Showing posts with label food and drink. Show all posts
Showing posts with label food and drink. Show all posts

Saturday, November 18, 2023

Eggnog, Irish Whiskey, and Irish Coffee

BUMPED for this year yet again. (Ditto for 2023.)

I'm once again posting the egg nog recipe, with a side note that started as a tweet to some friends:
Instead of brandy or burbon, this year I am using Tullamore Dew. It is far and away The Best Irish Whiskey, unlike that cursed sinn feiner (spit) Jameson's. It also makes the Best Irish Coffee evar.
OK, this is turning into a post. I'll pass it on.
You have the egg nog recipe. Irish coffee below the fold.

Ike's egg nog:


Sunday, June 5, 2016

BFTP*

*Blast From The Past!!

Got this from one of my Boeing co-workers:


From left to right, Rob, moi, and Chuck. This was taken no earlier than 2002. I know this because I bought that shirt for my 2002 trip to Costa Rica. It was taken at the BBC, which is local speak for the Belmont Brewing Company. We were on the back patio which overlooks the beach. 

Both Rob and I have lost weight since then. I haven't been in touch w/ Chuck for years, which is something I missed, but apparently not enough to do anything about until now. 

We spent more than one 'last day before Christmas break lunch' there,  watching the waves and the cute, bikini'd roller skaters on the bike path.

The BBC was the first brew pub I ever frequented, and is still my favorite!  It, and my friends, are some of the few things I miss about SoCal.

Thursday, April 9, 2015

No Cake For Hitler!


(And remember, Nazis aren't Right Wingers.  They're frikkin' Socialists!!)



And if he does get his way:

Me, I'd just find another bakery.

(Both from the ever-vigilant Gerard!)

Tuesday, September 3, 2013

Racist Cookies

Oreos were my favorite cookie when I was growing up.  Being a touch OCD, I would eat them three at a time, so the three rows in the bag would always be even.

As I got older, I learned that "Oreo" had a connotation other that a tasty, creme filled cookie.  It also referred to a black person who was really "white" on the inside.  Dr. Benjamin Carson, Mayor Mia Love, Sen. Tim Scott, (C), S.C., and Allan West, to name just a few.  (I suspect  that Dr. Martin Luther King would be on the list, if he were alive a preaching what he preached in the 60s).  Don King, Karl Malone, Harriet Tubman,and the Rock are all mentioned in a HuffPo article as being Republicans (as was Dr. King.)

This, however, is not a label that would apply to our President.  Yes, he may be a half-and-half kind of guy, but is innermost self is definitely not white.  Which brings me to what I found in the local Giant on my last trip out:


Pink filled Oreos.  As you can see, there is a "plain vanilla" Oreo, for those of us who are white both on the inside and the outside.  There was also a double-decker - cookie, vanilla filling, cookie, chocolate filling, cookie.  A more appropriate symbol for our president's ethnicity, I suppose. But the pink filling hit the spot, in a way that the term "red diaper baby"was applied to children raised in the U.S. by Communists.  So, we have a pink Oreo president.

Is anyone surprised?

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Sunday, February 10, 2013

For Rodge...

TRKOF.


Cheer up!  They've named an ale after you!!

My first taste left me at "What the heck was that??"  But it's damned good!!

Got it at Golden Crust Pizza, here in Red Lion.