...burning baby fish swimming all round your head.

Drusilla ,'Conversations with Dead People'


Spike's Bitches 44: It's about the rules having changed.  

[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.


Cashmere - Feb 28, 2009 1:53:25 pm PST #2265 of 30000
Now tagless for your comfort.

Congrats on the car sale, JZ!

Congrats on the job offer beth & Matt!

Teppy, I hope this clears up soon. I feel so bad for you.


Steph L. - Feb 28, 2009 2:24:02 pm PST #2266 of 30000
I look more rad than Lutheranism

Teppy, I hope this clears up soon. I feel so bad for you.

It's been easing up all day, but I'm still paranoid that anything I eat/drink/do will make my teeth go supernova.


Pix - Feb 28, 2009 2:28:19 pm PST #2267 of 30000
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie

Poor Tep. Feel better.

Okay, quick hivemind question...I just realized that a pork loin we bought fresh last Sunday never made it from the fridge to the freezer. It hasn't been unwrapped since the guy wrapped it at the deli counter. Is it okay to eat still? Please say yes.


WindSparrow - Feb 28, 2009 2:50:49 pm PST #2268 of 30000
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.

Kristin, in your shoes I would open it up - looking for discoloration, sniff it, and feel it - if it still looked, smelled, and felt fresh, I'd cook the hell out of with a whole lot of cayenne or hot sauce.

But if you want to play it by the numbers, make it go away.


Laga - Feb 28, 2009 2:53:33 pm PST #2269 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

What WindSparrow said. The health department would advise you to throw it out. I would (if it didn't smell bad) cook the hell out of it and eat it tonight. The health department says you can't tell if something will make you sick by sniffing it so... do you feel lucky?


§ ita § - Feb 28, 2009 2:54:49 pm PST #2270 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

If you get migraines I'd skip it--leaving it in the fridge increases the amount of tyramine in the meat which can trigger migraines. But they're okay for "normal" people.


Pix - Feb 28, 2009 3:17:43 pm PST #2271 of 30000
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie

Damn damn damn. Ok. Sigh. I guess we should toss it. It just blows, because it was expensive Whole Foods pork loin! Argh.


Ginger - Feb 28, 2009 3:32:22 pm PST #2272 of 30000
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

ita is, unfortunately, more of a migraine expert than I am, but, migraines aside, I'd eat it if it smelled okay, particularly since you're unlikely to be eating pork rare.


Hil R. - Feb 28, 2009 3:33:52 pm PST #2273 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

I'm being all productive -- I'm making freezer vegetable broth. When I cook, if I have leftover bits and pieces of onions or celery or carrots or potatoes or something, I put them into a ziploc bag in the freezer, then when the bag gets full, dump the whole thing into a big pot with a bunch of water, cook it into broth, and then put the broth into 2-cup containers in the freezer. Usually works out to making new broth about 4 times a year. It's not much actual work, but the actual cooking part feels all frugal and productive. Plus, it makes my apartment smell yummy. This batch has a whole lot more scallions than usual, and an apple core that I threw in thinking it couldn't hurt.


Liese S. - Feb 28, 2009 4:01:35 pm PST #2274 of 30000
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

That's a brilliant idea.