All-Clads are nice. Eventually, we'll replace our pants and pots with them.

All-Clads are nice. Eventually, we'll replace our pants and pots with them.

Obviously, I meant to type "pans" not "pants."

Leather-Clads are nice. Eventually, we'll replace our pants and tops with them.

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A salad in prep for restaurant week tonight and tomorrow. Need balance in my daily intake. Since dinner will be very unhealthy, need to eat cleaner for lunch.

Gotta love Cigar Monster.

10 of these for $60:

10 of these for $40:

I scored an unexpected treat at the liquor store today. Went in for some silicone ice cube trays, and found this:

Totally psyched that this is being imported, and the sole US importer happens to be in the Bay Area so I hope to be stocked up at all times and hopefully with different batches on a regular basis. Duggeh, you will be even more at home when you come out for MOA II !!

As for the ice cubes, I got some nice chunky square ones as well as a KING CUBE tray for jumbo lumps of ice to plop in some whisk(e)y or other rocks cocktails without much of any dilution:

Edited July 22, 201015 yr by Voltron

Bananas

chocolate eclairs

chips -- lots of chips -- I really shouldn't shop when I'm hungry, but fortunately, they'll keep

La Fin du Monde 4-pack

Saranac Orange Cream soda

Stewart's Orange Cream soda

14" sub -- yeah, I like 'em big and stupid -- sandwiches, that is

Looks like wegmans ftw!

I still have half a sub left from todays lunch

Yuppers! (And I'm way ahead on tea, hence no tea.) Yeah, those 14" are a great deal -- that's like 4 smaller meals (and if I'm having a late supper, I want a smaller meal).

Nice gin find Al.

Obviously, I meant to type "pans" not "pants."

Yeah, 'cause that would just be uncomfortable as all hell.

I will add however that for the money the Costco Tri-Clad cookwear is not half bad.

Edited July 23, 201015 yr by swt61

so that's good gin, i'm assuming?

If it's not Scottish [gin], it's crap!

Yes, it is good gin, and I am building a cocktail with it now.

Definitely as good a gin as Ardbeg is a whisky. Duggeh brought a bottle to DanJam and it was excellent. The cocktail I just mixed is similarly excellent and at 95 proof it is nice and strong.

I didn't taste the whisky but he did have a few wonderful BrewDog options. Emelius need not apply.

And you weren't drinking gin even then.

So why didn't you call me when you arrived at CJ for a martini shoot out? What am I dirt?

Nice score Dinny!!!

Except for the bourrye, I kind of phoned it in. I need to find moar cool stuff like Al.

I pretty much despise tequila. I'm donating it to my parents' house.

Tequila can certainly great but it can also be good in silver/clear form.

Or even straight up my friend.

i don't know about that, seems risky.

Red Tequila, anyone?

Give it a shot, so to speak.

Edited July 23, 201015 yr by Voltron

Good gets, Dinny. Curious about the Park Ave whiskey. Have you had it?

Al, Yes, I like it a lot. It's Park Avenue Liquor's private label, made by Tuthilltown. This particular bottle is a 50/50 bourbon/rye mix. I had a bottle from the first batch (the aptly named Batch 1) and I loved it. It's a nice mix of the bourbon-y vanilla overtones with an underlying rye bite. This is Batch 4 and I anticipate much in the way of tastiness.

sounds good. and tasty