All I get from Peach Squeeze is blank screen.

damn...

Eh it's probably my PC's fault.

i had a nice weekend, thank you all for wondering.

In a cooking-related note, Amy made a kickass roast beef yesterday. I made the gravy to go with it. Deglazed the roasting pan with some red wine, a little balsamic, touch of olive oil, added a beef stock cube I'd melted into a cup of boiling water, then filled the same cup about a quarter of the way full with flour, another quarter red wine, and the rest water. Stirred till it was all pink and liquid (don't want lumpy gravy now!), then added it to the still simmering pan. Stir, and hey presto: gravy.

Sounds great man, red wine is so bad ass for cooking.

For sure. Worth remembering to never cook with wine you wouldn't drink, though.

As long as you're talking about drinking at a lower limit; there's no point in cooking with $60/bottle wine, but it's reasonable to reach down to $8-12/bottle for cooking wine.

What kind of asshole would cook with a $60 bottle of wine? I mean, if you had AIG money I could understand I guess.

Wait a second, are we talking restaurant prices or liquor store prices. I mean, a 20 dollar bottle and a  60 dollar bottle could be the same exact bottle.

For the record, there are some very good wines in the 12 to 15 dollar range (liquor store prices).

As long as you're talking about drinking at a lower limit; there's no point in cooking with $60/bottle wine, but it's reasonable to reach down to $8-12/bottle for cooking wine.

Well yeah, I'm not saying COOK WITH YOUR ALLTIME FAVOURITE WINE! I'm just saying that if it cost you ~$4 and just smelling it makes your nose wrinkle, anything you cook with it will be equally shitty.

For what it's worth, the wine I keep around most of the time for general consumption (or cooking!) is Fetzer Vineyards (either merlot or cab sauv, I like both). It costs me EC$36 or EC$38, I can't remember which one is more expensive. Call it EC$37, which is just under US$14. It's not fucking Duckhorn or Far Niente, it's not even Montredon Chateuneuf du Pape, but trust me, it's very drinkable. I'm all for appreciating expensive wines (when someone else is paying!), but there's no need to spend a bundle just to get a bottle of something quite nice.

I have rich wine-snob friends. It's great. When I'm buying it's distilled root veges for all

It must be great living in Japan.

Nothing like rice-wine and rice-beer ...

Rich wine-snob friends are decreasing rapidly by the week though. The ex-pat community over here is getting purged and those who can't speak the language and get other jobs are heading home.

Shochu is $10 a bottle here and it's a good drink, like Vodka but with half the alcohol content and less of a bite. If I could get OK wine for $10 a bottle that would be all I'd drink but the importers attach a decent markup. Back in NZ it's like living in Napa, wine makers everywhere so the stuff is cheap.

Oh, and my weekend starts now! 3 days of laziness....

My parents are coming this weekend to visit me. And on Sunday hopefully I get to do some fun stuff after they leave. mwuhahaha.

Not to say that my parents aren't fun, but I mean a different kind of fun.

What, you don't think they'd approve of you embedding nails in the strap on you're going to fuck kyle with?

I think they'd be cool with that, but just because its bagman

I'd like to meet your mom.

Ok, wine-snobs blow ...
... and a $100 bottle's not necessary for cooking

... but what about a cum-snob?
... one that only uses empscum for the recipes in that book posted about in SEX?

it's the weekend again!!

yep.

...

sigh.

... but what about a cum-snob?
... one that only uses empscum for the recipes in that book posted about in SEX?

Isnt it the best sort for that kind of cooking?

I've made a nice Hollundaise Sauce with it, but not much else ...

My weekend has had it's ups and downs! Hopefully more awesomeness to come tonight...

I have to do a show in a bit; it'll be the highlight of my weekend ...
Oh, wait, that's not true; I got my boat yesterday ...

My weekend has had it's ups and downs! Hopefully more awesomeness to come tonight...

I went to the thing with Zoomie, Tulip, & Eitje.

I threw up on the beach this morning.  Then on the drive home I stopped and slept for a while behind an Arbys.

pictures!!! but not of vomit. maybe arby's.

no. photodocumentation of everything.

My weekend has had it's ups and downs! Hopefully more awesomeness to come tonight...

Yeah bitch. Sunday was fucking awesome.