Tag: food

Even funnier, I had to ask her to turn it down.

Weird and cool: Coming into the living room and seeing my 76-year-old mother watching Nick Cave on the TV. And liking it.

Weird and funny: Getting two text messages from bikupan that appeared to be from a year ago, one saying “What, no potato salad? Bah!” and the other “Is something wrong?”. I vaguely remembered going back and forth about my accidentally vegan potato salad recipe last year and having some technical snafus. But no, she really did send those last night, and it wasn’t a temporal wormhole in the SMS system.

Neither weird, funny, nor cool: My re-discovery tonight of the fatal flaw in desktop computers nowadays: they’re all I/O bound. Here I sit with an 800 MHz PowerPC and 1 gig of RAM in my lap and I can’t do jack. Why? Because there’s disk intensive activity going on. The window manager slows to a crawl, none of my apps respond except in annoying bursts, and inexplicable errors occur probably due to clicks and keyboard presses out of focus because windows are changing erratically. It’s like I’m connecting to my own computer over a crappy old 14.4 modem link. RAAAAAAR. I want IDE to go away. [/geek]

Neither weird, funny, nor cool: I am reading a book about the Vietnam war. Bad: we’re doing it again. Worse: we’re doing it again much more stupidly . I’m experiencing nostalgia for the sincerity, honesty, and sense of duty of CIA and military officers from 1966. YOW!

Weird and funny but not cool: Bro ‘n’ ho couple arrive in D’s tonight and she asks D., who is behind the counter: “Do you have Chocolate Tea?” A moment of silence, and D. says “Umm, no?” Customer says: “Could you do that, like, put mocha in tea?” D: “I guess, yeah!” Customer: “Would that be disgusting, do you think?” D: “Yes, it would.”

Hey joyfulagitator! Nail your sizzle points!

Can I bring you a non-refillable beverage while you look at the menu? Hey, don’t forget to save room for our sinfully decadent Chocolate Suicide cake! It’s my personal favorite.

TJI’m sure you’ll be able to follow some of of these key points below, but if that’s a hard slog just remember: you can always bring in TJ for one of his seminars, which are guaranteed stuff and not fluff!

Just thought I’d make sure you were keeping up with all the great tips in Service that Sells and Service That Sells 2: Managing the Sizzle!

  1. Personalize the guest experience and eliminate cookie-cutter service
  2. Nail “sizzle points” and wow every guest
  3. Embrace the steps you can follow to make the magic come alive
  4. Dramatically increase check averages, sales and profitability … and truly set your operation apart!

Maybe next you’ll get “Pour It On: 52 Ways to Manage Your Bar Profits”, which promises to:

  1. Improve the way you manage your inventory, your equipment overhead, your supplier relationships, and your bar staff
  2. Give your staff the techniques necessary to sell your beverages
  3. Show you how to entice customers to come into your operation, spend more money on alcohol beverages, and come back again — with their friends!

http://www.managersredbook.com/

No.

TEXAS EGG ROLLS

8 ounces cream cheese
12 jalapenos, chopped
1 pound egg roll wrappers or large wonton skins
Oil for frying
Small amount of water mixed with 1 tablespoon flour

Mix jalapenos with cream cheese.

Place small amount on wrapper, roll up eggroll style and seal the tip with a drop of the water-flour mixture. Continue until mixture is all gone.

Place in refrigerator for 2 hours. Heat oil to 350-375 and cook about 4 to 5 minutes or until golden brown. Cool 5 minutes. Filling will be hot. Serve with jalapeno jelly.

Plus, I still have that Bee Gees song in my head.

After a pleasant meal of spaghetti & turkey meatballs and a green salad with gordonzola [sic] cheese and tomatoes, I’m relaxing as I listen to the neighborhood freakin’ explode. It gets louder every year. The mortars have moved east of the Boulevard finally and I also heard gunfire, which is not cool.

Either that or someone has designed a set of firecrackers that sounds exactly like a .30 caliber semiautomatic rifle emptying a five round magazine. It certainly got my attention.

I missed the City of Irvine’s Summer Series beginning with a bang! The advertisement promised that “Fireworks, music by the Kingston Trio, and a Pat Sajak narration of ‘Casey at the Bat’ headline the event.” Pat Sajak reading “Casey at the Bat”? PAT SAJAK? When Harry Shearer did his version of Kato Kaelin and John Tesh performing “Peter and the Wolf” it was supposed to be a joke, not a model for future entertainment. Yow. Ideally the Kingston Trio and Mr. Sajak would be attached to a gigantic rocket and forced to perform “Oh Susanna” while being fired into Modjeska Canyon at tremendous speed, but Irvine never really had that kind of spark.

Last night I dreamed about the cobbler Bethya made yesterday.