Drink? Don't mind if I do.

At the present, we have a lot of alcohol and most of it is in boxes or stashed in cupboards.


I cannot wait until we have room for a drinks trolley in our living room. We will still need alternate drinks storage though as we have more wine and spirits than you can shake a stick at.


I haved the below images saved on my computer as inspiration.. when the time comes.















I like the simplicity of this.


How is your moonshine stored?
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STEAK EXPERIMENTS

Every season is the season of grilling meat here at Chez STORMBRINGER but springtime is ESPECIALLY the season for cooking meat on fire . . .


. . . which of course is the ONLY way for the Viking Warrior to cook his meat.


Tom of the Viking Brethren has sent us this unique technique for the preparation of le bœuf - enjoy!

- S.L.





This is NOT boiled beef.


It's a scientifically cooked rare steak that hit 134F all the way through, not one bit more, and then was given a quick maillard reaction. Note the even color of the perfect rare steak?

Naysayers say it's poaching or boiling but it is not one bit of that.




Sealed up and ready to go in the 132-133°F water bath . . .


. . . that is a water bath where the water never directly touches the meat, therefore, naysayers that call it boiling meat might look into the fact that you can't get water to boil at 132-133°F at normal atmospheric pressures and it isn't being boiled, oh and it isn't in contact with the water: zippable plastic bag.




Seared and near sporking.


Seared and happy after being slightly cooled from holding at 132-133°F and then subjected to hot mesquite coals for a a couple minutes each side, i.e. PERFECT for steaks the way the Thomas likes.

Stop looking at my SPORK like that! YES, it is titanium, isn't yours?




Yummers.


Trust me: YUMMERS. Note the even color all the way through because NONE of it got overcooked? Yes, I could use a better camera, but it's low on toy and tool prioritization.




Proof of the Pudding.


You don't need a full vacuum to do a really good home variant of Sous Vide cooking for perfect and interesting steaks as long as you have good temperature control. I did the marinade because I had a bottle of FFC merlot where the cork exploded and it would have been a huge hassle to filter but was too good to waste, not because a marinade is a prerequisite for a good Sous Vide steak.

Maybe some of the gear I used was designed for chemistry and metallurgy work, but you ever try to get a culinary oven or stove to hold an exact temperature? ;-)

I can grill, I can broil, I can barbecue, and now I have another tool in the toolbox of culinary techniques.


Excelsior,
tom







And here's a nice drop to wash it down . . .



. . . I fully approve the Viking motif on the label . . .



. . . and the wine ain't half bad either . . .





. . . STORMBRINGER SENDS






Saturday's Bird HERE



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SATURDAY NIGHT AT STORMBRINGER's

"Bring on the women and the dwarves!"


Bacchus was painted sometime around 1595 by Italian Baroque master Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. You can see this painting in the Uffizi Gallery, in Florence, Italy.

Bacchus (known in Ancient Greece as Dionysus, Διόνυσος) is the Ancient Roman god of wine, the vintage, and drunkeness, wine cups, inspirational ritual madness, joyful worship, and ecstasy, wine, grapes, theater, wineskins, and fertility. Did I mention wine? The contemporary carnival celebrations of Europe, South America and even the Mardi Gras of New Orleans are in actuality modern day incarnations of the ancient Roman Bacchanalia.

I would present the Greek statue of Dionysus but I am not comfortable enough in my masculinity to post it here. - S.L.

The painting shows a youthful Bacchus reclining in classical fashion with grapes and vine leaves in his hair, fingering the drawstring of his loosely-draped robe. On a stone table in front of him is a bowl of fruit and a large carafe of red wine; with his left hand he holds out to the viewer a shallow goblet of the same wine, apparently inviting the viewer to join him.

Whether intentional or not, there is humour in this painting. The pink-faced Bacchus is an accurate portrayal of a half-drunk teenager dressed in a sheet and leaning on a mattress, but far less convincing as a Graeco-Roman god. The carafe has attracted more scholarly attention than Bacchus himself, because after the painting was cleaned, a tiny portrait of the artist working at his easel was discovered in the reflection on the glass. A reflection of Bacchus' face can also be seen on the surface of the wine in the glass he is holding.

Bacchus' offering of the wine with his left hand - despite the obvious effort this would have caused the model - has led to speculation that Caravaggio used a mirror to assist himself while working from life, doing away with the need for drawing. In other words, what appears to us as the boy's left hand was actually the artist's right.

For anyone who has ever attended Mardi Gras; take the drunkeness, gratuitous nudity, open promiscuity and sheer madness of that event, amp it up at least a tenfold and you can begin to imagine what the Roman celebration of Bacchus must have been like.



Is it just me, or does anyone else sense a similarity here? - Sean Linnane

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