Food

[hayday]

And how's your French?

Ce n'est pas tres bien. I can read, pronounce, and say the words, but I can't converse. I know some phrases, but I can't carry on conversations. It just goes too quickly for me to translate on the fly. The six days I was in Paris this past summer went ok. "Je voudrais un cafe Ameicano. Merci." and "Ou est les toilettes?" I did alright with those things.

[Raza]

Ce n'est pas tres bien. I can read, pronounce, and say the words, but I can't converse. I know some phrases, but I can't carry on conversations. It just goes too quickly for me to translate on the fly. The six days I was in Paris this past summer went ok. "Je voudrais un cafe Ameicano. Merci." and "Ou est les toilettes?" I did alright with those things.

That’s a major problem with Duolingo’s format, I believe. I can type out just fine, because there’s an internal translation from brain to fingers and in that time I can also translate to French, but Duolingo’s format doesn’t really promote thinking in French. And they took away a lot of features that they reworked to lock behind Duolingo Max. Really annoying. I bought a lifetime Babbel subscription, I’ve been meaning to start to integrate that into my lessons as well.

[geoffbot]

That’s a major problem with Duolingo’s format, I believe. I can type out just fine, because there’s an internal translation from brain to fingers and in that time I can also translate to French, but Duolingo’s format doesn’t really promote thinking in French. And they took away a lot of features that they reworked to lock behind Duolingo Max. Really annoying. I bought a lifetime Babbel subscription, I’ve been meaning to start to integrate that into my lessons as well.

My girlfriend spent 2.5 years living in Spain and had a boyfriend who spoke no English. She took Spanish lessons every day for 2 hours. At the end she could 'just about' speak Spanish. Learning languages ain't easy, especially if you don't start young.

[Raza]

My girlfriend spent 2.5 years living in Spain and had a boyfriend who spoke no English. She took Spanish lessons every day for 2 hours. At the end she could 'just about' speak Spanish. Learning languages ain't easy, especially if you don't start young.

Look, you may not have a great vocabulary, but I wouldn’t say you “spoke no English”. You’ve come a long way, Geoff.

But immersion is definitely the way to go. In undergrad, I had to pass 3 years of Spanish, but if you took Spanish 3, it counted as all three years. So I took an intensive summer course of Spanish 3 and the classes were like 3 hours or something and after being immersed in Spanish for 3 hours, I found myself easily speaking in Spanish, even accidentally sometimes. To be fair, I did start taking some Spanish classes in middle school (around age 12-13), so I had a decent foundation to begin with, but I also took French at that time (though did not continue with French through high school, as I did with Spanish). But, knowing even the little Spanish that I do has made learning French easier, plus, grammatically, French is actually a bit easier to learn, I think, coming from English. At least that’s been my experience on Duolingo.

[Henry Krinkle]

Mmmmmmuffuletta...

[Spooky]

*Bread Pudding*

Preheat Oven to 300 (Freedom units)

Cube 1 loaf of Brioche (or whatever) into approximately 1 inch cubes.

Mix together:
2 Cups Sugar
4 Cups Milk
3 Large Eggs
2 Tablespoons Vanilla Extract
1 Teaspoon Cinnamon
1 Teaspoon Allspice
1 Teaspoon Nutmeg (Malcom X FTW)

Stir in 1/2 Stick melted butter. (Kerry gold or nothing you filthy casual)

*Throw some raisins in the trash* *Drink some Bourbon* (Knob Creek)

Pour mixture over bread cubes and use a spatula to gently distribute until all bread chunks are soaked. Pour into a buttered 8x8 pan. Put pan in larger pan/water bath. Bake at 300 for 75 minutes.

*Pet a Kitty and drink more bourbon*

[Henry Krinkle]

I'd suggest- soak some raisins in bourbon and drink more. Knob Creek serves both of these purposes.

I actually soak the raisins in brandy and drink the bourbon.

[Spooky]

I'd suggest- soak some raisins in bourbon and drink more. Knob Creek serves both of these purposes.

I actually soak the raisins in brandy and drink the bourbon.

That doesn’t sound too bad. Though it’s a mouth feel issue for me. I don’t dislike raisins, but I feel it interrupts the smooth texture of the custard in that dish. Crunchy top plus smooth body doesn’t require a chewy intermediate. At least for me. My wife’s grandmother preferred it with raisins so I always made two.


I might have used too much bourbon in my recipe last night and spilled an entire pumpkin pie on my kitchen floor…

Oh well. lol





I’m also the Turkey guy as well.

I wouldn’t mind a bit of smoked flavor, but that’s not the majority preference. Nothing in there but Kingsford Blue. So simply an alternative roasting method.

After work at about 4:45 it went into a brine last night. (Salt, Sugar, Garlic Powder)

This morning it was stuffed with Rosemary, Thyme, and Sage. Injected with a combination of Butter, Rub and Apple Cider. I then put a cut up stick of butter under the skin.

Trying a new rub that smelled pretty good:



Liberal application of rub, then wrapped in cheesecloth and cooked at 300F (Favorite temp I guess lol) for several hours. 1/4 Cup of Olive Oil and a melted stick of butter poured over the cheesecloth. About 45 minutes before done I’ll pull the cheesecloth and throw some of the leftover injection on it to crisp up the skin.


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[Spooky]

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[pacifico66]

Brined my 22 lb turkey in my Yeti cooler couldent have worked out any better

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