Ze Chili

Saturday July 16, 2011

I am pleased to report that the Little Brick House now has the famous Brick House Café Chili on the menu. SCHA-WEET. I brought in the goods today and the old man made it up. Other then celery I have to say that it is an amazing chili. This is a recipe that is based on the Zippy’s Chili recipe. Zippy’s for those that don’t know is a restaurant in Hawaii that is known for its chili. All I can say is delicious. Now look here, Zippy’s serves theirs with rice. We do not. I was joking with Melissa, a Hawaiian girl that works for us, that I was going to bring in my rice cooker next week and we could have chili and rice. She was excited about that. I may just do it. I also joked that we should have Hawaiian Day at the LBH. We have the chili, we have the pork. All we need is some bulgogi and mac salad and we’ll be set. Sure we could throw in a few other things as well but that would give us a basic plate lunch. Mmmmm, may have to make it happen.

Staying on the subject of food. Dr. Biggs suggested we make a maple fudge. The folks have done so and it is amazing. Ranks up there with the White Choco Macadamia. I really think the fudge is getting dialed in. We have some great options available there and people love it. It is always fun to drift out into the eating area and give a sample fudge plate to some customers. They get pretty excited about it. We are trying to do things to make the experience different and fun. I think that contributes to the fact that people really like the place. Now we just need to get more people in though today was a pretty good day for us. I did have one old lady that worked me over for $10. She thought she paid with a $20. She did not. She was certain she did and I stopped short of calling her a liar and just gave her a $10 back. Actually, I gave her her $10 back as it was the top $10 in the pile. I had a line of people waiting to order and was not going to have it out with the lady. We ate the $10. Essentially we gave her a meal for free. I did go back and count the drawer after and sure enough it was $10 short. Oh well. If it costs us a meal to keep everyone happy then I guess that’s what it will cost us. Not worth stinking up the place over it.

I finished the chairs for Ken and Georgia and took them over tonight. Georgia was home and she loved them. I don’t know that I did them perfectly but I certainly gave them my best. I cleaned them and oiled them before taking them back over. I was happy with my work there and it was nice to see how happy Georgia was today and Ken was a couple days ago. They are good folks. Georgia said Ken was out driving truck today. It is his last opportunity to do so as they enter the MTC on Monday morning. We sure will miss them. They are wonderful people.

When I got home at 7:30 I worked. I set about getting a few things together in the garage and then getting the table out for Karen Slaughter. I’ve got to get that done early next week so we can get it to Vegas. I picked up some stripper and set it on and then went to mowing the yard. It worked pretty well but needed another go. I trimmed and did a few other things while it was doing its thing. I scraped off as much paint as I could and there is still quite a bit on it. Cutting through a few coats of old paint isn’t the easiest thing to do. It has taken out sand paper extremely quickly and now has outlasted two applications of stripper. Wow. We will go at it again soon. Anyhow, long and busy days. I like to stay busy and on something. That is good. I certainly have plenty to keep me busy here at the house. I’ve got to start knocking some things out. Perhaps a little Brick House Chili can help me with that.