Baldur

That was an aside of an aside of an aside.

Several years ago I went to IKEA replaced my aluminum pots and pans with wonderful stainless steel ones.
I also avoid using aluminum foil with any food that is acidic. You can tell when you cook something and the foil becomes pitted that the foil is dissolving into whatever you're cooking.
Anytime I do use foil, it gets rinsed, folded flat and put in my recycling bin afterwards.

Baldur

The chocolate cake has cooled, so I inverted it onto a round platter.
Then I poured approximately 4 ounces of Amaretto over the cake and allowed it to get absorbed.
Next I will make a cream cheese frosting with a couple drops of almond extract added to swirl onto the top.

Baldur

If I had any cherries on hand I would decorate the top with a few.

Dragon

Back to your aside of an aside etc...
The Mocking Shadows do an awesome version of "Summertime" (and the living is easy...) They're a blues/rock kind of a band and their version of this is one of my fav's by them.

Baldur

I'll see if I can locate that on YouTube

Baldur

Their version of 'Summertime' is not there, but I listened to 'Out of the Blue'.
With that horn section they remind me a bit of 'The Mighty Mighty Bosstones'

Baldur

And yes, they are very good, are they 'local' for you?

Dragon

I believe they're from Edmonton which is about an hour and a half away, so fairly local. Out of the Blue is definitly their best CD, I keep trying to buy it 'cause I had to give back the one I stole from my mom. Summertime is on that one but it's kind of mixed into another song so it might have a different name, I'll have to look into it.

Dragon

After much searching I finally found it on CDBaby, the song is called Loose Lips.

Baldur

Thank you Dragon, I'll try looking that up on YouTube

Baldur

Robert took me out to dinner for his birthday, we went to a Chinese Buffet, it was quite good but I fear I ate too much.
At least most of it was fairly healthy.
How bad can stirfried brocolli with pea pods be?

autumn

mmmmmm, that sounds so good!! 2 of my favorite things.
I don't think I have ever met a brocolli I didn't like.

Baldur

I really tried to eat more green veggies and less carbohydrates this evening. That was until dessert LOL

Dragon

It's hard to miss out on carbs at a Chinese buffet. Did you know all the things we think of as quintessential Chinese food (ginger beef, sweet & sour pork, chicken balls etc) in China they consider these the dessert. So I suppose it would be like going to China and finding an American Buffett restaraunt and everything on the buffett was jello and pudding and cream puffs. Mmm, now I'm hungry for chinese food AND cream puffs, thanks a heap Dragon!!
(PS - Please wish Robert a very happy b-day from all of us!)

Dragon

Hee hee, just realized I spelled buffet with an extra t not once but twice in my last post. I must be thinking of Jimmy Buffett.
'Wastin' away again in Margaritaville..."

Dragon

http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=44174

Here's a margarita for everyone! (It's really hard to do a salted rim in fruit!)

Robindcr8l

Baldur, in reading your post it occurred to me that I need to find a significant other who takes me out to dinner for HIS birthday. Shouldn't YOU have taken HIM out?? lol Sounds like you are spoiled.

Baldur

I am spoiled, and have been unemployed for almost a year.
AND, haven't been collecting unemployment insurance.

Baldur

Wait, that's almost not true, I did work for 1 day in September.
Could not believe how evil that job was, went in the second day only to thank them, hand in my equipment and leave.

Baldur

I don't care for salt on my Margaritas actually, if one arrives that way I'll rub the mess off into a little dune on the table.

Once ordered a Bloody Mary and what arrived was unexpectedly rimmed in a thick band of celery salt; What the hell was that about? LOL
It completely ruined the drink in my opinion. There was enough of it on the inside rim of the glass to make everything incredibly salty and practically undrinkable. Bloody Marys (Maries?) tend to be salty to begin with just because of the tomato juice. The prepackaged mixer adds greatly to the problem.