I'm getting back on Weight Watchers today. I gained 10 pounds over vacation. I had hot multi-grain cereal for breakfast, I'm going to go get some soup, salad, and fruit for lunch, and I've got tofu kale stir-fry planned for dinner. Plus, I've got some black beans soaking so I can cook them in the crock pot overnight and have beans, swiss chard, and quinoa-amaranth timbales for lunch tomorrow. (Vegan Lunchbox recipes. And technically, it's quinoa-millet timbales, since I couldn't find any amaranth.)
Here is your cup of coffee. Brewed from the finest Colombian lighter fluid.
Xander ,'Chosen'
Spike's Bitches 34: They're All Slime and Antlers
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Hil R. - Jan 15, 2007 7:01:54 am PST #871 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
sumi - Jan 15, 2007 7:16:25 am PST #872 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Why does AB prefer corn syrup to sugar? Perhaps a simple syrup would work?
Jessica - Jan 15, 2007 7:20:25 am PST #873 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Why does AB prefer corn syrup to sugar?
I haven't gone back and read the transcript, so I'm not sure. He probably thinks it will make a smoother texture, but if that's the case, he's wrong -- sugar helps to break up the ice crystals while you're churning, and smaller ice crystals = smoother richer ice cream.
[eta: And having now read the transcript, he doesn't say. So I'm using sugar next time.]
Ailleann - Jan 15, 2007 7:51:16 am PST #874 of 10001
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faux-meara:
More ~ma for ND and Kristin, and her poor bruised body. And ~ma for anyone I'm forgetting.
Nightmares need to cut it out. I dreamed a little the last two days, but they've now run off. The same to everyone else!
I've had blessedly few painkillers in my life (knock wood). When I had the nasty pneumonia, I had a painkiller (someone namechecked it, but it's not one of the big names... gah, how do I forget these things?) and I lost a whole day of my life. Considering it was a day of needles and tubes, I don't miss it. But the drugs were pretty cool.
I've... forgotten anything else.
So, culinary question... I have some eggnog that hasn't gone bad yet (long date + not opening right away = long-lived dairy products), and I'm making yummy eggnog cookies now. Should I 1) make another batch of dough and freeze it (will this work? can you freeze icing too?), 2) man up and make another batch, condemning myself to make cookies all day, or 3) say screw it and just drink the eggnog until it inevitably goes bad?
I also had A Christmas Carol playing this morning while I mixed. It's like Christmas Redux, only with less crap presents and the same amount of snow (none).
Topic!Cindy - Jan 15, 2007 7:56:06 am PST #875 of 10001
What is even happening?
I don't think icing would freeze well. Dough would. I'd either roll it into a log, or pre-form the cookies, before freezing the dough, though.
brenda m - Jan 15, 2007 7:56:33 am PST #876 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
You can freeze cookie dough. I don't think frosting would be as successful.
Ailleann - Jan 15, 2007 8:01:10 am PST #877 of 10001
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I figured the icing wouldn't work. There's an eggnog icing, but they'd be just as good with a simple powdered sugar icing.
OK, why am I suddenly defining "icing" and "frosting" as separate things in my brain?
Topic!Cindy - Jan 15, 2007 8:04:22 am PST #878 of 10001
What is even happening?
Heh. I almost always call it "frosting," but went to put "icing" in my reply to you, then went back to check what word you used.
You might be able to approximate an eggnoggy flavor in your future icing, if you added some nutmeg (and maybe a little vanilla) to it, Ailleann.
Ailleann - Jan 15, 2007 8:12:15 am PST #879 of 10001
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That's a good idea Cindy. I think freezing it will be.
I feel so culinary.
Ooh, Christmas, that's what I was going to meara. All of my Christmas stuff is still up, and I have no immediate plans to take it down. Unless I find some ridiculous eightieth wind and get all my non-holiday cleaning done. As I'm mulling it over after the fact, I think my Christmas season was pretty much pants, and I'm clinging to it in the hopes that I can get some kind of nostalgic love. Where the hell is my snow?!?
::wanders off, muttering to self::
Cass - Jan 15, 2007 8:14:19 am PST #880 of 10001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
No, it means ita's not-boyfriend stands over you and makes you eat sensible food.Nutella is sensible. But then so is sushi.
WTF? Where are my Joy Division and Cramps videos?I think there are music channels that do cater to you. It's a matter of finding them. And then watching long enough that you see the thing you want to see. Bless Tivo that this is less traumatic than it used to be. Damn, now I want Joy Division. Here iPod, iPod...
Rantycrumpets - and with the Speed Channel? It's not that NASCAR is my race fandom of choice but its popularity means that the things I really do care about are shown as well. And that makes me happy. Mmm, crumpets.
The specialization among channels is spectacular though. I don't get the pay channels and I think I have about 700. Of which I watch less than 20. I know Speed, all of the Discovery channels (including the Military channel), BBCA, SciFi, the networks... I should see what else is out there.
This morning's horrible dream that woke me was the regularly re-run classic, Christopher is Missing.And I specifically requested It was Square and White and Looked Like a Tooth.