[jjbrr]

With that said, I'm going to try to be a vegetarian all next week and perhaps longer if I enjoy it.

Fish, but not bacon, will be considered vegetables for the sake of this experiment.

[bid_em_up]

jjbrr, on Feb 10 2010, 10:39 AM, said:

With that said, I'm going to try to be a vegetarian all next week and perhaps longer if I enjoy it.

Oh please. You like bacon too much to be able to enjoy it. By the end of the week, you will be like a herion addict looking for a bacon fix.

[jjbrr]

bid_em_up, on Feb 10 2010, 11:23 AM, said:

jjbrr, on Feb 10 2010, 10:39 AM, said:

With that said, I'm going to try to be a vegetarian all next week and perhaps longer if I enjoy it.

Oh please. You like bacon too much to be able to enjoy it. By the end of the week, you will be like a herion addict looking for a bacon fix.

You'll probably be shocked to learn that I don't really ever cook with bacon at home, and since I don't go out to eat much, I don't eat much bacon in general.

I used some to make some black beans and some more in a beef bourgignon that someone recommended I make in the crockpot. I'm pretty certain that's the only bacon I've eaten in the past 4-5 months, and if someone argued that bacon is overused as an ingredient and can overpower other flavors in a dish, I would totally agree.

I've also been told, recently, that real men eat pork belly and that bacon is for children. Perhaps I've been doing it wrong my whole life?

[Al_U_Card]

jjbrr, on Feb 10 2010, 10:39 AM, said:

With that said, I'm going to try to be a vegetarian all next week and perhaps longer if I enjoy it.

Fish, but not bacon, will be considered vegetables for the sake of this experiment.

Remember that your body has ways to convert protein to energy and fat to energy but it has no way to convert carbs to protein...

One "teaspoon" of blood sugar is "normal" for your entire body. Watch those carbs!

[kfay]

jjbrr, on Feb 10 2010, 11:39 AM, said:

bid_em_up, on Feb 10 2010, 11:23 AM, said:

jjbrr, on Feb 10 2010, 10:39 AM, said:

With that said, I'm going to try to be a vegetarian all next week and perhaps longer if I enjoy it.

Oh please. You like bacon too much to be able to enjoy it. By the end of the week, you will be like a herion addict looking for a bacon fix.

You'll probably be shocked to learn that I don't really ever cook with bacon at home, and since I don't go out to eat much, I don't eat much bacon in general.

I used some to make some black beans and some more in a beef bourgignon that someone recommended I make in the crockpot. I'm pretty certain that's the only bacon I've eaten in the past 4-5 months, and if someone argued that bacon is overused as an ingredient and can overpower other flavors in a dish, I would totally agree.

I've also been told, recently, that real men eat pork belly and that bacon is for children. Perhaps I've been doing it wrong my whole life?

There's a famous restaurant in town, Zingerman's, that puts out a quarterly paper.

The guys there shop for food all of the world for their variety of interests and they think, according to June 2009, that bacon will be to the 2010s what olive oil was to the 2000s, whatever that means

[jjbrr]

I'll be happy to drizzle my steak with a little bacon before grilling or marinade some chicken in some bacon and rosemary before roasting.

Wait that's not what they meant?

[Aberlour10]

ouch, driving in snow makes definitely no fun

[Al_U_Card]

US poli(cies)(tics) take your pick and hell freezing over....what a coincidence!

[mike777]

ggwhiz, on Feb 9 2010, 10:24 PM, said:

What happened to baseball?

Take your eye of this thread for a second and......

Spring training is near and my keeper fantasy league team sucks. Focus people.

I have great honkin bats and a plan. Ubaldo Jiminez (Colorado) is mine. I have the rights to Yorman Bazardo (Houston) as a farm pick that doesn't cost me a position in the draft and will be able to pick up Antonio Bastardo (Philly).

My pitching rotation this year will be Ubaldo Bazardo Bastardo.

Pitchers and Catchers report soon!


After winning last year this is a rebuilding year for me. So far this Hot Stove season I have traded away an expensive Carlos Lee and Beltran and two cheap players, Madsen and Hawkins for a cheap Diaz and two low priced starters.

So now I got 4 starters and two solid relievers, Street and Qualls. That means I can focus on hitters in our April auction draft.


I am still trying to trade away Utley and McCann for some cheap keepers.

[kenberg]

Al_U_Card, on Feb 10 2010, 02:25 PM, said:

US poli(cies)(tics) take your pick and hell freezing over....what a coincidence!

It was my understanding that storms are caused be lewd and licentious behavior, and/or pacts with the devil. Come to think of it, that may describe US politics pretty well.

I have shoveled enough so that I can now get the car down to the street, but my wife just heard that the powers that be, or think that they be, are calling the snowplows back in because the roads are too dangerous for them.


Perhaps I should take a hint.

[Aberlour10]

These new Tea Party meetings must be really funny events...the Beatles as the devil's advocates...sounds really =

[Al_U_Card]

Sunny and plus 3C here in Montreal!!!! Grass is peaking thru in spots.

We got the warming and DC got the snowing, I guess. DC is used to snow-jobs I would have thought...

Pacts with the devil cause earthquakes, I gather. (That and HAARP...oops! wrong thread and wrong site )

[luke warm]

mike777, on Feb 10 2010, 02:32 PM, said:

ggwhiz, on Feb 9 2010, 10:24 PM, said:

What happened to baseball? 

Take your eye of this thread for a second and......

Spring training is near and my keeper fantasy league team sucks.  Focus people.

I have great honkin bats and a plan.  Ubaldo Jiminez (Colorado) is mine.  I have the rights to Yorman Bazardo (Houston) as a farm pick that doesn't cost me a position in the draft and will be able to pick up Antonio Bastardo (Philly).

My pitching rotation this year will be Ubaldo Bazardo Bastardo.

Pitchers and Catchers report soon!


After winning last year this is a rebuilding year for me. So far this Hot Stove season I have traded away an expensive Carlos Lee and Beltran and two cheap players, Madsen and Hawkins for a cheap Diaz and two low priced starters.

So now I got 4 starters and two solid relievers, Street and Qualls. That means I can focus on hitters in our April auction draft.


I am still trying to trade away Utley and McCann for some cheap keepers.

speaking of which (more or less), keep the faith re: the cubbies - if the saints can win the s.b. *anybody* can win *anything*

kenberg, on Feb 10 2010, 03:28 PM, said:

I have shoveled enough so that I can now get the car down to the street, but my wife just heard that the powers that be, or think that  they be,  are calling the snowplows back in because the roads are too dangerous for them.

i've never actually lived in a place that got lots of snow, but i always wondered why folks who do don't use flame throwers on their driveways

[kenberg]

luke warm, on Feb 10 2010, 05:48 PM, said:

I've never actually lived in a place that got lots of snow, but i always wondered why folks who do don't use flame throwers on their driveways

Tradition. Don't mess with tradition.

Also it's a source of employment. When I was in high school and the snows hit, my mother would call the school and say I was sick Then I would go out and shovel driveways for cash. I never once had anyone ask me why I wasn't in school.

[luke warm]

well i understand tradition, but seriously - don't you think it would be wayyyy easier to just crank up the flame thrower and melt that crap?

[cherdanno]

luke warm, on Feb 10 2010, 05:48 PM, said:

i've never actually lived in a place that got lots of snow, but i always wondered why folks who do don't use flame throwers on their driveways

Is this a serious question?

[jdonn]

luke warm, on Feb 10 2010, 06:14 PM, said:

i've never actually lived in a place that got lots of snow, but i always wondered why folks who do don't use flame throwers on their driveways

Sort of like the reason they don't use jackhammers to chop celery?

Serious question. Do you really wonder that or is it a joke?

[Winstonm]

kenberg, on Feb 10 2010, 03:28 PM, said:

Al_U_Card, on Feb 10 2010, 02:25 PM, said:

US poli(cies)(tics) take your pick and hell freezing over....what a coincidence!

It was my understanding that storms are caused be lewd and licentious behavior, and/or pacts with the devil. Come to think of it, that may describe US politics pretty well.

I have shoveled enough so that I can now get the car down to the street, but my wife just heard that the powers that be, or think that they be, are calling the snowplows back in because the roads are too dangerous for them.


Perhaps I should take a hint.

Ken,

A warning from beyond the grave: Don't Eat The Yellow Snow.

[y66]

No drooling!

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[y66]

Mad Men Season 2 "The Mountain King"

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