Well it really depends on if its an El Nino or la-nina

sduyck_2000 (imported) wrote: Wed Aug 01, 2012 6:58 am http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/

la-nina/38971

Keep in mind the El Nino is male and brings hot weather without rain, La Nina is female and brings a colder then normal winter and more rain throughout the year.

What Moi is experiencing is an El Nino which does nothing except produce HOT Weather, little rain.

What Moi wants is a La Nina which is the giver of rain.

Now Dave I know your totally confused.

What we get in Hawaii is rain every day, pouring right now as a matter of fact, we love it, Hot all day rains in the evening, cools everything off and you never need to water your plants.

River

Yesterday was one of those "almost raining" days for me.

It rained but not on me, mostly, almost.

I went to get gasoline, make a deposit, and food shop. A light rain made things lightly wet without the need for umbrellas but the need for the slowest windshield wiper setting. Then after I bought fresh produce and was getting specialty bread, the lights blinked in the store. Seriously. When I checked out and took the groceries to the car, it was a drizzle. It rained where I wasn't. Lots of tree stuff on the road but no rain on me.

Riverwind (imported) wrote: Sun Jul 06, 2014 9:10 pm Well it really depends on if its an El Nino or la-nina

sduyck_2000 (imported) wrote: Sun Jul 06, 2014 9:10 pm 8280]
http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/

la-nina/38971

Keep in mind the El Nino is male and brings hot weather without rain, La Nina is female and brings a colder then normal winter and more rain throughout the year.

What Moi is experiencing is an El Nino which does nothing except produce HOT Weather, little rain.

What Moi wants is a La Nina which is the giver of rain.

Now Dave I know your totally confused.

What we get in Hawaii is rain every day, pouring right now as a matter of fact, we love it, Hot all day rains in the evening, cools eve
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rything off and you never need to water your plants.

River

Nope. :shakemitk

La Nina is dry for Southern California

El Nino is wet.

( )0( ) the last El Nino was not so wet -

It was then they made El Nino into two, and only one delivers wet to California.

80F, feels hot because of humidity from southern Arizona monsoons.

My garden is using lots & lots of imported water.

Moi

El Nino has faded. That's why the anchovy have come back in large schools of fish.

Anchovy do not live in hot water and the El Nino blooms, the fishing industry off the coast of south and central America does not do well.

Moi, we get our water from the rain that hits the roof, it then flows into a 10,000 gal tank, we filter it three times then hit it with a UV rays before it comes in the house, we then filter it one more time before drinking it, nice soft free water, lots of water, better then any I have ever tasted.

We don't water the plants, they get enough rain that we don't need to water them.

Sigh, Hawai'i - Paradise ----- the only thing we need to worry about is where all the lost consonants are because vowels are on the rise.

I looked up the Hawaiian alphabet you want a laugh try it, it only has 12 letters.

River

Riverwind (imported) wrote: Fri Jul 11, 2014 7:18 pm Moi, we get our water from the rain that hits the roof, it then flows into a 10,000 gal tank, we filter it three times then hit it with a UV rays before it comes in the house, we then filter it one more time before drinking it, nice soft free water, lots of water, better then any I have ever tasted.

We don't water the plants, they get enough rain that we don't need to water them.

Sigh, Hawai'i - Paradise ----- the only thing we need to worry about is where all the lost consonants are because vowels are on the rise.

I looked up the Hawaiian alphabet you want a laugh try it, it only has 12 letters.

River

How's the steak ?

The thick, prime beef, New York, Filet or Rib.

What's your preference.

All those BBQ's. There's gotta be "steak".

Is there at least, "steak for the rich" ?

I don't mean any ungraded, select or low quality choice. I mean "Prime".

High 70's here and higher inland. Humid. Thunderstorms may be visible in the distant mountains in a few days.

I look forward to being "cold". Do you miss being cold, River ?

Moi

moi621 (imported) wrote: Fri Jul 11, 2014 10:56 pm How's the steak ?

The thick, prime beef, New York, Filet or Rib.

What's your preference.

All those BBQ's. There's gotta be "steak".

Is there at least, "steak for the rich" ?

I don't mean any ungraded, select or low quality choice. I mean "Prime".

I don't know much about meat, but I know what I like, and what is a lie...:

- When talking prime steak, the word "Kobe" is MEANINGLESS, folks. True, honest Kobe beef refers to a very small herd (far, far too small to be the source of the tons of meat sold as Kobe) in Japan, indeed, but nothing (not a single one) of the steaks in your store marked as being Kobe is the real thing. In North America, that word is unregulated. The manufacturers are lying.

- Honestly, ultra-prime (say, a steak a store sells for 60 bucks) meat is simply aged properly from a properly fed cow.

Farmers who know what they are doing eat "60-dollar steaks" every day for pennies.

- That said, GOOD beef, aged properly, makes excellent steaks. Honest butchers will sell it at a good price.

- Steak meat (the good cuts out of a bovine) are priced based on rarity and perceived value. That's all. Filet Mignon isn't necessarily better, it's just a tiny part of the animal.

- What you like is personal; do you value tenderness over taste? Pay for Filet Mignon cuts. Like robust flavor more? Buy a rib steak or a ribeye.

- T-bones are bullshit. Most have a TINY bit of the tenderloin (unsure if that's the correct term) with a huge chunk of the cheap side, the big side is actually a pretty shitty cut of meat. If you must buy them, find the rare one that has a bigger tenderloin side.

- For me, ribeyes are the ultimate. Again, LOOK at the steaks on display; a ribeye has a sort of 'swirl' in the middle, with the higher-value portion of the steak being a strip of meat sort of curling around the steak (it should have a 'plug' of fat right in the middle of the swirl). Make sure you're getting lots of the 'good' portion of the steak, that part is mega-tender and flavorful!

- I know everyone has their own opinion but I think there is only one way to do a steak of you are using a stove.

- Cast iron pan, heat just above half-power on an element. Add a bit of oil.

- Put steak on. Keep it moving (just lateral, not flipping, damnit) to keep it from sticking.

- For medium/medium-rare, about 5 mins. per side for a 3/4 inch steak.

- TURN ONCE.

- Just at the end, baste with a little pat of butter (NOT margarine), lift off of pan and let rest a minute.

- My final note is just that marinades are for shitty steaks only. Rubs are for shitty steaks, too. If I have a properly aged piece of meat, that's all I wanna taste .

I have seen Beef at the stores, sense I don't really eat BEEF it has little interest to me, Sense being on the island I think I have bought breakfast stake once, I usually cut it up into small bits and then cook it to add to the main dish, I do the same with Pork and Chicken, they are added for flavor to a rice or bean dish.

I don't eat beef not because I can't afford it, I can, I don't eat it because of all the cuts of meat I like it the least. I would much rather have fish which is very plentiful here on the island and there are several good fish stores where you can get fish caught today at a much better price then beef. Fish is better for you on so many levels and you can eat it in more ways from raw which I like best to cooked.

Bottom line, given a choice of the best steak or sushi or Ahi, the fish will win every time. I eat a couple lbs of Ahi each week, almost daily, I don't remember when the last time I had beef, several months ago I think and if I never ate beef again I would not care.

As for Kobe beef, I had some once in Japan, think steak the best you have ever had and so tender you can cut it with a fork. Not like the beef we get in the states where it needs to be beaten before you can eat it.

River

Yes but, how's your weather ?

Mine's the same.

The water police left a friendly note on my door.

Moi

Beef is 3 of the 4 major food groups.

Chocolate is the other.

Everything else is miscellaneous.

The weather is great, sunny every day, light rain in the evening, life is good.

As for Beef, today I bought some fresh Ahi, much better then beef and better for you.

River