What did you have for dinner II?

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give_him 6 said:
You can't go wrong with a pizza oven. Sounds like a great gift.
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Well, he won't be getting that $600 Solo pizza oven (I wish)...and I don't want to be restricted to those $120 12" wood fired Ooni knock offs. But, I have found a couple sub $200 16" propane options that look pretty legit.

For my stocking though, I'd like to ditch the sourdough starter (mostly sits in fridge on pause anyway), and pick up a grain mill and get me some wheat berries. There is a really legit mill I found for less than $100, and milling your flour fresh and just making yeast bread is as effective nutritionally and digestively, if not more, than sourdough. And my wife isn't huge on the sourdough twang anyway unless its mild.
 
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GVF said:
Very nice, especially if daddy built instead of daddy contracted
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From the pad up to the chimney cap it was me and a couple buddies. I had to have help setting the heavy shoulders overhead and bracing them, plus the high stuff like the chimney (I hate high work anymore). It took me almost 18 months from pouring the pad to the 1st pizza. I'm right proud of it

Looking back the hardest part was getting the compound mitered cut rocks to fit at the base of the chimney as they were sitting on opposing plains. Anyone who's done this with wood can attest......
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CAPTAIN--VOL CAVALRY said:
Thats probably because like you I was raised in Cookeville. What a great place to be from, I still go home when I can and for most major holidays.
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Love it here, but to be fair, I was born and raised in Middle GA just south of AMS., while dad was a career UGA Experiment Stations Ag/Peanut Scientist. And lived in NE GA for 16 years before coming here. But, we came to visit the grands so much, K'town and Cookeville were second homes.

The TN connection is my parents. Mom - Knoxville. Dad- Jackson County with a Cookeville address. Being local, I'm sure you know Cummins Falls. They moved back after he retired. My brother in 2012. Us in 2014. sister in 2020/2021ish. Mom and dad have passed on and we all live out at the property now. I do not regret my son having the chance to attend JCHS verses all the alternatives. And he got to enjoy the HS sports opportunities of a small HS. JCHS has a long list/history of alumni achieving advanced education and nice careers. Overlooked and highly underrated HS academically. I'm sure you've seen the full page bragging ad they take out in the cookeville paper every fall before school starts since you're a local. Incidentally my kid is a Bio Chem major at Tech.
 
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joevol33 said:
Pizza hut
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Yeah. It's be you of course advocating the Hut. The old red top sit downs with the original pizza recipes and deep dishes and such were top of the hill at one time. Hard to beat pizza. And best salad bar period years ago. And the sit down flat top pac-man game. I've had one PH pizza in maybe 15-20 years and it was from a take-out location not long ago. Yuk. Almost made me go to a Domino's. Not sure what happened to PH. Maybe the sit down locations are still good and original?? The eat-in location in Hartwell started going down hill after they nixed the salad bar.
 
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GVF said:
Yeah. It's be you of course advocating the Hut. The old red top sit downs with the original pizza recipes and deep dishes and such were top of the hill at one time. Hard to beat pizza. And best salad bar period years ago. And the sit down flat top pac-man game. I've had one PH pizza in maybe 15-20 years and it was from a take-out location not long ago. Yuk. Almost made me go to a Domino's. Not sure what happened to PH. Maybe the sit down locations are still good and original?? The eat-in location in Hartwell started going down hill after they nixed the salad bar.
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It's not as good, they don't have the metal pans they bring them out in anymore, not here anyway. That's what made it so good.
 
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GVF said:
Yeah. It's be you of course advocating the Hut. The old red top sit downs with the original pizza recipes and deep dishes and such were top of the hill at one time. Hard to beat pizza. And best salad bar period years ago. And the sit down flat top pac-man game. I've had one PH pizza in maybe 15-20 years and it was from a take-out location not long ago. Yuk. Almost made me go to a Domino's. Not sure what happened to PH. Maybe the sit down locations are still good and original?? The eat-in location in Hartwell started going down hill after they nixed the salad bar.
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Did you ever go to finleys in lavonia, little hot dog/burger drive in. Pretty good food
 
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