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October 29, 2013: Overeating

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It's too common for me: wait until 2 to eat for the first time all day, start wolfing down pizza with no ability to stop because I'm shoveling it in so quickly I don't realize I'm already full, and feel heavy and horrible for the rest of the day. Moderation...I could use some.

65 thoughts on “October 29, 2013: Overeating”

    1. Considering the awfulness of the last three Twins seasons and the current Vikings season, I think I'm ready to watch some hoops again. There's a lot to like about the Wolves this year, if they can keep key guys healthy and on the floor. I've also been pretty down on the NHL ever since the lockout (I take things like that way too personally) but I think I'll pay a little more attention to the Wild this year as well.

    4. I'm with these guys. It doesn't even have to be good pizza and I can finish half a pan.

          1. Yeah. Linds and I have gotten back onto our diet, and we constantly find ourselves despairing that eating things is so much more enjoyable than not eating things.

        2. kg - only when it's not good. Homemade, Green Mill, Red's Savoy...heck, even Sarpino's, Papa Murphy's or a good frozen pie and I don't really stand a chance.

              1. I try to go every time I visit the Cities. Unfortunately I didn't have time to make it this past weekend (but I did get a burger at the Blue Door and an omelet at Key's so it wasn't all bad). It's the best pizza I've ever had by a fair margin. I've strongly considered just driving down there for lunch some day... I think the answer is we need a Hyperloop from Fargo to Minneapolis.

          2. Red's Savoy has way more locations than I realized. Only knew about the West 7th one for a long time.

            1. I was sort-of bracketed by the West 7th and White Bear Ave locations at our old house. Our new house is about a mile from the Vadnais location.

              Also, I forgot Punch on that "good" list - I'm with jobu and Zack, it is heavenly stuff.

              1. Agreed. Where we lived was very close to the Highland Park Punch but we never visited due to it being busy and not being able to arrange for visiting it on "off" hours.

            2. I thought it was East Seventh? Also known as Norm Coleman's Father's Favorite Parking Lot.

              1. I suppose it is there. I blame taking the West 7th bus every day for getting the West part stuck in my head.

    5. All this food talk has me thinking...

      Who else works in downtown Minneapolis? Would anybody like together for a sporadic lunch caucus in the near future? We could try to make it a bimonthly occasion for whomever is free to swing by on the day we choose.

      2. I would do that. I'm now on the north edge of the North Loop. Also I think AMR and CoC work downtown.

        1. If I worked near Bar la Grassa and Bewiched I would be approximately a gazillion pounds. Let's hear who else is in the area and interested, and then we'll try to find a day for the first gathering.

      3. I'm basically downtown, though not on the skyway. I must be close to free, though. I'm near the library.

        2. I'm actually at Washington Avenue No. one block south of Plymouth Ave. Right next to Club Jaeger #FTW

        1. I see my status has been addressed.
          No window-kills for weeks.
          Migration is mostly done.

          My favorite find was the severed wing of a Nashville Warbler.
          I believe there may be a winged predator chasing some of these birds into the windows.

  4. the solution, as always, is to make your own!

    pizza dough is super easy. The hard part is getting your oven hot enough. I crank mine to 500 and let it preheat for a good 20-30 minutes, then turn on the convection when I remember. Also, I have a stone and two peels (one for pies going in, one for pies coming out).

    or better yet, use your grill! Grilled pizza is awesomeness. Super-hot coals -- bake dough briefly on one side, remove and put toppings on the baked side, return to grill. Don't over-cook or you will have black carbon. Don't over-top.

    2. I love making pizza dough, although I highly recommend proofing the yeast in a little warm water and using beer in the dough instead.

    3. Bittman has a half dozen dozen variations on dough, but my favorite by far is substituting 1/2 cup corn meal for 1/2 cup flour (and a heavy dose of grated Parmesan).

      1. My link was to James McNair's basic recipe. For his NY style recipe, omit oil and sugar. For what meat suggests, substitute corn meal for a cup of flour. For whole wheat, substitute ww for half the ap or bread flour.

    4. For the past couple years the go-to recipe at the Casa de Pepper has been this one from Cook's Illustrated. I'm really picky about a good crust, and this one is excellent.

    6. These recipes were just added to the short list of "From WGOM: Try At Home Immediately". I also think perhaps Pepper should contribute an "Appetite" post with her favorite home made pizza of the past couple of years.

      1. My time at home is largely subject to the whims of the peperoncini, but I'll see what I can do!

    7. I've always loved pizza because it tastes great and it's awesome comfort food. I tend to associate it with my childhood - Friday or Saturday nights mom usually made homemade pizza or hamburgers. Takeout pizza was a treat for special occasions, like a big win by the HS basketball team over a major league rival or a birthday party. When I got into high school, the local Pizza Hut was a favored hangout (it was one of the few options for a date night, affordable and you got to sit at a table instead of in your car). I can't imagine going to NYC or Chicago without indulging in some pizza. And now, since I'm on my own for dinner tonight I think I'll make myself a pie, I know we have pepperoni, a green pepper, onions and olives. That'll do for a start.

      1. similar here. My mom made pizza almost every sunday night for years when I was a kid. She used a package of Robin Hood pizza mix, canned pizza sauce, canned mushrooms, yadda yadda. It was awesome.

        one of my best friends in h.s. was the son of George from George's Pizza. I ate a lot of George's Pizza in h.s.

    1. For some reason that calls to my mind the USS Monitor and CSS Virginia, both were also paradigm shifting warships.

      1. What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.
        -Ecclesiastes 1:9

    2. Is this gonna screw up my game of Battleship?

      HPR got the game for me for my Birthday.
      It's funny, one time he lined up all his ships in a block in the middle.
      The next time he had them all on the perimeter. That was actually good, because I had developed a pattern looking for ships that mostly neglected the outsides.

      He also has no poker face. Neither does CER.

      1. Hey, a couple months ago my son got me Battleship for my birthday, too!

        I haven't managed to play an entire game with any of my three kids, but the block formation has been prominently featured in most of their setups.

        I like to go end-to-end with the smaller pieces so they think they got the carrier.

    3. It cannot be overstated how significant this is:

      So far, construction of the first-in-class Zumwalt, is on time and on budget, something that's a rarity in new defense programs, officials said.

      Hopefully the Zumwalt-class doesn't become a boondoggle like the Littoral Combat Ship and F-35 JSF.

      I know the Marine Corps has been very concerned about the post-battleship, post-cruiser Navy's waning capabilities to provide adequate naval gunfire support. Even as obsolete as the Iowa-class battleships are (not to mention the sailors with the skills necessary to sail them!), their ability to provide overwhelming shore bombardment remains unrivaled. At the same time, the Navy is (rightly) very concerned about sticking multi-billion dollar (per unit!) vessels within range of shore-launched anti-ship missiles. (The true test of this concern will be determined by how long the Navy continues to build supercarriers.) It will be interesting to see how these concerns are resolved.

      1. That tower looks like a huge radome! Ever since the B-2, you can expect to see clean angle carbon fiber manufacturing, as that's a key to stealth technology. Gonna have to look up the source of "Zumwalt" -- that's also a major school district in my area.

        1. The christening of the ship bearing the name of the late Admiral Elmo 'Bud' Zumwalt was canceled earlier this month because of the federal government shutdown.

          From the article, since Googling "Zumwalt" doesn't really help. And the Admiral's wikipedia doesn't seem to show any ties to Missouri. Must be a different Zumwalt.

          1. The Admiral gets high marks in my book for directing his efforts toward modernizing the Navy's attitudes towards minority sailors and grooming standards:

            He assumed duties as Chief of Naval Operations and was promoted to full Admiral on July 1, 1970, and quickly began a series of moves intended to reduce racism and sexism in the Navy. These were disseminated in Navy-wide communications known as "Z-grams". These included orders authorizing beards (sideburns, mustaches, and longer groomed hair were also acceptable) and introducing beer-dispensing machines to barracks. Not all of these changes were well received by senior naval personnel.[citation needed] The measures to reduce discrimination against women and racial minorities were adamantly opposed by some.

      1. The USN has nine active amphibious assault ships (eight Wasp-class, one Tarawa-class), one new ship awaiting commission (the class lead USS America), and ten more America-class ships planned. They're not strictly Red Navy-style helocarriers, but they can do that and so much more.

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