11:29 PM >> These are the days, people

These are the exctiting things that happened to me tonight:

1) Scrappy barfed in his crate and then pooped in the bathtub while I was washing him.
2) The wifey and I saw an owl while on our nightly walk around the neighborhood.
3) All of the water in our house came out brown for about two hours, including during my shower after washing Scrappy.

Now I get to eat nachos!

11:05 PM >> off kilter

3:07 AM >> Dumpster (*), Haircut, Pie (*)

DUMPSTER LIBRARY
It kicks ass when you find or are given free stuff for free. Always check nearby dumpsters especially if you are in an apartment living situation because people are always setting stuff near the dumpster that they have no other way of getting rid of. The considerate dumpster-guys will just set stuff outside of the dumpster that they think other people like me will take for themselves. So as you can see I recently acquired a couple of sci-fi books. Some Ray Bradbury and something amazing called "Mutant 59: The Plastic Eaters." I also got 6 random architecture books. "The Stand" on top is mine. I'm currently schlugging my way through it still.

NECK TRIM $5
Two days ago I went in for a haircut. I never ever knew that you could just get a neck trim which costs $5 at Great Clips. This is great. Cause actally that is all that I wanted was to have the neckline of my hair snipped out. And it costs cheaper. Swee/. So keep this in mind folks.

APPLE BLACKBERRY PIE
I had some down time recently and got the chance to cook a pie. The pie was made of Fuji and Red Delicious apples. The apples were chopped largely (mit skins) and then mix in with frozen blackberries, and then the typical flour/spice/sugar mixture finished everthing off. Oh, and there was an egg wash on the final top crust.

9:57 PM >> B.PB.B >> r=9.37


THE B.PB.B [bacon.peanut butter.banana]
Turkey bacon smeared on one side with peanut butter and wrapped around a banana, sprinkled with a little brown sugar, and baked in the oven. This might be my claim to fame. It was so F-in amazing. I am going to eat this thing all the time. Breakfast, lunch, dinner. It's perfect for any occasion.

RATING >> 9.37



I am telling you this is, was, and will forever be the most amazing thing I've ever created. I think. I knew I was going to make this for dinner tonight. So to prep myself I had a toasted pb and banana sand for breakfast. Lunch was whatever. Then I stopped by the G-store on the way home and picked up what I needed.

Frickin' amazing. Really.

Here's an IM to Brad just moments after eating:

eddifuss (8:30:22 PM): I JUST ATE THE B.PB.B.
BK (8:30:29 PM): NICE
BK (8:30:32 PM): how was it?
eddifuss (8:30:43 PM): OH MY G. F IN AMAZING
BK (8:30:48 PM): or should i just check the blog later
eddifuss (8:31:15 PM): MAYBE. I HAVE TO WORK FOR A COUPLE HOURS. IF I HAVE TIME I'LL BLOG. I TOOK TONS OF PICTURES
BK (8:31:26 PM): my dinner is using basil, oregano, sun-dried toms, and bacos
eddifuss (8:31:35 PM): I AM GOING TO EAT THIS THING ALL THE TIME
BK (8:31:37 PM): well i can always check later in the week
BK (8:31:45 PM): i can't wait to try it
eddifuss (8:32:03 PM): DAMN. MAYBE TOMORROW NIGHT YOU SHOULD COME OVER FOR ONE
eddifuss (8:32:17 PM): ALRIGHT GOTTA WORK
BK (8:32:21 PM): ok bye bye

Also I am already thinking of some ways to mod this baby:
a) deep fried on a stick, b) with jelly, also c) oh, my god endless possibilities.

And please check out the on-paper inception of this idea from a preceeding post.

* NOTE: recon.77 says: simply the greatest accomplishment ever. and to all you sushi-eatin' sissys out there who would bemoan such a fine meal ,consider this : the cholesterol in the bacon is actually ''cancelled out'' (medical term) by the potasium in the banana! so its '' heart smart''. elvis himself experimented with this idea, but he could'nt make it work. he got greedy and they found him dead on the toilet.

10:53 PM >> Teriyaki Smoked Turkey Leg

Teriyaki Smoked Turkey Leg



Leg of smoked turkey marinated in Teriyaki, white vinegar, and sesame oil, with powedered garlic and onion, crushed red pepper, and corriander. Rubbed with spices above and roasted in the oven over a bed of yellow onion. Served with an egg roll (given to me free) and Oriental Red Sauce with Thin Noodles** and Sesame Oil Roasted Onions.

Rating: 6.23

** Oriental Red Sauce with Thin Noodles
Onions and garlic sauteed in sesame oil and white cooking wine and soy sauce and butter. Seasoned with garlic and onion powder, corriander, pepper, salt, and crushed red pepper. Also added tomato paste for thickening. Served with fortified thin spaghetti noodles and toasted sesame seeds.

Rating: 4.87

12:35 PM >> B.PB.B



* NOTE: Only in paper prototype stage (pps).
** NOTE: In step #2 the bacon should be wrapped around the banana with peanut butter side towards the banana. I felt that intuitively this would have been done. But just to clarify -- there you go.

9:50 PM >> Elvis meets Einstein



When Elvis meets Einstein we all win. We all get turkey leg drumsticks. This is my improv team Elvis meets Einstein. We all like to nibble and gnaw on turkey bits. Who actually holds their turkey leg like Brad is doing? No one. That's the answer. No one does. That's the joke. That's so strange. But he dug in. We all did.

Check out the improv happenings at the Jackpie Theater Workshop. Come join us for some leg.

1:39 PM >> Turkey Leg Off 2K6.1a//z_12



PHOTOS >> MINE V. THEIRS

THE CONTEST >> Two turkey legs were cooked up. One was homemade by myself the other from the Dekalb farmers market. Eat both and see which is better.

MINE >> Roast Turkey Drums mit Rubbin - turkey drumsticks coated with generic roast rub and roasted in the oven. Served with rice mixed with homemade spaghetti sauce*. Rating: 7.14.

THEIRS >> Pre-cooked smoked turkey leg roasted in the oven. Served with Barley and Cucumber Cool Time Salad**. Rating: 5.87 (turkey leg only).

THE VERDICT >> You can clearly see that I won. The smoked leg was just a little rubbery. The flavor was just overwhelmingly smokey. I think the herbs and spices in my roast rub added some interest. I am planning on modding up the smoked leg next time I cook it by taking the skin off before cooking and adding some roast rub. When I add roast rub I first coat with butter and oil so the rub'll stick, duh.

* Saturday's Knock-Out Spaghetti - Spaghetti with onion and asparagus stock and additionally roasted black olives, artichoke, and countless spices. Rating: 6.47.

** Barley and Cucumber Cool Time Salad - Quick-cook barley and chopped cucumber mixed with dill, thyme, parsley flakes, basil, pepper, salt, white vinegar, and olive oil. Chilled to coolness. Rating: 6.91.

7:17 PM >> Mayo 250




NPR had an excellent feature today on mayonnaise who'll be turning 250 years old this summer. Learn the where's the when's the who's, the how's, and the debunking of the old wive's tale that mayo left out will make you sick.

Listen or read or just enjoy the link.

MAYO LINK

12:00 AM >> Plate of snacks

I've had a request to post and continue posting "plate pictures" (my term) of the food that I eat. The one here you'll find looks a little different. First off I did not cook the things on this plate. I know, right - they're in wrappers, most of them. The items that you are looking at are from my snack cupboard. All of the snacks pictured were received free from a recent commercial shoot that I worked on. I did not buy them straight up for myself. The were acquired. In the photo you'll see that I numbered each. The numbers correspond to my preference order of the snacks - 1 being the one that most appeals to me and so on down the line.

The plate too is different than the normal plates that I show. Duh. It's a paper plate from Dixie that I also acquire for free sort of recently (very sturdy as far as paper plates go). The stove underneath the plate is mine. Well not exactly. Actually it comes with the apartment that I am renting. So in fact I can't call it mine. But it feels like mine. I call it mine. Renters like me call things theirs when they're really not.

Snacky items pictured are >>
1. Kroger brand Crunchy Oats 'N Honey Granola Bar
2. Hampton Farms Organic Gourmet Roast Classic Salted Peanuts
3. Snyder's of Hanover Pretzel Sticks (100 calorie pack)
4. Kroger brand Toasty Peanut Butter Crackers
5. Pringles

10:33 PM >> New tropical fakey window treatments



A few weeks ago I acquired some blinds that someone didn't want. I didn't have an immediate need for blinds. So I decided to sit on them for a bit. Then I thought tropics, tropical, breezey, pineapple, spider monkeys on trees outside, rum, pina colada, sleeping, resting, no mosquitos, rice, beans, bedtime.

As you can see the idea was to hang some trick window treatments behind my bed. The hypothesis is that they will trick my mind into thinking beach breeze, ocean noises, dewey rainforest, patio porch. I think it's going to work.

** NOTE: I've also highlighted some of the other important items that are a part of my bedroom.
** NOTE 2.0: The featured Bose speaker is the back left speaker of a 5 speaker system. Back left.

6:34 AM >> Roast turkey drumstick



Been off jaunting about merry ole England. Jousting jesters and jawing turkey legs. The club foot I'm gnawing here was covered in a generic roasting rub, oven roasted and done to a turn. It was heaved up with a portion of roasted 'sparagus and a bowl of thin and enriched 'psghetti noodles with a homemade sauce that included black olives and artichokes.

Now it's back to some Englisher style pilfering of neighboring tracks of land and seeing over my fiefdom. My serfs are getting unruley and shall pay with a reinstated oath of fealty, else they'll get a smoking drumstick across the noogin'.

** NOTE: I say noogin' you say noggin'. Noogin'. Noggin'. Noggin'. Noogin'. Whatever.

11:19 PM >> HATE AND GREAT

I FUCKING HATE THE FUCKING X GAMES
I FUCKING HATE PEE-WEE'S PLAYHOUSE
I FUCKING HATE STUPID-ASS BULLSHIT PEOPLE THAT JUST HAVE TO DO STUPID-ASS FUCKING BULLSHIT TO FUCKING ANNOY ME

BUT I F-ING LOVE THIS >>

It makes me wish I had grown up with a brother. And a video camera. And a Crazy Frog CD. And a semi-finished basement. And the internet. Well maybe not the internet.

But I mean the spot-on lip-synching! The point! The freaking robot!! And the rope. How can you not love the rope maneuver? I swear they choreographed it, how else did they do such a good job of shifting focus.

7:32 PM >> Dinner with friends

I recently had a super dinner with friends. It was Poblano Pepper Lasagna. Larry absolutely loves it.

12:01 AM >> My First Photoshop


My whole life when it comes to fruit-eating I have always been an berry man.

And when it comes to berry-eating I have always been an raspberry man.

So you can imagine the mental anguish I have been dealing with ever since M brough home a carton of fresh blueberries and I ate a handful. Man were those things great. I have always HATED bluberries in pies and yogurts, but fresh whole berries are a whole new ballgame. They're like little flavor bombs popping in your mouth. You can feel the healthiness as they flood over your tongue and down your esophagus with antioxidants. Plus they stay fresh waaaaay longer than raspberries. R-berrs you have to eat within 3 days or they turn to mush. B-berrs have been in the fridge for like two weeks and are still fresh. Plus they are so freaking good when eaten with a doughnut peach (AKA Saturn peach AKA Jupiter peach AKA Space Peach).

OH RASPBERRY, WHY HAST THOU FORSAKEN ME

6:18 AM >> QT Energy Tour

If you decide to visit any of the following locations during the QT Energy Tour you've got to please let me know. This is better than a visit from the Wiener,mobile. So call me up and we'll down some energy drinks and eat taquitos and stuff.

10:37 PM >> The Return of P

I watched Pee-Wee's Playhouse last night (on Adult Swim) for the first time since I was a kid.
It was rated TV-PG. Is that just because of the public masturbation? C'mon people.
I never realized just how much the character of Jack from Will & Grace was styled after Pee-Wee Herman. I mean Paul Ruebens should be getting licensing checks. Seriously, watch and see.

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