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I just saw a dude on Youtube named Stalekraker make a seafood gumbo that looked REALLY good!!!Probably after the new year. The que is Texas Red by Thanksgiving...Seafood & sausage gumbo for the first freeze....Etouffee or a jambalaya for Xmas...then finally chili verde, probably in February
Love all the Smokey stories. Wasn't he a moonshiner or his daddy was and that's how he got into racing?
Lmao, dude for real. Tofu chili sounds horrendous...Well at least it is just beans and not like Anthem and his tofu chili.That's how people get syphilis.
Lmao, dude for real. Tofu chili sounds horrendous...
I dont like tofu, its just nasty yuck.
I consider beer liquid bread.I'm pretty firm in my distaste for alternative food. You'll never see a filet mignon trying to be a turnip but will damn sure see somebody make a turnip try to be a filet.
Tofu is a scam to me. Reminds me of the paste I ate in kindergarten but stale.
Beyond meat seems to be worse for people than real meat.
And any milk that does not come from a teat is not milk. It's juice. But nobody will want soy juice in their cereal so they call it milk. So to me, soy milk, oat milk, and almond milk are low down dirty fucking liars. Cow and goat milk are the only milks I allow in this house.
However, since plants can make a salad, and beer is made with hops and barley which are plants, beer is in fact, salad.
I am pretty much open minded about foods. Tofu can be nasty no doubt about it, It has to be prepared correctly to match the dish. Tofu Chile was actually a joke, did not sound good to me as well. I think I was 16 when I started eating sushi and my dam brother tells the local guy it was my B day and to make me something special. Well that was a real shit sandwich, Uni with a fresh cracked dove egg on top. That was a difficult one but the uni actually has a really unique taste to it once you get past the texture. It tastes sort of like when you go body surfing and get salt water up the nose.I'm pretty firm in my distaste for alternative food. You'll never see a filet mignon trying to be a turnip but will damn sure see somebody make a turnip try to be a filet.
Tofu is a scam to me. Reminds me of the paste I ate in kindergarten but stale.
Beyond meat seems to be worse for people than real meat.
And any milk that does not come from a teat is not milk. It's juice. But nobody will want soy juice in their cereal so they call it milk. So to me, soy milk, oat milk, and almond milk are low down dirty fucking liars. Cow and goat milk are the only milks I allow in this house.
However, since plants can make a salad, and beer is made with hops and barley which are plants, beer is in fact, salad.
Well at least it is just beans and not like Anthem and his tofu chili.
That soil looks dense AF for being a starter mix. Usually that stuff is a 50/50 blend of vermiculite and perlite with a little castings and compost to give it a little kick but that stuff looks like almost all compost. Weird to see the HB have more perlite than the starter mix.
I think I read steamroller not watering it very often, like he would water once compared to 3-4x I had to water in the Roots soils in the same time frame but my room was also running very hot at the time.
The one on the right might be past saving but the lefty looks to still have hope. And you can see how that shit can mimic other issues like light burn/stress and hot soils/fertilizer burn, freeze burn, and you can't tell unless you can get a good view of what's going on just under the soil surface.
Dampening off is something I probably flirt with every single grow Brother. Using those 1 gallon pots instead of small starter pots and such. And I'm about to start using larger containers so my risk will increase with that move but the benefit will outweigh the risk for me.
I pre-water before adding the sprout then add maybe a half cup more after planting then nothing for about the first week or so. And that's with a super light soil that barely weighs anything when dry.
The airpot and warm room helps it dry a little faster than normal and I have a fan blowing on the pots from the side and also have the benefit of a ceiling fan overhead.
IDK if aerating my water beforehand helps or not but I do it just because it's a direct delivery of oxygen to the roots and lack of oxygen is what causes that damp off.
I use the great white too and doubt it has any negative effect but maybe could if too much was added.
IDK how long you leave the sprouts in the VG but if you let 'em go until that tap root fishbones then that can also help with their ability to take up water from the get go and not bottom out on the soggy soil.
Speaking of chili the weather here turned from cold to tropic warm...Last week in the 40s and this week 85 and muggy so I've delayed my first chili of the season until it dips again. But it's gonna be a ground brisket and chopped tenderloin job in the Dutch oven and smoked for about 12-15 hours. I can't wait to start it!!!!Later this Winter I'll break from the Texas Red tradition and do my first chili verde
Hey bud, what’s with the personality change?
He came in third. That’s very respectable IMO. No need to start a galactic war over it.
Is this how it all starts.
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Probably after the new year. The que is Texas Red by Thanksgiving...Seafood & sausage gumbo for the first freeze....Etouffee or a jambalaya for Xmas...then finally chili verde, probably in February
Lmao, dude for real. Tofu chili sounds horrendous...
I dont like tofu, its just nasty yuck.
Hey bud, what’s with the personality change?
He came in third. That’s very respectable IMO. No need to start a galactic war over it.
Is this how it all starts.
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tofu is the worst,,, no one ever smelled it cooking and said mmmm can't wait... never!!! that stuff is disgusting smelling!!
bro this is all such an eye opener for me and i guess i really dunced this one to no end. everything i changed i must have had my blinders on and only thought of what the benefits could be and never once thought of the repercussions it causes. i wanted smaller containers so they would dry out quicker so i could water more often therefore getting more oxygen to the roots at a young age before they air pruned themselves. i just never thought of what i was really doing to them and drowning them in dense muck.
i'm gonna start another handful of seeds tonight because i don't think those others are gonna pull through, and i used to let the taproots fishbone more but i always though i damaging some pulling them out of the paper towel. i went to shorter taps because it was way easier to put in soil... i should know, easy is not the best! this will give me a chance to try out the XXXLVG... gotta grab an old tub for a rez because i didn't print one yet. but the rest is ready to try.
and i'll go back to my airpots and ditch my little cups..
i didn't look at them yet tonight but i don't expect much change, i'm just going to try to change out the soil and see if anything i already have going pulls through.
so i guess that happened... not my first choice!! haha
and man there ain't no way i'm sellin out the 5 team bro... NEVER!! just changed an avatar is all... so proud of those guys and girls finishing 2nd.. yeah p3 in the final but he finished 2nd and still big dawg at HMS baby!!!
you gotta watch nicknames they'll get ya... thirty some years ago my college roommate nicknamed me "2 stoned" it quickly changed to stone and stoney then some clown came to a party and said stoney love real loud and everybody heard it,,, little did i know i would have lifelong friendships with a few of those guys and now i'm still and always will be stoneyluv!!
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hey man... i got a xmas card in the mail today!!!! made it fine nothing crushed or damaged!!! thanks dude, i'll need them!!
hahaha yeah i did!!!!!!!!!! wasn't trying though!!!
they still sell those sneaky pete setups, my buddy has one on his SxS.
that's not what crusty had though.. he had some xtra kind of fuel that slowly mixed in and actually gave him more fuel mileage than performance. he had won a could races that year before they caught him so who know if that's what helped him win or not.. like ya say different times different rules!!
best etouffee i ever had was in houston texas!!! i haven't had it since because i don't want to ruin it. i'd be happy to die knowing that was the last i every ate!!! it was that freakin good bro!!! i don't remember the chef but he was apparently some world beknown chef that got fed up with the restaurant and left and started his own place in an old train car!! who doesn't like trains?!?!?!?
best crawfish ever though!!!
i've seen that dude a few times, he's a trip ain't he? he always makes portion sizes way beyond my cooking gear!!! haha
that was junior johnson actually. you can still buy his families moonshine. he was a bootlegger for his daddy and had souped up his car and outran all the law... well other bootleggers in the area thought their cars were faster than johnsons... he said you think so, lets race... and that's where nascar started man!!
nascar was founded and invented on outlaw!!!
you got that right!!!!!
i've had that balut shit.. pig brains, thousand year old eggs, bone marrow through a straw... i've had all the gross asian dishes.. even those live octopus that you skewer and eat live!! NASTY!!!!!!!!! company owners would take me out for dinner and it was kind of rude to say no.
i've been to every asian country so i've had some gross food... also had some really great foods too!!!! and i'm not just picking on asia for gross, every counties delicacies are gross!!! it's not like i enjoyed horse in france!!! just nasty!!!
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One of my heroes in life is Chef Kevin Belton out of NOLA. He used to have a show on PBS but is still on the internet or TV in various ways. Watching his shows will make you crave things you never knew you would crave
It's also the absolute best dipping sauce for corndogs at the state fair.
Seriously though...If you can get to the local county or state fair, maybe even a carnival, get a fried corndog hot out the fryer. Then get the beer served up in a wax cup. A strip of mustard on the dog then dunk it in the beer. One of the most amazing flavor combos going!
I'll try a lot of things but nothing with tentacles. I'll destroy some sushi, poke, and Korean BBQ.
Was unknowingly served up dog in Korea which I didn't appreciate and once had a tacos with fried ants as far as bizarre foods go.
Can't do raw eggs but set some raw oysters down in front of me and I might slurp back 50-100 of them tasty little devils with some fresh lemon and horseradish.
If I was a betting man I woulda bet on your title being Pot Snob and Mr. Fancy Pants your avatar
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Creole food is something special!
One thing I love about central Texas is we're at the culinary crossroads between West Texas cowboy cooking like chili and chicken fried steak, The Gulf Coast where Creole stretches from here to eastern Alabama, and south Texas where the flavors of Mexico and Tex Mex meet with gulf coast seafood snuck in there too.
Most everything Creole starts with the Holy Trinity of green peppers, onions, and celery cooked up in cast iron then from there the recipes differ depending on chef, tradition, and family. There's no one definite recipe as these dishes for the most part were born in slave cabins on plantations in the South, particularly Louisiana. From there, they became almost like a gospel treasure.
The rues are the most difficult to nail down. Just gotta know what you're doing and if you don't do it often, will humble you in the kitchen. I cheat and buy a frozen premade rue then add the crawfish, shrimp, and sausage for my etouffees and gumbos. Sometimes maybe work with chicken and andouille sausage but I usually stick with seafood ingredients.
Gumbo down here is probably like Grandmas chicken soup in the rest of the country. If somebody makes a gumbo for you, you know you're loved very much!
Jimmy Knew!
BTW something epic came across my radar this week I have to try and make...Lobster Pot Pie!!!!
I'm going to have to ask Uncle Roger about this one! Haiyaaa!!It's also the absolute best dipping sauce for corndogs at the state fair.
Seriously though...If you can get to the local county or state fair, maybe even a carnival, get a fried corndog hot out the fryer. Then get the beer served up in a wax cup. A strip of mustard on the dog then dunk it in the beer. One of the most amazing flavor combos going!
There was a food truck I would frequent that made the best damn shrimp tacos you could imagine. They also served a tostada that had shrimp, octopus, avocado and ceviche. I wasn't a big octo fan but, OMG, after eating the tostada I became one, tentacles and all!Oh yeah Dude.....Gumbo, etouffee, & jambalaya >>>>>>>>> over any chili any day and it aint even close on that one! Hell I'd even choose a good jambalaya over Texas BBQ brisket!
I've tried octopus a few times and just can't get past the tentacles. Like some sort of weird deep seeded fear of them for some reason and then the texture was weird. I'll do calimari as long as there's no tentacles.
My uncle was really into beef tongue and ate it like 3x a week. I couldn't get into it but maybe it was how he cooked it. He also ate a lot of organ meat like liver and heart and I just thought of it as rather ghoulish. Plus he was a sort of creepy guy so it was all just weird and I haven't eaten anything like that since.
Yeah not sure what's up with the Koreans and sneaking that dog on the table in front of us. They know WTF they're doing and get off on that "surprise, we got you" shit. Even worse when it's a hot chick that does it
After a second he laughed and said it was beef but in Korea they would make it with dog. Apparently the city Koreans used beef and the country Koreans used dog.
Oh yeah Dude.....Gumbo, etouffee, & jambalaya >>>>>>>>> over any chili any day and it aint even close on that one! Hell I'd even choose a good jambalaya over Texas BBQ brisket!
I've tried octopus a few times and just can't get past the tentacles. Like some sort of weird deep seeded fear of them for some reason and then the texture was weird. I'll do calimari as long as there's no tentacles.
My uncle was really into beef tongue and ate it like 3x a week. I couldn't get into it but maybe it was how he cooked it. He also ate a lot of organ meat like liver and heart and I just thought of it as rather ghoulish. Plus he was a sort of creepy guy so it was all just weird and I haven't eaten anything like that since.
Yeah not sure what's up with the Koreans and sneaking that dog on the table in front of us. They know WTF they're doing and get off on that "surprise, we got you" shit. Even worse when it's a hot chick that does it
There was a food truck I would frequent that made the best damn shrimp tacos you could imagine. They also served a tostada that had shrimp, octopus, avocado and ceviche. I wasn't a big octo fan but, OMG, after eating the tostada I became one, tentacles and all!
When I was in the rag biz I had a Korean contractor that invited me out for dinner. He introduced me to a soup called Gof. It was pretty good so I asked him what was in it. He told me it was dog soup!
I do loves me some Korean BBQ and Fried Chicken though. Their Fried Chicken with a nice, icy cold beer is where it's at!!!
I've never been to Korea but most Koreans tell me there is a difference in regards to the locally raised Korean beef and american beef but that they both bring out the best in that style of BBQ. Most of my KBBQ has been in Los Angeles where there is a large Korean community so I would assume that while it may not be completely authentic it is very close.
It was hilarious because the regulars knew not to ask or they'd get yelled at so whenever a newb would come in everyone would just wait for that fateful moment! Whenever it happened you could see the look on the newbs face like "Whoa! I just asked for more bread!". Usually the vet diners would let them know it was nothing personal and everyone got it. It sure was fun to watch the circus while you ate!!!!
they really sucker ya in with the sex appeal. i remember going to hooters in taiwan... it was no round rock, brother let me tell ya that!!!
but man i can get great gumbo and jambalaya around here but i can not get BBQ! not texas bbq. and especially not brisket. we have a place called stumpy's that's good but not great and not texas style. and the only other place is a dickies. it's a crappy chain fast food joint. only has shredded brisket.. what's wrong with it that you can only see it shredded??? i just don't get bbq here man. it's why i built my smoker!
mmm round rock donuts... you're near there right?, do they still have those big fuckers?
i've never had american korean bbq or real korean bbq i only had it at a place in china so i have no idea if it was authentic... it was freakin good though!! had to cook your own meat with a grill in the center of the table!! is it the same like that here?
i liked eating at the mongolian bbq places when i travelled. we don't have any around here at all but i really liked those places!!!!!
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Thanks @Moe.Red ... and works better than or... let it ride.. i am an outlaw pot snob so fits perfect! i now know though, careful for you ask for
I've never been to Korea but most Koreans tell me there is a difference in regards to the locally raised Korean beef and american beef but that they both bring out the best in that style of BBQ. Most of my KBBQ has been in Los Angeles where there is a large Korean community so I would assume that while it may not be completely authentic it is very close.
There used to be this little hole in the wall Mongolian BBQ joint in Hollywood that was amazing! It was a husband and wife team and the husband was really meek and low key while the wife was a FREAKING BITCH....but in a good way! They used to make these little sesame bread pockets that worked beautifully with the BBQ where you'd stuff the bread pocket with BBQ and DAMN...freaking magic! They were so popular that they had to limit the amount of bread they'd give out because people would pocket the bread to take home. The wife would yell at customers when they would ask for more bread!
i'd have to take friends there and talk them into asking for extra bread!! Yep RR Donuts are still around but have you heard of Gordoughs?
These fuckers are straight up trying to kill people with their donuts!
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And I've been meaning to tell you about this new pizza joint in town I've been wanting to try out. They started in a food truck and now's there's two or three trucks and a brick and mortar store front...
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And what's up with people named Stoney or Stony and their affection for all things skull & crossbones?
Is like everybody named Stony a Raiders fan even if they don't know it?
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hey man those are bad ass. Just saw them, was a random pic on the media bar and clicked it. I've missed a lot of cool stuff apparently.we had local F1 track here for years. it was so much fun that weekend, the area would pretty much shut down for the whole week and just party!! that track would have all kinds of racing, stock car ,f1, midgets, motorcycles... pretty much anything. they shut down 15 years or more now... we used to sneak in and run our street cars on the track!!! i miss that place!!
talk about fast pit stops though, those F1 guys know how to get it done!! pressurized fuel, single car jacks.. freakin badass!!! not to mention they create more downforce than they actually weigh. theoretically they could drive upside down!!! imagine that kind of racing... puts a new meaning to head to head!!
i'd luv to drive one!!!
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I made some new drip halos for my new batch of eight. the other ones were too big and i didn't draw them so they were very difficult to modify, so i started from scratch and made my own. these print all in one piece and i also printed out matching color tube clamps and this time i made them all a different color...
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seems to work great, this size is much better for these airpots... pretty good flow too, i might try some filtered tea through them and see how it works out. if i clog them i can just print new ones, it's only pennies to print.
so with semi auto watering worked out there's not much to do except watch em grow!!!!
Good growth for less than a week.
That was pretty quickthey're lookin a little better now too, getting some vigor in them and nice deep color. since i'm pretty sure i was the problem in all this and i can't ever leave well enough alone i went and put the big boy 550 light back in there today!!!!
and i slowly bumped up the temp from 78* to now i have it at 81* both lights on and off. it's a little dry in there though, i was thinking of maybe putting a basin of water on the heater to add some moisture. right now it's at 22% rh. where is this awesome low rh when i'm flowering?!?!
even with that low rh i'm still not watering that much, in the week and half now i've only watered twice. they're about due again soon though, i'll give them the ol' dunkin donuts watering with some green aminos!!
i'm also going to set the three new ones down in the container a little deeper, i did a poor job on the early legging!! but i have a few rows on the airpots to lower the bottoms and then fill in tops with soil.
and if all this works out i will actually have too many plants!!!!! i'd love to take on that problem!!! hehehe i have another tangie still in the cloner and i think she might pull through as well!!!!
all smiles for now!!!
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i don't want y'all to get to jealous here but today i got my new favorite tshirt!!!!!!! ok you can be a little jelly...
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thanks so much @GrumpAzz and all the other bud builders that made this happen!!!!!!!
AND it came with some tasty looking beans!!!
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You might check with @ninjadip on those beans. I'm pretty sure he bought some around the same time. He might've grown it out.i don't want y'all to get to jealous here but today i got my new favorite tshirt!!!!!!! ok you can be a little jelly...
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thanks so much @GrumpAzz and all the other bud builders that made this happen!!!!!!!
AND it came with some tasty looking beans!!!
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I'm jelly......they're lookin a little better now too, getting some vigor in them and nice deep color. since i'm pretty sure i was the problem in all this and i can't ever leave well enough alone i went and put the big boy 550 light back in there today!!!!
and i slowly bumped up the temp from 78* to now i have it at 81* both lights on and off. it's a little dry in there though, i was thinking of maybe putting a basin of water on the heater to add some moisture. right now it's at 22% rh. where is this awesome low rh when i'm flowering?!?!
even with that low rh i'm still not watering that much, in the week and half now i've only watered twice. they're about due again soon though, i'll give them the ol' dunkin donuts watering with some green aminos!!
i'm also going to set the three new ones down in the container a little deeper, i did a poor job on the early legging!! but i have a few rows on the airpots to lower the bottoms and then fill in tops with soil.
and if all this works out i will actually have too many plants!!!!! i'd love to take on that problem!!! hehehe i have another tangie still in the cloner and i think she might pull through as well!!!!
all smiles for now!!!
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i don't want y'all to get to jealous here but today i got my new favorite tshirt!!!!!!! ok you can be a little jelly...
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thanks so much @GrumpAzz and all the other bud builders that made this happen!!!!!!!
AND it came with some tasty looking beans!!!
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I gave the seedling to a friend, ran out of room to flower it. Not sure how's he doing with it.
they're lookin a little better now too, getting some vigor in them and nice deep color. since i'm pretty sure i was the problem in all this and i can't ever leave well enough alone i went and put the big boy 550 light back in there today!!!!
and i slowly bumped up the temp from 78* to now i have it at 81* both lights on and off. it's a little dry in there though, i was thinking of maybe putting a basin of water on the heater to add some moisture. right now it's at 22% rh. where is this awesome low rh when i'm flowering?!?!
even with that low rh i'm still not watering that much, in the week and half now i've only watered twice. they're about due again soon though, i'll give them the ol' dunkin donuts watering with some green aminos!!
i'm also going to set the three new ones down in the container a little deeper, i did a poor job on the early legging!! but i have a few rows on the airpots to lower the bottoms and then fill in tops with soil.
and if all this works out i will actually have too many plants!!!!! i'd love to take on that problem!!! hehehe i have another tangie still in the cloner and i think she might pull through as well!!!!
all smiles for now!!!
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i don't want y'all to get to jealous here but today i got my new favorite tshirt!!!!!!! ok you can be a little jelly...
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thanks so much @GrumpAzz and all the other bud builders that made this happen!!!!!!!
AND it came with some tasty looking beans!!!
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I'm jelly......
Does it come in a size Xtra Medium?
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the first ones to spread their wings... alien rock candy!!!!! the others were right there too... both oreoz and banana punch had shed their shells as well. both gorilla glue are still under helmets. so less than 48 hours and six of eight are above ground....
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so we'll call this week 1 day 1...
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took me about 6 seconds of wordsmithing
Yay no dead seedlings!!!
I'm digging those swanky plant labels too!
Vader on a tater reminds me of a pair of my favorite lounge around the house on a weekend pants
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