I have a rice cooker. as much rice as I eat it was a necessity. I sneak a little salt and sugar too. occasionally rice vinegar depending on my intended use.
And sometimes I'm nekkid.
Don't have to dehydrate it to ship it when its so close eh? *jealous*
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Let's try the education thing:
Essential:
How to read and write properly and say what you mean. I've never been one about proper grammar rules and all that, since I never learnt mine that way.
Maths: Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, Division, how to tell time, Geometry, Algebra. The rest, forget it.
Physics, Chemistry and Biology. Just to understand the world around us. Biology should cover how to eat healthily.
Home maintainence: How to cook and conduct repairs around your home.
IT: How to use Windows and how to troubleshoot, and also how to Google if it's a problem you can't fix.
Geography:Just so you don't get lost, since you can read a map. And appreciate natural phenomena, so you don't go to the beach and pick up stranded fish left by receding waves, you GTFO, because a tsunami is coming.
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Don't have to dehydrate it to ship it when its so close eh? *jealous*
It's dehydrated. But they don't tell you how much water to add. Add too much and you get porridge. But if you use broth instead of water to cook the rice in, the broth will infuse the rice with its own flavor. It's the principle behind why chicken rice tastes so good. All that chicken drippings goes into the rice. That's also why you should not make chicken rice the health conscious way by peeling off the chicken skin. The chicken fat is require to keep the meat moist and also add flavor to the rice.
Don't have to dehydrate it to ship it when its so close eh? *jealous*It's dehydrated. But they don't tell you how much water to add. Add too much and you get porridge. But if you use broth instead of water to cook the rice in, the broth will infuse the rice with its own flavor. It's the principle behind why chicken rice tastes so good. All that chicken drippings goes into the rice. That's also why you should not make chicken rice the health conscious way by peeling off the chicken skin. The chicken fat is require to keep the meat moist and also add flavor to the rice.
MMMMMM You have so much to teach me! If I wasn't so opposed to cutting my hair I'd be your padawan!
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Here’s a chicken rice recipe. For us we have a special pot so the chicken steams above and the rice cooks below, with the chicken drippings dribbling into it, but apparently the recipe above shows that you can cook the rice and chicken together, without any issues.
We also do without chicken stock here, trusting the chicken drippings to do the trick, so we do season our chicken with salt.
Mind you, I haven’t done the practical before.
For the chicken drumsticks marinade,I'd add some salt and squeeze some ginger juice (obtained by crushing ginger and squeezing) on it as part of marinade, if you can take ginger. Ginger juice acts as a tenderizer.
If you can afford the time, try to marinade for at least 3h instead of 20 min.
sweet I think the only thing I'm not going to be able to find is the pandan leaves.
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I think if you're doing the no chicken stock option you'll probably want to add some salt to the water you're cooking the rice with.
Chicken stock is salty so you won't need salt.
I recognize this one on sight and yes, I can identify them even in the middle of a jungle. Maybe you could pick them up growing by the roadside?
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*yawn*
Another morning?!
Already?!
I just had one recently, thank you!
*sigh*
I haven't slept enough...
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Rice comes like this here. No directions!I'd still suggest 2 cups water to 1 cup of rice, and then adjust if needed. Or ask someone you know who makes good rice.
Or switch to the clearly superior potato for your starch needs.
This is one set of directions you shouldnt follow. Using 500 ml to one packet of ice jelly powder results in a terribly sweet, and too hard ice jelly. Ice jelly is supposed to be soft!
Please use 1000 ml of water instead of the 500 ml the directions tell you to use.
Oh yes, the potato. I was trying to bake potatoes with rosemary and salt the other day, and I put them in their skins in the oven for an hour but they never got crispy. Why, gran? =(
Did you brush the skins with oil/roll the potatoes in oil?
Really good one I like That I have been making a lot lately is red potatoes covered in lemon juice, garlic, red pepper flakes (just a little) and a ton of oregano. I'll let em cook at first in aluminum foils for the first half to really soak in that lemon flavor and then let em out for the last half to crisp up.
RICE COOKER FOREVER!
MATH NEVER!
Hermione is going through a freakish germophobic phase...
"Mama, I may have stepped in dog poop six days ago and now I just changed my shoes and then scratched my nose and my finger was right next to my mouth, so what will happen?"My standard answer has become "Anthrax".
If she keeps this up, I'm going to *play* her some Anthrax.
AWESOME MOM!
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So...
I just read through all the paladin blog comments.
Does that mean I get a cookie or something?
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RICE COOKER FOREVER!
MATH NEVER!
Freehold attempts to be clever! :p
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So...
I just read through all the paladin blog comments.
Does that mean I get a cookie or something?
Actually that works in reverse you lose cookies by doing that.
That's a good thing. Cookies are sinful and fattening.
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F#~~ing cancer!!! Not the zodiac sign either.
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The only subject that should not be taught is math(as it is currently understood), due to its high levels of evil and stupidity. I have never used the quadraric equation once in my life, ever. It was a complete waste of time.
All other subjects are necessary. Especially the ones NH pooh poohed- no reading for analysis, foreign languages or art, I knoe you are a math person, but you have got to be kidding me.
There's a difference between "reading for analysis" and what I was taught both in high school and college as "literary analysis", and what Impus Major is getting (more of the same of what I got).
One of the topics on Impus Major's list was, "Throughout xxx, the author uses the color blue. What was the author trying to convey with this?"
I've never liked "reading as mind reading". If the author doesn't say it explicitly, I don't get it.So "reading for analysis" (what is the author trying to say? Is he or she supporting his or her arguments?) falls into my "political analysis" frame. "Literary analysis" in my experience has been exactly what I said: "Guess what your teacher thinks the author was thinking when he or she wrote this book, and Heaven defend you if you guess wrong, because no matter how well you present your arguments you'll never get above a C."
Happened to me. Happened to Impus Major. Seems to be Standard Operating Procedure among high school and college English teachers. "Guess what I'm thinking and write to support it, or get a crappy grade."
"Answer the question in a way other than the teacher wants, and you are wrong" happened to me in math, if you recall my complaining over earlier. I dont think that's a failing of the subject.
Kjeldorn's Chicken-n-Rice:
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How a subject gets taught makes every difference in the world, regardless of the subject.
With math teachers, in my life experience, it's almost never been a question of do they know the subject matter. It's always a question of do they know how to teach. It's two completely different skill sets.
I don't know why, but I've ran into more bad math teachers than I have for any other subject.
If Spiderman made webs like spiders do, out of his butt, then he would be terrifying.
You should check out the Brown Widow in the Venture Brothers TV show.
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MATH NEVER!
Sorry, Freehold, I hate math too, but a good mathematics foundation is essential to developing the young human mind. It's like learning to play a musical instrument competently or basic fluency in a second language. You may not need it all later, but the act of learning and understanding it helps the brain develop interconnections and greater versatility.
And yes, the quadratic equation is important and useful. Needed it all the time in determining star tread lengths and rises, as well as figuring out the total rise and length of the risers. I'm sure it comes in handy on other parts of home construction too.
And yes, I almost always cook my rice using some kind of flavorful broth or stock.
MATH NEVER!Sorry, Freehold, I hate math too, but a good mathematics foundation is essential to developing the young human mind. It's like learning to play a musical instrument competently or basic fluency in a second language. You may not need it all later, but the act of learning and understanding it helps the brain develop interconnections and greater versatility.
And yes, the quadratic equation is important and useful. Needed it all the time in determining star tread lengths and rises, as well as figuring out the total rise and length of the risers. I'm sure it comes in handy on other parts of home construction too.
I would rather learn every obscure musical instrument played across the course of human history(no wait...I play the valve trombone and baritone horn...already got obscure musical instruments covered) and every dead language we have than spend another moment in math class.
Wild horses could not drag me back there.
Hint- Not the quadratic equation!
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OK, I had a brain hiccup. I have never used quadratic equations in stair construction or home construction. I instead meant the Pythagorean theorem.
No, maybe (generic) you won't ever use the quadratic equation or ancient Sumerian history or fundamentals of programing or playing an oboe. But the act of learning any/all of these skills, especially while you're young, makes your brain work better and makes it easier to learn other new things. Your brain is the one organ you must never stop pushing to its limits.
Don't you just measure your neighbour's staircase then start building your own on the same dimensions? Copy-paste? :P
Not quite. There are local & state building code recommendations and requirements about uniform tread height/rise and depth/run that you have to fall between to keep a natural gait while descending/ascending. You also have to meet other requirements, like railing heights and distance between balusters, and account for variations like the upstairs floor having carpeting & under-padding while the downstairs floor is ceramic tile or wood flooring plus any underlayment. Or how thick & deep do your risers need to be to support the staircase's weight. Straight/winders are pretty simple, but circular and spiral stairs (or part straight/part circular) can get a little tricky.
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I wouldn't do a circular/spiral stair in the first place, going circles makes me dizzy. Oh wait...d@mn, my wizard's tower needs circular stairs...or nevermind, there's overland flight.
I know the last time I supervised office renovations I ran around with measuring tape then drew plans on excel, measured tables and chairs then divided the powerpoints where the desks were...
We prefer jasmine rice.
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How a subject gets taught makes every difference in the world, regardless of the subject.
With math teachers, in my life experience, it's almost never been a question of do they know the subject matter. It's always a question of do they know how to teach. It's two completely different skill sets.
Truer words have never been said. Teaching is a skill unto itself, distinct from the subject being taught. In fact I’d even say that it helps if a teacher had to struggle a bit when he/she learned what he/she is teaching, because understanding the struggle helps a teacher help a student break the material down and then wrap his/her head around it.
In my experience, it’s often the savants who make the worst teachers, because they don’t – nay, they simply can’t understand how to help students break down the material.
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My dad, an actual teacher taught us math so I only have my own thick headed stubbornness to blame.
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Do flat-Earthers believe all planets are flat, or just Earth?
I know this is meant in jest, but from my experience, most (serious) Flat-Earthers don't believe other planets exist. They believe they're part of the same brainwashing conspiracy as the earth being round, the moon landing, etc.
F#@!ing cancer!!! Not the zodiac sign either.
=( I'm very sorry to hear that. Who is it?
I play the valve trombone and baritone horn...
Hey hey, we can start a very small brass band.
My dad, an actual teacher taught us math so I only have my own thick headed stubbornness to blame.
I have a great-uncle who wrote some very good math textbooks. I had one good professor in college. The rest of my math instructors were...not good. I managed in spite of them.
So...
I just read through all the paladin blog comments.
Does that mean I get a cookie or something?
I made it through four pages. By that point it was clear that the thread was nothing but the same old back and forth arguments that Paladin threads always become.
F#@!ing cancer!!! Not the zodiac sign either.=( I'm very sorry to hear that. Who is it?
Mom. Again. 5th time.
=(
Mom. Again. 5th time.F#@!ing cancer!!! Not the zodiac sign either.=( I'm very sorry to hear that. Who is it?
Gah!! I missed your post first time around.
I'm not good at stuff like this.
So, I'm sorry for your mother, you and your family to have to deal with such a recurring problem/nightmare.
*Offers a hug, a shoulder, an ear and if you're so inclined, a stiff drink*
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I simply, fundamentally, do not understand how many of my co-workers function in everyday life.
NobodysHome: OK. Test this doc on setting up users and see how it goes.
Co-worker: OK. I'm done. But this "HCM View All" role didn't exist, so I didn't add it, nor did I contact you, nor did I worry at all that omitting a security role with a name like "View All" might cause issues. I just searched for anything starting with "HCM", didn't find anything, and gave up and moved on without telling anybody 'til after I was done.
NobodysHome: Er, did you consider searching for "Human Capital Management", or maybe CONTACTING ME!?!?!!??!?!?!!?
CW: Nope. Such thoughts never crossed my mind.
NH: Well, congratulations! Your user won't work because he can't see anything!
CW: Why not? I followed all your steps! YOU must have messed up somewhere!
NH:
Orthos...ouch...F(*& cancer, indeed. I hope she kicks its ass and remains undefeated.
I made it through four pages. By that point it was clear that the thread was nothing but the same old back and forth arguments that Paladin threads always become.So...
I just read through all the paladin blog comments.
Does that mean I get a cookie or something?
It didn't take long before people were complaining about something (LG) that they flat out stated in the blog was only due to the constraints of the play testing.