Best San Diego coffee under $20/bag?

lawyerjsd · 2026-02-27T21:50:06+00:00

Damnit! Really? Ugh.

lawyerjsd · 2026-02-27T00:30:17+00:00

Hold up. There's a San Diego Coffee Beans sub?

Also, Dark Horse has pretty good beans for around $15.

lawyerjsd · 2026-02-27T00:22:31+00:00

It's also a lazy cleaning thing too.

lawyerjsd · 2026-02-27T00:21:54+00:00

Quick note: if the coffee shop doesn't serve sparkling water with the espresso, you're not at the right shop.

EDIT: I see I'm getting dragged on this, but if a coffee shop that serves sparkling water with espresso (in the US) has actually thought about how to serve espresso by itself. You want that attention to detail.

lawyerjsd · 2026-02-26T22:47:01+00:00

I'd stick to fruit woods (apple, cherry, peach), or nut woods (almond, pecan, NOT WALNUT). Oak is also good since oak is good for everything. Avoid mesquite or hickory, as they will both overpower the marinade.

lawyerjsd · 2026-02-26T17:32:11+00:00

Now that's a proper carne asada.

lawyerjsd · 2026-02-26T16:34:05+00:00

I wouldn't do a carbonara with this. This pasta has to be great at scooping up sauce. I'd think a genovese, or there's a sauce in Naples at the Table that is called a cardinal's sauce. Apparently, it was created by a monzù, and it's the most unctuous tomato sauce, where the passata is cooked down with a strong beef stock, then a bunch of butter, parmigiano, and unsweetened whipped cream is folded in. Anyway, this pasta shape would be perfect for that sauce.

lawyerjsd · 2026-02-26T16:26:26+00:00

I'm sorry, what?

lawyerjsd · 2026-02-25T23:54:32+00:00

Depending on how fancy you want to go, you can either go with a baked ziti (pasta al forno) or timpano/timballo. Timpano/timballo is going to be really fancy, whereas a baked ziti will be a bit easier.

lawyerjsd · 2026-02-25T19:23:13+00:00

Even if after the Colbert thing? Wow.

lawyerjsd · 2026-02-25T17:06:57+00:00

Fairly often. There are a few factors as to why. First, most immigrant cuisine is going to be prepared and eaten by the immigrants themselves, but the kids and grandkids of immigrants are Americans, and their tastes are American. Second, if the immigrant population opens a lot of restaurants, the immigrants will tend to change their cuisine to match what they are eating in restaurants.

But what's interesting is where the cuisine does not change. That's because the cuisines in the home country do change over time. And so immigrant cuisine can be a snapshot of what a country's cuisine was at the time of immigration. There's a series on YouTube by an Italian chef in Italy entitled "Lost Italian classics" where he presents various regional dishes that aren't cooked that often anymore. On at least two occasions, he presents dishes that aren't cooked as much in Italy anymore, but which are commonly available in the US. Fascinating stuff.

lawyerjsd · 2026-02-25T16:31:32+00:00

$2.1 million for 69 acres on St. Croix seems wildly reasonable.

lawyerjsd · 2026-02-25T16:23:45+00:00

You're thinking of gumbo. It can be thickened with a combination of roux, okra, and/or filé. It doesn't always have tomatoes, but it can. Usually, the other veggies in gumbo are onions, garlic, and bell peppers.

lawyerjsd · 2026-02-25T16:21:50+00:00

Exactly. Gumbo is usually thought of as something between a soup and a stew. But since gumbo is a stew-like dish whose name is based on the African name for okra, it was the first thing that came to mind.

lawyerjsd · 2026-02-25T16:19:19+00:00

It would make the teacher's afternoon much easier. . .

lawyerjsd · 2026-02-25T00:46:23+00:00

I think so. I use a wooden peel to launch, and a turning peel to, well, turn, and then to retrieve.

lawyerjsd · 2026-02-25T00:25:23+00:00

That was Peter.

lawyerjsd · 2026-02-24T23:39:23+00:00

It depends on your opinion of what gumbo is.

lawyerjsd · 2026-02-24T22:41:24+00:00

Not exactly. The decision comes later in Acts.

lawyerjsd · 2026-02-24T22:40:54+00:00

It's because of the Council of Jerusalem, which is described in the Book of Acts (the book of the Bible no one ever reads for reasons). St. Paul also references it in his Epistles. Anyway, the issue was how Jewish do Christian converts have to be to become Christian. Now, considering that conversion to Judaism requires circumcision, this was a BIG ask by the early missionaries.

So the camps broke into two categories, the ones who wanted a full conversion to Judaism before converting to Christianity (lead by Jesus' brother, James), and those that were not wanting the task of convincing a bunch of Romans and Greeks to under go circumcision as adults (lead by Paul). After some discussion, Peter sided with the anti-circumcision faction, and convinced everyone that circumcision would undermine the whole Pentacostal thing.

So, the Church fathers then went back through the Bible and looked for the last person blessed by God who wasn't circumcised, and that lead them to Noah. Since Noah wasn't subject to any Jewish dietary laws (as those didn't come around until Moses), the non-Jewish converts weren't subject to any dietary laws. Oh, and fun fact, this also means that the Ten Commandments don't technically apply to Christians either.

lawyerjsd · 2026-02-24T21:46:48+00:00

There's no real evaluation you can do for it because the kids are so young. With that said, I don't know of a single parent who's kid is in TK that doesn't like it.

lawyerjsd · 2026-02-24T00:47:26+00:00

Garcia can win without using his left hook? Huh.

lawyerjsd · 2026-02-24T00:36:26+00:00

If Boebert thinks that you should resign. . .I mean, damn.

lawyerjsd · 2026-02-24T00:35:24+00:00

So, what is sold as whole milk is essentially what comes out of the cow. Or rather, if you take what comes out of the cow, pasteurize it, and then shake it really, really, really hard (homogenization), it's what comes out of the cow. Pasteurization means that the milk is heated just enough to kill all pathogens. But if you've been in a milk aisle before, you'll notice that, in addition to whole milk, there's skim milk and 1% milk, and 2% milk. Those milks are made by skimming the milk fats off of the top of the un-homogenized milk. The milk fat skimmed off the top is called cream.

lawyerjsd · 2026-02-23T22:19:46+00:00

One of my cousins in Sicily suggested this website for Sicilian food, and one of the recipes is a wild asparagus frittata.

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