A Productive Friday afternoon.

This Friday, Geoff and I got a bit burnt out at the end of the day. Sometimes you push through. Sometimes you just give up and smoke a cigar. We lit up a Tabak Especial Red Eye. This 4.5 inch maduro has an open foot and two bands lovingly wrapped around it's 54 ring gauge. (Remember to remove the lower band before smoking . . . People forget and it tastes nasty when it burns)

This is from Drew Estates and is technically a coffee infusion, so the tip is a bit on the sweet side, but you really can't taste any coffee. As smokes go this is pretty much middle of the road. It's well crafted and burns well. No harsh notes but you don't get much beyond campfire and leather until the second half, when there is a touch of pepper and, well, straight tobacco. Almost a pipe tobacco.

Homemade pasta redux.

So the first recipe that we tried for pasta was, well, disappointing. This weekend Sioux and I gave pasta another try, but this time we tweaked things a bit.

We only made linguini for reasons noted below and we also wanted the pasta to have some flavor this time so our base recipe got kicked up a couple of notches.