Sauce Demi Glace

A demi glace is a reduction made of equal parts sauce espangole and veal stock/veal reduction. I had everything in line to perfect this culinary treat that goes with a nice steak. I roasted my mirapioux, mushrooms, and beef bones. Then add water, veal stock, tomato paste, rosmary, thyme, and let the flavors get together, for 6-8 hours.

Things were going great, I was two hours into the process, and needed to step out to eat sushi with friends Randy and Greg. MY though process was a follows: put the stock on low, step out and eat, come back, finish stock. I came back to no stock, dried up burnt bones, and the inability to proceed with the demi glace process. Woops.

To weight 200 lbs. I had the great experience, on sunday during my ride. My dur-ace cable broke off in the hood, while i was climbing a 8% grade/3000 ft climb. The rear der was set in the 12. The two otions were 1. turn around 2. continue climbing at 20-30 rpms. What do you think I did? Yeah, at some points, my computer was regestering a cadence 1 I was moving so slow.

What it feels like-

What I do on my days off

As the above/below pictures would indicate, I am indeed back on the bike. I have a ride that I do call McGowen Creek road in the Mohawk/coburg hills area. McGowen Creek road is a great road with tones of elevation, and a bit of steepness as well. Their are a couple finger extentions that come off of the road. One of which, Rd 16-2-29 which between 13-19 % grade and an additional 5 miles. I effectively call this road the many things but none of them are good. McGowen Creek to Mt Tom road is ~12 mile ( I though it was 8 before but it ends up switching to gravel at the 8-9 mile point) and Crests out at ~3000 ft. Its gradient is only 5-10%, only. Here are a couple of pictures of the road, the good Doctor would be proud of all the tarmac/gravel climbing I have been doing.

O.A.R, Bikeling, and like blind melon said...

No Rain. Weird, I know. We haven't had rain in nearly a week. Not much sun either, but I'd rather have overcast weather and the occasional SSRI's instead of rain. My riding has consisted of night rides with the below pictured bike light. Instead of powering hours out on the trainer, the mild nights (high thirties) lend itself to the accumulation of hours outside. This week will make 15 hours, which throughly please my inner need to be on the bike non-stop. And a weight update, only 49,000 kcal left to lose!



Last night, I went to the O.A.R concert. It reminded me to that whimsical time called college. Ah, college, no waking up at 6 am and such...

The ride I am doing sunday has 4163 ft of climbing, sounds like a day at ragby if you ask me.

Git-fiddle

Here is a picutre of my old acoustic gitbox. Nice, and it doubles as a christmas tree if needs be.

Here is the picture of my new jangling noise machine. Gretsch electromatic in wine color with vox 15 watt amp. Just picked it up is Seattle this weekend. Don't drool too much, or do as long as it is the safety of your own home.

Training, week two

As we all know, I started training two weeks ago. And started weighing myself this week. I didn't have a battery in my scale, and it was finally time to update the equiptment this week.

Found out that skip a meal diet is in effect. I am 54,000 kcal heavier than I would like to be, 45,000 kcal larger than my lightest point last year. I guess that is what three + month away from exercise will get you. Not to worry, Two good friends have done this yo-yo approach, with good result. Jan Ullrich and Matt Landen. Diet starts, well monday.

In other news, I got a 5 mile climb up parsons creek road in during my long ride yesterday.