The stupidest Friday post ever. Ever. And it's Thursday.

[NeilT]

Today I went to Surfside.  I listened to the Astros game on XM on the way down (you guys think Milo is bad?  Bad?  Have you been forced to listen to the Cubs' broadcasters?  Have you?  These people don't even pretend to follow the game.  And Ron Santo?  Ron Santo may be the only broadcaster in the world who's better to listen to when his team screws up, which is good since he's a broadcaster for the Cubs).

Anyway, I got out of the car to visit my client and I and I were behind.  I got in the car and I and I were ahead.  How cool was that?  

On the way out of town I stopped at the seafood market and bought some shrimp, some scallops, and a snapper.  Tonight I grilled the shrimp while watching a combination of the Texas Rangers (in Ingles) and Swe/Par on a Spanish channel.  I thought for a long time I was watching Chivas.

Anyway, here it is:  the Astros are cooking, what's your 2d favorite recipe?  We're all manly, more or less, so our first favorite is open refrigerator, open Shiner, pour into a frosty glass.  So what's your 2d favorite recipe?

Alright, here's mine.  For Saturdays, noon.  Take some pita bread and heat it.
Stuff it full of deli roast beef, feta cheese, black olives with pits, lettuce and a bit of tomato.  drench the filler with just a bit too much olive oil before it goes into the pita bread.  open the refrigerator, open a Shiner, find a frosty glass. Don't break a tooth on the olives.  Caramelized onions would make this the best food on earth, but I'm too lazy.

I have been told by the Greeks I know that Bulgarian feta is the best available.  i haven't bought any.

[Duke]

I know Santo is a huge homer, but he is such a good guy.  Glad the Cubs retired his jersey in '03 'cause he won't make the HOF.  His brother produced a WGN documemtary about his career and his struggles with Diabetes.  

My favorite receipe  to cook with the 'Stros is a big fat sirloin,  marinated in olive oil and a dried chile mixture.  Grill that bad boy over a hot mesquite fire until it is charred on the outside and screaming on the inside. Cut it against the grain and serve with soft tortillas and cold Bohemia.

[Savage]

I think you're referring to This Old Cub, which was a documentary film produced by Ron Santo's son.  Definitely worth watching.

[Duke]

That was it.  Really good.

[chuck]

I'm not sure whether Selassie-I approves of shellfish, but I and I would go down to the nearest Fiest-I and get some Boston brand jerk seasoning and apply it very sparingly (very sparingly) to whatever shrimp and fish you might have had the good sense to bring back from Surfside. Very sparingly, did I and I menchyon that, bwoy?

Grill it. Bake it, even. Do NOT add salt.

[Rebel Jew]

Surfside; home of everybody's favorite congressman, Ron Paul.

[NeilT]

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Surfside; home of everybody's favorite congressman, Ron Paul.

He doesn't actually exist.  Those of us who are true limited government advocates understand that the federal government is just a pigment of our imagination.  Yesterday, when I made my quarterly tax payment, it wasn't backed by gold so it wasn't real, either.

[das]

Favorite friday evening menu/activity:  vegitable and sirloin kebobs marinated in Speedy's sauce (upstate New York traditional marinade) cooking on the grill with a smuggled Fat Tire in one hand, grill fork in the other, Astros game on MLB.com on the laptop and the sounds of the kids splashing around in the pool.

Bulgarian feta smoikes. Lived in Sophia and Varna for 3 months. Found that most of what we get here in the States of Greek descent is akin to Virginia "wine country" swill.

[David in Jackson]

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Today I went to Surfside.  I listened to the Astros game on XM on the way down (you guys think Milo is bad?  Bad?  Have you been forced to listen to the Cubs' broadcasters?  Have you?  These people don't even pretend to follow the game.  And Ron Santo?  Ron Santo may be the only broadcaster in the world who's better to listen to when his team screws up, which is good since he's a broadcaster for the Cubs).

Anyway, I got out of the car to visit my client and I and I were behind.  I got in the car and I and I were ahead.  How cool was that?  

On the way out of town I stopped at the seafood market and bought some shrimp, some scallops, and a snapper.  Tonight I grilled the shrimp while watching a combination of the Texas Rangers (in Ingles) and Swe/Par on a Spanish channel.  I thought for a long time I was watching Chivas.

Anyway, here it is:  the Astros are cooking, what's your 2d favorite recipe?  We're all manly, more or less, so our first favorite is open refrigerator, open Shiner, pour into a frosty glass.  So what's your 2d favorite recipe?

Alright, here's mine.  For Saturdays, noon.  Take some pita bread and heat it.
Stuff it full of deli roast beef, feta cheese, black olives with pits, lettuce and a bit of tomato.  drench the filler with just a bit too much olive oil before it goes into the pita bread.  open the refrigerator, open a Shiner, find a frosty glass. Don't break a tooth on the olives.  Caramelized onions would make this the best food on earth, but I'm too lazy.

I have been told by the Greeks I know that Bulgarian feta is the best available.  i haven't bought any.

More proof that everything you really need to know you can learn in the TZ.

I'm going to give that bad boy a try (not just the Shiner).

[toddthebod]

I love listening to Ron Santo groan, especially when the Cubs give up a couple of runs on an error.  The only thing I liked better was listening to WFAN on Sunday nights after a tough Jets loss when Joe Beningo hosted the overnight.

As for favorite dishes, I've gotten really lazy these days.  A bag of really salty edamame with a couple of bottles of Rolling Rock is good enough for me.  But when I'm really ambitious, I'll make the chicken with sausage, prunes, and apples that you can find in the Silver Palate cookbook.  My favorite chicken recipe of all time.

[strosrays]

I was laughing out loud at the Reds broadcasters the other day at lunchtime (XM).  I don't know who they were, but this was just after the Reds had actually achieved first place briefly.  They subsequently dropped a couple, but were still in the best shape they have been at this point in the season in a long time.  But the announcers sounded like they were 20-60 and going down.  A guy made an error, and one of them said, "That right there is going to be the Reds undoing - poor defense."  Then a Reds pitcher gave up a double, and the other said, "The lack of pitching depth is going to kill us, in the end."  And on and on.  It sounded like a parody of an overly pessimistic broadcast team.

This was just after a recent thread here about the virtues and/or lack thereof of Milo, and some discussion about management preferring "homers" in that position.  I wonder what the Reds management thinks about their announcers - best team in years, and they are poor-mouthing them all the way.

As for sandwiches - two pieces of store-bought bread (white or wheat), slather each with a purposeful amount of tub butter, then lay on the jam/jelly/preserves (my preference is Bama Red Raspberry).  Then get a bag of plain original Lays potato chips, the greasy kind, and pile them on one side of the sandwich, then get the other piece of bread and lay it on top and push down.  You should hear a loud crunching sound, like sticks breaking.

Then pop open an ice cold Yoo Hoo, sit down in front of the game, and enjoy.  Best sandwich ever.

[NeilT]

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I was laughing out loud at the Reds broadcasters the other day at lunchtime (XM).  I don't know who they were, but this was just after the Reds had actually achieved first place briefly.  They subsequently dropped a couple, but were still in the best shape they have been at this point in the season in a long time.  But the announcers sounded like they were 20-60 and going down.  A guy made an error, and one of them said, "That right there is going to be the Reds undoing - poor defense."  Then a Reds pitcher gave up a double, and the other said, "The lack of pitching depth is going to kill us, in the end."  And on and on.  It sounded like a parody of an overly pessimistic broadcast team.

This was just after a recent thread here about the virtues and/or lack thereof of Milo, and some discussion about management preferring "homers" in that position.  I wonder what the Reds management thinks about their announcers - best team in years, and they are poor-mouthing them all the way.

As for sandwiches - two pieces of store-bought bread (white or wheat), slather each with a purposeful amount of tub butter, then lay on the jam/jelly/preserves (my preference is Bama Red Raspberry).  Then get a bag of plain original Lays potato chips, the greasy kind, and pile them on one side of the sandwich, then get the other piece of bread and lay it on top and push down.  You should hear a loud crunching sound, like sticks breaking.

Then pop open an ice cold Yoo Hoo, sit down in front of the game, and enjoy.  Best sandwich ever.

You should try bananas on that.

[David in Jackson]

and bacon.  Bacon's always good.

[JimR]

Neil, that sounds outstanding (!), but why olives with pits? i'll forget and break every tooth in my head.

[NeilT]

It's the challenge.

[gwat]

Sorry about lagging into stupid Saturday but I had to comment. Bulgarian Feta is slightly softer and, to me more preferable than Greek Feta. IMHO however, French Feta is the best...softer still than Bulgarian, less salty, and more tangy. Stay out of the high $$ rip-off stores and check out a Mediterranean/Arab market. You will probably be able to find a chunk of Feta, the size of an Acme Brick, for about 4-5 bucks. At least that is the going rate in San Antonio. My choice is French Feta, sliced avocado, and home-grown tomatoes with a splash of Balsamic and a pinch of cracked black pepper. This goes well with anything....Sapporo, Fat Tire, Jax, or tap water.
That is a good salad course, which is even better when followed by a bacon course. Any one of your favorites will do....bacon carpaccio, bacon pizza, bacon spring rolls.
muy yum.

[NeilT]

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Sorry about lagging into stupid Saturday but I had to comment. Bulgarian Feta is slightly softer and, to me more preferable than Greek Feta. IMHO however, French Feta is the best...softer still than Bulgarian, less salty, and more tangy. Stay out of the high $$ rip-off stores and check out a Mediterranean/Arab market. You will probably be able to find a chunk of Feta, the size of an Acme Brick, for about 4-5 bucks. At least that is the going rate in San Antonio. My choice is French Feta, sliced avocado, and home-grown tomatoes with a splash of Balsamic and a pinch of cracked black pepper. This goes well with anything....Sapporo, Fat Tire, Jax, or tap water.
That is a good salad course, which is even better when followed by a bacon course. Any one of your favorites will do....bacon carpaccio, bacon pizza, bacon spring rolls.
muy yum.

I read this out loud to my wife.  She came home with a tub of French feta.

You know the joke.  How come the French named all their towns after kinds of cheese?

[das]

 

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How come the French named all their towns after kinds of cheese?  

I actually don't know.

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Speaking of the french, I saw Spamalot at the Shubert Theater this weekend.  All time best play/musical I've ever seen on Broadway.  The french guy taunting King Arthur from the castle had the entire theater rolling in the aisles.  Even better than the movie.

[NeilT]

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How come the French named all their towns after kinds of cheese?  

I actually don't know.

<Thread Hijack>
Speaking of the french, I saw Spamalot at the Shubert Theater this weekend.  All time best play/musical I've ever seen on Broadway.  The french guy taunting King Arthur from the castle had the entire theater rolling in the aisles.  Even better than the movie.

This is my problem:  I like really stupid jokes.  There's no answer, that's the joke.  The whole joke goes something like this:  A tourist goes to Paris, falls in love with French food, starts visiting the cheese shops.  The French have 400 different kinds of cheese, most of which come from some little town and are named after where they came from.  After a week or so, the tourist is studying a map of France and announces I never knew the French named all their towns after kinds of cheese.

That cracks me up.  Sorry.

Is the Shubert Theater in Washington?  Is Spamalot touring?

[das]

I like stupid jokes too, especially when they are at the expense of the French.  My 6 year old cracks up along with me.  My wife does not.

Shubert on Broadway.  Bright lights, big city weekend for a small town boy such as myself.  It is touring up and down the east coast with an alternate cast this summer:
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[jasonact]

I find Ron Santo extremely entertaing, but perhaps for the wrong reasons. If you're a stickler who wants your broadcasters to be professional and relatively objective, Santo is your worst nightmare. Sometimes, I think he forgets he's on the radio. He sounds like a guy watching his live-or-die favorite team with some buddies at a local bar. Little real insight, but a lot of character and passion. Irritating to many, entertaining to others.