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December 31, 2016: But What About You?

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This is it, Citizens. 2016 ends and hope springs eternal. Everyone cool died this year, but I also came back to Minnesota, bought a house, got a swank new audio system, and continued to call the World's Greatest Online Magazine home.

The Twins and Timberwolves still suck, but whatever.

So how are you?

23 thoughts on “December 31, 2016: But What About You?”

  1. よいお年をお迎えください !
    yoi otoshi o omukai kudasai!

    (Midnight is in 3 hours, but I don't think I'll make it. Here's hoping ending the year with a croquant chou is good luck!)

    1. I don't know, something seems to be getting...lost in translation.

      THE FINEST INGREDIENTS FROM HOKKAIDO USING TECHNOLOGY
      Freshly baked fresh taste in front of you. Crocan shozakakaku born in Hokkaido.
      It is quite usual to stick to the contents of the cream puff. From the idea of ​​reversal that "I want to make the outer shoe fabric more delicious", a new crocan shoe fabric was born crispy texture. Since I want to deliver a freshly baked taste, I baked it all in a store integrated with a studio and offers it.

      2. It reads fine to me, if a bit chopped. Shoe must mean the outside of the puff.
        I assume, roughly:
        "Typically, people focus on the contents of the cream puff. We flipped that around and wanted to focus on the shell, with a new extra-crispy recipe."
        Of course, I've been reading translations of Japanese lyrics for more than a year and a half, so maybe I'm a bit used to parsing

      3. Well, it was without question the most delicious outer shoe I've ever eaten!

        I suspect the Japanese romanization "chou" is a reference to "pâte à choux." But perhaps your translation turned シュ into "shoe"?

    1. Bacon-fat pinto beans are awesome.

      Having a hard time coming up with any counter argument to this.

  4. Made this recipe 2X for the fam tonite; it worked out well - Leine instead of Bud, discovered the 3 kinds of beans in one can; except the high-schooler announced that she is now vegetarian (and just ate salad), and one of the HNos bombed on the meal with some Vietnamese spring-roll takeout ordered on the way up to Scandia.

    All's good, everyone's well - no complaints here.

    2. Noice!

      I love smoked paprika. We had a ton of sour cream leftover from the Mrs making strudel recently, so I experimented and made a paprikash sauce for raviolis. Part smoked paprika, part sweet. Num.

      1. ditto on the smoked paprika love. Ran a holiday special of grilled lobster tails with smoked paprika butter. Also, I use smoked paprika in a smoked turkey chili with mango recipe. Tasty stuff!

  7. A first, as far as I know. Would love to have been playing. Pretty subdued around here...everything is about preparation for the move.

  8. Winning today. Spent a couple hours with the Mrs at Meow Wolf, a goofy, weird, kid-friendly, interactive art installation thing. Then as we were leaving, we decided to grab a bite. Closest place on Yelp was this place.

    The place specializes in belgian-style ales and sours. I had their cask-aged Judith (belgian-style sour amber, whatever the hell "amber" is supposed to mean) and a sour Scottish-style ale with cardomom. Both too cold, but tasty. And we split a delicious snack (diced ham and sausages and cheese heated up with mustard and olives and served with baguette toasts).

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