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Texzilla58

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  1. You can live in one of those long canal boats. When crossing streets look right left right or you might get mushed. They drive on the wrong side of the street often there. the national dishes are chicken tikka masala, fish and chips, limp bacon, and canned beans for breakfast. Black pudding is not chocolate.
  2. A Italian-American 3rd gen buddy of mine in New Jersey has eaten at Enoteca Marie a couple of times. He took clients there who wanted to have an Italian family experience. Of course, he says the food is very good but like everyone else that grew up on it, every family has their own spin on everything, so he prefers his family’s recipes. He still has his mother and his wife is from the neighborhood, and they still do a big family Sunday dinner once a month with his kids, and his cousins and aunts. They did it every Sunday until his dad died. when I retire we’ll be moving near the kids, and I hope to do a big family dinner every couple weeks. I have lots of colleagues in NY/NJ and most are Italians or Orthodox Jews. They keep their families together with big Sunday or shabbos dinners; food is important. I don’t like my granddaughters growing up without traditional foodways or the big family feasts. Their diet consists of chicken nuggets, pizza, and sugar.
  3. Her stirring the cannolis was as sexy a scene as I’ve seen in ten years. Bellissimo!
  4. Nonnas. A cute little movie about an Italian American guy who opens a restaurant on Staten Island with Italian nonnas as chefs. It’s got a nice cast like Lorraine Branco and Linda Bartalini, but it’s really a love story to Italian American families and their food.
  5. My old man sometimes ate awful things like a sardine sandwich. I just remembered he would get a hankering for a “salad” sandwich. Usually tuna fish but sometimes ham or chicken. He’d sometimes make a baloney salad sandwich of chopped baloney, mayo, pickle relish, onion. Wasn’t my favorite but wasn’t awful.
  6. That 8th ave location is cursed. It ran Derek Allen and his smokin hot wife out of the industry. I worry about any change or expansion of a successful bbq joint, as they are rarely operated by experienced restaurateurs. Adding evening hours, days of operation new locations, debt, all can be deadly to these places. Heim and his wife burned out and sold out, Valentina’s flamed out, Derek Allen quit, the list is endless.
  7. So is real sugar Dr Pepper as hard to find elsewhere as it is in DFW? I’m talking about the cans.
  8. Went to Hurtado OG in Arlington again today with my boss from San Diego. Everything on point today; this location remains superior to the other stores Brandon has opened. today the star of the show were the bacon burnt ends and the ribs. The Texas Twinkies are top shelf. Brisket was good, and the jap cheddar sausage was as well. Birria taco was killer, one of the best I’ve had. Green beans with chorizo was ok but he should commit to cooking the hell out of them southern style and use a different seasoning meat and more onion. The elotes are so rich; they were fine but I dont like heavy sides with bbq.
  9. When you have the ability to eliminate a challenge beast you have to make the move. They should have capped Joe and wussed out. They deserve their fate. David must be having a miserable time at the resort. What a douche.
  10. I roasted a bunch of tomatoes a few days ago. Filled a 9x13 pan with a variety but mostly Campari’s and grape, with a chopped head of garlic a couple of jalapeños, basil, olive oil. Had some leftover so heated up, a couple of eggs nestled in, and covered with a lid. Yolks were still runny, and wife loved it. A play on shakshuka.
  11. All the top chef seasons and the spinoffs like masters and duels is on peacock.
  12. Just get a location list for Dickey’s
  13. Mitch is a wuss. He won’t make a play. He’ll be tossed to the side of the road.
  14. I’ve had this made with Coke, Dr Pepper, Sprite, Fanta oranges, and Tahitian treat. Separately not suicided. An augment loved all dishes made with cokes. (Yes goddam it. Not soda or pop). Coke glaze on ham. Carrots braised in Coke. Barbecue beans with root beer or Dr Pepper. Coke cake. Sprite cake. My wife makes a chicken dish with it fried then smothered with onions and jalapeños in a sauce of Coke and ketchup. it’s very good.
  15. Texas didn’t invent congealed salads but they were adopted here more than anywhere else. They go back to the advent of “ice boxes” at home. The weird ones came from women’s magazines in the 50’s and 60’s.
  16. Back to Texas awfulness, I’ll revisit the congealed salads my grandmother and an aunt always brought gor holiday dinners. lime jello, mayo, pineapple, marshmallows, pimentos. Blechhh. lemon jello, tuna fish, pecans, cottage cheese. Double blecchh
  17. It’s all a factor. Dak was groomed by career QB3’s who lived by the “don’t fuck it up” rule. He did best with Kitna as his coach who taught him to trust his WRs to get the ball. With Moore he was throttled back again. Combine that with simplistic routes and WRs who aren’t great at separation, it’s a mess. my issue with Dak is that somewhere in his brain he has a big game problem. MVP-like reg seasons combined with terrible collapses in January. He isn’t the guy that can will a team to win. Few can but he hasn’t sniffed a champ game yet.
  18. Hopefully the new staff does away with one of the worst problems the team has had since Garrett: shitty wr coaches with simplistic high school route trees. It’s part of the QB3 philosophy of JG, Linehan, Moore. Add in the tolerance of lazy route running and Daks usual reluctance to use his receivers catch radius, the result is lesser WRs deliver lesser results.
  19. For all the shit the joneses get, no one out browns the Browns. https://steelersdepot.com/2025/04/browns-gm-didnt-know-they-had-to-make-kenny-picketts-5th-year-option-decision-which-they-will-decline/
  20. As a kid I’d watch my grandmother or mom or aunts shelling or restringing bushels of green beans, black eyes, cream peas, etc to end up with enough for a single meal. my grandmother started making green beans with bags of frozen cut ones. Basically make a broth from a ton of bacon, bacon grease, a ton of onions, red pepper, garlic and salt, then add 3 or 4 pounds of thawed frozen green beans. Add some brown sugar and a couple of chipotles and cook them to death. Awesomeness. We never got a fresh green bean again.
  21. That was a universal fancy dish in my youth. Mom would often serve guests the canned pear half with mayo and shredded cheddar or velveeta. Or the canned pickled peaches on lettuce. the worst luxo food my mom served: canned asparagus. In the Depression it was an unobtainable luxury; she preferred it over fresh to the day she died. She made a casserole of it with LeSeuer peas and velveeta and cream of mushroom soup. Dreadful by todays standards but everyone wanted the recipe
  22. I talked to a buddy yesterday who said his doc put him on jardiance for congestive heart failure. He said every morning when he takes the little pill with the big story to tell that fucking song goes to his head. And pisses him off because he pays over $300 a month for it to pay for those commercials. And because he is always looking for deals or alternatives his phone is hammered with jardiance shit.
  23. Tom just seems fucking done with all of it. Next season Bravo will probably do the whole season on below deck. I am not entertained with this season except on LCK.
  24. This report was just a single story. He did not drop because of this. Team draft boards vary wildly from team to team especially on players they deem as true number 1 grades. The Cowboys only had 12 players with a 1 grade. Other teams vary in number and by player. They are not based on anonymous sourced stories like this. the story that popped today is more indicative of why he dropped. There were only a few teams that need a new starting QB. But Shadeur had a private visit with the Giants but didn’t throw. Daboll had sent him a deck to study of some plays, calls, scenarios, defenses for the interview. Shadeur shows up with zero preparation and his entitled attitude. Daboll calls him on it, Sanders gets angry, and the visit goes south very quickly. This is with a team they wanted to draft him. Likely that took him immediately off the Giants board. if Shadeur did this same shit with the other teams it’s no wonder they dropped him down. The white board exercise is universal in qb interviews at combine, at pro days, and in private meetings. Mariucci does a master class on them prior to the draft. If Shadeur pulled this at the few teams he met with no wonder he dropped to 144. The other teams were told by Deion not to bother. pulling this shit at a job interview is just stupidity. Enjoy your draft room Legendary.
  25. At this point it could be better for Ewers to pick his spot as a UDFA rather than going onto a team as a camp arm.
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