Chalky Conversation Heart Candies | Dinner Plus Drinks #8

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Happy Valentine's Day, everybody from the Dinner Plus Drinks Podcast crew. Happy Valentine's Day. We love you. We hope you had an amazing Valentine's Day. Wow.

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Bridget is a disaster over here.

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Disaster.

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But I had a great Valentine's Day.

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Did you get your chalky conversation hearts?

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Let's talk about conversation hearts.

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Let's have a conversation.

SPEAKER_01 0:36

Oh, yeah, okay. I think that's what they're looking for.

SPEAKER_00 0:38

Yep.

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Uh chalky versus sweetheart, right? That's the two kinds.

SPEAKER_00 0:42

They're all gross.

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Oh, come on.

SPEAKER_00 0:44

Hot take. They're all gross.

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I think that's a terrible opinion, but you know, everyone's entitled to their own opinion. You're just wrong. Um, chalky is where it's at. It's like the OG conversation heart, right?

SPEAKER_00 0:56

You know, like Tums are great when you have heartburn and they're still not great. I hear that. Why would you voluntarily subject yourself to that?

SPEAKER_01 1:03

Well, here's where we're at this year. I can't find the chalky ones, which leads me to believe not many people like them.

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That's a good guess.

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I know, but the orange chalky ones are where it's at. So do you like chalky or sweet tart brand, fellow listeners? Let us know.

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Or do you think they're gross?

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Oh, right. I guess that's an option.

SPEAKER_00 1:21

I I was entertained that you don't know what goat is.

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Okay, I Googled it and figured it out. I'm just a little bit of an old millennial, will call me.

SPEAKER_00 1:29

You know, like hashtag goat, Tom Brady, or Aaron Rodgers, or Giannis.

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I knew it was a thing that was cooler than me, so I had to look it up.

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It's greatest of all time.

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I actually think that you should be proud that I don't use goats.

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An amylgram? In a regular. I don't know. Don't know.

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But I I think you should be proud that I don't use that regularly.

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I feel like you should be like, hey, Tenderlin filet, like she's a country meets. Go, go, go. Just put up the goat. No. Emoji.

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OG is as good as I get.

SPEAKER_00 1:58

You do the emoji.

SPEAKER_01 2:00

Well, guys.

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We'd like to really thank everybody that followed us on Facebook and Instagram last week. We had an awesome turnout. Yes, we're going to do that. Really appreciate it. We're going to announce the winners at the end. So stay tuned to see if you won. We'll also contact you via Facebook or Instagram if you want. But thank you to everybody that won. We've been putting up some stuff there.

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Yeah, and more behind the scenes coming your way.

SPEAKER_00 2:25

I really enjoyed your recommendations of all the crime podcasts.

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Oh my gosh. But did you listen to any yet?

SPEAKER_00 2:33

No, I did not. Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_01 2:34

I'm nearing the end of re-listening to all of the crime junkies and I'm like panicking a little. I'm gonna have to find a new one. Maybe I'll take your recommendations. The office ladies?

SPEAKER_00 2:43

That's great.

SPEAKER_01 2:44

Everyone has said that, so I think that's where I'm gonna go next.

SPEAKER_00 2:46

And it'll give you more appreciation of the art of the office.

SPEAKER_01 2:50

Okay, I know. I am I I don't think I've said this on here before. I like the office. I'm just not as obsessed as well.

SPEAKER_00 2:56

Just more of a parks and rec person.

SPEAKER_01 2:58

I am definitely more of a parks and rec and superstore.

SPEAKER_00 3:00

I haven't seen that.

SPEAKER_01 3:01

Underrated. It is his I think it's hilarious.

SPEAKER_00 3:04

You've been on that for a while.

SPEAKER_01 3:05

Yeah, man, it's funny because I re- excuse me, re-watching all of it. So I don't know. It's funny. Anyway, maybe I'll go to the office when I have time to watch TV again.

SPEAKER_00 3:15

What else you got going on?

SPEAKER_01 3:17

Oh well, for the first year, the YMCA um does an auction every year, and I hear how fun it is, and this year I am attending. So by the time this podcast airs, I will have attended. But what am I most excited for? You're wondering? It's a themed event, and I love a themed event because you get to dress up.

SPEAKER_00 3:36

What's the theme this year?

SPEAKER_01 3:37

Wild West. Wiki Wiki, Wild Wild West. That's right. GM West, Desperado. Ooh, Nick Singing is back, everybody. Have you missed it?

SPEAKER_00 3:46

Have you seen the great 1997 hit Wild Wild West? Sorry. Will Smith and I think Kevin Spacey.

SPEAKER_01 3:54

I have no idea. I've saw it once.

SPEAKER_00 3:56

Kevin Spacey was the other cowboy Loth.

SPEAKER_01 4:00

Is it Kevin Spacey in what's the weird alien movie with Will Smith?

SPEAKER_00 4:04

I think you're right.

SPEAKER_01 4:05

Men in Black. Men in Black.

SPEAKER_00 4:06

No, no, that's Tommy Lee Jones.

SPEAKER_01 4:08

Oh, yes, Tommy Lee Jones. Anyway, if only we had Google right in front of us. Well, regardless, I of course got my whole outfit at a thrift store as if I couldn't have just made it.

SPEAKER_00 4:19

No. Kevin Klein.

SPEAKER_01 4:21

Oh.

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Will Smith, Kevin Klein, Kenneth Brannock was the uh baddie.

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Are you guys really curious about that?

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And Selma Hayek as the hottie.

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Great. Well, if you want to rewatch the bigger thing.

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It is also in 1999, not 97. I was wrong.

SPEAKER_01 4:36

Wow. Moving on. Moving on. Nick, what are we drinking?

SPEAKER_00 4:41

Oh, so this is exciting. I brought you something a little weird today.

SPEAKER_01 4:44

Ooh, I love a little weird.

SPEAKER_00 4:45

I just thought this would be fun. Let's open this up. Oh, this is a glass stopper bottle.

SPEAKER_01 4:52

Oh.

SPEAKER_00 4:52

Look at how fancy this is, Bridget.

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This is the fanciest wine I've had in a while.

unknown 4:56

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 4:57

Well, this is never going to come off now.

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Excellent.

SPEAKER_00 4:59

Oh, there we go. It came off easily.

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It was much easier than we could.

SPEAKER_00 5:02

So this is from Austria. It's an Austrian red wine. And would you care to take a go at pronouncing it?

SPEAKER_01 5:08

Zweigelt.

SPEAKER_00 5:09

Zweigelt, yes, very good. Yeah, very good.

SPEAKER_01 5:12

So um I'm practically a professional now.

SPEAKER_00 5:16

I enjoy Austrian reds. Not everybody does. I I you might hate this, but I just want to like introduce you to something different. Looking forward to it. Zweigelt is um this is from a producer called Heinrich. Cheers. Cheers. Happy Friday. Um so it's a it's a lighter red along the lines of Pinot Noir. So I know risky.

SPEAKER_01 5:35

Risky. Guys, I don't usually love Pinot.

SPEAKER_00 5:37

But very fresh, very fruity, like strawberry. You can put a little chill on it. It's negative 10 degrees outside. So in the car right here, we got that nice little chill-minute car right down to Cellartown.

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Hmm.

SPEAKER_01 5:50

Better than a Pinot Noir.

SPEAKER_00 5:52

Um it's not very popular. We're we're we don't really sell it anymore.

SPEAKER_01 5:57

Why do you think that is? People just don't really know Austrian wines.

SPEAKER_00 5:59

Yeah, it's pronounced, it's called Zweigeld. Who's gonna buy it? Um but we can always get it. We can get you a bottle, just give me a week and we'll get you whatever you want. If you're into weird wines, I'm happy to help you out. But uh yeah, it's just you know, like how strawberries, light. It's a great picnic wine. Like if you were doing, you know, getting like a picnic basket, eating out on the streets, eating in the parks, you know, whatever you're doing. Great friend.

SPEAKER_01 6:21

Okay, I'm always amazed at how accurate you are with these things. I'm sure I'll get used to it, but you're right. You say that and I'm like, oh yeah, this is perfect. Perfect picture. You know what? I like it. Okay. It's fun, yeah. When you start to bring Pinot Noirs, then you guys might hear me saying that I don't love them.

SPEAKER_00 6:35

So, Zweigel, if you want to get crazy, if you want something for summer, um, chillible reds are one of my favorite things. I love reds that you can chill.

SPEAKER_01 6:43

I don't.

SPEAKER_00 6:43

Because I love doing the like uh charcuterie board thing at the park and definitely not having open intoxicants in a Lake Geneva park. They are not allowed. Definitely not doing that. But you know, maybe, maybe it's allowed. In a fenced-in area with a permit. And you want your little nice chilled red wine. And uh yeah, Zweigelt is a great pick.

SPEAKER_01 7:05

Alright, so it's not warm yet. So, Nick, I know you made something really awesome this week because I saw a picture. Tell me about it.

SPEAKER_00 7:12

Um, well, so because it's so cold, I was like, I want something that's like kind of stick to your ribs, warm up. I got this cough thing dying that everyone has over here.

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Man flu. That's right.

SPEAKER_00 7:25

Just dying over here. Um, we all have it. So I made kind of pho. It's fair.

SPEAKER_01 7:32

Tell me, what is kind of pho?

SPEAKER_00 7:34

Well, so real pho, like you actually cook things for a long time, and the cimmerine and the stuff comes together, and like the flavor comes together. I made fake pho.

SPEAKER_01 7:43

Okay, fair.

SPEAKER_00 7:44

Um, it was chicken broth with some soy sauce and sriracha sauce and some garlic powder. Just you know, mixed together, heat it up, and then some rice noodles, and a little bit of very thinly sliced pork, and um I added some sauteed veggies just for a little crunch.

SPEAKER_01 7:57

And you know, health benefits.

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Red pepper, a little onion, and then uh oh, some water chestnuts.

SPEAKER_01 8:04

Oh, of course.

SPEAKER_00 8:04

Just for the crunch and the you know, it's like a nice little looks good in it. And then uh a little cilantro, a little lime. And it was perfect, and uh a little green onion.

SPEAKER_01 8:13

Yeah, it was great. I mean, I saw the picture. I wanted some.

SPEAKER_00 8:16

It the thing, the thing that was the problem with it is it didn't have the gelatinousness of real pho. You know how like real pho where you've cooked down the bones and everything, like it's a little gelatinous and really it's just like a terrible way to describe food. So good. So this it was fake pho. It wasn't real pho. I don't want someone from Vietnam coming at me saying you didn't make pho. Because I'm telling you, I didn't fake it's fake, but still delicious. So it's very easy to make, really.

SPEAKER_01 8:42

Just and you made it sound really easy. I don't believe you as usual.

SPEAKER_00 8:45

Oh no, it's super easy. Just heat up some chicken broth. Rice noodles are so easy, you soak them in water. Yep. You can saute some veggies, and then however you want to cook your protein. It was just chicken broth with like some sriracha. Yeah, and a little bit of soy sauce.

SPEAKER_01 9:00

Oh, yeah, soy sauce. I love all those things.

SPEAKER_00 9:02

Okay, but actually, I put a little black pepper and garlic powder in there too, just for these are all things I have. Yeah, it's super easy. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 9:07

I don't have like a recipe for it, but oh well, we're gonna have to make one. Just you know. I am a very strict recipe rule follower. Does that surprise you?

SPEAKER_00 9:16

No, because we were recently at a meeting where you freaked out about not having a guideline document.

SPEAKER_01 9:22

Everybody listening. You're a planner, you're not sure. I did not freak out. I just suggested that it might be easier if we had things properly outlined. Since there is a committee of us working on an event, I thought, wow, if we all had the same information we could share, wouldn't that be beneficial? Okay.

SPEAKER_00 9:39

Did you follow a recipe that yielded amazing results today?

SPEAKER_01 9:44

I did. This past week, guys, I cooked jambalaya. Okay, obviously it was my first time cooking jambalaya, but I used this handy kit. So, this job, you guys, requires lots and lots of research. So my husband gets to benefit from that. And this week he learned that I now know how to make jambalaya and he's gonna request it every week, he said. Um poor soul. I know, rough. He's got the man flu year. He's over the man flu. Kyler, glad you're feeling better. Um, I think the jambalaya helped him with his fever.

SPEAKER_00 10:17

Stick to your bones, good.

SPEAKER_01 10:19

It was so good. I think it was good enough that I text you immediately when I was done to tell you how delicious it was. You did. As if I was surprised. But you guys, again, I'm learning to cook a lot more, so I am surprised how easily some things come together. So uh I used one of the kits at Lake Shane of Country Meets. Thanks for making it so easy, right?

SPEAKER_00 10:36

Super easy.

SPEAKER_01 10:36

Um, it has nice step-by-step directions that I obviously followed to a T. And I'm looking at this, you guys, I took notes on my little recipe sheet because I'm in.

SPEAKER_00 10:44

I love that about recipes. Like, I love so I I I'm a big cookbook person, and I also write all my recipes down on ress on uh index cards. Oh yeah. And I'm obviously huge into the internets and all of the things, but still the like the tactile thing of actually going through a cookbook or actually writing down your notes on a recipe card.

SPEAKER_01 11:02

Yeah. It's old school. I don't know. But it's like there's something you can see that I cooked, like there's yeah, there's some like broth on it. Yeah, so you know, if you guys care, we'll make sure to put this up. Um, I the quote I I wrote down a quote so we could ensure that everyone knew I wasn't just making up how good this was. The quote from my darling husband was the only thing missing is a little bit of shrimp.

SPEAKER_00 11:24

So Oh yeah, you can add shrimp to that.

SPEAKER_01 11:26

Yep. Like the recipe says, you can add any kind, like so. I love chicken. We all know this, right? Um I made it with andouille sausage, delicious, great. Um, but you can also put in shrimp or chicken or uh someone actually today told me they put in Polish sausage so the kids could eat it because it was a little less spicy. I thought that was a nice thing. That's great.

SPEAKER_00 11:44

Yeah, great tip.

SPEAKER_01 11:45

So, anyway, the jambalaya was awesome. We're getting ready for Mardi Gras in a couple weeks, right? Where are we?

SPEAKER_00 11:49

So like 10 days.

SPEAKER_01 11:51

10 days. I just can't. So, yeah, so get some jambalaya. Oh, the other thing is it cooks, it makes so much.

SPEAKER_00 11:56

Yeah, it makes a lot, which is great because it gets better as it sits a little bit, it reheats really well.

SPEAKER_01 12:01

Yep, we had it for dinner again.

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Yep.

SPEAKER_01 12:03

Um, gave some to my dad as well. He loved it.

SPEAKER_00 12:05

Oh, and he's down on the Gulf Coast frequently, he would know.

SPEAKER_01 12:08

And he went to school in the south, so um that about him. He did, and so I was actually really curious for his feedback and he loved it. That's where the joke about the shrimp came from. Actually, Tyler was telling my dad about that. So anyway, cook some jambalaya. Yeah. There's nice kits out there to make it easy if you're a beginner like me, and then have some friends over because you're gonna have a lot.

SPEAKER_00 12:25

Well, and we did a fun meal plan for next week where we did all Cajun recipes.

SPEAKER_01 12:30

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 12:31

And do you have a favorite one of because I mean, so you're not gonna cook six Cajun recipes. Probably. But it's a really easy cuisine. Everybody likes it because it's a little spicy, but not too super spicy, and you can tweak it. So, what was your favorite this week?

SPEAKER_01 12:44

Well, Cajun spatchcocking chicken. So, again, you know, excuse me. Excuse me, spatchcocking? Well, we have a video for this. I believe we talked about it a lot around Thanksgiving.

SPEAKER_00 12:55

Yep, we did, yeah, with the turkeys. Yep.

SPEAKER_01 12:56

This is a new thing that again my husband and I are learning. Um, Nick has taught us all about the spatchcocking. It's a way to do it, and it's hilarious. Um, so again, as I venture into this world of cooking more, um, I knew Tyler would be excited about the spatchcocking. So we gave the uh Cajun spatchcock chicken. It's one of my faves. And again, like it's easy enough that we What is spatchcocking, Bridget? Oh, come on. Well, Nick, removing the spine of whatever said bird you are cooking. I mean, can you spatchcock other things? Obviously, turkey, chicken. What else?

SPEAKER_00 13:28

I mean, you you could. It's just a little harder.

SPEAKER_01 13:30

Okay, so spatchcocking chicken and turkey, I think, is where we're probably gonna draw our.

SPEAKER_00 13:33

Yeah, I mean, you could I suppose you could spatcock a beef.

SPEAKER_01 13:37

So you you flatten the bird, right? So it cooks a little faster. Yep.

SPEAKER_00 13:39

Yep, exactly.

SPEAKER_01 13:40

So it just makes it a little bit easier. So I learned all about it.

SPEAKER_00 13:43

And everything cooks evenly and it's it's great.

SPEAKER_01 13:45

Yeah. It's great. So that's what we're doing. Um, what kind of Cajun food are you looking at?

SPEAKER_00 13:50

I love pizza. Sure. Who doesn't? My wife loves pizza. I don't know. I mean, there's people like, oh yeah, I love pizza. And then there's like Love Pizza. There's, you know, like you like your sketchers backpack because you don't have Prada boots.

SPEAKER_01 14:05

I'm sorry, what?

SPEAKER_00 14:06

I screwed up that quote, but it's the Ten Things I Hate About You quote.

SPEAKER_01 14:09

Ah. D plus for effort.

SPEAKER_00 14:11

Yep. Anyway, um You know, until you really have done the pizza thing, you don't know the pizza, but we have this awesome recipe for a Cajun pizza that uses our andouille sausage. And it's really yummy. You do the Holy Trinity, which is onion, green pepper, and uh garlic and celery on the pizza, which is Holy Trinity plus garlic, but whatever. We want that. Um and the celeries have one little kind of weird thing, but with all the other Cajun flavors and the tomato sauce and the andouille sausage, it goes great. Um, we have these pre-done pizza crusts at the store, you can find them everywhere. Some nice precooked andouy smoked sausage on there, all the stuff. It's so delicious. Yeah. You wouldn't necessarily think of it as like a pizza flavor, but it just goes to show pizza. Pizza. It's the one thing that brings us together. It's the most flexible food. Pizza and breadsticks 2020 make America great again.

SPEAKER_01 15:07

Okay. So lots of great Cajun recipes. If you don't love pizza as much as Nick, you could spash cocoa chicken or keep an eye out, try the jambalaya.

SPEAKER_00 15:14

We got some fish stuff, we got uh tacos, right? We have a taco one. Uh, some stew.

SPEAKER_01 15:19

Yep, there's a burrito, so keep keep an eye out.

SPEAKER_00 15:21

Yeah. Do burritos count as tacos? Can you do burritos on Taco Tuesday?

SPEAKER_01 15:25

Oh, I mean, if we're looking for a recipe on Taco Tuesday, I might put burritos up. Don't judge me. I don't think it's a taco.

SPEAKER_00 15:31

Fair enough.

SPEAKER_01 15:32

So keep an eye out for the weekly recipe um coming out shortly after you're gonna listen to this podcast. Actually, before. Really, you should check it out before this. You should check it out.

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So all right, let's take a break and head over to our product recommendation segment of the episode.

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All right, so it's winter, it's freezing cold out. You still want to look cute, but you've got to keep your feet warm, okay? This is a struggle. I know people have, it's not just me.

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Struggles of a modern woman.

SPEAKER_01 16:04

I know, it's tough. So I was gifted an awesome pair of boots for Christmas this year, and they are Oh wow, you're bringing them out. I am, you guys. It's like you can see me. I just feel like you need to see these, but obviously I'll just post a picture later. Sorel winter boots and the kind that they are, they're out and about plus conquest. That means nothing to you, so we'll make sure to put a picture up.

SPEAKER_00 16:25

Sounds intense.

SPEAKER_01 16:26

Right. So I know a lot of people love Sorel boots, and they're coming out with some really fashionable looking ones. So um, these ones are grippy on the bottom, super warm, and also fashionable. So they're great for just like running around to work if you want, or going out to say, the ice castles, or I don't know, I wouldn't necessarily wear them out on a date night, but you could if it was casual.

SPEAKER_00 16:48

Um you've been married for a while, you can wear them on a date night.

SPEAKER_01 16:51

I can wear them. I like wearing heels, okay? I like to get dressed up. Right. Anyway, these boots are awesome. Um, Sorel has a great line of winter boots. These ones are just the ones I've experienced, so I'm talking to you about them right now. They they fall under that like cute-looking work boot with a little fur on the ankles, boots with the fur, if you will. So Sorella winter boots, mine are black and gray. I know they have a really awesome brown color as well. So we'll make sure to post about that and get yourself a nice pair of boots for your feet.

SPEAKER_00 17:20

Speaking of staying warm, my recommendation is the Mad Bomber hat. Um I enjoy these hats. Uh, if you everybody's seen Christmas Vacation, right? You know, the hat that Uncle Eddie wears, it's that hat. It's got the little fur line, the ear flaps, all the things. Um, my dad had this hat when I was growing up, and I stole it from him because I was cold and he made me get up and shovel snow at like four in the morning. So I said, Well, I'm gonna take your hat. And I've kept it. So this hat's probably 15 and 20 years old, and it's in great shape. It is so warm. Uh, it's got the little snap underneath, which, you know, is great when it's windy like it is right now.

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Keep your cheeks warm.

SPEAKER_00 18:00

So I really truly recommend these Mad Bomber hats. They last forever. Um I think they're stylish. Are they? I'm not sure.

SPEAKER_01 18:12

I I have one.

SPEAKER_00 18:14

They're definitely a statement.

SPEAKER_01 18:15

They're a statement. Stylish is a question, but you know what? It's warmth.

SPEAKER_00 18:20

So there's a lot of knockoffs, but I will say these are great quality. They last forever. So mad bomber hat, if you need something to stay warm, especially if you're outside doing snow removal, whatever, sledding. I don't know, what else do people do in snow? Shovel, shoveling, more shoveling, more shoveling, ice skating, you know. All of those things. Mad bomber hats. That's my recommendation.

SPEAKER_01 18:49

All right, it's time for our mailbag, and we were so lucky to have all kinds of great feedback this week.

SPEAKER_00 18:54

Yeah, we have so many great questions. We got a nice little backlog, if you will, that we should have some good ones, but please keep them coming.

SPEAKER_01 19:02

Yep, we love reading them.

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Facebook, Instagram, hello at dinnerplusdrinks.com if you like the email.

SPEAKER_01 19:07

Whatever you prefer. This week, though, great question from Erin. Uh, she asked, if I don't have pre-cut stew meat, what steak or roast can I pull out of my freezer for the best stew meat?

SPEAKER_00 19:19

Well, this is a great question, because everybody's definition of best is you know a little different. And it's like, what's the best movie ever? Well, the answer is obviously Casablanca, but if you mean like the best movie that you can watch with your kids, it's Aladdin. Interesting. So there's you know different things. Um but but the answer is you know, you can make a really great stew out of anything that has a lot of flavor, a decent amount of fat, and enough um connective tissue that it break down, breaks down, becomes gelatinous.

SPEAKER_01 19:55

Oh, more gelatinous food.

SPEAKER_00 19:57

Word of the episode uh as it cooks. So we make our stew meat out of like a rump roast or some other type of round roast. Um, if you have a round roast, they're very inexpensive, very affordable. Cut those out into nice little uniform squares. It is very important that when you make stew meat, that you make them a uniform size. Because if you're going to sear them, you want to make sure every side gets seared evenly. And while they're slow cooking, you don't want some chunks that are two inches and some that are because they just won't cook even. So anything from the rounds like a rump roast, uh bottom round, flat round, goose stack, you won't see that as a consumer. Those are probably the best. Um, chuck roasts aren't great for stew because they shred. Oh. So you don't want that in your stew. Um, if you use like a nice top sirloin roast or top sirloin steak, um, that'll make a good stew. But if you're doing anything better than that as a steak, if you're doing a rib iron strip, I would I would never make that into stew. I mean, it'll be very flavorful and tender, but not right for stew. Cook it as a steak.

SPEAKER_01 21:00

Yeah. Yeah, Aaron, great question. And I hope that helps people. I know a lot of people that have been writing in and talking to us are making stew, obviously, this time of year when it's negative 10 out. So hopefully this helps a lot of you guys know exactly what to pull out of the freezer.

SPEAKER_00 21:14

So we're gonna try something a little new for um a segment, and this is all on Bridget.

SPEAKER_01 21:19

Yep, so sorry if you don't like it.

SPEAKER_00 21:21

If it's terrible, it's my fault. Hello at JitterplusDrinks.com and just all the hate mail to Bridget.

SPEAKER_01 21:27

Yeah, I appreciate it. Can't wait to read it.

SPEAKER_00 21:29

But uh, we're doing a random news story. Yeah, you got it. Uh you said you had some random I didn't know we were doing this until I showed up. Surprise. So, what are the what are your random news stories?

SPEAKER_01 21:39

Okay, I'm I would say a self-proclaimed news junkie. I love the news junk. You're a crime junkie. I know. Some I have a lot of problems, I guess. Crime junkie, news junkie. For those of you that don't know me, you must think I'm kind of weird, but glad you're here. For those of you who do know her, you also think she's kind of So I'm always reading weird things, and obviously, like we're being bombarded with articles.

unknown 21:59

It

SPEAKER_01 22:00

Tailored to us based on our favorite. So yeah, you definitely get the weird stuff. So obviously, I'm getting weird things. So I just saw two things. Every week I see weird articles, and I'm like, man, I just I feel like we need to talk about this on our podcast. So I mean it's good, yeah. Because I need to know if other people also ran across this stuff. So this first one I did mention to Nick and like he heard of it. So I just really want to shout out to Milwaukee because I love you, Milwaukee. But did you guys know if you're traveling somewhere for upcoming spring break, good for you, first of all. Hope you enjoy. If you're going somewhere warm, which I hope you are, Milwaukee, so Mitchell International is the only major airport right now in the nation that is offering a coat check service. This is genius. So it is so smart. And so it's $2 per day with a $10 maximum charge. So for $10 maximum, you can leave your coat and not have to like pack it to your Florida vacation, which is always really annoying. I've had this problem. I usually like take my Patagonia puffer and make it as small as I can, but then you're still free to do it. Yeah, it's annoying.

SPEAKER_00 22:57

Okay. Yep.

SPEAKER_01 22:57

So that's awesome. So love to know if you guys have heard about that or not. That's just a fun little tidbit and shout out to the state of Wisconsin for doing something about this. The next thing, which kind of could transition us into our friendly kid corner segment, is Unicorn Mom. Okay. I feel like I'm not late to the game about this. I don't know. I just saw it today.

SPEAKER_00 23:17

I don't, I have no clue what this was.

SPEAKER_01 23:18

Okay. No clue. So some article came across my Facebook feed, and obviously I took the bait. Um, what the heck is Unicorn Mom? And is it a real thing? I don't know, but Urban Dictionary defines it, so I'm gonna say yes, okay. Um I read through lots of different articles about this, trying to fully understand it. And let me just tell you the definition from Urban Dictionary. A mother who's not perfect, enjoys alcohol, has a sense of humor, and couldn't care less what you think. So, yay! Shout out to all the moms that are unicorn moms. You're a unicorn mom. I love you. Thank you. I'm gonna take that as a compliment. Yep. And the point is what was really cool about reading about unicorn moms is like, first of all, that's awesome. And like you're lying if you're not a unicorn mom, okay? Or please become a unicorn mom because whatever you're doing, you're doing it well. And it's it's a lot of the articles were surrounded about um unicorn mom and how like we need to stop mom shaming, right? Like parenting is hard. That is ridiculous, yes. The mom shaming is so you're all doing a great job. Like, I have two kids, I'm hard on myself all the time. You're gonna hear in Kid Corner what a terrible parent thing I did. Uh a lot of parents might not admit what I'm about to admit, but like, come on, guys, we've all done it. So, anyway, be a unicorn mom, support your other unicorn moms and dads, okay? Also, dads kind of get the raw end of the deal sometimes.

SPEAKER_00 24:27

So I got a I got a weird news story.

SPEAKER_01 24:29

Yes, I love it.

SPEAKER_00 24:30

So I'm a dude. Yeah, I got the man flu, evidently.

SPEAKER_01 24:35

Yeah, I called it.

SPEAKER_00 24:36

I have a deuterus. Also, that means I read Reddit. Ah, of course. And the subreddit, not the onion, has a lot of these great stories that are you would definitely think they're from the onion. Oh, man. But they're they're for realsies.

SPEAKER_01 24:51

Excuse me, that's my problem with the onion. I never know it. Obviously, now I know it's not real, but I hate that.

SPEAKER_00 24:57

Military tanks form heart shape for Russian soldiers' proposal.

SPEAKER_01 25:01

But this is a for real story. This is for real.

SPEAKER_00 25:03

Oh, god. In communist Russia, you don't propose tanks. Tanks propose you. So evidently, this guy, he's a lieutenant in the Russian army. He got his platoon or whatever to form 16. He walked his girlfriend out into this field and then got 16 tanks. And these actually are tanks. You know, it's like somebody like, oh, tanks roll down the street, but it's like a Humphie. And you're like, that's not a tank. This is a tank. These are tanks. These are, I promise you, tanks. They made a heart shape around them, and he got down on one knee and said, I don't know, let's make a you know, like, you know, whatever. Something like that, I guess. Cyrillic characters, I can't read them. But uh yeah, so uh ladies, if you're getting married on Valentine's Day or engaged on the Valentine's Day, and your fiance didn't bring out 16 tanks.

SPEAKER_01 25:57

Better rethink it.

SPEAKER_00 25:59

Also, like, I mean, what if they like point the guns at like I mean it's a lot of pressure.

SPEAKER_01 26:04

I love this story and I love this segment. So I do have a quick note about Reddit. If you are a man listening to us, you may have already heard this story because Reddit is usually like a week or two ahead of Facebook. So we joke a lot in our house.

SPEAKER_00 26:17

No, this happened three hours ago.

SPEAKER_01 26:18

Okay, see, and it'll show up on Facebook in like a week and a half. So, anyway, share any news stories with us that you think are hilarious and we should just insane or just tell us you hate this segment. Whatever, I'm still gonna tell you about weird news stories.

SPEAKER_00 26:30

If I would have done this to Sarah, I would not be married. I love it. And then I would not have my beautiful child, which transitions us to Kid Corner! Kid Corner! Alright, you you you tease this. You said that people are gonna judge you. Let's go, let's judge you.

SPEAKER_01 26:45

Let's judge me weekly here. I wasn't sure what I was gonna share because we did a lot of cute things this week making Valentine's, but instead I'm gonna tell you, I'm gonna be real, so all of you motivated here to be real, hopefully. Um, I was my uh darling husband was gone at a basketball game, I'm sure. And uh, so I had both of our kids. Um, so like two children. I was like fighting with one of them to put pajamas on. I don't know what I was doing. It was it was just darling Lucy. Darn Lucy. So uh we were down at the end of our hall where Elliot's room is. I was trying to, I think, get him in pajamas, I don't know. And so we were like, it was a full-on fight, okay? Toddler slamming a door at me. Okay, fine. So I just brought Lucy down there. We have a mirror at the end of the hall. So Lucy loves to sit there and like make faces. It's hilarious. It's very safe. There's nothing down there that like she can really like get in trouble with, or so, I thought. So Elliot and I are like, you know, I'm not gonna say fighting back and forth.

SPEAKER_00 27:40

I feel like this is uh sleeping beauty, the mirror, mirror on the wall.

SPEAKER_01 27:42

It actually has nothing to do with the mirror, it's just where she was sitting. But the point is there should be nothing, like there's nothing on the floor back there.

SPEAKER_00 27:49

Yeah, there's nothing on the floor. I can I can attest to this.

SPEAKER_01 27:51

Okay, so Elliot is like yelling at me about not wanting to do something, and then mom, mom, mom, there's an MM in Lucy's mouth. And I like kind of heard him. So I very casually like did the mom finger sweep if you have kids and like you know, you stick your finger in their mouth to like, are they choking? Sure enough, a red MM was in Lucy's mouth. So, like, first of all, she doesn't eat chocolate. Secondly, like she could choke on that.

SPEAKER_00 28:13

Maybe she found it somewhere instead of. Definitely she like found it on the floor.

SPEAKER_01 28:17

Like, I don't know why there's an MM at the back of my hall, but who knows? So, anyway, Alan's.

SPEAKER_00 28:24

Like, I'm gonna make an MM path.

SPEAKER_01 28:26

I'm gonna leave one MM at the end of the hall and see if Bridget notices. But instead, our baby almost choked at it. So, great job, Elliot.

SPEAKER_00 28:34

Like, saved the day in the middle of a fight and then went back to yelling at me, but what I love about this is that you're making a story about the youngest about the oldest.

SPEAKER_01 28:42

Okay, Nick, I included both of them. Don't give me crap. Elliot saved Lucy's.

SPEAKER_00 28:46

Oh man, Lucy, you almost died. Elliot was Elliot was a hero.

SPEAKER_01 28:50

Thanks for not dying, Lucy.

SPEAKER_00 28:52

Great job.

SPEAKER_01 28:53

Thanks so much, Nick. Tell me more about your child.

SPEAKER_00 28:55

I only have one child.

SPEAKER_01 28:56

Yeah, so you don't have to balance, okay?

SPEAKER_00 28:59

She's the darling of my life. And um, I don't want to be the like, oh, look at my child. Oh, my child's a great like I'm going to. I don't I don't want to do that. I I feel like I've done a decent job of not forcing her down people's throats.

SPEAKER_01 29:15

Yeah, you have. I really think so.

SPEAKER_00 29:16

Because it's annoying.

SPEAKER_01 29:18

Okay, but this is why our children have their own Instagram pages.

SPEAKER_00 29:21

Yeah, and people are like, so I judged you when you saw I was like, that's that's like the most millennial thing. But I enjoy seeing people's kids' pictures, but I want to do it like on my own time. You want to have a choice. So if your kid has an Instagram account, you can follow that account and go see. Like when I want to go see Elliot pictures, I go see that. Lucy doesn't have a lot of pictures. But I guess. I'll just post my kids' Instagram account so you all can follow that. Uh so anyway, uh, so you know, we try to like not overwhelm you with the kids, whatever. But I decided I would be annoying dad for Valentine's Day, and I'm also not the like, you wanna talk to my daughter, I got my shotgun. I'm not that dad. I'm not ever going to be that dad.

SPEAKER_01 30:07

That's hilarious.

SPEAKER_00 30:09

Like, so I'm not this guy, right? Okay. However, remember, it only matters what you say after butt. Themed clothing. But I went nut so and bought her this Valentine's themed clothing of Daddy's Little Valentine.

SPEAKER_01 30:24

I support this.

SPEAKER_00 30:25

And I am not a themed clothing person generally. You are now. And Lil Simmo and I walked around this morning with her wearing a Daddy's Little Valentine little onesie thing. Guys, it's adorable. And little pants and uh the bow.

SPEAKER_01 30:42

The matching headband.

SPEAKER_00 30:43

Um I tried to tie the headband and it was It didn't come tied. No, it That's terrible. Yeah, it was disastrous. And the the thing was uh like over her face because I didn't do it right. I did like a just like a normal knot.

SPEAKER_01 30:57

Every baby loves that.

SPEAKER_00 30:58

And I I walked, and so it was like straight over her eye. So I walked in the bathroom, Sarah was getting ready, putting in her contacts, and she's kind of the side eye, and Simona's like looking at me like, I look like an idiot. I'm like, Oh, you're so cute, baby girl. And Sarah just like side eyes like genie me too. I'll put up the picture, but she's my little Valentine, okay? She's mine.

SPEAKER_01 31:20

Okay, Dad, got it, heard. Listen, baby clothes is adorable. I hope that you do something for St. Patrick's Day. Stay tuned.

SPEAKER_00 31:28

Should I? Yeah. Should I bring her to uh our Papa Pub?

SPEAKER_01 31:32

Yeah, my kids will be there. Little leprechaun. Be a unicorn mom.

SPEAKER_00 31:36

Little leprechaun.

SPEAKER_01 31:37

So we love it. Um again, hope you had a great Valentine's Day.

SPEAKER_00 31:41

We have uh one little last thing of business to do. I know, a pretty important thing. We have to announce the winners of our giveaways. Remember, please follow us on Facebook and Instagram, dinners plus dinners, dinner plus drinks podcast. Um we've got lots of stuff on there. We'll let you know when all the new episodes are out. Uh, but our Facebook winner, Donna Ackland. Thank you very much, Donna. Congrats, Donna. Appreciate you sharing, liking all the things. And then Instagram is at Lori Marie814. Appears like your real name is Lori Johnson. Um Instagram you had a comment with a a question. She asked what our favorite cheeses for our charcuterie board for two would be.

SPEAKER_01 32:22

You got any picks? Well, I mean, I love goat cheese.

SPEAKER_00 32:25

So that's strong chicot charcuterie board for two.

SPEAKER_01 32:29

I know it's not necessarily.

SPEAKER_00 32:31

That's a charcuterie board and pass out.

SPEAKER_01 32:33

No way, man. Okay, it's not a popular answer, but I'm not here for that. I'm here to tell you what I want on my charcuterie board. Okay. And it is goat cheese with also brie, because then you can do jam with both and crackers.

SPEAKER_00 32:46

I think if you want to like, you know, you're trying to do your romantic charcuterie board.

SPEAKER_01 32:50

Oh, I didn't I didn't know that. Nope. Mine's not romantic. I'm just here for the cheese I want.

SPEAKER_00 32:55

It's very parks and recabie.

unknown 32:57

Yep.

SPEAKER_00 32:58

Uh cheddar is great. Yeah. Also, if you want a very gouda board, a little gouda. Gouda, it's very gouda.

SPEAKER_01 33:06

So clearly all the cheese.

SPEAKER_00 33:07

Yeah, uh Brie's great because uh you can spread it, you can share it, the jams, all the things. Cheddar, because it's very enjoyable and nobody's gonna be offended.

SPEAKER_01 33:18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 33:18

Uh I would not do goat cheese. Bridget would do goat cheese.

SPEAKER_01 33:21

I know. Okay, listen, probably if you're only picking two cheeses, goat it shouldn't be one of them.

SPEAKER_00 33:26

Probably not.

SPEAKER_01 33:27

Unless you're me.

SPEAKER_00 33:27

Um little shavings of Parmesan's also nice because then you get a little crunch and just like soft, medium, and hard, kind of just like really kind of.

SPEAKER_01 33:35

Nick has more intelligent answers about this. I have selfish answers.

SPEAKER_00 33:38

There's nothing wrong with that. Um, selfishly, please leave us a review. Thank you. Subscribe. Give us your free.

SPEAKER_01 33:46

Check out the social pages, check out the website. Yeah, we love to hear from you guys again. Hope you had an awesome weekend and are ready for a Cajun-filled week.

SPEAKER_00 33:54

Happy Valentine's Day. Looking forward to Mardi Grove, and we'll talk to you next week.