The Energon Pub

Any time I eat a muffahlotta I call it a muff dive.

Nemesis Maximo wrote:Any time I eat a muffahlotta I call it a muff dive.

Nemesis Maximo, you magnificent bastard!

Nemesis Maximo wrote:Any time I eat a muffahlotta I call it a muff dive.

A deli/restaurant around the corner from us sells "I (heart) muff" shirts

I remember fried chicken gizzards being tasty... haven't had them in a long time.

As for restaurants I wish I had near me but don't. White Castle, Denny's and the Cheesecake Factory come to mind.

Speaking of naansense, the Mrs made some mighty fine saag "paneer" - quoted because it's full vegan



And yes, I know it looks gross to the uninitiated. We replaced the paneer with tofu and this being our second run we did something a little different with the tofu. And for those who don't know, tofu is a mother **** to get to taste like anything, more less good.

So I did a hot water brine on it. Boiled very salty water, turned off the heat and dumped the tofu in for 15 minutes, then let it drain for 15 minutes. Has a nice salty taste with a creamy texture. Plays very nice with the sauce and hopefully will soak up all that flavor while it sits overnight.


Oh and I had a couple local dark stouts. One was a pretty straight forward milk stout and the other was a peanut butter milk stout. Both are brewed in Louisiana, so I won't bother a name drop.

carytheone wrote:Oh and I had a couple local dark stouts. One was a pretty straight forward milk stout and the other was a peanut butter milk stout. Both are brewed in Louisiana, so I won't bother a name drop.

As a craft beer aficionado, I’m intrigued by this.

carytheone wrote:vegan

Looks like the swear filter is broken again.

Burn wrote:

carytheone wrote:vegan

Looks like the swear filter is broken again.

Cary, you know who else was a vegetarian? Hitler.

I ate a 18oz medium rare Prime Rib tonight. With it came a baked potato, and a huge pile of brussels sprouts.

Wife, who is amazingly talented in the kitchen as well as kind enough to let me see her naked (and suffer through seeing me naked), cooked it to perfection. She is a good nurse, but I think she may have missed her calling as a pro chef.

Nemesis Maximo wrote:

carytheone wrote:Oh and I had a couple local dark stouts. One was a pretty straight forward milk stout and the other was a peanut butter milk stout. Both are brewed in Louisiana, so I won't bother a name drop.

As a craft beer aficionado, I’m intrigued by this.

Both are good if not better than average but the PB stout is interesting. It's just a waff of PB at the end. I'm a big fan of Gnarley Barly Brewing, they make an outstanding IPA called Juicifer.

Craft beers have just blown up lately and I've been making the crawl. So have the sour beers shown up in your area yet?

Next time you open Instagram Cary, look up "jabba drinks beers". It's my fiance's cousin and all she does is post pictures of the craft beers she's "sampled".

Burn wrote:Next time you open Instagram Cary, look up "jabba drinks beers". It's my fiance's cousin and all she does is post pictures of the craft beers she's "sampled".

"sampled"? Yeah, I "sample" by the pint too

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carytheone wrote:

Nemesis Maximo wrote:

carytheone wrote:Oh and I had a couple local dark stouts. One was a pretty straight forward milk stout and the other was a peanut butter milk stout. Both are brewed in Louisiana, so I won't bother a name drop.

As a craft beer aficionado, I’m intrigued by this.

Both are good if not better than average but the PB stout is interesting. It's just a waff of PB at the end. I'm a big fan of Gnarley Barly Brewing, they make an outstanding IPA called Juicifer.

Craft beers have just blown up lately and I've been making the crawl. So have the sour beers shown up in your area yet?

Sours have made their way here, but they haven’t exploded. Several other beer beer aficionados I know have said that their gonna be bigger than IPAs, but I don’t really see that happening, at least not here in Michigan. A lot of people lose their minds for IPAs here, I’m sure you’ve heard of Bell’s Two Hearted Ale.

Personally I prefer Stouts and Porters; Atwater Brewing in Detroit has their Raspberry Vanilla Java Porter which is on of my favorites.

That Flying Tiger, can you find that outside of Louisiana? I’ll be visiting my brother in the Florida Panhandle in May and I’ll try to find it if I can.

Nemesis Maximo wrote:

carytheone wrote:

Nemesis Maximo wrote:

carytheone wrote:Oh and I had a couple local dark stouts. One was a pretty straight forward milk stout and the other was a peanut butter milk stout. Both are brewed in Louisiana, so I won't bother a name drop.

As a craft beer aficionado, I’m intrigued by this.

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Both are good if not better than average but the PB stout is interesting. It's just a waff of PB at the end. I'm a big fan of Gnarley Barly Brewing, they make an outstanding IPA called Juicifer.

Craft beers have just blown up lately and I've been making the crawl. So have the sour beers shown up in your area yet?

Sours have made their way here, but they haven’t exploded. Several other beer beer aficionados I know have said that their gonna be bigger than IPAs, but I don’t really see that happening, at least not here in Michigan. A lot of people lose their minds for IPAs here, I’m sure you’ve heard of Bell’s Two Hearted Ale.

Personally I prefer Stouts and Porters; Atwater Brewing in Detroit has their Raspberry Vanilla Java Porter which is on of my favorites.

That Flying Tiger, can you find that outside of Louisiana? I’ll be visiting my brother in the Florida Panhandle in May and I’ll try to find it if I can.

I had my first sour weiss at a brewery in Natchez, MS - it was blackberry or something. I felt that they'd be the next IPA and now I'm seeing them everywhere. They are quite good on a very hot summer day.

Being a low budget wine snob, my preference in beer depends on the day, temperature and meal. This winter I'm sticking to stouts and porters. The best two I've had recently was Founders Canadian Breakfast Stout and Grimm's Icing on the Cake. Both ABV above 10%.

I'm not sure of those brewer's reach, I've only just heard of Flying Tiger (North LA) and have been drinking Gnarly Barly (South LA and about 45 minutes from me) for years. Baton Rouge is about to get its 3rd brewery soon, which will be about two blocks from my house.

Can't say I've heard of either of those breweries, but I'd never call myself an aficionado. Mostly I see local and beers from nearby states or larger craft beers that have a stronger reach. I work in grocery stores and talk to the beer/alcohol venders from time to time, they are the ones that dictate a majority of what you see.

What part of the panhandle? Where we normally visit got hit hard recently by a hurricane. You're more likely to see Southern Mississippi beers there than Louisiana, keep an eye out for anything from Lazy Magnolia Brewery. MS has quite a few breweries now. Unfortunately I'm not familiar with anything from Alabama or Florida, just too far away. You might find something by the big LA brewers; Abita Brewing or NOLA Brewing.

Nemesis Maximo wrote:

Burn wrote:

carytheone wrote:vegan

Looks like the swear filter is broken again.

Cary, you know who else was a vegetarian? Hitler.

That escalated quickly...

As for tofu, an ex-gf made me try it once. Once. When we met, she was a vegan. She thought she was going to make me one too. 6 months later, she was slamming bacon cheeseburgers with me.

Ironhidensh, to each his own, but I've seen someone eat a medium rare steak in front of me, and I couldn't see myself doing that. I like my cow good and dead. Not crispy, but browner than rare.

Rodimus Prime wrote:

Nemesis Maximo wrote:

Burn wrote:

carytheone wrote:vegan

Looks like the swear filter is broken again.

Cary, you know who else was a vegetarian? Hitler.

That escalated quickly...

As for tofu, an ex-gf made me try it once. Once. When we met, she was a vegan. She thought she was going to make me one too. 6 months later, she was slamming bacon cheeseburgers with me.

Ironhidensh, to each his own, but I've seen someone eat a medium rare steak in front of me, and I couldn't see myself doing that. I like my cow good and dead. Not crispy, but browner than rare.

Tofu is one of those things that is hard to make taste. It's even harder to make it taste good. We've gotten pretty good at it. About 4 years ago we were almost fully vegetarian and getting close to vegan and I had lost around 80 pounds (a lot of which was muscle). Life changes and I'm back up about 40 (a lot of which isn't muscle). Did you know there's a sandwich in every beer?

Ah steak! Medium rare yes, but not bloody. I'm a NY strip or ribeye kinda guy. I cook them two ways; either on a charcoal grill, very hot and very fast or in a cast iron skillet, on the stove and also very hot very fast. Both are excellent in their own ways. Typically topped with blue cheese and paired with a cabernet sauvignon (or some other robust red). On the side is usually something bright green and contrasting like asparagus or brussel sprouts then something complimentary like some form of potato (can't really go wrong with steak and potatoes).

**** I'm hungry all of a sudden

Burn wrote:

Nemesis Maximo wrote:That also explains the perpetual grumpy mood.

Right that does it! I've had enough of these comments! *bans D-Max*

Now wait wait wait a second here, I'm innocent this time!

Burn wrote:

Cobotron wrote:Wrong Max, Chief.

Shoosh you! D-Max actually encouraged me the other day to ban you.
When I say encouraged he didn't actually say "no don't do that to Cobes!"

At least one mod is willing to stand up for me

And i encouraged him not to ban you!

Also, my new years eve dinner in my apartment, table for 3: me, myself, and I



(I promise there were more wings, I only got 3 at a time)

My New Year's Eve tradition is a nice big bacon cheeseburger with fries and watching Transformers: The Movie starting at midnight. I do it every year, so it's the first thing I do every year.

Now that I feel alive again, we had the family over for NYE and played an escape room board game. We had snacks and booze, mostly booze. It was fun.


Anyway, this seemed like a better place for this convo...

Nemesis Maximo wrote:I bet GEEWUN John Warden eats plain oatmeal and boiled goose every single day for breakfast, because he doesn’t seem to like any variety.

Wait, you've never had boiled goose oatmeal before? That's like on top of the menu at British-style restaurants in the states. Well that and bangers and mash.

Yeah, we have a place called The Londoner Grill here. They have a beater red double-decker bus out front. We at brunch there once, it was bland and according to that stalker-ass google via maps, it was 4 years ago.

Yes, Google Maps can be very creepy. It remembers my cross country trip from 2 1/2 years ago. Like, every place I went. It was a 6000-mile trip, I went all over the place. And here is Google Maps, asking me if I want to go again. The thing is, I do.

Rodimus Prime wrote:Yes, Google Maps can be very creepy. It remembers my cross country trip from 2 1/2 years ago.

I find the benefits outweigh the creepiness.

If you're all in with google, have you ever checked your timeline? Ain't no secrets there

EDIT: here is a high level view of mine that goes back who knows how far.

Wow, that's a lot of flavor. Going need a few minutes to process. Based out of Holland Michigan. I've been wanting to try this for a while, but it's one of those pricey 4 packs.

carytheone wrote:

Wow, that's a lot of flavor. Going need a few minutes to process. Based out of Holland Michigan. I've been wanting to try this for a while, but it's one of those pricey 4 packs.

That is an interesting name and I love it. I've never heard of that either

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:

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Wow, that's a lot of flavor. Going need a few minutes to process. Based out of Holland Michigan. I've been wanting to try this for a while, but it's one of those pricey 4 packs.

That is an interesting name and I love it. I've never heard of that either

I fancy myself a whisky drinker and it's definitely on that spectrum of flavor. It's nothing like a coffee/chocolate stout, it's real clean. It's also not like traditional stouts like Guinness. Sweet on the nose like molasses, carmelly in the mouth with hints of vanilla. Leaves the tongue feeling dry. At 11% ABV, it's a sipper. I like it, but wouldn't want it all the time. Worthy of a pick up if you like high alcohol dark beers.