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    Favorite Holiday Sweets?

    Biscochitos are a uber traditional holiday staple in my wife's family on her mom's Spanish side. As her mother snagged Omicron in November and has been recovering from that, my wife made them this year and we'll take them up for Xmas. The recipe below is her family recipe and literally came...
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    What do you like to eat when you don’t want to cook?

    What do you like to eat when you don’t want to cook? Fast food & leftovers don’t count. 🙂 Me, as much as I love left overs, it has to be charcuterie & some hooch. What do y’all go for?
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    Sil3512 Sata PCI Weibetech OSX Flashing utility

    It seems the waybackmachine is having server trouble and cannot find the weibetech utility downloads from crawls between 2005-2009 so Ive attached the files needed to flash a generic sil3512 SATA card to work in a mac for large drive support (originally pulled from WBM archive). The utility runs...
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    Can’t make this up

    Decided to do some kitchen cleaning before the big day & got behind the stove. Got it looking great, plugged 220 back in, pushed the unit back in and turned the kettle on … then BAM a nice flash & a whiff of magic smoke. Dead oven & range at 12 noon - the day before Thanksgiving with the whole...
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    Holy food inflation batman - Thanksgiving 2021

    Yikes, so I just finished the buy for 2021 Thanksgiving. We are hosting celebrations this year and buying practically the same stuff from previous years, but I am in it about $100 more this year. Menu is: Roast turkey 21# raw Hickory smoked ham 4# Truffe Mashed taters Rst glazed sweeties Bacon...
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    Worth a good chuckle

    My oldest son (4y/o) gave me this yesterday.
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    Favorite cooking technology gadgets

    I'm not one for having a ton of kitchen gadgets let alone ones that firmly cross over into tech but I do like this: Mastrad Meat*It + I've had it for a year now and I can tell you it works really well. It's obviously handy in a roasting piece of beast but I have a number of smokers as well...
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    Food borne illness starts in the home

    Yanno what I find crazy? -It's that annually in the US alone, Americans suffer 45-50 million cases of food borne illness a year. worse yet & tragically, around 3000-5000 of those people will die from it each year unnecessarily. The kicker is that over half (55%) of these cases stem not from...
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    Favorite cooking method?

    Yeah, what are your favs & why? Braising - yeah man, low n' slow moist cooking crushes tough cuts of beast and I love it- especially around now when it gets cold and snowy and those early nights. Braising seals the deal for me. Grilling - Hot n fast med-high indirect dry heat though the summer...
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    Board term limits?

    Hi there, I did not see if there were term limits on the elected positions. Is there? or can a sitting elected infividual be perpetually voted back into their position? regards,
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    What are your favorite local microbreweries/distilleries/wineries??

    What are your favorite local microbrews, distilleries and wineries? There are many in my neck of the woods, but these are some of my favorites. Marble Brewery (Albuquerque) La Cumbre Brewery (Albuquerque) Black Mesa vineyards & winery (Velarde) Acequia vineyards & winery (Corrales) St Claire...
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    Favorite commercially available coffee?

    What say you? My preferred brand is single origin Colombian by Gevalia. 14c every morning.
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    Favorite music style when cooking and when eating/drinking?

    I was thinking about this the other day. Cooking - Metal (Megadeth or ACDC) or loud rock (like Jesu, Mogwai or Flu Fighters ). Anyone who has worked in a kitchen with a retail facing side understands what that customer push feels like and the need to be expedient. This helps get the kitchen...
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    Best table wine value you've found recently?

    My wife loves to shop at Trader Jose's and this trip I tagged along. We spied a $10 value bottle of Portugese Vinho Verde. Full transparency - I love crisp but wet on the tongue, fruit forward but not sweet whites like Gewurtztraminer, Vinho Verde, sauvingnon Blanc, some roses etc. Anyhow, I...
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    What is your favorite aspect of holiday cooking?

    Let's get this forum rolling. I'd guess favs would be the food (or eating it) right? Over the years I've cooked an absolute metric ton of holiday foods from turkeys, ducks, geese, hams, briskets and beef rib roasts, standing pork roasts to latkes, gravies, mashes, purees, veggies ten ways of...
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    ImacG3 shipping recommendations?

    I've got a couple clean imacg3s going out and am curious if anyone has any experience in and thoughts on: Packing materials Shipper Rate tier Neither machine has their orginal box or foam inserts, so was thinking about a thick cardboard box, high density foam on all sides tightly, packed CRT...
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    Age: 43 Height: 6'4" 290# ( who's kidding closer to 300# nowadays) Beard: Because manly beards kick ass. Job: Chef/purchaser acquisitions/food service professional (worn many industry hats over the past 20 years) Strengths: Food, empathy, honesty Weaknesses: Food, empathy, honesty My first...