Let's Talk Food!

[connielv]

who and what morning (or day for that matter) are we having fresh strawberry waffles with whipped cream??????

The last day of the festival at 9AM....Camp Run-a-muck.

  :thumbsupI'd like to reserve my seat now for this wonderful affair!     I may love you long time afterwards! 

[Daniela]

ABGAT prep weekend:

Finish radio show and proceed directly home for chat session with festivarians in Telluride Tom's Chat room. Drink two large snifters of single malt scotch before realizing it's after midnight and no one will be picking in the living room tonight. Go to bed.

6 am - the puppy jumps on the bed then back down  pukes right next to bed. Realize - it's time to get up and clean up the mess I stumble into the kitchen to find ground coffee realizing that the jar is empty; search out beans extension cord and grinder. Check batteries, thank goodness the charge is still at 90% capacity, plug grinder into inverter and grind coffee. Make Latte and log on to forum to find people nannering on about Heen and beatles tunes???? Go to front yard and unearth stainless steel sink that needs work for kitchen. Find hammer underneath the recycle can and bang on sink for 30 minutes before realizing that a cold chisel would work much better. Find cold chisel in airstream under sink. Get earplugs for noise from hammering.

Noon - Realize that sourdough for morning waffle test needs to get started, find sourdough and non metallic bowl. Forget that lid on flower jar is loose and dump 3 cups of flour on kitchen floor. Clean up mess. Check into forum to see tix available for Courtney's freinds. Get mail from Hope to call.... Hope calls Courtney, Tom Calls Jerry, Hope, Tom and Jerry have three way conference call. Jerry remembers that tarp is blowing down the driveway being chased by puppy.... Tarp retrieved and puppy calmed.

4PM Fire up grill for dinner lose second homebrew cup of the day and get ready to grill. Dave and Theresa call to discuss Town Hall Run a Muck layout, cell battery dies, look for charger - check battery capacity - it's 110% COOL. Grill dinner, drop grilled sweet peppers on ground, puppy eats them. Drink double shot of sweet rum intended for late night coffee drink and log onto forum. Type emberasssing things about relationship with a lesbian Aphrodite. Listen to Giants win. Realize that no one is picking in my living room, watch Josey Wales and fall asleep.

6am puppy jumps on bed cause the sun is up, stumble out to find bathroom, fall in cause someone forgot to put the seat down last night. Look for coffee maker, find it fully loaded and see bottle of rum next to it. Remember that late night coffee drinks were forgotten, decide that morning is just as fun.Test Organic Expresso Rum Latte drink... Look at sourdough starter on top off water heater keeping warm. Starter too warm, clean up mess on top of water hater. Now Late for production meeting.... Find tarp impaled on barbed wire fence at property line, retrieve tarp. Finish meeting and remember sourdough.... Too late for waffles , decide to make bread. Start bread - search for dutch oven.... Scream FFeeSSttIIvvAAll. Cop driving by thinks I'm loony and waves. Dog crawls into front seat and falls asleep. Out of homebrew now - find Fat tire and crack it before logging into forum.


To be continued?


 

Love it, Jerry!  Thanks for sharing a little "slice o yo life" with us.   

[Hippie]

who and what morning (or day for that matter) are we having fresh strawberry waffles with whipped cream??????

The last day of the festival at 9AM....Camp Run-a-muck.

  :thumbsupI'd like to reserve my seat now for this wonderful affair!     I may love you long time afterwards! 

I thought you loved me before Connie - - - after all everyone knows I've been in love with you for like ever 

I had your place reserved before you even knew about it

It will be great to see you.

 

 Listening to: another stupid Gieco commercial

[Courtney]

I confess my love for you too Hippie. 
             and a little more 

PS.  Your toes picture makes me happy.

[ilovethelorax]

Nice to have you back, Kaptain!  I know it doesn't  have to be organic, but I also try to eat healthy and am currently trying to find my place in the organic world.  There are so many different schools of thought on the subject that it's mind-boggling.  Maybe at the festival we could chat further about this, if anyone has some input they'd like to share.  It's something I'm really interested in.   

PS.  Velveeta = Good   

Hey folks, I'm late to the party bt just catching up on this here post and had some thoughts to share:

Daniela, while our personal preference for our fruits and veggies is organic and local, and we are lucky to live in a community really serious about both (even our "face") there are some resources out there which tell you which fruits and veggies are most likely to pick up toxins or require lots of said toxins to thrive (on an industrial farm). It's good stuff to know when you don't have a choice. A quick Google search turned up these.

http://www.wikihow.com/Choose-the-Most-Important-Organic-Foods
http://www.ebfarm.com/WhyOrganic/index.html
http://www.kidsorganics.com/10%20Most%20Important%20Foods%20to%20Eat%20Organic.htm  (scroll down a bit)

Not on these lists though, at least on my brief peek, are carrots. According to some organic farmers I know they are super sponges for anything in the soil. Some have even used them as a way to "clean up" soil that may have been previously chemically farmed to speed the transition to organic.

There are lots of cool foody orgs out there to check out too. Here in Portland there is an organization called the Chef's Collabrative that does awesome work putting restaurant chefs and local farmers and gatherers together among other things. Makes everyone happy to have super yummy, good for you stuff that is fresh, fresh , fresh and hasn't cost an overabundance of fossil fuels to get it to the plate. You did say you were interested right?

Jerry and Karl, how long is your drive and how are you able to accomplish this amazing kitchen feat from so far away? Do you use trailers? Are you just incredible packologists? Is dry ice involved? And Jerry can you give me some more info on that Chef Mike oven purty please? When I try to visit "aromas.com" as you suggest I end up on a perfume site? And the "don't eat face" comment is golden. I love good face but I've never heard it put quite that way.

Finally, Sarah, Steaming Bean makes a mean fresh friut smoothy. The booth inside the fest doesn't hve them but they're on Main Street in about the middle of town.

peace, kym




 Listening to: leopard skin pill-box hat, bob dylan, no direction home - bootleg series7....wow

[Courtney]

I got the small coleman quick start.  It looks the same as I remember but I bet chef mike's is bigger (so he says).  The propane amount used/hours of use seemed good to me.  So do hot buns at the campsite, (shut up ron).

Courtney

[ilovethelorax]

Thanks Courtney! You've used it then? How long and you're happy overall?

[Ron N Deb]

I got the small coleman quick start.  It looks the same as I remember but I bet chef mike's is bigger (so he says).  The propane amount used/hours of use seemed good to me.  So do hot buns at the campsite, (shut up ron).

Courtney

hehehe...Courtness said Hot Buns ...

[connielv]

who and what morning (or day for that matter) are we having fresh strawberry waffles with whipped cream??????

The last day of the festival at 9AM....Camp Run-a-muck.

  :thumbsupI'd like to reserve my seat now for this wonderful affair!     I may love you long time afterwards! 

I thought you loved me before Connie - - - after all everyone knows I've been in love with you for like ever 

I had your place reserved before you even knew about it

It will be great to see you.

 

  This one time.....while driving down some 2-lane highway, checking out some spectacular (we call them"horrible") views on the way home from TBF we came around this corner....... and there was.....Hippie Jerry!!   What a wonderful suprise!!  
I can't wait to squeeze you!     See you soon!  Connie

 Listening to: the sound of my house fans blowing

[Courtney]

Thanks Courtney! You've used it then? How long and you're happy overall?

TBF 2007 will be the maiden voyage of my camp oven unless I practice this weekend.  Now that's an idea!  I have my own rendition of "Packing for Telluride".  Since this is only year 3 I'm "Shopping for Telluride".  It's all part of my retail therapy 12 step program. 

In 10 minutes I need to be at school.      Why do I have to go to work?  Oh yeah.... to support my habit. 

C

[Daniela]

Hey folks, I'm late to the party bt just catching up on this here post and had some thoughts to share:

Daniela, while our personal preference for our fruits and veggies is organic and local, and we are lucky to live in a community really serious about both (even our "face") there are some resources out there which tell you which fruits and veggies are most likely to pick up toxins or require lots of said toxins to thrive (on an industrial farm). It's good stuff to know when you don't have a choice. A quick Google search turned up these.

http://www.wikihow.com/Choose-the-Most-Important-Organic-Foods
http://www.ebfarm.com/WhyOrganic/index.html
http://www.kidsorganics.com/10%20Most%20Important%20Foods%20to%20Eat%20Organic.htm  (scroll down a bit)

Not on these lists though, at least on my brief peek, are carrots. According to some organic farmers I know they are super sponges for anything in the soil. Some have even used them as a way to "clean up" soil that may have been previously chemically farmed to speed the transition to organic.

There are lots of cool foody orgs out there to check out too. Here in Portland there is an organization called the Chef's Collabrative that does awesome work putting restaurant chefs and local farmers and gatherers together among other things. Makes everyone happy to have super yummy, good for you stuff that is fresh, fresh , fresh and hasn't cost an overabundance of fossil fuels to get it to the plate. You did say you were interested right?

Thanks for the info, Kym.  I think I have it down with fruits and veggies, but it's the rest of everything I have questions about, ie. personal hygiene items, cleaning supplies, dry goods, stuff like that.  I'd love to chat with you at the festival if you have time.   

[Hippie]

we had an extended discussion on Jello shots on this forum a couple of months ago..... Can anyone point me in that direction?

I found these really cool ice cube molds shaped like dolphins in the grocery store yesterday. I'm thinkin that the dolphins would look Awesome in blue jello laced with stoli. My question is will the dolphins pop out of the molds without shattering?

I'll try a test run if someone can re share the recipe with me

I also guess the next request would be to the jello shot makers to use paper shot cups instead of the plastic ones. Paper will compost much better than the plastic 

 Listening to: keb mo - your love

[TellurideTom]

Jello shot recipes

[Hippie]

Thnaks Tom 

I flailed about in the festivarian board for many minutes. I will head for the kitchen this afternoon and see about making some blue dolphins

There is quite a resource base for recipes on the net.... Duh.

here is what I compiled from my search:

Jello Shots     
     6 ounces Jello (large package)
     16 ounces Water (boiling)
     6 ounces Water (cold)
     10 ounces Vodka
Mix the jello mix with the boiling water until the powder is fully dissolved and add the cold water and alcohol. Pour the cooling mixture into either shot glasses or paper cups. Shot glasses are more attractive, but drinker can turn the paper cups inside-out to more easily eat the alcoholic jello.

The Art & Science of the Jello Shot

You can make jello shots with almost any type of alcohol, but you should adjust the proportions of alcohol and cold water to ensure that the shot still sets. The higher the proof of the alcohol, the more water that is required for it to set.
Proof   Alcohol   Cold Water
30-50   13 ounces   3 ounces
80-100   10 ounces   6 ounces
150-200   6 ounces   10 ounces
        
1 cup = 8 ounces

Jello shots can be served in shot glasses, as pictured, and can be virtually any color. Many, though, prefer jello shots in paper cups which can be turned inside out to free the jello from the cup. If you do serve jello shots in shot glasses, be sure to also provide knives, toothpicks, or some other mechanism to free the shot from the glass. Alternatively, warming the glass will cause the jello shot to slide free which can be accomplished by steeping them in warm water for less than a minute.

If you are planning a jello shot party, consider diluting your shots with more cold water and less alcohol.  Since the alcohol is contained within the jello, it is absorbed more slowly and even experienced drinkers will often underestimate how much they have had to drink. They will also be less expensive, can be more often enjoyed, and your party will last longer.



 Listening to: KPIG 1510

[TellurideTom]

The Search function is a powerful tool.