Saturday, May 31, 2008
Topolobampo
a fabulous lamb chop with a home made lamb chorizo sausage and a spicy mole (fancy Mexican sauce sometimes containing chocolate)
Possibly the best Mexican dish I ever tasted - even better than the Lobster, which held the award for half an hour before this dish arrived at the table.
The two Margaritas on the table are Rhubarb/prickly-pear and the one on the left is a Mescal Margarita made with the Del Maguey Single Village Mescal mentioned in an earlier, or is it later, blog.
Mezcal
A Mexican Liquor made from Agave similar to Tequila - this one has a smokey flavor and makes great Margaritas. Expensive, though at around $69 per bottle.
This was a poster on the wall at Topolobampo - Chicago and possibly the USA's best Mexican Restaurant owned by the chef Rick Bayless. A favorite of ours for ten years.
Garmin Shop
On Michigan Avenue, Chicago's Magnificent Mile there is the only dedicated Garmin Shop I have seen - like an Apple Computer Store, right next door to one in fact, with all the Garmins for cars, boats, planes, hikers, bikers, climbers etc. on display. They had some bikes on display too but I didn't want to compete with littlewilliam, who seems stuck in bike mode at the moment.
Early BMW Cars
First they made aero-engines then motorcycles with the same engines and in the late 50's Bubble Cars. The early logo had serifs on the letters like this.
Beemer Bubble
Known just as Isetta in the UK I think. My friend Ben had one but it had no engine. It was a nasty cheap little two stroke engine I believe.
Friday, May 30, 2008
Chicago Vegetation
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Still Sad!
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Meanwhile elsewhere in Boulder
There were 50,000 or so runners doing a 10K in the rain.Bobby Flay's Hamburger
With ground (minced for the Brits) Monterrey Jack Cheese, Avocado relish and a salsa of chipotles (smoked jalapenos) tomatoes and cilantro (coriander to the Brits)
Consumed, of course, with fries (you know what that is in Brit!)
Flay is a famous New York City chef - owner of the Mesa Grill among other restaurants by the way.
Memorial Day
A big holiday weekend has just passed here with a wide range of weathers. We stayed at home and cooked - homemade hamburger and hot-dog buns.
Saturday, May 24, 2008
Remember the cleanup piles?
This is what happened to it all.
Picking up my free mulch was hard work but nothing compared to
cleaning the car afterwards! Very dusty stuff.
Mulch in May
a student teacher.
Prize Specimen
Meatball Pizzaz
Thin crust with mozzarella, basil, meatballs, tomato sauce and oregano.
Pizza's progress
Seems to have worked - a very fine flour with, presumably, a very high specific surface which cooks quickly in a very hot oven.
In NYC they can make prize winning pizzas with this stuff in less than two minutes at around 700 F. I can only get 550 but it was crunchy on the outside of the crust and soft/chewy in the middle.
OK sorry I am still having trouble - this was a fantastic strawberry pizza and the rest of the comment applies to the one below with home-made meatballs on it.
In a quest for a different kind of pizza I finally procured some of this special flour - said to be the philosopher's stone of pizza making.
Cultural Catch-up
Still struggling a bit with Macbook! This is Randy Newman - with an audience looking just as aged.
Guessing from a screed of HTML that this is where I can type a caption for the next photo which is Rioja, a favorite restaurant in Denver where we last went with W, MK and J on a very cold day.
Impressionists were inspired by the Old Master's paintings in the Louvre - which they copied a lot! These impressionist's iris flowers look just like the ones in gardens all over Boulder at the moment.
Monday, May 19, 2008
Matching shirt watch and socks.
lunched on apple and banana
Sunday, May 18, 2008
What I did at the weekend
and painted the fence. About 6 hours work.
Then I set off down the Boulder creek path and up over Poorman - the
road to an old gold mine.
Lookout for the previous pictures?
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Happy Birthday Timothy!
What has happened here in blogland? has everybody gone on Holiday?
It is raining here which is a rare event, actually there are some white bits mixed in with it, so my irrigation modifications have taken a back seat.
I took two cars in for servicing yesterday and cycled home each time. The total distance was 30 miles mostly uphill.
Getting the cars back today would have been mostly downhill cycling but I think I will either get a ride from their free shuttles or leave the cars till tomorrow.
Sunday, May 11, 2008
Hanging at picnic rock!
I still hate apples but gotta keep that doctor away.
Friday, May 09, 2008
Secret Sprinklers
maintenance as an aircraft.
Matching Blue
Whatever happened to breakfast blogs?
supermarket here. I want to know where William found my favorite Cafe
Fanny. It's made in California and I can't get it here.
Old Testament Breakfast
Tuesday, May 06, 2008
The Scarlet Chamois
Just completed my first evening ride up and down Flagstaff Mountain.
Left home at 6pm returned at exactly 7pm.
I finally got some recognition - but only from another Moots rider who
wanted my pink jersey. He is being sponsored by Moots on his new 29er
for a 100 mile mountain bike race with 14,000 ft of ascent! I think
it's in Leadville Colorado.
He hopes to do it in 8 hours! Amazing sounds Like Ironman on a bike.
BUT he doesn't have a pink Moots jersey!
The Vanishing Vanishing Point Pen
Having a few technical itches with the new 'puter here
When editing, it seems, you can't see the pictures only some endless, meaningless code.
I am describing pens I can't see - the red one on the floor is mine and the nib comes out of the top when you push the button,
Beginning to regret trying this particular blog entry.
I have subscribed to an hourly lesson about using Mac Computers once a week for a year at the Apple Store. So far only one lesson as you can tell!
Monday, May 05, 2008
Brooks babbling
Remember this, rather expensive, saddle I bought last year soon after I bought the Moots?
I did a blog about it's being made in Smethwick Birmingham.
It was like sitting on an iron rail - despite "applying Brooks Proofide" and trying to "break it in" The instructions also talked about tensioning the saddle - using a bolt underneath you can stretch the leather. It occurred to me that one could also relax the tension - which I did and now it is much more comfortable.
I have no fat on my butt at all, as some of you will know, and when I sit on anything hard I am just sitting on two my two sit- bones. Now the brooks is more like a hammock.
Looking at littlewilliam's 12 hour race I don't expect ever to be doing one! even if there are, as it appears, no hills. Riding in mud is like riding uphill all day anyway except you never get to go downhill.
Thursday, May 01, 2008
Hey! What about us?
Happy May Day
