Day 109 of 365 – Sausage, Peppers and Onions
8 hot Italian sausages (if you prefer) or 8 Italian sweet sausages (if you prefer)
2tablespoons olive oil
1large onion, halved and sliced
2large red peppers, seeded and sliced
1green pepper, seeded and sliced
2garlic cloves, minced
salt and pepper, to taste
1pinch crushed red pepper flakes (optional)
1teaspoon dried oregano
8Italian rolls
Day 107 of 365 – “Like I told ya, what I said, steal your face right off your head”
Designed in 1969, the logo was the collaborative work of Owsley Stanley and artist Bob Thomas. Owsley was inspired by a freeway sign he happened to pass by—a round shape divided by a bold white line into an orange half and a blue half. The general shape and colors stood out, and Owsley had the notion that a blue and red design with a lightning bolt with make a cool logo. He shared his idea with Bob Thomas, who then drew up plans of the design.
Originally, there was no skull face—the logo was simply a circle divided with the lightning bolt. The skull face was added on a few days later, as a way to symbolize the “Grateful Dead.”
The band first used the logo as an identifying mark on their musical equipment, and later the symbol appeared on the inside album jacket of the self-titled album The Grateful Dead. The logo later appeared on the cover of the album Steal your Face, and has been known as the Steal your Face symbol ever since.
Perhaps its the lightning bolt that signifies transformation, enlightenment, and the raw powers of nature, juxtaposed with a skull image and striking, distinct colors that lends to the symbol’s equation to the whole “steal your face” concept. Through the band’s music and the scene and philosophy that the music inspired, people were transformed. Their everyday masks were “cracked” by the honesty, the openness and “realness” of the Grateful Dead culture, and their mundane, limited identities were left behind. The skull and lightning symbol just happens to perfectly symbolize and encapsulate this idea, even though it was created years before the song which eventually came to lend the iconic graphic it its name.
– By Melanie of Grateful Dead Symbols De-Coded
Day 106 of 365 – Beef on Weck
The starting of Beef on Weck! Take off spit and then slice or:
Beef on Weck Sandwich Recipe:
Prep Time: 15 minutes
Cook Time: 50 minutes
Yield: 8 sandwiches
Ingredients:
1 (3- to 4-pounds) beef roast (tenderloin, Prime Rib, or eye of round)
1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil
Coarse salt and coarsely-ground black pepper
Cornstarch Glaze (see recipe below)
8 Kimmelweck or Kaiser rolls*
2 tablespoons caraway seeds
2 tablespoons coarse **
Prepared horseradish
* Kimmelweck roll is a salty roll that is similar to a Kaiser roll.
** Rock salt (like the kind used for pretzels) is the preferred salt used in Buffalo. If you can not get this, any salt with granules larger than table salt will do. I used coarse salt.
Instructions:
Preheat oven to 425 degrees F.
Rub roast with olive oil, salt, and pepper. Place roast on rack in a shallow baking pan, tucking the thin end under to make it as thick as the rest of the roast.
Bake, uncovered, 40 to 45 minutes or until thermometer registers 130 to 135 degrees F. Remove from oven and transfer to a cutting board; let stand 15 minutes before carving. Reserve meat juice, and carve meat into very thin slices (as thin as you can slice).
Reduce oven temperature to 350 degrees F.
Brush the prepared Cornstarch Glaze on the top of each kimmelweck or Kaiser roll; sprinkle equal amounts of caraway seeds and heat in the oven for 3 minutes or until tops of the rolls get crusty and the caraway seeds and salt begin to stick. Remove from oven and cut each roll in half lengthwise.
To assemble sandwiches, divide sliced beef on the bottom half of each roll, spoon with reserved beef juice, and top with the top half of each roll. Serve with horseradish on the side.
Makes 8 sandwiches.
Cornstarch Glaze:
1/2 cup cold water
1 tablespoon cornstarch
In a small saucepan over medium-high heat, stir together water and cornstarch. Heat mixture to a gentle boil. Reduce heat to low, and stir until mixture thickens and is translucent. Remove from heat and let cool.
Day 103 of 365 – MAME Cabinet build from the past
This was the MAME cabinet build in process back in the late 2000’s.
MAME (an acronym of Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) is a free and open source emulator designed to recreate the hardware of arcade game systems in software on modern personal computers and other platforms. The intention is to preserve gaming history by preventing vintage games from being lost or forgotten.
Day 102 of 365 – A little T with your G?
The Perfect Gin and Tonic
2 oz gin
4-5 oz tonic
2 lime wedges
Method
In a frozen collins glass, add the gin.
Fill the glass with ice, the larger the cubes are the better.
Squeeze in one of the lime wedges.
Add the tonic.
Squeeze in the second lime wedge, briefly stir.
Put you feet up, and drink.
You can apply this method of using quality, cold, carbonated and balanced ingredients to any highball cocktail: rum and coke, whiskey and ginger, dark and stormy, what have you. These two-ingredient drinks may seem like no-brainers, but a little scrupulousness goes a long way. Believe me, you’ll taste the difference. Cheers!
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Day 101 of 365 – Red Sky at morning
The common phrase “Red sun at morning” is a line from an ancient rhyme often repeated by mariners:
- Red sun at night, sailors’ delight.
- Red sun at morning, sailors take warning;
The rhyme is a rule of thumb used for weather forecasting during the past two millennia. It is based on the reddish glow of the morning or evening sun, caused by haze or clouds related to storms in the region. If the morning sun is red, it is because clear skies over the horizon to the east permit the sun to light the undersides of moisture-bearing clouds. The saying assumes that more such clouds are coming in from the west. Conversely, in order to see red clouds in the evening, sunlight must have a clear path from the west, so therefore the prevailing westerly wind must be bringing clear skies.
