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'McBokonon said:
I've made a few jokes about Tanner's advancing age for the sole reason that it's all I have. I found this thread way the hell late in the game, I'm a fairly infrequent poster (relatively speaking) to begin with and I had nothing else. Until today, I didn't even get the crock pot chicken thing. So, if someone wants to set up a word document detailing everyone's deficiencies, mannerisms, schtick or what-the-crap-ever, I'd be happy to carry it around so I can subject everyone to my witticisms on an equal opportunity basis. Time Permitting.
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Sounds like you need to get yourself a notebook
 
'Reg Lllama of Brixton said:
My wife is mad at me because I don't understand why she would want to make her own butter. That is not a euphemism.She saw a recipe for it and thinks it would be a good idea. Me: Why not just buy butter?Her: Maybe it's cheaper. Me: Butter isn't expensive enough to justify making your own.Her: Maybe it tastes better.Me: Store-bought butter tastes good enough.Her: Why do I try to talk to you?Me: Sorry, Laura Ingalls. I just don't get it.
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I actually got this reference :thumbup:
 
'krista4 said:
Kubes, Mr. krista made a shrimp and crab boil a couple of nights ago and now has made a bisque from the remnants. Do you want the bisque recipe? I'd imagine he considers it "simple" though the first step might be "make a shrimp and crab boil".
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Sounds beyond me but lay it on me anyway.
 
'Kubes said:
'krista4 said:
Kubes, Mr. krista made a shrimp and crab boil a couple of nights ago and now has made a bisque from the remnants. Do you want the bisque recipe? I'd imagine he considers it "simple" though the first step might be "make a shrimp and crab boil".
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Sounds beyond me but lay it on me anyway.
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OK, I'll have him type something up.On a separate note, loving the sticky note picture in the last GMTAN tweet. :lmao: :lmao: :lmao:
 
I was hoping the picture in the latest tweet was going to be the same picture that was being shared via texts earlier... :kicksrock:

 
Which one of you miscreants approves me for the twitter feed?

edit: holy crap, someone already did

 
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I might have missed jeopardy with tanner, but the date is still going one. Her mom was watching her son during the date while rmc had a work "networking event"

2 bottles of wine later, I'm sitting outside her house waiting for her and her son to show up.

:thumbup:

 
Think I'm leaving work tomorrow to hit the liquor store. Cabinet's getting a little low. On the list:

- Boodle's Gin because I've been in the mood for a real martini.

- Eagle Rare Bourbon because I'm out of sippin' bourbon.

- Jimmy Beam (or maybe Evan Williams) because I'm also out of mixin' bourbon.

- 12 Pack of Austin Beer Works Fire Eagle IPA.

And yes, I am using this thread as my personal shopping list for tomorrow.

 
Oh and just to add to the :lmao: I may have dislodged my side view mirror on the way here...oops

We went to her parents house (watching her son during the date) and on the drive from there to here I might have been trying to text as I drove into a mailbox on the side of the road. #### :bag:

 
'Guster said:
Oh and just to add to the :lmao: I may have dislodged my side view mirror on the way here...oopsWe went to her parents house (watching her son during the date) and on the drive from there to here I might have been trying to text as I drove into a mailbox on the side of the road. #### :bag:
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:thumbup:
 
LLLama, is anything happening in Bakersburg this weekend besides the normal 3pm dinners at IHOP?

Showed up to my next duty station and found that I do not have to come in for any actual work for the next month*…maybe I should be happy, but I think I am going to lose my flippen mind. :wall:

*First World, Government job problems.

 
'rickyjgo said:
LLLama, is anything happening in Bakersburg this weekend besides the normal 3pm dinners at IHOP?

Showed up to my next duty station and found that I do not have to come in for any actual work for the next month*…maybe I should be happy, but I think I am going to lose my flippen mind. :wall:

*First World, Government job problems.
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:lmao: You're kidding, right? You coming to town?

 
'Reg Lllama of Brixton said:
'rickyjgo said:
LLLama, is anything happening in Bakersburg this weekend besides the normal 3pm dinners at IHOP?

Showed up to my next duty station and found that I do not have to come in for any actual work for the next month*…maybe I should be happy, but I think I am going to lose my flippen mind. :wall:

*First World, Government job problems.
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:lmao: You're kidding, right? You coming to town?
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I can. Home is 800 miles away and I just left...3 day weekend and nothing to do besides find a place to live.Not kidding about not having a job, I missed the cut-off for heading back to the Gulf and I am stuck in temp-duty limbo.

Kidding about IHOP if it hits a sore spot...my parents LOVE the early-bird

 
'Reg Lllama of Brixton said:
My wife is mad at me because I don't understand why she would want to make her own butter. That is not a euphemism.She saw a recipe for it and thinks it would be a good idea. Me: Why not just buy butter?Her: Maybe it's cheaper. Me: Butter isn't expensive enough to justify making your own.Her: Maybe it tastes better.Me: Store-bought butter tastes good enough.Her: Why do I try to talk to you?Me: Sorry, Laura Ingalls. I just don't get it.
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I don't normally like to get into domestic disputes, but the next time your wife says she wants to make butter, shut the effup and start making some biscuits.
 
I have no idea why you'd want to pick a fight with your wife about something that doesn't require you to do anything, but I'll defer to the wisdom that only many, many years can produce

 
Does anyone else have a problem with people bringing in their kids' fundraising forms to work? At least twice a month I get an email "Le-a Von Lazy is selling pizzas for her underwater field hockey team. If we reach $27,000, we get a new puck! Sign up is in the break room"

My parents never did this. My dad always said that if I wanted to sell something for a fundraiser, I had to ask the people myself. I hated it then, but understand it now. I would buy a lot of good ####, but pass on it because the kid doesn't/can't ask me. Am I jerk for that?

I was talking with my GB about this a while back and he agreed. His 6 year old daughter is just now in Girl Scouts and it's cookie time. He had her call me up tonight to ask if I wanted any. She went through the entire list, told me what they cost and told me when money was due and when delivery would be. After I bought more boxes than I should have, she thanked me and asked when I could come over again with our dog to play with their dog.

Good parenting and well adjusted kids are still out there :thumbup:

 
'krista4 said:
'Reg Lllama of Brixton said:
My wife is mad at me because I don't understand why she would want to make her own butter. That is not a euphemism.

She saw a recipe for it and thinks it would be a good idea.

Me: Why not just buy butter?

Her: Maybe it's cheaper.

Me: Butter isn't expensive enough to justify making your own.

Her: Maybe it tastes better.

Me: Store-bought butter tastes good enough.

Her: Why do I try to talk to you?

Me: Sorry, Laura Ingalls. I just don't get it.
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Mr. krista was once offended for about 24 hours when I suggested we buy mayonnaise. :shrug: That said, butter is too much of a pain to make yourself. We buy fresh from a local raw milk purveyor, and it really does make a huge difference in taste, though.
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Making butter is easy, stupid, significantly more expensive and insufficiently extra-delicious to justify the additional pain in the balls. However: If you have a Kitchen Aid Mixer you can make butter by putting some heavy cream in the bowl, then beating it mercilessly for about 6 or 8 minutes with with the whisk attachment. The cream will thicken up fairly quickly. After a few minutes of whipping, you will have a very thick whipped cream. A few more minutes later and the milk solids will coagulate and separate from the liquid--you will notice this because pale, watery buttermilk will suddenly fly from the whisk and all over your counter and kitchen walls. Good idea then to turn off the mixer. In your mixing bowl, there will be a lump of butter amid an inch or so of buttermilk. Then you get to remove the butter from the bowl and squeeze it under cool running water until all of the butter milk is gone. (Excess milk will cause even quicker spoilage--rancid butter is horrid.)Then wrap the thing in wax paper and plastic wrap and BLAM! You've got yourself some butter that tastes pretty much exactly like the butter you get in in a grocery store. The only difference is that the commercial butter comes pre-wrapped, requires no whisking or wall-cleaning or mixer-washing, has a significantly longer shelf-life (commercial equipment can remove the perfect amount of moisture--the fat:solid:liquid ratio is always the same) and is way, way cheaper. (Two quarts of heavy cream will yield about a pound of butter. In most groceries, heavy cream costs about $4 per quart. Butter costs $4 p/lb.)

Caveat: the unpasteurized raw milk that we buy here in the summer (at $5 per quart!) makes frightfully good butter and, happily, the farmers that sell us the milk also sell us the butter. If they didn't make butter, I would probably make $12p/# butter and keep it in the freezer until the day I finally break down and eat the whole mess of it with a spoon.

Another caveat: Euro-style cultured butter is difficult to find around here (if not impossible) and totally delicious. If I knew the first thing about making it, I would totally do that.

 
'krista4 said:
'Kubes said:
'krista4 said:
Kubes, Mr. krista made a shrimp and crab boil a couple of nights ago and now has made a bisque from the remnants. Do you want the bisque recipe? I'd imagine he considers it "simple" though the first step might be "make a shrimp and crab boil".
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Sounds beyond me but lay it on me anyway.
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OK, I'll have him type something up.
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Here's how I did the thing. I don't know if it is the "right" thing that I did, but it tasted pretty good.So. Do this thing.Ingredients:The shells from about 4lbs of shrimp and snow crab. Some stray shrimp and crab meat can't hurt either.4 cups diced onion2 cup diced carrots2 cup diced celery2T tomato paste4 bay leaves10 peppercorns2 or 3 lemons juiced, peels reserved2 oranges juiced, peels reserved1 cup white wine1 cup sherry1 T olive oil1 cups rice1 pint heavy creammess of thyme, thyme stemsmess of tarragon, stems removed, leaves minced1. Make stock.Throw a heavy bottomed stock-pot on a burner with a bit of oil in the bottom. When it gets hot and smoky, add HALF OF THE SHELLS. Saute the shells until they are bright red and smell delicious and seafoody. Turn down the heat to low.Add 2 cups onions, 1 cup carrots, one cup celery. Sweat until onions soften. Deglaze with 1 cup white wine.Add enough cold water to cover.Add lemon juice and lemon peels.Add thyme, tarragon stems peppercorns, and 2 bay leaves.Don't stir it all up. Just let the stuff float there. Stirring will make it cloudy and crappy.Simmer uncovered for about an hour or so. Strain2. Make soup. (Once more, with feeling.)Making the soup is almost exactly like making the stock, only we replace the wine with sherry, the water with shrimp stock, and we add tomato paste, cream, and rice to encolor, enthicken and awesome-up the mother.Now:Sautee the rest of the shells until bright red blah, blah, blah.Add the rest of the celery, carrots, onion. Sweat, soften, whatevs.NEW THING: Add the tomato paste and mix that stuff all over your sweating veggies. Sautee it for a minute or two until the tomato paste is darker and sweeter.NEW THING: Deglaze with sherry. NEW THING: Add orange peels and juice. Simmer.NEW THING: Add shrimp stock, bay leaves, and peppercorns. Simmer for 1 hour. Strain all solids.Bring liquid back up to simmer. Add rice. Cover. Continue simmering until rice is softened.Puree the mixture in a blender, food mill, or with a hand blender.Add any uncooked shrimp or crab now.Add tarragon now. Sweat for a minute.Add cream. Add any already-cooked shrimp or crab now.Simmer for 10 more minutes and eat like hell.
 
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