Episode 135 Go To Menu Items

We're talking about our favorite standard menu items.

The taste of this episode is a Lyford Cay Rum Dum, Batch

• 1 cup Lemon Juice
• 1 cup Simple syrup
• 2 cup Water
• 1 Egg white
• 1 and a half ounces of light rum
• 1 ounce of dark Jamaican Rum

1. Combine the lemon juice, simple syrup, water, and egg white together to create a sweet and sour mix.
2. Add 3.5 ounces of the mixture to a blender and blend briefly with the light rum.
3. Pour the blended mixture over ice in a short, chilled glass.
4. Carefully float the dark rum over the top of the drink.

Here's another version of the drink.

Episode #134 The Little Oven

In today's episode we talk about The Little Oven in Saint Paul, MN

Discuss take home deals from restaurants

Finally, we taste a Surly Furious, because nothing tastes better with pizza than beer*!

Aaron has eaten at, and enjoyed The Little Oven several times, and it is a wonderful place to have a meal with friends and family. Bring cash, or use the on-site ATM, or even bring your checkbook; but don't expect to pay with a card here. Try the wonderful pasta and pizza, just make sure you're prepared to bring at least another meal's worth home as left overs.

Surly makes many fine beers, and Andrea loves most of them. We're still scouting for another brew that Aaron will like, but today we didn't find one.

Also, for those of you interested in the hack for heating left over pizza, take a look here for some further info.

We really enjoyed making this episode, and would love to hear from you, please drop us a line at fans@travelbyproy.com

*This is Andrea's opinion, and is not shared by all hosts of Travel by Proxy.

Episode #133 Red Cow

Episode #133

We're in Uptown Minneapolis, MN, checking out Red Cow
We bask in their delicious menu
and enjoy a classic "Death in the Afternoon" minus the champagne (but really, it's just Absinthe on ice)

As mentioned in the episode, a Death in the Afternoon is credited to author Ernest Hemingway, and shares a name with one of his books.

As we didn't have any champagne, or sparkling wine of any kind, we simply had Absinthe over ice with sugar and water added to taste

There really isn't a recipe, but the best way to add sugar is either by adding simple syrup, or by putting a sugar cube on a slotted spoon and slowly adding water by using a dropper. There are actually Absinthe Spoons which are purpose made for adding sweetness to Absinthe.

You ever type a word so many times, that it no longer looks like a real word? That's how I feel about Absinthe right now.

We really want to shout out the delicious burgers (and food in general) at Red Cow, and we want you all to give them a try if you're in the neighborhood.

Do you have any strong feelings about fat/lean ratios in ground meats? Do you think we're right or wrong about anything we talked about? Please let us know by dropping a comment on our Facebook page, or sending an email to fans@travelbyproxy.com

Also, if you're reading this far down, would you like to buy shirts or merch with our logo or phrases on them? Please let us know, as we're starting to plan out a store with just those types of items!

Episode #132 The Great Minnesota State Fair

In today's episode we talk about the Minnesota State Fair, and all the trappings thereof

We'll also get into the food that we ate on our trip (and some that we didn't get a chance to eat)

Finally, we discuss a beer that Aaron tasted (and didn't enjoy) as well as a different beer that Aaron drank (and found palatable)

We really did enjoy our trip to the Minnesota State Fair, if  you'd like to read up on some history of the Minnesota State Fair, you can check out the Wikipedia page.

The drink we tasted in this episode was a riff on a sidecar (the original version we've featured on a previous episode of the podcast), and we decided to change the base from Brandy to Rum, and use the Tattersall Purple Reign in lieu of the Orange liqueur (or Triple Sec).

We went with:

2 oz White Rum
1 oz Tattersall Purple Reign
3/4 oz lemon juice
2 dashes Angostura Bitters

Shake the Rum, Purple Reign, and Lemon Juice over ice, pour into lowball glass, add 2 dashes bitters and stir. Sip and enjoy.

We wanted to touch on the many places that we ate or drank at:

Cookies from Sweet Martha's
Cider, Beer, and Duck wings from Giggles
$2.50 cheeseburgers from Mike's
The Boozy Berries and Barb Trifle from The Hideaway Speakeasy


If you've never listened to Steven Wright and didn't understand what Aaron was talking about with the monotone pitch person portion, please avail yourself of 10 minutes of wonderful one liners

Have a wonderful day, and thank you for listening!

Episode 131 - Wursteries and German Beer

We're in Indianapolis with Maggie Schulz as she tells us about Heidelberg Haus.

The taste of this episode is beer from Bad Weather Brewing! We wanted to have something from Waldman, but they were closed on our recoding day and thus we’ll have to taste it another day. We invited Maggie on to help taste the beer! (She brought it…)

Beer and brats are a perfect combination. Here’s a GQ article on the subject!

Musical Credits:

Good Day by Alex (c) copyright 2012 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. Ft: DonnieOzone

Now We're Talkin' by Jeris (c) copyright 2015 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. Ft: lrockhq

Episode #130 The Honeymoon Experience

In today's episode we talk about Aaron's honeymoon trip on the high seas, and to Disney World.

We're also joined by not one, but two special guests this episode! Justin is back from Episode #128, and Maggie was there to record her guest spot for Episode #131, so we had her join us for the conversation during our social episode, and we are also joined by a secret third guest in the form of Wicket, Justin and Andrea's dog.

Finally, the taste for this episode is Andrea's take on a simple Zombie.

And per our instructions in the episode, you can find a few recipes for a Zombie here.

If you have not seen or heard any part of the Me First and the Gimme Gimmes live album, you can watch a short video here.

If you want to learn more about the escape room on certain Royal Caribbean cruises, check out the blurb about The Observatorium here.

Episode #129 Keepsake Cidery

In today's episode we explore Keepsake Cidery

Taste their delicious Cider

Finally, we learn about the difference between Pitching and Wild yeast

The official term for a person who makes cider is Cidermaker. There seems to be some discussion about the term, but Cidermaker seems to be the most agreed upon term. So Andrea and Aaron were both wrong in the episode.

As to back sweetening a cider, brewngrow.com has a great write up you can check out here.

There are a variety of resources to learn about ways to use yeast to ferment pretty much anything you want, the best starters we've found are beer and brewings dictionary entry for Pitching yeast, winemakermag has an article on Wild yeast that we also found very enlightening.

Thank you all so much for listening, and we hope you enjoyed our detour about meat and meat replacements.