An exciting day in the office

From: Teo Macero
To:     John Berg, Joe Agresti, Phyllis Mason
Date:  November 14, 1969

RE: Miles Davis CS 9961 XSM 151732/3 Project # 03802

Miles just called and said he wants this album to be titled:

"BITCHES BREW"

Please advise.

Miles Davis's South Side Chicago Chili Mack

¼ lb. suet (beef fat)
1 large onion  
1 lb. ground beef
½ lb. ground veal
½ lb. ground pork
Salt and pepper
2 tsp. garlic powder
1 tsp. chili powder
1 tsp. cumin seed
2 cans kidney beans, drained
1 can beef consommé
1 drop red wine vinegar
3 lb. spaghetti
Parmesan cheese
Oyster crackers
Heineken beer

1. Put on a Miles Davis album of your choice.
2. Melt suet in large heavy pot until liquid fat is about an inch high. Remove solid pieces of suet from pot and discard.
3. In same pot, sauté onion.
4. Combine the meats in a bowl; season with salt, pepper, garlic powder, chili powder, and cumin.
5. In another bowl, season kidney beans with salt and pepper.
6. Add the meat to onions; sauté until brown.
7. Add kidney beans, consommé, and vinegar; simmer for about an hour, stirring occasionally.
8. Add more seasonings to taste, if desired.
9. Cook spaghetti according to package directions, and then divide among six plates.
10. Spoon the meat mixture over each plate of spaghetti.
11. Top with Parmesan and serve oyster crackers on the side.
12. Open a Heineken.

via Voices of East Anglia

Freaks and Geeks: Sam and Coach Fredrikson have 'the talk'

From the "gone too soon file" comes this gem from the late, great Freaks and Geeks. John Francis Daley, who played Sam, co-wrote Horrible Bosses. And this is what he looks like now:

Christ, I'm old.

Charles Mingus’s 5-Star Rapturous Deadly Holiday Eggnog

"1.  Separate one egg for one person. Each person gets an egg.

2. Two sugars for each egg, each person.

3. One shot of rum, one shot of brandy per person.

4. Put all the yolks into one big pan, with some milk.

5. That’s where the 151 proof rum goes. Put it in gradually or it’ll burn the eggs.

6. OK. The whites are separate and the cream is separate.

7. In another pot— depending on how many people— put in one shot of each, rum and brandy. (This is after you whip your whites and your cream.)

8. Pour it over the top of the milk and yolks.

9. One teaspoon of sugar. Brandy and rum.

10. Actually you mix it all together.

11. Yes, a lot of nutmeg. Fresh nutmeg. And stir it up.

12. You don’t need ice cream unless you’ve got people coming and you need to keep it cold. Vanilla ice cream. You can use eggnog. I use vanilla ice cream.

13. Right, taste for flavor. Bourbon? I use Jamaica Rum in there. Jamaican Rums. Or I’ll put rye in it. Scotch. It depends. See, it depends on how drunk I get while I’m tasting it."

via skies of blue