that’s kind of what I was thinking

 

We're having short ribs

 

9 pieces. Each piece weighs about 1/4 pound. 2.25 lbs @ market price. Over half of the weight is bone. That was an expensive snack.

 

It's the current news cycle. We can't even make fun of a rich guy, without tension. In a few weeks, it will all be over. Then we can go back to making fun of rich guys.

 

Happy Humpeth Day Nor-Cal!

Jim

 

Did an oil change on the van. Had to drive to 5 different places, to recycle the oil. 1 was closed today. A few places didn't accept oil. 1 had a full container and couldn't take any more. Apparently, not every corner mechanic or gas station accepts oil.

 

Put up sign saying free
LOL

 

A local O'Reilly's couldn't take used motor oil. The City would not issue a permit for the address location. They can't take anything back. Not even a car battery. No motor oil, transmission fluid, coolant.......They can't store hundreds of gallons of hazardous waste in a residential area, with schools nearby. The only auto parts store in The City that can't get the permits. Crooked politics. I smell a rat.

 

I give the oil to the garage or store. They get it free. Then the oil company picks it up. The oil company pays the garage or shop to buy the oil. You would think that everyone would accept recycling. It's free money.

 

Maybe some people don't like free money. Of course, I have not met any such person, but hey, just saying.

Jim

 

Why? Does anyone actually require it? I live in South Bay, and there's a lot of Asian people. They're always wearing masks in my area...I don't get it. Didn't they get the memo? It was a sham, IMO. My wife was forced to get one to travel to see her mother. That is so f#@$'d up...Do the airlines require that now? COVID is nothing more than a virus. During COVID I was working for Johnson & Johnson, talk about a f#@$'d up company...they get fined all the time...$500M, $700M, but they make more money off of it. Even during COVID, they raked in the profits selling soap and antiseptics like Listerine...toothpaste...the made all the workers get vaccinated or face dismissal. Is that what you want for this world?

And I see you're in the city. That place is a f#@$ing $#!T#O!E, my wife won't go there by herself. We get charged $30 to park and they won't let her use the restroom. And outside in the financial district, people are shooting heroin and p!$$ing and $#!TTing in the streets...

I usually only drive up 19th street to get up to Lake County, but the city is a lost cause with Captain Hairdo in office.

Sorry, the mention of COVID hits a soft spot...

 

I'm a fire guy. The way I've always done tip is to poke it with a large fork, soak it in a ziploc with Bernsteins original, marinade it overnight and use the fat cap to work the fire, flipping to the meat side while basting with the Bernsteins. That's how I learned from friends that grew up in Santa Barbara, not far from Santa Maria. It is my understanding that tri-tip was first done over fire in the Santa Ynez valley. They eat it with those pinquito beans. I once bought them for my wife to make, you can usually buy them in Santa Maria, but I don't like beans. LOL

After I run out of Bernsteins and have a good sear on the tip, I cook it indirect in a Weber Kettle with hardwood lump. Now my wife would opt to steam and does use the steamer quite a bit, but I pretty much cook with fire or have a very limited skillset. That certainly looks pretty good whatever it is. Not a very good bark though! LOL

There is a place in Morgan Hill called Trail Dust and they have a low slow tri-tip and it is very tender, I would say more so than my tri-tip, but there is never any left with the Bernsteins. Theirs is more like brisket.

 

Everything seems to hit a soft spot these days.

As for the "why?"....... Maybe I should leave that off the table. I'm afraid that I'll stir up the pot again. It'll take us back in time a few years to a topic that's better left alone.




For as long as I can remember, Life In The Big City has been frowned upon. Any big city. Every big city. High prices. Crime. Quality of life. It's the same with LA, NYC, Chicago, Detroit, Atlanta........ and now, even places like Portland and Honolulu. Hard to imagine living in Hawaii, and saying the same thing about Honolulu. It's not safe. There's drug addicts and prostitutes everywhere. Everything is so expensive. It's a 5h!th0L3. People say that about Portland and Seattle also.

I can't speak for the other 999,999 people. I'm just 1, in a million. But we all have our reasons for being here. I like having a higher property value. There's just more equity if I need to refinance, and more money if I decide to sell. I can rent my house, and collect more in rent. Wages are higher in The City. It's a lot easier to buy that $40,000 truck, when you're making $120,000, compared to living somewhere where you're only making $30,000. And large cities have better access to medical care. In the event of a major illness, the treatment clinics are typically found in large cities.

The economy of a large city tends to shift the demographics of the population. Certain segments of the population just can't afford to live here - which shifts the demographic to Oakland. But I guess people in Atherton and Menlo Park say the same thing. Certain segments of the population just can't afford to live there - which means that the poor people who make less than $500,000 a year, have to live in San Francisco.

 

Allegedly, that's where Tri Tip comes from A Safeway butcher started selling what they used to make ground beef.

People still go down there to that restaurant, Hitching Post, that was in the film Sideways.






When I was a kid, it was popular to marinade with those little packets of salad dressing mix. The kind you find in the supermarket. Use it as a dry rub, or a wet marinade with oil and vinegar.









That sounds like they cook it the same way you would cook a brisket. It must be tasty.

My tri tip is usually high heat sear. Sort of like a big steak. So that I can get it browned on the outside, and red on the inside.



That was an experiment. I had a lightbulb moment. Corned beef and pastramis are steamed in delis. So I figured that it had to work. Just salt and pepper it. Well, it was alright. It tasted like beef. It was tender. It was easy. The beef was really good for sandwiches, added to stir fry vegetables, etc.

 

Good evening Guys,

Rob from the City, You could put the used oil back in original containers, clean them up real nice put em in a box in the back of your truck, park in front of the local shopping mall, go stand inside the front doors and watch the crooks steal the used oil.