True story: I was in a mall walking behind two girls who appeared to be about 12. We passed a Dippin' Dots stand, and one said, "It says that Dippin' Dots is the ice cream of the future." The other girl mulled that for a minute and said, "I hope not."
Spike: Lots of fuss over one girl. Other things to do around here--important things. Angel: You know that whoosh thing you do when you're suddenly not there anymore? I love that.
'Unleashed'
Natter 57 Varieties
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.
Ginger - Apr 02, 2008 11:01:57 am PDT #8953 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Jesse - Apr 02, 2008 11:06:10 am PDT #8954 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I use them to make delicious hot cereal (more like cream of wheat than oatmeal textured)! I'm not sure what else they can be used for except that cookie recipe on the package.
Huh.
Nutty - Apr 02, 2008 11:07:00 am PDT #8955 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Man, I'm indoctrinated by wheat. All these things to try and add back up to it.
Well, yeah. Kind of the staple and basis of western cookery. (You could move to rural Mongolia! Unless the whole experimenting with rice milk means you also have a milk allergy.) It kind of blows my mind that wheat is one of those foods suddenly becoming more expensive, because, staple food. Those things are staples because they're always available.
Jesse - Apr 02, 2008 11:09:16 am PDT #8956 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
"you could take me back and get a good student."
Aw.
tommyrot - Apr 02, 2008 11:17:18 am PDT #8957 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.
ARGH!
I just spent four hours trying to solve a problem that didn't exist!!
Sorry. I just had to vent.
lisah - Apr 02, 2008 11:18:03 am PDT #8958 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate
I just told my brother via email and he called asking about the "Ethiopian Child Exchange Program." My brother is not ready for prime time.
Hah! He clearly went through the same How To Be an Uncle program as my uncles did!
§ ita § - Apr 02, 2008 11:31:37 am PDT #8959 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Kind of the staple and basis of western cookery.
Yet coeliac disease affects 1% of people in the US.
Wasn't wheat brought to the US with the colonists? I just wonder if there are situations where someone was experimenting with an alternate flour and found that the recipe was much-improved by using oat/rice/quinoa instead. But with the partial substitutions and the xanthan gum boosting it still leaves wheat as the king of the crops.
Matt the Bruins fan - Apr 02, 2008 11:34:30 am PDT #8960 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
I always get confused about which vegetables were native to the Americas and which were brought over by Europeans. Corn is definitely Western Hemisphere, right? In which case, high fructose corn syrup may be slow-acting revenge for firewater and smallpox-y blankets...
Hil R. - Apr 02, 2008 11:37:44 am PDT #8961 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Veganomicon has a who bunch of gluten-free recipes, including chocolate chip cookies made with oat flour. I've never tried them, though pretty much every else I've tried from this cookbook has been good. (Well, except the tofu dill salad, but I don't really like dill, so I'm not sure why I made that one to begin with.)
Steph L. - Apr 02, 2008 11:39:35 am PDT #8962 of 10001
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
Veganomicon
Damn, I want that just for the name. And I'm not even a vegetarian!