Bored yet?

[Irving]

My boy had some sort of stomach bug that made him hurl for a solid day about a week ago. So Covid's not the only thing going around. Amazed that neither my wife or I got the stomach bug, because usually our little bio-terrorist passes everything he gets on to us.

My wife got pretty aggressive food poisoning from Taco Star last week. She was pretty stressed out about it at the time. Pretty sure the shredded beef in the Taco Star we got was corned beef. I hope it was anyway because it was pink.

[ray1970]

Why do I feel there?s never a dull moment at Irving?s house?

[MrPrena]

My boy had some sort of stomach bug that made him hurl for a solid day about a week ago. So Covid's not the only thing going around. Amazed that neither my wife or I got the stomach bug, because usually our little bio-terrorist passes everything he gets on to us.

My wife got pretty aggressive food poisoning from Taco Star last week. She was pretty stressed out about it at the time. Pretty sure the shredded beef in the Taco Star we got was corned beef. I hope it was anyway because it was pink.

My wife had some kind of stomach infection. Severe vomit and couldn't eat for about 24 hours.
It is going around.

surprisingly she got better less than 30 hours. She is eating and doing very well.

[Great-Kazoo]

Fortunately, I have historically been far shorter on time than on things to fill it, which means I haven't had a lot of opportunity to be bored. Among other things, I learned how to roll and apply fondant:




This may have been the most expensive cake I've ever made. I already referred to the underlying chocolate cake as my '$30 Cake', because of the amount of reasonably good quality chocolate that got poured into the recipe. Having never worked with fondant before, I didn't think to buy one big box of the white kind and then dye the other two colors. Instead, I bought three $20 boxes, one in each color, from Michaels. I probably could have ordered everything I needed from Amazon for $20 had I thought ahead. Anyways, my son was happy, which is all that really mattered.


Since the Dunkin Donuts closed down and Mr. Yo's is closed for Covid, donut options are somewhat limited in town these days. Figured I'd try my hand at frying my own. The dough was a sticky mess, and it puffed up considerably in the fryer, so much so that the first couple came out looking more like chocolate rocks. Similarly, the donut holes we rolled ended up being a lot bigger than we expected after frying. But we definitely got better as we went along. Cut the recommended frying time in half. They came out a little closer to cake-brownie than pure cake, and I thought they could have been a little sweeter. But the outer skin wasn't too crisp and they cooked all the way through, and my family ate them all.





Last night, since I am out of the Bisquick I use normally just for this specific thing, I made a more traditional double-crust chicken pot pie. Very happy with the whole thing. Put the chicken breasts in the pressure cooker to do their thing unattended for about 30 minutes all in. In that time, I made the pie crusts, did the veg prep, and prepared a bechamel base, which I hydrated using the steamed chicken water from the pressure cooker. Fork-shredded the chicken, added a little bit of stock, and put it in the oven for another 30 minutes. Tasted great. Even better for lunch this afternoon.

all we're doing is some wings tonight, sauce made and waiting. AND what i hear is some peoples favorite Barbacoa , 2 cans of chipoltes used

[Holger Danske]

My employer mandated work from home through May 3 minimum. Work from home keeps me busy during the day. And, in the evening I've started binge watching The Walking Dead on Netflix. Is that weird?

[Irving]

I've got three or four projects going on at once.

[Gman]

Mmmm. Barbacoa.

...and wings!

[Great-Kazoo]

Mmmm. Barbacoa.

...and wings!

had no franks red hot sauce. So i used a chipolte chili blended in with butter & green chili olive oil. Finely chopped garlic, salt to round it out, melted over low heat for a little better infusing of flavor. It was so tasty, the remaining sauce will be drizzled over some fresh popcorn tomorrow.
I've spun that whirlypop around more than my ex. and believe me she was an acrobat. Among other things.

[blacklabel]

I got my platform, rack and weights all setup in the garage tonight so there goes my excuses to be bored.

[JohnnyEgo]

JohnnyEgo isn't it amazing what we do for our kids? Here is the cow themed cake I made.

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That is a beautiful cake, Erni!

all we're doing is some wings tonight, sauce made and waiting. AND what i hear is some peoples favorite Barbacoa , 2 cans of chipoltes used

If you weren't so far ahead on the social distancing curve, we could have swapped left-overs!