You know, it's funny. We went to war never looking to come back, but it's the real world I couldn't survive.

Tracy ,'The Message'


Natter 46: The FIGHTIN' 46  

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.


Aims - Sep 01, 2006 8:41:19 am PDT #5639 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.

I add stuff to Mac n Cheese, but I wouldn't pass it off as a "recipe". It's adding stuff to Mac n Cheese!!


Trudy Booth - Sep 01, 2006 8:42:59 am PDT #5640 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

Great. Now I want Mac n Cheese.


Frankenbuddha - Sep 01, 2006 8:43:09 am PDT #5641 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

I add stuff to Mac n Cheese, but I wouldn't pass it off as a "recipe". It's adding stuff to Mac n Cheese!!

Perzactly. That's what I do when I'm being really lazy, but still want comfort food. I'd never call it cooking, though.


Aims - Sep 01, 2006 8:44:17 am PDT #5642 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.

Yup. Our current favorites are:

Mac n Cheese with tuna and peas.
Mac n Cheese with browned ground turkey.


P.M. Marc - Sep 01, 2006 8:44:47 am PDT #5643 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

She's been ferociously kicksome and headbutty over the last few days, and now that she's head down it's getting seriously discomfiting.

Err, hate to tell you, but that's more size-related than diet related. It will get worse.


msbelle - Sep 01, 2006 8:45:16 am PDT #5644 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

So, what are people doing for the Last Weekend of Summer?

Family in town, US Opening Sat and Mon, tour-guiding Sun.

Evenings I have to myself and I plan to sand my non-closing kitchen cabinet, cook, take pics of ebay things, and sleep.


Scrappy - Sep 01, 2006 8:46:35 am PDT #5645 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

This Sandra woman is an abomination to dinner time.

IO cooking N, Anthony Bourdain is Teh Sex. I read Kitchen Confidential and really liked it, but never really saw him talking until last night. We watched his show on the Travel Channel and yikes! Thsoe lips, those eyes, that voice. He's got the snarky bad boy thing going that makes me all fluttery.


Jessica - Sep 01, 2006 8:47:04 am PDT #5646 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Except, Sandra Lee wouldn't just add stuff to Mac'n'Cheese. That's a normal, sane way to use prepackged ingredients. She would throw away the macaroni and use the cheese packet as an ingredient in some kind of unecessarily complicated fake cheese sauce with fifteen other non-food ingredients, and then make her own pasta out of wonton wrappers and puffed rice cereal.

No, I take that back about throwing out the macaroni. She'd probably spray-paint it gold and use it to create one of her signature hideous "tablescapes."

[And, shit, I just realized I haven't eaten lunch. No wonder I've got a headache. Off to the kitchen...]


Trudy Booth - Sep 01, 2006 8:47:56 am PDT #5647 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

Now I want mac n cheese with cut up hot dogs.

Or velveeta mac n cheese with ground beef and canned green beans on the side. Num.


bon bon - Sep 01, 2006 8:51:01 am PDT #5648 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

OMG, her mole. [link]

1 cup meat-flavored spaghetti sauce 
1 cup red wine 
1 cup low-sodium beef broth 
1/2 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice 
1 ounce semisweet chocolate 
1/4 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes 
2 rib-eye steaks, about 1-inch thick 
Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper 
2 tablespoons vegetable oil 
2 tablespoons unsalted butter 

Meat-flavored spaghetti sauce is my favorite part. It's from the "romance" episode.