Couple Cooking: the areas of arguments and dissention in re:grilling steaks
When to start cooking? Who times it the steaks over the charcoals? Set a timer, or go by sight or some goofy "feel" B believes is high culinary art? (B doesn't have the best eyesight out there, and goes by look. (Often a cooking tragedy.) Then, who frightened the rabbit that was 10 feet away, A or B?
Himalayan salt or sea salt?
Well, at the least, this one time, A and B agreed that the meat A selected at the grocery store was just all that. The agreement this morning was beef, actually rib eyes.
Beef is pricey, but prices are not that much pricier for rib eyes, than they ever were here locally.
B is now going back and forth between the patio grill and the kitchen, being nice, calling A sweetheart, blah blah blah...
Doneness is the argument coming. Both A and B like "medium to well done", just argue vigorously on the definition of same.
Does the smell of mesquite wood chips and charcoal in one's hair and on one's skin require a shower prior to hitting the clean sheets?
Will A put some veggies on the grill while B makes a pig of B's self , eating a monster steak?
Man, the areas of dissension have overwhelmed.
Good thing the meal proper buries the flanged up arguments. A and B argue about "flanged up", what A has heard for ever in these parts.
First bite of the steak now has A and B arguing who is responsible for the fabulousness.
A suggest kudos all around.
B says, "Hell yeah."
* Because B cut some grass,B asked A to put some lettuce out for the bunny.
Bunnies are always good in our yard, even on our porch.
Hell, yeah.
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What a great series, otc
I’m guessing 'A' scared the rabbit by throwing their arms up in the air at the possible unfolding tragedy of burnt barbecue.
Salt is salt, unless iodised.
It sounds like you better add some veggies before the bunnies get them.
JP and ID (A and B) … the big door prize ; ).
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You have no idea how asparagus preparation FOR cooking, then HOW to cook it can bog dinner down for 30 minutes!
Aarrgghh!
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
One person cooks the asparagus
and does it however they want to. Maybe swap asparagus cooks next time having it. “Too many cooks spoil the stew.”
That would be way too easy, chica.
A attempts to teach B certain methods. And vise versa. Seems A and B are really stubborn cusses!
So, A was taught to bend an asparagus until it broke in two. Discard the thick end. B was taught to trim by judging its' appearance.
Teaching each other, knowing full well we will completely disregard the lesson, is just hilarious.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Cheers A and B
"Teaching each other, knowing full well we will completely disregard the lesson, is just hilarious."
makes me want to grill drumpolino, but A and B
would first make me call him 'My Sweetheart'. Inspite of myself I would eat him (Drumpelstiltzchen) ralther roasted and not eat him alive.
Chris Hedges somewhere in the first viceo: 'I don't share this mania for hope. I have kids. I am terrified'.
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On the second video:
What would you rather be an American and kill yourself today, or a Canadian and kill yourself tomorrow ?...
My answer is the example of Dr. Gabor Maté. He had enough reasons to kill himself yesteryears, but lives way into his old age. So. I have no comments any further.
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I like to put QMS' sig here:
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A and B
would not make you call him your sweetheart.
We might joke about your grill technique.
Glad you follow Hedges.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
your grill techniques are better than mine, for sure,
I am well roasted, almost too well done, and I taste beautifully. Try A and B's roasting techniques, folks ! Then try to eat me ! United we make a great evening out-side grill party.
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Nothing ventured,
nothing gained!
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
might I suggest something like this
https://www.amazon.com/Thermometer-Digital-Back-lit-Grilling-Barbecue/dp...
Take the guess work out. I must admit I don't have a fork thermometer like that and cook my steak by eye - hot fire 3 minutes per side on average, but I always use a meat thermometer when roasting meat in the oven.
Sounds like y'all managed to have a good meal.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Meat thermometers
are mandatory when A is cooking thick cuts of chicken or pork. B doesn't use them because of the magical instructions B receives from Jupiter. Or Mars. It is hard to say for sure. Something about metal plates and implants.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
I bet the signals were loud and clear this weekend
https://www.space.com/jupiter-saturn-moon-conjunctions-august-2020.html
Do you wear a foil hat to block the waves?
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
LOL!
There is an abundance of aluminum foil in the pantry. I really like the hat's little peak on top. Don't you?
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
yes...
Sheds the unwanted waves better.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
A is convinced B enjoys all those waves.
At cook time, there are several "Well, bless your heart" comments, as well as "Hell yeah".
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Kick B out of the kitchen unless
B is that night’s cook. Then A can stay out of kitchen.
Lol!
As if it were that easy!
We tried that...B accuses A of tricking B into doing the cooking. A distinctly remembers B volunteering. When A sits and reads, B is wondering just how B got suckered into doing the hard work. Sometimes, A will volunteer to check on whatever is in the oven or on the grill. B goes on this discussion about how A is just "too nice", etc...hysterically funny.
Tonight, A prepared bacon for a BLT. We worked on some home projects, didn't want to spend time cooking. A volunteered. B specified a particular doneness. A asked B to take a look at it to see if it was how B likes it. B says, "A, you are doing the cooking tonight." I think B was hoping I would overcook it, since B says "A burn" shit." Well, A got it right, but B just insisted on slicing the tomatoes.
Throughout dinner, A was reminded how perfectly sliced the tomatoes were, and that, really, the tomato was the dominant ingredient in the BLT.
Neither A nor B choked on the BLTs, despite the laughter.
It is nice to drift off into such amusement when we can't go anywhere or do anything. May as well make the kitchen our playground.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
If you are having fun
that’s all that matters.
The whole concept of couple cooking for fun and food
is like a live comic reality show. The food is usually delicious. Only an occasional mishap. A sometimes does burn shit.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Iris D hates that song because of the undies line.
Great music choice to go with the domestic scene. Feed the bunnies! These vignettes are the grin in a day filled with unbelievable happenings.
Thanks to you both and hell yeah.
A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they shall never sit. Allegedly Greek, but more possibly fairly modern quote.
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I have no idea why I thought
anyone would get a kick out of these couple cooking vignettes! Our couple cooking running joke here at home often starts before noon and culminates with dinner. It is just hysterically funny. It passes COVID stay at home time well, distracts from the political and social tensions that otherwise dominates our days.
Glad you grinned.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
My god I can't believe I'm craving steak now
I mean the psychology inside my head it is profound. It's like you guys make all my abandonment issues recede back to whence they came, like some spray can of Disorders Begone! Psshht, ah go on and eat what you crave. LOVE
The thing is I used to live with 600 cows, and after that I RomneyThought as if "cows are people, my friend." Plus that time was this time:
Beverly Hills Cop (6/10) Movie CLIP - Customs Inspector (1984)
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Which is why I guess I subconsciously and obnoxiously shouted with images over in CStMS's OT today. Everything is propaganda, same as it ever was. "Psyche your mind!" Eddie Murphy. He also recorded "Put the Boogie in Your Butt" when Hamster was a thing in S.F. gay culture. I can't link to it because of course it is age limited? I'm shocked AND dismayed. LOL. If not X, then Y. No limits on this one:
Sir Douglas Quintet - Mendocino
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Yes.
Well, I was going to end with an Emma Goldman quote but Cowsay Nothing is Sacred, everything is Prop or Not.
“I insisted that our Cause could not expect me to become a nun and that the movement should not be turned into a cloister. If it meant that, I did not want it. I want freedom, the right to self-expression, everybody’s right to beautiful, radiant things.”
Emma Goldman’s dance revolution: a lesson in historical inaccuracy and meme devolvement
Somehow I feel I have devolved in to craving red meat again, perhaps I should just listen to my own fine body and nothing else. That's what yon olde farmer friend would tell me, "eat what you crave."
Peace and Love
Bon Appetit