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I mean, who does that.
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Naked Captains?
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It is a Wednesday, and I just cooked a pound of bacon for quiche later, so I'm not surprised.
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Every time I see a pointless internet argument, I feel really tempted to drop this sketch and immediately leave before I get sucked in.
I've found them to be a source of enlightenment, though usually tangential to the intent of the particular arguments. Effectively, it's taught me a lot about people in general.
EDIT: and not just negatives, either. It's about the way people communicate and what they mean and how they try to express that and what's behind it. Really cool stuff.
(But a lot of the arguments can be, well, pointless.) ;)
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Made it to Tiny T-Rex's school in twelve minutes. I'd like to shave three or four minutes off that.
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We were nearly struck by lightning on the walk home, when we stopped at a playground on the way. Cloud to cloud lightning directly over our heads, we ran home in serpentine, so as to not present a stationary target.
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Wow, dude. Glad y'all are okay.
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Back from session.
City Of Mists has characters walking on its streets again.
Also, one of players brought a bag of newly bought "toys": he recently got his collector's weapon permit and today got cheaply (at least when it comes to local rates) AKM, M4, 12-gauge Italian shotgun, Glock 17, and Makarov, plus some 1500 rounds of ammo...
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Sorry you're feeling grotty, TL :(
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Sorry you're not feelinggrottynaughty, TL:(;-P
FTFY
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We were nearly struck by lightning on the walk home, when we stopped at a playground on the way. Cloud to cloud lightning directly over our heads, we ran home in serpentine, so as to not present a stationary target.
holy crap. I had heard that was a myth.
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We were nearly struck by lightning on the walk home, when we stopped at a playground on the way. Cloud to cloud lightning directly over our heads, we ran home in serpentine, so as to not present a stationary target.holy crap. I had heard that was a myth.
Depends on which gods you worship... some are nastier with their lightning than others.
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So. Did everything I set out to do today. Saw eye doctor(left eye is getting worse due to location of computer screen at work) and got new glasses (thank you Groupon, but the savings were not as amazing as i would like...100 less would have been a real deal), went to second job (where i discovered next week's schedule has me working a whole lot- thank GOD $$$$$$$$$$$), and got new, unexplodable phone(although I still feel this recall is badly overblown). Why do i feel as if the sword of Damocles is hanging over me, then?
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MUST... GO... TO... BOSTON!!!!
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Quiche turned out awesome.
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I agree wholeheartedly.
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Speaking of points (OH, FUNNY! FUNNY!), we've started doing rapier at HEMA, which is ace, even though you have to start in a bizarre buttocks-out, squatting position which makes you look as if you're trying to surprise your opponent by doing a poo before lunging in to stab her/him.
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Especially if you add a bunch of cheese, bacon, and red peppers.
And then give it a snooty French name.
After all, all food is better if you think it's French.
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Especially if you add a bunch of cheese, bacon, and red peppers.
And then give it a snooty French name.
After all, all food is better if you think it's French.
...and armies are less scary if you think they're French...
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You'll never even see the French army though, they would've already run away.
Or you'll wake up with them outside the tent door, with a writ of surrender, and a kick ass breakfast Quiche Lorraine.
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Glad you and your family are safe, CH!
Thanks for the empathy, Limey. Sadly, my eldest has it, too. Pretty sure it wasn't from me, considering he got it immediately after I did - it manifested too quickly. I'm guessing we got it from somewhere else. I'd suspect his school, but I got it first, so that's weird. I'd guess TKD, because another kid had it the day before, but I was already just starting to feel the negative effects, so it can't be that.
Weirdness.
Anyway, after sleeping for more hours than I've been awake in the last 24, I may be feeling okay. Or this might be a temporary "high" that you sometimes get while sick before the realities of being sick crash right back down on you again. We shall see. Either way: FaWtL rocks!
After all, all food is better if you think it's French.
I keep hearing this, but I've yet to find this true.
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After all, all food is better if you think it's French.I keep hearing this, but I've yet to find this true.
That is... oddness...
Maybe you're just eating at the wrong French places.Julia Child's "The Art of French Cooking" is our absolute favorite cookbook by far, and her intro is side-splitting.
It goes something along the lines of, "This is not a cookbook for people who want to create a quick meal. This is not a cookbook for people who want low-fat dinners. This is a cookbook for people who love to cook, to eat, and to truly enjoy their meals."
Even the plain old roast chicken takes around an hour of "real" work as you're basting and turning and whatnot while it roasts...
...and everyone agrees it's the best roast chicken they've ever had...
I have yet to create something from that cookbook that isn't fantastic, and better than any other version from any other cookbook.
But yes, I enjoy spending all the time and effort in the kitchen to create something marvelous, so it may be a care for cooking and the willingness to buy premium ingredients that helps...
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The best way to experience French cuisine is at home, preferably with Julia Childs as your spirit guide, or at the very least an actual French person.
Also in France.
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Ninja'd by 8 minutes.
I'd like to add an extra five or six minutes next time.
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I love classic Julia, but to me, Jacques Pépin is the master of French cooking. I am in awe everytime I see him completely debone a roaster for Chicken Ballottine.
Warning: When watching Pépin cook, remember his fingers have at least resist fire 5, possibly 10, so don't touch very hot things with your own bare fingers like he does.
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Especially if you add a bunch of cheese, bacon, and red peppers.
And then give it a snooty French name.
After all, all food is better if you think it's French.
I'm with King Gran on this one; I'll take my eggs fried and atop a good bagel, my sharp cheddar in a can of tomato soup, my bacon straight, and you can keep your peppers and the frenchman they rode in on.
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I love classic Julia, but to me, Jacques Pépin is the master of French cooking. I am in awe everytime I see him completely debone a roaster for Chicken Ballottine.
Warning: When watching Pépin cook, remember his fingers have at least resist fire 5, possibly 10, so don't touch very hot things with your own bare fingers like he does.
Oh, Jacques Pépin also has DR 5 to avoid cuts from his knives and a succubus for a daughter...
...but we've never actually tried any of his cookbooks, so can't comment on those......watching him cook, though, is indeed addictive...
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I just eat food.
Sometimes I cook it, sometimes my wife cooks it. Sometimes CH bakes something.
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Anyway, after sleeping for more hours than I've been awake in the last 24, I may be feeling okay. Or this might be a temporary "high" that you sometimes get while sick before the realities of being sick crash right back down on you again. We shall see.
Yep. Temporary. :I
After all, all food is better if you think it's French.
I keep hearing this, but I've yet to find this true.
That is... oddness...
Maybe you're just eating at the wrong French places.
This is more or less what literally everyone keeps telling me.
Yet, it continues to be true, no matter what places they keep taking me.
I'm not saying that French food is bad, per se - it's just that the flavors aren't particularly my favorite, in the large list of possible flavors that I could possibly be enjoying.
(Also, in a more tongue-in-cheek: I generally prefer waffle fries, or seasoned fries to french fries, sooooo... ;P)
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No offense, but the last place I'm looking for authentic French cuisine is Florida. :-)
Again, no offense, I love your bikini clad beaches, Real Stories of the Highway Patrol, and ninja sinkholes.
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Don't you mean Freedom fries?
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Don't you mean Freedom fries?
That was my laugh for the morning... I'd forgotten THAT entire fiasco...
No offense, but the last place I'm looking for authentic French cuisine is Florida. :-)
Again, no offense, I love your bikini clad beaches, Real Stories of the Highway Patrol, and ninja sinkholes.
For the first: several people - including former French natives and those who've visited - indicated that there were surprisingly faithful adaptations of the cuisine here. I wouldn't have guessed it, either.
For the second, I tend it ignore the first, find the second suspicious, and pray about the third (as I can't do anything about it, until I get some sort of high-end reality manipulating power; aaaaaaany day now >.>).
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After all, all food is better if you think it's French.I keep hearing this, but I've yet to find this true.That is... oddness...
Maybe you're just eating at the wrong French places.Julia Child's "The Art of French Cooking" is our absolute favorite cookbook by far, and her intro is side-splitting.
It goes something along the lines of, "This is not a cookbook for people who want to create a quick meal. This is not a cookbook for people who want low-fat dinners. This is a cookbook for people who love to cook, to eat, and to truly enjoy their meals."
Even the plain old roast chicken takes around an hour of "real" work as you're basting and turning and whatnot while it roasts...
...and everyone agrees it's the best roast chicken they've ever had...I have yet to create something from that cookbook that isn't fantastic, and better than any other version from any other cookbook.
But yes, I enjoy spending all the time and effort in the kitchen to create something marvelous, so it may be a care for cooking and the willingness to buy premium ingredients that helps...
OMG. Nobodyshome is my spirit animal.
+1 million
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My teachers are generally really cool. But it's occasionally frustrating how we're retreading the rock cycle YET AGAIN.
WE LEARN THIS EVERY OTHER YEAR.
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food & cookingfood & cookingfood & cookingOMG. Nobodyshome is my spirit animal.
+1 million
Is a spirit animal better brined and roasted, marinated and BBQed, or dry-rubbed and smoked?
I should probably eat lunch soon.
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That is... oddness...
Maybe you're just eating at the wrong French places.Julia Child's "The Art of French Cooking" is our absolute favorite cookbook by far, and her intro is side-splitting.
It goes something along the lines of, "This is not a cookbook for people who want to create a quick meal. This is not a cookbook for people who want low-fat dinners. This is a cookbook for people who love to cook, to eat, and to truly enjoy their meals."
Even the plain old roast chicken takes around an hour of "real" work as you're basting and turning and whatnot while it roasts...
...and everyone agrees it's the best roast chicken they've ever had...I have yet to create something from that cookbook that isn't fantastic, and better than any other version from any other cookbook.
But yes, I enjoy spending all the time and effort in the kitchen to create something marvelous, so it may be a care for cooking and the willingness to buy premium ingredients that helps...
OMG. Nobodyshome is my spirit animal.
+1 million
Most everything I learned from my mom about (Southern) cooking--and that she learned from her mom--can pretty much be found in my now battered copy of the Fanny Farmer Cookbook. I got Art of Cooking years later, but it is also excellent.
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After all, all food is better if you think it's French.I keep hearing this, but I've yet to find this true.That is... oddness...
Maybe you're just eating at the wrong French places.Julia Child's "The Art of French Cooking" is our absolute favorite cookbook by far, and her intro is side-splitting.
It goes something along the lines of, "This is not a cookbook for people who want to create a quick meal. This is not a cookbook for people who want low-fat dinners. This is a cookbook for people who love to cook, to eat, and to truly enjoy their meals."
Even the plain old roast chicken takes around an hour of "real" work as you're basting and turning and whatnot while it roasts...
...and everyone agrees it's the best roast chicken they've ever had...I have yet to create something from that cookbook that isn't fantastic, and better than any other version from any other cookbook.
But yes, I enjoy spending all the time and effort in the kitchen to create something marvelous, so it may be a care for cooking and the willingness to buy premium ingredients that helps...
OMG. Nobodyshome is my spirit animal.
+1 million
quick! Throw a pokeball at him!
Pokemon are spirit animals?!
Blarg.
Can't play my games - computer is locked up doing something - and tv is monopolized by sick little ones watching kids shows which, while not bad, is not how I want to spend my sock day. Oh well. Later.
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Did Windows 10 strike again?