Zoe: Is there any way I'm gonna get out of this with honor and dignity? Wash: You're pretty much down to ritual suicide, lambie-toes.

'War Stories'


Natter .44 Magnum: Do You Feel Chatty, Punk?  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Liese S. - May 10, 2006 9:23:49 pm PDT #6692 of 10002
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

The ham was free, and from a local processor. Does that count for something?

The recipe called for a bay leaf, rosemary and fresh lemon juice rub, left on overnight. Then baked, basted with white wine (and grappa, but I skipped the grappa), and baked some more. It was really not very salty at all. It was a fresh ham, not cured, so there wasn't any residual salt to begin with.

I really liked the jicama. It was new to me.

I was also glad I'd eaten the fish before reading the alarming mercury studies.


Cass - May 10, 2006 9:27:57 pm PDT #6693 of 10002
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.

I really liked the jicama. It was new to me.
I love jicama. Slightly sweet, crunchy, a little starchy. Peeling it is a bitch. Delicious though.


Liese S. - May 10, 2006 9:34:41 pm PDT #6694 of 10002
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Yeah, I had trouble peeling it. Any tricks? 'Cause I was in a hurry and ended up only peeling the half I needed immediately, and I still think I did something to either my fingernail or my paring knife.

I was expecting the crunchy and starchy, but the sweet was a pleasant surprise.

In other news? That "Because daddy never hugged me/Because the more they love me the more I love myself" VW Passat commercial is creepifying and really upsetting.


Cass - May 10, 2006 9:49:33 pm PDT #6695 of 10002
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.

Any tricks?
Buy it peeled or ask someone else to do it?

Alternately, I use a knife and take off thin slabs instead of a peeler trying to just remove the skin. You lose more of the jicama but it is faster.

Often it is served sprinkled with chili powder. Which is good. But I like it plain.


msbelle - May 11, 2006 2:17:22 am PDT #6696 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

morning came to early today, but I wa only 20 minutes late in and have had meeting #1.

Meeting #2 should start at any moment.

le joy.


Ailleann - May 11, 2006 3:58:23 am PDT #6697 of 10002
vanguard of the socialist Hollywood liberal homosexualist agenda

Re: House... I love Hugh Laurie's little details about having a cane. erikaj's talked about it before, I don't know in which thread, but he puts in little details, like using his cane to open doors and whatnot. We've seen how difficult it is for him to walk without it, yet the fact that it hit the floor when he ran in to get the baby is at once telling of House's true nature under the gruff AND of Hugh Laurie's attention to detail . It's possible that I have a House!crush. I think I'll need to rewatch, just to be sure.


DebetEsse - May 11, 2006 4:22:20 am PDT #6698 of 10002
Woe to the fucking wicked.

Aille, I noticed that, too. Also, I want to say last week, when he was using the cane to throw the ball and catch it. Right up there with CJ doing "The Jackal" for "that's so cool. Wow must that actor have been bored to develop that skill." moments, which also works for House.


§ ita § - May 11, 2006 4:25:39 am PDT #6699 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

What's "The Jackal"?

Good morning! It's great to have no flexeril hangover.


Ailleann - May 11, 2006 4:27:01 am PDT #6700 of 10002
vanguard of the socialist Hollywood liberal homosexualist agenda

Wow must that actor have been bored to develop that skill

Well, they've shown him juggling too, yeah? Plus, of course, the piano playing.

not enough GUH in the world


Ailleann - May 11, 2006 4:32:56 am PDT #6701 of 10002
vanguard of the socialist Hollywood liberal homosexualist agenda

Timlies ita!

The Jackal is a song (I'm sure someone can remember the artist, as I do not), and it was apparently A Thing for CJ to lipsynch to it. They only showed it once, but the boys were all quietly agog.

Toby: "You're talking to me during The Jackal?"

God I'm such a Toby/CJ shipper.