What Did Ya'll Have For Dinner Tonight?
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woodworkingboy
TreeHouser
I've eaten them in mixed nuts. Very smooth oval shaped light colored oily nut, about the size of a peanut. A rather refined nut, I think you could say. Daff as a pine nut could be regarded as a compliment.
flushcut
TreeHouser
Frozen pizza 
doctored up a little, but I am planning on making pork schnitzels tomorrow with a savory sliced apple something or another that I have yet to create and garlic mashed taters.
doctored up a little, but I am planning on making pork schnitzels tomorrow with a savory sliced apple something or another that I have yet to create and garlic mashed taters.
CurSedVoyce
California Hillbilly
Sounds like you could have used a couple BLTs yourself 
flushcut
TreeHouser
The only thing I need is the L part.
CurSedVoyce
California Hillbilly
Ahhhhhh..
Yeah I thought I was gonna have to run to the store for the L part myself. Then found some momma bought
Guess I will be replacing her lunch salad lettuce tomorrow
Yeah I thought I was gonna have to run to the store for the L part myself. Then found some momma bought
Guess I will be replacing her lunch salad lettuce tomorrow
Paul B
I dig hammocks.
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Rborist1
Guest
Homemade pasta?
I use our pasta maker all the time, nothing like fresh homemade pasta!
I use our pasta maker all the time, nothing like fresh homemade pasta!
Paul B
I dig hammocks.
sadly no, havent tried that yet, out of the box for us, thanks Catelli!
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Rborist1
Guest
Go to lil Italy and get yourself a pasta maker with a electric motor, you will never look back. It's easy and fun!
Paul B
I dig hammocks.
one day, its on the list 
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Rborist1
Guest
If Sierra Trading Company sold them, you would have one by now.
Paul B
I dig hammocks.
nah, they are bible thumpers... Maybe MEC
woodworkingboy
TreeHouser
Speaking of food gizmos, or in this case, drink, a liquor shop in the next town is installing some Italian or German wine drinking machines, I believe three bottles per machine. You stick your card in the machine and select, taste, half glass, or full glass, and automatically it comes out of the bottle into your glass, at the appropriate temperature, of course! Somewhere your cost gets noted, or it is a pre paid card. Six machines means eighteen different bottles of wine at your disposal. They are changing from a pure liquor store to also this self service wine bar, and in a location where a lot of folks are strolling around in the evening, all day really, and many can walk home. The place has also been remodeled to have a conducive atmosphere for the new arrangement. Some cheese and other condiments will also be available.
Though the machines are quite expensive, I think it is a dynamite idea. I know the architect managing the project, that's how I heard about it. The machines have to be imported, probably the first to enter the country.
Though the machines are quite expensive, I think it is a dynamite idea. I know the architect managing the project, that's how I heard about it. The machines have to be imported, probably the first to enter the country.
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Rborist1
Guest
Sounds cool, any pics by chance?
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Rborist1
Guest
nah, they are bible thumpers... Maybe MEC
Bible thumpers................do explain please. I thought that you were a regular shopper of theirs.
woodworkingboy
TreeHouser
Hopefully I can get some pics when the place opens. I think he said the machines are due to arrive next month.
MasterBlaster
Administrator Emeritus
Do they still play Pachinko like crazy, Jay?
woodworkingboy
TreeHouser
Oh yeah, seldom are the parking lots not full at the popular parlors. They have cleaned many of them up a lot since you were here, more classy exteriors are common and they call them "gaming centers" or something else obtuse. Filtered air now (you could die from the tobacco smoke before), and things like women's hours where they get some kind of discount apparently. You don't so much see the seedy characters hanging around. Still the crazy deafening madness of the steel balls going around and around, but the machines are automatic digitalized now with little screens, you don't have to keep flipping a lever. The crane guy goes when he is out of work. He sometimes tells me when he wins five or six bills, but I think he often ends up giving it back, which he doesn't mention. They really hook you with their machine adjustments, regulated by law, but still.... Most of those businesses are owned by North Koreans, by the way, or the offspring of former ones that relocated here, mostly forced to during one of the Jap occupations, brought over as cheap labor. They got into those businesses when they were poor and discriminated against, and made a fortune. One operation I know of with a number of parlors, has it's gross around a million bucks a day. The bigshot lives in town. He had his whole block's street paved in red for some reason. They have a gravel and disposal operation going too, multi businesses, we get them to incinerate our brush for a fee. Some neat machines, too. You could park a railroad locomotive in their chipper infeed
MasterBlaster
Administrator Emeritus
Whoa, gotta name or model? Something to google?
woodworkingboy
TreeHouser
No, but if I drop some brush off, I'll try to get a pic. Been meaning to but they moved it the last time I was there. It's a huge place with scales and rock crushers and lots of heavy equipment. They are kind of funny though, you don't go asking them questions unrelated to your immediate presence there, and if a limb falls out of the truck they go ballistic. The place is super clean. The only reason we can dump there is that the crane guy does work for them on the odd occasion. I don't get any of the nice, Oh you are a foreigner too smiles. They run a real tight ship, that is for sure. I don't know how many times I have been cautioned about being cool before going there alone, passing through the little pond to clean the mud off before hitting the scale while driving "SLOW". I know the routine, don't ask about Kim jong-il or anything. Being able to dump there is a big plus. Places like that is where he gets his money for his weapons of mass destruction. The Koreans have fervent ties to the homeland, for better and for worse. The haven't forgotten how the Japanese abused them, just about like everybody else in this part of the world.
Paul B
I dig hammocks.
Craig, I have bought from them in the past but I always remember after the fact about the hit that gets taken with the customs duties and stupid UPS 'brokerage' fees as they only ship UPS. As for the bible stuff, its on some of their promo material and website, not that I honestly care, I was just teasing a bit. They have some religious quotes on their invoices and shipping forms that caught my eye once. http://www.sierratradingpost.com/lp2/we-believe/
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Rborist1
Guest
Thanks for the link Paul.
Maybe I will email that owner what "I believe"; His companies duties, international shipping and brokerage fees are excessive.
Maybe I will email that owner what "I believe"; His companies duties, international shipping and brokerage fees are excessive.
Paul B
I dig hammocks.
the shipping and prodcut costs are reasonable and sometimes great! The duties are courtesy of the gov't, what happened to free trade? I bought a pair of sneakers from them, for $55, + $20 Duty and $35 for the invoice for UPS brokerage fee, I had to divide that between the other $60 worth of products (+another $15 duty) to figure out that the deal wasnt so smokin.
Since pinenuts are worth their weight in gold around here, I've been experimenting with cashews.
Brown them on a very hot dry skillet first and they work just fine.
I'll usually toss some walnuts in as well, just for taste.
We grow our own walnuts, so I have plenty of those, but I don't like a pesto made only from walnuts.
