Heh. Your mother and I have similarities in how we cook. One of the reasons I rate myself a "good" rather than "excellent" is that I am not a good baker. (The other reason is, other the special occasions, I won't put more than a certain amount of work into cooking, and will take all sorts of shortcuts to save labor, even when not taking the shortcut would make a better meal. Most of what I do cook gets favorable comments, but I get away with it mainly because I'm being graded on a curve by people who don't really know cooking basics.
This isn't a come-on. I'm in a very serious relationship with a landscape architect.
Oliver ,'Conviction (1)'
Natter 72: We Were Unprepared for This
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.
Typo Boy - Sep 24, 2013 3:19:06 pm PDT #6526 of 30000
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Typo Boy - Sep 24, 2013 3:19:48 pm PDT #6527 of 30000
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Oh and a separate post - Fuck Cancer. Sadly that is always in order.
§ ita § - Sep 24, 2013 3:31:12 pm PDT #6528 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
My mother can and will kick the ass out of cakes and pies (short crust pastry only), but considers bread and other pastries too fiddly to do from scratch, whereas I prefer that fiddle to decanting a cake from a complex mold (god, our birthday cakes were...we were the cool kids in our own heads, even if she had also sewn our dresses. No, BECAUSE).
Even chinese was exotic where I grew up!
My mother's food was exotic where we grew up. Just not in her kitchen. I can't remember going to a "restaurant" other than maybe a Chinese, or a KFC or a very late Pizza Hut before we left--places that served Jamaican food were just, you know, food. I don't think I knew anyone eating fufu but us, but my mother wanted to give stuff a go.
Kat - Sep 24, 2013 3:32:15 pm PDT #6529 of 30000
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I love baking, but in each new house, I have to relearn the stove which sucks. There are plenty of things I make once just to see if I can (all dim sum falls in this category, as does macaroons and many tortes). Then there are things I make repeatedly that are also fussy.
Juliebird - Sep 24, 2013 3:39:59 pm PDT #6530 of 30000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
I got dim sum from the local Chinese place, and it was all very fishy scallops (which I usually love the most).
Jessica - Sep 24, 2013 3:46:34 pm PDT #6531 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Sorry about Sleepy Hollow in here, I have no idea why I thought I was in Boxed Set earlier.
hippocampus - Sep 24, 2013 3:57:12 pm PDT #6532 of 30000
not your mom's socks.
Cashmere, I'm so sorry about your mom and I hope that the news gets better.
Scrappy - Sep 24, 2013 3:58:47 pm PDT #6533 of 30000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Cashmere--good outcome~ma to your Mom.
-t - Sep 24, 2013 4:09:49 pm PDT #6534 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Paris! Woo!
I think there's some ingredient in tiramisu that I avoid. I have vague memories of reading descriptions on menus and thinking "yum, but no" but I can't recall the exact reason for that.
§ ita § - Sep 24, 2013 4:12:06 pm PDT #6535 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
This Conan clip with Cranston and Paul involves an unexplicit but A++ erotic fan letter and no series spoilers (well, not for Breaking Bad, but it does talk about Malcolm in the Middle...): [link]