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sancarlos wrote: Mon Dec 31, 2018 10:15 pm I do... my wife regularly. Especially when she's... at... rest.
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Sabo wrote: Fri Mar 29, 2019 9:19 am Nut and seed butters, ranked

1. Walnut butter
2. Pecan butter
3. Macadamia nut butter
4. Cashew butter
5. Peanut butter
6. Almond butter
7. Something involving the plague
8. Sunflower seed butter
I'm impressed that you've tried all those. (Except, I assume, #7.)
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sancarlos wrote: Fri Mar 29, 2019 10:59 am
Sabo wrote: Fri Mar 29, 2019 9:19 am Nut and seed butters, ranked

1. Walnut butter
2. Pecan butter
3. Macadamia nut butter
4. Cashew butter
5. Peanut butter
6. Almond butter
7. Something involving the plague
8. Sunflower seed butter
I'm impressed that you've tried all those. (Except, I assume, #7.)
It's a side effect of being on the keto diet and having a wife who has a peanut sensitivity.

I make my own walnut, pecan, macadamia and cashew butter. It's very easy and much cheaper than buying them off the shelf. Just roast the nuts at 350 for 8-12 minutes and then put them in a food processor. Process for a minute, then use a spatula to wipe down the sides of the bowl. Repeat until it turns into the desired consistency, which usually is five or six turns. You might need to add a little oil to the macadamia nut butter, but the others don't require any added oil. You can add salt and other flavorings (sugar, cocoa powder, etc.) to taste.
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Sabo wrote: Fri Mar 29, 2019 11:19 am
sancarlos wrote: Fri Mar 29, 2019 10:59 am
Sabo wrote: Fri Mar 29, 2019 9:19 am Nut and seed butters, ranked

1. Walnut butter
2. Pecan butter
3. Macadamia nut butter
4. Cashew butter
5. Peanut butter
6. Almond butter
7. Something involving the plague
8. Sunflower seed butter
I'm impressed that you've tried all those. (Except, I assume, #7.)
It's a side effect of being on the keto diet and having a wife who has a peanut sensitivity.

I make my own walnut, pecan, macadamia and cashew butter. It's very easy and much cheaper than buying them off the shelf. Just roast the nuts at 350 for 8-12 minutes and then put them in a food processor. Process for a minute, then use a spatula to wipe down the sides of the bowl. Repeat until it turns into the desired consistency, which usually is five or six turns. You might need to add a little oil to the macadamia nut butter, but the others don't require any added oil. You can add salt and other flavorings (sugar, cocoa powder, etc.) to taste.
Hey, I'm going to try that. (Especially pecan butter - I love pecans.) I already make my own peanut butter fairly regularly. Although from the looks of things it is less healthy than your recipes. I throw a package of Trader Joe's roasted salted peanuts, a fair bit of peanut oil, and some honey in the food processor, then blend like hell to get it a creamy as possible.
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Release Mes, ranked

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Food with same consistency going in as coming out, ranked

1. Larabars
2. Haven't thought this far yet, just had a Larabar.
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3. hummus
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4. Milkshakes

(I am slightly lactose intolerant)
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UPDATE

National Parks I've Been To So Far, weighted 75% by "would I go back?" and 25% "man that was impressive" and also heavily influenced by weather

American League
1. Zion
2. Mount Rainier
3. Olympic
4. Kings Canyon
5. Sequoia
6. North Cascades

National League
7. Acadia
8. Shenandoah
9. Smokies

I think we're hitting 8 more out west next summer.
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I like hitting up the smokies, but yeah, as a National Park it's not much. BEtter if you're super into hiking I guess.
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If you'd go hiking off the beaten path and get into one of those groves of multiple enormous Sequoia trees, I bet you'd move that park up higher on the list.
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Ryan wrote: Tue Oct 15, 2019 12:08 pmI think we're hitting 8 more out west next summer.
Southwest trip?
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sancarlos wrote: Tue Oct 15, 2019 2:55 pm If you'd go hiking off the beaten path and get into one of those groves of multiple enormous Sequoia trees, I bet you'd move that park up higher on the list.
We did and it was incredible. Anything in that top group could be the coolest thing someone would ever see.
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Steve of phpBB wrote: Tue Oct 15, 2019 3:08 pm
Ryan wrote: Tue Oct 15, 2019 12:08 pmI think we're hitting 8 more out west next summer.
Southwest trip?
All the Colorados, Teton/Yellowstone, and Arches/Canyonlands. And not a NP but maybe Craters of the Moon just to scratch Idaho off the list
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Ryan wrote: Tue Oct 15, 2019 3:39 pm
Steve of phpBB wrote: Tue Oct 15, 2019 3:08 pm
Ryan wrote: Tue Oct 15, 2019 12:08 pmI think we're hitting 8 more out west next summer.
Southwest trip?
All the Colorados, Teton/Yellowstone, and Arches/Canyonlands. And not a NP but maybe Craters of the Moon just to scratch Idaho off the list
If you go through Grand Junction, be sure to check out the Colorado National Monument. It's pretty cool.
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Ryan wrote: Tue Oct 15, 2019 3:39 pm
Steve of phpBB wrote: Tue Oct 15, 2019 3:08 pm
Ryan wrote: Tue Oct 15, 2019 12:08 pmI think we're hitting 8 more out west next summer.
Southwest trip?
All the Colorados, Teton/Yellowstone, and Arches/Canyonlands. And not a NP but maybe Craters of the Moon just to scratch Idaho off the list
Good choices - though Teton/Yellowstone are a long way from the rest.
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This is what I wanted. Was looking for “lists” not “rankings”. Duh.

Anyway, fun weekend for this shit on SXM. I already bitched about the Zeppelin one. Beatles channel is doing their fourth annual one but the most interesting aspect of that will be if
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A Day in the Life isn’t #1
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I’ve read some books and they suggest I have a higher opinion of Dear Prudence than the experts but the climax of that song end when the piano hits and digs in. Man.
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rass wrote: Sun May 24, 2020 3:28 pmBeatles channel is doing their fourth annual one but the most interesting aspect of that will be if
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A Day in the Life isn’t #1
Holy shit!

Better be
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Though I agree with the ranking of the two remaining
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Hey Jude and then Yesterday...sorry George
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Ebony and Ivory was the number one pop song this week in 1982.
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rass wrote: Sun May 31, 2020 5:48 pm Ebony and Ivory was the number one pop song this week in 1982.
I imagine DougKRugby had this song in mind back when he told us that racism was dead.
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rass wrote: Sun May 31, 2020 5:48 pm Ebony and Ivory was the number one pop song this week in 1982.
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DSafetyGuy wrote: Sun May 31, 2020 8:09 pm
rass wrote: Sun May 31, 2020 5:48 pm Ebony and Ivory was the number one pop song this week in 1982.
The 38th anniversary gift is always the worst.
I like to think that McCartney dragged Stevie Wonder into the schlock hole.
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Pruitt wrote: Mon Jun 01, 2020 11:35 am
DSafetyGuy wrote: Sun May 31, 2020 8:09 pm
rass wrote: Sun May 31, 2020 5:48 pm Ebony and Ivory was the number one pop song this week in 1982.
The 38th anniversary gift is always the worst.
I like to think that McCartney dragged Stevie Wonder into the schlock hole.
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Giff wrote: Mon Jun 01, 2020 11:45 am
Pruitt wrote: Mon Jun 01, 2020 11:35 am
DSafetyGuy wrote: Sun May 31, 2020 8:09 pm
rass wrote: Sun May 31, 2020 5:48 pm Ebony and Ivory was the number one pop song this week in 1982.
The 38th anniversary gift is always the worst.
I like to think that McCartney dragged Stevie Wonder into the schlock hole.
Yep.

Close contact with McCartney ruined Stevie for many, many years.
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Jack Black's act got old pretty fast, but he was really funny in that film.
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sancarlos wrote: Mon Jun 01, 2020 12:32 pm Jack Black's act got old pretty fast, but he was really funny in that film.
I never really liked him until "Tropic Thunder."

And if you get a chance to see the movie "Bernie" - based on a bizarre true story - he is excellent in that.
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The first time I remember seeing him was in Bob Roberts and he was creepy AF. I guess I haven't rewatched that movie since HS poly sci, so who knows how it aged, but my guess is that his performance still works.
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I'm not scurred... I love JB.

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Wikipedia’s nicknames for Rick DiPietro

6. Ricky D
5. Ricky Deep
4. Rico
3. DiPi
2. Rickety DiPietro
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An incredulous DiPietro was still flat on his back when he pointed up at Johnson: "Are you a lefty?" Both men knew that damage had been done, each having experienced polar vantages of a face giving way. Johnson shook his head and patted DiPietro twice on the stomach. "F-- ," DiPietro said then, before he missed six weeks of hockey waiting for his fractures to heal. "Just one of those things," Johnson says today. It was just one punch out of the thousands thrown that season, in 645 NHL fights. It was just one more collision in a sport and a universe that sees millions of them.
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I didn't know this about Nightswimming!
It’s also about the beauty of Mike Mills playing the in-house piano at Miami’s Criteria Studios — the same one used for the coda of “Layla”
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This solves my last hour dilemma.
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I am not happy about #86!
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I am not happy about #74!
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That was a fun read, but I wanted to throw my iPad across the room when he seeded World Leader Pretend at #28.

If you get R.E.M. the way he implies he did, then that’s a top 10 track, full stop.
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Gardening at Night way too low as well.
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I think he was taking a Michael Bolton approach of celebrating the entire catalogue, to be frank.

Nevertheless, it was a fun way to kill an hour.
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