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@texturedsoyprotein
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Hey, have you made gnocchi? No? Why not? You don’t want to look like a mook in front of your cousin Vinnie? Well, you won’t...because making gnocchi is almost as easy as making your ‘specialty’ Kraft Mac&Cheese....
So, Let’s Snap Into Action!!
Step 1...Bake some Yukon Gold po-toe-toes
(Editor’s note: no pic so use your imagination)
Step2...Peel the potatoes and squish them in your potato Ricer. They’re like 10 clams at Walmart so no excuses.
Pro tip...”reserve” the skins, throw some Tajin and pepper on them and commence appy...
Ok, back to the gnocchi...
Step3...Add some flour, maybe about 1/3 of the volume of potatoes and add salt, pepper and any seasonings you want like fresh thyme, sage (or 30 garlic cloves shaved thinly with a razor blade). Next kneed into a dough. Don’t overwork. 00 or pastry flour works best but you’ll probably use regular.
Step4...cut your doughball into 1/4 to make it easier to work with and roll it out into a snake the thickness of a cigar. Make Dong joke. Next, cut the snake into bite sized pillows. Shape them how ya want. I used a gnocchi board that makes them ribbed for her pleasure, but you can keep them looking like snausages, or indent them with your finger to look like slept-on pillows...whatever. They don’t have to be all perfectly the same. They will all grow up to be the most special gnocchi ever...just like you!
Step5...Get your seasonings ready. I’m making Sage and browned butter gnocchi with lemon but you can use anything you want. Thyme goes exceptionally well, so does sage, parm or anything that pairs well with potatoes or butter so, like, everything.
Step6...Boil up some gnocchi in some salted water. When they float, they’re ready!
Step7...Drain well with a spider but you’ll probably use a slotted spoon. Did I mention draining well? Transfer directly into a hot frying pan with a bit of oil. Once they’re starting to brown, add sage and some butter. Just enough butter to feel guilty about. Let them fry until the butter browns and the sage gets crispy and the gnocchi is well coloured.
Take off heat and add some room temp peas and let them get some loving’ too. Let the residual heat warm up the peas...you don’t want cooked, mushy peas like some jabroni
Season to taste.
That’s it! Easy right??
Pair your gnocchi with a nice Pinot Grigio and a protein of your choice. Last night we feasted on the ribs of our mortal enemy...the pig.
So in conclusion, gnocchi is pretty simple to make, pretty inexpensive as fancy food goes and also gives you something new to do during lockdown.
Mangia! Mangia!
@just-jeepin I have to tell my wife that she can’t claim the same thing about my ass anymore.
@nickhasanexocet Sir, this is an Arbys.
No, I didn’t bring it home. Yet.
Holy balls, the hybrid system makes me feel weird. It’s such a strange experience compared to the ‘07 JK. The torque is unbelievable, and the steering/suspension feels more refined, although it also feels bulkier both in size and girth, even though it’s no larger than the JK. Obviously the batteries makes it heavier from the get go.
The interior is in a different league from our old shitty plastic interior of the first year JK.
I have a feeling we’re going to factory order one next week, to replace the old timer. Stay tuned!
@marquettela said in White Controllers.:
I've been using a white PS4 controller for a while now, and it isn't that bad. I think your hands might be a bit dirtier than most lol
Same
@exage03040 that would be cool! Dock it at the new west pier….
@spasoje the neighbor kids (now grown) were involved in the paintball company. I believe they used it as a indoor field in addition to the speed ball field that is on shore there. This goes back 6 years now. They may have stopped using the ship…I hear it’s in very very poor shape now
@ranwhenparked
The laid-up Sydney is/was the venue for indoor paintball. Pretty cool use for a derelict hull waiting it’s turn at the breakers.
@silentbutnotreallydeadly said in This or That 91:
@exage03040
Who was Eddie Bauer and why was he a selling point for an Expedition? Especially when a Journey would be fine...
It's the LL Bean of Canada.
@rallydarkstrike
I shut down and rebooted and it fixed the problem
@carsoffortlangley
I believe most of that is sorted, crated up and sold back to India for re-processing.
@duckduckgreyduck
Ok, lots to unpack here.
First-off, I've worked with a few Shop ERP/job tracker/quoting/reporting software and systems over the last 30 years and I will say that the software is only as good as how you use it. Sounds trite...but I've found that ERP software...especially for shops, work well at automating the administrative functions like reporting, work order generating, invoicing etc....but they don't help with actual work-flow/organization.
I feel you have to have a good grip on HOW you want the workflow to , um, flow in the company. Start by mapping it out from
As an example (depending on your own shop requirements) Literally map it out and assign responsibilities to those tasks.
Then you could look at how each task should get handed off to the next...what are the requirements.
For example....if the estimator has a price work-up sheet that shows hours per workstation and any buy-ins like raw materials, o-rings, bearings etc, then that work-up can go to whoever is ding the order entry and they can do the work-order and buy the outside purchases for the job....that's the kind of hand-off things I'm thinking about.
Then, you could come up with an analog system, ERP system or probably a HYBRID of both.
One system We've used is a whiteboard with columns. To Quote, Orders, WIP or whatever. Then we had cards for every "job". It would have the file number and room for notes etc. Each card would progress along the columns from Quote to Shipping. It gave a good "at a glance" of where each job was and where the potential bottlenecks are...It also gives the whole team the ability to see what's going on and help out or ask for help as required.
The "actual" job file (either physical or electronic) would be able to compile all the info for that one workorder number....everything from estimate to waybill.
Once you get a grip on how you want the business to actually work...then you can use software tools to help automate- integrate certain tasks.
One other thing....If you feel you're unorganized you're not alone!! Running a well managed shop means you have to embrace some chaos. The worst shop managers I've seen believed in strict ridgid schedule and processes....Those guys usually don't understand that the shop is here to service the customer....not the other way around. You need some slack in the schedule to handle customer requests without screwing up the schedule of the other jobs. If you're over 80% utilization....you're going to always feel unorganized 
Sorry for the ramble as well....I think a lot about this stuff.
