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Still Waiting or: A Preview

16 Tuesday Oct 2018

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Salutations™!!Homemade Organic Vegetarian Chili with Beans and Cheese

I’m still waiting on the info I was talking about yesterday, but I will talk a little about what it is. The weather is already starting to cool off a bit, so that means it’s time for some fall/winter staples, right? In my family, it always meant three things, two of which were kind of together. That’s chili (or as we called them chili beans), veggie-beef soup and pimento cheese, which we called “cheese salad.”

There’s a neighborhood that will be holding a chili cookoff and they will need cooks. There will be prizes, but I don’t know what they are, yet. As soon as I know, I’ll be passing along the info and then will have instructions if you’d like to participate. So, I hope that warms the cockles of your heart and makes your stomach growl. Stay tuned, I hope we get the info in the next day or so.

Until tomorrow, same blog channel…
Scorp out!

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“I am the kind of person who really will drive hours for a bowl of chili. I’m not a three-star restaurant kind of a person; I’m just a food person.” – Nora Ephron

Truly Piggybackin’ or: A Bit of All

24 Monday Sep 2018

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This past Friday, The BCPF and I were invited to eat at a place called Honky Tonk

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Smoked Turkey

Smokehouse and we really enjoyed our meal. So, today, I wrote a (very) long blog post about it and because of a scheduling snafu (my fault), I flew solo on The Man Who Ate the Town Podcast. I also talked about Sweet Aromaz moving to their new space on the podcast, too.

Since I did the podcast solo and wrote an almost 2000-word post, I feel that was enough writing for today. You can read the post HERE and listen to the podcast HERE.

Thanks for either or both if you’re so inclined.

Until tomorrow, same blog channel…
Scorp out!

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“Honky Tonk Smokehouse serves meats that are hand-pulled or sliced, not finely chopped, with a special barbeque sauce served on the side so the customer is in control of the taste.” – Honky Tonk Smokehouse

Beantown Piggyback or: Triple Play

10 Monday Sep 2018

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Salutations™!!

This week will be a full complement of podcasts for The Less Desirables Network! There are currently five shows on the network and five podcasts this week. That doesn’t happen that often these days and one of them is a bi-weekly show (for now) so that would cause a little wrinkle in the “full complement” department.

Anywhat! Today we have produced/published three of them!

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The Beer Dads took Labor Day off but return to talk about what fall/autumn brings and what kind of traditions they look forward to, dread or participate in. You can listen to that episode HERE.

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Fan Interference is next and TC and I talk a little bit, or a lot, about Week 1 of the NFL, injuries, who looked good, who looked bad and how a tie is not a loss. We also talk about Nick Saban’s winning and whining ways. You can hear that episode HERE.

TMWATTLogoFinally, there’s The Man Who Ate the Town and “The Tims” talk about Chef Travis Myers (because why wouldn’t you?), Mary’s Gourmet Diner, The BCPF’s and my trip to Boston, food holidays and history. New conversations and segments coming to this show. You can hear this week’s episode HERE.

As always, thank you, Dear Reader, for reading my rantings and thank you if you’re a listener to any of our podcasts. If you’re not, you’re a “short timer” and it’s only a matter of time!

Until tomorrow, keep listening…
Scorp out!

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“The Regulars are coming!” – Paul Revere

Still Swinging or: Mmm Mmm Good

06 Thursday Sep 2018

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Not us… (©huffington post)

I’m excited because tonight I get to do something I haven’t gotten to do in a few weeks. I get to cook with my boy, the aspiring chef, 3B. You see, two weeks ago, we had eaten a late lunch and weren’t hungry by the time evening came along. That Sunday, we had our Fantasy Football draft (two of them) and we ate at Willows. Then I left Thursday for the Boston trip and was gone until Tuesday. So, tonight we get to cook, at least I say we will.

It’s some kind of steak dinner. He picked it and will cook it, I’m just gonna help him. But, tonight is the start of football season and I am so looking forward to it. As I’m still getting into the swing of things, I’ll be taking it easy tonight and trying to get time to write long posts about the trip because I know you’re just dying to read about it, right? Right.

Until tomorrow, same blog channel…
Scorp out!

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“I’m not a chef. But I’m passionate about food – the tradition of it, cooking it, and sharing it.” – Zac Posen

Never Met a Stranger or: Oui!

03 Monday Sep 2018

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Salutations™!!

The BCPF and I went to a quaint bistro here in Boston for our anniversary and had a delicious meal that you’ll read more about this week on The Man Who Ate the Town. While we were there, and as I was using my special light to take my pictures, we struck up a conversation with the table beside us. We talked about WSNC and food and life.

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The “neighbors” food, the filet au poivre

It turns out that they were also celebrating an anniversary, albeit a dating one – five years. It was cool, they asked me to take pictures of their food, as well. They were a little bit older than we and they had just started listening to podcasts. Of course, we talked about podcasting and such as well.

The food, beverages and conversation were fantastic at Aquitaine, the bistro. In addition, our Uber driver, Casey, was also a great conversationalist and we enjoyed our ride with her. Add in our Hop On/Hop Off bus tour around Boston (we rode it twice) and we had a wonderful time in Beantown yesterday. In fact, we’ve had a great and wonderful time the entire time! Boston is definitely somewhere we’ll get back to. We love it. We started our day at a lovely little spot where we had brunch (again, more this week).

Tonight, we see The Fixx at City Winery and that will round out our trip. We will head home tomorrow. My post tomorrow may be late just so you know. So, we’re heading to Harvard and Cambridge today, talk to you later!

Until tomorrow, same blog channel…
Scorp out!

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“Every day is an anniversary of another great day.” – The BCPF

Anniversary in Beantown or: Champagne, Strawberries & Chocolate

02 Sunday Sep 2018

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Salutations™!!

I”m going to skip all the anniversary storytime stuff that I normally put on these. I figure that by now I’ve said all I can say without being redundant. I could probably go back a year, two years, three years and copy and paste something, but this one is different. It’s the first time that we’ve been away for our anniversary since we got married.

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Thank you, Omni Parker House!

Really, it’s the first time we’ve been “somewhere” since we got married. We went to Chicago for The BCPF’s work in 2015, in August. Earlier this year we went to Asheville, NC for the weekend with The Beer Dads family. But, we haven’t been anywhere for vacation by ourselves, for ourselves, and we had traveled some before we got married.

We have seen some fantastic stuff, eaten some fantastic food, talked to some fantastic folks. Yesterday, alone, we walked over 13,000 steps just looking for breweries (we really only found one), the previous two days we walked over 9,000 each. We’ve had to walk off all that great food we’ve eaten. You’ll be able to read a recap on The Man Who Ate the Town and the TMWATT Instagram later this week.

This morning, we had a knock on our hotel room door at 8am. The hotel had sent up 4 chocolate covered strawberries and a small bottle of champagne. It was really nice. They also sent a card up in which some of the employees had signed. To be honest, I knew about it, but I didn’t ask for it, I just scheduled the time. It was awesome of them. They have been really nice here. The hotel is old and it shows its age, but there’s plenty of charm and an elegance that harks back to yesteryear. I have enjoyed the hotel and their concierges have been really helpful the whole time.

To The BCPF, I apologize if rehashing our story on here once more was what you were looking for, I just hope you know that I have loved our time this long, extended weekend and I love you more and more every day. I’d walk down that stairway to the gunroom again, in a heartbeat. As you said last night, every day is an anniversary of a great day we’ve already had. Let’s keep that going. I love you, Stephanie.

Until tomorrow, Dear Reader…
Scorp out!

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“A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.” – Paul Sweeney

A Mound o’Seafood or: What We Leave Behind

31 Friday Aug 2018

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The BCPF and I asked the concierge for recommendations for dinner last night and we were given a few choices. We know we’re going to have Italian in “Little Italy” and being as we are in New England and on the coast, we’ll have plenty of opportunities to grab seafood. We also are probably going to grab something in Chinatown. Plus, we need to do something special for the anniversary on Sunday.

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The Fisherman’s Platter from Boston’s Sail Loft

We chose the recommendation of a local favorite, Boston’s Sail Loft seafood. We each had a cup of the clam chowder, sorry… “chowdah.” We’ve had clam chowdah in WSNC a few times, and as good as those were, this was eating it from “home.” Now, that being said, King’s Crab Shack nails it.

The BCPF had the fish and chips and I had the “Fisherman’s Platter.” A lot of fried food, but, it was delicious. But, something that rarely happens, happened. I actually had to leave food behind. I rarely take food with me and rarely leave anything on the plate other than small remnants of what I had. I considered taking it with me, but we are staying in the oldest continuously running hotel in the country and as charming and awesome as it is, there’s no fridge and no microwave to reheat it, so we just had to skip it.

The BCPF leaves food a lot. Not “on purpose” but because she doesn’t eat a lot of fried food during the week, usually. This was a lot and when we thought about it later, with the cups of chowdah, we should have just shared my platter as it was a shload of food. It was really good food, but much food. We’ll consider that in the future, but I don’t like sharing plates. The last time we did it, it was also seafood at King’s. That “Dreamy Steamy Bucket” was what it was and I hate counting piece-for-piece to make sure that I’m not just running away with food and not being fair. So, we just decided not to share. Joey in Friends once said, “Joey doesn’t share food!” We say “Beemans don’t share food!” But, we probably should have.

We then had a nightcap here in the Omni Parker House with chocolate, port, Scotch and cognac. Being as we had to be up at 3pm and only had about 20 minutes worth of a nap, we didn’t take long to fall asleep and I woke up this morning feeling refreshed and ready to go. So, whilst I usually post these at noon if I do them early, because of Facebook’s ridiculous new rule, I have to copy and paste the shortlink on Facebook and I don’t know when I’ll be back, I’m posting it at 8am, instead. You’ll know more about what we did in the next few days. I’m off to walk the Freedom Trail, today. I can at least tell you that.

Until tomorrow, same blog channel…
Scorp out!

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“I’m a big tradition guy. If you love this country and study history, then you will love Boston.” – Marcus Luttrell

Beantown or: Where Everybody Knows Your Name

30 Thursday Aug 2018

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So, we’ve made it to Boston, Dear Reader. The flights up (to Laguardia in NYC and then to Boston) were pretty good. I am a fan of Delta’s Comfort+ class of seats. But, we were able to grab an Uber to our hotel and the driver sounded just like Cliff Claven. John Ratzenberger was pretty spot on with his Bostonian accent. Then again, he’s from Bridgeport, Connecticut, so…?

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Outside “Cheers”

Our hotel is old and quaint but it’s a charming little hostel and it has some serious history. Well, it’s in Boston so why wouldn’t it have a history? We got here just prior to noon so we couldn’t check in just yet, but they stowed our bags and we went walking.

The Omni Parker House is right off of the Boston Common so we walked all the way around it, not knowing where we were going and ended up in front of the Bull & Finch bar which was the inspiration for the bar (and was the outside shot of the bar) in the television show Cheers. So, of course, we needed to go in and have a beer. The downstairs was very small but there was a bar upstairs, as well. We made our way up there and had us a “Cheers Beer” that is made from Ipswitch Brewing and the tap handle had a bobblehead of Norm. It’s a pilsner style beer and it was really good.

We have made it back to our hotel and let me tell you, Dear Reader, Boston is every bit as hilly as WSNC is. I should have thought to take the name of the area, “Beacon Hill,” fo’ serious! I have to let my phone charge a little because I packed up my charger last night and it’s on fumes. Plus, we were able to get checked and settled in. But, I’m sure we’ll do something fun tonight. I’ll talk about it tomorrow, okay?

Until then, same blog channel…
Scorp out!

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“Roll out of bed, Mr. Coffee’s dead. the morning’s looking bright. And, your shrink ran off to Europe and didn’t even write. And, your husband wants to be a girl. Be glad there’s one place in the world where everybody knows your name.” – “Where Everybody Knows Your Name (The Theme to ‘Cheers’)”: extended version” (Portnoy/Angelo)

Piggybackin’ x3 or: Triple Play

20 Monday Aug 2018

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So, this week, on a Monday, I have three podcasts to post to you about, because I posted them all today. Yay me!

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Making a crêpe at Penny Path!

We were able to do Fan Interference today and TC talked about NFL, his Redskins, injuries, ridiculous rules, NBA, money and so on. You can hear that episode, HERE.

On The Man Who Ate the Town, “The Tims” talk about Atelier on Trade, Canteen Market & Bistro and Penny Path Café and Crêpe Shop. You can hear that episode, HERE.

And, finally, The Beer Dads talk about how their tastes in beer and styles may have changed over the last few years. You can hear that episode, HERE.

At The Less Desirables Network, we really appreciate you listening to all of our shows and I appreciate it, too. I also appreciate you reading this blog every day. You do, right? Sure you do!

Until tomorrow, same blog channel…
Scorp out!

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“Located at 4th and Spruce, Canteen Market & Bistro is a small, urban food and beverage market and a full-service, bistro-style bar & restaurant.” – Canteen Market & Bistro

Piggybacking a Review or: Mozzarella Fellas

17 Friday Aug 2018

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Last week, The BCPF and I went to Mozzarella Fellas for the first time. It was pretty darn good. Over on the blog for The Man Who Ate the Town, I wrote a blog about the experience. You can read that right HERE.  I’ll post a pic that was on TMWATT Instagram but not on the story. Heck, I’ll post two!

BBQ Cauliflower Bites
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Until tomorrow, same blog channel…
Scorp out!

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“I was raised by my grandmother, who was also an incredible Italian cook, and grew up in a family where you were never not eating.” – Brian Ricciardi