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    Exploring Low Carb, Healthy Fat, Moderate Protein Diet - Not Keto Quite Yet

    Thanks TBM, and great rambling. I'm learning more about my body now than I ever have. Maybe that's what happens with age after an accumulation of bad habits from the invincibility of youth. And maybe it's peering into the abyss of immobility if things don't change. Whatever the cause, I'm...
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    Exploring Low Carb, Healthy Fat, Moderate Protein Diet - Not Keto Quite Yet

    Update: weight is down 25 lbs. We're eating WAY more veggies, salads, nuts, and seeds. Protein (30% of daily calories) and healthy fats (50-55% of daily calories) keep me in a decent mood, feeling energized. I do take 600mg of berberine (nature's metformin) in the evening (after 8 PM), but not...
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    What are you watching ?

    Me? YouTube (health topics, whiskey, Sherpa); Netflix (movies and any historical drama series [Oktoberfest, Last Czars, Marco Polo, etc]); and cable (sports/movies/racing). Wife? Almost but not quite every crime investigative series (The Irrational, Will Trent, NCIS of any version except Los...
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    Todays Bake

    Wow. Just...wow. Beautiful!
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    Favorite widely available bourbon or whiskey

    Initial thoughts on OF Rye. 1st sip. Meh. 2nd sip. Hmmm. 3rd sip. Oh, I like this! People talk about green apple and banana flavors, and that's what I expected to taste. Nope, didn't get either of those. By the third sip, I was tasting the Christmas cake spices I love in a less-sweet rye...
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    Favorite widely available bourbon or whiskey

    No one in my area had Old Forester Rye in stock for months, unless I wanted to pay a premium. I don't reward such behavior. TW's website said they'd have it in stock in Nov, then Dec, Jan, Feb, Mar, and finally they stopped saying when. I checked their website once a week, and yesterday, they...
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    Favorite injection for pork butt?

    The butts I can buy in my area (Hormel) from WinCo are pre-injected with a saline solution. No need to inject anything. One store I rarely visit sells Farmer John All Natural butts. I have injected those with a salty solution of apple juice and seasonings, then let it sit covered in the fridge...
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    Will I Hate Water Stones (Again)

    I love my whetstones. It took about 3 sharpening sessions on all my knives to reset the cutting edges from years of pull-thru's and a Chef's Choice Edge Select 120. The Chef's Choice did a decent job, but the edges only lasted 6 months to a year even when steeled each time. Plus, it scratched...
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    Morning Coffee

    Coffee story: Before I reached 10 years old, my old man had a second job delivering the LA Times by car every morning to home and business subscribers. He'd arrive by 3 AM at the nearby distribution center, use an automated string-tie machine to bind each of the 300+ papers he'd fold, then...
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    Morning Coffee

    When I'm out n' about and need black coffee, I look for the West Coast staple of Pete's Coffee. It is SOOOO much better than Starbucks IMO. I've had mixed or inconsistent results from local roasters and stopped trying them. Most don't last long. Coffee often tastes burnt from either too long a...
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    We Lost another Member today....

    Keith, I'm so sorry to hear of his passing. All my prayers and thoughts are with you and your family. Remember the best of times. Ray
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    Morning Coffee

    When I have propane, and it's not raining, I roast my own Arabica beans grown in Central and South America. I prefer a medium-dark roast. But, I'm out of propane, and the timing of recent rains sent me to the WinCo store's bulk bins of Red Brick Breakfast Blend of medium and dark roasts. $7.98...
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    Homemade Vanilla Extract!

    "Absolut"-ly interested in how this tastes. Love the experiment. I did a little online research and vanilla vodka appears to be flavored with a small amount of vanilla extract. It should "Absolut"-ly work! Ray
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    Homemade Vanilla Extract!

    I have ordered 1/4 lb of beans from Amazon before ordering them from Saffron.com. The beans from Amazon took months and months to get to a point where the extract was usable. They were VERY dry. The beans from Saffron were supple and more moist. The extract was usable in a month, and at max...
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    Ok Tequila drinkers. What's your favorite?

    Fun two-year old resurrection. Tequila was my sipper for years, but when it went through price hikes in the 2005-10 period, I started moving on to whisky/bourbon/whiskey. Thankfully, there's enough inexpensive yet tasty bourbon and rye to weather the current pricing insanity. Back then...
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    Homemade Vanilla Extract!

    Easy peasy. After I drain the last of the extract from the bottle, I add enough vodka (or Bourbon or rum) to the bottle to help the cut bean pieces come out of the bottle. I put them in a blender with more alcohol, then run the blender on high for 2-3 minutes until the fibers are really tiny...
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    NEVER change grandma's recipe - EVER.

    I woke up this morning and thought of this thread when I saw the following YouTube video. This is how my Calabrian grandmother made her sauce. I never heard her call it ragu. In her thick accent it was called "sowsa." Simple. Easy. The only difference is that instead of lard to brown the meat...
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    Homemade Vanilla Extract!

    In the past, Saffron sold Mexican beans. I did use those. Nowadays they only sell the two different varieties and don't specify the origin. I prefer the planifolia variety. If a recipe calls for 1 tsp, we always double whatever it calls for. I used to bake quite a bit. Not so much any more...
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    Homemade Vanilla Extract!

    I check several times a year. The place I order them from, Saffron.com in San Francisco, has them for $155 / lb. That's been the price for the last two years (after being north of $400/lb). The lb I bought in 2015 for $95 made 5 x 750ml bottles. I'm on the last bottle of that batch and will be...
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    WSM and Wood Chunk Quantities + Stick Burn Trial!

    I had one more thought. I dry smoke and do not put water in the water pan. To me, it is merely a heat deflector. Why use fuel to heat 25 lbs of water that would be better used to heat meat? The water pan (and the WSM instructions) are for wet smokes and people who cannot control chamber temps...
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