The 50 Plus Cafe, Pub, All-Nite Greasy Spoon and Dive Bar

[Anise_Wood_Nymph]

Good morning! I hope everyone is having a lovely weekend!

 

[Wat_Tyler]

So far so d, ma'am, and Happy Weekend to you, too.


I pulled out Wonder67's s'ghetti sauce recipe and the Desire to Tune that has always liked in my head. So, crushed tomatoes. I made the bestest sauce ever when I used Romas that I had grown myself. That's not happening this year, but I discovered that Contadina cans Roma maters, so I scored a bunch. It doubled the cost of that ingredient, but it sure as Hell tastes like I had a hankerin' for and that's all that matters. I use more garlic and onions, and I'm tossing in 2 pounds of mild Italian sausage. I weaseled out on the spices and just used Italian seasoning, but I used a lot of it. It''s be ready in 8 hours because it's getting the very slow cook.

 

[Oldermom935]

For Wat:

 

[HumpDayHoratio]

I bought my mom a bottle of Glen levitt 15 yr..apparently aged in bourbon barrels. There were a lot of choices so I picked what I thought was best (and didn't cost 179 dollars)

I think I’ve read somewhere that ALL Scotch is aged in bourbon barrels imported from the US or Sherry barrels imported from Spain…(I’m sure there are exceptions to the rules) but it’s common practice so I’ve been led to believe…

 

[HumpDayHoratio]

So far so d, ma'am, and Happy Weekend to you, too.


I pulled out Wonder67's s'ghetti sauce recipe and the Desire to Tune that has always liked in my head. So, crushed tomatoes. I made the bestest sauce ever when I used Romas that I had grown myself. That's not happening this year, but I discovered that Contadina cans Roma maters, so I scored a bunch. It doubled the cost of that ingredient, but it sure as Hell tastes like I had a hankerin' for and that's all that matters. I use more garlic and onions, and I'm tossing in 2 pounds of mild Italian sausage. I weaseled out on the spices and just used Italian seasoning, but I used a lot of it. It''s be ready in 8 hours because it's getting the very slow cook.

Over in the PG thread PhotoGirl started a recipe thread…maybe we should put one here so we don’t have to go digging into 300+ pages to find that one drink or spaghetti recipe?

Thoughts?

 

[Gamine67]

Hey, girl! Where have you been? It's good to see you!

Mostly lurking.

My weather is fine, I don’t cook, I’m not ill, I DO NOT share coffee, my car works etc etc etc

So I lurk

 

[Wat_Tyler]

For Wat:

Thank you, and how appropriate. Wat has a bone to pick with the local OSH know-it-alls and such who take themselves too damned seriously. Oddly enough, the last episode resulted in a very nice situational readjustment.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Over in the PG thread PhotoGirl started a recipe thread…maybe we should put one here so we don’t have to go digging into 300+ pages to find that one drink or spaghetti recipe?

Thoughts?

That's an idea I can get behind.

 

[HumpDayHoratio]

That's an idea I can get behind.

We’ll let it marinate for a day, let the gals get some input and we’ll brainstorm ideas about how to do it…

I’m going to go find PhotoGirls thread and post it here…she formatted it in a Recipe book style somehow, so we’ll get our smart gals/guys on it…I do NOT include myself in that smart set!

 

[Gamine67]

I think I’ve read somewhere that ALL Scotch is aged in bourbon barrels imported from the US

Don’t know if it applies to “all” Scotch; however, during prohibition in the U.S. whiskey barrels were “one and done” and found there way to Scotch distillers.

The use of sherry and port barrels goes back a couple of centuries when it was imported to England in barrels and then bottled there which left a lot of cheap empty barrels around to be repurposed.

 

[HumpDayHoratio]

OK…I found PhotoGirls recipe and drink thread here.

Check out how she formatted the recipes! . Very cool. I’m positive I had contributed but couldn’t find my entry. B2 has something on there I think.

I’ll send her a PM and ask how she did that…I assume it’s as easy as just taking it to a Word doc and using a template? Anyhow….I think it would be a good addition to our little community as we seem to have a fair amount of good cooks hanging around this Cafe/Pub/All night greasy spoon!

 

[ToPleaseHim]

Wow! That thread is amazing! I can’t believe I haven’t opening it before now, as it will certainly be a favorite going forward. Thanks, @Photog1rl!

 

[CuriousRick]

Wow! That thread is amazing! I can’t believe I haven’t opening it before now, as it will certainly be a favorite going forward. Thanks, @Photog1rl!

Welcome to the old persons room!! Where we talk about mowing the yard, keeping the darn kids off our nice lawn, cooking and bbq, and the noises we make getting out of a chair. lol

 

[Photog1rl]

OK…I found PhotoGirls recipe and drink thread here.

Check out how she formatted the recipes! . Very cool. I’m positive I had contributed but couldn’t find my entry. B2 has something on there I think.

I’ll send her a PM and ask how she did that…I assume it’s as easy as just taking it to a Word doc and using a template? Anyhow….I think it would be a good addition to our little community as we seem to have a fair amount of good cooks hanging around this Cafe/Pub/All night greasy spoon!

The thread had been bumping along but I had an issue with an image I posted in a different thread (I think it was a rainbow photo of the dog park ) and all almost all my photos were removed. I thought I had replaced everyone’s recipes but I may have missed yours. I will look through my recipes and PM’s to see what I can find out.
Thanks for saying something. My goal is that all recipes submitted should be posted.

Wow! That thread is amazing! I can’t believe I haven’t opening it before now, as it will certainly be a favorite going forward. Thanks, @Photog1rl!

I started it with @cascadiabound and then other bits of Lit and life took over. Cas and I wanted an aesthetic and easy to search thread. I droppped them all a little.

@sallysparrow23 has been contributing with her bread recipes and others have been posting too.
It would be great to really get it going again. What we did before is folks pm’d me their recipe and a photo and I made a card for it.
If that works I could keep doing it. Let me know if y'all are interested or if you just want to do the same thing here I just used a canva template that I modified.

 

[CuriousRick]

@Photog1rl What kinds of recipes do you want?

 

[ToPleaseHim]

The thread had been bumping along but I had an issue with an image I posted in a different thread (I think it was a rainbow photo of the dog park ) and all almost all my photos were removed. I thought I had replaced everyone’s recipes but I may have missed yours. I will look through my recipes and PM’s to see what I can find out.
Thanks for saying something. My goal is that all recipes submitted should be posted.

You aren’t having trouble posting images anymore, are you? Pls let me know if so. I’ll message the powers that be.

 

[Anise_Wood_Nymph]

Delicious ones!

 

[Photog1rl]

You aren’t having trouble posting images anymore, are you? Pls let me know if so. I’ll message the powers that be.

No. I’m not having any issues. Honestly, I did my best to fix the thread and then was a little disheartened about it and then life/Lit went other directions and I didn’t give it the love it deserved. Thank you for asking though

@Photog1rl What kinds of recipes do you want?

Any and all recipes. Our goal was ones you have tried and have insight into. What are your go to recipes. We broke it down by type of food and I think we started a key for if it easy or more advanced? But any input is great. Does it always work or is it finicky? What tweaks have you tried? Things like that.

 

[CuriousRick]

Any and all recipes. Our goal was ones you have tried and have insight into. What are your go to recipes. We broke it down by type of food and I think we started a key for if it easy or more advanced? But any input is great. Does it always work or is it finicky? What tweaks have you tried? Things like that.

I will send you a few things shortly

 

[Wonderer67]

Same boat today as you were last week @Oldermom935…

Minding my own business planting punkins and tomatoes in the garden when I heard a big craaaaaaack. Then a boom of an electrical transformer.

Went running up the street and saw all the lines down. No power. luckily we have a generator.

This’ll take a few days… it’s JCP&L after all.

The fun never ends!

https://imgur.com/a/aOCOaiY

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Same boat today as you were last week @Oldermom935…

Minding my own business planting punkins and tomatoes in the garden when I heard a big craaaaaaack. Then a boom of an electrical transformer.

Went running up the street and saw all the lines down. No power. luckily we have a generator.

This’ll take a few days… it’s JCP&L after all.

The fun never ends!

https://imgur.com/a/aOCOaiY

Yeah, that just sucks. Which reminds me, I need to have a look at the generator.

 

[HumpDayHoratio]

The thread had been bumping along but I had an issue with an image I posted in a different thread (I think it was a rainbow photo of the dog park ) and all almost all my photos were removed. I thought I had replaced everyone’s recipes but I may have missed yours. I will look through my recipes and PM’s to see what I can find out.
Thanks for saying something. My goal is that all recipes submitted should be posted.

I started it with @cascadiabound and then other bits of Lit and life took over. Cas and I wanted an aesthetic and easy to search thread. I droppped them all a little.

@sallysparrow23 has been contributing with her bread recipes and others have been posting too.
It would be great to really get it going again. What we did before is folks pm’d me their recipe and a photo and I made a card for it.
If that works I could keep doing it. Let me know if y'all are interested or if you just want to do the same thing here I just used a canva template that I modified.

Yeah! You made it! I was going to attempt to make something similar here in the old folks home, so we didn’t clutter up the youn’uns threads on the PG! .

Just didn’t get around to PM’ing you yet!

 

[HumpDayHoratio]

Don’t know if it applies to “all” Scotch; however, during prohibition in the U.S. whiskey barrels were “one and done” and found there way to Scotch distillers.

The use of sherry and port barrels goes back a couple of centuries when it was imported to England in barrels and then bottled there which left a lot of cheap empty barrels around to be repurposed.

That’s probably more along the lines of how it is. Now that you mention it, I remember hearing that it started with prohibition. I didn’t know the sherry barrels had been used that long! . Wow!

 

[CuriousRick]

A friend took some
Amazing pictures a few days ago.

 

[Greylag]

So, you're not interested in the girls who WEREN'T brought up right, G? Or, maybe, those who were but then slipped a bit?

Asking for a friend, of course!!

Oh dear Lili I think I might have touched your friends nerve so as a gentleman I apologise. As for you, rather than your friend, I never saw you as a girl who wasn’t brought up right. I saw your post saying your parents both served . Experience has just taught me that……oh sorry can’t say. Gentlemen never kiss and tell!

Do tell your friend my preferences don’t mean I exclude they are just, well preferences!

(He throws down the shovel and stops digging!)