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Recipe Review: Sirloin Tip Roast

 From time to time, people have said I'm a good cook.  But I think of it more as finding good recipes.  Recipes that don't have super complex ingredients and deliver good flavor.  I enjoy the search.   For the last few years, we typically will get a bulk order of beef from a friend that raises steers.  We are going to eat beef and it's our modest effort to buy local and lessen the impact.  When you buy in bulk, you end up with some cuts of beef that can be a bit tougher to turn into something yummy that the family will enjoy.  So I'm often searching for new recipes for those cuts and a thick and lean Sirloin Tip Roast can be in that category.  We are approaching that bulk purchase time of year again so I'm trying to empty out the freezer and decided I'd pull said roast from the freezer and look up a recipe.  It was a rainy weekend so it seemed like a good chance to fill up the house with that classic pot roast aroma.  This recipe from Sunday Supp Movement reall

Good Local Gamer Help

 Gotta mention the quality service we received at a couple local electronics/repair stores recently.   We had a Nintendo Wii U game-pad that hadn't worked for years.  I had essentially assumed my children's poor handling of the device over years resulted in a faulty charging connection.  After letting the device sit dormant for a few years, we decided to get it checked out to see if we could get it repaired.  We initially reached out to local gamer store Press Start , a place I had never visited and they said they don't really do repairs and suggested we contact a local repair shop called target="_blank">UbreakIfix.  They took the device in for an assessment at no charge and a couple weeks later we got a phone call about the results.  They said, "The charger is bad, we tried a different charger and it worked fine." Skip ahead skip ahead I take the kids to the store to pickup the device and the guy at the register basically says the same thing and hand

Product Review: Cuisinart Deep Fryer

 Hey Folks, I'm dusting off the old blog and we'll see if it sticks.  But for now I'm hoping to share some content and maybe, hopefully, it's helpful to someone.  The last few years I've considered cooking to essentially be my hobby.  I enjoy trying to make good, reasonable food for my family.  Nothing elaborate but basically simple and tasty (I hope).  And sometimes a little bit healthy.   My younger son enjoys some fried foods and frankly so do I.  At one point during the pandemic, he said, "Dad, we should get a deep fryer."  A few minutes later, I visited Amazon and found this Cuisinart Deep Fryer  . A couple clicks later we are waiting for delivery.  So it's been about a year, and I gotta say it was a pretty good purchase.  I've made french fries a few times, donuts, chicken tenders & shrimp.  Not a ton of use because I prefer to use it outdoors to avoid filling up the house with fryer fragrance.  But it's been easy to take out when nee