Topic: I TRIPPED THE LIGHT FANTASTIC (Read 3641 times)

John G. · « **Reply #31 on:** November 12, 2024, 05:21:15 AM »

Only one restaurant in San Antonio received a Michelin star. Others were singled out and recommended, but the restaurant, good as it is, is not one I like. You can't choose the time you dine there or the food you get to eat. You eat what they serve at one sitting each evening and you are seated with everyone. It's interior Mexican cuisine. I like the guys who run it, appreciate their mission, but I don't want to go there.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #32 on:** November 12, 2024, 05:39:21 AM »

Good morning, all.

singdaw · « **Reply #33 on:** November 12, 2024, 05:41:04 AM »

~~~SAFE & EASY TRAVEL VIBES~~~ for DR John G.!!!!

ChasSmith · « **Reply #34 on:** November 12, 2024, 05:41:42 AM »

Quote from: singdaw on November 12, 2024, 04:19:46 AM

I'm glad Kari lost.

You mean there's been one ray of light in all of this horror?

As you can see, I've paid zero attention to news this past week.

singdaw · « **Reply #35 on:** November 12, 2024, 05:43:07 AM »

That race was just called.

singdaw · « **Reply #36 on:** November 12, 2024, 05:43:49 AM »

Meanwhile, Trump voters did the exact opposite of tripping the light fantasic... they supported the dark abysmal.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #37 on:** November 12, 2024, 05:51:49 AM »

TOD

I love soups, but that love for them mostly developed in the past decade or so. As a kid I was fine with whatever Campbell's soups we had (I don't think my mother ever made a soup, herself, in her life), my favorites being Cream of Chicken, Tomato, and just one or two others. That was what we knew as soup.

In my interim years of going to school, living in L.A., and such, I rarely paid attention to soups. The epiphany happened when a friend made her Albondigas (Mexican meatball) soup that was out of this world simple (probably deceptively simple) and delicious. That opened my eyes to what could be done in a pot in the kitchen. I now appreciate that there are so many types of soup possible that it's a crime we all don't make some now and then as a routine. Of course I know a few of you do.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #38 on:** November 12, 2024, 05:53:52 AM »

I'm still lazy and keep a few sodium bombs (a.k.a. the "better" or "deluxe" Campbell's and Progresso canned soups) around because I'm a sucker for their tastes. And I know that's still ridiculous.

singdaw · « **Reply #39 on:** November 12, 2024, 05:54:19 AM »

DR ChasSmith, Orem's Diner, on the Norwalk/Wilton line, used to have the best split pea soup around. Don't know if it still exists.

John G. · « **Reply #40 on:** November 12, 2024, 05:56:30 AM »

Quote from: ChasSmith on November 12, 2024, 05:53:52 AM

I'm still lazy and keep a few sodium bombs (a.k.a. the "better" or "deluxe" Campbell's and Progresso canned soups) around because I'm a sucker for their tastes. And I know that's still ridiculous.

Comfort can come in a can.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #41 on:** November 12, 2024, 05:58:07 AM »

Orem's very much exists. They moved out of the original building (which I think is still there, just south of Wilton Center?) some years ago and built a fancy new diner a little south of that which has, as far as I know, been extremely successful. I'm ashamed to say that after all the years it's been there, I haven't been in. This will be rectified. But I was in the original place in my first years here, and I only have the vaguest memory of it but I know I liked whatever the grilled sandwich was, and yes, some kind of soup.

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #42 on:** November 12, 2024, 05:59:33 AM »

Quote from: singdaw on November 12, 2024, 04:19:46 AM

I'm glad Kari lost.

Yes, indeed. However, she will likely be on the "team" of losers advising the next (lower case) president.

John G. · « **Reply #43 on:** November 12, 2024, 06:01:52 AM »

The other day, when we visited the farmers stand I tasted one of the sample grapes they were offering. It was a Sheridan grape, which I had never heard of. The flavor was so intense and delicious, I bought a box, probably two pints. They're still wonderful, almost Concord like. Apparently they're from the Northwest and ripen late.

John G. · « **Reply #44 on:** November 12, 2024, 06:04:50 AM »

Ron, I agree with your comment yesterday about great film composers. Franz Waxman is different from Max Steiner from Dmitri Tiomkin. We have room for all. The talking heads in Ennio made it seem as if there could be only one.

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #45 on:** November 12, 2024, 06:06:19 AM »

I adore soups.

CostCo and Sam's Club sell soups in their refrigerated foods areas. Mostly tomato and broccoli/cheddar soup. It is very good.

When I was working in Oakland, a local eatery had some amazing soups. My favorites were meat ball soup and lobster bisque. None by the same name have ever tasted as perfect as the ones at that eatery. It closed several years before I retired. The owner had died, and the family sold it as he was the only one talented enough to run it properly.

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #46 on:** November 12, 2024, 06:07:58 AM »

Quote from: John G. on November 12, 2024, 06:04:50 AM

Ron, I agree with your comment yesterday about great film composers. Franz Waxman is different from Max Steiner from Dmitri Tiomkin. We have room for all. The talking heads in Ennio made it seem as if there could be only one.

And therein lies the conundrum of film music "fandom". Absolute adoration with little to no tolerance of other great works by others.

Rather reeks of MAGA fever, doesn't it!

I have favorites, naturally. And some composers simply do not "speak" to my tastes but others drool over them. Ah, well.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #47 on:** November 12, 2024, 06:19:09 AM »

Quote from: Ron Pulliam on November 12, 2024, 06:07:58 AM

Quote from: John G. on November 12, 2024, 06:04:50 AM
Ron, I agree with your comment yesterday about great film composers. Franz Waxman is different from Max Steiner from Dmitri Tiomkin. We have room for all. The talking heads in Ennio made it seem as if there could be only one.

And therein lies the conundrum of film music "fandom". Absolute adoration with little to no tolerance of other great works by others.

Rather reeks of MAGA fever, doesn't it!

I have favorites, naturally. And some composers simply do not "speak" to my tastes but others drool over them. Ah, well.

Yes, this is the case so often, with anything like this.

John G. · « **Reply #48 on:** November 12, 2024, 06:19:30 AM »

Crazy good 5-year-old playing Mozart.

https://www.upworthy.com/5-year-old-italian-piano-prodigy-rocks-mozart-at-international-competition-and-holy-cow-rp

Jrand74 · « **Reply #49 on:** November 12, 2024, 06:22:22 AM »

Travel vibes for DR JOHN G.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #50 on:** November 12, 2024, 06:22:58 AM »

DR RON PULLIAM is did not mean that snow was imminent but rather that since it's November it will eventually be here.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #51 on:** November 12, 2024, 06:24:32 AM »

It is 42 degrees here headed for 52 degrees.

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #52 on:** November 12, 2024, 06:25:08 AM »

Kudos to DR Rodzinski in his quest to speak la langue des Français.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #53 on:** November 12, 2024, 06:27:01 AM »

A few favorite restaurant soups in my L.A. years were the lobster bisque ("famous for this") at Hamburger Hamlet, the green pea soups at both Marie Callender's and Pea Soup Anderson's (in Buellton and Oceanside), and a cream of broccoli (as opposed to broccoli and cheddar) at whatever the coffee shop at PCH and Hawthorne Blvd. in Torrance was called.

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #54 on:** November 12, 2024, 06:30:33 AM »

I have five years of French behind me...way behind me.

Three of those were high school classes. At that time, the classes were for "conversational" French. No textbooks, no tests. We simply learned by hearing and speaking. Our instructor was an American who had matriculated at La Sorbonne.

Another two years at college were quite different. I wanted to satisfy my language requirement by taking German, but my faculty adviser assured me that I was better off taking French with my background

Ah, me. College French was verb declensions, translations, etc. Quite an ordeal, actually, when all I could do was speak French We had never had to read it in high school.

Still, I persevered and got through it all.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #55 on:** November 12, 2024, 06:32:57 AM »

Quote from: Jrand74 on November 12, 2024, 06:24:32 AM

It is 42 degrees here headed for 52 degrees.

Similar here, but the wind is supposed to be picking up through the afternoon and it's going to go down to the mid-20s overnight for the next two nights.

Freddie · « **Reply #56 on:** November 12, 2024, 06:34:15 AM »

Quote from: singdaw on November 12, 2024, 04:20:50 AM

I wonder if "with the works" includes pineapple.

Doesn't that go without saying?

ChasSmith · « **Reply #57 on:** November 12, 2024, 06:36:24 AM »

I've dabbled a little bit in the DuoLingo French (just the free version so far, on the desktop), and will get back on it.

Yes, the genders just have to be learned, and I struggle with that. (Were noun genders easier in German? I don't know why they would be, but I took two years of that and don't recall having such difficulty with it.)

The thing that boggles me about French, though, is pronunciation, both hearing and speaking. That's a whole world unto itself.

Freddie · « **Reply #58 on:** November 12, 2024, 06:39:16 AM »

More travel vibes for John G!

Freddie · « **Reply #59 on:** November 12, 2024, 06:40:21 AM »

TOD: My mom's and grandmother's matzoh ball soup was a particular favorite of mine.

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