Chicago: At Zero

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Kenan, we need your photos.

"Chicago: I got carried away" would be a good one for the future imo

Especially with that Crisco picture...

If anyone can obtain the Crisco/Disco LP, I would either accept it as a holiday gift or repay you.

search: crisco disco rapidshare blogspot

and you'll find it eventually

I said the LP.

The record.

Unless that's what you were trying to help with. In which case, thanks.

The Godfathers' projected US tour in February is the latest victim of this financial meltdown. Only announced just before Christmas, the seismic shifts in the world economy and general doom and gloom in the music business has unfortunately led the tour to be radically restructured.

However, the band can confirm the first ever American Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre show with The Godfathers at The Metro in Chicago on Saturday 14th February is still happening. This will be the first American Godfathers show in nearly 20 years with the classic, original line up of Peter Coyne, Chris Coyne, Kris Dollimore, Mike Gibson and George Mazur. This will also be the first ever Godfathers Saint Valentine's Day Massacre show outside London since its inception in the notorious London Dungeon in the late eighties. The London Saint Valentine's Day Massacre shows have become legendary events in English rock and roll folklore and The Godfathers are delighted to stage the first American Massacre at The Metro, which was always a favourite venue for the band to play in their early US tours.

This is promising!

I'd like to hear the FFs do "Birth, School, Work, Death":

huh we don't have any running water. guess the pipes are frozen

it's making me thirsty, and all we have in the fridge is beer, milk and cosmopolitan mix

apparently the drummer from rock and roll ensemble Mudv4yne was at my soul band's gig last night and feelin' it. apparently they are still a thing.

i wonder if beer + cosmopolitan mix would be drinkable. probably not, i guess.

i guess it's not cosmopolitan mix per se, it's supposed to be a premade cosmopolitan in a bottle. we also have vodka and white wine, or i could drink the brine from a bottle of olives

you should mix all three together and drink it, but make sure you film it for youtube.

xp

thirst-quenching olive brine

jordan congrats on impressing the drummer from mudvayne

'09 is all downhill from here

okay i think you should have the premade cosmopolitan.

i guess i could go get some snow off my porch and melt it. or eat it with maple syrup, little house on the prairie style

Or you could go to one of the many establishments in your area that sell drinkables.

i hope your pipes get unfroze, though!

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ha i remember that godfathers song
they had another single that i knew, but i forget what it was called

nick you could drink toilet water

"She Gives Me Love" is another one of their singles, with a great video shot at a cheap carnival. I don't want to overpost videos here, but it's out there.

Toilet water: good enough for a cat, right?

Otherwise, I would recommend a bottle of the poemgranate green tea that I found at the Trader Joe's next to your apartment.

Drink from the tank, not the bowl.

^^^voice of experience

lol

I think I learned that in hurricane class in NC.

I also learned that when it snows, it's important that all good citizens must buy as much bread and milk as possible.

Guys, it's warming up. It was something like -14 when I left the house this morning, and now it's 2.

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i hope that gif flashes at the top of this thread for eternity

sorry about that

sssssssssssseizuretime!

jk

It's -7 from where I'm sitting, which is in the Loop, FYI.

I sincerely loled at "thirst-quenching olive brine."

Frozen pipes suck!

I have a cold!

Dead possums are not faking!

they fixed the pipes already whoo

I hope they did that before you drank toilet water or the olive brine.

It's -7 from where I'm sitting, which is in the Loop, FYI.

Yeah, I'm just looking at my Google widget, which is not always accurate.

Mine says -1

i am attempting to make that no-knead bread and it was a messier process than i had imagined

You cook a lot. I like that.

You guys, Google Docs is the best thing EVER. EVER.

I agree that googledocs is the best thing ever. i keep my gradebooks on there and i never have to worry about losing my usb or bag or whatever.

have you guys ever tried to make this bread? it's a mess! so gloppy. i hope the deliciousness of the bread makes up for the mess i made.

today is my last day of relaxation before SP09 starts full speed

i think i'm going to make some meaty red beans & rice this weekend.

I made some meaty black beans and rice last week. Black beans + pork + ORANGE PEEL AND JUICE = nomnomnomnom

(the onions, garlic, peppers, and red wine helped too)

EW YOU ARE DISGUSTINE

just kidding that sounds good

What should Courtney and I cook for dinner tonight? I want it to involve chicken, and for it to be fucking delicious.

you should roast a whole chicken

short ribs are different, they're usually braised and i've had them off the bone more often than not

i dunno about bittman being a douche. he seems like less of a douche than a lot of other people who talk about food for a living.
i just like that he is a regular home cook who tries to demystify the cooking process so more people can cook their own food, rather than making fancy crap like all WOW LOOK AT WHAT I MADE B/C I AM CHEF
instead he is more like "i did this, you can do this"

there's a bit in Bill Buford's 'Heat' about how short ribs had a reputation as a cheap, tough cut of meat until some new york chef (can't remember who) started braising them and serving them at his restaurant, and then they became this de rigeur thing at fine dining places.

i basically live out of 'How to Cook Everything' (except it doesn't really cover southern american/mexican/"ethnic" food)

I don't know, he seems kind of like a douche on that Mario Battali Spain show, but, then again, they all do, so maybe it's the show.

I should have taken pictures of my food at the publican! fail.

"the best recipes in the world" is mostly good
i use it pretty regularly for ideas

we have how to cook everything vegetarian and there are some winners in there but i've also made a few things that were either meh or full-on blecch. the beauty of it is providing the basic recipes and then giving ideas for how to personalize them or spice them up, but i almost prefer cookbooks that tell me every little thing to do and give me no freedom

i just like that he is a regular home cook who tries to demystify the cooking process so more people can cook their own food, rather than making fancy crap like all WOW LOOK AT WHAT I MADE B/C I AM CHEF
instead he is more like "i did this, you can do this"

This is very very similar to something I said to Jeff re: Bittman this weekend, except I do think he's a little bit of a douche, based mostly on the tone and deutschy-lite writing style of his NYT posts.

You know? I hate Cheez-its but I am kind of fascinated at the thought of making a cheese cracker at home, particularly since they are like pie crust but less fussy, which is right up my culinary alley.

i almost prefer cookbooks that tell me every little thing to do and give me no freedom

Too bad Christopher Kimball hates vegetarians, because Cook's Illustrated's Best Recipes would be just the thing for you.

these crackers are so good that i challenge anyone to not nom them to hell

i mean, do you like butter? cheese? salt?

if so, then you like these crackers

Thanks to Bittman, I have a better understanding of why I hate Cheez-its, so I would definite approach homemade cheese crackers with an open mind. Especially because butter, cheese, and salt are three of my favorite things.

I just read a brief that involved BOLD and A LOT of !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (multiple !!! at once, and this was written by an actual practicing attorney and not a junior high school student) and accusations that an employer's defense is a "humbug, hypocrisy, and insincerity!!!"

wtf lawyers

i basically live out of 'How to Cook Everything' (except it doesn't really cover southern american/mexican/"ethnic" food)

I feel like the vegetarian one has various ethnic recipes. I made a hot-and-sour edamame and tofu dish from the book last weekend, and several of the menus in the back have ethnic themes, such as the "South American-Style Carnival Dinner": Brazilian-style black bean soup; cassava fritters; chimichurri; rice baked with chili, cheese, and tomatoes; boiled or steamed greens; and cappuccino flan.

cheez-its are one of my all-time favorite junk/snack foods

i was the influence behind their obnoxious "get your own box" slogan

"the best recipes in the world" is mostly good
i use it pretty regularly for ideas

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this is a bittman book!

jaymc did you remember that entire menu from your brain?

if so, you are a freak

I like Cheez-its. I really like jalapeno cheez-its, or did until the night I ate them then fell asleep on the couch with lots of them stuck in my teeth and I woke up to a terrible metallic-jalapeno-cheez-it funk in my beautiful orifice.

jaymc did you remember that entire menu from your brain?

Google Books, dude.

thank god
i was a little worried about you

today's lunch:
cold cuts
peppadew mustard
pringles
dessert tbd

i had a chili dog and a salad

combos

i basically live out of 'How to Cook Everything'

I couldn't boil water without this. Or at least, not until I "get" the recipe. I had an ah-ha moment with pudding last night, while I was making some of a banana variety, and it wasn't Bittman that did it, it was Wikipedia. Recipes all say, use this much egg, this much milk, this much corn starch, and I wondered, what's reacting with what that makes all these measurements non-negotiable? Turns out, none of them but the starch and the heat. Immerse starch in liquid and add heat, and the starch expands and absorbs the liquid, creating goop. With pudding, goop is what you want. Take away the egg, and it's flavorless goop. Replace milk with water, and you get clear goop. Knowing this, and knowing that the banana I added was too much sweet and too much liquid, I can tweak a pudding to my liking.

I had lunch underground at Cordoza's, across the street from Rock Records (RIP). I would strongly recommend a T Thurs there.

cheez-its are one of my all-time favorite junk/snack foods

I have a box of the white cheddar on the floor next to me.

I had a salad from Walgreens for lunch and now I have liver flukes and need to detox.

i should put away this chicken but
the peppadew mustard is so sweet
and irresistable

i had udon noodles and some ginger cookies for dessert

I have eaten
the chicken
that was on
the plate

Forgive me
it was delicious
so mustardy
and so peppadew

Put away that chicken, Jesse, or you will get liver flukes.

I remember reading some interview with Bill Murray where they followed him around for a night and he would only drink the lemon/maple/cayenne drink.

I am LOLing at flukes being your answer to everything.

I think my sore throat is not due to a cold, but rather to having liver flukes in my throat.

Maybe they're just throat flukes.

No way, that's disgusting.

Sounds like lemon/water/cayenne might get flatworms out of your throat, if that turns out to be the case.

maybe you have a fluke man in your throat:

http://www.tvworthwatching.com/blog/2008/07/28/x-files-fluke.jpg

It can be so hard, though, to diagnose between that and a CHUD. The treatment is very different.

Somebody call House MD!

man, the fluke man looks really sick

How about a new thread?

Go for it.

Ooh... this is exciting!

I can't do that sort of thing. It would break my no thread streak.

oh ffs

Chicago: like Cloud City