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I unearthed this from his RM profile: Hello Gentlemen... Making my way back...get at me on here and all the social media for exclusive content ? In fairness, he was last online Thursday evening. He probably just made this update.

A Ninja Foodi is COMPLETELY different than an InstantPot. NOT. THE. SAME. COMPLETELY DIFFERENT! Did you hear me? COMPLETELY DIFFERENT! There is only one InstantPot. All hail the InstantPot!! Except for the InstantPot model that caught fire and was recalled. Nobody hail that one. In fact, don't even bring it up. We like to forget it was ever manufactured.

As much as I like using a pressure cooker, I couldn't agree with you more. The Cult of The Holy InstantPot is rather silly. When I saw you can bake a cake in it (assuming you have the right bakeware, which is conveniently available on the InstantPot website) I thought "hmm, wouldn't an oven do that better?" Then again, when I was in a hotel prior to moving to a corporate apartment I bought a George Foreman grill that included (and I am NOT making this up) muffin and brownie pans. Why in God's name you would want to bake using a George Foreman grill is beyond me, but you can.

Given overnights run, on the low end, at $1,250, $5,000 for three days is not a bad deal. It averages to $1,667 per day.

I have an InstantPot and really like it. Like @maninsoma I bought it for the pressure cooker function, which works very well. A couple of things that set it apart from others (Breville and Cuisinart are two brands I've had previously) are: The ability to buy extra seals, non-stick pots, lids, and other accessories. Williams-Sonoma, Amazon, and Target all sell them. Breville, on the other hand, says they sell them but they are always out of stock The seal is very easy to remove, clean, and re-install. Without a properly-installed seal, the pressure cooker simply does not work. Re-installing the Breville seal was a production. Cuisinart had this seal/inner lid combo thingy that was very easy to remove and re-install but was also easy to damage. The inner pot is made of high-quality stainless steel. The Instant Pot has a stainless steel pot that is very easy to clean. You can buy a non-stick pot, but I find that food scorches when I use it to make chili or other tomato-based foods. It is easy to clean. You can put the lid, seal, valve, and inner pot in the dishwasher or hand-wash it. Hand-washing is very easy, as there are fewer nooks and crannies than other brands. Let me unearth the recipe from "Pressure Perfect" by Lorna Sass and send it to you. Works every time! BTW - I highly recommend Lorna's book "Pressure Perfect." Although it is primarily a collection of recipes, it also serves as a primer to pressure cooking in general. She includes cooking charts, suggestions for using pressure cookers, tips for adapting your recipes, and suggestions for cuts of meat. Her recipes typically include the standard recipe, variations, and what she calls "transformations," which are ways to use her recipe as a base to make something else. An example is one of my faves: Chicken Cacciatore Pasta. It starts with a cacciatore recipe, but the pasta recipe is the "transformation." Also, Hip Pressure Cooking is a great website for pressure cooking recipes and cooking lessons. Laura Pazzaglia founded the website and does a good job of eliminating the ridiculous stories that food bloggers feel compelled to include in their recipes. She also has a "pressure cooker school" feature on the website.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCer2e0t8r8:45

Too bad he doesn't have any pics of that cucumber. Hope it isn't a cornichon in real life.

I agree with you on that, which is why the Nespresso works for me. I am not a fan of flavored coffee, so the limited Nespresso flavors is not an issue for me. Another bonus w/Nespresso is since they stopped offering tastings in the store they give you two sample capsules when you place an online order. Of course! They've come a long way. I think they reduced the minimum for free shipping since the pandemic forced them to temporarily close stores and, upon re-opening them, reduce the number of people they let in at a time. I make iced coffee routinely in summer and it is great! I fill a cup with ice, make two espressos over the ice and voila! perfect iced coffee. They also sell capsules made especially for iced coffee, typically at the beginning of summer. My biggest complaint about the Keurig is the coffee lacks flavor and strength. The Virtuo capsules are bar-coded, so you can choose to make the Costa Rica stronger and the Columbia weaker and the machine stores the setting for that type of capsule.

Nespresso now offers free shipping on orders above $35, which is about the cost of three sleeves of Vertuo capsules. If you sign up for the machine plan (scroll down the FAQs), you pay $1.00 for a Virtuo machine and a milk frother and are charged $35/month which is applied to your account. You can then use the $35 toward the cost of coffee. Essentially, you are receiving a machine at no charge. I had a Keurig and disliked it intensely. Thank you for the tip on the replacement foil seals for the Virtuo pods. I will try that. What grind do you use for a cup of coffee?

I used to feel the same way about buying pre-packaged vs bulk coffee beans at Sprouts/Whole Foods/etc. until Whole Foods was out of bulk coffee and I had to buy a 1 lb sack. The pre-packaged coffee beans tasted much better because they were not sitting in a bin exposed to air. A few years ago I switched to Nespresso Virtuo Line and never looked back. Those store grinders are terrible! All kinds of coffee residue gets mixed in with whatever you grind. I used my own grinder for several years until I broke down and bought a burr grinder. It really made a difference in the flavor of the coffee.

My local Safeway and Target were both wiped out of toilet paper and paper towels. I still have two and a half packages from the three I bought over the summer, so I am good.

No, but if I lived in NYC I would certainly try!

Very funny! Brings back memories of being in my twenties, shopping for a suit at Marshall Field's and the salesman thinking it was for my high school graduation. He was very embarrassed when he learned I was on my lunch hour from the bank where I worked as a commercial loan officer. (you'd have thought me walking in wearing a suit, tie, dress shoes, and trench coat might have tipped him off). Let's hope they continue to look younger than their age as they grow older.

As my beehive-wearing, chain-smoking Aunt Elaine would say (in her crackling, cigarette-stained voice): "Honey, a hurricane couldn't mess this hair."

I tried tarring and feathering those who don't reply, but the bastards never replied to the invitation! But seriously, I am not sure what exactly one can do to force another to reply to their messages. Before IM and email there was telephone, US Mail, telegraph, smoke signals, and semaphore. All of those methods could be ignored.

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You are right, Kansas City Missouri and Kansas City Kansas are two different municipal entities. In most cases, the city and the county are separate entities, but in some they are essentially consolidated into one. Los Angeles County, CA and the city of Los Angeles are different entities as are San Diego County, CA and the city of San Diego. In both cases, the counties encompass municipalities and unincorporated areas other than the namesake city. On the other hand, The City and County of San Francisco are one in the same. Counties tend to handle property assessment, courts, recording of deeds, policing of unincorporated areas (and sometimes incorporated communities that are too small to have their own police force), jails, and other broad-reaching functions that are more efficiently handled by one entity on behalf of multiple communities. A few fun facts: The city of Baltimore, MD is not part of Baltimore County, MD. Here in Arizona, Phoenix is located in Maricopa County, but the City of Maricopa is located in Pinal County, not in Maricopa County. Although not widely known, the City of Chicago spans two counties: Cook (in which most of the city lies) and DuPage. The DuPage portion is adjacent to O'Hare International Airport, which is owned by the City.

A failure to reply to a message is not unique to RM Messenger. People read and don't respond to SMS, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, Twitter, etc. messages all the time. Back in the day, they didn't respond to Yahoo IMs and AIM messages.

Although I haven't made this specific recipe, I've made a similar one, added the tomato paste with the beef to carmelize it,. Instead of adding the paste to the liquid before cooking, I added it after cooking to add just a bit of umami (or "oomph," as my mother would say). Another way of making it is to say to hell with the recipe and do the following: Coat the roast with your choice of seasonings. I usually use Maggi (wheat-based soy sauce like seasoning. You could use soy sauce instead),salt, pepper, garlic powder, thyme, rosemary, and summer savory or marjoram. Place a rack or celery in the bottom of the pot and pour in some beef stock. Put the roast on top of the rack/celery and scatter small potatoes and baby carrots around the roast. Seal, and cook,based on the weight and thickness of the roast, according to the cooking chart that comes with the Instant Pot or in my favorite pressure cooker cookbook, "Pressure Perfect" by Lorna Sass. Another tip: When releasing pressure, use a pair of tongs.

Not all same-gender relationships are the same just as not all mixed-gender relationships are the same. I don't think they are more acceptable among gay men than they are among straight men. However, I do think men (regardless of sexual orientation) are more open to having sex outside of their primary relationship than are women. Based on my experience with friends and hook-ups, men are less accepting of their partner being the one to have sex outside of the relationship than they are of themselves having sex outside of the relationship. The answers will vary by couple and by individual. My advice is to Google "same-sex open relationship studies." Someone has got to have done a study or two. Of course they can, just like opposite-sex relationships can be non-monogamous. Once again, the answers will vary. This one really is best answered through a research study. That said, a few years ago, the San Diego LGBT Times decided to put a throuple on the cover of its issue about same-sex marriage. Let's just say the reaction was not kind. The good news is the editor-in-chief only suffered mild rope burns and a little singing around the edges of his shoes. Apparently, when the guys tied him to the stake they miscalculated the distance required between him and the firewood to cause any real damage. This question implies a couple has to make a choice between raising children and growing old together. A couple, regardless of sexual orientation and/or the gender of the people involved, can raise children and grow old together. They can do so sequentially or simultaneously, depending upon their age when the children are brought into the family.

Ah, shit - I didn't read all the way. His name was Cliff and it was under the seafood counter at the Jewel on Division Street. Not the one at Clark. The one that used to be a Dominick's.

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I literally L'd OL at this.

Noted.

I do the same - G-rated that are already on social media. If someone tries to blackmail me using a pic of me with one cat on my shoulder and the other in my lap they may do so. The pic is readily available. Last week, I sent a pic of me without the guy asking because we were meeting in his hotel's lobby. It was me wearing the same face mask as the one I was wearing that day. It never occurred to me that I would be the only person in the lobby and that no pic would be necessary. When he got off the otherwise empty elevator into the otherwise empty elevator lobby we joked that we would never have found each other had I not sent the pic.