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Tim P Rak
@timprak.bsky.social
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You can't just eat food. You've got to talk about it, too, and you've got to talk about it with someone who understands that food. - paraphrased from Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
"I'm certain as a lost dog pondering a signpost." - DPA MacManus
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November 27, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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Recipe for Sweet Potato Souffle; 350' - 35" + 20"; serves 8-10 Souffle: 3 Cups mashed, roasted sweet potatoes, 1 cup of sugar, 1/2 tsp of salt, 2 eggs - lightly beaten, 1/3 stick of butter melted, 1 cup milk, 1 tsp vanilla (optional, brown the butter, add fresh ground nutmeg) Topping: 1 cup chopped pecans, 1/3 cup AP flour, 1/2 stick butter, 1 cup brown sugar, (optional: I add some ground cinnamon and ginger but you do you on the pumpkin spices; also optional: 1 cup of shredded coconuts which I have never, ever done). Mix the mashed sweet potatoes, adding each ingredient after mixing) with the sugar, add salt, nutmeg (if using), butter, and milk. Cook potato mixture in a buttered casserole dish at 350 for 20"; combine topping ingredients in the order listed, add to the top of the casserole. Return to over for twenty to twenty-five minutes until the top is nicely browned.
November 27, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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The guy transcends time and space so, I guess, we should listen to what he has to say:
screencap of description of said guy stating that he is a resident of two counties for over 39 years according to himself.
November 19, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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The pressed lamb shoulder at Chez Maggy in Denver is not to be missed:
On a cream white plate (colors somewhat distorted by the camera) with a script 'Maggy' at about 12:15, sits a slightly deconstructed mound of pressed lamb shoulder, topped with preserved lemon strips and surrounded by an amazing ratatouille and panisse.
November 10, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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Just ran the numbers on my son's 'typical' weekend breakfast.
An excel table with columns from left to right consisting of breakfast components (waffles, bacon, milk, butter and syrup) on the left, the 'units' of each consumed, calories per unit and then a calculation summing them up to 1,687 calories.
October 5, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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September 13, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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A seal point Siamese looking cat is curled up on a pillow with her right front paw poking out underneath her left rear leg.
September 9, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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Yes, but they did get theirs:
I especially appreciate how the article describes this as 'farm safety net enhancements' and not 'government benefits' or 'welfare'.
Quoted text from article: "The One Big Beautiful Bill Act that was signed in July included about $66 billion in agriculture-focused spending. The vast majority, about $59 billion, is earmarked for farm safety-net enhancements, according to the American Farm Bureau Federation."
August 31, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Made a steak with mushrooms and their combined juices as a sauce. It came out quite nicely.
A picture of the butcher's case at HEB showing a selection of Prime Beef boneless ribeye steaks for $22.99 per pound. On plate with a blue floral pattern, sits a cooked ribeye steak mounted with sauteed mushrooms. On that same plate, a closeup of a cut of the deckle of the ribeye showing how the steak is cooked, which is to say that there is a thin layer of 'crust' and a not quite uniform medium rare throughout the rest of the cut.
August 27, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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Apropos of today's WYTS, it is even a cool crisp fall day in Houston!
August 25, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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Purchased. At that price, no one can afford not to but it!
August 15, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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Smoked meat and aged cheese fritatta with many aliums and mushrooms:
A smooshed up wedge of the fritatta as it has been stuffed in a container to be eaten tomorrow or, perhaps, tonight. There are some nice crusty bits to the lower left of the image and several mushrooms seem to have floated to the top of the dish. This came out very well. Maybe a little rich or maybe better served with a few more greens. Smoked meats were leftovers from Pinkerton's.
July 20, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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Made some Dave's Killer muffins (they're not great but with enough butter, they're fine) and a weird quasi omelette.
On a circular plate with a continuous blue floral pattern are two halves of an English muffin, generously buttered and a weird looking omelette with hot sauce and black pepper generously applied.
May 9, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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Also, cats. Happy to report the cats are doing about their usual when it's an hour or so away from their feeding time.
In a hallway, two cats are perched. In the foreground, on the top of a column, is a russian blue looking domestic short hair. In the background, her sister, a siamese looking domestic short hair, is on the railing. They are looking intently at the photographer's point of view.
May 2, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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Made an open faced bacon, lettuce, tomato, scrambled egg, cream cheese with salsa open faced sandwich on toast today. It was good. Salsa courtesy of the generous folks at TJ Birrias who threw in almost a dozen cups with my last order!
On a plate with a blue floral pattern sit two open faced sandwiches (composed as described in the post) with their bacon and tomato askew and drenched in red salsa, foregrounded by a dribble of scrambled egg on the plate itself. A butter knife sits on the left side of the plate with the slightly dirty blade pointed in the direction of the viewer.
February 22, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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I hope @ryannorth.ca is OK with me putting this image from a t-shirt of his here:
There is a scroll banner which reads from the top middle: 'FAILURE' then the left lower part of the banner reads 'IS JUST SUCCESS' and the right lower part of the banner reads 'ROUNDED DOWN'. In the middle of the three banners is a drawing of raptor like dinosaur (perhaps a T-Rex), being quoted as saying 'oh well'. The banner text is upper case and the dinosaur's text is lower case.
December 24, 2024 at 9:31 PM
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Had no burger buns, but made a cheeseburger anyway. From the bottom to the top, toasted whole wheat, Duke's mayo, HEB prime brisket patty, gruyere cheese, hickory smoked thick cut bacon, balsamic sauteed onions, cherry tomatoes, yellow mustard and then another slice of toasted whole wheat.
Cross section of the burger described in the post. The toast is not holding up well but the burger is delicious. The burger described in the post on a blue floral plate with some of the onions spilling out in the foreground of the image.
November 23, 2024 at 5:53 PM
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Two cats, one that looks like a russian blue and a second that looks like a siamese (they both are barn cats of indeterminate heritage) sit on a black platform against a beige backdrop sit back to back with their necks craned looking just off the focal point of the camera.
November 21, 2024 at 2:21 AM
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When Flicka woke up, she promptly retreated to the bedroom where she has since been sleeping under the comforter for the past four hours.
Dorsal view of pointed seal coat siamese cat with her hind legs and tail tucked between her front paws on a lap.
November 5, 2024 at 8:50 PM
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Made a frittata for brunch. It was pretty great.
On a blue floral pattern plate, sits a slice of frittata with bacon, tomato, cherry pepper, onion and garlic with four cheeses (blue, mozzarella, four asadero and parm) green onion and shave parmesan are sprinkled liberally atop. In a twelve inch non-stick skillet, sits a whole frittata with bacon, tomato, cherry pepper, onion and garlic with four cheeses (blue, mozzarella, four asadero and parm) green onion and shave parmesan are sprinkled liberally atop.
November 3, 2024 at 7:39 PM
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Made breakfast. Was good!
On a plate with a blue floral pattern is a pile of hash potatoes, mixed with leftover esquites, pickled cherry peppers and jalapenos that is covere with two eggs cooked sunnyside up and roughly chopped chives and parsley.
October 9, 2024 at 5:04 PM
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The weather may be lousy but the eating's still good. Had just about everything on the menu at Pinkerton's and it was all perfect.

#pinkerton's
In an aluminum tray are, from left to right, several slices of fatty brisket, one link of jalapeno sausage, a ling of 'regular' sausage and jalapeno cheese sausage. On the rightmost side of the tray is a pile of pulled pork and behind that are several mostly hidden pork spare ribs. Off to the left, sit deli containers of bacon mac and cheese, pickled onions and jalapenos. Not pictured, south Texas beans, coleslaw and jalapeno cheese rice. Missing in action, alas, was the boudin links!
September 7, 2024 at 1:07 AM
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Birriadillas for lunch today from TJ Birrias y Mas. Superb flavors textures and colors!
Four birriadillas, lime wedges, chopped cilantro, red onion and a small cup of consomme are in a styrofoam clamshell. Three smaller cups of green, red, and then green again salsa and some lids are in the other half of the clamshell.
August 23, 2024 at 9:34 PM
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Perhaps the most redeeming part of summer is the gorgeous stone fruits available at this time of year. About to enjoy this delightful, so called, aprium.
On a white plate with a blue floral pattern border are eight wedges of a vibrant fuchsia colored aprium arrayed radially.
August 2, 2024 at 6:07 PM
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Last meal breakfast (albeit with a broken yoke).
On a plate with a blue floral pattern are arranged clockwise from the seven o'clock position two slices or toasted and buttered rosemary sourdough toast, at eleven o'clock several rashers of crispy bacon and from roughly one o'clock to four o'clock are two fried eggs, sunny side up covered with salt, pepper and green onions.
April 21, 2024 at 4:09 PM