For our new video feature, KK and I decided to start with that star of brunches everywhere hollandaise.
Hollandaise is an emulsion of eggs and butter, flavored with lemon. Some recipes call for mustard and cayenne pepper as well, but Kristen’s recipe is pure lemon, eggs, butter and salt.
Kristen’s Hollandaise
- 5 egg yolks
- 5-6 tablespoons of lemon juice or more
- 1 cup butter
- 1/8 teaspoon of salt
We used our sauce to make eggs benedict, but other common uses of hollandaise are fish, chicken and even steak. Or just do shooters.
L0b0t’s favorite sauce – béarnaise, is a variation of hollandaise. Substitute white wine and champagne vinegar for the lemon juice, and add finely chopped shallots and finely chopped fresh tarragon.
Beverage.
Did you read the alto text?
I see no alt text, but I do see “shooters.” I was agreeing.
I’m not seeing alt text either.
Me neither but I just switched to The Edge so I thought that was it.
The Irish guy with the Korg SDD-2000?
Brave, works better, more secure, built in Tor
?♀️ I’ll give it a try some time.
I haven’t been a regular (outside of work) user of Windows in 14 years so I have time. This machine that I haven’t used in 3 or 4 years had Chrome on it and well, that won’t do any more.
Interestingly, work switched from Chrome to The Edge after New Year’s. It’s surprisingly not bad. I remember the IE days.
Lots of sites won’t accept TOR though.
I’ve had no trouble with Brave.
dammit! It was supposed to say “For you, Mojeaux”
And now it does. WordPress’s idea of “alt-text” is different than normal people’s. So your alt-text goes in another box, something image attribute something.
Thank you!
Go check out Tonio’s article.
w00t!
Thank you, MLWs!
…hollandaise makes me retch…
*ducks*
You wouldn’t say that if you tried the recipe they use in Nome, Alaska.
There’s no place like Nome for the Hollendaise.
Dammit, should have scrolled down first. Nome is still better than Chrome though.
Nice work!
Also, will try but it sounds way lemony. I have only done the double boiler routine with a lot less lemon. The Canadian bacon are the biggest slabs I have ever seen. #drool……I poach eggs in not so much water and drizzle the hot water over the egg. egg rings help also so you don’t get egg drop soup. The video made my hungry. Thanks!
Charming!
I think you’ll like the next one, too. I gotta get to editing this weekend.
I just got home from work, so I’m hitting the sauce too.
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x3
Has anyone coined the term Presidementia yet?
don’t recall
Not since Reagan died!
Copyright it before it’s too late!
Ya makin’ me hungry!
I’m drooling.
Thanks for this.
Belated thank you to KK for the Dick Dale article. Love that guy.
Would.
Thank you.
Nerds! …wait, that’s not right.
You have far too many gadgets on your counter. Is that an electric knife sharpener? for shame.
It is an electric knife sharpener. It is fast, convenient, and good enough. I hate sharpening knives on a stone.
I use a Chef Choice 4643. It works great, and no electricity needed.
I just got a lansky but haven’t tried it out yet. The mount was on backorder and I just received it today.
SP linked a company called A.G. Russell some time back. I ordered both their diamond and ceramic sharpeners.
And put my old electirc sharpener in the garbage.
Worth every dime
I’ve got a ceramic V sharpener like that, but I think calling it a sharpener is wrong. It is a good hone, but it won’t really sharpen a dull blade.
Great for keeping a sharp knife sharp, though.
i keep my electric wheel sharpener for fixing dull knives/scissors and can use it for the yard implements as well.
I also think that switch and plug is too close to the sink to pass code.
I see I might be wrong. GFCI FTW. Add that to the things I learned today.
mmm looks delicious!
Also I am jealous you get to hang out! Together! In person!
“casually standin’ around whisking a little bit”
Something, something phrasing.
Seriously though, this is awesome! thanks for putting it together! I’ve never made a hollandaise, but it’s now on my to-do list for next week’s breakfast for dinner night.
Oh. You poor summer child. Just wait til the next installment
“do you want to show ’em what it’s like in the bottom, too?”
This place just keeps getting classier. Very well done, and something I will try.
Hopefully SP has programmed a kill switch so when the feds come knocking everything gets deleted except cooking, gardening, and art.
Dinner tonight: The finest coconut shrimp found in your grocers freezer over the finest Asian salad found in your grocers bagged salad section.
Step 1: Put half the bag of coconut shrimp into air fryer basket and air fry till crispy.
Step 2: While shrimp is cooking open bagged salad and use half of contents to make a salad. Add extra dashes of red wine vinegar because it is good. (ziplock the remainder of the salad bag for tomorrow)
Step 3: Dump cooked shrimp on salad and eat. (throw shrimp tails at the trashcan across the room from your tv chair)
Step 4: Go to bed leaving dirty salad bowl in front of TV chair.
#cookingforone
I’m one of those weird people who likes coconut but only as a stand alone food. Every time I eat something with it as a main ingredient I find myself thinking: “This doesn’t work.”
Different strokes and all.
Myself, I had deli sliced Buffalo chicken with swiss on a wholewheat hoagie.
To me, coconut is only tolerable inside chocolate.
You are both horribly damaged people.
True, but what about my views on coconut?
You’re not wrong.
Heh. Almond Joy and Russel Stover assorted mystery chocolates, FTW!
I can handle that if those are my only choices. Given other options, not so much.
I’ll be there in about 10 hours.
(eggs, toast & OJ for me tonight)
Please don’t think I was shitting on your article. It’s just one of those things I don’t dig on. I promise, I have mostly positive things to say about the other sauces. Keep em coming!
You going skiing? I thought that was off for this year?
I was j/k because your dinner sounded way better n’ mine.
I’m only vicariously skiing in Japan this year https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgAp2vnD_V0
Aaaah, ya. You picked a good year to skip here. Might get some high snow this weekend but it has been a bit dry.
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1352251615382802434
*sigh*
In his defense, he can’t remember if he had chocolate or vanilla for his mid-afternoon pudding cup.
Biden has nothing to do with it, other than read a proclamation off a teleprompter and scribble his name on whatever paper is handed to him by one of his minders.
This will give the economy another good whacking.
By the way, it’s no surprise.
Ya, that is the thing. Presidementia is not running shit. We are being ruled by a gaggle of progressive evil people now.
Pretty sure he remembers exactly what ” No More Tears” shampoo smells like.
His favorite brand was always “Gee, You Hair Smells Terrific!”
My MIL is one of those low information voters who just watches 30 minutes of nightly news. Already today she said “why did he open the border? covid is still a problem.” We’re going to have some fun conversations in the coming months.
COVID won’t be a problem soon.
I heard CNN took down their death count.
Saucy birds!
Nice timepiece, K.
Thanks. I should bitch less and cook more.
Multitask – bitch while cooking!
Or, you can do like my Italian side of the family and bitch about the cooking while having huge arguments about each individual aspect of the process. The food always came out excellent, but the intensity of the arguments was sometimes scary. Stupid stuff like you cut the peppers too big.
“I’m stirrin’ the sauce!”
Mafia movies and novels are directly responsible for my weight gain. Always putting me in the fucking mood for Sunday gravy with meatballs, baked ziti, gabagool, Neapolitan pizza, all washed down with a bottle of vino of course.
Several years ago I binge-watched The Sopranos, and I was seriously 10 pounds heavier at the end.
A bit of intellectual insight from my 5 year old granddaughter today: “I’m not so good at cleaning. I am good at … playing.”
Yes darlin’, aren’t we all.
Fuckin’ A.
https://tenor.com/view/office-space-fuckin-a-neighbor-gif-15179152
+2 chicks at the same time
– 1 case of the Mondays
+I could never get the hang of Thursdays
Shrimps done adios. Thanks for the post KK and Tulip
Too obscure?
https://pasteboard.co/JKKAAVl.jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EsSPZ5JW8AkMJa1?format=jpg&name=medium
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EsSPZBSXAAIHF-d?format=jpg&name=900×900
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Somebody has to put him in a crew manned machine gun nest.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EsSNo9FXYAAm634?format=jpg&name=medium
Shut the fuck up Bernie. You’re out of your element.
Shut the fuck up, Donny!
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EsSHDwLXcAEwkv1?format=jpg&name=900×900
(I made this one myself!)
It’s over my head. I don’t get it.
Sorry
It’s the 1919 World Series, which was fixed.
Just like the Dem primaries! HAR!
Chicago Black Sox.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EsQ9LPIXcAEhICl?format=jpg&name=medium
This is the best one
I’m really confused right now.
That’s because nobody needs this many memes.
https://tenor.com/VQss.gif
Fuck Bernie Sanders, yo.
In some parts, it’s traditional to serve Eggs Benedict on a hubcap on Christmas morning.
Because there’s no place like chrome for the Hollandaise.
Can I get a Swiss over here!?
He’ll have to narrow his gaze, because of the glint from the chrome.
I think I could do this. Thanks, Ladies!
The large Bibles swooned under the oath of decency, heralding the dawn of righteousness.
Mrs. Pi loves Eggs Benedict! I think I’ll do this for Sunday morning.
Very nice wrong to you both. Thanks!
Wrong = work *sigh*
Holy crap….. The Biden camp is *already* talking about increasing troop levels in Iraq. I will give him this… Biden knows how to follow orders.
Some twitter snark from the discussion there:
Ah…the era of decency restored.
So glad Trump’s era of fascistic *checks notes* military drawdowns is being reversed.
https://mobile.twitter.com/amuse/status/1352303194899165184
So Will Wilkinson got fired from Niskanen for a bad joke tweet in which he said “lynch Mike Pence”, and I’m torn between my revulsion to cancelling bullshit like this on one hand, and wanting to laugh at his useless ass on the other hand. It’s especially amusing that he was fired by Jerry Taylor, who said he wanted to beat the McCloskeys brains in yet continues in his job.
We have officially gone insane.
The ultimate clue? The cancellation of Martina Navratilova. All because she dared to say that men who transitioned to women should not compete in women’s sports.
Martina freaking Navratilova. The absolute unquestioned first hero of the Trans movement. At the time that she was the unquestioned and somewhat unchallenged greatest player on planet Earth, she brought in Dr Renee Richards as her coach. A trans woman. In the 1970s, for crying out loud. If that person can get canceled for what should be a fairly uncontroversial opinion, what hope do normal people have?
We have lost our damned minds.
On this issue, I feel a big backlash coming.
One of the biggest mistakes the GOP made was not hammering Biden on it. Probably wouldn’t have made a difference, since he would have lied like he did on fracking, but I can’t imagine a lot of suburban white moms who voted Biden for decency and normalcy thought they were voting for the destruction of women’s athletics.
I don’t think the backlash will come until erstwhile men participating in women’s sports reaches some kind of critical mass. But when that happens, it’s gonna be big. Trump hammering Biden on this issue would have been premature.
You are right because it won’t become obvious to the suburban mom (because the news media won’t cover it) until her little Taylor and Emma don’t make the swim team this year.
The problem here is that nobody can really tell who voted for what. I think our only hope is that the people are repulsed by what Biden actually does and then slam the whole party hard, I mean really fucking hard at the next two or three times they get a chance. Barring that, we are well and truly screwed. The establishment assholes have made up their minds to accept this bullshit. It’s up to the American voters to hit back so hard, cheating won’t be possible.
I’m actually starting to feel slightly more optimistic. I think the big rivalry for the next year or so will be Marxists leftists vs. establishment Dems. I may get the popcorn popper out.
She was a fixture on the Tennis Channel – which I watch a lot… not anymore. For awhile it was like nothing happened but yeah it seems like at some point she was quietly disappeared now that I think about it.
The Ls in LGBTQ eat their own.
Phrasing!
Well played.
When I lived in Atlanta back in the 90s she had an apartment on the same stairwell with friends of ours … Used it for her time playing on the ATL pro tennis team.
Saw her with that chick from the Bangles she was dating from time to time. Drove her around on the back of her Harley. Seemed like nice enough folks.
IIRC she was instrumental in the formation of that league. In the before times, they treated her like royalty at every match I saw.
Since Niskansen is very por-cancel culture, I applaud their self-consistency and urge them to purity spiral with increasing vigor.
https://youtu.be/CC8PfyGBCoc
Turkish Sand Coffee. I have never seen this, its kinda cool.
Good stuff. Looks delicious. Also looks like not part of my diet plan. 😀
Rumors are news. Cancel for all I care, but this is garbage reporting.
https://japantoday.com/category/sports/Japan-has-privately-concluded-Tokyo-Olympics-should-be-canceled-The-Times
Here I sit in the parking lot of the nearest hospital that has an emergency room.
My husband is inside, but I couldn’t go in with him cuz Covid. We would have gone to urgent care but they closed at 5pm instead of 9 pm because Covid.
The issue is he has a fast growing blister or something on the roof of his mouth that came up around noon and is now interfering with swallowing, talking, and breathing. I don’t know if it’s anaphylactic reaction or what. He’s burning up too.
He was sick with what we suspect was the Vid last week, but he’s felt much better for 5 days now.
I’d like to know what’s up but, ya know…no visitors. He’s probably being a grouchy paranoid turd in there too (judging from what he was muttering while in line), so I hope they don’t slap a DNR on his wrist.
Wish us luck. Or pray if you are the praying sort.
Added bonus. While we were in line outside, a guy who looked like the crypt keeper, complete with IV needle sticking out of his arm, walked in past us with no mask, and proceeded to wander back and forth past the entrance (inside) with no mask.
So much for careful Covid protocols.
Sending out our prayers.
Not the praying type, but I’m wishing you the best. I feel really bad for you guys. Hopefully they can fix it without much fuss.
That sounds horrible. Hope it turns out well for him.
Yikes – best of luck!
Thanks, Rhy, straff, and Blackjack.
Fingers crossed…
Wishing you the best. It’s inhuman what they are doing to families regarding hospital visits.
Can’t argue.
Hope he’s OK
My empathy – been there/done that four weeks ago tomorrow. Surprisingly, though, even in DeRINO’s Ohio, I was able to stay with Tom T, even overnight in his private room. Hope your situation turns out to be nothing too serious.
Prayers indeed. And while I’m at it (forgive me, Lord) FUCK Newsom(e) and all his minions who’ve made this more difficult for you.
(I wish I could say I’m truly penitent, but for now, not so much…).
I hope everything is OK. Wishing the best.
Good luck!
Apologies if drugs emerging from backside, etc. I’ve been at the track in Sebring all day. Since the house I’m renting is about 100 yards from the highway in question, I found this amusing.
FL state representative proposes naming US-27 after Donnie Two-Scoops.
To be fair, if held to a plebiscite and restricted to folks who live within 10 miles of the road, it would almost pass by acclamation.
Gross. Only because I don’t like the idea of naming public shit after living people.
Huh, I had no idea.
Hell, they are trying to get his name off the side of his own towers in New York and Chicago.
Might as well give him a road.
There’s already this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_J._Trump_State_Park
Legit LOLs. Almost peak liberal.
I’m guessing Donald learned a lesson from this debacle.
Dude needs a Battlestar named after him.
Our place in LA is near the Ronald Reagan freeway. I notice how unusual it sounds in today’s California every time I refer to it.
The Ronald Reagan Library outside LA is worth a visit. They have the actual Air Force One from when he was president, you can tour inside it, and also stand at the door at the top of the gangway and a nice docent will take your photo as you give a presidential salute. The actual Marine One chopper you can go inside, too. Also, an exact to scale replica of his Oval Office, and the suit he was wearing when he was shot, with the bullet hole clearly marked. Much cooler museum than I anticipated.
The first time I visited the Reagan Library was almost 16 years ago. We arrived late, probably less than 30 minutes before closing time, too late to enter normally but one of the docents was very nice and led us on a quick tour of the exhibitions. They didn’t have the Air Force One yet. The Oval Office was at the time the top attraction. Our docent used to work in a constituent services office for Reagan, answering letters or some such. She was able to add a little personal touch to the exhibits. I returned there a few times since then to be able to visit it without being rushed and bring visiting relatives and friends.
I used to drive on the Richard M. Nixon Freeway all the time.
Great video!
Inspirational, ain’t it? I’ve never made hollandaise sauce. I have a lemon tree that is heavy with fruit that I better pick in the next few days, so perhaps I will be emboldened enough to give it a try.
Thanks, ladies!
I really enjoy cooking. We are at the point of nearly completing a 1+-year renovation of our first floor including a completely new kitchen. I can’t wait to try some new stuff out. We have all the tools now; we just need the talent.
I start with an electric sharpener, and then finish it on a diamond whetstone (or, if I’m feeling frisky, a Japanese waterstone).
The ultimate guide to sharpening everything on Earth:
https://www.leevalley.com/en-ca/shop/tools/books-and-dvds/32991-the-complete-guide-to-sharpening?item=73L0155
Nothing better exists. Trust me, I’ve spent a quarter-century looking.
Yeah, I have one of the little Stanley gizmos for plane and chisel sharpening, on an Arkansas oilstone, but nothing beats a Norton white for HSS.
I can smoothly cut stainless steel after using that. None of that carbide shit for me.
Calling all Babylon 5 fans:
Mira Furlan (Delenn) passed away today. She apparently had been ill for some time.
I haz a sad.
J. Michael Straczynski (series creator) shared this story about her:
That sucks. She was great, and I have fond memories of Croatia.
And on a more serious note, he adds:
She died, old and full of years, and was gathered to her people.
(Readers of the Old Testament will understand the reference.)
I’m crying like she was a personal friend. I know on some level I’m conflating the actress with the character, but she did shine through her character, and I have to admit she influenced me.
RIP
Just started watching the series and I really like her.
(OMG she was Rousseau too? I had no idea.)
She is THE star of the show, the pivotal character.
Enjoy!
aw no. I saw her at Comic-Con one year to get her to sign some B5 stuff for me since Delenn’s one of my favorite characters of all time. I just remember how nice she was, and that she seemed more beautiful in person.
RIP
That’s awful. I think more of the cast is in the great beyond than still with us.
I have a dark theory that Walter Koenig was supposed to be next a few years ago, but Death fucked up and took the wrong Chekhov when Anton Yelchin died.
Cast with the worst luck, that’s for sure. 🙁
Whoa. That just blew my mind.
Yes, several untimely deaths in that cast.
Steven Biggs (aortic dissection IIRC), Andreas Katsukas (smoking related), Michael Ohare (mental illness/suicide), Jerry Doyle (heart attack. Good ol’ conservative radio host too), the guy who played Zathras, Stephen Furst, Jeff Conaway—
It will be odd if Londo (Peter Jurasik) outlasts them all. Boxleitner, Christian, and Tallman are in good shape so far though.
I noticed that too during a recent wiki dive when I looked up Biggs which led to O’Hare and I was like OMG.
Londo is my other favorite character.
The story of Londo is one of the most compelling storylines in the show’s multi-year arc.
The actor who plays him, Peter Jurasik, has an interesting life story too. Was a cab driver in New York among other jobs prior to trying out acting.
So he would steeer you neeer the peeer?
Gotta be honest KK, seeing you chug that hollandaise… sexy as hell. If I wasn’t married… and if I was about 50 lbs heavier, 2 inches taller, and a lot hairier, we might hit it off.
Update on the Mr Splosives:
He was in fact experiencing anaphylaxis. The doc said he needed to quit Lisinopril immediately. It’s a blood pressure Ned he’s been taking for10 years. The doc says it happens all the time that people suddenly become allergic to lisinopril.
So he is on Benadryl and a rhino dose of prednisone for a while now, but going to the ER was the right call because it was on the way to swelling his throat shut and cutting off air.
Yowza. Glad the crisis was averted. Be well.
He’s usually the kind to brush off medical care, so when I got home and he nodded when I asked if he wanted to go to the ER, I knew it was serious.
Thanks for the well wishes.
I’m one to brush off medical care, too. But when I recognized my STEMI a few months ago, I woke up the missus to take me to the ED.
Glad your hubs is going to be around a while longer. Dudes sometimes realize when shit is serious.
When I first got home from work, he was in the bathroom but had a window open on the computer where he was scheduling an appointment with his doc but it was for a week from now.
He’d written as the reason “Blister or sore on roof of mouth, interfering with breathing and swallowing.”
When he emerged, he sounded like a bad Don Corleone impression. I even joked as I asked if he wanted me to take him to the ER “OK, but someday I might ask a favor of you.” By the time we were at the hospital, it was not funny anymore.
Happens quick.
I just clicked your link. Damn, son! Glad you are still with us!
YIKES!
Glad you got it sorted quickly! All the best to the hubster.
Glad to hear he’s going to be okay. But holy crap! I’m currently on lisinopril for high bp. I need to get back to Glibfit to lose 15-20 lbs , which I think will allow me to get off the meds.
Whoa! Glad you caught it.
Make sure that gets noted in his medical record.
Glad you caught it in time. Bad allergic reactions are not to be trifled with.
And it causes chronic cough.
Phew, HS.
I didn’t know that about the cough. He hasn’t had that.
The fewer meds the better, when possible.
When he got type 2 diabetes they put him on metformin. But we changed his diet to a low carb and it brought his A1C down to 4.2 so he got to stop the metformin.
The doc couldn’t believe it was through diet alone. Doc’s advice had been to cut out red meat and fat and cholesterol. BUZZ wrong answer! He eats meat, eggs, and veggies and cuts out most. carbs.
Wow! Glad you caught it!!!
He will live to eat hollandaise sauce another day!
Great to hear he’s on the mend.
I’ve been on Lisinopril for quite a while now – good to know that can happen.
When I was making up a good first aid kit, I looked in to getting an epi-pen for anaphylaxis, but you can only get them with a prescription.
Unfortunately, you don’t get much notice with a sudden allergic reaction.
I honestly don’t know if he would have called 911 if I had still been at work. He’d probably have waited until he passed out. 🙁
Aren’t you glad the government did that For Your Own Good™?
Seriously though, glad he pulled through and discovered that allergy before it was too late.
Right on, glad he is okay and you figured out the issue, two very good outcomes from an ER visit like that. Sucks that the virus panic made it worse.
Yeah the vid panic novelty wore off 11 months ago.
People are wearing real thin here, ten months plus of this shit is just ridiculous.
Glad they figured out what it was! Scary stuff, and I hate that you can’t go in with your spouse.
My doc told me 10 years is about how long it takes to develop an allergy to anything – that was the explanation for why I started getting allergic to SoCal plants even though I hadn’t been before.
Ooof. Becoming allergic to local plant life is no bueno.
The only thing I’m allergic to (so far) is the tetanus vaccine. Literally one in a million people have that. You get one bad reaction to the tetanus booster as a warning, and then the next booster is fatal.
You would not believe how often doctors and nurses notice that my last tetanus shot was 25 years ago and automatically order up a tetanus shot. I have to be very on top of it and ask what’s in the needle, since they never think to check the chart for a tetanus allergy.
Okay, NOW that I have watched the video! Great work. Lovely sauce.
I put paprika in mine. Sometimes white pepper.
Paprika sounds like a good addition. I’ll admit to being one of those Neanderthals who has never had white pepper before, so I can’t comment there.
Speaking of knife sharpening: Sharpening a $ 1 Kitchen knife with $ 300 Whetstone
So does Hollandaise go with anything besides eggs?
You can smear it all over your lover’s naked body and then lick it off.
Er, so I’m told.
I don’t mix food and sex. I saw what happens when you cross those wires on Seinfeld.
Canadian bacon. And eggs, yes.
Do you even read the article, bro?
other common uses of hollandaise are fish, chicken and even steak.
I’m offended that you would even ask. Of course I don’t read.
Asparagus, too.
Hey Bro, you are in Florida, correct? What is the mask situation like there? Here it is like a bad Twilight Zone episode, I am wondering how different it is in the land of manatees, cigarette boats and swamp.
Better than here. I know because anything has to be better than here.
It certainly has gone full health totalitarian with no signs of relenting. Back on March 16th I had a conversation with my neighbor where I said that if it went beyond the two or three weeks that we would see some serious social unrest. I meant in regards to direct protesting of shutdowns and general crime more than what it turned into. Before this year I’d been planning on staying here till the kids were out of high school in a decade or so, now the exit is looking more tempting by the day.
Where I am at 90% where masks where required. Publix (main supermarket), Walmart, Target, pharmacies etc. have all required them and you get compliance. Go into a gas station or some place where they aren’t required, and few people wear them. Restaurants? No one wears them outside the servers.
Business enforcement depends on where you go. Walk into a Publix without a mask and you’re going to hear about it. It’s pretty disappointing to see businesses step in where the government didn’t.
What would you estimate the outside use rate of them? Are bars where you are pretty much normal? The only states I have been in the last year are western, and they were generally better but still very weird. I got mask shamed, well not really because I have no shame, in Montana of all places. But it was by some twenty something kid and I laughed at him at walked away my kids. Still far closer to normal there.
I should note I’m in Southwest Florida. So, it probably differs in some parts of the states (blue areas), but no one wears them outside. Same as I said with the restaurants. I don’t actually frequent bars anymore but I can’t imagine there’s compliance there when people don’t even bother at the restaurants even for the walk to the table.
Occasionally/rarely someone will complain about someone else not wearing mask where its required, but most people are hypocrites (see the snow birds from blue states flocking to restaurants) and the general attitude in places where masks aren’t required is relaxed.
I shopped without a mask in Publix, Target and Walgreens in Florida. No complaints at all. But then it was kind of like that in MA and CA back in the summer.
I know that Publix was rather strict about it in my area when the businesses all caved in June or July…whenever it was. I haven’t really bothered to test it myself as I don’t feel like getting into it with a low paid wage worker. I know your thoughts on that matter. At this stage, they may just not give a shit on their end, but most people wear them anyway. I find Walgreens/CVS it depends on the staff, but most don’t want to be bothered.
We spent a week in Florida a couple of weeks ago. While there’s no government-imposed mask mandate in Florida, almost everyone wears a mask inside a store. There are signs requiring people to wear masks at every entrance. There was a gas station store where the clerk didn’t wear a mask, so some customers didn’t wear masks either. I didn’t see maskless people indoors anywhere else. All museums require masks. The zoo we visited didn’t, so 50% of visitors were without masks. Most people on the street don’t wear masks, though it’s not uncommon to see people wearing masks anywhere. Only one restaurant required us to wear masks on the way to the table. Only one hotel required us to wear masks to check in. The other 6 restaurants, 2 coffee shops and 2 hotels didn’t. The guy in a food truck didn’t have a mask on. It’s surely better than in Boston or LA, but it’s nowhere close to normal. We stayed in and around Jacksonville and Tampa to maximize our distance from Miami.
Yeah, a vast improvement from here but not even close to normal, that is kind of what I imagined. The magic virus cloth is a fucking major bummer for me.
What a great video! It actually looks doable.
I’m thinking of doing this with some anchovy paste mixed in. I go through five or six tubes of that stuff per year. If you are making sauces it is really good to add. This recipe with olive oil and garlic and chovy paste makes an awesome Caesar dressing.
Anchovies have become indispensible for me! They go in most of my tomato sauces, Roman-style lentil stew, bagna cauda, and countless other dishes. I even eat a fillet or two every time I get the jar out.
One of my favorite quick snacks to make is a piece of bread with anchovies and sun-dried tomatoes covered up with sliced provolone and placed under a broiler until bubbly.
Nice! I have deep respect for the chovy, it is life giving in the ocean for the big pelagic species. If you don’t use the paste you should pick up a couple tubes, it is super handy instant umami. I also like making a compound butter with that and lemon, garlic and parsley and pepper. Excellent on a strip steak.
Oooh yea buddy, steak and anchovies were meant to be together.
This is a very sophisticated audience here tonight.
Holy cow, something good and original on Facebook!
Written by a high school friend who is from Vietnam.
Good read indeed!
It’s illuminating how the most outspoken critics of socialism are the ones who actually lived under it.
Indeed. One would think that is worth remarking on in the media, but it seems to escape our crack journalists’ interest.
I trust everyone remembered to do a special commemorative toast at 9:21:21 pm tonight? It was the 21st second of the 21st minute of the 21st hour of the 21st day of the 21st year of the 21st century.
I still have time to get that toast in. Cognac should be appropriate
Hello! Any body out there?
anybody?
Heyoooo!
my son was born at this instant 27 years ago
Mine was 29 yesterday, congrats?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_Kutsxy9pRo
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No early peeps anymore? Whats happened to this place?
We out here !
Geez, gimme a minute to wake up! The alarm doesn’t go off until 6:00 EST, and I’m allowed ONE five-minute snooze!
Good morning, boys.
Morning.
‘sup pimp
mornin y’all
I’m proofreading my comments from the day before because you know why.
Hi friends and traitors, Im up at 4:30est, forgive my for not znoozing more…
Yesterday, our payroll processor took much longer than usual to finish up all the many out-of-the-ordinary changes and details of today’s pay, so it won’t post as early as usual today, but it WILL post. And in the meantime I think I’ve finished up the report I need to do every year for our 401(k.) Unless I’m forgetting something, that’s the last of the big annual gotta-do stuff. Whew!
Now I can spend the rest of January plowing through the mountain of returned member statements and noting the bad addresses in the system. Then I’m going to collapse.
At least make it to a comfy chair before collapsing.
Fainting couch
I get to run 100 feet of conduit, right over an occupied office space, ladders around the cubicles, Jenga!
Big fun! But what does that have to do with mushrooms? (Or am I behind the times?)
You keep mushrooms in cubicle farms.
At least, that’s how things are done at the state.
Oh, I’m putting together an “Anthology of the Incomplete” to torment you with.
Thank you! I must be some kind of masochist, but I’m looking forward to it.
https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/michigan-ammo-maker-fenix-ammunition-cited-for-mask-mandate-non-compliance/
Hi fellow Glibs! Anyone up for some hacky-sack or insurrection today?
Damn, the FBI is recruiting Canadians now?
They’ve sunk so low…
Morning spam medical news spam email: “Capitol siege presents new challenges for psychiatry to help prevent domestic terrorism?”
So many obedient sheep just happily gobbling the narrative. Sigh. Stay out of it, Dr. Mengeles of today, please?
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/01/joe-bidens-america-treats-soldiers-5000-soldiers-moved-cold-parking-garage-one-bathroom-protecting-biden-inauguration-photos/
That can’t be true, can it?
Did Joe appoint Hillary Sec’y of Defense?
Jugsy mentioned it this morning. Evidently its making the rounds on SitOnMyFacebook.
I’m giving that one the required 48 hours.
Wait! There was an option?
Wait one hot minute! That was an option?
Just got our son off to the airport at 4am CA time for his flight back to college on the east coast. So we’re empty nesters again. House seems essentially the same, except now his bedroom door is open. Hoping I can get back to sleep for a couple hours before work.
Does his school have in-person classes?
Looks like a mix for now, heavier on the online. Hopefully as the semester progresses they’ll be in person more.
Gotta keep that door and window open to release the funk, right?
Obligatory.
Heh! The asshole that runs the Plant is named “Funk”. That tune runs through my head every time I deal with him.
I am bookmarking this article. Hollandaise and Bernaise go with damn near everything. I cheat and use the packets but Grandma actually learned me how.
I also must state that I love you, Tulip for sticking by me. I only learned secondhand but I’ll never forget.
I would watch the shit of your cookery if it was on Food Network. Well done!
Do real mayonnaise next!
AIG WHAHTS, AWL, VIN*GAR?