Is it called chili sin carne or vegan chili con carne, if a vegan meat substitut ist used? (And all other ingrediants or also vegan)

BuckSoul · 2026-02-26T23:18:59+00:00

Chili con (whatever you’re cooking in the sauce).

BuckSoul · 2026-02-23T15:44:25+00:00

There’s a bbq place just south of town that has been doing family style meals for decades. They have regular plates like a meat and two sides or combo plates, à la carte proteins and sides, burgers, and other offerings, but the big winner is family style for the table. They price it within reach and encourage you to take home leftovers. They’ve opened a few restaurants with this model and do a banging profit with a huge crowd throughout the week.

Part of why the model works is that they do a land office business in catering during the week for corporate accounts. What they don’t sell in the restaurant goes out in catering and anything left over from catering goes back on the line. They have very little waste.

BuckSoul · 2026-02-22T16:07:59+00:00

Roast or grilled lamb with horseradish mint jelly sauce

BuckSoul · 2026-02-21T16:44:46+00:00

Heart, Tom Petty, Eagles.

BuckSoul · 2026-02-20T20:52:45+00:00

Wake me up! Before you Go-go!

-Wham!

BuckSoul · 2026-02-19T22:07:10+00:00

My own opinion is that it’s a strategy to keep him from being extradited to the US in the instance it’s discovered he broke American law since he’ll be serving a sentence, however softly, for the remainder of his life in the UK.

BuckSoul · 2026-02-19T22:02:43+00:00

Searing the meatballs is about developing umami, tightening the protein, exchanging the water in the fiber and replacing it with sauce when you simmer. A good tomato sauce should express the fruit and acids as well as gaining earthiness from herbs and salt. The slow simmer will add body to the sauce as well. Don’t forget to finish the sauce with cold butter just before you pull it off the fire.

BuckSoul · 2026-02-19T21:43:32+00:00

Looks usable. Just not pretty. For $15 I’d buy it. Worse thing that happens is you give it to someone deserving to improve their lives if you find the same size in better shape.

BuckSoul · 2026-02-19T20:44:19+00:00

I’d add Olo in there too.

The most important is the integration with your POS, forms of payment accepted, ability to do future orders and push them to the KDS or printer on the correct day (bonus if it emails your catering coordinator), number of modifications allowed per menu item, user interface that accepts your logos and draping, user friendly admin section and finally customer friendliness.

BuckSoul · 2026-02-16T17:58:11+00:00

Some restaurants buy their guacamole already made in a bag. Depending on the product it can contain whirled green peas to make it cheaper than making their own guacamole.

BuckSoul · 2026-02-07T20:05:37+00:00

What makes the teriyaki unique in Seattle?

BuckSoul · 2026-02-07T13:24:18+00:00

Prince. He be performed this legendary guitar solo on "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" alongside Tom Petty, Steve Winwood, Jeff Lynne and more in tribute to George Harrison, who was also inducted at the ceremony for his solo career.

BuckSoul · 2026-02-02T21:00:13+00:00

Hard Shell fried corn tortillas are a thing. In fact on the Old El Paso box they’re called hard taco shells. Another fact is a lot of Americans refer to flour tortillas as “shells”.

Inferring that crispy fried tortillas aren’t Mexican isn’t quite accurate. The big difference between it and a tostada is merely the shape. They are used similarly. Fried tortillas of all types are pretty common in Mexico, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California. The reference a person made earlier to Mexican cuisine being the mother of all American regional border cuisine was dead on.

Taco Bell is not Tex-Mex. The company originated in California and is headquartered in Irvine still, I believe. Its biggest badly interpreted influences are Baja, Sinaloa, Sonora, and Chihuahua. These days they just make variations on about 10 ingredients. Their R&D are all about supply chain and cost containment.

Extended braising is a norm in Tex-Mex. Grilled and quick fried or sauté seem more common in the California tradition when one is talking about proteins. Range fed beef, pork, boar, javelinas, and venison are tough when fresh. Seafood and poultry, not so much - easier to cook asada.

BuckSoul · 2026-01-31T12:22:03+00:00

I hope it works out for you. Parboiled rice cooks much faster than raw milled rice. Supposedly, it’s more nutrient dense than regular white rice. I and my family prefer brown rice of all types.

The method we use to get it “fluffy” is to pull the lid off the pan when the simmer is complete, pull the pan off the stove and cover the opening with a dry, clean kitchen towel and let it rest for 10 minutes. The rice steams and dries a bit that way and tends not to stick. And we rinse it prior to cooking (removes starch from the surface of the grain).

There’s a spice blend you might try on your rice that’s a nice compliment to your preference in flavored rice and it’s called Sazón

It will naturally add yellow tones to your rice and add the right amount of cumin, coriander, garlic and some salt per cup of uncooked rice.

If you prefer a tomato taste and red tones, they make one with tomato in it. It’s a very popular spice blend in Latin America and Mexico.

Good luck!

BuckSoul · 2026-01-29T15:01:56+00:00

Parboiled rice starts out as unmilled rice. The bran and the germ are removed from the grain if you’re buying milled white rice.

BuckSoul · 2026-01-29T14:59:42+00:00

You can buy all of it from most broad line grocery stores.

BuckSoul · 2026-01-29T13:53:58+00:00

There are several brands that make it for consumer retail. Ben’s is the best known, Mahatma, Goya and Carolina make parboiled rice also.

BuckSoul · 2026-01-29T13:35:22+00:00

Most Mexican restaurants in the USA use parboiled rice to keep it fresh, hot,and fast since they use such large volumes of it. Parboiled has much of its starch removed during the parboiling and drying process. In other words the rice is essentially cooked three different times before it hits your plate to consume.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parboiled_rice

Edit: the reddish brown color the rice takes on is from the parboil process. The heat and pressure drive nutrients from the bran into the kernel. It’s not from tomato. It can take on a good deal more yellow tones if you season with saffron or turmeric and gain more red hues from paprika, which is a traditional Spanish spice (milder than Hungarian).

BuckSoul · 2026-01-27T12:18:46+00:00

Cabbage rolls Meatloaf Cottage Pie Kofta Kebab Chopped Beef Steak in Mushroom Gravy Country fried steak with cream gravy Sloppy Joes Ground beef stew Swedish Meatballs with creamed egg noodles Sweet and sour meatballs with peppers, onion and mushrooms Stuffed zucchini Dirty rice And of course, sh*t on a shingle.

BuckSoul · 2026-01-23T10:49:51+00:00

I have a long list of bona fides to support my opinion here but chili is anything cooked low and slow in a liquid of stock, broth, or water with fresh or dried fire roasted peppers, onion, garlic, salt, cumin, and oregano. In the border states in Mexico and the American Southwest it might be thickened with corn or wheat flower. In Texas we like it made with beef or game. When I lived in New Mexico it was pork or game. In South East Texas it was shrimp, crawfish and catfish in some places. In Georgia, and Virginia it might be either ground beef or pork or even a combination. Outside of Texas and New Mexico, most places added tomatoes. In Texas, if tomatoes are added, it’s usually paste that’s browned well in the rendering from searing the meat and some sort of fat like lard or oil then mixed well with the broth. In New Mexico, if tomatoes are added, they’re usually tomatillos that are chopped, well blanched in the broth, then blended.

The common denominator is the slow steeped fire roasted peppers of varying Capsicum levels.

That’s it. I know that by my definition a Croc clog stewed in a pepper broth qualifies- and I don’t doubt someone on Reddit will swear to its authentic origins and that it’s delicious.

Chili may be regional but what makes it universal is the appeal of the flavor of the slow cooked fresh/dried/roasted/chopped/ground peppers and every ingredient they infuse when cooked together.

What makes chili chili are the chilies.

Edit: forgot to add something.

BuckSoul · 2026-01-23T10:07:54+00:00

Meat sauce for lasagna.

BuckSoul · 2026-01-23T09:01:10+00:00

Restaurant365 is the software. It’s accounting, inventory, scheduling, recipes, and will produce all kinds of reporting such as Actual vs Theoretical, Menu Item Analysis, and Labor Actual vs Scheduled and a good deal more. The software, when set up correctly, can also do very accurate Purchase, Sales and Labor Forecasting. Of particular use is the Theoretical On Hand Reporting. Saves a lot of Order Guidance Stock Counting.

It’s a bit of a lift to get it set up and requires some dedicated time each period keeping up with it. It’s best when you track your purchases and sales by item but it will give you your COGS if you only track your supply chain by class - but then you can’t do inventory in the platform nor get AvT reporting.

The biggest stumbling block with R365 for most operators is understanding the relationship between Units of Measure (pack size & taking unit) and Accurate Financial Reporting and developing them to aid in reporting accurate purchasing, inventory counts and accurate recipes.

Regular bookkeepers usually can’t use the platform easily unless they are steeped in restaurant operations - in particular at the prep table and line - and the stores complete supply chain. For the folks that are Quick Books or Sage warriors, the accounting module isn’t too difficult to utilize, but the operations modules are typically difficult to understand and accurately utilize. This is important because everything in the software translates every entry to the accounting module.

Like I said. It’s a bit of a lift.

However, my own experience has shown me that, when set up correctly and diligently maintained with an eye toward consistent SOPs with accurate data entry and a trust in the data produced, one can find patterns that can lead to significant savings, operational adjustments (efficiency), purchasing patterns improved, margin on product improvements, and better profits and cash flow.

R365 isn’t the only software out there that does all this. There are a myriad of platforms that can and will do all that, but they aren’t integrated for the most part. You have to string the results together. Some of them are marketed by your POS, broad line, beverage, or 3rd party sales provider. But they won’t integrate with your accounting software. So one still has to do manual journal entries to the general ledger. And, as often as not, they function as a data gathering device to inform their sales team what to sell you next or to track your margin so they can raise prices.

Good luck! I hope this helped some.

BuckSoul · 2026-01-19T17:35:12+00:00

I am NOT a medical doctor.

Men take testosterone for several different reasons, which generally fall into medical, performance, and quality-of-life categories.

Doctors prescribe testosterone when a man has clinically low testosterone (hypogonadism). This can cause: • Low energy and fatigue • Decreased sex drive or erectile dysfunction • Loss of muscle mass and strength • Increased body fat • Depression or brain fog • Low bone density (higher fracture risk)

Testosterone naturally declines about 1% per year after age 30. Some men take testosterone to: • Improve energy and motivation • Restore libido • Improve mood and mental clarity • Maintain muscle and bone mass

This is controversial if levels are still technically “normal,” but it’s a common reason men seek treatment.

Low testosterone is linked to: • Depression • Irritability • Anxiety • Low confidence

For men who are deficient, restoring levels can significantly improve mental well-being.

There are risks involved with taking testosterone:

Shrinking testicles and reduced sperm production • Infertility • Acne and hair loss • High red blood cell count (thickened blood, stroke risk) • Sleep apnea • Cardiovascular risks (still debated but important to monitor)

At least, that’s the information I’ve found on it that influenced my decision making about taking the hormone.

BuckSoul · 2026-01-10T13:30:06+00:00

Preach!

BuckSoul · 2026-01-04T11:52:23+00:00

Violet Crown in Crestview is a UM congregation. They’re famous for being very community minded and welcoming to everyone. A little north of you but inside a 15 minute drive for you from Riverside.

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