BigB0882

I find that a lot of the use it or lose it companies are the same ones who never approve your vacation requests or have an insane amount of blackout days where you can’t put in for vacation. They have no intention of you ever using all of them and they certainly aren’t going to pay you out because they “value work/life balance.” Yeah right.

Got mine in December 23 and I paid FL sales tax. It was less than Louisiana (of course) so they applied the amount I paid as a credit so I just owed the difference. For the person saying you don’t pay if you aren’t registering in that state, that was not true when I got mine. Unless it’s a state by state issue…Florida did not just let me leave without paying.

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Speaking of Indian, anyone been to Gunpowder in BR yet? I heard it was the same people from the old Swagat before they sold it to the current owners. Menu online looks killer.

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Yes. It was very good. It does take a while to get your food but they are making everything fresh back in the kitchen. We got Tika, Butter chicken, korma, ginger shrimp, and some kind of noodle dish. Everything was delicious except the noodles. They were some kind of curry noodles and they put too much powder or something because it was still grainy. It was also extremely spicy compared to everything else we got. Naan is very good.

I don’t know what to think, seems like a lot going on with that menu. I’ll give it a try, though.

Al Noor still has a buffet and it’s good. A little small but I’ll take it over nothing. Indian buffet has been one of the biggest losses to Covid.

The bridges will be shut down. I imagine I-10 will be shut down for most of the state Tuesday through Thursday afternoon. Anything that melts Wednesday will just refreeze quickly.

Glad to see NAM and ICON on board. All systems go. Now I just hope we don’t have any last minute sudden north or southward shifts.

Another one I’ve made recently is a shrimp and corn soup that I add more than usual to.

Brown 2-3 links sausage, I cut mine into quarters to easily fit on a spoon. Remove but leave grease
Cook down an onion and a few stalks of celery.
Add in garlic.
Move vegetables to the side of pot and put in 2-3 TBSP tomato paste. Add in a good amount of smoked paprika. Stir everything together and cook a few minutes.
When the tomato paste starts sticking deglaze with a can of rotel and then chicken broth, I used 2 cartons.
Season with a little crab boil, not too much. Onion powder, garlic powder, salt, pepper, etc
At this point you can add in a can of creamed corn and either a can or two of corn or some frozen corn.
Add back in your cooked sausage.
Heat back up to a slow boil
Add in some red potatoes cut into eighths. It depends on the size of the potatoes but you want everything to fit in a spoon. Cook until nearly done.
When you are about ready to eat add in your shrimp and bring back to a boil just long enough to cook shrimp and make sure potatoes are done.

It’s very hearty and not a cream based shrimp and corn soup. However, you could easily add in heavy cream at the end to give it a little more thickness. The smoked paprika makes a difference.

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they told me saturday the king cakes were showing up today. not sure what time

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Thanks. I think I will stop by on my way home then. I’ll report back.

The latest Euro run is absolutely brutally cold. Multiple days below freezing. Some snow. And it’s only 7-8 days out. Still plenty of time to change but this isn’t the 10+ day forecast we usually see this on. Curious to see if other models start coming on board or if the Euro begins correcting to warmer temps.

I think what a seven year old loves and what adults will say are very different. I already saw someone mention J. Alexander’s which has quite a strong flavored cheese. I’m not sure most kids would like it.

Anyone know if it is open and officially Oak Point now? Was supposed to change yesterday but I read that people were showing up and it was closed. I was by there Monday and it was still open as Calandros so I could see them needing some time to officially change everything over. I just want an Oak Point king cake!