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  1. 2 hours ago, MitchW said:

     

    Lamb rib chops marinated in olive oil, salt, pepper, rosemary, lemon juice.

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    You can send the bones in my direction (please).

  2. 46 minutes ago, Wilfrid said:

    Every classic started out as a bartender experimenting.

    Unarguably.    But many/most true classics were surprisingly invented in the 1800s.   
    Even the Negroni was born in the early 1900s.   That's a pretty long provenance.  

  3. 2 hours ago, MitchW said:

    …thank the lord!

    As someone who pretty much only orders classics, I welcome the day.  I am in no need of some bartender's fantasy of what might taste good.

     

    There was a time when a cocktail was an adult drink, not an alcoholic soda pop.

  4. Is it considered political if I grouse about having been on the phone for 1 hour 40 minutes with the IRS regarding a letter from them stating that I had an unclaimed credit that needed to be addressed immediately?   Only to find that they had neglected to apply the amount to timely made estimates?    Told to refile!!????    WAIT A MINUTE!   I filed correctly!   It is you who have not correctly applied the payments to the proper allocations.   Finally, "Oh, yes.   You are correct.   Just ignore that letter."    SLOW BURN.

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  5. Nice save, I guess.    While I try not to waste food, husband was a bear about sending good money after bad, often encouraging me to "cut my losses" when it came to salvaging food we didn't like.

  6. I want to thank each of you for your very kind words.    As an outsider to MFF, 3000 miles away from the center of action, at least a generation older than the average member, I am humbled by the empathy and compassion you've taken time to express.   I will always be grateful for these gifts, most often from people I've never met.

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  7. My husband of many decades passed away last week after facing stage 4 cancer for 18 months.   He was asymptomatic and pain-free throughout, finally losing vigor in the last several weeks.   He was ready to give up the fight.

    I have been astounded by the outpouring of consolation by our neighbors.    He had quietly made lasting connections with dozens of disparate people.   

    I am humbled by the mark he made.   It doesn't make our loss any easier, but I want to think that he is somehow aware of the depth of loss shared by our coterie of friends and neighbors.

     

  8. 1 hour ago, hollywood said:

    There were some mudslides. Now the atmospheric river is gone. The Santa Ana winds are a distant memory. The captain has taken off the fasten seatbelts sign.

    NEVER unbuckle your seatbelts while on a plane, regardless of what the captain says.   There's always some kind of turbulence just off the horizon.

  9. My same-old, same old.    Old fashioned rolled oats, covered with water, heavy shower of salt, nuked 2.5 minutes.    Blanketed with heavy cream.    Super strong coffee with milk.    Several NYC puzzles.   Bracing start to the day.   Which occasionally involves heading back to bed for another hour of cossetted sleep.  

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  10. On 1/17/2025 at 2:06 AM, sourbroughten said:

    wait...are most of those CD's unopened?

    To a collector, an item in its original, sealed container ("mint in box") is worth many orders of magnitude more than an open albeit "like new" identical item.   

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