Re: Welcome to GameBoomers Break Room #11
[Re: BrownEyedTigre]
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11/24/23 07:28 PM
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Marian, that sounds like my grandfather!
I think I'm quite ready for another adventure.
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Re: Welcome to GameBoomers Break Room #11
[Re: BrownEyedTigre]
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11/25/23 09:57 AM
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*Drac sneaks into the break room because it's so quiet*
Oh, yeah, everyone is either in a food coma, enjoying their time off or visiting with friends after Thanksgiving! I think this morning needs one of the coffee pod makers so we can just make a quick single cup and sneak back out!
Happy Saturday!
Gardens put to bed. Time for more reading and gaming.
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Re: Welcome to GameBoomers Break Room #11
[Re: BrownEyedTigre]
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11/25/23 10:13 AM
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Good morning and Happy Saturday everyone! Drac, I think you hit the nail squarely on the head Green Mountain Dark Roast coffee pods, Scottish Breakfast tea and bottled Fiji water in the Break Room. Take care all!
Dan ... To learn, read...To know, write...To master, teach...To live, play games & listen to whale music Stay Smart & Stay Safe
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Re: Welcome to GameBoomers Break Room #11
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11/25/23 05:30 PM
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Once they're on the road, they're not yours any more! They "ran away from home!"
Gardens put to bed. Time for more reading and gaming.
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Re: Welcome to GameBoomers Break Room #11
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11/26/23 09:01 AM
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Good morning everyone and Happy Sunday to one and all. Lex, your link is not to an article but to Google Mail Dark roast Kona coffee, English breakfast tea, bottled Fiji water and an assortment of Panera Bread bagels this morning. Have a wondereful Sunday
Dan ... To learn, read...To know, write...To master, teach...To live, play games & listen to whale music Stay Smart & Stay Safe
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Re: Welcome to GameBoomers Break Room #11
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11/26/23 09:01 AM
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Good morning!
Lex, that link just took me to my Gmail account.
Cold and drizzly outside here. Good day to stay inside and do some gaming! Having a video chat with our family in Germany at noon.
Happy Sunday!
Gardens put to bed. Time for more reading and gaming.
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Re: Welcome to GameBoomers Break Room #11
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11/27/23 12:26 PM
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I had big plans for today but woke up feeling completely worn out. I might struggle down to the store later for food. Otherwise, I feel a day of TV coming on.
I think I'm quite ready for another adventure.
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Re: Welcome to GameBoomers Break Room #11
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11/27/23 03:58 PM
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I rather enjoy what I call a "slug day" for myself now and then! Just catching up on laundry here today. Had to venture out into the cold to pick up the horse Ranch caretaker's step-daughter from the bus. It's just 3/4 mile down the road and another 1 1/2 miles back to the Ranch, so it only takes me a few minutes. I usually get to hear all the 2nd grade chatter about her day! She's such a sweet little kid.
One more venture out into the cold to feed the barn cats later and I'm in for the night.
Gardens put to bed. Time for more reading and gaming.
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Re: Welcome to GameBoomers Break Room #11
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11/27/23 09:13 PM
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I've spent much of the day on the couch with Willow. Dude will sit with us, but not for very long. He's still pining to go outside.
I just got some terrible news from a couple I've known for 48 years, since I was in university. He has been diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer. She tells me he has chosen not to get treatment and has opted for MAID. And last week another old friend told me her cancer had returned. I was hoping I'd get a chance to visit them in Winnipeg once my life calmed down a bit more. I'm really sick of cancer.
I think I'm quite ready for another adventure.
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Re: Welcome to GameBoomers Break Room #11
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11/28/23 09:42 AM
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Count me in as sick of cancer. I've buried a husband, a father and far too many close friends.
I've got time to put on a pot of Kenyan Special Reserve before I head in town to the grocery store. Doing the shopping for my cooking marathon Thursday, Friday and Saturday morning. I cater a breakfast for the volunteers at the horse rescue Ranch every December. This makes my 10th year doing it and we have over 40 people signed up - the most ever! I pretty much have it down to a science and do everything ahead of time. On Saturday morning I just bake - luckily I have a stove out in the garage too. New recipe this year - Strawberry Cheesecake French Toast!
Happy Tuesday!
Gardens put to bed. Time for more reading and gaming.
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Re: Welcome to GameBoomers Break Room #11
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11/28/23 12:01 PM
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This is the article for foodies to which I tried to provide a link a couple of days ago, but for more you have to subscribe to her Spectator newsletter (or at least take up there free trial...) https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/how-doughnuts-took-over-my-life/?Doughnuts, butter cows and cafe culture Sat, 25 Nov, 10:30 (3 days ago) Spectator Life The Take Away Food, drink and recipes By Olivia Potts Welcome to The Take Away, The Spectator’s food and drink newsletter. Every fortnight I’ll bring you recommendations straight to your inbox, focusing on the best things to eat, drink, try, read and listen to from The Spectator and beyond. My most recent Vintage Chef recipe is all about doughnuts. Proper doughnuts: dough stamped into rings, fried and then coated in sugar or dunked in a simple vanilla glaze. It’s made me think about the kind of places you find these doughnuts. It’s impossible to smell a freshly fried doughnut, or bite into one, the soft glaze cracking and giving way to the plump, sweet dough beneath, and not be transported to a funfair. Like roasted chestnuts and Christmas markets, or vinegary chips and the seaside, doughnuts and the fair are inextricably linked. I am not a little obsessed with US state fairs, which feel like the doughnut’s spiritual home. These started as agricultural fairs (a little like our county shows) designed to showcase and boost the economies of local farms and dairies, but they soon grew into enormous tourist attractions, must-stops on would-be politicians’ baby-kissing tours. Dan Solomon’s piece from 2017, ‘The Agony and the Ecstasy of the State Fair Food Finalists’, gives a taste of some of the most common edible offerings, while Meghan McCarron examines the food at Iowa’s state fair in this brilliant article for Eater. Fairs may provide more than than classic fried dough now, but deep-frying remains the king of the cooking techniques: the Texas State fair is the domain of Abel Gonzales Jr, sometimes called ‘fried Jesus’. Gonzales made his name with a fried PB&J sandwich, but since then has also come up with fried cola, fried beer, and fried butter. The latter may be the most remarkable, but in a way, it’s a logical conclusion to state fair excess: like the fairs themselves, butter sculptures of cows originated as a celebration of the dairy industry, but soon morphed into a celebration of Americana, getting bigger and wilder every year. For Norma ‘Duffy’ Lyon, butter sculpture was a lifelong vocation. She has created butter Elvis, butter Harry Potter, butter ‘American Gothic’, butter ‘Last Supper’ – alongside the classic butter cow that tradition demands. Lyon died in 2017, but her legacy lives on in the form of her apprentice, Sarah Pratt. Pratt revealed that the sculptures are broken down at the end of the fair, and the butter is reused year-on-year, meaning that it smells rather like blue cheese when she’s working with it. So it’s probably for the best that we have people like Gonzales ensuring that the millions of state fair visitors have something more palatable to eat while they’re there. Each newsletter, I ask Jonathan Ray for the perfect wine match for my recipe. For doughnuts, he recommends Shepherd Neame Double Stout, 5.2% vol, (£4.50 per 50cl; Noble Green Wines): ‘I reckon that doughnuts as tasty as these are best enjoyed warm from the rack just as the glaze sets but is still a bit gooey. I’m thinking mid-morning, a bit too early for wine but a bit too late for yet another coffee. I toyed seriously with the idea of a rum-infused hot chocolate as the best match but opted instead for what I crave most come 11 a.m.: a fine beer. Having grown up in God’s chosen county of Kent, I was weaned on the beers and ales of Shepherd Neame, Britain’s oldest brewer, founded in 1698 and still family owned. There isn’t a dud in their range, with Bishop’s Finger Kentish Strong Ale and Spitfire Amber Ale probably the best-known. This immaculately crafted stout, though, based on a long-hidden coded recipe from the 19th century, is probably my favourite. With a wonderful, complex malty character – think Ovaltine with a kick – decent alcohol and plenty of mocha, roast coffee and bitter chocolate notes and a rich burnt caramel sweetness to it, it might be a surprising match for these scrumptious doughnuts but (trust me) it works a treat!’
Last edited by Lex; 11/28/23 12:04 PM.
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Re: Welcome to GameBoomers Break Room #11
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11/28/23 06:58 PM
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Thanks, Lex! I've been curious about this since you first tried to post it. There can be a box of donuts in the kitchen at the Ranch and I will walk right by it. The only donuts I like are warm fresh cake donuts with NO glaze or sprinkles!
I am now curious about those beers from Kent!
Gardens put to bed. Time for more reading and gaming.
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Re: Welcome to GameBoomers Break Room #11
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11/28/23 10:58 PM
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I agree; doughnuts are meant to be eaten straight out of the oven. John had a craving for jelly doughnuts in his last months and I had a standing order with the local bakery for a half dozen every two days. I'd pick them up still warm. I don't often eat them, but those were delicious.
I think I'm quite ready for another adventure.
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Re: Welcome to GameBoomers Break Room #11
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11/29/23 06:23 AM
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The first time I lived in Ireland, the nearest town had a truly fabulous baker’s shop which served up 21 different types of fresh bread daily AND in the main window had a working machine which prepared and cooked fresh “American Doughnuts” whilst you watched So you could walk in and wait for a few to be ready and then take them away to eat - piping hot - and they were extremely delicious !! Needless to say my little Daughter and I were frequent customers
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