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The Dukes of Stratosphear — 25 O'Clock

Happiest of birthdays!

May your seeds always be plentiful and hydrated. Seed Lady needs moar seeds! Enjoy your birthday, Bonnie.

^Moi aussi.

Nothing. 'Cuz I'm incredibly sick and the idea of food is unimaginable. Orange juice is about the only thing I can stand. Been sick since Tues, made the mistake of going into work yesterday, now I feel worse. It's a chore even to sit here and type this...I should go back to bed but I have too much to do...

I missed this as well, but we can still celebrate! Happy Birthday, Steve.

Cool. Dinny, which ones did you end up getting? The 5s?

How does one access this sale?

No trouble here, but mine is wired.

Just finished the second episode; had to slap myself so as not to watch a third. Enjoying it so far...

^ I'll plus-one this, and add that the JH16s with FP are a significant upgrade from the JH13s (I have both).

I know I'm late to this particular party, but in Soviet Russia, vodka tastes you.

Ella Fitzgerald — Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Harold Arlen Songbook

I used a combination of Gruyere, Rembrandt Gouda and cream cheese. Just Gruyere in the cheese crumble that goes on top (more complicated than the mac and cheese itself). Have you seen the Modernist Cuisine at Home book? I've been making tons of stuff from there and I can improvise a little as well when I really know the subject. Take the Wellington, for example. I used MCaH techniques and combined them with about five recipes I've seen around the internet. The beef tenderloin is cooked sous vide, then seared, then I brushed it with horseradish mustard (there's a local brand here in SoCal that makes a killer one), then I put it in plastic again and drop it in an ice bath to cool it down. In the meantime, the duxelles is about 700g worth of portobellos and a medium sweet onion, and some fresh thyme; you just cook out all the moisture from the mushroom and you're ready to go... Ok, wait, at this point I should probably just write it up for reals and PM it to ya.

Beef Wellington, Modernist Cuisine Mac and cheese, creamed spinach and roasted veggies.

Genre Whiplash Presents: BT — Laptop Symphony

"How do you kill that...which has no life?" I guess I should watch this show, since it's coming back for reals.

Yes. This may be the second camera I'm looking for...

Steely Dan — Two Against Nature

That. Was. Awesome.

Sonos FTW.

++ish Two episodes left for us...we've been saving 'em.

Fuck just now seeing this. RIP. FAB.

We did Thomas Keller's fried chicken and the Modernist Cuisine take on Mac and Cheese (hurray for sodium citrate!) for Christmas dinner. Baking the cheese/sodium citrate/tapioca starch cracker to make the topping turned out to be more time-consuming than making the actual casserole. Oh, and we did biscuits. And there were pies involved. None of it survived, and I don't think I took any pix. WTF is wrong with me?