What Did Ya'll Have For Dinner Tonight?

[MasterBlaster]

Mmmmmm... the Mansion....

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Yeah... maybe once Kimberly left it got more fun... Oh well.

 

[MasterBlaster]

I imagine the worst day there was better than the best day here, rooting tooting!

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Ummmmmm No.. By the time that place was finished with me and I it, I had dark circles under my eyes and needed medication. Seriously.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Dayum.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Place was pretty crazy and you never knew moment to moment what was going to happen, good or bad. One moment you were awesome, next you were being yelled at or questioned about stuff often not knowing WTF and expected to answer.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Hell, ain't that any job, lol?

 

[CurSedVoyce]

On a whole new level

 

[stig]

I'm just getting over the flu and have passed it on to my wife, so I figured soup would be good.

So we are having pumpkin soup with lots of garlic and fresh ginger.

And not totally vegetarian, either.

While I was chopping the ginger, I got to thinking about the big, damasqued veggie chopper, that I have commissioned a knifemaker to make for my partner, Richard. He has been wanting one for a long time and it'll be such a fine gift for him, since the handle will be made in sneezewood from his mothers farm in South Africa.

When you start thinking about other stuff while chopping ginger with a japanese chef's knife, the soup doesn't end up being totally vegetarian

 

[MasterBlaster]

Sneezewood, eh? What a strange name.

 

[stig]

Inhaling the dust from sanding it makes you sneeze.

I recently put the piece , I got from Richard through the bandsaw.

It was like standing in a cloud of freshly ground black pepper.

 

[Tucker943]

What is this mansion you all speak of?

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Hugh Hefners house., if you are referring to MB and I talking bout it.

 

[Tucker943]

YOU WORKED THERE?!?!?!? Man o man, would I LOVE to sit down on the tailgate with you and pick your brain. In fact, its on my bucket list now.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Yeah, worked there for a while as a banquet and evening chef. Was more of a sous chef job in a lot of ways as they had an executive chef I worked under. Not all that exciting but rather stressful as jobs go.

 

[Tucker943]

I can imagine. Just tell me this.... Did you ever see anything noteworthy? I'm not fishing for graphic or detailed answers. A yes or no would work?

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Note worthy.... Note that what you see in a magazine ain't what you see or get in real life face to face

 

[Tucker943]

Hahahahah

 

[CurSedVoyce]

I wouldn't mind being their tree guy though I believe they have the only stand of sequoia in so cal as well. Or was it red wood. I forget.

 

[Paul B]

steak, spuds and green beans here tonight, just making it happen.

 

[MasterBlaster]

A double cheeseburger from Sonic. DAMN I luvs me some Sonic burgers!!!

 

[Tucker943]

Never had one. Better than 5 guys?

 

[MasterBlaster]

Way better and way cheaper. Five Guys is a rip-off.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Made chicken quarters cooked in mushroom gravy with mashed pots and green beans. Making some ham and bean soup as well for tomorrow or the day after.

 

[stig]

Didn't have it yet, it is on the burner.

Rösti, which I've been making ever since working in Switzerland as a youngster, steamed brussel sprouts, glazed with butter and horseradish and as an erzats salad: carrots, Jerusalem artichokes and ½ a red onion, sliced paper thin on the mandolin and marinated with tamari, ginger, lemon juice and cold pressed canola oil.

Nothing fancy, just winter veggies but it'll be pretty good, I think.