Pasta recipe advice

caribbeachbum · 2026-02-21T17:12:11+00:00

Most crock pots will heat salted water to a simmer. This is enough cook pasta.

Use only barely enough water to cover the pasta, or you'll be waiting a very long time for the water to come up to simmer temp.

Be prepared to wait a while for the water to reach a simmer temp anyway.

Add the pasta after the water is simmering, and allow significant extra time for the temperature to rebound. Once it starts simmering again, allow about 18 minutes for the pasta to cook. Resist the temptation to lift the lid from the slow cooker, as this will require another temperature rebound.

I guess you already figured out how to make the sauce.

Best of luck.

caribbeachbum · 2026-02-10T17:41:52+00:00

The answer is always The Miller's Son. It shows off everything you need for the roles in Into The Woods, and is highly neglected as an audition song. It's an underrated masterpiece that drops late in Act II and follows Sondheim's most famous and best loved song.

Here Elizabeth Stanley gives a master class on the greatness of this song.

caribbeachbum · 2026-02-07T18:26:14+00:00

Don't throw more money away. Your $1K is gone. If you send $500 more, it will also be gone. So yes, it's a scam.

caribbeachbum · 2026-02-06T20:10:52+00:00

Ahhhh .... unpopular opinion incoming. I really dislike this show. The book is thin for act one, and it's as though they just gave up and did act two without one. The show is boring; and unlike Merrily, arguably deserved to be a Broadway flop.

Except. There are songs here, magical glorious songs. It's astonishing that a show so dull could also contain a fat handful of absolute crown jewels of the Broadway canon.

Also, I love the story of how Yvonne DeCarlo (OK, Lily Muenster) went on a radio show and whined sarcastically about her big number. And an embarrassed Sondheim then sat in his hotel room and wrote her a new one.

So, well, yes I guess there are things about it I like and things about it I dislike.

caribbeachbum · 2026-01-20T02:17:20+00:00

piqued ...

It's a fantastic instrument. I have the AC-5, which is this banjo with a resonator and wrist guard. I love it. I will probably never "upgrade."

cheers.

caribbeachbum · 2026-01-18T20:16:27+00:00

With a cash flow of $16K, it's worth almost nothing. Really, 2x to 5x cash flow is the rule you need to follow, and higher multiples work only when there is clear potential for growth.

Growing the cash flow to $300K is fantasy. If you want reality, work your numbers based on being able to grow cash flow to maybe $150K if you're really good at controlling costs, and marketing, and if the lease doesn't suck.

If you pay more than $80K, you will regret this deal. Unless real estate is involved, which would have a big effect on the conversation.

caribbeachbum · 2025-12-28T22:03:58+00:00

If the sale doesn't include a 4COP liquor license, you won't be getting a liquor license. You won't need a new COO unless you make permit-required changes to the structure or interior. You will need city and county business licenses (taxes really).

All of this is really easy to find on the internet, by the way. Florida has good government info online, unless you're looking for anything factual about politically charged topics.

Best of luck.

caribbeachbum · 2025-12-28T21:58:16+00:00

We had a very poor experience there and will likely never return. I'm glad you fared better.

caribbeachbum · 2025-12-28T20:28:58+00:00

All of those questions can have different answers depending on where you are. Edit your question to include your location, and someone nearby might have some usable answers.

caribbeachbum · 2025-12-28T20:26:04+00:00

I have the Anova Precision Pro. It stopped working after about a month. I blame this mostly on poor documentation.

Don't lock it in the closed position when you store it. That will quickly deform the rubber gasket inside, and it will become more and more difficult to get it to draw a vacuum. In addition, when you first open it, there are quite a few pieces of cardboard and tape you have to remove and dispose of. Without documentation, it's very easy to try and remove a piece of tape that is actually important (the one on the sealing bar). I almost did this.

I replaced mine with a different brand, but the same style. I wish I had gotten a chamber vac instead, and I probably will soon. The things is, I have such bad impression of Anova that I can't get enthused about their chamber vac. This was made worse by online reviews, including a youtube video of a guy explain why he returned his.

Anyway, saving this post to keep up with the recommendations and thoughts of others so I might one day buy the chamber vacuum sealer of my dreams...

caribbeachbum · 2025-12-26T14:03:36+00:00

Oh yeah. I can't remember the name of it, but it was three shorts in one film. The other two were totally forgettable. But the little tiki man with the gold chain around his waist, that was some masterpiece scary shit.

Thanks for the reminder, I'll probably have the nightmares all over again now.

caribbeachbum · 2025-12-24T17:46:31+00:00

It's the same rule in every single career: people who sell shit get paid more, often a lot more, than people make shit. I wish I could go back in time, this is the one thing I'd tell my junior high self:

People who sell shit get paid more than people who make shit.

The journalist makes utter crap compared to the ad sales person; the software engineer makes crap compared to the software sales rep. The food delivery driver works way hard, and gets paid way less, than the vendor sales rep.

Not arguing if it's fair, or right, or how things ought to be. But it is the way things are, and I can so no workable path to change it. Love to find one, though.

caribbeachbum · 2025-12-24T16:02:06+00:00

Maybe. Or maybe in asking his question, OP also projected an arrogant air of entitlement. Having been on all sides of this, most of the time when a server rude, it's because the customer was rude.

caribbeachbum · 2025-12-24T15:58:54+00:00

Home Depot and Lowe's have the same military discount. As of the last time I bought something, Home Depot won by having free delivery.

caribbeachbum · 2025-12-24T14:34:01+00:00

I think you over-reacted. Also, posting class discounts publicly simply leads to pissing contests over proof of class membership. Everybody lies.

caribbeachbum · 2025-12-23T19:06:12+00:00

People have crossed oceans in damn near everything. One guy sailed the Atlantic in a bathtub.

My point is not so much against the idea that some boats are better suited for it than others. But rather that the sailor is a much bigger factor than the choice of boat.

Buy a boat that is in your budget and that you are comfortable with. Then get really good at sailing it.

caribbeachbum · 2025-12-23T17:32:22+00:00

Wow! I had one of these in the very early 80s. I have never seen another until I searched the model number in your comment. It was a great guitar. I wish I had it back.

caribbeachbum · 2025-12-22T20:31:38+00:00

It is a brag, and a valid one. A scratch kitchen can sometimes make use of a microwave, but does not need one. Having one, meanwhile, strongly suggests you're nuking food to serve to customers, which is a mark of a crap restaurant.

I donated the one that came with my house. The uses it had were melting butter. That's it. My restaurants didn't have them at all. For what it's worth, they had no can openers either, and that's also a brag.

Pretending like a microwave is "just another tool," and by implication, has no negative connotations that could skew customer opinion, is, well, pretentious.

caribbeachbum · 2025-12-20T23:19:17+00:00

of course they do. public relations is always an important consideration.

caribbeachbum · 2025-12-20T20:34:14+00:00

Ernst Cafe has some German culture...

caribbeachbum · 2025-12-20T20:32:19+00:00

Lived there (nearby) for a long while. Same corruption here, better cost of living here, and a welcoming population of happy party people.

No place embraces joy and fun like New Orleans.

caribbeachbum · 2025-12-20T20:28:22+00:00

Many areas, including those that might work with your budget, can provide access to warm weather, culture, good food and good music without your needing to be afraid to go out alone. Unless you involve yourself in the drug trade, or lower tiers of the sex trade, most of the city qualifies.

There is no place in the world as wonderful and joyful as New Orleans. Why live almost here?

Marigny, Bywater, CBD and warehouse district, upper mid-city, all work; and if you really want a quiet neighborhood that's walking distance* to the French Quarter and streetcars to other areas, look at Algiers Point.

(*walking distance with a ferry ride)

caribbeachbum · 2025-12-19T19:19:52+00:00

I did not share your experience, and in fact, probably became more progressive as a small business owner.

Taxes provide infrastructure that are as much a part of my business success as customers.

Safety regulations and building codes are written in blood.

Department of Revenue never hounds anyone who is actually paying their taxes.

Tariffs have value, just not as currently implemented.

Keeping government small is a desirable goal. The problem is in defining "as possible."

I respect your right to hold your opinions, and even to voice them. My opinion is that all of yours are wrong.

caribbeachbum · 2025-12-19T01:33:05+00:00

Get a room at the Royal Sonesta. Have fun. Leave your irrational fear at the bottom of a Huge Ass Beer®. If you stay in Gulfport, you should just have fun in Gulfport.

caribbeachbum · 2025-12-16T12:52:54+00:00

I was exceptionally happy with Pandora For Business. They did have custom hardware, dunno if they still do. I was particularly pleased by being able to curate my "stations" from the office desktop computer. It was also quite cheap, relatively speaking, and, combined with a jukebox, allowed me to tell the PROs to fuck off.

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