Lunch Dogs 5- Chorizo & Eggs

Bruce

As promised, Bench Dogs (parent company of Lunch Dogs) in partnership with Brunch Dogs, Inc brings you one of the easiest recipes you will ever have the pleasure of eating-- it has 3 items, takes 2 pans and uses 1 dish, and will put FIRE in your mouth! (my kinda food)

So stand down your lemon zester and holster those ginsu knives-- the prep time for this dish is so short, it would take longer to read about it than watch it, so I'll let you do just that. Just promise me that when you're done eating, you won't dribble sweat all over your computer-- it's bad  for the circuits.

Lunch Dogs 4- Mushroom/Vegetable Red Sauce

Chef Brucé Whetting Your Appetite

I keep promising to produce woodworking videos, and I keep meaning to finish the garage conversion so I can reintegrate the shop so I can produce more woodworking videos, but there's just a little bit left to do which requires my table saw, and after which, I can finish the garage conversion so I can reintegrate the shop so I can produce more woodworking videos.

In the meantime I am home, and that means I get to make stuff at home, and since I haven't picked up a sewing machine or a studding gun, I'm left with food. I'm not complaining-- I love food. But I'm going to have to expand my comfort range, because I'm almost out of Lunch Dogs menu item ideas. See, I'm a simple guy with simple tastes, and much of what I like to eat is often ripped straight out of a package and shoved into a microwave. With just as much delicacy, too. 

Coming up in future episodes of the cooking portion of this blog will be BRUNCH Dogs; that's right-- we're moving to breakfast with Chorizo and Eggs a la Bruce; and down the road apiece I'll show you an easy and delicious way to prepare some good eatin'  filet of Catfish!

But coming up right now is the glue of menu items-- the hearty center of Italian cooking-- an item central to almost every dish, and that is-- RED SAUCE!  And since I like to load my sauce up with just about every vegetable sold on the open market, this recipe is for YOU, my knife wielding friends-- chop hearty!

Bruce's Mundane Flash Of Insight

Bruce, More Here Than Ever...

Man, am I a genius or what? Hmm... maybe 'genius' is a little strong in this particular case. Okay, strike that. Let's go with bright. Err, wait. Bright seems a little much also-- let's try ordinary... nope... normal? Nooooo... simple?   Wait, I got it. Let's start over.

Man, am I EDUCABLE or what?  After writing my last blog I realized there was potential in embedding videos hosted on YouTube (U2OOB?) over here, the biggest plus being its success rate in loading videos-- I can't remember a failure when uploading to the 'Tube (2B?). 

This is important, dear blog reader, because Bench Dogs has other videos! Even better, here they are! Way back in the beginning when Pete and I were first dreaming up the Dogs we put a few experimental ones up. We put no introduction in the videos, and chopped them up like chum when they were too long to fit within YouTube's 10 minute video limit. But there was gold in them thar hills... we could see potential even then.

This first one is called 'Dancing The Record Shelf Jig' and was a part of our first shoot-- the 40 rack job. This was a jig I built to speed up the rack assembly process. While you still haven't seen the video of that whole job, now you can see about 30 minutes of it-- with a 4 minute running time!

Episode- Dancing The Record Shelf Jig

This next one's a four-parter. Coming in on the heels of the 40 rack installation, Pete and I found ourselves with almost a dumpster's worth of plywood scraps.  Never ones to waste materials if it could be helped, we racked our brains and came up with an interesting concept: What about cutting strips of that 3/4" plywood 1 1/2" wide, then gluing them, face-to-face, to make a dining room table? That sounds just awful enough to be kitschy! Come along as Peter takes the lead in this series, laid out in order for your viewing convenience.

Episode- Plywood Dining Room Table (part 1)

Episode- Plywood Dining Room Table (part 2)

Episode- Plywood Dining Room Table (part 3)

Episode- Plywood Dining Room Table (part 4)

And last but certainly not least, rest your gaze upon our quickie project that was conceived, produced and finished in about 2 hours! Pete was looking for a way to score points with a new 'friend', and of course, I was his enabler... But what came out of it was video worthy... plus, I accidently dropped a big chunk of glass onto the concrete floor!

Bench Dogs Quickie- Mira! Mirror On The Wall!

Episode- Pete's Training Day! pt 2

Bruce, The Frustrated Blogger/Woodworker/Videographer, At Your Service

You may notice something a little different about this posting, and you would be right.  I COULD rant about my problems with uploading videos to this blog and the excruciating process of reporting difficulties to the administrator, or I could vent about the terrible waste of time involved in seeing video after video ALMOST make it to fruition, only to be ripped from my eager hands with a polite but indifferent message indicating it did not post. Well, duh.

As I said, I COULD. But I won't. I'll look at the bright side.   I'll be positive. I'll make lemonade from pee. Because the site that refused my posting 12 (that's right, 12!) times in a row was also the site that gave me the great idea of posting it to YouTube, and then transferring the embed code to here! 

It's not like I haven't done stuff like that before, but it's like programming a VCR (what's a VCR?)-- you needed to do it so infrequently that you had to re-remember how to do it each and every time. A drag, yes, but since the solution was so easy and even time saving, I'm happy as a pig in slop. A cat in a sweater. A carpenter in a pile of wood shavings. It was timesaving because I ALREADY publish all these videos to YouTube, so now all I have to do (as I said) is to drag the embed code to my 'edit posts' window. By the way, if you find a Bench Dog video you simply must watch repeatedly, you can drag the embed code to your own blog, or your MySpace page, or FaceBook, or even in Yahoo! Groups-- there are probably many places I've forgotten, but just realize you can do it easily, and then you can watch my crooked puss 24/7!

Oh!  By the way, this is part 2 of "Pete Gets Dropped In The Middle Of Something He's Never Done Before Just So I Can Watch Him Drown And, Surprising But True, He Didn't Drown But Instead Did Very Well For A First-Timer." Enjoy.

Episode- Pete's Training Day!

Bruce (wearing his Doorhanger hat) Here:

As promised, a video about woodworking-- or at least door installing. My other videos, the Doorhanger Training Series, are a rather serious, teaching-oriented attempt to pass my trade to others. Bench Dogs, on the other hand, are a lighthearted, observational attempt to pass my mistakes on to others. This video is a crossover: a rather serious, lighthearted, teaching-oriented, observational, attempt to pass everything on to everyone.

Lunch Dogs 3- Italian/Jewish Meat-a-balls

Hey Folks (from Bruce):

Here's how it is. As I've mentioned before, the shop started out as a place to put the tools I wasn't using for a particular job.  Well, I use a couple of tools so seldom for outside jobs that I thought it best to incorporate them into the shop, which was a great idea, because I use them in the shop CONSTANTLY.

Then came the call from my beautiful ex-wife.

"Could you finish off the garage into a small apartment for YOUR daughter? Pleeeeeeeease?"

Heavy sigh. "Of course, dear."

Well, that's where my table saw and air compressor are for the duration. Remember I said I SELDOM use them for outside jobs, not NEVER.

And this is why you are watching ANOTHER episode of Lunch Dogs.  Don't get me wrong, I love Lunch Dogs. Cooking is another one of my hobbies, and this blog is dedicated to the spreading of knowledge, after all. But I was hoping to cast the episodes out a little bit further apart.  Fear not. Two offsite Bench Dogs videos are in the can right now, and you will soon be watching them!  Huzzah!

Lunch Dogs 2- Veggie Delight

From Bruce, The Other Omnivore:

Another cooking episode? Yes, another cooking episode. You might be thinking, "This is BENCH Dogs... when are we gonna see something with a BENCH?" To that I say just be glad, when I'm doing a cooking episode, that is has nothing to do with DOGS.

Face it, though... everybody's gotta eat.

I have never been one to pass up anything gourmet, or even gourmet-ish. Food is my greatest joy, as evidenced by some old size 40 pants in the back of my closet. Thankfully I've taken control of my passion and dropped 60 pounds (video on that achievement is still in the planning stages-- it's kind of hard to make one when I don't have any video from back when I was a fireplug), but I still love delicious food... only now I make it taste great with flavor, not with fat.

Enjoy this twice. Once when you're watching it, and again when you're eating it.

One Minute Shop Tip- Finding Things

Hey Everybody... Bruce Is In Da Shop!

I was going for a 'Bruce is in da house' kinda thing, but I gotta say, it didn't work out. Never mind-- on to more pressing matters... like organization.

I'm guessing most of you hobbyists have lotsa stuff for your hobby-- you know; tools, equipment, parts, inventory-- that sort of thing. Maybe you had one hobby which had a lot of stuff and you became a woodworker after making a plenitude of wood storage solutions for the first hobby, thereby giving you another hobby. I could go on, but my point is that you always need to know where everything is, or frustration will be your closest companion, along with his brother exasperation, his aunt annoyance, his nephew irritation and his dad disappointment. Today's tip helps to keep you far from them, or at least on the other side of a big fence, guarded by a fierce Thesaurus.