What should I do, then? Send her a gift? Sacrifice? … Unholy fruit basket?

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Natter 76: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Foaminess  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Steph L. - Sep 10, 2020 5:07:36 pm PDT #25984 of 30019
I look more rad than Lutheranism

I usually cook my quinoa in chicken or vegetable broth. (For future reference.)

For the stuff you've already cooked, you can make a cold salad by tossing in diced tomatoes, chickpeas (or your choice of beans), diced onion, maybe diced cucumber, toss it with olive oil and red wine vinegar, salt and pepper. t edit Maybe throw some avocado on top, and/or feta.

You can really use quinoa cooked in water as a base for any kind of throw-stuff-together salad. I make a cold fruit salad with it, too -- whatever fruits you want, cut up small if need be, mixed with honey and lime juice.


erin_obscure - Sep 10, 2020 5:11:47 pm PDT #25985 of 30019
Occasionally I’m callous and strange

Treat quinoa like rice. Anything involving a nice sauce will be delightful over it.


sj - Sep 10, 2020 5:14:36 pm PDT #25986 of 30019
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

Any kind of vinaigrette will work well on already cooked quinoa. Add that some string tasting cheese and some chopped herbs.


meara - Sep 10, 2020 5:46:48 pm PDT #25987 of 30019

You can make a salad with beans and bell peppers and avocado and feta and cilantro in a little bit of olive oil and lemon juice, it's delicious.


Beverly - Sep 10, 2020 6:44:31 pm PDT #25988 of 30019
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

Vortex, I'd go with white or yellow cake and chocolate ganache, or buttercream. Thing is, hard as it is to believe, there are people who dislike chocolate. It's easier to scrape the frosting off and eat the cake than to eat the frosting and leave the cake.


meara - Sep 10, 2020 7:05:18 pm PDT #25989 of 30019

I agree with Bev. But you could also ask Farrah, she doesn't like chocolate (how is she my bff? More chocolate for me)

Puppy drove me up a wall today. Just SUPER LOUD BARKING IN MY EAR while I had a headache and felt sick. And then napped at the puppy play place instead of getting some of that energy out. And then more barking. I'm sure my neighbors hate me. My roommate does too. My eardrums do. Ugh. This is why I never wanted to be a single parent to a human child, nobody to hand the kid off to! (Puppy place does daycare but at $55 a day it's prohibitively expensive! Maybe if I had a big work presentation or something but...)


Laura - Sep 11, 2020 3:37:38 am PDT #25990 of 30019
Our wings are not tired.

I'm sorry, meara. You might have to consider a training collar. Skinner barks more than I would like, but the collar works for him. I left it in Florida because there isn't as much distraction here to make him bark. I might have to get a spray water bottle for the car though because he barks like crazy if we pass a deer or dog or about anything in the car.


Laura - Sep 11, 2020 3:44:28 am PDT #25991 of 30019
Our wings are not tired.

'*O/* Happy Birthday to Trudy *O/*

eta: Why can I never remember how to do that?


Toddson - Sep 11, 2020 3:50:07 am PDT #25992 of 30019
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

In re salads and quinoa - I like to cut up some marinated artichoke hearts and add them to my salads. Adds a nice taste (and the next bite or two will taste sweet).


-t - Sep 11, 2020 4:06:12 am PDT #25993 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Marinated artichokes seem like such a decadent and luxurious treat to me. Yum.