The Travel Thread

[pdub]

20 lbs of Alfredo.

[RainbowsandUnicorns]

Back to travel......

Multiple years I went to Aspen (and the Denver area) for the 4th of July. I was a bit bummed I wasn't going this year until......
I have a friend that was supposed to fly to Denver yesterday to attend the Dead and Company shows in Boulder (and spend the 4th of July in Denver) and their flight was cancelled. Not a big deal until they were told "all the flights are fully booked" until Sunday late afternoon. They rented a SUV at O'Hare and decided to drive there. I would have looked for other flight/airline options but to each their own.

I have a co-worker who was supposed to fly to Belize today via Houston. I wish her the best but I have zero doubt she will run in to some difficulty getting to Belize.

[RainbowsandUnicorns]

20 lbs of Alfredo.

You're welcome but as Steve says, "don't kill yourself"! That and "past a".




Crank this up while you're cooking!

[ousdahl]

Speaking of Dead and Co shows in Boulder, and the Denver airport…so I ended up heading to KC instead.

But while driving thru Denver last night, even during rush hour, I didn’t hit any traffic…until I get east of town (cuz the Denver airport is like a half hour east of town, out in a buncha bumfuck prairie dog fields).

Shit was bumper to bumper for miles, all the way from the airport spilling back onto 70, with yall tourists bumrushing CO so you could spend the entire weekend enjoying the 4th of July festivities and mild weather in the mountains.

And by “4th of July festivities and mild weather in the mountains,” I mean, sit in yall’s lodging accommodations harassing the front desk and binge watching reruns of Keeping Up With The Kardashians.

[ousdahl]

I digress…

Anywho so I’m debating whether to make do with this continental breakfast coffee, or go across the street and see if I have any tornado/Jim Morrison flashbacks at Starbucks.

[TDub]

20 lbs of Alfredo.

dammit dont remind me...

I had just ordered and paid for chicken alfredo..(and 3 other full meals and drinks) from a semi local but traveling Italian place that has gotten rave reviews...

I never got my food....I spent the next 4 hrs in the ER with the boy.....and ate fucking McDonald's on the way home instead...

im still not happy about it....

[jhawks99]

Starbucks is actually pretty good coffee if you just order the coffee.
I can’t knock ‘em for their Pikes/House blend. You can drink it black.
Just all the other shit that has been added to the menu bc people love sugar I can’t defend.

Dunkin’ on the other hand is bad enough you have to sugar it up but even if you ask for one sugar they put in a cup.

I also agree with ous that I’ve had a lot shitty rest stop coffee.

Catching up on this.

Charbucks always tastes burnt to me. I prefer to roast my own. A much lighter roast where you can taste the coffee and not the char.

[Back2Lawrence]

When I frequently drove back and forth from Denver, I enjoyed stopping at the oasis in Colby.

This Starbucks Ousdahl has referenced once had a go chicken go right next to it (I think it’s Qdoba now?). I’d get a $5 (this was at least 10 years ago now) coffee and a box of gIzzards and white gravy for breakfast for $3. There was something satIsfying about the coffee being more expensive than the ‘food’ I ordered.

[TDub]

I think that tells you 2 things.

1.that coffee is severely overpriced

2. gizzards are gross. bird stomach....yuck. only if there's nothing else to eat....

[jhawks99]

Love gizzard, especially Go Chicken Go gizzard.

I thought gizzard were just a muscle for grinding up seeds and stuff.

[Shirley]

I hate when you're both right:

gizzard: a muscular, thick-walled part of a bird's stomach for grinding food, typically with grit.

Won't even consider eating it...

[Sparko]

I hate when you're both right:

gizzard: a muscular, thick-walled part of a bird's stomach for grinding food, typically with grit.

Won't even consider eating it...

Tastes like chicken or rattlesnake.

[TDub]

if it tastes like chicken you eat some strange chicken....

and that's an insult to rattlesnake.

[Back2Lawrence]

They are nasty but strangely delicious.

As a kid, my mom would make Livers and gizzards. I learned to like gizzards because hell nah I’m not eating livers

[KUTradition]

i’ve fried gizzards myself…they’re quite delicious, albeit a bit tough if not prepared well

[TDub]

maybe I've just been unlucky. Its possible I've only had them at pretty terrible dive bars. So...theres that...

I think they'd be better for fishing than for eating.

[Shirley]

maybe I've just been unlucky. Its possible I've only had them at pretty terrible dive bars. So...theres that...

I think they'd be better for fishing than for eating.

/thread

(Full disclosure: Unless maybe once when I was a young child, I'm not sure I've ever had one.)

[jhawks99]

Get them tender in a pressure cooker, marinate in soy, ginger, sesame oil, gouchuchang, and brown sugar. Skewer and grill over charcoal until browned.

[Shirley]

Get them tender in a pressure cooker, marinate in soy, ginger, sesame oil, gouchuchang, and brown sugar. Skewer and grill over charcoal until browned.

Strikes me as lipstick on a pig, but does sound good.

BTW, unless I had forgotten, your recent reveal that you'd been to culinary school begs for more details, when and if you're inclined.

[jhawks99]

I don't measure anything, it's a basic Korean marinade. I'd pressure cook for 20 minutes and test tenderness then marinate.