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So I needed some dog food and stopped into the local megamart to get that, so I also got some cheese and beer. First off, I got the Purina Moist and Meaty Beef Flavor. Then I got three cheeses -- a gruyere, a Dutch blue cheese and a Tilamook (OR) medium cheddar. Then I got a sixer of Anchor Steam. I just ate these cheeses plain. Gruyere was my favorite. I know that gets used as a melting cheese (French onion soup, potato dishes, grilled cheese, whatever). Delicious! Blue was good, but not so much for plain eating. Tillamook cheddar was really nice too. Don't have a lot of experience with cheddars, but this was white and hard. Anchor Steam is dang good stuff. Probably haven;t had it in 20 years. Tonight is prep night. Tomorrow it's duck breast and roasted root veggies. Can't wait!

Dang. I'll take one of each!

I'm not a big cheese eater or connoisseur, but trying different cheeses and learning about them does sound like fun. I actually tried Limberger last year at the Beer, Bacon and Cheese Festival in New Glaurus, WI (which was pretty fun). Smells horrid, but tastes pretty good. I occasionally buy a little brick of fancy cheese at the store. I've had Emmenthaller and Jarlsberg Swiss, and a couple others I don't remember. I've made cheese a couple times too. Mozarella and a farmer's cheese. Not bad, and not hard to do. Just didn't stick with it. I always hear about Maytag Blue Cheese. Ever had that? It's American (Iowa) and started by Fritz Maytag, heir to the Maytag appliance money. He also is prominent in the craft beer movement, having rescued Anchor Steam Beer back in the 60s and turning it into one of the first successful craft brewers (brewing something other than American lagers).

??? I appreciate the help!

Who's driving aluminum? Mind sharing the roster? The usual suspects?

Hah! Way ahead of you. I know you like that site (and I do too) and that came up in my search. Good article and thank you for your care in preparing the breasts. LOL x 2. Yes, it's important to keep her happy so 'teacher wants to see me after school' (David Lee Roth-style :D). BTW, she's on board with the whole thing. She's not a stranger to wild game having grown up in rural Iowa. A real live corn-fed Iwegian

Yeah, I was getting a chuckle outta that and so were they. The biggest non-event of the preseason each year. The radio guys, who live and breathe sports, didn't even remember we'd won it this year. I knew we were undefeated in the preseason, and figured we always played the Rams, so I kinda slopped into knowing we won it.

Welcome aboard! They're cemented into this community is a way that's pretty special, but we've got tolerance for folks from 'back east' too :D.

Well, who knows. I know my life isn't exciting enough to record video of, especially the stuff going on behind me. And, I don't care to watch much of others' adventures in 2D when it's through a fish-eye lens, much less through some contraption on my head. I guess I got my fill of that at Disney World.

Yeah -- two lenses, and they look to be kinda serious ones if each captures 180-degrees? It'll be interesting to see how these things work. Gonna piece two 180s together without distortion? Probably not a $300 camera. I did read up a little this morning, and it looks like this is aimed at the Virtual Reality headset wearing dudes. Which kinda makes sense now. Here's a video:

I do pheasant and quail like that. Usually add a little wine and some herbs. But, there's a mighty wind a'blowin' on this whole quick sear/rare thing...

LOL. I had it in mind they were skinless, but I haven't opened them up. A quick check of the freezer (and, flipping them over) confirmed they are skin on. Quick, hot sear on the grill is what I'm gonna do. No Game Tame or other marinade. I want the real deal -- it's been a while.

So, the Rams are gone. Does anyone care? St. Louis has never really felt like a football town to me. There were the perennially mediocre Cardinals who up and left. Then after a few years without a team the Rams came to town. The relocated LA Rams managed a Super Bowl win in '99 (they have always felt out of place in StL to me). But I have really never heard much chatter here or elsewhere about the Rams. Never a Ram avatar; many more references to the Tigers, Cardinals, maybe even Blues here than the Rams, as far as I recall. Are there real live Rams fans that care about this? The local sports radio guys were having fun with the fact that the Governor's Cup is ours (KC) forever. That came after a couple minutes of trying to remember if the Chiefs had won it. As much as I hate to admit it, StL is a great American city. And NFL football should be there -- forever. But if you got a team today, it would take a decade, with a competitive team, to build a true fan base.

Don't know anything about the Sonic Pro's, but I'm on my second pair of Freestones and I have always really liked them. Sounds like you did good.

Thawed some chicken shoup out and had that for dinner. Making progress on the freezer. Gotta get some advice on cooking a couple skinless mallard breasts. Anybody ever eat that?

I checked with Hank Patterson. Definitely a cuttyrainbrown.

Sounds outstanding

Week two of the clean out the freezer project. Last night, frozen meatballs came out and went into a local bottled sauce (Cascone's). Served with spaghetti squash that's been sitting in the basket for a good 2 months or more. Got some chicken soup thawing out for later in the week. Gotta do those duck breasts too! Need to read up on it first.

KC BBQ joint sauces: Gates Sweet and Mild, Hayward's, Johnny's, Bryant's Rich and Spicy, Papa Bob's Bob'anero. Papa Bob's is a real live, old-school BBQ joint not far from where I live. Great folks, a little dive of a place. Bob makes the rounds in the dining room, and chats up folks. Tries out new sauce ideas on the customers. The Bob'anero is really good, but not killer hot. They were on Man v. Food a while back, and their business has gone crazy. One time I was there a couple had flown in from London and went straight there from the airport

What the heck are you talking about old man?

Haven't had Maull's in years. Now that all the great BBQ joints have their sauces available in the store I generally get one of those. Or, make my own. Or get some from my OAF buddies

There's a place in KC that serves a pig snoot sandwich. I heard all the new KC police officers 'get' to go there and have one when they graduate from Police Academy. I'm with rps -- not in this lifetime.

For me the odds are 0 in 175,000,000

I read up on Graham Kerr the other day. Married 60 years, and became a born-again Christian after a near-fatal car crash in the 70s. Came to live a healthier lifestyle, and condemn his high-fat cooking and drinking. For what that's worth. He was a big personality back in the late-60s and early-70s, for sure. We watched his show, but with 4 channels choices were limited. Googling Toas-Tite....

And you know this how?