Comedy club


I went to a comedy club to see some wise guys. I wouldn't have gone, except it was for a birthday and I'm obliged to do what people want to do on their birthdays. Here's the thing: I have a fear that if I go to a comedy club, I will be singled out and picked on. You know how comics like to bust snaps on people? I don't want that to be me, so I just don't take the risk. Leon reassured me that the comics only bust on people who heckle them, and I'm not much of a heckler so I have nothing to worry about, right? But like I said, this was for a birthday, so I went. We were thankfully seated in the back. And the comics, they had no discretion! They picked on anyone! Non-hecklers and hecklers alike. I was lucky that they didn't pick on me, but I was sweating it the whole time. Plus, there were a bunch of unfunny racist jokes. I was so glad to get out of there.

Cooking with Teeni


Saturday we went out to Whole Foods for this and that, but mostly for free cheese and olive samples. While we were there, I decided to pick up some soyrizo that my tia recently recommended. Sunday morning I fryed it up with some breakfast potatoes and shallots (I would have used yellow onion, but this was all I had). Delish! One word of warning for this stuff, the casing is plastic! Don't try to cook up the whole thing mash & fry style, like real sausage. Remove the plastic casing first and squeeze out like toothpaste.

Breakfast potatoes

Get a bag of small yellow dutch potatoes from TJ's
Grab a shallot or a 1/4 cup yellow onion
Snip off half of the Soyrizo and freeze the other half for next weekend

Wash the potatoes, cut them into quarters, then parboil them in salted water for about 8 minutes.

Prep your onions and Soyrizo.

Get out a large skillet and add about 1.5 tbs oil on med-high heat.

Strain the parboiled potatoes and add to the skillet. Salt and pepper generously and let them slightly brown. Once you get that going, add in the shallots or onions and get those to start cooking a little.

Finally, add in the Soyrizo and mix it up really well. Keep stirring it up and try to get the Soyrizo to look a little like ground beef.

That's about when it's done, so grab a plate and dig in.

Brisket gets a bath


I couldn't resist taking this picture of Heylove because she looked so upset. She hates baths. She was such a filthy beast we had to hose her down, whether she liked it or not. There's no ammount of liver treats in the world that can make a bath better for her.

Grilled Cheese!


I would like to give a shout out to the finest grilled cheese sandwich in Sacramento, which can be had at Nationwide Freezer Meats. I had a hankering for a grilled cheese on Saturday, so that's where we ended up for munch. Check out this beauty. So perfect you want to buy an extra one and put it between the pages in a dictionary under "grilled cheese."