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[NorthBrit]

Go Lions!

49ers Yeah!!!

 

[NorthBrit]

Good morning all. The rain has returned!!!

A busy day. Various phonecalls to make. Friends visiting early afternoon. Workmen doing work in the house. Younger granddaughter visiting after school. Then taking her to Brownies.
Lunch and dinner to fit in between.


Class 45 45048 'THE ROYAL MARINES' and Class 47 47299 'ARIADNE' at the refuelling pumps at Leeds Crown Point Yard.

 

[kbkchooch]

Good morning gang!

38° and windy to start the day looks like the daytime high will only get to 42° as we begin a cooler but dry week.

Thank you all for the birthday wishes. It was a low-key event as I was not feeling 100%, however, I did get phone calls and or long text messages from all five of the kids that made it all worth it.

BBL

 

[troyphoto]

Well, howdy there internet peeps and those with weather

It's Troy again...

All this talk of BBQ vs Aquarium heaters cooking meat made me dig out a couple of steaks to reverse sear later in the week. Got a day that should be no rain, mid 40s. That's BBQ weather!

today is fortunately dry according to weather guessers...

Since I have to drive to Goshen and try to set up the interwebz for her to talk with her transplant doc down in Indy. I'll be working off my phone since she doesn't have internet connection in her apartment. My Niece who lives close by, and was my backup location, had her baby about 5 weeks early, and he's still in the NICU, so mom and dad aren't available to help out.

We might be sitting in the parking lot to get better bars on my phone, but we'll make it work.

 

[Patrick]

Morning all,

Currently 30° and mostly dark. It's supposed to turn mostly light later with a high of 65°. No rain in the forecast until Friday and Saturday.

I did some work on the trains yesterday. I just have to get the pictures I took off the phone.



BBL

 

[TLOC]

Good morning to you meat lovers. The wake up today was to a foggy but not too bad a fog morning. The dense fog advisory has been posted though till 9am. The high temperature in So. Central Wisconsin should be 40f degrees this afternoon. The snow pack is melting…

I wasted my time yesterday in front of a monitor watching both football games. WHO I want to and who actually wins the games have been really off the last 2 weekends. I am glad I don’t bet.

Our daughter informed her mom yesterday afternoon she was hacked Friday to the tune of some significant money. She told her mom as mom would be more sympathetic than I would have been. I have been warning her for over a year that her lackadaisical attitude toward her financial security was going to bite her in the ass someday. On Friday she reported it to her banks and Saturday to the police. The credit card companies reacted immediately, her banks I guess took forever to stop access to her accounts. Terry and I change passwords every quarter! She hasn’t changed some of hers since she graduated college in 2005. Like I said, not too much sympathy from me…

Heading to the post office at 8am when they open to drop off some packages. I am waiting for a final approval on a couple items and then payment so I can send the final items off in the post tomorrow before 3. He is aware if no payment tomorrow he won’t see his items until late March.

Have a great day

 

[bnsf971]

Good morning. It's partly clear and 50.

 

[Espeefan]

Good morning al! Well we’re off to a standing start. My flight is delayed out of here. Was noon, now 3:05. Was to be home at 4:30, now 9:30. Not sure what the delay is. Doesn’t seem to be weather, probably crew of equipment issues. Two flights, two screwed up itineraries. .

 

[NYC_George]

Saving a Celtic Goddess who is being challenged for her sovereignty

Troy I don't know what Celtic Goddess duties are, but she is a good looker.
Swal

 

[NYC_George]

Now back to the real world I have to meet with our lawyer today to figure out just how much my wife's nursing home stay will cost us.
Digging up all the papers and phone calls are wearing me out. I hope this is the last lawyer meeting for a while.
Swal

 

[Boris]

Good morning. 38° and cloudy. Going to 43°, while remaining cloudy. Getting ready to make a grocery run for basics. I'm still not 100%, but better

 

[NYC_George]

I just called AARP our supplement health care plan F and asked them about what coverage we have concerning my wife's nursing home stay. I did this because the nursing home finance office told me we would be reasonable to pay the 20% Medicare doesn't pay on the 21st day of the stay. That amount is $274.00 a day. Medicare pays the full amount for the 1st 20 days. ARPP told me our plan F pays the full 20% Medicare does pay for 100 days. That's good news. This is what you can expect if you have the AARP plan F. The plan cost us $312.00 each per month. 2 X 312.00 = 624 X 12 = $7,488.00 a year. For those of you that are ready to retire this is what you can expect if any major health problems arise.
Swal

 

[Sirfoldalot]

OH Fuggedaboutit ... I am 10 pages behind. Looking to be 77 degrees with mostly sunny later!

CURT - Sorry to hear of your mouth problems -- tooth/teeth can really deal you some misery!
Here is hoping that you can get the situation under control without too much pain. My dentures 30 years ago solved all my problems; just about the only things I have trouble with is an apple and corn on the cob!
KARL - HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY!
SWAL - What a circus - I wonder why things have to be so complicated as we age!

I was bummed after last evening - I really wanted Detroit to win that game ... but was happy that K.C. did win!

Better make tracks for now ... have a "pickup" of groceries in a few minutes at Wally World two miles down the road.

Just found out yesterday morning that I have a 69 YO second cousin who has been fighting Liver cancer for a couple years -- just went on Hospice - sad - I am not ready to follow him!

 

[santafewillie]

Good Morning All. Clear and 42° under the almost full moon. If the weather forecast is to be believed, the next five days are going to be shorts and tee-shirt weather here on the SFW estate. Daytime temperatures in the 68°-73° range.
Maybe the ground will be dry out enough this week to make a final, although unnecessary, tilling of the garden. The nutrients in the compost and wood ashes spread on top will leach into the soil whether I mix them in or not. It just looks better all tilled up instead of irregular areas spread out over the garden.
According to the Farmer's Almanac and my own records (stretching back 35 years), there will be several days in the next two weeks that are perfect for Onion, Radish and Carrot planting. The rest of the upcoming two weeks will be just average days.
Short Farmer's Almanac logic: I mainly use just the waxing and waning of the moon for my planting guide, waxing phase for above ground crops and waning phase for below ground crops. But if possible and true to the old traditions, one is also supposed to observe the zodiac signs that the moon is in also. The moon rotates through all 12 every month. The various signs are associated with one of the following: Earth, Water, Fire, or Air. Earth and water signs are the most fertile, such as Pisces (water), or Virgo (earth). So there are certain days in each moon phase that are better than others. My belief is that since we all know that the moon has great control over the water in the oceans (note tides) which cover 80% of the earth, then it also controls the moisture within the ground itself; thus making for good and bad times for various seeds. I do admit that there have been times when I plant against the guidelines, just because the weather and I are ready. And yes, in some cases that I have tracked, using the Almanac's guidelines gives better yields. In some cases I can't tell if there is a difference. Mostly I just follow the phases. I don't know which Zodiac sign it's in, I just read the Almanac. I read all about the overall logic back in the 70's using the Foxfire books (not to be confused with Firefox web browser), by Eliot Wigginton.

As posted last evening, the Sous Vide brisket came out very well. I prepared a batch of homemade macaroni & cheese to go with it and sliced up some strawberries to balance out the meal. This method is worth further exploring for sure. It is actually the third meat that we have used it for, my wife had already made a pork butt and a T-bone steak in it. The pork butt really didn't taste or react any different to one cooked in the crock pot; the T-bone was just barely seared in the cast iron skillet after the process and was just a little more tender than a traditionally grilled one. I can see this method being a better option for larger cuts of meat, or smaller tough cuts like skirt steak used for fajitas. My SIL has used his to prepare the Prime Rib roast that he traditionally cooks for our past three Christmas gatherings every year, and I couldn't really tell any difference from the traditional method. i have a skirt steak in the freezer for our next experiment.

With all of the cooking yesterday coming at scattered times, I didn't get to the train shed but for a brief time only. And by then, I had already started on adult beverages, so modeling itself was out. Instead, I re-organized the stash of unbuilt freight car kits and became familiar with what I thought that I had. There is still about 2 dozen left, split evenly between RTR and kits. I also put in my ear protection and shop-vac'd the floor where the yard debris had stuck to my wet shoes, basically everywhere.
From the archives comes some more ready to place structures once I start the next town. Schmiegies Little Dutch Store, another laser-cut wood structure from JL Innovative.

Here are a couple of cardstock bank models from the now defunct Illinois State site.

And a companion kit to the BBQ trailer that I posted about a year ago, from Walther's.

Tom O - I appreciate your candid assessment of ClassOne customer service and product issue.
That drone delay in yesterday's football is apparently the second one that they have had in Baltimore this year.
Curt - Thanks for the comment, but I have to give Chet most of the credit for that interior. I only added some additional figures. Your diner looks like a real nice place.
Troy - I read a report that Ms Swift has helped the TV ratings at the games that she attends. So I assume that the NFL will continue to find her a seat in someone's luxury box for the Super Bowl as well. Do you reckon if she breaks up with that guy that she will still go to football games???

The two main differences I hear about are
Smokey Flavour being missing
The bark not being formed as well, just sort of baked on.
Any thoughts on those?

While I am not a big fan or user of Liquid Smoke, I have read that it can be used prior to putting it in the bag. I don't know. I may try it on a much smaller cut of meat first instead or potentially spoiling something as big as a brisket. There is the option of smoking it for a few hours after it's finished, which I will be trying on a future one. As I posted yesterday, I did miss the bark, but it's absence made slicing much easier. If I do this often enough, I will get used to it.

That's BBQ weather!

All weather is BBQ weather to me except rain. Adding a roof over the porch is a possibility later this year.
By the way, here in Texas, BBQ is a noun and not a verb! Grill and smoke describe cooking.
Chad -

How did you expunge the air in the bag?

I use the old fashioned press it out & seal method. I don't have one of those fancy expunging gadgets. So far it has worked just like when I am freezing produce from the garden.

Running late this morning from being so long-winded, so I gotta go now. To everybody who's feeling under the weather,, get well soon.
Everyone have a great day.

 

[migalyto]

Good morning everyone!

A very foggy Northern Illinois day today, but not shocking, since we have been in the fog now for what feels like weeks! Still no sign of the sun.

Dropped off all the paperwork this morning for taxes. I think this is the earliest we have gotten them in. Seems everyone was on the ball mailing forms this year. So, we will see how this turns out for us. Wife keeps a tight handle on it all year, so we never owe, but never receive a whole lot back.

Have a great day all!

 

[NYC_George]

SWAL - What a circus - I wonder why things have to be so complicated as we age!

Sherrel If you want to live on the street doing drugs and not work or a migrant no problem everything is free but everyone else has to pay and go through all this.
Swal

 

[chadbag]

I use the old fashioned press it out & seal method. I don't have one of those fancy expunging gadgets. So far it has worked just like when I am freezing produce from the garden.

I asked because most people just submerge the bag in water up to the zip part and then zip it. The water is the "press it out" a bit more efficiently than manually.

With regards to the reason to SV: it usually makes steaks and stuff more consistent and less effort than making sure you don't leave them on the grill too long or whatever. Throw them on the grill at the end of the water bath for a couple minutes to get the outer grill sear. (My grill is busted so I just pan sear). Of course traditional gril works well but SV makes it easier and more consistent for many people.

You can also use cheaper cuts of meat to get more expensive style results. Like "prime rib" style out of cheaper tougher cuts.

With regards smoking: I'd just smoke it for a while afterwards