Show #80 The Russians are coming…thru Subway

 

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There’s something about Texas

TURK!!!

Rockets just spark out of the sky

You just have to watch the shit

Haiti rescue effort

Jimmy Sapienza ladies and gentlemen

The political roundtable

Shelle wrecks the PAT Bus

I forgot he was black

Don’t be messing with Puckertime

The Soul Jam
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Show #79 Why does it hurt when I pee ?

 

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Quaker Steak restroom foulness

Don’t eat the bread eat the crablegs!!!

Mendenhall was robbed by the OC

HOJO’s owned the turnpike

I’m gonna be shittin live chickens

Arrogance

Hutch III said “jive”

Who brings a gun to practice ?

Ew I know dat’s right

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 Bocktown Beer & Grill Commercial

Make sure to check the video page (polar bear special)

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Bennito V
“Congo” (mp3)
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Anatomy of the Red Sauce

This is just a post I felt like doing. Tweeting around this morning while cooking Bob Evans Brown Sugar Maple flavored suasage for the fam I figured that since Jen would be gone all afternoon maybe I should make some spaghetti for Sunday dinner. This was something we’ve gotten away from as happens every summer, macaroni (pasta) isn’t fun to cook when it’s hot outside. So luckily I had defrosted the tomatoes, yeah let’s talk tomatoes.

It all starts hereand hereback in May. Spaghetti or red sauce is something that is near to my heart thanks to my upbringing in this city at a time when there were alot more Italian families living around me than is currently the case. Bloomfield used to be one of the most sparkling neighborhoods around, I mean it was a rule that you had to sweep your sidewalk daily. Anyway, Italian food is a huge part of my Irish ass….. got it. You have to grow the right kind of tomatoe, not those softball sized ones guys get so proud of, they can rock a sammich but for red sauce the Roma or plum tomatoe is required.They grow well around here though

I didn’t get any good pictures with the fruit on the plants this year, but I’ll do better next season. By the way I will be putting up this years garden journal in a few weeks. Back to the task at hand. This year was a bear concerning tomatoes as any gardener knows. With the blight taking out 50% of my crop and the fact that I didn’t realize I had finally after two dorment seasons, thanks to my vacation to Iraq, achieved some damn good soil content! I planted the plants too close together and the fruit was small, not bad it just made for much more work when they are only this size.

My sauce recipe is adapted from one I read several years ago in a book by Joe “Joe Dogs” Ianuzzi and you can find his outstanding collection here . Now the reason I gave props to Joe, other than his collection is gold, is that recipe’s from the city speak in grocery store terms like 2 cans of tomatoes. To get there you have to process them, by dropping in boiling water to get the skins to split.Then you move them to cold water and when they cool you core and skin them.Then before I freeze them for future winter use, I have to have a point of reference. This recipe is my flagship sauce so I know it calls for two cans of roma tomatoes, so I measure that amount into each freezer bag.Fast forward 3 months and it’s getting cold out and I want some macs…to the freezer the night before and this afternoon voila.This recipe doesn’t call for many spices from the spice rack because they come from the meat, that’s the key to the flavor. We are so lucky around here to have enough ethnic niches everywhere, that you can get authentic fare even at Giant Eagle. I take a pound of hot Italian Sausage and several Giant Eagle meatballs…these are beef, if I was making them myself I would get a mixture 50/25/25 of beef/veal/pork and season them. These come seasoned and smell delicious! Notice how I stopped when rounding up a couple because they had been flattenedThen after rounding the rest and cutting the sausage into manageable pieces you brown them both in 3 tbsp oil, you pick what kind, but even though it sounds romantic, I stay away from olive oil for this task. It’s great in marannara, but I used peanut today because I didn’t have any corn oil. Cook them just until brown and be gentle when turning the meatballs. A shortcut for this step is to go to Fiore’s and cop a half dozen meatballs.

Back to the tomatoes, they need a little something to compliment them and I have just the ticket in the freezer

Take the basil and tro a couple leaves in the blender….no I don’t like chunks…and puree or whatever, turn the thing on. Take this and pour it over the meat and cook the tomatoes down for 45 minutes.

Although this splatter screen is not that important during the cook-down it is essential for your kitchen and your relationship with your significant other in the next step. As I said before the flavor and spices come mainly from the sausage and the meatballs but there are a couple more ingredients, I use mediteranian sea salt, a can of chicken stock (broth)  I have made my own in the past. 2 cans of tomatoe paste some pepper and garlic powder and one cup of water, all to taste except the tomatoe paste and water.

Add all this to the tomatoes and meat and simmer for 3 hours. Joe calls for four, but I go with three, just sayin

This is a long time Low means Low

I guess I should take you all the way, I use Barilla and I salt my water

Never break the spaghetti it will fit

Now this operation will have your entire house happy by this point in the game so one warning. This smells so good if you have any pets it will knock their ass out!

Drain the macs good but you knew thatTro a little sauce in the pot you just drainedtoss the spaghetti so it is coatedYou spent all day on this, if you can’t grate it yourself at least buy decent cheese, today it’s a 3 way mix of parm, asiago and romanoTime to eat see ya!

Next possible post in Food: Your own sun dried, fresh milled cayenne pepper

Show #78, Trojan Leader 86

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Bitchburgh post on the Dormont Theater

Hollywood Theater

Buddha gotta go

Beat me black and gold

Hutch III takes up rugby

Michael was good but…

Hutch, that’s too much info

The women get mean about it

The lights dominate the show

Last month was the best year

Van’s French Creek Café

Brews Brothers rocks!

Hollywood Theater needs you

Jess lays it down

He speaks mandarin chinese

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Pittsburgh Symphony Brass
“God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen” (mp3)
from “A Christmas Concert for Brass”
(Four Winds Entertainment, Inc.)

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Show #77 “Why you wanna get all Dusty with it ?”

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I had the mute button

Pimpin local binness

Mike from Wear Pittsburgh  joins the show

It’s the Holidays!

Steeler Meltdown

The Chinese Girls came back

Erin from Burgh Living puts out some good Burghness

Turk draws listeners

Hutch III brings his best Tom Jones

Primanti’s is overated

Thom and Johnny call up

Tiger Mayhem

Check out the Pittsburgh Coffee Company

Studio certificate

Shelle pregame

Here we go

Studio Flag

Iraqi Flag certificate

Iraqi Flag in studio

BEV Lounge Iraqi Flag

Hutch III’s certificate

Hutch III’s flag

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“It’s Christmas Time All Over the World” (mp3)
from “Christmas on Broadway: Holiday Songs from the Shows”
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What’s the difference between a G-string and a Thong?

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 BEV Gold LowdownThanksgiving CruisePumpkin Meltdown

Schoolbus fat ass kids rehash

PBJ calls from Houston

Greentree Thom is on the case

Turk’s World sneak peak

BEV Gold Extra’s: Turk’s World part 2

Link to 75% youth’s not eligible to serve 

 

 

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My name is Smitty and the panties drop

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Shout out to Hilda and the church ladies

BEV Gold hits the streets

Fist Pumping like champs

Turk is the Safety Officer

It’s always the   bitches

Alan gets the shout out

Dude…the thong is brand new

Hutch III is hitting the battlefield baby

Sick Puppy calls the show

Sorry about the Skype meltdown fellas and thanks for calling the show

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Show# 74 Why I Love Pittsburgh

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Put the bacon in it

Deep Fried Oreos

Poli’s demise

Central has rules

Sal’s is a hoppin joint!

Alan clears shit up

BEV gets free stuff to give away

Brewfest coming up

Pittsburgh Angels go to the Nationals!

Liberty Tubes

We miss you Bob O’Connor

G20, yeah it sucked

Twitter hits the show

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Shelle Bitchslapped me

Emails, Voicemails generate content

Hutch III is sucking it up like a BEV Trooper

Rules of Life from Pop’s

Chelle almost takes it to the brink

How you doin Buddha ?

Vietnam and Laos in da Burgh

BEV Gold

Turk’s World

Twitter Fail

Schoolbus Mayhem

Shoutout to JG and Shadyside X

Saudi’s in the schoolbus

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Podcasting 101, Pittsburgh Podcamp 4

PODCASTING 101

PODCAMP Pittsburgh IV  

Many Thanks to Sorg and DJ Lunchbox from the Wrestling Mayhem Show for helping make this presentation work. To all that attended, you were great and I hope yinz enjoyed it and maybe even learned something!