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Yeah, but when that Yellowstone Caldera pops, it's gonna be a moot point Seriously -- that was really interesting.

What a funny thread.

Yeah, one of the tough things about doing a gumbo is the long prep time including the roux. With this you can forget it for a while. I am interested I the crock pot approach.

Pretty cool -- that guide had only one thing on his mind. Getting her back in the water.

or anything coming from a current/potential campaign donor?

I hear what you're saying. There's a point when it's just right, and it's a just few seconds away from ruined. Several different schools of thought on roux that I've seen. Alton Brown did the oven method on his show a few years back. I saw Paul Prudhomme do it on TV with high heat very, very quickly. Then there's the stir constantly for 30-45 minutes take. Now your way. I've been pretty happy with the oven results, but I've never left it long enough to get much past a medium brown. Our OA member Gavin cooked up some great gumbo a few years back and a group of us had it on a gravel bar. Commander's Palace recipe. I remember that because I went out and found the cookbook on Amazon and bought it just for that.

Aren't you a specially invited member of MSA? Why not bring it up with them?

My baby brother is a chef and told me about it years ago. No muss no fuss. I like it because it's hands off and fewer trips to ER.

Sounds great! I'm a gumbo junkie. One tip -- since the roux is really easy to scorch when you're doing it on the stove, I've taken to mixing the flour and oil and putting them in the oven at 375 degrees. Peanut butter colored roux in about an hour. The longer you go the darker it gets.

Cool topic -- fun to read other people's stories. My uncle owned the old family farmstead in Bucyrus, KS. We stayed there one forth of July weekend when I was young and I got to fish the pond -- my first experience with it. Growing up, dad didn't fish a bunch, but we occasionally went out. He was more a duck hunter, and I loved doing that with him. After school, I didn't really hunt much and kinda decided I should take up fishing since it was easily accessible and cheap to do. (Turns out I was wrong about the cheap part). My uncle-in-laws were lifelong fishermen and I started fishing with them in the local reservoirs for bass, smallmouth, walleye, crappie, whatever, out of a Ozark fish and ski. Along the way I became interested in fly fishing, and that kinda took over. The uncles used to spend a lot of time fishing at Roaring River (one had his honeymoon there) and about 15 years ago we started a tradition of going down there each year.

Dude got a GoPro. Don't know when to not use it yet.

Didn't miss much. There was a little ugliness here, Bird Watcher started a thread poking fun at it. Both threads got quarantined down in the political forum.

That's a cool old school that they have kept up really nicely. You probably remember Metcalf when all it had was the French Market.

I use a net bag, but I've always kinda wondered how much is fact and how much is not on these morel stories. Bird Watcher -- that's the first confirmed report of the water idea working. I've seen the kits but have never heard of any success stories (except form the sellers). I do seem to recall it was more involved that some other methods of growing mushrooms. I'm anxious to hear how this works.

Where Woodman at?

Tomato, pepper, onion, herb seeds are sprouted and under lights in the basement. I'll start a few more things this week or next. I've got about 3 inches of frozen snow over the beds right now.

Holy crap -- did anyone take this seriously?

The one they call SM North now? I didn't know that. Sounds like you've lived a lot of different places. If you drive down Paseo now, you can see that it was a really great neighborhood at one point. Some of the houses are in good shape still. My dad grew up in a nice area over in KCK (10th and Quindaro) in the 30's that is really, really bad now too.

Anyway, I could tell by your shirt you were one of us.

Wow! Your bigotry is showing through there Wayne What have you got against old money?

This poll has about as much integrity as most of the polls I hear on the cable networks.

Take that poll

Take this poll

Nice work there, bro! I can't say I disagree with a single one, except technically we've got about 4 sky scrapers. The Johnson County thing is mostly myth. Mostly. And the Plahza thing -- well, I don't hang with folks that talk like that.

I'm not a Jayhawker. How many times I got to tell you that? It's K-State, because that's where tuition dollars go. They're more my cuppa tea anyway. But...there's trouble brewin' at home. One of my boys is considering KU for next fall.