Food and other such holidays

[Pardon My Dinger]

Don't hate until you've tried that recipe I posted!

For the last time, Vanimal - I don't want to go out with you!!!

[jimmer]

 

"Best" lasagna ever was when my awesome wife made it for me and my friends that were at the coldest beer fest ever a few years ago........coming home to that was great.

Ever notice food is much better when you're drunk/been drinking :-)

[jimmer]

 

There's a place near where I live called 'Wingers'.  Their menu/food is pretty bad (for example, their ribs...horrible), but their wings?  Oh my. They make their own sauce and they are the best wings I've ever had.

And I just had them for lunch...

[Mike Sixel]

 

Ever notice food is much better when you're drunk/been drinking :-)

 

It was the damn cold........I don't know any of us drank enough to get drunk that day, since some of my friends wanted to leave right away.....the beer was freezing as it came out of the taps....

[jimmer]

 

It was the damn cold........I don't know any of us drank enough to get drunk that day, since some of my friends wanted to leave right away.....the beer was freezing as it came out of the taps....

Went to winefest in Germany once.  Got there around 10 p.m., left around 7 a.m.  Locally brewed wine out of big wooden barrels.  Went to bed when I got home, and dreamt weird stuff.  Woke up in the middle of my sleep and thought I saw spider webs coming down and I started swatting at the air.

 

Good times.

[Vanimal46]

For the last time, Vanimal - I don't want to go out with you!!!

I'm going to assume you're playing hard to get. I'll try again tomorrow.

[Vanimal46]

And I just had them for lunch...

Same! With a Friday afternoon beer to make the sales calls better

[jimmer]

 

Same! With a Friday afternoon beer to make the sales calls better

No beer for me.  I'd get some heat from bosses if anyone found out, assuming I even made it past the front gate :-)

[Pardon My Dinger]

 

No beer for me.  I'd get some heat from bosses if anyone found out, assuming I even made it past the front gate :-)

Yeah, not to mention the spider webs. You might look a little strange. 

[twinsnorth49]

I have a chicken wing problem.

 

There, I said it.

[biggentleben]

 

Don't care for hard candy much.

 

Basically the only candy I do now, but that's a personal choice for lots of reasons. One of those reasons involving a 32-year-old bottle of scotch I got to crack recently to celebrate crossing the 100-lb loss mark.

[biggentleben]

 

Good morning! It's raining in Austin today, so for all of the drivers on the highway, it's National Punch the Brakes because it's raining day. 

For "real" holidays, we have a couple of good choices:

Today is National Creme Brulee Day! I've had creme brulee only a few times in my life, but I do recall it tasting great! 

Today is also National Scotch Day! CC to Brock... Scotch is one of those acquired tastes that I have yet to acquire in life. There are lots of alcohols I love, but scotch unfortunately isn't one of them. 

Finally, on this day in history.... In 1996 it was not a good day for our country. Centennial Olympic Park was bombed at midnight outside an outdoor music venue while people were having a good time celebrating the start of the Olympic Games. 

On a positive note, in 1940 Warner Brothers debuted the movie "A Wild Hare" which featured a character that generations of people know today.. That character is Bugs Bunny! 

 

Basically, don't drink any scotch you can get at a bar that you see someone wearing jeans or a t-shirt at. That's the best advice for truly appreciating scotch. You have to try GOOD scotch to understand it.

[jimmer]

 

I have a chicken wing problem.

There, I said it.

Do they have meetings for that, cause if they do, I need the day, time and address :-)

[jimmer]

 

Basically the only candy I do now, but that's a personal choice for lots of reasons. One of those reasons involving a 32-year-old bottle of scotch I got to crack recently to celebrate crossing the 100-lb loss mark.

100 lb loss?  Well done!

[biggentleben]

 

100 lb loss?  Well done!

 

So far...more to go, but that will allow me a bottle behind a locked case!

[jimmer]

 

So far...more to go, but that will allow me a bottle behind a locked case!

Very commendable.  How long has it taken you?  

[biggentleben]

 

Very commendable.  How long has it taken you?  

 

Started in mid-November, but really did nothing but work on eating stuff until March/April. Then I started doing lots of walking. I won free training hours at the gym I've paid for and not used for multiple years, which got me in there and doing the power lifting I love doing in a way that was healthy and safe to slowly get back into, and now my wife and I are signed up to do a 5K over Labor Day, so I'm working in Couch-to-5K training into things as well. I'll likely be more bike and sports than intentional jogging going forward for cardio, though, as I was an offensive lineman in college BEFORE I added the weight, so the distance running on my joints and back is rough.

 

It started really because I wanted to be healthy for future children, and lo and behold, we now have a foster baby in our house, and no way I could handle moving around after him and with him in my arms with the weight I was carrying 8 months ago.

[jimmer]

 

Started in mid-November, but really did nothing but work on eating stuff until March/April. Then I started doing lots of walking. I won free training hours at the gym I've paid for and not used for multiple years, which got me in there and doing the power lifting I love doing in a way that was healthy and safe to slowly get back into, and now my wife and I are signed up to do a 5K over Labor Day, so I'm working in Couch-to-5K training into things as well. I'll likely be more bike and sports than intentional jogging going forward for cardio, though, as I was an offensive lineman in college BEFORE I added the weight, so the distance running on my joints and back is rough.

 

It started really because I wanted to be healthy for future children, and lo and behold, we now have a foster baby in our house, and no way I could handle moving around after him and with him in my arms with the weight I was carrying 8 months ago.

I know you don't know me, but if it means anything, I'm proud of you and I bet there are others here who are too.

 

Go Mediumgentleben!

[biggentleben]

 

I know you don't know me, but if it means anything, I'm proud of you and I bet there are others here who are too.

 

Go Mediumgentleben!

 

Thank you very much! It's something I've seriously kept off of Facebook and all that stuff, other than when I was able to celebrate with my $100+ scotch, which was to celebrate the 100+ loss, but it was fun to show up to work at the music festival I work security for each year this year and have one of the guys come up to let me know that he didn't honestly recognize me. That felt pretty good.

 

We have a fun community around here, and many of the guys here I've known since we were debating whether the Twins best player was Koskie, Jacque, Lawton, or Torii. I've hung around as the "resident Braves fan" even after moving out of the Twin Cities area.

[Mike Sixel]

 

Started in mid-November, but really did nothing but work on eating stuff until March/April. Then I started doing lots of walking. I won free training hours at the gym I've paid for and not used for multiple years, which got me in there and doing the power lifting I love doing in a way that was healthy and safe to slowly get back into, and now my wife and I are signed up to do a 5K over Labor Day, so I'm working in Couch-to-5K training into things as well. I'll likely be more bike and sports than intentional jogging going forward for cardio, though, as I was an offensive lineman in college BEFORE I added the weight, so the distance running on my joints and back is rough.

 

It started really because I wanted to be healthy for future children, and lo and behold, we now have a foster baby in our house, and no way I could handle moving around after him and with him in my arms with the weight I was carrying 8 months ago.

 

Awesome. Congrats on all the good parts of that post!

[Vanimal46]

Happy Tuesday! 

Today is National Ice Cream Sandwich Day! Ice cream is my weakness, always has been. I try not to keep ice cream in the house on account of I'd eat most of it in a couple of days. If I'm making an ice cream sandwich, I'm using graham crackers as the bun. 

Today is also National Coloring Book Day! When was the last time you spent a few minutes coloring? I've heard they also have adult coloring books these days! 

[Mike Sixel]

Adult coloring books are like meditation for some......and stress for some.....

 

My wife LOVES ice cream, definitely her weakness. I like it, and if she is eating some, I'll have some, but I never pull it out of the freezer myself. 

[biggentleben]

South Dakota State University was the inventor of cookies and cream ice cream, and they also were the first to add flavor to the "cream" part of things, so they have cookies and mint, cookies and caramel, cookies and chocolate, etc. My favorite is the cookies and mint, and a local grocer carries a number of flavors from SDSU throughout the year. Whenever they get in mint and cookies, I fill the freezer with it as a treat to have.

[Squirrel]

Ice cream has always been my weakness. My favorite flavor for years was B&J's Coffee Heath Bar Crunch. Awesome, just awesome. Then B&J sold the company. Then it was changed a couple of years ago to Coffee Toffee Crunch ... or something like that ... and it was just blecht; a really truly marked lowering of the bar. And I could say that for a lot of their ice cream. Just not as good. About that time, I traded in some of my weakness for strength. I don't buy/eat nearly as much ice cream. And if I do, I'm likely to just stay with bland ol' vanilla ... it's great with fresh berries or other toppings, in shakes, or by itself. Yup, plain ol' vanilla.

[Mike Sixel]

Nothing worse for consumers who value quality over price than for your favorite small company to be gobbled up.......

[Vanimal46]

 

Ice cream has always been my weakness. My favorite flavor for years was B&J's Coffee Heath Bar Crunch. Awesome, just awesome. Then B&J sold the company. Then it was changed a couple of years ago to Coffee Toffee Crunch ... or something like that ... and it was just blecht; a really truly marked lowering of the bar. And I could say that for a lot of their ice cream. Just not as good. About that time, I traded in some of my weakness for strength. I don't buy/eat nearly as much ice cream. And if I do, I'm likely to just stay with bland ol' vanilla ... it's great with fresh berries or other toppings, in shakes, or by itself. Yup, plain ol' vanilla.

Nothing wrong with plain ol' vanilla! To quote RiverBrian, no other flavor has the position flexibility that vanilla has! 

It's been a while since I had McDonald's food, but every once in a while I swing by the drive thru to pick up a vanilla cone! 

[Squirrel]

 

Nothing wrong with plain ol' vanilla! To quote RiverBrian, no other flavor has the position flexibility that vanilla has! 

It's been a while since I had McDonald's food, but every once in a while I swing by the drive thru to pick up a vanilla cone! 

Ick. Ever notice how their ice cream never melts? (okay, exaggeration for a point, I admit it). But if I'm going to have a soft-serve cone, I'm going to the DQ every day, not McDonald's.

 

And then I'm likely to make my cone a dipped cone.

[Vanimal46]

 

Ick. Ever notice how their ice cream never melts? (okay, exaggeration for a point, I admit it). But if I'm going to have a soft-serve cone, I'm going to the DQ every day, not McDonald's.

 

And then I'm likely to make my cone a dipped cone.

I wish there was a DQ near me. Unfortunately for a quick ice cream snack there's only McDonald's and Culver's near my apartment. 

You know how you can taste the difference between a store made dilly bar and the ones that are pre-packaged? The Culver's down here in TX is like going to a DQ with pre-packaged dilly bars... 

[formerly33]

Ew, why would anyone willingly eat soft serve as long as ice cream exists?

 

I color in my own drawings, if that counts. I hardly paint anymore, but I'll occasionally pull out the old Prismacolor pencils (I'm spoiled so I have a selection of 150) and color in a sketch. Or sometimes it's a little more than a sketch, as Captain Jack Sparrow took me more than a few minutes to complete ... but as long as it's in a notebook, it's probably still just a sketch.

 

[Craig Arko]

Always33, you do good work.

 

I've had to explain to co-workers on the East coast what dilly bars are. Makes me want to cry in my Ben and Jerry's.