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Christmas Day and nearly all grocery stores and restaurants were closed. One exception was the Asian Market. We were able to buy fresh vegetables and as a special treat Peking Duck.

I also got a cut of the smoked pork. Very tasty.

I take issue with oil.
Not petroleum based oil or oil/fat derived from animals.
My issue is with plant or 'vegetable oil' and that includes nut oils used on foods for eating (or cooking) and not oils used in cosmetics or paint products.
There are lots of oils in the marketplace.
If I want olive oil, it states it on the label 'Olive Oil' and some come from virgins.
Some olive oil is blended with other (read: cheaper) oils to get olive flavor at less expense.
Peanut oil is a favorite for some who cook in a skillet or wok as it has a higher smoke point and can be used successfully for frying.
Corn oil, nice color and sweet taste.
Sesame oil is used in many Oriental dishes and has a distinct flavor.
Sunflower oil for cooking
Safflower oil is often used for roasted nuts.
Coconut oil from coconuts
Cottonseed, Rageseed and Canola for cooking.
There are bunches of more exotic oils too numerous to mention.

So the issue? Vegetable Oil... WTF is in vegetable oil?

Every brand and every bottle I checked was... 100% Soybean Oil.
That's right. I found you cannot buy bottles of soybean oil because all the soybean oil is marked vegetable oil.

How deceitful is that? Why can't they sell soybean oil for what it is... soybean oil.


Next, I'll be checking bottles of Baby Oil as I have my suspicions that too is incorrectly labeled.

...behind the Boston Marathon bombing. Three dead, including a young boy. And one college policeman. His brother got more instant justice, Glock style. And this ingrate immigrant, now is in Federal Prison, where Old Sparky still awaits him. Not to digress, but mother dear, also on the family dole, was caught shoplifting. Nice folks, all. And this crumb complains about the food not being up to religion of peace snuff. And sends a handwritten ckemency letter to Merrit Garland.
Well, for whatever reason, the ueber libs are working to save him, to dodge the death penalty. But here's the kicker.
As currently configured, the 1.9 TRILLION boondoggle, most of which goes to Dem causes, abortion and mismanaged cities/states, and not COVID, also includes $1,400 checks to federal inmates. Justice, Liberal styled.

I don't have a better name for them right now, but it's a traditional Chinese New Year meal where you have seasoned pork in the center, beans around that and sweet rice on the outside. The entire loaf is wrapped in banana tree leaves and tied with string.
Boiled for a while and allowed to cool then sliced into sections about 2" long.







There you have it... Mummified rice cakes!

I never really knew what it was meant to be a foodie, rarely heard it when I was working but retiring changed the game. Until Mic mentioned one of my foodie blogs did I realize I was a foodie, a small shock to the system but now I brag about it. What I don't mention is a I'm a lousy foodie but I love it anyways.

Since retirement I've experimented on many new recipes and unknown foods to me. My most recent find is BACON JAM. When I learned to make candied pecans it was like a crack addiction to me so I have to exercise discipline, it's harsh but I do it.

Bacon Jam is like a crack addiction on steroids. I'm not going into anymore detail, google or better yet you tube it for recipes or info (I only look at healthy ones)

For Mic's sake and all his pizza talk I gave in last night and made a cauliflower crust, loaded the toppings I love and shocked myself at how tasty it was. I might try and make that again next year or if I make another I am going to use sliced tomatoes instead of the sauce with fresh mozzarella glopped on. Oh Mic my San Marzano plants are showing off their little babies, so far so good. The cherry tomatoe from 3rd generation of growing itself yielded a nice yield then died.

Cheese sauce has been my nemisis - Twice I tried a recipe using Sodium Citrate. In the video the sauce comes out smooth like a pouring nacho cheese sauce. Mine comes out in a glump, a tasty glump mind you but extremely unappealing visually. I stuffed a glop inside a burger and it was delish! I'm not touching that Sodium Citrate again.

That's it folks - Bacon Jam is my new thing and it spicy hot so quite a few friends can't handle it but my bro will kiss my a** for some.

Pumpkins were marked down to $1 on Sunday so we picked a big one, sliced it into small pieces to refrigerate. Collecting the seeds and putting them in the oven to dry, I've got that for a snack tonight.
Making pumpkin bread is next on the list of baking projects this weekend.

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When I was a kid, I adored the taste of a hamburger. It was simply awesome. Over the years I lost my love for the hamburger. How did this happen? Were my taste buds changing, or has the hamburger changed? For years I believed that I had aged and my food preferences had matured.
Then in the 1980's I found myself living on a farm and running a small beef cow/calf operation. I had 2 Angus, 1 Hereford and 2 Charolais cows. I would go to livestock auctions to see what was going through the ring and one day an incredible Angus cow was brought out with her fat little bull calf. The cow was not for sale but the calf was and the cow was brought out to show the lineage. I was the winning bidder for the calf which kind of surprised me to be so lucky. I concluded none of the big buyers present needed a bull calf that day. The truth was elsewhere. When I got the calf home I put him in the barn (it's good practice to keep a new animal separated from your herd in case he has cooties) he began eating hay immediately. This was odd because he was too young to be eating hay already. He also seemed to be coughing quite a bit. Not wanting to take any chances with infecting my herd I hauled him to a large animal vet in my Chevy van. He was found to have pneumonia and was infested with worms which was what gave him his nice round appearance, he was also about 6 months old, not a month old like I thought. This explained the hay eating. Thinking back I remembered something I observed in the auction ring but disregarded at the time. The mother cow was avoiding the calf totally. Apparently she had never even seen this calf prior to being brought into the ring with him. The other, far more experienced buyers didn't miss this fact and withheld bidding. They could see the scam the auction was perpetrating by offing this runt on some shmuck (me) and I couldn't. WTH, I grew up in midtown Manhattan I had a lot to learn about cattle farming, apparently I needed educating about livestock auctions too.

I usually spend my weekends at the county park about 6 miles from my home. The route is a well traveled road with businesses leading out to farmland. Often, I've found people selling things on the side of the road... usually food.
On Saturday morning you can find a pickup truck in a driveway with small crates of corn harvested from a local farm. A few months ago, I bought a case. $20 for 50 ears of corn. It was the freshest corn I've had at a price much less than the grocery store. I was giving corn away as it was coming out of my ears!
Get it... the corn was coming out of my ears.

On the other side of the road is a string of warehouses and in the parking lot, a cooking trailer similar to the ones used in county fairs where a few women sell hot dogs and drinks. Next to them is a pickup truck filled with watermelon.
Both vendors have canopies to shield them from the blistering sun.

Down the road is a larger concession/catering truck with a walk-up window. It's in a clearing where cars can easily park to get food.

Last week a couple came to the county park with a small hotdog stand selling drinks, chips and hot dogs. They showed up again today and moved long the country part seeking signs of life!

Last year, coming back from a jobsite I saw a guy who had several large ice buckets and he was selling seafood. He owns a seafood shop and when they bring in too much catch, he sells it on the street... better prices than the seafood market and fresh.

I'm not sure what the local laws are for street vendors, I know in Hollywood, the rolling cafeterias are licensed. They also have their territory marked out. A Spanish woman (with 5 children) and her mother were cooking Empanadas and selling them from the trunk of their car, selling to the factories in the area, but they got flushed out by the 'roach-coach' drivers as it was taking away from their business and for sure the woman and mom were unlicensed.

Since COVID, I've been wary of buying any prepared foods from a street vendor, The corn and watermelon purchases are safe in my book. Also, they return every weekend so if I had a bad purchase, I'd have a chance they would make good on a re-selection!

Roadside vendors... gotta make a living.

“Not since Adam has any human known such solitude as Mike Collins.”

July 20, 1969. As 500,000 million people watched from the Earth and two others were about to take the first steps on the moon, Michael Collins was all alone.

As the Command Module Pilot of Apollo 11, Collins orbited above the lunar surface when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked into the history books and the collective memory of our nation’s Trivial Pursuit enthusiasts.

Do a search for “Michael Collins” and you’ll find articles that use phrases like “Forgotten Astronaut,” “The Other Astronaut,” and similar slights.

Fortunately, we found one amateur mixologist who is attempting to immortalize Collins in cocktail form with a play on a traditional Tom Collins. For your drinking pleasure, we present:

The Forgotten Astronaut Cocktail
2 oz London dry gin
1 oz fresh squeezed lemon juice
1/4 oz Demerara syrup
And a bar spoon of tart cherry jelly
Shake. Pour over ice in a Collins glass top off with seltzer.

Cheers to you, Michael Collins.

Thanks to Max Reid for the out-of-this-world cocktail.