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Definitely do Wallace station then, although it's pretty busy on race days. The keeneland track kitchen does pretty solid pancakes and it's pretty cool to eat breakfast with riders, trainers, etc.

How many days in Lexington?
Are you doing keeneland?
Wallace station in Midway is a nice drive through horse country
Cole's 735 main
Carson's
Archanine Thai
Corto y Lima
County club
Favor
Mintons for brunch
Malones or obc
Heirloom in Midway

Lmk what you're looking for and I can give you better Lexington ideas

re: Tatertot casserole recipe

Posted by puffulufogous on 8/14/25 at 9:35 am to
You're referring to a hot dish, which is the state meal of Minnesota. It's ground beef, mixed vegetables and cream of mushroom soup as a base topped with tots and baked. Just use your imagination and wing it. I would probably brown off some beef or breakfast sausage, make a roux with the fat, add in some onion garlic and peppers, add milk for the base, top with tots and bake. Add a little cheese at the end.
Just reverse sear brother. Simple rub. 225-250 degree fire with some smoke to an internal temp of 120. Bring it inside and roast it really hot in the oven with convection to set the crust. Rest and slice

re: Electric train set questions

Posted by puffulufogous on 12/4/24 at 10:05 am to
Just do the Thomas set with the plastic tracks. Your three your old will likely drop stuff and the real deal trains are fragile. We bought the polar Express set (O scale, metal, Lionel) a for our kid early on and sure enough one of his friends switching signs and we have had to fix it a couple times since. They aren't going to have any fun if you have to tell them dont touch this, don't do that.
I pulled mine at 160 at the breast but I was smoking at 325. If I had got 250 I would've pulled just shy of 165. If I'm roasting at 450 in the oven I'll pull at 155.

re: Pepper Mills

Posted by puffulufogous on 9/4/24 at 7:19 pm to
Unicorn magnum has been great for me. Spending $50 on a pepper mill is painful but it works like a dream
Got him +2000 a week ago. Definitely worth a punt
If it's spiral sliced meat church did a pretty good video recently. I bought a ham when it was dirt cheap with plans of using it for sandwich meat
My moccamaster already does what I need it to. Its bulletproof
What's everyone's favorite cast? I absolutely shredded with Athena cast plus upgrades. Ended up getting the legendary ability with immediate recall of stones. It was over

re: Sid Meier's Pirates

Posted by puffulufogous on 3/18/24 at 9:03 pm to
I don't have any idea how to be good. I played the shite out of it on the Sega channel back in the day. Load up on cannons, broadside and board everyone, yahr I surrender. Occasionally I would follow a treasure map. Lots of fun
I'm still struggling with it. Its taken me a while to figure out what boons are worth getting in the first place and using poms on. I was cruising this morning with the bow with 3 death defiances until I ran into elite splitters with no means of deflection. That ate up a life. Then I lost one to the minotaur trying to tank the last 1/20th of his life bar. Handled Hades pretty well until his second form and died about half way into his life bar. Was crushed

re: Louisville Eats

Posted by puffulufogous on 3/9/24 at 8:11 am to
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tour with multiple stops. I pulled up the info and we're doing Rabbit Hole, Buffalo Trace, and Bulleit.

That's a good way to do it. I don't know about rabbit hole, but BT will definitely have either ER, WSR, Blanton's, or EHT small batch unless you get there after 1 or 2pm. Bulleit won't have anything special. It's pretty modern and a nice juxtaposition to old school stuff like BT.

If you decide you want to go do some more tours or chase allocated bottles, heaven Hill in bardstown is about an hour away, but you'll need to be in line by 830 to get a bottle if it's something good like whh17, parkers heritage, EC18.

Four roses usually has several of their recipes in the 9-10 year range barrel strength. Their coxs creek location is close to bardstown. Their main gift shop is in Lawrenceburg which is close to Woodford reserve and wild turkey. Wild turkey is a very pretty overlook of the KY river. Woodford is probably the prettiest distillery I've been to. Neither of them are likely to have anything allocated.

If you think you will have had enough bourbon touring after your guided tour, you could just pop into michters and hang out at the bar around noon and see if they put something out. If you want more tours I would do makers, Woodford, and maybe heaven Hill. If you want to chase bottles do heaven Hill early with a swing through of four roses coxs creek and finished with the michters hang out strategy.
Fpd was an early 90s old Taylor
Pretty tasty for only being 80 proof

Spd was eht BP batch 12. This is the second time I've tried this bottle and both times I was blown away by how a 131 proofer drinks like 110. Crazy contrast to the much rougher stagg jrs I've tried.

For those of y'all that have tried GTS how does it compare to that eht BP? My buddy won one in the total wine lottery and can't decide whether to open or flip

re: Louisville Eats

Posted by puffulufogous on 3/8/24 at 1:46 pm to
So a single guided tour of rabbit hole, or a guided tour with multiple stops via a bus? Do you have transportation to check out anything in bardstown, makers mark, buffalo trace etc? Do you have any interest in trying to get an allocated bottle? No judgement either way, just want to know so we can make recommendations that suit your interests.

re: Louisville Eats

Posted by puffulufogous on 3/7/24 at 10:19 pm to
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Their regional cuisine sucks fwiw

Don't disagree. Soup beans, banana croquet, burgoo and a hot brown don't hold a candle to gumbo, courtbullion, etc but they're worth a try. I would eat red or white beans and rice every time over soup beans and cornbread, but I'm biased.