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A little late for flower talk, but last month a girl made me some shortbread cookies flavored with Lavender... They were delicious, but I was burping up lavender gas for the next few hours. EDIT: Dino, just bought your book. I'm omni, but I want to cook for my vegan friend, and I dislike meat substitutes. It sounds perfect! Squashy Nipples fucked around with this message at 16:55 on Feb 14, 2012 |
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bunnielab posted:The are all inherently broken in some way from bring yelled at their entire childhood. They also look weird naked. poo poo... Here I was, hoping that it was just the first two that I had met.  Such legs though, man.
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dino. posted:SEE ALSO: Assholes who are inconsistent. Honey is loving not vegan. Don't be so black and white, this is something that vegans do argue about. Veggie Cuddler Girl actually bakes with honey, but she knows better then to say that on her blog, lest she start a vegan blog war. There is no medical reason for veganism, it's a moral choice made of conscious. And therefore, inherently subjective. If you are bothered by exploitation of animals, what happens to cows at industrial milk farms is in a different league from commercial bee keeping. We need bees to fertilize our food crops anyway, so it's not like you are avoiding the exploitation of bees just by not eating honey. Plus, local honey is really good for you. But hey, if your take on veganism precludes honey... then don't eat it! Whatever works for you, man. People should be able to eat what ever they hell they want without having to justify it to anyone else. Phummus posted:I got my cpap about 6 months ago and use it every night.  CPAP brother. Impressive that you got used to it so fast, it took me a very long time to be comfortable sleeping with it. I don't sleep without it now, not even naps. Sleeping through the night is a beautiful thing, eh?
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Sweet Custom Van posted:I loving love this city forever. Meh, I like Boston from a distance. I live in the burbs. mindphlux posted:I'm going to boston in a couple months. is there like one place I shouldn't miss? or anyone doing anything crazy on the high end? I'll be downtown. Haymarket is worth it for the sights, and yeah, very masshole. Crazy vegan girl scores good veggies cheap there. You've got to haggle! (and elbow your way to front of the line) Most of the restaurants I could recommend are dumps, like Fasika. Great food, but cheap, and you asked for "crazy on the high end". Well, that's a little tougher... The only expensive place I've been to in Boston more then a few times is https://www.craigieonmain.com I've also heard rumor that Cragie serves an entire pig head... I've always wanted to try that. At the bar, they also sell a $20 burger that is worth every penny. Wanna split a pig head with me?
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mindphlux posted:whoah yes i am down for splitting a pigs head with u YAY! Turns out it's actually only half a head, but still enough for two people. http://peckthebeak.com/2011/03/craigie-on-main-pigs-head-for-two/ http://www.thehightea.com/boston/543 Maybe I can get The Beet to come take pictures, she loves that place.
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When I was in Japan, several times I was surprised to bite into what I thought was a chocolate-filled pastry, only to find that funky sweet-bean paste. The only decent Japanese desert is green-tea flavored soft serve. Ok, business travelers: if I have to choose between a Homewood Suites and a Holiday Inn, I should pick Homewood, right? Oh, and I got a new job.
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After looking into the specific hotels, the Homewood is the way to go. I'm definitely going to be concentrating on the Hilton hotels. I like their towels, and my favorite annual kinky hotel party is at a Hilton.wafflesnsegways posted:Red bean paste is indeed the best. I think it could easily make the leap to becoming popular in America, too. It's sweet and hearty and flavorful and really not weird at all. Put it in everything. Yeah, I like it now, but like a fair number of Japanese foods, it was an acquired taste. If I could read enough kanji to know that I wasn't buying chocolate, I probably would have warmed up to it sooner.
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therattle posted:New job? Management Consultant and Business Transformation Specialist, with a consulting group that focuses on the financial services industry. Cool gig, but it's 100% travel. The women in my life are not happy, including my cat.
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Phummus posted:The correct answer here is general every time. They'll say "Lets try it with local first" to which you answer "No loving way" When given the option, this is always the correct response, regardless of the surgery. Steve Yun posted:Poop shelves are also common in Russia. Sadly, I know this from personal experience... although it was still the USSR when I was there. I don't know why the gently caress you'd ever design a toilet like that. Manuel Calavera posted:Paging Squashy. Heh? These days I'm too tired from the new job to get too freaky. The GF slept over last night, and all we did was gently caress. Well, OK, nipple clamps were involved, but vanilla people use those too, right? Speaking of the new job... I lost 9 pounds in 4 days. While I certainly need to lose some weight, I don't really think that this is a good way to do it.
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I kinda like High Life. As far as cheap beers go, very drinkable. In college we used to drink this poo poo called National Bohemian. 5 bucks a case at the beer distributor in Philly. (granted, this was 20 years ago) Ug, just googled it, and you can still buy it. It's a Baltimore company. http://nationalbohemian.com/Home.aspx
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bunnielab posted:Natty Bo is unremarkable other then having a cool can. Having lived in Bmore I have drunk oceans of the stuff. Um, I think the fact that it gets you drunk without tasting completely disgusting at 21 cents per can was pretty remarkable.
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Veggie girl wants some more hits on her blog, so check it out: http://melomeals.blogspot.com/ She hasn't been blogging as much, because she hasn't been doing the $3.33 a day thing lately due to her new job. At the moment, I don't think she knows what direction to take it. Also, here is her writeup on Boston's Haymarket: http://melomeals.blogspot.com/2012/01/haymarket-finds-and-chipotle-spit-pea.html
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Drink and Fight posted:I love you, Happy Hat. Emptyquote. mindphlux posted:I keep waiting for my hot as poo poo of-unknown-providence latina neighbor girl to offer to scrub my floors or like dust or something. To hell with tacos, I suspect that you have insufficient supplies of Lemon Pledge. Once you correct this deficit, she'll be unable to resist. Joborgzorz posted:The trendy gluten-free thing is the one fad diet that actually pisses me off. While the fad diet/health craze aspects are impossible to deny, I know a lot of people who have decided to go gluten-free, and a few of them I actually respect as cooks/gourmets. Even The Beet has gone gluten-free. Maybe there really are rising levels of celiac and gluten intolerance? If so, what could possibly be to blame? Mankind has been cultivating wheat for a LONG time... My hippy-dippy girlfriend blames GMO wheat. Seems like a stretch to me, but I don't have any better ideas. Maybe one of you sciencey folks can dismiss that one for me? Squashy Nipples fucked around with this message at 01:14 on Jun 11, 2012 |
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Do they spray sulfur on bing cherries? I ate a bunch for breakfast, and I'm having some evil sulfur farts. It smells like low tide in here.
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EAT THE EGGS RICOLA posted:Pfft the domestic abuse ones are way worse than the "don't spill a huge pot full of boiling oil all over your face" ones. I disagree, I find the latter one far more disturbing. drat, I love Wiggles's new avatar... not that I don't like Wiggles, but his CostCo hate is something I simply can't abide by.
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Coded transmissions from the moon, maybeManuel Calavera posted:Where ya been Squashy? Um... I've become a full-time Brony? My life is super busy. Stressy, full travel job, plus caring for a certain GWSer forum friend of ours... her mental illness got the best of her, and I had to put her in the hospital. She is out now, in a day program, and doing better, but it's still an ongoing source of stress, since she is unemployed and living on my floor. Goddamn, if you think health care is hosed up in this country, you've never had to deal with the public mental health system. It's far worse. I've always felt that canned mushroom soup tastes like MSG... even though MSG supposedly has no flavor. As in, it tastes like mushrooms, but it's an unnaturally intense mushroom flavor.
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CuddleChunks posted:
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Let's take Wiggles on a magical adventure! hahaha
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Remember to check them when they open, sometimes you get some dead ones. Holy poo poo Kiteless, JEALOUS! My backyard is a poo poo hole compared to that.
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I'm still waiting for Mush and Milk to hit it big. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B02D4FtCwj4 GrAviTy84 posted:Lobster used to be a food that only the homeless would eat. I mean, it's closest relative is a cockroach. Not sayin' it's bad, it's just silly that it's as expensive as it is. No lie. In old jails in New England, they used to feed lobster to inmates as punishment. therattle posted:Since moving in with (and then marrying) a vegetarian I have not cooked meat. I really miss making a good stew with lamb and potatoes, leeks, carrots, peas, onions, garlic, rosemary, barley...mmmm Sometimes I sneak out for burgers. 
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I would have to imagine that Wiggles back yard is rather impressive. It's not nearly as nice as Kiteless's garden, but I do eat out there a lot. Also, check out my improvised sideboard, very classy.
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Marriage is a bum deal, avoid it at all costs. (and my relationship with my GF is going just fine)
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The "marriage penalty", although real, is one of those silly dog-whistle things that the republicans like to bitch and moan about; it's a pretty small penalty in the grand scheme of things. The reality is that the financial and legal advantages to being married are VAST... starting with the unlimited spousal exemption when you croak. Folks like Dino totally deserve that. I mean, you can hire a lawyer to set up some complicated trusts that will do that for you, but gently caress that, het people get that for free. Happy Hat posted:But that is the Danish system for you, having income redistribution is expensive, and so is having public services, so I pay happily. Agreed! I make decent money, and I pay a lot in taxes. And yet, I like paying taxes! Apparently though, this means that I Hate America. Drink and Fight posted:Gourd! Hey Gourd! Good to see you man! GoWithChrist and I were just talking about you the other day... we tried to find your ghost pepper video on YouTube, but came up empty handed.
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And yet on occasion, sometimes the best! The only problem is that most of the hosts are too polite to just hang up on the idiots. NLP isn't just for HR departments! Among other things, it has some overlap with hypnosis. For some reason that has never been clear to me, erotic/kinky hypnotists frown on NLP techniques, considering them to be immoral. Some of those creepy Pick Up Artists types promote certain NLP techniques, so maybe that's why. Thanks for the link, there are just too many ghost pepper videos on Utoob now.
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Hypnobeet always told me that I would like America's Test Kitchen, since I tend to be pretty scientific when I'm tinkering with a recipe. But I watch very little TV, and I've still never seen it. Good article today on the man behind it: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/14/magazine/cooks-illustrateds-christopher-kimball.html This part confuses the gently caress out of me: quote:At the core of C.I.’s M.O. are two intrepid observations Kimball has made about the innermost psychology of home cooks. Namely that they 1) are haunted by a fear of humiliation, and 2) will not follow a recipe to the letter, believing that slavishly following directions is an implicit admission that you cannot cook. One, who would be humiliated by cooking something? Even if you gently caress it up, it still beats eating frozen pizza or whatever. I learned from example from my mom that making mistakes is part of the process, and eating less-then-perfect meals still feeds you. I can't imagine being afraid to experiment in the kitchen! Two is bullshit too; if I get a recipe from a reputable source, drat straight I'm going to follow it to the letter. If I like it, I can tweak it on successive attempts. Besides, it's not like a recipe contains everything you need to know, as a lot of cooking skill comes from experience with the little things. Finally, don't these two things contradict each other? If you were afraid of some mysterious humiliating failure, wouldn't you follow the recipe to the letter?
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Mr. Wiggles posted:I never follow a recipe to the letter. For one thing, recipes never have enough garlic. Fair enough. That said, garlic is a little like salt... there is rarely a "correct amount". SubG posted:but their head's still in this place where ingredients like avocado and bean sprouts are still faintly exotic. Yeah, this quote really jarred me: "More than 1,000 pounds of fudge later, the recipe wouldn’t work without a candy thermometer, a tool Kimball judged too exotic for the home kitchen" Um, what? A candy thermometer isn't just basic equipment, it's required equipment for making candy! Maybe once I've been making candy for 40 years I'll be able to do it by feel, but otherwise, there is no shame in measuring how hot your sugar is.
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The GF has a friend in New Hampshire who runs a small restaurant with some very excellent food. Last time we were there, he served us some sweet corn ice cream, which was utterly fantastic. He mentioned that steeping fluid from toasted corn husks was one of the flavor components. EDIT: I suppose you need fresh ones for this? Like, the dried ones I keep in the basement for tamales are no good, right? Squashy Nipples fucked around with this message at 14:53 on Oct 19, 2012 |
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I grew up cooking on an electric, so I have a soft spot for them, but I've definitely come to prefer my gas. Electric ovens do have better temperature control for baking, though... but gas ovens are moister, so I guess that's a toss up.Chef De Cuisinart posted:I can't roast a pepper over an induction top Good point! I also toast corn tortillas directly over the flame, too. The woman and I just made Limburger cheese sandwiches for the first time, and HOLY poo poo AWESOME! SO GOOD. It's a perfect trinity of flavors: rank, gooey cheese, spicy mustard, and sharp crunchy onions, all on dense dark rye bread. I might have a new favorite sandwich! Fake edit: gently caress that, Rubens are still the best sandwich, but this was close.
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Just about the only upside to having GoWithChrist squatting in my basement is that I'm able to pick through her book collection. She is a typical goony Japan-ophile, a few really good Japanese cook books and some pretty extensive manga. But she also has the loving Sandra Lee cocktail book. Her excuse is that she bought it as a goof at Ocean State Job Lots for 3 bucks, but still... I wouldn't be caught dead with that book. As for the manga, I've been enjoying Path of The Assassin, which contains this curious bit of rice lore that seems utterly impossible: shrinking rice down to the size of sesame seeds for shipping purposes, and then expanding it back again before cooking. This is presented as some kind of ninja trick: quote:To shrink rice to one-tenth it's size: This is total bullshit, right?
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Casu Marzu posted:Lost my sense of taste as in woke up one morning, food tastes like nothing, went to a doctor now I'm scheduled for all sorts of tests because they're all I really can't joke about this... it's literally one of my worst nightmares. Get well, my friend. --- The woman and I are doing some "proof of concept" experiments with curry-flavored deserts, and we just made a stinker: curry-flavored chocolate cake. It's loving gross; the idea may still have some merit, but this attempt was a total disaster. Can't wait to see what you goons come up with.
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If you can find the places in Florida where New Yorkers spend the winter, you can find some good Jewish delis.
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mindphlux posted:mah axis 'o evil list I have always felt that the folks who protested most loudly about the "Whirrled Peas" era were the ones most responsible for bringing it upon us. It is entirely possible to be passionate about good food and good cooking, without coming off like jerky snobs.
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Clavietika posted:Do you have an alternate/secondary wife? If that gives you a pokemon headache, be glad that I don't discuss my personal life on here anymore. Anyway, just completed a test run on my curry desert for the ICSA. HOLY poo poo, it came out even better then I expected, might even give Mrs. Gunderson a run for her money.
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Zuhzuhzombie!! posted:I go on the occasional Orange Cupcake bender from time to time. Once or twice a year I break down and buy those... and then almost immediately regret it afterwards. So many calories, so little goodness. As for the fitness folks, think that part of the issue is that restricting one's diet sometimes becomes an exercise in aestheticism. Black and white thinking can be comforting when you are pushing yourself, so it's easy to slip into "anything with taste = bad".
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therattle posted:Aesthetic or ascetic? Arrrrgggg. Asceticism, as in purposely denying oneself pleasures. Can I blame spell checker for that one?
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GrAviTy84 posted:http://www.amazon.com/RT600C-Super-...rds=thermoworks Hey, that's the one I have! I have that one, a remote-probe unit, a stand-up candy thermometer, and a small dial one for foaming milk. Wroughtirony posted:When I eyeball stuff, I'll go a little past what I think is right, just in case. When I can just poke a thing with my thermapen, I can pull it exactly when it's where I want it. Ah, truth. Also, I don't think I would have the balls to cook rare pork without one.
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Yawgmoth posted:Everyone knows a thermocouple is just a thermistor and thermissus stuck together. "thermistor" is pronounced: "thur-my-ster".
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