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So, after a mere month, this vanilla extract is richer, more complex than anything you can buy at a store. Order the beans online, split them down the middle & then in half, then place in a bottle of vodka, even cheap vodka will do just fine. You want an ounce by weight of bean for every eight fluid ounces of vodka. This is minimum for commercial standard & is known as single fold strength. I went with triple fold concentration here. Tastes richer, somehow than using 3X the volume of single fold. The solvent becomes saturated with the fat being released from the beans & then becomes cloudy & unbelievably heady, complex. If you enjoy cooking & baking, this is well worth the $40 or so to make. Just give it a shake now and then. Maybe make twice as much, as you'll find it's hard to leave alone. That way, after a year or so, when it truly starts to shine, you won't have to wait another year for that level of flavor to develop. Also makes a great gift. As you use it, just add more vodka to continue drawing goodness from those beans; It's important to keep the beans covered to protect them from spoilage. You can use the spent beans to make vanilla sugar, just store them in a container with some sugar. Those dark things floating in it are the seeds/caviar from the bean.

Simple is always great; can taste the ingredients better than those "throw every fucking thing in your pantry" recipes.

That Old Bay is fire. This local seafood restaurant smells like it the moment you step in. Makes me hungry, even if I've recently eaten.

Oh yeah! bought 20 lbs. of 80/20 ground beef; time for some ground beef-intensive menu planning! Gotta have fresh buns toasted for the big boy burgers! Can't stand a wonderful burger ruined with shitty sunbeam or whatever 'hamburger buns'... & I use the term generously.

How could I forget wonderful, near-Prime, Black Angus Ribeyes for $5.99/lb? Shit, that's why I got so many. Bought the whole subprimal cut. Good eye, btw.

So, I made 2 gallons of chili late last nite - around 1 am. Left the lid on, put the stove element setting on 'Low'. Fell asleep. Woke up 8-9 hours later. Temp. reading at surface is 135F, stirred it - 165. Being covered & the food acidic, I felt confident it was good to go. Quickly cooled & portioned it into the chest freezer for future use(s). 12 lbs. total. Heynow. Can we take a moment to appreciate how sexay stainless is. Chili, too! Into a shallow pan to quickly cool... . A breezy 22F; perfect! Quickly down to temp... Wal mart lunchmeat empties are convenient for freezing in bulk... Generously portioned for future use... 12 pounds safely reposing. I love a happy ending.

Being an independent, I'd say Reagan and HW Bush. HW, because he oversaw the sea change that occurred with competence & professionalism. Vastly undervalued. The last administration before this stupid, jr. high hyperpartisanship settled in.

Been shooting since was a kid. It's a tool, nothing more. One which helped provide sustenance as this fine country was settled.

I heard @FunStick & @babybackmoistened them up... whatever that means.

That's why I'm single; encounter enough morons on the streets, don't need one living with me. And this guy, asking if he's gonna headshot the deer. And then there's this fuckwit emo guy comes up trying to pet it while it screams in terror. So you have 2 inconsiderate dickbags using this poor creature's miserable circumstance as a mere opportunity to fulfill their selfish motives of attention & the other to pet the deer.

LOl; I see @M!dg3t @StormCrow on the turntable, @Lunkster, @FunStick @WeednFeed

You can get a sticker for roadkill from Fish & Wildlife, take it home & process it. Now that you mention it, when I was out delivering about a week ago, just as it was getting dark, this brown lump comes sliding, scrabbling across the highway right in front of my car just as I was about to turn into a parking lot. Neither the doofus sheriff's deputy, nor the attention whore - in Kentucky of all places - knew how to kill-shot a deer. The report from the shotgun was considerably louder than the level heard on this video. Poor girl. Broke its leg either on the road, or in the drainage grate on the side of the road.

Good stuff all the way around: Fun story, interesting relationships between the characters, amazing choreography by the man who plays the dancing coal miner -he's actually a choreographer by trade- the allegory(ies) that can be interpreted from this, beyond their apparent constituent meanings individually & as a whole. Nice song, too.

https://youtu.be/qLrnkK2YEcE

Elgin timepieces are nice.

Heynow

See how vulnerable it is with these kernel extensions.

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Never tried bacon coated with corn meal. I use bacon grease when I make corn bread, so prolly similar flavor.

It's a piece I bought from Menard's store; it had been cut to the wrong size. So I bought it for $10 & built a platform from 4X4 lumber; gives me a lot more room to work in my living room than the cramped efficiency kitchen.

It's really simple. In addition to the methods shown, you can also use your phone's angle finder to find the angle.

Society's safety guardrails are literally bursting at the seams; you've got stupid people dying because they refuse to get a vaccine during a global pandemic; because Bill Gates put a 5G chip in there & animal husbandry horse dewormer gleaned from fucking huzlers is a seemingly more viable option. That's several orders of magnitude beyond anything remotely resembling 'idiocy'. Society does falter or collapse, Natural Selection will have a markedly drastic effect on those of the numpty persuasion. I mean, there are people walking this planet that don't how to cook bacon for god's sake! There's some REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY stupid motherfuckers out there. Willfully ignorant, gleefully reveling in their self-destruction. The main problem with 'stupid' is that it impacts, has consequences for those around them. All you have to do is take a drive down a moderately busy street & watch people's faces illuminated, staring down at their laps as they pilot a couple tons of steel at speed. And when the consequences do come...how could they possibly know? Wonder how many emergency room workers have been asked if it's too late to get the vaccine, as they're dying. When George Carlin suggested to consider how stupid the average person is; then realize 1/2 of them are 'stupider' than that, I took it as humorous hyperbole. Recent facts indicate otherwise. Really am somewhat flabbergasted.

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