Despite the wonderful winter weather, the poker five managed to get themselves together for an enjoyable evening of last Friday. We were playing at BP's place, so we had to leave early Thursday, to make it for Friday night. Despite our lengthy journey, we arrived hungry and ready for some jocularity and fair play. Needless to say, things are always interesting at BP's. We began with some delightful subs that I managed to fuck up by putting on what I thought was mayo-nase, with turned out to be horse radish. More like horse-shit, if you asked me. WTF? Who the fuck discovered eating that foul root in the first place? I managed to choke that down and made damn sure I stayed clear of that condiment for the rest of the evening.
The poker was reasonably fun, mainly because I managed to win the last game of the night, despite the creative play of our host, who seems to always think that his 'nothing' is better than everyone else's 'nothing'. This leads him to going all in when he has SFA, and then he wins, much to his delight. He beat Pete and myself with this 'brilliant tactic' and chuckled gleefully in our faces. However; Pete ended up being the big winner for the night, defeating the group twice, while I defeated the 'mohel' in the last round.
We did learn an interesting new poker hand this time. Apparently JS thinks that you can have a full house, when you come close to having a full house. He needs to learn that a full house involves three of a kind and another pair. Not just two pairs. Either that or get his eyes checked.
BP did mutter the quote of the night, when late in the proceedings, and having had his ass handed to him repeatedly (despite his fucking brilliant play of going all in with nothing - twice and winning), he said, "I guess I shouldn't have started drinking at noon." Duh!
All in all, another night of shits and giggles. Can't wait for the next one.
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The last few nights have been delightful, if I must say so myself. Friday, MDW made Ravioli with shrimp in an Alfredo sauce. My only complaint is that I never know if I should cut the ravioli in half or just scarf them down whole. My gluttonous ways usually have me doing the latter. Alfredo sauce is wonderful, isn't it? Devilishly delicious. The shrimp are just icing on the cake.
Saturday was another day of Thai cooking for MDW. I really like that she is taking a Thai cooking coarse. The Pad Thai and spicy chicken stir fry was fabulous. Steamed rice tops it off and the Thai sticky rice is quickly becoming my favorite dessert. MDW made herself some Thai mushroom soup with coconut milk, which I don't really care for. There are few things that MDW makes that I don't eat and this is one of them. She knows I don't like coconut milk, so her feelings were not hurt. There is a Ukrainian saying that I can not write, but the gist of it is: The more for me! MDW laid that one on me. It sounds much better in Ukrainian.
Sunday was a snow day, with horrible winds, that resulted in our staying in for the entire day. You know what that means: cooking, cooking, cooking, for MDW and dishes, dishes, and more dishes for me. People often ask how MDW manages to cook such good meals each night and one of her tricks is to cook something big on Sunday and use the left overs for several different meals during the week. As usual, I did my share by taking a large chicken out of the deep freeze (is there no end to what I do?) on Saturday night. MDW cooked it Sunday morning (after pancakes, of coarse), and then made three different meals out of it for this week.
The meal that we had for today was marinated chicken BBQ'ed on skewer sticks, with a Thai salad and peanut sauce. I loved the peanut sauce and I didn't loath the salad. Tasted a little too fishy for me, however; I did eat it without complaint. MDW had time to make delicious peanut butter cookies to nosh on for dessert. Tomorrow, chicken cacchiatore.
Treadmill, don't fail me know!
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