DJ, my husband was telling me about an Alton Brown show where he made a roux in the oven. Does that seem right to you? It doesn't seem right to me. Roux should involve being stuck at the stove for twenty minutes with a wooden spoon.
Home schooling? You know, it's not just for scary religious people anymore.
Buffy ,'Beneath You'
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.
Dana - Sep 06, 2007 9:10:29 am PDT #8816 of 10001
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
Matt the Bruins fan - Sep 06, 2007 9:11:21 am PDT #8817 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Tommy--what is Jar Jar?
That sound you just heard was the starter pistol firing at the Who Can Traumatize Whom the Most with Hyperlinks Olympics!
Daisy Jane - Sep 06, 2007 9:12:22 am PDT #8818 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
DJ, my husband was telling me about an Alton Brown show where he made a roux in the oven. Does that seem right to you?
No. I mean, I suppose you could, but no because this:
It doesn't seem right to me. Roux should involve being stuck at the stove for twenty minutes with a wooden spoon.
is the right of it. 20 minutes at least.
Vortex - Sep 06, 2007 9:14:09 am PDT #8819 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Roux should involve being stuck at the stove for twenty minutes with a wooden spoon.
yep. I do it with a magazine so that I am not tempted to walk away. I do the same thing with risotto.
lisah - Sep 06, 2007 9:14:17 am PDT #8820 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate
Teppy, from my yoga teacher friend:
Here is my advice.
First, practice the stretches in the picures, but instead of trying to clasp your hands, hold onto a yoga strap and separate your hands about 6 inches or so. This will give you a bit more room to stretch as you build flexibility in your shoulders.
Also, the two standard stretches that runners, yogis, etc, use are helpful.
When you are doing the stretches, practice deep even breathing in and out through your nose. Each inhale and exhale should last at least four counts. When you hold the stretches, do so for about 10 full breaths.
In a couple of weeks, you should find increased flexibility in your shoulders.
If you have a couple of seconds during your work day, try stretching then to avoid letting tons of tension build up around the top of the spine and in your shoulders. If you can't get away from your desk...do a few shoulder rolls forward and back and that should help a bit.
Steph L. - Sep 06, 2007 9:14:23 am PDT #8821 of 10001
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
Steph, here's stretch that can help open that up. Check the stretches on this page--you don't want to focus on just one set of muscles.
ita, that's exactly what I was looking for. Thanks! I've marked your post for future stretching.
Daisy Jane - Sep 06, 2007 9:16:08 am PDT #8822 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
I try to do it when I have people over so we can all hang in the kitchen and take turns.
Steph L. - Sep 06, 2007 9:16:15 am PDT #8823 of 10001
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
Teppy, from my yoga teacher friend:
Oh, lisah, thanks! I didn't expect a yogi-produced response so quickly! I'll try using a yoga strap when I do that stretch, and try holding the stretch longer.
§ ita § - Sep 06, 2007 9:17:06 am PDT #8824 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I have the world's most jacked-up-but-still-flexible-and-working shoulders. One of the krav instructor perqs is tailoring your warmup so it includes your PT exercises. Not sure if the sudden increase in shoulder shrugs and rolls was noted by the students.
tommyrot - Sep 06, 2007 9:17:30 am PDT #8825 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.
Googling jar jar amphibian produces 267,000 matches. jar jar reptile produces 347,000.
Google and the internets have spoken!
Although it'd be fun to start an internet campaign of "Jar Jar is an amphibian, dammit!" to try raise the amphibian numbers above the reptile numbers. Fun, that is, if I had nothing whatever to do with my time....