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UTCzech III

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  1. This is just your standard beef stew (or just "stew" as we call it), nothing fancy at all about it, just good hearty eatin'... Mandatory (for me, explanation to follow): couple pounds stew meat or cubed chuck steak (ETA: any cheap beef, that's the point, keep it cheap, like brisket, you're gonna cook it low and slow, it will tenderize itself, but you can go fancy if you want) , throw it all in a gallon baggie with some flour, enough to coat it all throw flour-coated meat into skillet with some vegetable oil until browned on all sides, may need to do in batches, when done dump into crock pot/dutch oven/soup pot, what have you (ETA: drain any oil from the skillet, but definitely take all that browned flour, bits of meat left and either scrape right into the crock pot or deglaze it with some of the beef stock below, pour all that goodness into the pot as well) add a can of stewed tomatoes, chopped up throw in a few cut up carrots, as much as you like, I used about a 1/2 pound in this batch, three large carrots throw in about 1/2 large onion, cut up in decent chunks, no need to get fancy with dicing or anything like that throw in a pound or so of cut up russet potatoes (I love potatoes so used 3 decent sized russets, probably 1 1/2 pounds...) pour in enough beef broth to cover everything ( I use a couple packages of cheap, 75 cent stew/au jus mix and a few cubes of beef bullion in about 4 cups of water, I also add liberal amounts of salt, pepper, onion powder and garlic powder, however much you think is enough, add 10% more, the veggies will soak it up) cook all day long (I go from about 10 in the morning til 7 at night, turning up the heat the last our or so to boil) if using a crock pot, otherwise you can make this in a couple of hours, on constant boil, I personally like the slow cook, seems to tenderize the meet better (ala a brisket) Optional (which is what I made): a can or two of sliced mushrooms a can of corn ( I personally like the "mandatory" recipe above, basically meat, potatoes and carrots, that's what I grew up with, but my wife loves corn so I threw it in to satisfy her, to me it takes it from savory into a little more of the sweet area and also veering more toward vegetable soup than stew..., but I just compensate by adding more salt and pepper to my serving...) Cornbread is just your standard jalapeno cornbread recipe (although my mom always called it indian cornbread, or squaw bread), corn meal, cream corn, jalapenos, grated cheese (another weird one, we use longhorn cheddar, but my family grew up calling it rat cheese, my wife still asks me about that one...), etc....
  2. Nasty-ass weather, time to drag out the crockpot
  3. Yeah yeah yeah!
  4. Fuck yeah
  5. My favorite arky game, was in LHB at the time, literally had whiskey bottles raining down on us after this play. Was fun back then, Vic the Brick Jacobs came to one of our rehearsals and some band mates presented him with a roast pig on a platter, which he took back to the studio and had sitting next to him on his sportscast. Fuck pig sooey phooey.
  6. UTCzech III

    Vinyl

    That brings back memories, I bought that from a mail-order catalog around 1983 or so. Sold it at some pint, but have an mp3 copy on a hard drive. It is interesting, but definitely not memorable. Just gave it a quick spot check, title track, Roll Back the Meaning, Dog Eat Dog, even Flotsam and Jetsam, you can hear the embers of Steely Dan starting to light.
  7. Iron sharpens iron. Shit attracts shit. This town needs an enema.
  8. Addictive, way too easy to down a few of these in no time
  9. I know Louis CK got cancelled and all, but damn, get a new agent sir
  10. Raided the freezer today, last few chicken strips, tots and Stubb’s sweet heat on the final 2 tortillas in the fridge
  11. Bad Wes Anderson rip-off, visually anyway
  12. Can we get a new rep emoji, like a double barrel finger. But with pos rep. Where it refers not to the poster, but the subject, whether it be Trump, Mace, MTG, Goetz, Abbott, Cruz, etc,, where I just want to yell FUUUUUUUCKK.........YOUUUUUUUU!
  13. Fucking psychopaths
  14. Pre-gaming with my son right now, about to head over, gonna be a good one
  15. For those not on the tweeter
  16. I was checking out Twitter last night and saw a tweet from Max Velocity, that kid out of Denton I believe, that does live storm streaming on youtube, among many others, and he was gonna start blocking idiots who brought up weather manipulation. And I thought about how every meteorologist, storm chaser, weather person, their lives are all ruined now, from this point on anything they post is going to met with fucking moron conspiracy nuts pushing their stupid -ass theories. I will agree with MTG on one thing she said, weather is the new covid. In a bad way. Science is going to be overrun by fucking idiots and their "do your research, the truth is out there" bullshit. Don't know their ass from a hole in the ground but they're medical and climate experts now.
  17. Yeah, I skimmed a little of their facebook page last night, some people were saying the "pastor" was in on it as well, of course those comments have all been scrubbed now. Looks like just another church/grift, just trying to get that tax free money. What a glorious racket.
  18. Not even going to click this, but I can tell it's the worst cover version of "You Can Call Me Al" EVER!
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