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Thu, 30 October 2008 20:52  |
 b_twin_1
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Comfort Food
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| Re: Comfort Food [message #2988 is a reply to message #2986 ] |
Thu, 30 October 2008 21:02  |
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‡‡ I feel that having them one at a time would be a better idea, but I’m not sure if the Time Travelling Admin will allow this.
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I think you're right on both counts. That's just the way things are, in real life and in fiction. *le sigh*
So...did you ever find the off switch on Gizmo X?
Smooshes!
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| Re: Comfort Food [message #2990 is a reply to message #2986 ] |
Thu, 30 October 2008 21:27 |
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Susan from Athens
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Thanks Robin and b_twin_1 for the food blog. This seems like a nice and easy risotto dish. On the weekend, when it isn't 3:30 in the morning I'll write up my spanakorizo and prassorizo recipes, which are two vegetarian dishes that are classic in Greek households: spinach rice (which I abhor but my entire family adores) and leek rice, which I very much adore. These are made with olive oil, not butter and, obviously, rice and are not watched over like a hawk either.
b_twin_1 a question (Robin and anybody else, please wade in with your opinion): I was always taught when sauteeing onions to add the garlic towards the end, as if it gets over-fried it becomes bitter, so I would end it once the onion turns translucent. But you don't. Does this accentuate or fade out the garlickness?
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| Re: Comfort Food [message #2994 is a reply to message #2986 ] |
Thu, 30 October 2008 21:44 |
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Black Bear
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About everything, of course. Peter, hellhounds, me, PEGASUS, the American presidential election, the global economy, whether IE will ever stop crashing, and whether Yog-Sothoth will ever make it through the barrier between that universe and this one.
Well, look at it this way. If the last thing on your list happens, the first seven really become moot anyway... So you might just condense all that worry down to just fearing the impending arrival of the Outer Gods, as that'll cover everything else under its cyclopean umbrella of Certain Doom. Saves you time and energy!
"Black Bear--helping people Fear More Efficiently since 1989."
"The time is always right to do what's right."--MLK Jr.
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| Re: Comfort Food [message #3009 is a reply to message #2994 ] |
Fri, 31 October 2008 01:02 |
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| Black Bear wrote on Fri, 31 October 2008 01:44 |
... just condense all that worry down to just fearing the impending arrival of the Outer Gods, as that'll cover everything else under its cyclopean umbrella of Certain Doom. Saves you time and energy!
"Black Bear--helping people Fear More Efficiently since 1989."
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Hurrah! Black Bear to the rescue! Fear not! Fear's here! Black Bear is near!
- do you help penguins fear too? ::ducks::
Someone says "pie" and we all go on alert, like meercats. "Pie? Where?" - Blackbear
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| Re: Comfort Food [message #3011 is a reply to message #2989 ] |
Fri, 31 October 2008 01:08 |
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| b_twin_1 wrote on Fri, 31 October 2008 01:07 |
The best thing about going out to dinner is getting dressed up. Now, this is a skirt, and these are shoes-that-aren’t-All-Stars. Those of you with office jobs will not appreciate how exciting this is.
Oh yeah. People usually start to faint when I show up in a) a skirt or b) make-up. Well you just don't wear it around the farm. What's the point? It's not like one of the ewes is going to pipe up and say "That's a great shade of lippy you're wearing today!"
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I must get out more! Pretty much all my clothes are dog walking clothes, and lippy?? (Note to self - book haircut for 6th!)
Someone says "pie" and we all go on alert, like meercats. "Pie? Where?" - Blackbear
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| Re: Comfort Food [message #3020 is a reply to message #2986 ] |
Fri, 31 October 2008 02:47 |
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Diane in MN
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Then the hellhounds caught a grouse†† and Darkness ducked out of his harness.†††
They are being busy boys lately, aren't they? The harness-slipping trick is really scary; I hope he settled down and came in to you without giving you too many grey hairs.
my new all-in-one printer/scanner/fax, which is going to Revolutionise My Life or at least give me back a little shelf space
We've had an HP four-in-one (copier too) for several years now, and it is a very good machine, with a reasonable footprint and no problems. If yours works as well, you will like it. I don't know if it will revolutionize your life, though . . .
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"The point of books is to have way too many but to always feel you never have enough . . . " Louise Erdrich
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| Re: Comfort Food [message #3021 is a reply to message #2986 ] |
Fri, 31 October 2008 04:23 |
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Mrs Redboots
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Easy is good. I love pine nuts, so I will put slightly toasted‡ pine nuts in at the last minute in a herby risotto and–further on the lazy domestic stock front–a couple of tablespoons of hummous stirred in with your couple of tablespoons of pine nuts will totally make this a main dish, although if I’m planning on hummous I’ll probably leave the onion out.
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Now, why didn't I think of that? Hummus instead of cheese in a risotto - that sounds totally heaven! I have some tahini dressing from another recipe that wants used; I think I might make a mushroom risotto and use the dressing rather than cheese.... and toasted pine-nuts are always good, too!
Hmm - maybe a risotto would go down rather well; I haven't been able to eat since yesterday, for whatever reason....
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| Re: Comfort Food [message #3040 is a reply to message #2986 ] |
Fri, 31 October 2008 07:38 |
Louiz
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b_twin_1 and Robin... mmmm sounds good!
We do something a little similar, but add bertilotti (sp?) beans and/or hotdogs... and cider vinegar.
Must try pumpkin tonight! we have a full pumpkin for halloween and no idea what to do with the innards...
Bibliovorous.
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| Re: Comfort Food [message #3065 is a reply to message #2986 ] |
Fri, 31 October 2008 12:05 |
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KateG
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"Black Bear--helping people Fear More Efficiently since 1989."
So that's what it was doing! I wondered what it was up to when it ran up and down our street this morning* while I was drinking my last cup of tea. My rottweiler took one look out the window and sensibly retreated upstairs to the safety of her bed. (Is there anything more humiliating than being a dog-mom to a timid rottie? I mean she's supposed to eat small children for breakfast, and here she runs from bears and delivery men and makes love to the ladies in the bank. Yesterday was a record, she managed to cadge 12 - yes a full dozen -- biccies from them, and the limit is two!)
The b_twin-1's lazy cow rissotto recipe has solved my dinner problem! MEGA thanks!
*We live in northwest NJ (USA), about 50 miles west of New York City. Bears are a real problem, but when I called the authorities to complain about the one that had taken to napping in our barn I was told "oh, you live in the area where we take problem bears." They declined to do anything until it had eaten one of our pets, attacked us, or broken into the house.
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| Re: Comfort Food [message #3070 is a reply to message #2986 ] |
Fri, 31 October 2008 14:40 |
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OK. Putting the grouse thing to rest.
The dogs caught a BIRD.
There you go.
"And by the way you look fantastic in your boots of Chinese plastic."
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| Re: Comfort Food [message #3111 is a reply to message #3070 ] |
Fri, 31 October 2008 21:46 |
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Grouse ... yeah, reminds me of the time a bird decapitated itself in the hog fence around the garden.
Various ornithologically astute friends identified it as this or that (immature hawks, generally) when I dragged it out of the freezer for their perusal. But a bird hunter assured me that it was a ruffed grouse. I let him have it. Don't know if he ate it.
"Winning a war is like winning an earthquake" Jeanette Rankin
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| Re: Comfort Food [message #3112 is a reply to message #3018 ] |
Fri, 31 October 2008 21:54 |
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| Diane in MN wrote on Fri, 31 October 2008 06:27 |
My dressier clothes were mostly purchased to wear in the ring when showing a dog, and run to trousers and jackets WITH POCKETS.
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How can people live with clothes without pockets? I need places to put things - just today I didn't know where to put my moblie phone, gave it to a friend ... and now it's three counties away until Monday as she accidentally drove off with it - aaarrgghh! (My current frequent-est word lol)
Someone says "pie" and we all go on alert, like meercats. "Pie? Where?" - Blackbear
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| Re: Comfort Food [message #3119 is a reply to message #2986 ] |
Fri, 31 October 2008 22:47 |
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everything has to have pockets because i absolutely hate carrying a purse around,i usually forget it as soon as i put it down.
Bonnie Holmes the faster ahead I go, the more behind I get
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| Re: Comfort Food [message #3133 is a reply to message #2986 ] |
Sat, 01 November 2008 07:34 |
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L.R.K.
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Well, my bag is probably a little too big to be called a "purse" - I keep a lot of things in it; aside from keys, wallet &c, my magnifying glass and spectacles and (unless it's really big) whatever book I'm reading, just in case I might need it.
I've done this since later school days - I'm used to being "different"; my hair in a bun, long skirts and my bag, I'd sit outside the class-room on the floor reading with my magnifying glass...
And well - once when I came home after giving blood tests (?) I was going to get my glasses out of my bag. Couldn't find the bag. Where is the bag?! Then I asked my husband, who'd driven me, if I was carrying a bag when we were crossing the car park - needless to say he didn't remember either. We drove back to the clinic - and as soon as I entered the room the nurse handed me my bag. Relief!
But I must have a bag - I just carry too much stuff for any amount of pockets to suffice...Otherwise I agree - pockets are decidedly good things. (On a commentary JMS mentioned that he especially wanted the Babylon 5-uniforms to have pockets - wise man...)
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Why, I feel all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean, like butter that has been scraped over too much bread.
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| Re: Comfort Food [message #3136 is a reply to message #3133 ] |
Sat, 01 November 2008 08:42 |
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| L.R.K. wrote on Sat, 01 November 2008 11:34 |
Well, my bag is probably a little too big to be called a "purse"
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For ages I tried to manage without a bag; space I have, I fill - just look at my bookshelves - on second thoughts, no don't!
I gave in, and now I don't carry a bag, I carry a rucksack...
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Someone says "pie" and we all go on alert, like meercats. "Pie? Where?" - Blackbear
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| Re: Comfort Food [message #3139 is a reply to message #3035 ] |
Sat, 01 November 2008 08:57 |
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| AJLR wrote on Fri, 31 October 2008 11:16 |
I find a teaspoonful of hummous stirred into a bowl of thick vegetable soup is also lovely. And my current favourite sandwich filling is grated raw carrot mixed with hummous. Delicious! Hope you feel better soon.
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Hummus and roasted vegetable is also good (you can "roast" them in the microwave if time is short; not quite the same but a good second-best). I did make risotto last night, but the tahini dressing had grown whiskers, and we were out of hummus, so back to shaved Parmesan! But the risotto was gorgeous... tomato, mushroom and butternut squash! Feeling a little better now....
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Shelf space? Bah, shelf space is a myth. No matter how many more shelving units I put up (I no longer have wall space) and how many organizational sprees I go on I've never seen any of this shelf space. There is always more stuff than shelf.
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Stuff expands to fill the shelf space available, as it does freezer space, I find.
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But game birds are something I grew up with. Definitely glad the super-species of AJLR grouse is alive and thriving on the wolds (?) of Kent Smile
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Wealds of Kent, I think. I, too, grew up with game birds and would be surprised to find a grouse in Hampshire, but you never know, these days!
Mrs Redboots
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| Re: Comfort Food [message #3148 is a reply to message #3144 ] |
Sat, 01 November 2008 14:23 |
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My response to running out of space in my pockets? Get bigger pockets! Most of my pants have cargo pockets, and while I've never been much of one for skirts, I picked up a couple Utilikilts which have even more of them! I've got their Survival model, which they spec as being able to carry 20 standard size beer bottles in it's pockets (I haven't quite tried that, but I'd totally believe it... all but two of the pockets are elasticized). Plus, it's all sorts of comfy.
When I -do- carry a bag (that's not my giant school bag), it's made by these folks. The one I've got has lasted me probably ten years at this point, and has held up wonderfully (in their current terms, it's a Regular sized art bag). I love the way it changes shapes, so when I don't have much in it, I can turn it into a triangle and sling it over my shoulder. When it's full (usually of books...), I make it a rectangle and a backpack. ^^
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| Re: Comfort Food [message #3198 is a reply to message #3136 ] |
Sun, 02 November 2008 01:59 |
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L.R.K.
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| southdowner wrote on Sat, 01 November 2008 13:42 |
| L.R.K. wrote on Sat, 01 November 2008 11:34 |
Well, my bag is probably a little too big to be called a "purse"
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For ages I tried to manage without a bag; space I have, I fill - just look at my bookshelves - on second thoughts, no don't!
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"Space I have, I fill" - that could be my motto! Except worse - space we have, we fill; my husband actually thinks the problem could be solved by moving into a bigger flat! Hah! I keep telling him we'll fill that, too - his naive illusions/delusions might be endearing, except they annoy me (I don't want to move!) There are no free spaces - we clutter up everything! And book-shelves - I arrange my books alphabetically (by author, mostly), so putting in one book can take a lot of moving books forward, ao lots of books have accumulated under the bed (we need to get up a new book-case, too - which I believe I can fill). In a fit of bad temper my husband suggested I stop buying books until I at least got up the old ones - which suggestion I treated with the silence it deserved (to his credit, though, he only said that once...)
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Why, I feel all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean, like butter that has been scraped over too much bread.
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