Call me a potato-abusin' gecko-defenestrator, but I love balsamic vinegar!

[Rabrrrrrr]

Mmm mmm...

I've been trying it out a fair amount lately, making balsamic-base salad dressings, using it as a marinade with steak, reducing it and using it as a sauce for panfried steaks, mixing with cucumbers and onions...

And I bought a bottle of 4-year old - wow! Way better than the other.

Now I wish I had played around with it more back when I lived in NYC and had a store nearby selling a wide variety of ages, up to 30 years...

It's like pure heaven!!

[Redstone]

1. OK, you're a potato-abusin' gecko-defenestrator.

Always glad to help.

Redstone

[Zomby Woof]

2. A requirement in our kitchen

I use a dash or so in my red pasta sauces...

I use it when roasting chickens... injecting a balsamic-based marinade under the skin...

mmmmmmmmm

[Rabrrrrrr]

3. Do you use it when you're hating America, too?

LIEbrul.

:P

Howdy Zomby!! I should try it next with some tomatoes.

And I bet under the chicken skin is great!

I wonder how it would be with duck...

[Gold Metal Flake]

7. :light bub: "when roasting chickens"

Thanks for that tasty idea!

[RevCheesehead]

4. what are you doing to geckos?

[Random_Australian]

6. defenestrate= throw off building or roof.

[Gold Metal Flake]

8. Fenestration refers to windows.

From dictionary dot com (and no, I in no way expected their example but I fucking wholeheartedly support it!):

defenestrate

v : throw through or out of the window; "The rebels stormed the palace and defenestrated the President"


Also, the mental image of throwing something out of or through a window is almost always funnier than throwing something off a roof.

[Random_Australian]

9. yeah, my bad. Couldn't quite remember the place. n/t

[Gold Metal Flake]

10. What a great quote!

"Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, yet he will make gods by the dozen. (Michel de Montaigne)"

Thanks for that one! :hi:

[Random_Australian]

11. yuk yuk yuk.

Laugh away, that's what they're there for!

LOVE that quote. For the Alexis Sayle one, it needs context. (Have you ever seen 'The Young Ones'?)

[Gold Metal Flake]

12. No, but I have Googled it...

Takes place in 1980's Thatcher's England? Yup, I get the git!

[Rabrrrrrr]

13. Hey, you guys hijacked my thread!

And I didn't even notice until now.

I wonder if the Good Rev happened to see the definition of defenestrate...

[yvr girl]

5. I love it too

It elevates a simple salad into a taste sensation.

[miss_american_pie]

14. Okay, it's very good on grilled veggies too

but don't call me whatever it is you do with potatoes.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

15. Do not throw geckos out of windows.

I'm a gecko fan. I feel kind of bad right now because I moved the latest batch of eggs into the incubator and now the mom's looking for them. They need to be incubated to hatch though.

[BikeWriter]

16. I've never used it, but I will take your rave of it to heart and try it!

Thank you.