OT - NO POLITICS April edition - RIP Gordon Lightfoot

[Kate08]

I love doing brisket, but tri tip was suggested to me a while back and it's intriguing.

I have a strong preference for tri tip as I find brisket too fatty. Teh tri tip is lean but still juicy, flavorful, and holds a smoke beautifully.

 

[LSCII]

I have a strong preference for tri tip as I find brisket too fatty. Teh tri tip is lean but still juicy, flavorful, and holds a smoke beautifully.

Got to trim the brisket more aggressively next time and then let it render the fat fully before wrapping it for the stall. Once you do that, it's pretty amazing.

But I'm pretty sure the next thing we do will be a tri tip regardless.

 

[GordonHowe]

Interesting read. I remember being confused when I had to move to upstate/western NY for work for a few years and couldn't really find them anywhere simple.

I told my brother Bob that I had picked up some steak tips @ Roache Bros. and to my surprise (at the time), he was like, "What are steak tips?"

I had no idea they were an exclusively NE thing.

I have a strong preference for tri tip as I find brisket too fatty. Teh tri tip is lean but still juicy, flavorful, and holds a smoke beautifully.

I haven't tried tri tip yet, but would like to.

 

[Bruinswillwin77]

I told my brother Bob that I had picked up some steak tips @ Roache Bros. and to my surprise (at the time), he was like, "What are steak tips?"

I had no idea they were an exclusively NE thing.

Similar to what happened to me when I had moved to NY I mentioned steak tips to my landlord and that I was surprised the ONE butcher in the village didn't have any. He looked at me all confused and puzzled and I had to describe them to him.. And I was even more confused at him being confused than anything.

 

[Kovi]

Similar to what happened to me when I had moved to NY I mentioned steak tips to my landlord and that I was surprised the ONE butcher in the village didn't have any. He looked at me all confused and puzzled and I had to describe them to him.. And I was even more confused at him being confused than anything.

There is so much food knowledge that hasn't made it to the southwest. Hence, when we travel back East it pretty much becomes a food tour.
I will say, the small donut shops here do a really good job.

 

[GordonHowe]

Yeah I downloaded one of those apps on the play store a couple years ago for something else but then it was trying to make me pay for it so I said F you and deleted it and haven't tried another app since.


@Kovi helped me figure out it was a fiddle leaf fig.

Ah yes, the IT/old switcheroo FU.

I know it well. And indulge in the practice with relish.

Watching Celtics in an old school Boston bar in Lauderdale and I mean old school

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Well, if you have to live in FLA...

 

[McGarnagle]

I told my brother Bob that I had picked up some steak tips @ Roache Bros. and to my surprise (at the time), he was like, "What are steak tips?"

I had no idea they were an exclusively NE thing.


I haven't tried tri tip yet, but would like to.

There's a lot of stuff I never realized were exclusively New England things until I left New England. Like hot dog rolls. Can't get a real top-loading hot dog roll anywhere on the west coast, it's tragic, they don't know what they're missing.

I never really ordered steak tips on their own, but a restaurant near where my parents live has a great steak tip sub.

 

[LSCII]

There's a lot of stuff I never realized were exclusively New England things until I left New England. Like hot dog rolls. Can't get a real top-loading hot dog roll anywhere on the west coast, it's tragic, they don't know what they're missing.

I never really ordered steak tips on their own, but a restaurant near where my parents live has a great steak tip sub.

How do they toast the buns if they don't have NE style rolls?

 

[Mione134]

All this meat talk is making me very, very hungry for steak tips.

 

[McGarnagle]

How do they toast the buns if they don't have NE style rolls?

They don't. They're missing out, if people outside of New England just had one hot dog with a roll toasted in butter, they'd never go back.

Also, another New England thing I never thought of - Greek Pizza. Not my favorite type of pizza by any means but sometimes I miss that bready texture in a pie because I grew up eating at tons of random places all named [town] House of Pizza.

 

[GordonHowe]

She a beauty. Fiddle -leaf fig

Congrats!

Ever have Fiddleheads?

An acquired taste.

 

[GordonHowe]

Still waiting for my first hummingbird to arrive. Just 40 mins south of here they have been back for two weeks! Maybe they have forgotten about me! On a positive note, we have two families of baby bunnies this year!

On another note, look at this picture from Game 7 of the Jr. B hockey Sutherland Cup final at Allman arena in Stratford ON. Stupid parents! The expressions on the faces of the people around them are priceless.

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I thought

What is this?

 

[GordonHowe]

Too funny. Me and the missus went to Paris last fall and toured the Louvre. I commented how hard life must have been in the 15th and 16th centuries, everyone looked miserable. I later got on my Twitter feed and thought, everyone will be saying the same about us in a few hundred years.

Provided we last that long.

This reminds me of something I saw/learned a few years ago. We tend to think of Victorian Era/turn of the 19th century people as really serious because of their photographs. They always always always look so stern in them. But that's because they had to sit still for so long to take them. It was simply easier not to smile for a picture and instead go with an expression lacking ay emotion.

When you see old photos of them smiling, though, they feel and look no different from us. Completely changes the image of that time period and its people.

Smiling Victorians: Why It's A Myth That Our Ancestors Didn't Smile For Pictures | HistoryExtra

Our image of the Victorians is shaped by the photographs we see in history books – stern, austere and relentlessly severe. Yet there was a playful side to our 19th-century ancestors, and Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones has the proof. Here he introduces a selection of portraits that show the sitters doing...

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Watch This Snowball Fight From 1897 for a Jolt of Pure Joy (Published 2020)

A viral clip of old-timey French people pelting one another with snowballs perfectly distills our current mayhem. It’s my favorite film of 2020.

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[GordonHowe]

Here's the finished product after nearly 14 hours. I ended up shredding it into pulled pork and we're going to have tacos al pastor this evening with some homemade guacamole....
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Holy cow! I mean, pig.

 

[Fenway]

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