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Same here. I've tried pre-packaged pizza dough from Wegmans on numerous occasions, and once tried making my own dough from scratch. Whether it's prepared or from-scratch, I never seem to get the dough stretched evenly across our oven pizza stone, so it gets too thick around the outer edges (sometimes), and/or way too thin and breaking/soaking through in parts of the middle. It's very frustrating...especially because I have numerous pizza topping combos I want to try at home.

Yeah, was just reading this morning's LWX disco, where they're echoing the conventional thoughts discussed in here the past day or two: Guidance continues to hint at a line of storms forming east of the Blue Ridge Sunday afternoon and moving east across the area with the front. While the potential for the development of severe storms is there, especially in terms of instability, the wind field aloft looks marginal at best. Also, the forcing isn`t all that impressive as the parent low pressure system becomes cut off as it tracks into the Great Lakes.

Camping in an RV....and not a tent, I hope! Dear Lord, what an ice-bomb.

71, sun breaking out, though still partly cloudy....which is what I see NWS has now forecasted for this afternoon. I'll take it!

Wowzers, sounds really good...please share finished-product pics if you get a chance!

OMG, THIS. I might even toss a few pepperoni slices into that grilled cheese.

As I've opined numerous times in recent weeks....you all have access to so many unique beers in the Baltimore region. We should have a brewery meet-up this summer in that general area...SO many good choices.

Yep, increasingly I'm with you -- prefer darker beers, stouts, etc. It indicates "creamy," but it doesn't come off that way. Maybe some vanilla in there....really, just hints of strawberry. It's very smooth, far better than I expected!

So, moving my "drank" selections over to this thread to unclog banter a bit....I'm thinking @CAPE, @North Balti Zen, @Baltimorewx, @nw baltimore wx, @Scraff, et al, might be at least partially interested in this one, based on some of your recent selections. My wife picked this one up weeks ago and it was still lurking in the back of the fridge...Shortcake from Williamsburg, VA-based Aleworks Brewing....a strawberry blonde ale at 7% ABV. On paper, I didn't think that strawberry and hops would mix well together, but honestly it's good. Not much nose to it (not that I always smell my beer), and while I've gotten away from the lighter ales recently, and avoid the "fruity" beers as a rule....I would definitely pick this one up again.

Yes, but most critically -- did the grass dry out enough to finish your mowing?? I'm half-kidding -- I have about a third of my own mowing for the week that I didn't get to on Wednesday, and which still needs finishing. Rain and thunder are semi-threatening nearby...plus, there are IPAs that require opening between now and bedtime, so....

WOW -- sriracha/brown sugar must be an amazing combo of tastes. We do roasted Brussels sprouts once weekly, either halved or shredded, one of my favorite sides....I usually toss them in basting oil and some no-salt seasoning and (when my wife's not looking) sometimes I throw on a few shakes of red pepper flakes for a little kick. Gonna try that sriracha combo you just mentioned, though.

Roast looks amazing! And I've SO been in the mood for asparagus done up like this, been forever since we've had it....just put it on the weekly grocery list. I'm wondering how a few shakes of that new "everything bagel" seasoning we just picked up would taste before roasting...

SO. FREAKIN' CUTE. Both of 'em.

LOL. Me too.

Can confirm -- weirdly (for me), I woke up for the day at 5 a.m. and fired up the work lappy. Three bursts of heavy rain rolled through between 5:30-6:15 a.m. Currently 52. Listened to the wx radio during my mini-bout of insomnia in the 5 a.m. hour and, to your point made yesterday, they're starting to talk up the chance of stronger to possibly severe storms on Sunday afternoon.

I remember the last ice cream truck that came through our neighborhood during a heat wave last August was blaring Jingle Bells and moved into Auld Lang Syne. Nothing says "Happy Holidays!" like a melting Bomb Pop.

LOL....I used that basting oil just last night to dress up a bag of frozen meatballs for spaghetti! It's really useful for a wide variety of food prep. My aim yesterday was to throw together some quick homemade meatballs from a bit of ground turkey but then the day gets away from me...so once more Wegmans basting oil saved my cheese.

Dude, PICS! Did you get any?? I find myself now grabbing my cell phone for pics and thinking "Mid Atlantic WX Forum" whenever I crack a beer or marinade something or grill something or cook/bake something or....yeah. Pretty bad..

Up to 79 IMBY, busting high on our forecasted high of 70 (at least from this morning). Comfortable out, though.

Well, I mean....Ji christened you a bad poster, so....

Your cheese suggestions are great ones. My parents always used NY white sharp cheddar in our M&C growing up. Mrs. V tends to use milder cheeses, but I like the ones with more bite.

Curry ketchup? Now that sounds like a food of the gods....didn't know it existed! I use Frank's Red Hot like that. I often pour it all over my breakfast sandwiches and on rare occasions, scrapple. For me, their tagline is spot-on -- "I put that sh*t on EVERYTHING!"

Ketchup works....my college roomie also got me used to pouring maple syrup over scrapple back then. He was a master at making scrapple the way you describe....coating the slabs lightly in flour, browning it just so in a few pats of butter in the frying pan. Sometimes he'd cut up chunks of it with hash browns and brown that mixture together. OMG.

I'm sorry you had to deal with cancer at such an early age. And here's to an early and hearty congrats to you and Mr. J -- it can become easy to let "life" get in the way of celebrating anniversaries as time goes on, but I hope y'all take the time to do so. Clearly, you landed one of the good guys. There's hardly any of us left. This is how CBS All Access -- or is it now Paramount+ -- used to rope Star Trek fans like me in, enticing with those "TRY A FREE MONTH ON US!" trials when I'd try to catch up on Star Trek: Discovery (which is awful) and ST: Picard (only slightly better than awful). Thank God I can get the previous five ST television series on either Netflix/Hulu. Verizon Wireless previously gifted us a full FREE year of Disney+ last year, which nearly everyone seems to love (especially The Mandalorian). Over the course of that year, I watched maybe three of the animated classics from the 90s but nothing else, so I killed our account. Netflix/Hulu/Prime Video seem to check the boxes for us most of the time....we're even considering getting rid of FiOS cable now. (also, vomit emoji)