Random question: is there anything you can substitute for Marsala in a recipe? The recipe I'm looking at is a pork and mushroom dealie. I just can't see buying a whole bottle when I want to use a couple of tablespoons.
What is your childhood trauma?
Cordelia ,'Lessons'
Natter 53: We could just avoid making tortured puns
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.
Jesse - Aug 26, 2007 10:13:19 am PDT #6896 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
DavidS - Aug 26, 2007 10:16:17 am PDT #6897 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
is there anything you can substitute for Marsala in a recipe?
Hmmm. Maybe a dry sherry?
sumi - Aug 26, 2007 10:18:58 am PDT #6898 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Isn't rose' (imagine an accent there) good with pork?
Jesse - Aug 26, 2007 10:19:10 am PDT #6899 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Yeah, I don't have that, either. What I have in the house that might be relevant is regular wine, dry vermouth, tawny port (assuming that a bottle would last forever in my fridge), and I think that's it. I guess I could bite the bullet and buy one of these recipe liquors.
Consuela - Aug 26, 2007 10:30:30 am PDT #6900 of 10001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Jesse, I'd try the port.
amych - Aug 26, 2007 10:32:14 am PDT #6901 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Of what you've got, the port will be the closest (and there's no need to refrigerate port -- the extra alcohol is there to preserve it.)
SuziQ - Aug 26, 2007 10:36:28 am PDT #6902 of 10001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
I had port for the first time last night. Tis sweet.
lori - Aug 26, 2007 10:55:47 am PDT #6903 of 10001
Happy yardsale-ing, Jilli!
I love Noah's hair.
His hair is ridonk. The irrepressible TinTin tuft in the middle is being joined by matching columns coming up from the sides as those get longer. Little Mr. Heat Miser.
t eta sorry, more picspam - Noah hearts NY and shows off his guns in support of the FDNY.
tommyrot - Aug 26, 2007 11:04:59 am PDT #6904 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Interesting NYT article on China's huge pollution problem. [link]
Stuff I didn't know:
Much of the particulate pollution over Los Angeles originates in China, according to the Journal of Geophysical Research.
'Course, they don't say how much 'much' is....
Experts once thought China might overtake the United States as the world’s leading producer of greenhouse gases by 2010, possibly later. Now, the International Energy Agency has said China could become the emissions leader by the end of this year, and the Netherlands Environment Assessment Agency said China had already passed that level.
Huh. Although on a per-capita basis, we're still way-ahead....
Public health is reeling. Pollution has made cancer China’s leading cause of death, the Ministry of Health says. Ambient air pollution alone is blamed for hundreds of thousands of deaths each year. Nearly 500 million people lack access to safe drinking water.
Bummer. And it seems that Chinese Communism is less prepared to deal with the problem than the west. So far, anyway.
Tom Scola - Aug 26, 2007 11:33:47 am PDT #6905 of 10001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
I'm pretty amused by how often my RSS Twitter feed matches up with the LOLCat pictures in this mashup feed:
This is pretty much why the Internet was invented, right?