"I would die for you.... I'd do time for you"?

Damn, Jilli beat me to it. Z used it as the opening song for the (added) Prelude in Measure For Measure - 5 couples in club gear grinding away to Garbage. Purrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

So are all deep-fried things made sort of crispy on the outside? And how does this process affect Mars bars? Also, how deep does the oil need to be? Must the thing being deep-fried be immersed in the oil, or can it float at the top?

1. More or less
2. The Snickers bars get kind of oogy
3. Depends on the size of the item being fried
4. It can float - don't Krispy Kremes float?

It'll be about three weeks before mine's done.

Honey, put down the magnifying glass and go turn on the oven. Really.

Thank you, Jilli (and juliana). Here I am looking for the song on-line when I happen to already have that soundtrack. Some people might think I have too many CDs.

5 couples in club gear grinding away to Garbage. Purrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

I like the song, and I like dancing to it, but at the local clubs it is one of the songs that will pack the dancefloor. Usually with people who don't normally dance but insist on grinding against each other (in clumps of three or four or five people) so they can feel naughty and transgressive. Not to mention their sexysexygrinding is badly off-beat.

I would much rather see the 5 couples from Z's production of Measure For Measure. Quick! Import them to Seattle!

Keeps the heat and moisture in.

But I don't WANT the moisture in my baked potato. If I wanted it moist, I'd have boiled it.

Also, the One True Potato is rubbed with butter and kosher salt.

Microwaved baked potatoes seem to me more chunky and less likely to disintegrate into cloud-like numminess.

This. While microwave potatoes still taste fairly good, they have a consistency somewhat like clay, whereas the oven-baked variety are like potato-flavored dandelion puffs. I think it may be that instead of evaporating away, all the moisture remains inside as the actual medium for heating up the potato.

2. Oogy doesn't sound good. But people do this on purpose! 4. Probably. I don't know.

ita, it's a Sharp Warm & Toasty

Emily, I want to hear all about the Chauceriffic and math punny wedding. Sounds fabulous already. And congrats on the 35, that project sounded very cool.

I generally prefer balsamic vinegar to red wine vinegar for any application. Then again, I will drink the stuff straight on occasion. Balsamic vinegar is seriously tasty.

I'm starting to feel like I should bake a bunch of potatoes all the different ways I can find and figure out which I like best. But they'll probably still just taste like potato to me, and I don't care much how crispy the skin is, so I won't bother. Though the deep-frying idea is intriguing.

I've only ever wrapped potatoes in foil when camping and "baking" said potatoes in embers. Mostly so the skin was still edible and not coated in soot.

Emily, I want to hear all about the Chauceriffic and math punny wedding. Sounds fabulous already. And congrats on the 35, that project sounded very cool.

Okay, so my mother used the creation story from Genesis 2, instead of 1, which is kind of weird, right? But she's got Aelred's text saying that this was God's way of showing that neither man nor woman was inferior, but that they should be equal, side by side, "as it were collateral." Ha! My mother and I chuckled, stifledly. Of course, it's not really a joke -- that's what he means, is side by side. But... okay, never mind. It was kind of funny. If you were there. And two noted Chaucerians read part of the Franklin's Tale, one in Middle English (with gestures to aid comprehension) and one in English.

Balsamic vinegar is seriously tasty.

Word.

(Stifledly's not a word, is it? Le sigh.)