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Blue Ridge Mountains

Driving west from the triangle area in NC, the Blue Ridge Mountains is on the horizon on route 40. About 35 miles from Asheville.

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Sous vide curry chicken 

Sous vide chicken in curry sauce, 161° for 2.5 hours. First picture is the final product. Made the curry sauce, and enveloped the chicken in the sauce, before pouring into vacuum seal bags… Continue reading

Data geniuses have figured out what the ultimate U.S. road trip looks like

Optimal round-trip route across 48 US states/50 stops, according to the data scientist who figured out most optimal way to spot Waldo in the book series, is 9.33 days of raw driving. Realistically,… Continue reading

Red borscht soup

Nothing better than a big Dutch oven full of red borscht. Onions, carrots, green cabbage, tomato paste, red beets, sugar, pulled pork, home made pork broth, diced tomatoes, butter potatoes, beans, lemon juice,… Continue reading

Herbed butter

Make your own herbed butter. Softened butter with fresh dill, parsley, garlic and s+p under a hand mixer.

Chicken Kiev

Chicken Kiev. Panko and parsley/dill/garlic butter filling fried to beautiful crispy crunchiness and finished in the oven.

Cherry glaze donuts

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Pirate Joe’s Sells Treasures From Trader Joe’s to Canadians – WSJ

“Trader Joe’s Co. has no stores in Canada and no public plans to cross the border. The company declined to comment. An enterprising Canadian opened Pirate Joe’s in 2012 to sell imported Trader… Continue reading

Lasagna fever

Lasagna fever.