What are you feeding your Ranger owner tonight?

[AzScorpion]

Still good!

There used to be a cooking show up here called Celebrity Cooks, with an actor, Bruno Gerussi, from a corny Canadian show called The Beachcombers (a classic). Anyway, he would have some actor, writer, or sports personality on to share their story while cooking their favourite recipe. One time, the guest made chili and they added beer and cocoa to the pot.

It made sense to me since cocoa is a big part of Mexican cooking, so I decided to try it. It really makes a big difference and it’s been part of my chili recipe ever since.

Add the following to a pot of your favourite chili recipe.

1 beer (half for the pot, half for the cook)
1 heaping tablespoon of cocoa powder

I have a basic chili recipe I've used for years. I was reading through a few online recipes the other day and one did mention the cocoa powder and another said they added 1/2 a beer too. It didn't sound good to me so I left it out not wanting to ruin the meal but I'll give it a try next time.

One thing I like to add is some Italian hot sausage to mine. I'll brown them up with the hamburger then cut them into small quarters and it gives it a nice flavor. I also add 4-5 cloves of garlic but I love garlic and add it to most of our meals.

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[Fordup]

Pork cube steaks with caramelized Alisa Craig onions and Strike Beans from last summers garden. Plus a batch of airfryer sweet potato fries. Enjoying the garden taste year round.

 

[Doc]

Tacos …

 

[5thranger]

Tacos …

Time to blow the sewer out?

 

[subquark]

LOL, started out as a healthy idea ...

... until we put the broccoli in melted Velveeta! Mushrooms cooked in gobs of butter ... and bacon, always bacon ... =)

 

[KNI]

Made a toast.

 

[DukeCanBuildit]

A small Prime Rib Roast for me and Mrs. DukeCanBuildit tonight.

Small roasts like this one (<3 lbs) can be a challenge to get just right. I’ve had great success using the MEATER + thermometer. It measures the internal temp, the oven temp, and suggests a doneness temperature for rare, medium rare, etc. It gives a running count of time remaining, tells you when to remove it from the oven, and how long to rest it. Works from a mobile app - it’s great. Spendy but a real help.

 

[Doc]

A small Prime Rib Roast for me and Mrs. DukeCanBuildit tonight.

Small roasts like this one (<3 lbs) can be a challenge to get just right. I’ve had great success using the MEATER + thermometer. It measures the internal temp, the oven temp, and suggests a doneness temperature for rare, medium rare, etc. It gives a running count of time remaining, tells you when to remove it from the oven, and how long to rest it. Works from a mobile app - it’s great. Spendy but a real help.

Mmmmmm !

 

[KNI]

Invented by Teemu Nivala from Raahe, Finland*

* = But since Finland is a tax hell, does not value companies, inventions nor monetizing inventions he moved to Los Angeles, took up a Kickstarter campaing to fund the development and now lives in UK.

 

[LaBalbe]

It's that time of year to feed everyone's favorite socially-acceptable addiction; here's how to kick it up a notch:

 

[AzScorpion]

It's that time of year to feed everyone's favorite socially-acceptable addiction; here's how to kick it up a notch:

Man you guys up there sure eat some weird stuff with your beer.

I mean that Poutine is bad enough but cookies and beer

@LaBalbe at breakfast time

 

[LaBalbe]

Man you guys up there sure eat some weird stuff with your beer.

I mean that Poutine is bad enough but cookies and beer

@LaBalbe at breakfast time

Sorry, buddy, but I think this one comes from you guys. We call them Girl Guides up here, not Girl Scouts, and ours have a blue logo vs. your green one.

Fun fact, one of the reason that monks in the Middle Ages brewed beer so much is that the brewing process maintains the bulk of the nutrients found in the various ingredients, and since they could still drink while they were fasting, drinking beer gave them a way to get those nutrients on long fasts. Beer also wouldn't get spoiled by rat droppings the way that barrels of dried grain would, since the rats would usually end up drowning before they had a chance to defecate in the barrel.

 

[DukeCanBuildit]

Sorry, buddy, but I think this one comes from you guys. We call them Girl Guides up here, not Girl Scouts, and ours have a blue logo vs. your green one.

Fun fact, one of the reason that monks in the Middle Ages brewed beer so much is that the brewing process maintains the bulk of the nutrients found in the various ingredients, and since they could still drink while they were fasting, drinking beer gave them a way to get those nutrients on long fasts. Beer also wouldn't get spoiled by rat droppings the way that barrels of dried grain would, since the rats would usually end up drowning before they had a chance to defecate in the barrel.

So, that’s how the mouse in the beer bottle hoax started!

 

[AzScorpion]

So, that’s how the mouse in the beer bottle hoax started!

 

[KNI]

Sorry, buddy, but I think this one comes from you guys. We call them Girl Guides up here, not Girl Scouts, and ours have a blue logo vs. your green one.

Fun fact, one of the reason that monks in the Middle Ages brewed beer so much is that the brewing process maintains the bulk of the nutrients found in the various ingredients, and since they could still drink while they were fasting, drinking beer gave them a way to get those nutrients on long fasts. Beer also wouldn't get spoiled by rat droppings the way that barrels of dried grain would, since the rats would usually end up drowning before they had a chance to defecate in the barrel.

Yes, beer is nutrious, energy rich and improves gut bacteria healt. Practically it's drinkable bread if unfiltered.

Main drink during the middle ages was beer (or kvass, or something in between). But the reason was not fasting (although monks get double take down here), but the fact that water supply was random. You can't identify bad water easily, but bad beer you can identify immediately. So if the beer is good, the water in there is good without nasty toxins or main parasites. And weak beer with few vol% you can drink as much as you like. So practically they used yeast (and resulting beer) as potable water indicator and killing off germs & parasites in the process.

The rat droppings is total bs. Your average grain has multitude of rat, mice and bird droppings. Those are just dropped off in the sieve at the mill and any remainders are removed when the grains are peeled before milling. Even the rat pee is a wash as grains are stored at around 10% RH so you'd need so much rats per barrel that they would eat the barrel dry in a day to have any effect.

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