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February 08 Tony Bourdain on the Food Network "Chefs"February 05 14 Seconds14 seconds, that was the highlight of the (expunged by the NFL). It seems that even describing anything about that game that was played on that day will get you sued, especially if your TV is larger than 55 inches so I will not talk further about it. Our host for the evening did a wonderful job, especially considering that we invited ourselves over to watch the game and share the comraderie, he even purchased a fire pit to keep the smokers warm in the fridged weather, not only were we warm we were also well smoked by the pit. The food was excellent, from the normal fare; cheese, wings, and queso dip to the beer brats, tapanade, and the highlight Guinness Onion Soup adapted from this recipe. I enjoyed the offerings of the Magic Hat brewing company and at no time wanted a Bud Light, although I did laugh at the Rock-Paper-Scissors commercial. Even though I would never drink the pisswater, I think Bud always excells with its ads. The party was fun, friends were great, and I really did forget that I locked J out, so to whoever let him back in so he didn't freeze to death, thanks. February 01 Screw this.So the Wine writer from the Washington Post has a hard time with Screw-Top Wine. The funny part to me is that his main fear is that he will look cheap taking a screw top wine to a party. I know people fear change, there were uproars when some makers stoped sealing the bottles with lead! Synthetic corks were the next scurge ruining the wine industry and now it is Screw-Top wines. Screw-Tops better preserve the wine and you never have to worry about your waiter breaking the cork in half, storing the wine bottle on its side to keep the cork moist, or forgetting the corkscrew at a picnic and being forced to open the bottle with a cheese knife and a rock (it can be done but it isn't pretty).
As the writer mentions most of these innovations started with our southern neighbors in Australia and New Zealand where there is not an abundance of cork trees. I am just waiting to here him gasp when he finds out that some of the best Australian vinters are also selling wine in a BOX. January 31 Can't waitNext week is the Winter version of restaurant week in Baltimore and I can't wait. We are going to splurge and hit some of the places that we have read and heard about but are just out of our normal price range. At $30 a person we are going to being eating large all week. Our choices for the week includes one of our favorites, The Black Olive, for a nice Monday dinner. The Bicycle will be my better half and friends' dinner on Wednesday, Thursday we are taking our gastronomically challenged friends to True and on Friday a romantic dinner for two at the Oceanaire Seafood room. I plan to offer a review of our week of excess, instituting the ere-to-be famous 4 Cookie rating for these and some of our favorite and not so favorite "taste of Baltimore". One thing I want to make clear is that the good restaurants that I recommend are only for locals, we don't want any tourist, who complain of "lack of parking" taking up our place at the bar. January 03 Epiphany 2007 - Time Line
Basic timeline (like we will stick too it).*6:30 Michael’s Crib 7:00 Wes and Emily’s 7:45 Alison’s "love shack n bitch pack" 8:30 Jen and Elizabeth’s 9:15 Mike and Christine’s 10:00 Aaron and Lori’s 10:45 Joel and Rachel *All times in "-ish" format
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