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4 hours ago, vastateofmind said:

The cedar adds a unique flavor....closest I can come to describing is slightly smoky tasting/smelling, but not overwhelmingly so.

Agreed,  the cedar plank is my go to for grilling salmon.  Great taste and the soaked plank keeps the thinner parts of the fillet from drying out. Looks delicious!

Currently snowing in Garret Co. with stickage on a few traffic cams out there.  Classic MD 

Looking forward to strawberry season.  We transplanted our strawberry bed last spring and it produced a modest crop.  Really looking healthy this year...both canning and fresh picking/eating looks to be a certainty.

22 hours ago, Mrs.J said:

I think it is. Mr J found it at our favorite local Co-op we are members at. The Common Market. 

The best grocery store in a 50 mile radius....maybe ever.  Always have the ingredients you are looking for and their produce section is a home chef's dream.....

2 hours ago, vastateofmind said:

That sounds good, both fresh and as left overs. I just had to pitch the last of the spiral ham yesterday from Easter, having already eaten most of the leftovers warmed up, in ham soup and in some ground-up ham salad. One of the offspring is coming for dinner tonight, so trying to figure out a new and interesting way to marinate chicken for the grill....

One of my favorites for summer grilling is lime juice, honey, olive oil, garlic and cilantro.  Marinate for a few for a few hours and baste while grilling.  Its simple but I like the fresh taste and the honey caramelizes a bit for a little sweet kick in some bites. 

I love cilantro...but I know some people are not fans.  Just try not to think of stink bugs while using it! My youngest does not like cilantro just for that reason...

1 hour ago, blueberryfaygo said:

 

Something really interesting to note is that 17 years ago the hight concentration of cicadas I remember was my Girlfriends house in Randallstown.  And she literally had just moved in to a brand new development where there were hardly any old trees and the straw was still on the ground in many places where they just planted grass.. I am thinking that it might have been just the opposite there where the construction displaced them and caused some sort of major swarm.
 

Maybe so.  I honestly dont know how fragile they are....I would just assume that disrupting their habitat would not end well for them.  But, that is just an assumption.  Maybe they are durable little suckers.

I remember the last wave 17 years ago as well.  Living in Middletown (fred Co) at the time and I was underwhelmed and disappointed.  But, I had many customers in the Bethesda/Potomac/Silver Spring area then and they were certainly swarming down there.

6 minutes ago, mattie g said:

I actually think about this kind of stuff a lot...and it makes me sad.

Just thinking about how many cicadas might try to emerge from beneath the weed mat I laid down last year around the kids' play house fills me with a little pang of guilt. I just hope they can dig sideways to get out from under there.

I was surprised to read that they are pretty mobile underground for those 17 years.  So, maybe they are more able than we think in finding their way to the surface? I dont know why but I just pictured them being dormant the entire time.  Obviously, I dont know much about them.

One thing to consider with these things is the amount of construction/development around your area in the past 17 years.  Any new roads, foundations or any other significant excavation can certainly disrupt/destroy their emergence.  Think what a new development with hundreds of new homes and a shopping center to serve those homes would have done to that local population.

That's perfection right there, Millville.

One of my favorites when I am slicing up at home is to take a nice slice of marbled ribeye, drizzle a little toasted sesame oil on top and sprinkle with a little sea salt.  Oh baby...simple but that flavor is money. imo, of course...

1 hour ago, nj2va said:

I made Alison Roman's Braised Short Ribs recipe from NYT Cooking for Easter Sunday.  It was my 2nd time making that recipe and this time was so much better.  The difference is that I made it the day before, which allowed the sauce to rest and it was easier to remove the layer of fat the next day.  Then I heated it back up in the dutch oven for ~90 minutes to allow for a bit more braising.  

Highly recommend her recipe!

Garlic Braised Short Ribs With Red Wine Recipe - NYT Cooking (nytimes.com)

I was just staring at some short ribs in our freezer the other day.  I've made them several times over the years but havent been wowed by a recipe yet (could be user error!)  This one looks great...I'll give it shot. Thanks for passing it along.

Great idea for a thread...love to cook. Anything and everything.  Been trying to perfect my pho broth over the winter.  Its delicious and the fam tears it up but I just cant quite get that authentic restaurant quality...missing something.

Here was some homemade roasted garlic hummus and flatbread with all the fixings. Went great with a light, crisp IPA...or 3...

20.5

Frosty morning and the grass could use its first cutting today.    

round 2 was enough to dust the mulch... more graupel this round.  down to 33

legit squall resulting a nice roof and car topper.  big fluffies....down to 35 with some serious gusts out there. 

Warning issued....

up to 67 with partly sunny skies.  Very dark to the west.

Improved look from 0z for the D10-12 timeframe.  Nice ridge axis out west with a deeper trough into the miss valley. Both GEFS and EPS keying on a wave coming ashore on the west coast around D7 but handle the trough behind it differently.  EPS is slower with the PAC trough and this allows a nice PNA ridge to pop. 

36 minutes ago, psuhoffman said:

Good news is the weather don’t care what any of us think 

Or feel...and 90% of the post are about feelings.  

Ive been on this board for over a decade and you start to get a feel for the regulars' personalities and weather knowledge.  There is no doubt that losetoa's  weather chops would run complete circles around Balt's.  I could care less about banter in this thread...or that thread.  I love the humor and even Ji's input....its predictable and funny.  Im not uptight about most of it.  The difference is this board is becoming like every other corner of the interweb.  Just spout whatever pops into your head.  

Down to 35 with light snow falling... No stickage yet

Very wet snow falling. Maybe some rain mixed in....hard to tell.

37/32  Dont see it getting lower than 34/35 here locally.

Looks like current wet bulb temps are in the 34-36 degree range across the area.  Column should support snow in NW areas after precip falls for a little while.

Currently 44 but a dew pt of 25.

17 minutes ago, hurricane1091 said:

Get over it, meteorological spring is next week. This is a long term thread. Long term looks seasonal!

Just another idiotic comment that junks up this entire forum.  Not context. No valuable input. Do better or stay in your sub....

.30 snow and sleet melted down

2.4" New snow today

31.2" for the season and day 22 with snow cover...current snowpack is about 6".  Nothing crazy but a respectable wintry period....

39.47°N

77.68°W

2" on the nose.  Sleet is on my doorstep....

4 minutes ago, WVclimo said:

0.50 mi visibility and still all snow.  Sleet line not far away though.  1.3" new snow so far.  29 degrees

Seems to have retreated for the time being...back to all snow here and pretty heavy. 

Sleet mixing in here....can see it creeping up Pleasant Valley on CC radar.  Jives pretty well with mesos indicating a mix out this way before areas further east.