Well, other bands know more than three chords. Your professional bands can play up to six, sometimes seven, completely different chords.

Oz ,'Storyteller'


The Great Write Way, Chapter Two: Twice upon a time...  

A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.


SailAweigh - Jul 30, 2005 1:55:26 pm PDT #3344 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb

Oh, dog, Kristin. I've been there, so...there.


deborah grabien - Jul 30, 2005 1:58:56 pm PDT #3345 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.

(blinking at Kristin)

Your eyes didn't explode, peeling all those layers? Dealing with onions is the only thing in cooking that makes me nuts, because my eyes burn out within seconds.


Fay - Jul 30, 2005 2:01:04 pm PDT #3346 of 10001
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.

Kristin - really? Or is it fiction? Do you guys not do Home Ec at school? 'cause if not - wow. Bless you.


dcp - Jul 30, 2005 2:10:20 pm PDT #3347 of 10001
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.

Dad let me peel my first few onions on my own, I think just to enjoy watching the effect. Then he showed me what a difference it made to do it under the running cold tap. I was mad at him at first, but I certainly learned the lesson.


deborah grabien - Jul 30, 2005 2:12:05 pm PDT #3348 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.

Then he showed me what a difference it made to do it under the running cold tap. I was mad at him at first, but I certainly learned the lesson.

Right up until the point that the person showing you the cold running water trick neglects to mention what happens when you drop wet onions - even damp onions - into a frying pan containing sizzling butter or olive oil.

The burn healed eventually, but I was seriously pissed off.


dcp - Jul 30, 2005 2:19:56 pm PDT #3349 of 10001
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.

I didn't get burned, but Dad thought it was pretty funny when the pop!crackle!sizzle! made me jump. Not something to forget, though.


Anne W. - Jul 30, 2005 2:24:30 pm PDT #3350 of 10001
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.

I've always found that chilling the onions before chopping reduces the weepy effect. Since I do most of my prep in advance, the onions are usually up to room temp by the time they go in the oil.


deborah grabien - Jul 30, 2005 2:32:16 pm PDT #3351 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.

I've always found that chilling the onions before chopping reduces the weepy effect.

That's my first line of defence, but it doesn't seem to work for me. Damn it.

I'm very thankful that all my local markets sell fresh onions, and fresh garlic, and all sorts of fresh prep veggies (celery, carrots, etc, as well as the stinky yummy stuff) already chopped.


Topic!Cindy - Jul 30, 2005 2:38:26 pm PDT #3352 of 10001
What is even happening?

Kristin - really? Or is it fiction? Do you guys not do Home Ec at school? 'cause if not - wow. Bless you.

Not Kristin, but at our school, Home Ec was an elective. My mother wouldn't let me take it, or sewing for that matter. Something about academics blah blah blah. :)


Fay - Jul 30, 2005 2:56:39 pm PDT #3353 of 10001
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.

Ah. I went to a painfully old fashioned school. Sadly we didn't get the chance to do Woodwork or 'boy' type useful things, but we had to do Home Ec until we picked GCSEs (ie until we were 14). Cooking and sewing. Sewing I'm not so good at, but I can fix holes in things. (And, hell, last term I taught 20 kids how to sew bags out of recycled clothes/pieces of fabric, so I can't be that bad. They made some smashing things, too!) but the cookery I really appreciated. Wish we'd had stuff like 'how to wire plugs' and so forth too though, 'cause that would have been handy.