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If you can watch this and not be in awe of Nadal then … you must not be a tennis player. Djoker was doing great too, but JFC, Nadal is a force of nature.
Update: video deleted. Bitches. Trust me, it was awesome.
No, wait, don’t trust me. Here it is from the French channel. Holy crap, that’s awesome.
It’s about that time again…
Just to prep for my trip to TX. The two orange ones are my current co-lead favs and need to be strung. In addition to these 6, I have 2 more that need a redo so I can better judge the quality, but I’m going to play those out a bit more until I don’t feel like a jackass cutting out super nice strings (gut and poly) that I just happened to string at too low of a tension. I know, I know, sunk cost and all… wev.
Update: done!
Side note: somehow the pumpkin racquets (the orange ones below) are amazingly heavy. I never noticed before, and I love the racquets, but they’re actually heavier than the notoriously heavy K90 (the Sampras/Federer racquet… well, public versions. There’s a public new “Sampras” racquet that is actually heavier but I digress). Anyway, truly a racquet for a beast. A beast like ME.
… is having the 4th nice day in the past 5 weeks come along and you have to cut your planned second-day marathon tennis practice session short because of … blisters.
Seriously?!? I’ve got calluses up to (points chin) here, I religiously go and see Miss Rosy Palm, and now you lay some soft hand shit down on me? Why, tennis gods, why?!? (Proper form is a bitch, I guess.) I did play until the one in the heel of my palm burst and I got blood all over my overgrip so it wasn’t a 30 second surrender, but still… Captain Never Enough strikes again!
Oh, and I’m back to getting nice and red in approximately 0.7 minutes of sunshine apparently.
Other than that, it was a great day. Seriously. Ghostfinger was awesome and we got lots of time together. We fed a squirrel some grapes (and my still good-and planned to be eaten-peanuts!). Saw some cool birds. Watched stuff. It was cool.
Oh, also: nuskin or superglue are pretty good, athletic or medical tape not so much. I only had tape on the courts, so I alternately cut off blod flow to my hand and/or got blood all over the racquet. Good times. Problem with nuskin is that everything smells like that stuff for at least 7 hours after you put it on. Dinner? Nuskin. Toothpaste? Nuskin.
Ingredients:
1-1.5 lb chicken breast, cut into small bits
7 oz canned green chiles
14.5 oz diced tomoatoes with chiles (e.g. Ro-tel)
1 can chicken broth
14oz ~ (1 bottle) salsa verde (alternatively – you can use tomatillos, though that changes the end flavor)
1 can white beans
1 onion
4 cloves of garlic
1 jalapeno
2 ears of corn
1 tsp+ coriander seed
1 tsp+ cumin
1 tsp+ oregano
1 tbsp sour cream (regular)
1 lime
salt
pepper
Note: on my first try, I made double the amounts above. It’s a good thing I like it because, doubled, this serves about 30 people.
Steps:
1. Cut the chicken. Season it to your taste (I used salt, pepper, and cajun seasoning). Cook and set aside
2. Chop the onion and jalapeno (de-seed the jalapeno), dice the garlic
3. In a big pot (5qts+, 3qts is fine if making a standard batch as above), brown the onion, garlic, and jalapeno
4. Add the tomatoes, broth, green chiles, salsa verde, seasoning. Bring to a soft boil and then turn down to simmer. Let simmer for 5-10 mins.
5. While simmering, cut the kernels off the corn, set aside.
6. Add the chicken, beans, and corn. Season to taste. Squeeze 1/2 the lime in. Simmer 5-10 minutes.
7. Add the sour cream and squeeze the last 1/2 lime.
8. Let simmer for “a while”, season to taste
Serve with tortillas, sour cream (if you like), and cheese.
Total food cost: ~$15 (1/2 of that is the meat)
Serves: 10-ish. Verrrry affordable.
Review: 4/5. Excellent! It’s only moderately spicy; keep the jalapeno seeds and add a dash of cayenne if you want to make this actually spicy. This soup/stew/chili is sort of the companion piece to my Garlic Stew (with Other Bits), in the meat + bean + verde semi-spicy things category, and it’s just as delightful. The flavor is wholly different from the GSwOB – much lighter, with an electric zing rather than the heavy, round, wallop in the beef stew. I found it delicious and plan on having it many more times. Which I have to because, see note above.
A standard serving size should run you ~260-300 calories, not including the tortilla(s), extra sour cream, or cheese you may add.