The definitive list of things I'm exceptionally good at doing:
1. Playing team handball
2. Making homemade tomato sauce (usually with meatballs)
3. Break dancing
Okay, you got me. Items one and three may not be entirely true, but item number two is absolutely legit. Tonight, Marci is at a work event, so I'm at home making some Multi-Million Dollar Sauce (now officially trademarked!). Multi-Million Dollar Sauce™, you say? As you may have read in Marci's post yesterday, the San Marzano tomatoes which I just lovingly hand crushed were donated to us by a rather generous millionaire with a huge garden (farm?), so it works. The sauce is now simmering, and the house smells absurdly delicious. However, the kitchen is a royal mess, so I'd appreciate it if you all didn't mention that one to Marci. Thanks, you guys are the best!!!
The beer for today while magic is happening on the stove is Peak Organic's Simcoe Spring Ale. It pours a lovely amber color in the glass, with a fluffy white head. There are aromas of malt and citrus, and flavors of grapefruit, caramel malt sweetness, and pine, with a dry, bitter finish. Easy drinking at 5.4%, this is a great option if you want some hop bitterness in your life, but want/need to balance that with some richer malt flavors as well. Definitely give this one a try.
I completely neglected to grab a picture of this beer in my glass before I finished it off, so instead, I present you with a picture of Multi-Million Dollar Sauce™ on the stove. I sincerely wish this was a scratch and sniff picture, as it's heavenly. I mean, we can put an over-sized toaster oven/dune buggy on Mars and have it send us pictures, so this whole scratch and sniff thing on computers should be coming just around the corner.
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Thing to Think About Today:
Usain Bolt went ahead and did his thing this week, cementing himself as the "Fastest Man on Earth", without question. He seems to be inclined to think he's the greatest athlete on earth, but I guess he hasn't had much time to watch the decathlon. Yes, many people can be good at one or two things, but it takes incredible athleticism to master ten different events spread over two days - 100m dash, long jump, shot put, high jump, 400m run, 110m hurdles, discus, javelin, pole vault, and 1500m run. America has a long history of success in this sport, including Ashton Eaton's 2012 gold.
If we're talking about the decathlon and the greatest athletes of all time, the conversation may just start and end with one man - Jim Thorpe. Born in Oklahoma, Thorpe matriculated to Carlisle Indian School, where he starred in football, baseball, track, lacrosse, and ballroom dancing. I kid you not, he was the 1912 intercollegiate ballroom dancing champion. As if that wasn't enough for one year, he also went to Stockholm for the 1912 Olympics, where he outclassed the field to win gold in both the pentathlon (long jump, javelin, discus, 200 yard dash, 1500m run) and the decathlon.
However, he was later stripped of his gold medals when it was found out he had received compensation for playing professional baseball. Those medals would later be reinstated, and some say the punishment for Thorpe was in fact simply racism against his Native American descent. Thorpe is buried not far from Philadelphia - his widow was upset that Oklahoma wouldn't erect a monument in his honor, so when the town of Mauch Chunk was willing to pay to have him interred in their town, she accepted their offer (Thorpe had died penniless). Jim Thorpe High School still uses the moniker 'Olympians' for their sports teams.
Sure, Thorpe was great at all those athletic events, but could he make homemade tomato sauce from scratch? I'll just go ahead and assume I'm better than he was, and leave it at that.
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