New month, no lie, it's July

[Delmonico]

Yep, so what.

[Major E A Sterner]

The year is half over, It's on the downhill side now.Days are getting shorter, soon the trees will be changing color and after that the cold dead of winter.

[Major 2]

Yes Sir,  just 176 shopping days till Christmas, time to start your list ....
Maybe  bit early yet to begin baking cookies...hmmm cookies,  Toll House chocolate chip 

Guess I'll go toast a Bagel with Garlic & Herb cream cheese and cup of  S. American blend

Chance of rain 35%  currently 73°  headed to 85° for the high ,  Humidity @ 95%  typical  Florida in July

and Oh joy     Tropical Storm Elsa formed in the Atlantic, could hit South Florida next week   

[Silver Creek Slim]

Morning y'all.
Coffee and iced tea are ready.

'Tis 66 and sunny. High of 77.

Slim

[Delmonico]

Got a corned beef brisket in the oven making rye for Reubens with the leftovers tomorrow, no call from Hollywood yet.     We'll see, if it happens since it's that Chopped show Arcey will smile down on me.

If I get a call back i better watch it at least once since I never have.

[Major 2]

That would be so cool ,  Del a Reality Star  , I'd tune in for that.
Being I never seen it either, where is it found ? Network or channel ?

[Delmonico]

That would be so cool ,  Del a Reality Star  , I'd tune in for that.
Being I never seen it either, where is it found ? Network or channel ?

No idea, lady last week joined my group and asked about recruiting people, I said sure and she did yesterday and they all thought I should put in and the wife did too, hadn't really thought about it.

[Major E A Sterner]

It's on the Food Network,Chopped has some really odd ingredients in their baskets,The chefs have to do an appetizer, a main meal and a desert, start with 4chefs and ends up with 2, one chef being eliminated each course.

[Delmonico]

I'm hoping my pictures impress them, if not it's not a big deal, I think you know I have a lot of people that follow me, most of my docs/recipes what ever you call them get 2500 or so reads in my group in a week or two, had one got almost 500 the first hour one time.   I'm teaching a lot of people.   And people like my grumpy long haired redneck style, my comment earlier this week about artisan bread being ugly and needing a paper bag got more than a few laughs. 

[Delmonico]

BTW my my whole wheat herbal brioche bread, now known as Herbert W Brioche bread toasted was very good and went well with aged asiago in French onion soup.   Look at that caramelization in that soup, that is all natural, no added color, just onions, black pepper and broth.

See I can cook fancy if I want to, thinking a lunch at the Muster next year.

[Delmonico]

Entered a new phase of my life, am not an on-line shopping virgin anymore, I ordered a new dehydrator tonight, wife gave me one of her cards, I hit the cart tab and did it all by myself.    Hope it lasts better than the one that just burnt up and popped the circuit breaker, it only last 24 years and I had to tear it down and lube the motor 3-4 years ago.    

[Delmonico]

One paragraph I'm proud of:



Going to the refrigerator I grab a carton of eggs and open them, and find I have just brown eggs in it, sometimes they have blue green ones or white ones or a mix of all three.  This is good because brown eggs are in style today despite the shell color not making the egg inside different than a white one, at one time white eggs were considered better, now for some reason brown is considered better and cost more.   Sadly in the ultimate search for cool they were not "Free Range Organic" but just regular old farm eggs from yard birds since they run around in my brother in laws yard.   But they were free instead of $5 a dozen so I went with cheap. 

[Major 2]

Del the French onion soup looks superb ... 

My guess is the one show rating for the episode that would feature you, would increase by a factor of everyone on Cas City
and your blog followers.

A leather smith  friend of mine, was featured on "How its Made" and the show got one of the highest viewed new episodes ratings.
Another Knifemaker friend, was featured on "Forged in Fire" ...

[Silver Creek Slim]

Morning y'all.
Coffee and iced tea are ready.

'Tis 48 and cloudy. High of 78. Heat moves in tomorrow.

Slim

[Johnny McCrae]

Interesting cloud formation yesterday here in Florida near St. Petersburg.

[Silver Creek Slim]

I'm trying to figure out what it looks like.

Slim

[Major 2]

a scary teddy bear ?

[Delmonico]

I'm trying to figure out what it looks like.

Slim

Clouds.

[Delmonico]

I need a vacation from my wife, she bought bagels from the local store bakery last night, late afternoon sale, they had 4 with cheese on the.  Just asked me if I wanted a couple Jalapeno ones, "No, why would I want F*ed up bagels?    Just because I like the J peppers where they belong don't mean I want them on everything.  And that's after I had to take off my headphones.


I guess they got tossed or I will after they mold.  So she put peanut butter and bologna  on the cheddar and asiago ones and ruins them.    I want plain white bagels with cream cheese and smoked salmon on them, dang yuppies again, they ruin everything they touch, go look at new pickups.   Need to get me some lump charcoal and a hunk of salmon from Cosco and smoke it and bag it..

Been locked up since got back from the 2019 Muster and Rowdy was so bad we didn't go far   At least she goes to the Yuppie coffee house with her friend a lot, what she does since she don't drink coffee is beyond me, she's missing out on their free range organic coffee.

[The Trinity Kid]

Evening all.

It's been a long week, and getting followed by two more.

Drove 120 miles each way today to pump out a rest area, then did a couple more jobs around town.  Finally got the big boy truck on Wednesday. Learning the 10 speed has been a steep learning curve. I have a tendency to skip 6th gear, which is not helpful when one is driving a 60,000lb vehicle.

—TK