Whoever invented this did the impossible. They turned Domino's into a gourmet pizza place.

A very nice tribute, scotty. Congrats Monsieur Gourmet!

I think rottenseed got it right, for once. a man who gets himself locked in a dog cage three times is bound to dabble in sock-puppetry. this "scotty" fellow is so obviously a dupe as he is *gay (it was the three paragraph <gasp> that gave you away</gasp>)
and congo rats for gourmet emu. lots of them

>> ^filantropo:
What does this say about the qualification's necessary to become a reporter?


This is Pajamas media we're talking about. Thinking they some how set the standard for journalistic qualifications is like thinking the McDonald's menu is used as the basis for gourmet cooking.

I may take you up on that, Hombre. Never know.

Thanks for the invite.

We went to this dive bar out on a pier once when I was there.

I like the places with colorful clientele.

In reply to this comment by rottenseed:
I'm touched. I am so glad you can appreciate our cuisine, especially that of the Mexican type. It is the thing I miss most when I leave my small slice of heaven. Hit me up if you're ever in my town, we'll go to one of my favorite hole-in-the-walls for lunch...and then my favorite glory-hole for dessert.

In reply to this comment by rougy:
San Diego has some of the best Mexican food I've ever had.

Fish Tacos. Gotta try one. Sounds gross, but man it's good.

You went to USD? That's awesomeness.

Oh and your beard is sexy...nice connectors

In reply to this comment by dag:
We probably were. I went to University of San Diego - the big blue dome on the hill. I lived on Mission Beach though with roommates. Rubios was almost every weekend - unless it was three rolled tacos with guac down at the beach. - Or I knew this place that made the BEST carnitas burrito.

Oh man, I'm so hungry now - but not for what's in the fridge.

>> ^dag:
Why do you torture me thusly? You know I can't get good Mexican here. We make the best fish tacos in all of Australia here at home, but it doesn't hold a candle to Rubio's.
I used to eat at Rubio's in San Diego in the early 90s when there was only one out by the SDSU campus. Should have bought stock.

That's the original Rubio's

6'4 and full of mussels

Seriously I ate a whole sack of em'


I live in the desert East of California (Nevada), and I plant trees. They pay me to do this. I really don't spend a huge amount of time on computers, like many others here, but I do enjoy indoor recreation, simply because I am outdoors so much. Unlike many other sifters, I kill and eat what sustains me, when I am lucky enough to have the opportunity. I am married, and have no children. I am a gourmet, gut eating, beer brewer when I am not planting trees.

And its obscene how many of us humans there are. Mandatory birth control anyone?

If you haven't figured it out my handle and Avatar relate to Ed Abbey. A man who could deliver a harangue about the horrors of grazing cattle on public land all while eating a 26 Oz. porterhouse.

I'm thinking of trying this recipe for Thanksgiving. What do you think?

Roasted Japanese Sweet Potatoes with Scallion Butter
Serves8

* Active time:10 min
* Start to finish:1 1/4 hr

November 2007
If you’ve never had pale-fleshed Japanese sweet potatoes before, you’ll be surprised by their subtler, drier flesh, which tastes unmistakably of chestnut. A bit of miso mixed into the scallion butter stealthily rounds out the interplay of sweet and umami that will have you eating all the way through to the last flaky remnants of skin.

* 8 small slender Japanese or Garnet sweet potatoes (4 to 5 lb total)
* 1 1/2 sticks unsalted butter, well softened
* 1 1/2 tablespoons miso paste (preferably white)
* 3 tablespoons finely chopped scallion

* Preheat oven to 450°F with rack in upper third.
* Prick potatoes all over with a fork and put on a foil-lined large baking sheet. Bake until very soft when squeezed, 45 minutes to 1 hour.
* While potatoes bake, stir together butter, miso, and scallion until combined.
* Slit hot potatoes lengthwise and, using oven mitts, push in sides to puff up potato. Serve with some scallion butter in center of each and with additional scallion butter on the side.

Cooks’ notes:

* Scallion butter can be made 4 days ahead and chilled, covered. Bring to warm room temperature and stir before using.
* Sweet potatoes can be roasted (but not cut) 4 hours ahead and kept at room temperature, covered with foil. Reheat potatoes on a baking sheet on middle rack of a 350°F oven until heated through, about 20 minutes.

Recipe by Lillian Chou

I found it on this site ---> http://www.gourmet.com/recipes/2000s/2007/11/roasted-japanese-sweet-potatoes

Even if he considers himself McD's, he is truely a gourmet paradise of literary genius. He is just far to modest for his work. If you can read "The Stand" or "The Dark Tower" and consider him a "McDonalds" or literature, you need to re-read these things.

The Dark Tower is one of the ONLY 2 series I've ever read more than once excluding the Bible.

When Stephen King dies, I will cry.

That sounds great. Charms and I will absolutely be there. It'd be great if we could all chip in and have djsunkid fly down here and prepare another gourmet meal.

If we've got people from LA, OC, and SD (any IE Sifters?) maybe we should meet somewhere near the middle.

Who else will participate and where are you located? You feel like trekking out here now that you're not on the opposite end of the country MG?

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:
The private sector isn't equipped to deal with social issues, because they only see value in terms of dollars. Thus, cars, hamburgers, gourmet coffee and other products are fine in corporate hands, but let's not put McDonalds or Pfizer in charge of the Food and Drug Administration.


Corporate fraud is illegal whether we have regulation or not, so why is that an argument against the free market? Whatever problems you have with McDonalds, Pfizer, and Walmart are clearly not a commonly held sentiment, or else these businesses would go bankrupt. They have grown in size because there was a growing demand for their product.

If you are going to condemn anyone or anything, it should be the moral or cultural values of the consumer. It is the consumer who controls the market, not the business owners...

Let me try and break it down for you, imstellar.

Educating students, fighting fires, policing neighborhoods, a functioning highway system, safe food and drugs, clean water, a just court system, preserving our national parks, the registration of automobiles (to name a few) are all systems that transcend capital. Make profit the goal of any of these systems and they will lose their focus and fail.

The private sector isn't equipped to deal with social issues, because they only see value in terms of dollars. Thus, cars, hamburgers, gourmet coffee and other products are fine in corporate hands, but let's not put McDonalds or Pfizer in charge of the Food and Drug Administration.

So to answer your question, yes, it is both logical and moral to keep corporate hands off of important systems.

¿Comprende, amigo?

Don's edit:
We sit around the table, eat, and while eating everyone is usually very quiet, until one of us expresses some insight or occurance which has happened at some time during the day. This invariably triggers a response from another person at the table identifying with the situation. This person describes the situation and the impacts and results to everyone else at the table which invaribaly triggers a response from someone else at the table to comment or to share like experiences. Our shared suppers together result in not only an incredibly pleasureable experience of the devine gourmet skills of Laura, but expansions of understanding about living in this moment in time. This is all accomplished w/o ceremony or structure, but as a natural flowing of family love...then everyone sings their praises to the chef because she is such a great and awesome deliverer of said eats for which they were not worthy (note, the last part of this sentence was sneaked in by laura).

I just polished off a bag of goofy 'gourmet' chocolate corn chips. WTF? they keep my fingers keyboard-clean, but they were weird and probably more complimentary to permanent markers than beer. Jonny, do you ever mix up your beer? For example, Corona with no lime, chased by a PBR? I'm looking for inventive combinations...

And, Schmawy, Menthol or non, light of barely filtered?

Kronos, you've got to have one clean keyboard, my friend, what do you eat when you feel risky with the old Hewlett Packard? Wait, don't tell me, you have a plastic keyboard cover ??? Isn't that akin to covering the sofa with vinyl??