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On the Plate Tonight: Thursday, August 28, 2025

Bone-in ribeye, topped with butter-sauteed, sliced shitake mushrooms; steamed asparagus; baked yukon gold potato. Olive oil rather than butter over the veggies. Light salt, generous black pepper. Liberal use of Tabasco Family Reserve. I seasoned the meat with a dry rub of salt, garlic power, onion powder, and cayenne pepper about 3hrs before grilling, and let it get to room temp. Asparagus in the InstantPot. Potato cooked in microwave, and then a few minutes more in the air-fryer covered in olive oil. Rating: 65/100 Delicious but basic. That I wasn't actually cooking until 10pm (on a work day) probably accounts for the mediocrity.
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Brainwashed

My official George Harrison guitar pick came pre-scratched. Brainwashed is a fine album, better than the last, and whole lot better than Driving Rain. No offense to Paul, since Flaming Pie was excellent. The fact is, Paul may well be the most prolific rock composer, but George was consistently poignant and he singlehandedly opened up Anglo rock to eastern influences. "Sometimes I'm good, sometimes I'm bad. It's all a part of life." My favorite track is "Stuck Inside a Cloud", followed by "Brainwashed" (too bad Dylan won't make the tribute concert.) Hopefully there will be a tribute album somewhere down the line. Elliott Smith really appreciates George.

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the best of what exactly?