Eva's Wine Cellar

Plus a pair of rubber lips to get their chomping tackle around it. A very pretty sight I must say. Hardly ladylike.

Within 24 hours it's bobbing around in the bay with the shrimps nibbling at it to get themselves fattened up.

Roasted red peppers on a BLT? Never heard of it, but it sounds yummy!

Re: Red Peppers on a BLT......

I cook by the "What the hell is that in the back of the refrigerator? method", especially in the summertime when I don't go to the grocery store regularly.

I have made a BLT with slices of Pepper Jack Cheese top and bottom. (No Mayo, if the toast is hot enough the cheese melts juuuust a little.)
Three or four drops of Tabasco on there too.
(Makes you want a Bloody Mary.)

I have made them with Tomatoes, Veggie Cream Cheese and burned-to-death-bacon bits.
(In Paris, they call them lardons.)

And then there is this:
First, you cut a red onion in slices so thin you can see through them, throw them into some warmed up Champagne Vinegar for a few minutes, almost a simmer**, than smush the slices into some mayo on the toasted bread, stack on the lettuce (which we have not talked about, although it is important because of it's ability to cool some of the bite of some of the hotter items.) then tomatoes( -also sliced thin-), bacon ( - cooked enough to be crisp, not wilted) and lots of freshly ground black pepper.
It's a B O L T .
You'll have people trying to guess what the hell is making the sandwich taste so good.

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Spendius~ Hardly any of the ladies I am acquainted with have any regard for being ladylike, yet all of them are ladies. Go figure.

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** Cut up a whole red onion, simmer it up, then put the extra in a mason jar in the fridge. Put some of that on your next cheeseburger. You'll be changed.
Joe(But in a good way.)Nation



I don't do this whole rigmarole, but you can if you want to.
http://www.simplyrecipes.com/recipes/pickled_red_onions/

I've had that figured since I got into long pants Joe. If she's not ladylike she is an epidermal bag with a hole on each end and antenna tuned to the main chance.

But if "hardly any of the ladies you are acquainted with have any regard for being ladylike it means that a few of them do have a regard for being ladylike. So you can compare the two states of mind. I can't I'm sorry to say because I don't know any ladies who don't have any regard for being ladylike.

And I don't wish to know any either. Using "ladies" as a synonym for "females" is in very bad taste. If they don't vote you down you really must have them well hypnotised.

Henry Miller once said, "what I want now is a woman without the slightest spark of decency."

Pure bravado of course. A mere literary conceit.

I'm memorizing the onion part..
I just happen to have red wine vinegar, cassis vinegar, balsamic vinegar, and walnut vinegar (and regular old white vinegar). Hmmm. Balsamic is too pricey for me to soak them in, in a jar. Cassis could be interesting.
Toughest part for me is to find a decent tomato.

The red wine vinegar will do just fine, so will any leftover red wine, if there is any such thing in your universe.

Joe(not in mine)Nation

Me too, Spendi, I've spent a lot a time, wasted, with persons who were trying to be something they were not. I've never heard a single interesting thought nor a really funny joke from a lady.
I hate to say this out loud, but then again, I hope someone will hear, my favorite people in the world, men and women, are the ones who know when to be wanton.

Joe(And when they know, they will call me.)Nation

Our son visited us for nine days that ends tomorrow when we deliver him to the airport, but he opened one of his "expensive" wines yesterday to test it for taste, because it's been sitting in my wife's closet for over 15 years.

It's the 1978 Dom Ruinart Champagne. On the internet, they don't show any 1978's, but what's for sale is in the $300 to $400-range.


He served it chilled, and the taste is still very good, but there's no fizz left.

Wow, c.i.! I'm glad he decided to drink it!

Did someone mention drink?

You want a Shirley Temple?

<snort>

Yes, I mentioned "drink."

If that's what it takes to get you here, I'll keep saying it over and over!

What can we serve you tonight?

A blow job

(and I meant the cocktail)

Uh...I am gonna hate myself for asking this, but...

What is in it?



(Nooooo...I can't believe I actually said that. )

EVA !!!!!!! <shock horror gasp>

Ask yr bartender. He will surely know. Make sure he understands I am talking abt a cocktail. (all one word)

http://www.cocktailmaking.co.uk/displaycocktail.php/211-Blow-Job

Some people go for such drinks because of the name. If I was going to drink something like that I'd go for a brain damage. Baileys Peach schnapps and grenadine. The Baileys curdles in the schnapps and looks like a mini brain, the grenadine makes it look bloody.

They go down surprisingly well.

There's an interesting passage in Gibbon's Decline and Fall which you may realise the import of in relation to what we were speculating about.

It relates to how the Emperor Septimus Severus handled his subjects.



So you see Joe -- your attention to our ladies might have another motive aside from a sense of humanity. I subsumed the lot under the word "hypnotised". Your ingratiating flatteries are a control mechanism rather than any superior moral position.

I thus cite Gibbon to show that it is not me who is the real misogynist and that you are working the snake-0il trick on our pretty, little innocent ladies in the Wine Cellar.

I trust you noticed that the Ewell character in the Seven Year Itch was engaged on adapting Little Women for TV. And that book was chosen by the scripwriters no doubt after serious thought.