Pictures! (And if they're any good, the address too, please.)

It was super intense. Not unpleasant, but certainly not something I'd eat often. It tasted somewhat like jerky, though the texture was excellent and it had a nice sour note. You're right that few hams here in the states are aged more than 14-16 months, though there are a few places that age 2 years on a large enough scale as to make them available to anyone.

After the 14-hour tonkotsu finished up Sunday morning, a friend and I drank birthday bourbon and made ramen yesterday. Great day and a helluva bowl of broth.


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Ramen Sunday by ColonelJLloyd, on Flickr


Ramen Sunday by ColonelJLloyd, on Flickr

That's not your average college boys' ramen. Looks great.

i made some katsu with a pea/radish/cucumber salad (soy sauce and sesams oil dressing) today, a nice little Eurasian dish that's easy to make and is really tasty. Forgot to whip out the camera though, but it looked as good as it tasted.

On three seed whole wheat: sunflower, poppy, and sesame with Hellmans Mayo

This man treats his sandwiches with respect. Served on a silver platter! I like your style*, all hail the BLT!







*I'm a toast man, myself. Gotta be toasted.

Happy birthday, Colonel. If it wasn't yours, well....happy B-day anyway.

I got hold of the leftover salad ingredients of yesterday, added salmon and remembered to snap a pic. yay! Tasted great too.


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Looks great.

Thanks, rootboy!

thanks

and congratulations, too!

Forget the pasta, how did you like the Rowan's Creek? I am always looking for a new Bourbon.

Dang. You guys are regular gourmands. I had a few slices of Tillamook cheese on a tortilla for lunch.

Ah! Good! The concept of the Liquid Lunch didn't get much exposure in this thread yet.

Wow! Your lunch break must be longer than mine. Impressive!

and to think that I had to survive this gruelling summer on stuff like THIS:


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Classic Negroni, right there. Plymouth gin and all.

Yup, add some salted peanuts and you're good, calory-wise.

Made a pizza with the last peppers from the garden. I finally worked out a good dough recipe and made the sauce as well. Got rave reviews from the kids.

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That looks really nice. Great color! Once you find a good pizza dough it's tough to beat. There is always a ball or two of dough in my freezer.

It's very good. 100 proof with a good bit of spice and pronounced vanilla notes at the end. It benefits from a touch of water.

I was in Bardstown a few weeks ago with a friend who picked up some rarities for a wealthy friend of his. They thought we were some serious high rollers leaving that shop! I only wish I'd have gotten to taste them.


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That's one of my favorites. Replace the gin with bourbon (I like a 1.5/1/1 ratio) and you have a Boulevardier (man about town) which actually predates the Negroni.

gotta try that one next time. I'm not up on Bourbon though, about the only stuff available here is JD and four roses, probably not the best reference

Colonel, the Boulevardier sounds good. I'll definitely give it a try. I've been on a bourbon Manhattan with orange bitters kick lately. (Rye makes a great Manhattan, too.) True what Italuminium says about the dearth of bourbon in Europe, at least in my experience. I was recently in Germany, and was disappointed that so many "full" bars did not have a single bourbon to offer. If I did find it at all, it was most likely Jim Bean. (Four Roses ain't so bad.)

Technically, Jack Daniel's isn't bourbon as the mash bill doesn't have at least 51% corn. But, many people don't know or care. When I was in Europe a couple years ago I just drank wine and beer. Spirits seemed to be much more expensive, even European brands. It's hard to beat a good Manhattan or Old Fashioned, gaucho777. Yeah, Four Roses isn't bad at all.

Yes, and in the Netherlands spirits are much, much more expensive compared to beer. Taxes mostly, 90% of a bottle of Dutch gin (jenever) is tax, for instance. Nobody knows how to price wine properly since it either has to be fancy or from a box, but still sold as expensive wine. And the beer is expensive too in bars, due to insane real estate prices, taxes, contracts with breweries and high minimum wages. A beer in the netherlands is easily 50% more expensive than in Germany or Belgium. If you want to be a rampant drunkard, do it somewhere else!

A lot of bikes though. And bikes are good too.

Mmm, it's be a long time since I had a good bourbon. I always thought sipping a good bourbon was a treat. JD wasn't quite the thing. And a bad bourbon wasn't either. But I don't recall what I liked the last time.

I probably should hand over my man card for making these, but here we are. Cinnamon cup cakes with molasses syrup and almonds.


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Brent

I'm sure you had a very good reason ....

Just kidding, they look very tasty. I'm a Baba au Rhum man myself.