Sous Vide Time Again: Hanger Steak Style

In case our last installment of sous vide videos wasn’t enough for your viewing pleasure, I now have several sous vide steak videos to share that Jamey and I took last week. I also filmed the videos correctly this time, so no more skinny vids for you to deal with.

This time around, we used hanger steak that took us only a few hours. We threw it into the sous vide after prepping it with a little olive oil, spices, and McCormick’s Montreal steak seasoning.

These videos only further remind me that we need to ask our landlady if we can paint the walls. Anyway. Continue reading

Winter Wonderland!

Today Charleston was hit by the same winter storm that’s sweeping the South East. But in typical Charleston fashion, our storm has it’s own flair.

This is my typical commute:

My typical commute...

It takes about 20 minutes and can be really pretty. I cross the harbor and can see the sun come up. Occasionally I even get to drive over a fog bank, those are the coolest times.

That’s what I had on my way to work this morning. It was cold and rainy, but still only took about 20 minutes.

My way home today, though, was less enjoyable: Continue reading

New Year’s Resolution

Claire and I made a New Year’s resolution: We would walk to the grocery store.

We live at "A"

But yesterday it was cold.

And my car was parked over on Chalmers St. and I wanted to move it.

And it was cold.

And we wanted to get groceries for the week.

So we drove.

I’d like to say that we lasted a full 9 days of walking to the grocery store, but we didn’t. I just stopped by the store next to the office on the way home. So we never went to that one by foot…

The issue arose when we got to the store and remembered that I’d be out of town all week. So we really didn’t need to get a lot of groceries at all… So we bought a lot of wine!

Namely this crazy Japanese plum wine stuff. It smells terrible and antiseptic, but tastes pretty good. I’m not sure about drinking it straight, but I think it’ll make a fun mixer.

I’m inclined to attempt to form some kind of moral or lesson that I’ve learned here, but I can’t be bothered.