Do You Keep Bacon Grease Around Your House? | Dinner Plus Drinks #17

SPEAKER_00 0:14

Happy Sunday, everybody. It is time for the newest episode of Dinner Plus Drinks. Thanks for tuning in. Bridget, you are remote.

SPEAKER_02 0:23

I am, yeah. I'm at my lovely home right now, staying my distance.

SPEAKER_00 0:27

It's very hard.

SPEAKER_02 0:28

It's Yeah, it is hard. For people like us, I think, especially, who like to be, you know, around people.

SPEAKER_00 0:35

I just I don't I admit, Bridget, I usually try to be upbeat and welcome people to this podcast, but we just got the news that stay safer at home, whatever they want to call it, has been extended to Tuesday, May 26th. And I'm having a really, really hard time.

SPEAKER_02 0:54

It's such an arbitrary date to me.

SPEAKER_00 0:57

It's because they don't want people to party on Memorial Day.

SPEAKER_02 1:00

Yeah. So Tuesday. I mean, this is really interesting to me because, like, yes, you've always encouraged me to be very positive in this beginning of our podcast, which we try, but man, yeah, this is hard. And it's so there's so many loopholes and so many, like, our city parks could reopen, even though like people can golf, but we can't go in our city park, but it might reopen.

SPEAKER_00 1:20

You can golf, but you can't go golfing in a cart. Yeah. You can you can big stores have to be closed to only so many people per their capacity, but grocery stores can have as many people in as they want. Yeah. I don't understand. The people I feel really terrible for are small businesses, not as small, not as big as us, small businesses of like five people, yeah, or maybe a single employee, so people like Tristan Chris Magic Theater, people like uh restaurants, bars that have a few employees that they're just being shut down. There's not enough money to support them.

SPEAKER_02 1:57

They're people that have worked their butts off, and no matter how much we all are trying to do to support them, these people's lives are just Yeah, because I mean there's so many businesses, we've talked about this on the podcast, that are like pivoting and doing really cool things, but no matter how cool or how much you pivot, it's not as much sales as you would have done otherwise. So you're still cutting so much of your business. Yeah, it's really hard. This is a weird time.

SPEAKER_00 2:21

It's a weird time, and you always want to have some certainty, and you can say on one hand, well, we now have a date, but do we really think so? The rationale for this wasn't, well, we'll be safe by then. The rationale for this was we want to avoid a second spike. That rationale can be used at any time.

SPEAKER_02 2:40

Yeah, like are we going out? Should we do this next time a flu wave hits?

SPEAKER_00 2:45

So I just I'm feeling a little hopeless. I'm feeling a little down.

SPEAKER_02 2:50

Nan, Nick, I'm sorry. We all have our days, and you've been really good at being very positive.

SPEAKER_00 2:56

I'm I'm glad I'm talking with you because I'm sure once we get done with this, once we get done sharing all the lovely things. Thank God we planned this out earlier this week, and we have some like fun, exciting things on this podcast. Listeners, I promise, there's a lot of exciting things on this podcast. This isn't all doom and gloom. But thank god, I'll be probably cheered up by the end of this. Um, the first thing that I'm gonna do is open a beer because I need a beer. Um okay, great. What is it? What are you drinking? Well, I want to show you this. This is uh I got something uh I got something a little special, it's dropped off as a sample. I think I don't know if I can get it anymore. What? Oh this is beautiful, you guys. This is uh a beer, a hazy IPA from NKE Brewing. It's called MKE MVP. It's obviously like in the Bucks font, the Bucks color, Scott Basketball. It's obviously a Giannis beer.

SPEAKER_02 3:54

I was just gonna say it's obviously all about Giannis.

SPEAKER_00 3:58

Oh, it's beautiful, you guys. Celebration of Wisconsin's MVPs. Oh, this is a Yeli beer then, too. Oh Citra and Mosaic hops join forces for this hot forward MP IPA. Do you think Giannis's Citra and Yelich is mosaic?

SPEAKER_02 4:15

Well, I think Giannis is winning here because the can is green.

SPEAKER_00 4:18

Yeah. So it's not exactly and refreshing. The MKE MVP is full of citrus and tropical notes. Let's smell it.

SPEAKER_02 4:26

This is this is key of like people buy their beer based on what the can people buy their alcohol based on what the branding looks like. Okay. I'm buying this beer because I think it looks lovely.

SPEAKER_00 4:37

Alright, so my review. Uh technically very good beer, very proficiently brewed. To be clear, we don't have this at Lake Geneva Country Meats. You can't buy it here, but maybe you can find it somewhere. So some other small business. Don't go to Woodman's, they're doing fine. Um, so orange and like peach. Nice. Uh not very bitter, just a touch of bitter. Some of these hazy IPAs, when they're not brewed well, they get like an acetaminophen kind of thing on the finish. Um that sounds disgusting. It's like that weird chalky portion of it. Yeah, it some of these the disgusting part. Um doesn't have a lot of that, which can come out if you don't brew it properly. So this is properly properly brewed.

SPEAKER_01 5:22

Well done.

SPEAKER_00 5:23

Uh, very refreshing. Let's see how much alcohol's in here. They also strongly encourage you to uh serve this in a glass, which is good at say how much alcohol. I'm gonna say around six and a half six and a half, seven.

SPEAKER_02 5:42

So overall, a thumbs up or not.

SPEAKER_00 5:44

Yeah, overall I give this a four out of five. This is nice, refreshing beer. Uh it makes me think of the Bucs, we're gonna win the Super Bowl this year, and now they can't even play in the World Series, and I'm just just destroyed. I'm destroyed.

SPEAKER_02 5:58

The Bucks are the best. This podcast is the worst. Okay, Nick, it's time to pick it up. Let's since your beer's not doing it for you, why don't you talk about the best thing you ate this week? Maybe that will cheer you up.

SPEAKER_00 6:08

Oh, best thing I ate. Okay. Uh, you ate this too, Bridget. I made some uh Rioja style pork chops. This is a recipe we have. We featured it in a very early episode of Reproduced by Half Podcast, which is what this podcast feed was before it was Dinner Plus Drinks, before Bridget joined. Uh before I came along. So this is uh it's a it's a it's a Spanish pork chop recipe that you you season with salt, pepper, petrika, and then uh you make a sofrito sauce, which is tomatoes, onion, garlic. Uh I add some peppers and serve it with some rice, and it's delicious, it's so good. Uh you get a nice hard sear, all the tomatoes and everything goes really well with the pork chops. And we did it as part of a Nick versus Chef Nelly challenge.

SPEAKER_02 6:52

Um Facebook Live the other night. Um it was so fun. Um, Chef Nelly from Grand Geneva came from his house. Um, I moderated a little throw down between Nick and Nelly because it would have been the kickoff to the Lake Geneva Festival of Wine, which unfortunately is obviously not happening. So we did a little cook-off on Facebook Live of pairing um dishes with a Pinot Noir that I I can't remember the brand now.

SPEAKER_00 7:20

Black Stalier Stallion Pinot Noir from Napa Valley. It was really fun. Uh, we'll post a link that everybody can watch it, but it was pretty awesome. So I enjoyed that. I enjoyed, I miss Nellie. He's an awesome cook. He made uh that pork belly thing.

SPEAKER_02 7:37

Yeah, it looked pretty good.

SPEAKER_00 7:39

Nancy. Uh I would have liked to have ate that too, but uh whatever, you know. It looked good on the zoom camera. I'm gonna choose to believe that I won. Because of the dishes I tasted, mine was the best.

SPEAKER_02 7:50

There were two winners, you and Nelly. Um, okay, guys, it was really great.

SPEAKER_00 7:57

Well, I expect that was the best thing you ate? Yeah, great answer.

SPEAKER_02 8:00

Yeah, yeah, that. Um, I don't know if I've talked about it on here, but I'm finding with all this extra time at home that I'm cooking a lot more. Think like I'm a pretty lazy person when it comes to cooking food. Generally, I get stuck eating the same things, but not during quarantine. So I made some risotto cakes, actually.

SPEAKER_00 8:19

Pronounced risotto.

SPEAKER_02 8:21

Okay. As in the risotto jammettes. I uh didn't okay. I made risotto cakes with some leftover risotto. So I love risotto and risotto, and um I mean, what's not good about frying it the day after you had it? So I don't know, I think I must have seen it on a cooking show or something. And I just took, I don't know, I made it up. I had some panko, and so I took my old risotto, my leftover risotto, and you know, put some panko on it and threw it in some boiling grease. Um, so it was delicious. I literally did nothing to it besides panko and fry it, and then I ate it over a salad, like with some parmesan, and maybe that's it. I don't really even remember, but so good because I I love risotto cakes. Now I know I can make them my own.

SPEAKER_00 9:05

What type of boiling fat did you use?

SPEAKER_02 9:08

Um uh canola oil.

SPEAKER_00 9:11

Bacon grease. Could you imagine how good that would be?

SPEAKER_02 9:14

That was the right idea, but this was thrown together pretty quickly.

SPEAKER_00 9:18

Do you keep bacon grease around your house?

SPEAKER_02 9:21

I don't.

SPEAKER_00 9:22

So we yeah, we do. So whenever we cook bacon, we drain it off into a little container and keep it for future cooking.

SPEAKER_02 9:28

That's really smart. Yeah, really smart.

SPEAKER_00 9:31

My mom always did it. She kept it in like one of the old school Tropicana orange juice from concentrate cans.

SPEAKER_02 9:37

Yes, okay. This is so funny. When Tyler and I moved in together, we had a debate over like what do you do with the old grease, and I always put it in a jar, like whatever leftover jar, because that's what my mom did. He takes tinfoil and puts it, like makes a little packet in the sink drain and pours it in there. So and then once it hardens, he just throws the whole thing of tinfoil out.

SPEAKER_00 9:57

I mean, that works, but it seems like just putting it right into a jar is better.

SPEAKER_02 10:02

It honestly, we like have gotten in the rut of doing the tinfoil way, but now I'm gonna tell him about saving the bacon grease, and I think I'll change his mind.

SPEAKER_00 10:10

Then you can use it for frying potatoes, all sorts of vegetables. It's a great way to add flavor to whatever thing you are, and bacon fat's a great cooking fat because it has a high smoke point, so it doesn't get rancid. Whereas canola oil is good cooking oil, high smoking point, but like olive oil, not a great cooking oil. Butter, you have to be careful because even though it adds all that flavor, it low smoke point. So bacon grease.

SPEAKER_02 10:34

Oh my god, I love this tip. Okay, great job.

SPEAKER_00 10:36

The best cooking fat of all. What? Do you know the best one?

SPEAKER_02 10:41

I can't imagine.

SPEAKER_00 10:42

Duck fat.

SPEAKER_02 10:43

Oh god, would you just have that laying around your house?

SPEAKER_00 10:46

Yes, I do actually. Of course you do. I have a container of duck fat. We sell duck fat here, but also whenever I make duck, I render down fat and save it.

SPEAKER_01 10:53

Wow.

SPEAKER_00 10:53

Duck fat is super high smoke point, so much flavor, and uh, you have not lived till you've made duck fat potatoes. You need to make them get some when it when it's Yukon Gold potato season, get those, clean them up, coat them in duck fat and like big grain salt, roast those at 450. They'll be so crispy but yet soft on the inside, and it's just the best. I cannot explain to you the joy that these potatoes will bring to your life.

SPEAKER_02 11:28

Maybe it's time for it. So you have to cheer up a little, so maybe you need to make some duck fat potatoes at the right season. I was all proud of my risotto cakes, but you went and showed me up with duck fat potatoes.

SPEAKER_00 11:39

No, that sounds great. I'm really impressed by that. I'm gonna make some probably for myself.

SPEAKER_02 11:43

You should, they were delicious, nice and crunchy.

SPEAKER_00 11:46

So good. Well, so do you have any uh good news, any random news stories that you'd like to share?

SPEAKER_02 11:53

I actually had three and I had to narrow it down to one so you guys didn't get bored with my rambling. So um discovered a new website. So I know we've shared a couple places like Tank's Good News and the Happy Newspaper. So now you can look at shareelemonade.com. So there's been a couple times this like week that Beyonce's Lemonade um has been brought to my attention for one reason or another. So I thought this was just very funny timing that I also learned about this website. So Share Lemonade is like a let's just call it a crowdsourced good news website. So you can submit good news stories. So so many of my friends are like so sick of going on Facebook or anywhere and just hearing either about politics or coronavirus. So this website you can avoid all of those things.

SPEAKER_00 12:39

Imagine it's still about coronavirus, though.

SPEAKER_02 12:42

You're right, but it's the good news, right? There are there are good stories, and we have to find the silver lining, Nick. Just me yelling at you to get happier.

SPEAKER_00 12:51

I like this. I I like this. This is nice. It's local. It's by Fox 6.

SPEAKER_02 12:55

Yeah, Fox 6 put it together. That's I think I heard it on the radio, to be honest. So um Zizzo Group, which is also a marketing company that I was familiar with when I lived in Milwaukee, um, they worked on it together. It's a simple website, but go on and submit some good stories or just like check out what other things are happening that are happy in this weird, weird world we're living in.

SPEAKER_00 13:14

Maybe your good story could be my kid pooped for the first time in two days. Lemonade!

SPEAKER_02 13:19

You know, Nick, I guess I'd have to check out the submission guidelines.

SPEAKER_00 13:24

I don't I don't see that here. No poop stories. Yep, yep, I see it. I'm looking for stories about children's digestive habits being good.

SPEAKER_02 13:36

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 13:36

The number one the real good news, right?

SPEAKER_02 13:41

No! The number one rule is no bummers, which is great, okay? It's hilarious, it's lighthearted, just go look at it. Even the logo's cute.

SPEAKER_00 13:52

Well, my good news is something that I knew was coming out, I knew was happening, but I forgot about it, and I think it actually got moved up because of coronavirus. Oh. Uh, and this is gonna be extraordinarily good news for you two, and I'm shocked you are not aware of the last dance.

SPEAKER_02 14:11

I I feel like I should be like it's familiar, but is it a movie?

SPEAKER_00 14:15

It's coming out on Sunday, and it is a how many parts? 10 part 2020 sports documentary mini-series focusing on the 1997, 1998 Chicago Bulls. What featuring Bridget's all-time favorite basketball player, Steve Kerr. What? Yeah, so this whole thing is Michael Jordan's. Yes, yes, I can't believe you didn't know about it. I think it's gonna be epic. I mean, absolutely epic. Go watch the trailers. They got all sorts of access to everybody. Jordan, Kerr, Rodman, Pippen, Jackson, all of the Bulls. I'm sure Bill Wennington's in there too. They have 10 episodes. The first two air Sunday night as we air this to Sunday, the uh what, 19th, and then two a week every Sunday night for the next five weeks.

SPEAKER_01 15:06

Oh my god!

SPEAKER_00 15:08

Unbelievable access, a bunch of never-before-seen footage, telling the story of that season. It was a magical season. I think everybody can, on some level, relate to wanting to be like Mike, his attitude, his problems, his greatness. Uh it's amazing human drama. ESPN does one heck of a job on documentaries when they really want to.

SPEAKER_01 15:32

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 15:32

Uh Jason Heher, yeah, I can't remember exactly how to pronounce his name, but he's the guy doing the direction. Um it's part of the 30 for 30 series, so it's just gonna be amazing. And I am so excited for this. This is the only thing that is getting me going because I'm like, I need to make it until May 17th, so I can see all of um other great things on May 17th, my wedding anniversary.

SPEAKER_01 16:00

Oh.

SPEAKER_00 16:01

Okay. Um you're gonna be doing wedding anniversary.

SPEAKER_02 16:06

Um, we're not doing anything.

SPEAKER_00 16:09

Are you getting a lot of deliveries right now?

SPEAKER_02 16:13

I uh I uh go in waves of like feeling guilty that I'm purchasing things online, or do you mean like groceries?

SPEAKER_00 16:20

Well, just from Amazon or whatever, stuff delivered. Yeah, I I think it's pretty hard, right? The deliveries are taking so long.

SPEAKER_02 16:27

Yeah, I've been surprised. So I haven't necessarily gotten a ton from Amazon because I was really trying to like go direct to the business if I could, or whatever. I was trying to do what I could, but now yes, I am falling back on Amazon for some things.

SPEAKER_00 16:40

Um well with the increased delivery times, FedEx and UPS are merging, and they're gonna go by the name FedUp from now on.

SPEAKER_02 16:48

Oh my god! I forgot that we had to fit in a dad joke here, and I'm like, what are you talking about? Okay, guys, I am back with my favorite product recommendation of the week.

SPEAKER_00 17:03

Not with dad jokes.

SPEAKER_02 17:05

Um, I'm done with dad jokes, moving right on to something much cooler. Um, I think we can all agree that Zoom meetings are not. We're often wearing something comfortable on the bottom, even with a professional top. So I've been living in leggings.

SPEAKER_00 17:19

You are super professional on the top.

SPEAKER_02 17:21

Hey, I'm just telling you, I have real pants on today, not even leggings, pants with a button.

SPEAKER_00 17:26

Congratulations.

SPEAKER_02 17:28

Big day. So, but I'm here to recommend leggings to you. So I know people are all about um Lululemon or things of that nature. That is not my jam. I'm not here to spend $90 on a pair of leggings. So um, this is a pair of dupes. Like, yeah, I know. Um Amazon leggings with pockets. So they were, I think, like 20 bucks. Yes, I'm holding them up to show Nick right now. I'm not sure why. But they're like the color. Like, yep, these are maroon, which matches Nick's shirt. They're buttery soft and buttons because I'm a professional. Nope, not these. They have a nice handy pocket. So, like when you're chasing your children around your house, you can still carry your cell phone or whatever you need to carry, snacks. I don't know. So 20 bucks, super soft, totally good quality. I've had, I think I have three pairs, and maybe if we're in this long enough, I'm gonna order more.

SPEAKER_00 18:18

So are they like cotton or are they uh like athletic uh microfiber stuff?

SPEAKER_02 18:22

They're not like I wouldn't work out in them, they're not like dry fit. Some people might, I wouldn't. Um, so they're closer to cotton. They're they're poly and spandex.

SPEAKER_00 18:34

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_02 18:36

So, but it says hand wash cold. I do not do that, and they're perfectly fine. Okay, so they're great, they're so comfy. That's all.

SPEAKER_00 18:44

My recommendation this week is a little nerdier. Um, if you're doing some home projects and you're doing a bunch of streaming, you might say, Nick, uh, my Wi-Fi, uh, it sucks so bad right now. It's so slow. I need a new like thing to make my internet go faster. And I just discovered this thing called Eero. It's a mesh router, which I'm not gonna bore you with what mesh networking really is, but basically it's a whole home Wi-Fi system that will cover up to 5,000 square feet. So if you're like me, our condo, there's some really bad dead spots. Uh, can't do it upstairs in the bedroom. We need fast Wi-Fi, all of the things, all the stuff. This hero system is a very simple. I set it up, you plug it into your modem for your cable or whatever internet you have, and you have an app on your phone that walks you through the smart uh through the setup. You put the two other stations strategically throughout your house, and it's a seamless uh experience where you just walk through and everything is good, fast internet. Plus, right now, so this is an Amazon product. Um, you can buy it at Best Buy if you need immediate pickup, but they do have an offer where it's usually $249, it's $199 for the three-pack now, and you get a free Echo Dot, which is yeah, really nice. We have gotten into the Echo Amazon stuff, and it's you're kind of like, oh, this is dumb. Why don't I talk to my house? It's really useful. So I really honestly, if you're looking for something that's easy to use, speeds up your internet, fixes the dead spots right now more than ever. That's so annoying. This Eero, arrow, E-E-R-O, I don't know. Arrow. Arrow. It's great. So that's my recommendation. We'll put links up to these two things. You can purchase them and also help out the podcast a little bit. So we'd like it if you do that.

SPEAKER_02 20:51

I think we've added this fun little section. The more you know. The more you know. Okay, are we are we doing the themed this week, Nick?

SPEAKER_00 21:00

Well, I have I I found Wisconsin fun facts. I was feeling Wisconsin facts.

SPEAKER_02 21:05

I mean, I wasn't sure if I should. So I have Wisconsin and non-Wisconsin.

SPEAKER_00 21:09

How many you got?

SPEAKER_02 21:12

I um have at least three Wisconsin ones, but I also have many other not Wisconsin ones.

SPEAKER_00 21:18

How about you uh how about we do all Wisconsin ones?

SPEAKER_02 21:21

Yeah, let's just celebrate this great state that's keeping us indoors, Nick. That was a jab to you. Okay, let's roll, guys. The more you know, fun little weird facts about this lovely state we live in. Did you know? Mount Horrob is full of trolls. So not the cool kind with the Justin Timberlake movie, not that kind. The weird, creepy trolls that live under bridges. So the town's main street is called the Trollway, and it's lined with hand carved wooden trolls. Why? I don't know, but I've not been there and now I want to go check it out. Just saying.

SPEAKER_00 21:57

There's a lot of fun, quirky things you could have for your town. I don't think Trolls is the one I would do. I don't know. Put a goat on a roof. That's more.

SPEAKER_02 22:04

People will look at that.

SPEAKER_00 22:05

Do that. All right, my fun fact. These all come from the Wisconsin Historical Society, by the way. Shout out to the Wisconsin Historical Society. They're doing some cool things right now. The first ice cream sundae was concocted in two rivers in 1881.

SPEAKER_02 22:21

Oh, yeah, I saw this one doing my research. I'm glad you brought it up.

SPEAKER_00 22:26

I like ice cream sundays.

SPEAKER_02 22:28

Well, Nick and I like ice cream Mondays.

SPEAKER_00 22:31

Ice cream Tuesdays.

SPEAKER_02 22:35

We're also missing our sports, if you can't tell by the beer Nick chose. So this one is a shout out to everyone missing sports. The lovely cheesehead hat that uh that we're all so used to seeing actually debuted at a brewer's game, not a Packers game. So it was made popular by one of the brewer's outfielders. I know. It was made popular by Brewery Rick Manning.

SPEAKER_00 22:57

Oh god, he was terrible.

SPEAKER_02 22:59

When uh a dugout photo of him wearing the now iconic wedge of cheese appeared in the journal Sentinel. I'd never heard this before.

SPEAKER_00 23:06

The journal Sentinel? It had to be either the journal or the sentinel.

SPEAKER_02 23:10

Uh well, the fact I'm reading says Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. I'll have to check clear on that.

SPEAKER_00 23:16

Rick Manning.

SPEAKER_02 23:18

Regardless, guys, those hats are also made in South Milwaukee if you were not sure.

SPEAKER_00 23:23

Let's see. So Rick Manning last played for the Brewers in 1987. And let's see, they merged in uh they merged in 1995. So it was either the Milwaukee Journal or the Milwaukee Sentinel. Another random Wisconsin fact. I'll have to go check it out. Alright, my next Wisconsin random fact. Door County has more shoreline than any other county in the United States. Over 250 miles.

SPEAKER_02 23:57

Really? I guess actually that makes sense.

SPEAKER_00 24:00

I'm also a little surprised because I thought maybe like Nantucket area or something like that, where it's a lot of craggy and like a peninsula and some islands. But Door County.

SPEAKER_02 24:10

Guess not. All right. Um I've got a little fact here about Barbie, who I don't know why she is related to Wisconsin, but she um comes from a fictional town in Wisconsin called Willows, Wisconsin. Isn't that weird? Why would Barbie be from Wisconsin? Isn't Mattel in Wisconsin? Yes, Mattel is in um like Wilmot, I think, area. So I'm guessing that's why Willows, Wilmot. That would be my guess.

SPEAKER_00 24:35

There we go. That makes sense. I didn't know that. I like that fact. Isn't that fun? I like that fact. All right, so my my last one, um, I was thinking I should have probably done this a little differently, but nearly 21 million gallons of ice cream are consumed by Wisconsinites each year. You know what? You should eat some more. It's dairy. The dairy farmers need your help. Ooh, I'll get some more ice cream. I can help in that way. Also, if that was gasoline and your car gets 25 miles per gallon, that would help your car drive for 840,000 miles.

SPEAKER_02 25:22

Excellent.

SPEAKER_00 25:23

Getting getting all the calls. Sorry about that. Or let's do this again. Let's do this another way. Because people like ways that you know you can you can do this. All right, so that and then 2800. You could drive between New York and Los Angeles 300 times. And if you're driving New York and Los Angeles, you probably get better gas mileage. So 25 miles per gallon, that's nothing these days. You got a Prius, you're getting 60 miles a gallon. Like you're at 600 round trip, 300 round trips, 600 single ways between New York and Los Angeles with the ice cream slash gasoline that we eat in Wisconsin. Go, Wisconsin. All the gasoline. All the gasoline that we eat. All right, those are that's that's my facts. Good picks. Uh, so you got the meal plan up, the super popular meal plan. I gotta tell you, Bridget, this is just exploding in the coronavirus.

SPEAKER_02 26:17

You know, I'm happy to hear it.

SPEAKER_00 26:18

Meal plan in a time of corona. So, what's your pick for this week that people should make?

SPEAKER_02 26:23

All right, because the days don't matter and every day is the same, it feels like I'm eating breakfast for dinner on the reg. Also, you can have this for breakfast because you're probably not leaving your house to go to the office. So I have a crustless quiche uh that's gonna that's on the meal plan, okay? So you would never pick this, Nick, because eggs, but this is so great. Um, because also, like Nick and I both said before we started recording, the grocery situation in both of our houses is pretty dire right now. So um we this recipe allows you to be super flexible. So, like, put in any vegetable or any meat that you want. So, like you don't have bacon, throw in some shredded chicken. You don't have peppers, put in some onions. So, kind of take whatever meat and veg you have and use it in this recipe. So, perfect for this time we're living in.

SPEAKER_00 27:06

We originally had this as part of a Mother's Day recipe collection of recipes kids could make for mom.

SPEAKER_01 27:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 27:12

As part of like breakfast and bed for Mother's Day. It's a really easy recipe for kids to make because you just put them in the little muffin tins. And uh, so yeah, it's a good recipe for anybody stuck at home. My pick is I decided I wanted to steal your thunder, Bridget.

SPEAKER_02 27:27

Yeah, man, whatever. This looks so good.

SPEAKER_00 27:29

Uh, barbecue chicken BLT salad. Uh, we know the best salads are the salads that are not super healthy, but this one actually is very healthy overall. Uh, basically, it's a deconstructed BLT sandwich with chicken on a bed of lettuce, that's the L part. Tomatoes, get some of your favorite sweet tomatoes, cherries, uh, whatever, thing like that. Have them, a little bit of red onion because you just want a little extra crunch, a little bit of bite, and then we add a barbecue dressing to this, a barbecue ranch dressing that is so good. I actually tweaked this recipe like three times to get the dressing right.

SPEAKER_02 28:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 28:13

And it turns out the dressing's very simple. It's a cup of ranch and a quarter cup of barbecue sauce. I use sweet baby rays, and it was so good. Um, so good. And just a very fresh, very crunchy. Uh, add some croutons, delicious salad, has all the flavors of that delicious sandwich. Um, I love it. If you use a spicy barbecue sauce, you'll spice it up a little bit, uh, which is a Bridget tip right there.

SPEAKER_02 28:42

Spice it up.

SPEAKER_00 28:43

Uh, I like it paired with a nice glass of rose. Just saying.

SPEAKER_02 28:47

Oh. Summer. Um, that recipe I can't wait to make, obviously. I love some good chicken salads. Um, also, I recently had like some uh some kind of flavored tortilla strips that I put on top of my salads a lot. Um there's like maybe a ranch one, there's a Santa Fe, whatever, throw it on top of the salad instead of croutons. Yum.

SPEAKER_00 29:08

I like that idea a lot.

SPEAKER_02 29:09

There you go, man. I'm here for recipe tips for chicken and salad only.

SPEAKER_00 29:13

This reminds me of the other really good thing I ate last week, which was Simple Q. Oh my god, so good. Let's just give Simple a shout-out right now. They're doing it again this week. I'm going to get more tonight. They did a pop-up barbecue concept.

SPEAKER_02 29:29

Yep.

SPEAKER_00 29:30

Which, if you're not in the terrible world of restaurants, you don't know that concept's just a word for a restaurant. But they call it concepts because I don't know. They need to be special. They bought us out of brisket and pork butt the weekend before Easter to cook the stuff. I gotta call from they're like, Do you have 300 pounds of brisket lying around? Can we get it in an hour? Like, sure. Yes, you can. You're prepared for that. Uh dude, the brisket is so good. I I'm a little bit of a snob when it comes to barbecue, and I gotta give this an A minus. There's a couple little tweaks I would make, but for me, an A minus, like that's yeah, and I am put this together in like five days.

SPEAKER_02 30:19

Yeah, oh, I think at minimum. And I will tell you what, I'm not a barbecue person, but I uh, you know, simple's near and dear to my heart. So we did try one of everything on the menu. We uh why not? It makes great leftovers, and I loved it. So I already had mine this weekend, so it started Thursday, already got mine, and have more leftovers in the fridge.

SPEAKER_00 30:39

I see they're doing a loaded mac and cheese this time.

SPEAKER_02 30:42

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 30:43

Uh everybody makes fun of KFC on their loaded bowls, but this is basically what this is. And you know what I'm here for?

SPEAKER_01 30:49

Loaded mac and cheese.

SPEAKER_00 30:50

Loaded mac and cheese. That's what I'm here for.

SPEAKER_02 30:53

It's funny because this is real mac and cheese, everybody. So know this, you're not like this is not craft macaroni and cheese. So if you come whining that it doesn't taste like powdered craft, go home.

SPEAKER_00 31:02

This is really so if you like that and you're adult, go jump off a building.

SPEAKER_02 31:07

Yeah, they've they've gotten that completely cornered. So yeah, it's super good. So shout out, that's one of the many things that restaurants around here are doing to pivot and take advantage of the situation, I guess.

SPEAKER_00 31:19

All right, so it's time for Kid Corner.

unknown 31:23

Kid Corner!

SPEAKER_02 31:24

Oh, I thought you weren't gonna sing it, and then I knew you were down.

SPEAKER_00 31:27

Bridget, I'm very excited to hear this story. I want to know more about this. Tell me all about the things.

SPEAKER_02 31:33

Okay. I'm sure you've heard on here, maybe not, but I love donuts. Um, and we've already talked about how I don't usually cook a ton, but I'm cooking a lot right now. And Elliot, my four-year-old, loves to do all the cooking right now. He's into like watching um cooking shows on Netflix or Hulu with me. And so there was some baking show and they were making donuts. And it was a little close to his bedtime, so he was really excited about making donuts. I'm like, nope, nope. But six o'clock the next morning, he woke up, remembered it, and was like, Mom, can we make our donuts? So we did. Um, they weren't good, but he thought they were great, and it was so fun. Uh, we bake them. Like, I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 32:10

Well, then you say they weren't good, but he thought they were great.

SPEAKER_02 32:12

Yeah, he they weren't good. But listen, I've made baked donuts plenty of times and I've had some really good ones. These just didn't happen to be very tasty, but he thought they were great and we had so much fun, and so we'll do it like probably at least once a week, I'm gonna say, because it was easy to have him involved. Like my sister got me an awesome little kitchen aid mixer, and he loves to like put it down and lock it and be part of the mixing process and whatever. I've had so much fun with him um cooking, which again, these are all things that I don't normally love to do. So we made donuts, super fun, very photogenic.

SPEAKER_00 32:46

I love Elliot. He is just such a good kid.

SPEAKER_02 32:50

He loves a little saint.

SPEAKER_00 32:53

My Simona story, because I only have one kid. I know it seems like Bridget only has one kid, but she has too. My Simona story. Um, so we are she's growing rapidly. She just had her six-month birthday. It was very exciting. Yeah. I know it's insane. And so she's we're dutiful first-time only parents of Simona. So, you know, you you always did the tummy time. They said right away, five minutes a day. We do the tummy time. So, you know, you roll her over and she screams and hates it, and whatever. So, for the first, let's call it five months of her life, you do the tummy time thing, you put it on her tummy, and you know what she does right away? Rolls over right back onto her back where she can grab her feet and eat her feet. Yum. The next two weeks of her life, she does the thing where she rolls over, she rolls over, rolls to her back, rolls back, rolls to her tummy, rolls back to her back, and like, oh yeah, good job. You're actually like rolling. Also, please don't roll into the fiery abyss. And can we the floor is lava, stay on your mat, and can we put you back on your tummy for tummy time so you can build those muscles? And she just rolls back over. Okay. The last two weeks, she is stealthy good at rolling to her stomach, just boom, onto her stomach, and then won't roll back over. And gets really extraordinarily pissed off that she's on her stomach and starts screaming and crying that she's on her stomach and wants to be on her back. And you're like, Simona, you can roll back over. You know how to do it. I'm not gonna roll you over for the rest of your life. You're not some turtle. I'm not here to help you with that. This is not in my parenting description. Yeah. Well, like, I mean, as a good parent, shouldn't you encourage self-sufficiency? Shouldn't you encourage her to roll over herself? You put yourself in this situation, you can get yourself out. I know for a fact you can do it. So she's not doing it. So we have to then eventually roll her back over, and then you know what she does? She rolls right back onto her stomach and we repeat the situation. And it's not a fun game.

SPEAKER_02 35:10

Damn, babies won't listen.

SPEAKER_00 35:12

So that is my story. My daughter will not roll from her stomach to her back. I know she can do it, it's extraordinarily frustrating, and I feel like I'm a failure of a father because I've had a very in-depth discussion with her. I've rolled out the mechanics for her, no pun intended, of all right, so here's what you do. You can do it. I've demonstrated for her, you know, I get and I roll myself back over trying to get her to roll. Um takes me a little bit more space than her.

SPEAKER_02 35:43

Um I would like to see you demoing it for her, though.

SPEAKER_00 35:48

But uh, nothing's worked. Please send help.

SPEAKER_02 35:51

Please, Nick, you're doing great. She's gonna roll again, don't worry. I promise.

SPEAKER_00 35:58

That's that's what I got.

SPEAKER_02 35:59

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SPEAKER_00 36:08

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SPEAKER_02 36:36

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SPEAKER_00 36:44

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SPEAKER_02 36:53

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SPEAKER_00 36:58

Yeah, you should have.

SPEAKER_02 37:00

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SPEAKER_02 37:29

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