My microwave oven finally died. (It was bought in 1978 by friends of my in-laws as a gift for their move to Florida. We acquired it sometime in the mid-to-late 1980s when they moved to a newer house with a built-in.)
This frees up a LOT of real estate on the kitchen counter. Now I should be able to keep the slow cooker in easy reach and not have to risk breaking my neck getting it down when I want to use it. Like today, so the timing was perfect.
Also: my supermarket had pigs ears. So I now have three ears simmered nice and soft, to be used in cassoulet and choucroute garni.
ETA: Supermarket also had Peeps in, let's see, pink, turquoise, yellow, light blue, and a sort of iridescent lilac. Maybe other colors, too, but that's all I remember. Bunnies were in fewer colors than chicks, though.
Reasons To Be Cheerful
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Posted 20 February 2012 - 08:58 PM
[M]ost of the pastas hover around $25. This ought to be enough to buy bucatini that is cooked on both ends. -- Pete Wells on Caravaggio ( * review)
Tonight, there was a dessert of coconut, rhubarb, and black olive. Obvious in its execution how innovation and experiment, when introduced for their own sake, are annoying. --irnscrabblechf52, May 9, 2013
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deeply annoying and nitpicking -- Molly O'Neill, One Big Table
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Posted 21 February 2012 - 02:45 PM
Instead of using the circuitous route the GPS gave him, my taxi driver took a few back lanes and got me to my hotel for the base fare. The last time I took a taxi to this hotel (starting from the same taxi stand), it cost me more than Y1000. Tonight? Y710.
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Posted 21 February 2012 - 03:14 PM
So you're back in Japan? Reason for you to be cheerful, indeed!
[M]ost of the pastas hover around $25. This ought to be enough to buy bucatini that is cooked on both ends. -- Pete Wells on Caravaggio ( * review)
Tonight, there was a dessert of coconut, rhubarb, and black olive. Obvious in its execution how innovation and experiment, when introduced for their own sake, are annoying. --irnscrabblechf52, May 9, 2013
notorious stickler -- NY Times
deeply annoying and nitpicking -- Molly O'Neill, One Big Table
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Posted 21 February 2012 - 04:07 PM
my buddy just won 32 k in the lottery.
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Posted 21 February 2012 - 04:14 PM
Was he a buddy before he won?my buddy just won 32 k in the lottery.
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Posted 21 February 2012 - 04:17 PM
i'm guessing that a 35 year old microwave would throw off lethal levels of radiation. did you wear a lead apron everytime you fired it up?My microwave oven finally died. (It was bought in 1978 by friends of my in-laws as a gift for their move to Florida. We acquired it sometime in the mid-to-late 1980s when they moved to a newer house with a built-in.)
This frees up a LOT of real estate on the kitchen counter. Now I should be able to keep the slow cooker in easy reach and not have to risk breaking my neck getting it down when I want to use it. Like today, so the timing was perfect.
Also: my supermarket had pigs ears. So I now have three ears simmered nice and soft, to be used in cassoulet and choucroute garni.
ETA: Supermarket also had Peeps in, let's see, pink, turquoise, yellow, light blue, and a sort of iridescent lilac. Maybe other colors, too, but that's all I remember. Bunnies were in fewer colors than chicks, though.
“One thing kids like is to be tricked. For instance, I was going to take my little nephew to Disneyland, but instead I drove him to an old burned-out warehouse. 'Oh, no!', I said, 'Disneyland burned down.' He cried and cried, but I think that deep down he thought it was a pretty good joke. I started to drive over to the real Disneyland, but it was getting pretty late.”
~Jack Handey
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Posted 21 February 2012 - 05:00 PM
Arthritis bothering me so much yesterday I had to sit down in Columbus Park and pretend to be interested in mah-jong.
Why live your life when you could curate it?
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Posted 21 February 2012 - 07:08 PM
Just got off the phone with a farmer.. I purchased a half a pig and was going through how I wanted the thing processed. That just made me super happy for some reason.
Ason, I keep planets in orbit.
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Posted 21 February 2012 - 07:48 PM
Naw. No harm noticed so fai'm guessing that a 35 year old microwave would throw off lethal levels of radiation. did you wear a lead apron everytime you fired it up?
My microwave oven finally died. (It was bought in 1978 by friends of my in-laws as a gift for their move to Florida. We acquired it sometime in the mid-to-late 1980s when they moved to a newer house with a built-in.)
This frees up a LOT of real estate on the kitchen counter. Now I should be able to keep the slow cooker in easy reach and not have to risk breaking my neck getting it down when I want to use it. Like today, so the timing was perfect.
Also: my supermarket had pigs ears. So I now have three ears simmered nice and soft, to be used in cassoulet and choucroute garni.
ETA: Supermarket also had Peeps in, let's see, pink, turquoise, yellow, light blue, and a sort of iridescent lilac. Maybe other colors, too, but that's all I remember. Bunnies were in fewer colors than chicks, though.
[M]ost of the pastas hover around $25. This ought to be enough to buy bucatini that is cooked on both ends. -- Pete Wells on Caravaggio ( * review)
Tonight, there was a dessert of coconut, rhubarb, and black olive. Obvious in its execution how innovation and experiment, when introduced for their own sake, are annoying. --irnscrabblechf52, May 9, 2013
notorious stickler -- NY Times
deeply annoying and nitpicking -- Molly O'Neill, One Big Table
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Posted 21 February 2012 - 07:54 PM
Get aArthritis bothering me so much yesterday I had to sit down in Columbus Park and pretend to be interested in mah-jong.
.My knees and back have been so much better over the past couple of weeks.
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Posted 21 February 2012 - 07:57 PM
plus you bring so much joy to the people who assume the circus must have come back to townGet a
Arthritis bothering me so much yesterday I had to sit down in Columbus Park and pretend to be interested in mah-jong.
My knees and back have been so much better over the past couple of weeks.
“One thing kids like is to be tricked. For instance, I was going to take my little nephew to Disneyland, but instead I drove him to an old burned-out warehouse. 'Oh, no!', I said, 'Disneyland burned down.' He cried and cried, but I think that deep down he thought it was a pretty good joke. I started to drive over to the real Disneyland, but it was getting pretty late.”
~Jack Handey
*proud descendant of cheese eating surrender monkeys*
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Posted 21 February 2012 - 08:00 PM
So you're back in Japan? Reason for you to be cheerful, indeed!
Agreed! I was so happy to be here that I felt like crying a little when I disembarked from the plane. Ten days of joy!
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Posted 21 February 2012 - 08:01 PM
Other Bromptons can also relieve pain.
(It is a little known fact that Kübler-Ross determined her final stage of grief -- acceptance -- after completing her research in a hospice where they made considerable use of the Brompton Cocktail.)
(It is a little known fact that Kübler-Ross determined her final stage of grief -- acceptance -- after completing her research in a hospice where they made considerable use of the Brompton Cocktail.)
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Posted 21 February 2012 - 08:03 PM
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Posted 21 February 2012 - 08:15 PM
plus you bring so much joy to the people who assume the circus must have come back to town
Get a
Arthritis bothering me so much yesterday I had to sit down in Columbus Park and pretend to be interested in mah-jong.
My knees and back have been so much better over the past couple of weeks.
Does that thing fold into a wheelchair.
Ason, I keep planets in orbit.
