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I would never buy a name brand cheese. Kraft or Cracker Barrel.
Not that I would have to.
And yet, here am I, enjoying Velveeta and Kraft and whatever else.
I'm aware.
:)
EDIT:
I would never buy a name brand cheese. Kraft or Cracker Barrel.
Not that I would have to.
Naked cheese hippy hipster?!
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As for Credit Card theft.
I have had my Credit Cards or info stolen three times.
The first time was when thieves broke into my place and grabbed a couple cards I wasn't using (along with other valuables). And promptly were caught by the police when they tried to use them to buy gas.
The second time I just accidentally left it at a shop. No one tried to use it. And I got a new card soon in the mail.
The third time was online information, and the bank immediately caught that one when they tried to use it.
So far I have been saved from monetary loss. I thank Jesus for that.
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Yes! I naked ninja'd Tacticslion by three seconds! In. Your. Face!
*smoke bomb!*back flip*somersault!*jump!*
In. Your. Face!
Uh... no thank you. I'm good without.
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Of course now he won't be able to see the sun, dazzled by my ninjaosity and all.
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Generally, if I want anything except dry goods, I go to Butchy McButchFace.
Or Bakey McBakeFace. Or Veggie McVegFace, and his sexy Polish ladies. Depends.
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the desire and ability to pay for quality ingredients for a meal is largely related to issues of culture, location, and economics.
Interestingly enough, my wife and I were talking about this recently with respect to food deserts and such.
Oh, I'm far more aware of *that* little pitfall than you might think.
My parents were making a combined six-figure income in the 1970's. Yet they were both scientists. Food was simply something to fuel the body. The less time and thought put into it, the better.
I tell people that I learned to cook in self defense. They think I'm joking. Then I tell them tales of Gallo wine, Generic Beer, Lucerne Ice Milk, and pork chops or salmon steaks cooked at 425 for 25 minutes and they realize I'm not kidding.
The ads that say things like, "Meat loaf just like your mom used to make" send me into giggle fits.
On the other hand, two of our gaming friends are foodies who are trying to survive with two kids on under $30k/year in the bay area. Their poverty is appalling, considering she's a full-time teacher. But they have spent an amazing amount of time figuring out which low-end foodstuffs are good enough to eat, and which aren't. And they make a mean Dr. Pepper pulled pork.
So it really does boil down to, "Do you care about food, and do you either have the money to buy the 'good stuff' or the time and patience to figure out which of the 'cheap stuff' is usable?"
And for some people, the answer to both is, "No", and I respect that.
Unfortunately, for the player in question, he's a HUGE food lover, and really loves my garlic bread, so I feel like I vastly let him down by producing such a sub-par non-edible, and it's rather embarrassing to be reputed to be this really good cook, to produce something that awful, and to be far too polite to say, "Oh, it's all the host's fault! He unknowingly bought cheap stuff!"
That is a level of rudeness to which I will never aspire. Heck, I didn't even complain privately to the host. He meant well, he really wanted to do something nice, and heck if I'm going to make him feel bad about it.
I'll take the hit to my reputation, and just politely offer to buy my own ingredients next time.
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I think I might have actually messed up my knees. Jumped off a loading docking hella times yesterday because there just wasn't time to go all the way around the stockroom and use the stairs, and my knees are hurting this morning. I can still walk, but it's not fun. And I have a final today and didn't have time to study because I was at work all weekend and I need to pack because the university decided that housing move out date should be on Wednesday ON THE SAME DAY AS FINALS BECAUSE WHO CARES ABOUT STUDENTS. And few people checked out early because they have finals, so everyone is moving out the last day (I have to because I have a final on moveout day and I have to spend a week in San Jose before moving to my new place in San Francisco on June 1), and the university is saying it's so packed Wednesday they don't know if we'll be out by 10PM.
I really want to just fall apart right now.
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I try very hard to convince people that the quality of the ingredients determines the quality of the final dish. My favorite example of this is my oft-quoted oatmeal cookies story, which I think I've posted here more than once:
"Your oatmeal cookies are fantastic! Can I have the recipe?"
"It's the one on the Quaker Oatmeal box."
"Oh, I've tried that one, and the cookies come out terrible."...the desire and ability to pay for quality ingredients for a meal is largely related to issues of culture, location, and economics.
Interestingly enough, my wife and I were talking about this recently with respect to food deserts and such.
Well, when someone tells you they "followed the directions" and the recipe turned out wrong, my first instinct is to assume they deviated from the recipe: mixed up baking soda & baking powder, used tablespoons instead of teaspoons, subbed brown sugar for regular sugar, etc. Also, many people seemed to think that the improvisation they can use (or get away with) in regular cooking can also work in baked goods (bread, cookies, etc.) when normally you have to be pretty precise. (My) Mom was never very demonstrative when it came to teaching us kids how to cook, but I absorbed a lot from watching hundreds of hours of PBS and Food Network* cooking shows (* at least until they decided they'd rather be the reality show and Guy Fieri/Sandra Lee network).
I've found that you can use many of the more affordable store brand ingredients, but you have to know which ones are just as good and which ones are substandard... and usually the only way to find that out is having the time to try different ones to find which is best. There is a risk, however, that you will find an ingredient sooooooo clearly better (Cabot cheeses) that your taste buds will accept nothing less (Kraft, Cracker Barrel, Borden's cheese-colored rubber/silicon extrusion, etc.).
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Also, if you have 3 hours, plenty of refined white sugar, a large glass baking dish, and a reliable oven, you can make "toasted" sugar. It tastes like caramel, and works great in morning coffee. I'd like to jar some up with vanilla pods or lemon/citrus zest to let them enfuse their aromatics, but this first batch is solely for my coffee.
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And because I can post it, tonight's dinner is prepped:
- 6 lb. roaster chicken is cleaned, spatchcocked, stuffed with seasoned herb butter under the skin, and sitting on bed of roasting aromatics (halved lemon, eighth-ed onion, and half a head of garlic)
- carrots are peeled, sliced. glaze is assembled.
- stuffing and creamed corn still in box & can, respectively standing by
Anxiety levels now lowered, going to lay down to rest my back
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I think I might have actually messed up my knees. Jumped off a loading docking hella times yesterday because there just wasn't time to go all the way around the stockroom and use the stairs, and my knees are hurting this morning. I can still walk, but it's not fun.Ouch. I hope your knees and other quietly aching joints ease up on you soon.
And I have a final today and didn't have time to study because I was at work all weekend and I need to pack because the university decided that housing move out date should be on Wednesday ON THE SAME DAY AS FINALS BECAUSE WHO CARES ABOUT STUDENTS. And few people checked out early because they have finals, so everyone is moving out the last day (I have to because I have a final on moveout day and I have to spend a week in San Jose before moving to my new place in San Francisco on June 1), and the university is saying it's so packed Wednesday they don't know if we'll be out by 10PM.
I really want to just fall apart right now.
That seems so poorly planned/scheduled. Seriously, how can most regular students, already on pretty limited financial and emotional energy budgets, study for exams and start packing at the same time?!?! ARGH!
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the desire and ability to pay for quality ingredients for a meal is largely related to issues of culture, location, and economics.
Interestingly enough, my wife and I were talking about this recently with respect to food deserts and such.
Oh, I'm far more aware of *that* little pitfall than you might think.
My parents were making a combined six-figure income in the 1970's. Yet they were both scientists. Food was simply something to fuel the body. The less time and thought put into it, the better.
I tell people that I learned to cook in self defense. They think I'm joking. Then I tell them tales of Gallo wine, Generic Beer, Lucerne Ice Milk, and pork chops or salmon steaks cooked at 425 for 25 minutes and they realize I'm not kidding.The ads that say things like, "Meat loaf just like your mom used to make" send me into giggle fits.
On the other hand, two of our gaming friends are foodies who are trying to survive with two kids on under $30k/year in the bay area. Their poverty is appalling, considering she's a full-time teacher. But they have spent an amazing amount of time figuring out which low-end foodstuffs are good enough to eat, and which aren't. And they make a mean Dr. Pepper pulled pork.
So it really does boil down to, "Do you care about food, and do you either have the money to buy the 'good stuff' or the time and patience to figure out which of the 'cheap stuff' is usable?"
And for some people, the answer to both is, "No", and I respect that.
Unfortunately, for the player in question, he's a HUGE food lover, and really loves my garlic bread, so I feel like I vastly let him down by producing such a sub-par non-edible, and it's rather embarrassing to be reputed to be this really good cook, to produce something that awful, and to be far too polite to say, "Oh, it's all the host's fault! He unknowingly bought cheap stuff!"
That is a level of rudeness to which I will never aspire. Heck, I didn't even complain privately to the host. He...
wine beer and ice milk...all in the same dish? I don't understand.
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I learned how to cook as a defense mechanism too. No one beats you up when you're helping your mom cook.
Of course, that might also explain why I was beat up in the first place.
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I think I might have actually messed up my knees. Jumped off a loading docking hella times yesterday because there just wasn't time to go all the way around the stockroom and use the stairs, and my knees are hurting this morning. I can still walk, but it's not fun.Ouch. I hope your knees and other quietly aching joints ease up on you soon.That seems so poorly planned/scheduled. Seriously, how can most regular students, already on pretty limited financial and emotional energy budgets, study for exams and start packing at the same time?!?! ARGH!And I have a final today and didn't have time to study because I was at work all weekend and I need to pack because the university decided that housing move out date should be on Wednesday ON THE SAME DAY AS FINALS BECAUSE WHO CARES ABOUT STUDENTS. And few people checked out early because they have finals, so everyone is moving out the last day (I have to because I have a final on moveout day and I have to spend a week in San Jose before moving to my new place in San Francisco on June 1), and the university is saying it's so packed Wednesday they don't know if we'll be out by 10PM.
I really want to just fall apart right now.
As a long-time professor, I'll say most colleges did it this way because it saved them money (didn't have to pay for electricity/power/whatever one minute longer than needed) and because they had no concept of human decency...
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Well, when someone tells you they "followed the directions" and the recipe turned out wrong, my first instinct is to assume they deviated from the recipe: mixed up baking soda & baking powder, used tablespoons instead of teaspoons, subbed brown sugar for regular sugar, etc. Also, many people seemed to think that the improvisation they can use (or get away with) in regular cooking can also work in baked goods (bread, cookies, etc.) when normally you have to be pretty precise. (My) Mom was never very demonstrative when it came to teaching us kids how to cook, but I absorbed a lot from watching hundreds of hours of PBS and Food Network* cooking shows (* at least until they decided they'd rather be the reality show and Guy Fieri/Sandra Lee network).
I've found that you can use many of the more affordable store brand ingredients, but you have to know which ones are just as good and which ones are substandard... and usually the only way to find that out is having the time to try different ones to find which is best. There is a risk, however, that you will find an ingredient sooooooo clearly better (Cabot cheeses) that your taste buds will accept nothing less (Kraft, Cracker Barrel, Borden's cheese-colored rubber/silicon extrusion, etc.).
My experiences are similar, except that I've learned that the two HUGE culprits in "bad cook syndrome" are:
- Bad ingredients- A poorly-calibrated oven.
If I had to name the #1 contributor to bad food, I'd have to point my finger at McCormick. Compare their nutmeg, vanilla, or cinnamon to a decent brand (Morton & Bassett is expensive, but excellent) and you'll find that with one, you can smell the jar open from a room away. With the other, you can stick your nose in the jar and not notice. You're basically adding colored powder to your meal. Is it any wonder it's bland?
And yeah, bland dairy products follow as a close #2.
But bad ovens are another huge one. Most people just assume that ovens work. The problem is, both most ovens *and* most oven thermometers are crap. Cook at the wrong temperature, food comes out wrong. And since you followed the recipe and did everything "right", it must be because you're a "bad cook", not because your equipment crapped out on you.
Most people, put in a decent kitchen with decent ingredients and a good recipe, produce good food.
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Outfit for today, because I forgot to do laundry.
Hawaiian shirt, nice, loud, and airy. With tan cargo shorts. I'm considering going sockless and with my hair in a pony tail.
Edit: Oh, snap. I found my fisherman's hat and highway patrol shades.
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Outfit for today, because I forgot to do laundry.
Hawaiian shirt, nice, loud, and airy. With tan cargo shorts. I'm considering going sockless and with my hair in a pony tail.
But... but... Bats in the Sun was at the BEGINNING of the month!
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I learned how to cook as a defense mechanism too. No one beats you up when you're helping your mom cook.
Of course, that might also explain why I was beat up in the first place.
Ugh. I'm sorry you were beat up for it. I still feel guilt for thumping on my younger sister and brother. Thankfully, she learned to kick like an emu, and then my brother added almost 6 inches and 50% more mass in a single year when puberty hit him.
I think was curious about cooking from a young age, but I didn't really learn until I moved out on my own. Prepackaged/processed food gets tiresome (and expensive) quickly.
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How did this game get popular at all?
Seriously? Who enjoys this exercise in masochism?
First off - what the hell kind of tutorial level is that? Second, am I supposed to magically figure out which stat does what? Third - how much acid did the people who wrote the story drop when they started writing this knotted yarn-ball of a story?! Fourth, it's not that it's "so hard" it's just observe pattern, memorize, and counter. Die repeatedly until you memorize. It's f%+$ing mental grinding, like level grinding in Final Fantasy but without the exp. That's not fun. It's repetitive and stupid and hyperinflates the hours they can claim the game will keep you busy. Overrated crap.
Dark Souls...*shakes fist*
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I just buy my own and grate it myself.That's the best policy.
It's time to make America grate again!
loooooool
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How did this game get popular at all?
Seriously? Who enjoys this exercise in masochism?
First off - what the hell kind of tutorial level is that? Second, am I supposed to magically figure out which stat does what? Third - how much acid did the people who wrote the story drop when they started writing this knotted yarn-ball of a story?! Fourth, it's not that it's "so hard" it's just observe pattern, memorize, and counter. Die repeatedly until you memorize. It's f#&#ing mental grinding, like level grinding in Final Fantasy but without the exp. That's not fun. It's repetitive and stupid and hyperinflates the hours they can claim the game will keep you busy. Overrated crap.
Dark Souls...*shakes fist*
That sounds more like a game influenced by angel dust, rather than acid.
Otherwise, it sounds like Dead Money- The Game :-)
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How did this game get popular at all?
Seriously? Who enjoys this exercise in masochism?
First off - what the hell kind of tutorial level is that? Second, am I supposed to magically figure out which stat does what? Third - how much acid did the people who wrote the story drop when they started writing this knotted yarn-ball of a story?! Fourth, it's not that it's "so hard" it's just observe pattern, memorize, and counter. Die repeatedly until you memorize. It's f~&~ing mental grinding, like level grinding in Final Fantasy but without the exp. That's not fun. It's repetitive and stupid and hyperinflates the hours they can claim the game will keep you busy. Overrated crap.
Dark Souls...*shakes fist*
I will always loathe Demigod for using such attractive cover art to lure Impus Major into paying his own money for it, then getting:
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I learned how to cook as a defense mechanism too. No one beats you up when you're helping your mom cook.
Of course, that might also explain why I was beat up in the first place.
Ugh. I'm sorry you were beat up for it. I still feel guilt for thumping on my younger sister and brother. Thankfully, she learned to kick like an emu, and then my brother added almost 6 inches and 50% more mass in a single year when puberty hit him.
I think was curious about cooking from a young age, but I didn't really learn until I moved out on my own. Prepackaged/processed food gets tiresome (and expensive) quickly.
Oh, my story is from the "indentured servitude school of cooking".
My parents hated cooking so much that the moment my maternal grandmother moved in with us, she was put in charge of cooking for 6. She demanded a "helper", so since I was the only responsible child, I was put to work cutting, carrying, and otherwise sous chefing for her at the ripe old age of 10. By the time I was 12, I was doing all the cooking, and she was just planning the menu. By 14, she was in a nursing home and I was responsible for planning the menu, shopping list, and doing all the preparation and cooking for a family of 5.And, being a 14-year-old, I occasionally messed up and forgot something. So my father got the brilliant idea that every time I burned something or otherwise messed it up, I had to eat the entire pot of it. And cook a new dinner for the rest of the family. Under those circumstances, you learn to be careful, FAST.
And yet in spite of that little hiccup, I still love cooking. And I still sometimes mess up.
Though I frighten NobodysWife with my "rice sense". I never burn rice. And if you've ever had to choke down a pot of rice so burned the entire bottom is a solid black mass of charcoal, you'll know why. Burnt rice tastes NASTY.
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My mother ate the burnt portions of rice at the bottom of the pot like popcorn when watching tv growing up.
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Outfit for today, because I forgot to do laundry.
Hawaiian shirt, nice, loud, and airy. With tan cargo shorts. I'm considering going sockless and with my hair in a pony tail.
Edit: Oh, snap. I found my fisherman's hat and highway patrol shades.
You'll need to tell people to stop doing things right meow.
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How did this game get popular at all?
Seriously? Who enjoys this exercise in masochism?
First off - what the hell kind of tutorial level is that? Second, am I supposed to magically figure out which stat does what? Third - how much acid did the people who wrote the story drop when they started writing this knotted yarn-ball of a story?! Fourth, it's not that it's "so hard" it's just observe pattern, memorize, and counter. Die repeatedly until you memorize. It's f#&#ing mental grinding, like level grinding in Final Fantasy but without the exp. That's not fun. It's repetitive and stupid and hyperinflates the hours they can claim the game will keep you busy. Overrated crap.
Dark Souls...*shakes fist*
That sounds more like a game influenced by angel dust, rather than acid.
Otherwise, it sounds like Dead Money- The Game :-)
Dead Money is mega-easy-mode compared to Dark Souls.
But I think they are after the same target audience.
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I love to cook. I'm a master of "improvised cooking" - I can take a look at a cabinet full of random foods that seem like they'd never go together and usually throw something together that's about a 7/10. My brother called me up constantly when he moved out (briefly) of our mom's place like "Hey, I got this, this, this, this, and this. What should I do?" and I'd just kind of figure something out and he'd be like "Yeah, that was actually pretty good!"
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You'll need to tell people to stop doing things right meow.Outfit for today, because I forgot to do laundry.
Hawaiian shirt, nice, loud, and airy. With tan cargo shorts. I'm considering going sockless and with my hair in a pony tail.
Edit: Oh, snap. I found my fisherman's hat and highway patrol shades.
So much of what I do at work is inspired by Super Troopers and Office Space. :-)
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Laundry done, so I switched out the shorts with grey-green shorts, and added socks. I'm keeping the shirt and hat though. I hate wearing glasses so I ditched the highway patrol shades almost immediately.
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Hopefully. I'm young, at least. Does make packing a pain in the ass.I think I might have actually messed up my knees. Jumped off a loading docking hella times yesterday because there just wasn't time to go all the way around the stockroom and use the stairs, and my knees are hurting this morning. I can still walk, but it's not fun.Ouch. I hope your knees and other quietly aching joints ease up on you soon.
That seems so poorly planned/scheduled. Seriously, how can most regular students, already on pretty limited financial and emotional energy budgets, study for exams and start packing at the same time?!?! ARGH!And I have a final today and didn't have time to study because I was at work all weekend and I need to pack because the university decided that housing move out date should be on Wednesday ON THE SAME DAY AS FINALS BECAUSE WHO CARES ABOUT STUDENTS. And few people checked out early because they have finals, so everyone is moving out the last day (I have to because I have a final on moveout day and I have to spend a week in San Jose before moving to my new place in San Francisco on June 1), and the university is saying it's so packed Wednesday they don't know if we'll be out by 10PM.
I really want to just fall apart right now.
The university couldn't care less. That's been their general attitude towards everything. Roommates bullying people? If they don't physically touch you, you're on your own. Be lucky we allow you to have housing, San Francisco is in a housing crisis we don't have enough room for everyone. Took too many units and it would really help to accept a W in a class and focus more on the others? No. All Ws must have a medical reason, overwork is not a valid medical reason (this was back in March, so it wasn't a late withdrawal). Our computer system keeps breaking routing numbers, causing problems with direct deposits for financial aid? Still going to charge you a penalty fee for each failure. I severely doubt they could give any less of a damn if move out date is severely effecting people's finals.
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I love to cook. I'm a master of "improvised cooking" - I can take a look at a cabinet full of random foods that seem like they'd never go together and usually throw something together that's about a 7/10. My brother called me up constantly when he moved out (briefly) of our mom's place like "Hey, I got this, this, this, this, and this. What should I do?" and I'd just kind of figure something out and he'd be like "Yeah, that was actually pretty good!"
You will be perfect for cutthroat kitchen
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I love to cook. I'm a master of "improvised cooking" - I can take a look at a cabinet full of random foods that seem like they'd never go together and usually throw something together that's about a 7/10. My brother called me up constantly when he moved out (briefly) of our mom's place like "Hey, I got this, this, this, this, and this. What should I do?" and I'd just kind of figure something out and he'd be like "Yeah, that was actually pretty good!"You will be perfect for cutthroat kitchen
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I love to cook. I'm a master of "improvised cooking" - I can take a look at a cabinet full of random foods that seem like they'd never go together and usually throw something together that's about a 7/10. My brother called me up constantly when he moved out (briefly) of our mom's place like "Hey, I got this, this, this, this, and this. What should I do?" and I'd just kind of figure something out and he'd be like "Yeah, that was actually pretty good!"You will be perfect for cutthroat kitchen
Aim for the eyes boss!
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Thunderstorms moving in the area tomorrow.
Also, the bird bath in the garden is the place to be. All sorts of fun birds. It probably helps that I keep it clean and fresh.
If you like bird watching, get a bird bath, they love it! And the squirrels don't bother it, which is a huge problem with feeders. Lazy jacked up squirrels!
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No seeds sprouting up yet, but it's not even been a week, so.
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And because I can post it, tonight's dinner is prepped:
- 6 lb. roaster chicken is cleaned, spatchcocked, stuffed with seasoned herb butter under the skin, and sitting on bed of roasting aromatics (halved lemon, eighth-ed onion, and half a head of garlic)
- carrots are peeled, sliced. glaze is assembled.
- stuffing and creamed corn still in box & can, respectively standing by
Anxiety levels now lowered, going to lay down to rest my back
Update: Roast chicken turned out almost perfect: both completely cooked through and the breast meat was still very juicy. Seasoned herbed butter -- 1/2 under the skin, 1/2 reserved for 3 bastings -- seems to have been the key.
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No seeds sprouting up yet, but it's not even been a week, so.
Maybe the sun was too far away for their Perception checks/its nurturing warmth and energy to reach them (as expressed in feet).
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Generally, if I want anything except dry goods, I go to Butchy McButchFace.
Or Bakey McBakeFace. Or Veggie McVegFace, and his sexy Polish ladies. Depends.
I am fan of everything almost everything that involves sexy Polish ladies.
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Things you can get when you make your first five million.
...I want all of those things...
Except for the Harry Potter under the stairs thing.
#timhunter
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I will probably go back to cooking more once my friends will move out.
I largely withdrew from kitchen because it irritated me that I can't leave my own mess and clean it later.
Also, they are almost certainly taking their fridge (mine was very very old and got thrown out when they moved in) and unless I hit some sort of unexpected revenue stream I won't be exactly in financial position to get a new one.
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I love to cook. I'm a master of "improvised cooking" - I can take a look at a cabinet full of random foods that seem like they'd never go together and usually throw something together that's about a 7/10. My brother called me up constantly when he moved out (briefly) of our mom's place like "Hey, I got this, this, this, this, and this. What should I do?" and I'd just kind of figure something out and he'd be like "Yeah, that was actually pretty good!"
Yes; both my wife and I love to "Iron Chef" it. It's lots of fun, and easy to make good stuff.
The problem arises when someone buys you bad ingredients and says, "Make this particular dish."
I could have done a GREAT dessert with that squishy bread...
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Update: Roast chicken turned out almost perfect: both completely cooked through and the breast meat was still very juicy. Seasoned herbed butter -- 1/2 under the skin, 1/2 reserved for 3 bastings -- seems to have been the key.And because I can post it, tonight's dinner is prepped:
- 6 lb. roaster chicken is cleaned, spatchcocked, stuffed with seasoned herb butter under the skin, and sitting on bed of roasting aromatics (halved lemon, eighth-ed onion, and half a head of garlic)
- carrots are peeled, sliced. glaze is assembled.
- stuffing and creamed corn still in box & can, respectively standing by
Anxiety levels now lowered, going to lay down to rest my back
LOL. I live the Julia Child recipe, which is, "Baste every 8 minutes for the entirety of the cooking time."
Work-intensive, but makes a mean chicken.
And yes, CY, that's your cue to make another alias.
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Breathing is the cap's excuse to make a new alias.
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Update: Roast chicken turned out almost perfect: both completely cooked through and the breast meat was still very juicy. Seasoned herbed butter -- 1/2 under the skin, 1/2 reserved for 3 bastings -- seems to have been the key.LOL. I live the Julia Child recipe, which is, "Baste every 8 minutes for the entirety of the cooking time."
Work-intensive, but makes a mean chicken.
I'm surprised that neither of us has yet been recruited by the Cult of Paula Deen.
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I have standards for creating aliases you know.
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Breathing is the cap's excuse to make a new alias.
DON'T GIVE HIM IDEAS!
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Oh, come on, what can he possibly do? The man actually does have standards. I once created a thread where he was to be suggested aliases by various people and come up with them, but the man shut it down faster than a vegan restaurant in the heart of Germany...and with the same attitude - pitchforks and torches!