Yesterday I had ribeye and wanted to try to make that spread thing fancy restaurants put on top of their steaks. I think I was relatively successful except that it ended up looking like crap. (This has nothing to do with making gruel by the way, except that it sort of looks like it aesthetically.) Anyway, the ingredients (feel free to make judgements on exact amounts – I made this up as I went and the quantities could use a bit of tweaking):

• 1 potato
• oregano
• salt
• pepper
• cheese (I used mozarella and colby jack)
• butter
• red wine
• sour cream
• whole milk

1. Boil water, while it’s boiling, dice up the potato into small chunks after skinning it.
2. After the water is boiling, throw the chopped up potato in. Let it boil for a bit (I didn’t time it, it was probably around 10-15 minutes – you want the potato to be pretty soft.
3. Strain the water from the pot and put the potatoes in a bowl to be mixed with other stuff.
4. Throw in the butter, cheese, salt, pepper, oregano
5. Mix vigorously. VIGOROUSLY.
6. Throw in the sour cream, red wine, and milk after things are mixed up nicely.

And now a shot of it with my ribeye:

So this is sort of old news, but I have my own soup at the Las Brisas here.

In other news, trying out Fancybox. It’s almost like this is a real website… Click the image to see demo :O

Basketball is entertainment for me and I do want to see a season, but with that said, I don’t want to see a season where the players “lose” and have to split BRI 47/53, down from 57/43. The owners position is despicable. The lack of serious concessions by the owners should be taken to court after the union decertifies.

I’m tired of seeing billionaires get exactly what they want all the time without any regard for anyone else.

Most of the stuff that I’ve read from other fans have been whiney, selfish rants about how they are missing out on their entertainment and how the sky is falling because of it. In truth, it seems to me that the only people who are actually hurt by this lockout (aside from the players and owners) are the people whose rely on NBA games to be played. People like the arena vendors and janitorial staff and local restaurants. For those people, yes this sucks and their gripe is legit. For everyone else, recognize that the players are making a stand against something that is unfair.