Giles, if you would like to get by in American society, then you are going to have to follow our traditions. You're the patriarch. You have to host the festivities, or it's all meaningless.

Buffy ,'Sleeper'


Natter 56: ...we need the writers.  

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.


lisah - Feb 02, 2008 6:06:53 am PST #6893 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate

We're doing the Polar Plunge this afternoon. I should already be drinking.

Go you!!! I was thinking I might want to do one of these sometime.

I went to a 45-minute spin class this morning and it kind of didn't feel like enough of a workout. weird. Either I did it wrong or I'm too used to 90 minute hard yoga classes.

Sox or sarameg, if you're around, did you hear that WYPR has fired Steiner??? It's shocking!

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Jesse - Feb 02, 2008 6:07:23 am PST #6894 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

We're doing the Polar Plunge this afternoon. I should already be drinking.

Yikes! Good luck w/that!


brenda m - Feb 02, 2008 6:08:08 am PST #6895 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

Yeah, maybe I will. I keep seeing recipes that start with scalding milk, and that weirds me out, so.

What? No. That's crazy.


Nutty - Feb 02, 2008 6:10:01 am PST #6896 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."

Jesse, regular bread is easy-peasy! And scalding milk is not necessary. My recipe starts with warm water and yeast in a bowl. (Actually, milk is not an ingredient at all; that's a specialty bread called "milk bread," that also involves eggs.)

I made knead-y bread yesterday, AIFG!


Jesse - Feb 02, 2008 6:16:52 am PST #6897 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I swear to god, every bread recipe in Joy starts with scalding milk.


Sophia Brooks - Feb 02, 2008 6:17:48 am PST #6898 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

The only thing that I have had ruin regular bread is when my apartment is frigid. But other than that, pretty easy and I have never scaled milk.

Guys, I think I have msbelle's lingering cold. I have been sick since last Saturday, and while I seem to be over the crazy mind part of the cold, I am still sneezing. And blowing my nose. And trying to sew costumes when about every minute I actually have to wipe my nose because it is running. This is going to drive me insane, but I absolutely cannot take any more days off to deal with blowing my nose every 30 seconds! I think I need something stronger than sudafed.


Sophia Brooks - Feb 02, 2008 6:18:34 am PST #6899 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

Jesse- I use the recipe on the back of the King Arthur Wheat Flour package, and there is no milk scalding. There is, however, molasses or honey.


hippocampus - Feb 02, 2008 6:19:50 am PST #6900 of 10001
not your mom's socks.

did you hear that WYPR has fired Steiner??? It's shocking!

holy whaaaa? omg.


lisah - Feb 02, 2008 6:20:45 am PST #6901 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate

- I use the recipe on the back of the King Arthur Wheat Flour package, and there is no milk scalding. There is, however, molasses or honey.

ooh I should try that sometime soon! I have this amazing honey that my friend brought me from Denmark and I've been struggling with finding ways to use it.


Nutty - Feb 02, 2008 6:20:48 am PST #6902 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."

I swear to god, every bread recipe in Joy starts with scalding milk.

New Joy, p. 744, Quick-Rising White Bread? (For 6 hour values of quick-rising.)

My New Joy falls open to that page, since I make bread so regularly, and have come around to the idea that baking, much moreso than any other cooking, deserves to be respected as the exact chemistry it is. I very rarely play loosey-goosey with baking recipes.