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That would be it.

What will be fun will be to compare the new Berkley Wild Thing with both of the above. I have not yet ordered some, but it will be interesting to see if the big corporate can imitate accidental random and polished accidental random.

Sounds like I needed to add my modest goodies to the sagging buffet table. Heavens, that sounds good.

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Salsa made and used to make guacamole, guacamole made and nearly gone, chili is made and ready to reheat, queso same.

Rotel dip plus chorizo? Good stuff.

This afternoon I made a small batch of chili and a batch of queso. In a while I will do the knife work to make a fresh salsa and then use some of it to make guacamole. At kickoff Nancy and I will have chili cheese nachos with salsa and guacamole on our tv trays. It will be the only professional football game we watch this year. Heavens I had to look up who was going to play.

Bacon wrapped pork sirloin roast, garlic mashed potatoes, grilled zucchini.

One of the items I posted here (by way of a link to Living Well in the Ozarks) was a recipe for queso. At the end of the article I gave away one of my tricks. I make a batch and then fry a couple ponds of chorizo and mix that into the queso. Best way to serve it is over a plate of chips with sides of fresh salsa and guacamole.

The last 24 hours have read like a Monty Python "another interesting development." Nan and I are home from a difficult week at school. February's are the toughest. To make this easy, I pulled two tins of minced clams from the pantry. I minced 4 large cloves of garlic. I minced about a quarter cup of parsley. I very fine diced half of a red onion. I added a tablespoon of Penzy's Tuscan Sunset to the parsley. I have a bottle of clam juice and a have cup of dry white wine mixed. I have good olive oil standing by. We are headed to a white wine clam sauce pasta to die for.

I will happily admit I have addictive tendencies, but, so far, I have avoided the pile of rods syndrome. I have three walleye rods. Two are for trolling and pulling rigs. The third is set up for lead core. I typically have two out of three in the boat. I have a medium heavy rod for jigs, spinner baits, carolina rigs, and heavy vertical spoon jigging; a crankbait rod for warts and jerk baits; a Ned rod; a 6' Top Dollar rod; and a medium power rod for quarter ounce grub swimming and light spoon jigging. In my garage, I also keep a spinning rod in case I go trout fishing.

Mark Bitman. I own one of his cookbooks. The one about world wide recipes I think.

I read these entries, and I am so glad to see real people happily preparing real food. Today is Tuesday. I had an after school meeting until 4:00. I picked up the beautiful wife and we went home to fix dinner. I pulled some meatloaf cubes I froze from the freezer. I added potato and carrot. Tonight will be a baked hash. Life in the Ozarks is very, very good.

Maybe I'll add another. http://www.ozarkrevenge.com/2016/02/left-overs-what-are-you-going-to-do.html

Excellent things being prepared tonight. My contribution: http://www.ozarkrevenge.com/

I like your plan.

I fished three hours in Arkansas today QB. This was my first trip of the year. Caught nothing but sun, wind, warm, and beautiful.

Ness, that looks like enormous fun. The chef used really good sense in choosing his menu. Pan seared scallops are fantastic - provided you have good, unadulterated scallops. Panna Cotta is easy and very very good - did he teach you to cook it to temp or to texture? The greens and vinaigrette and the pork tenderloin are not common but dead easy once someone shows you how and you have the ingredients. Coulis are the bomb. I bet that was great fun and tasty.

Another topic I am sorry I opened.

Since Christmas break began I have re-read the 13 book (and counting) David Weber Honor Harrington series. Think a female lead Horatio Hornblower in space ships. Right now I am cleaning up the excess books derivative to that series. Good stuff if you like military sci fi.

The salad:

The above waits for the right time to go in the oven. It is the product of one of my three favored web sites, Pioneerwoman.com. The other two are seriouseats.com and Cooks Illustrated. Ree Drummond married into the Drummond family of Pawhuska, Oklahoma. Several of them were attorneys I knew back when I worked for the dark side. Despite that handicap she has become a best selling cookbook author and food celebrity. Regardless, I didn't follow her recipe exactly. I used macaroni instead of spaghetti, green chilies instead of bell pepper and pimento, sauteed mushrooms and onion with garlic instead of raw onion, chicken thighs rather than a whole chicken, and sriracha instead of cayenne. Oh, and I added a Ritz cracker element to the cheese topping. Earlier today I blanched some French beans and I will dress them with a fresh tomato dressing. Have a great evening!

Slightly disagree, but then I am not known as a SB fisher. 3/8 ounce black deer hair twin spin (buy a War Eagle and hand tie the skirt) with an upside down green spot frog trailer. 1/2 ounce Terminator T1 in blue shad with a Colorado/willow blade set 3/8 ounce single large Colorado blade in chartreuse and blue 1/2 ounce Booyah Counterstrike buzz bait in Limesickle just a four bait suggestion