@grammarsheriff Could this be a dog?

@grammarsheriff

@grammarsheriff
It goes well on all of the seasonal chocolates you have left over from the holiday parties, not just the turtles.

@MarkDaSpark the coconut curry is sooo good. To each their own!

@MarkDaSpark the Coconut Curry was my favorite in the group!

@Faffs @troy

Used to love Almond Joy bars. Then OD’d on Coconut during a trip to Hawaii at a family friends home. Coconut milk, shavings, etc. all at once and got ill.

Can’t stand it since.

@Faffs @MarkDaSpark @troy I have a similar but less intense dislike of bananas, caused by having had three entire stems of them go ripe at the same time when I was growing up. That’s somewhere around 40 hands of bananas, with around 20 in each hand. It was years before I’d eat another one, or anything that contained them. I didn’t even want to smell them.

@MarkDaSpark @troy @werehatrack I am that way about anything pumpkin. One year we decided to make pumpkin pies from a homegrown pumpkin. It wasn’t until we realized just how much pureed pumpkin one moderate sized pumpkin made that we knew we would grow to hate that stuff. We made at least a dozen pies, snuck them off onto neighbors’ porches, dropped off at relatives’ homes. That was about 50 years ago. I can count on one hand how many times I’ve have had pumpkin pie or anything pumpkin in those years.

@yeppers Ah, thanks! I thought the image URL’s I copied had 'em both, but the manufacturer was using separate JPG’s for both nutrition & ingredients. All fixed now!

@troy Thanks!

@awk Hhhhhnnnnnnnnnnnggggg.

@awk yay more for me

@OnionSoup so the subway rats give it a thumbs up?
Do rats have thumbs?

@OnionSoup @pmarin Rats maybe. But Turtles yes! Just hold the anchovies!

@pmarin they have long skinny grippy toes, I think… I should know since we have some… Not sure if any count as thumbs. My daughter has rats, I’m curious to look at the feet when I get home. Never paid attention to them.

@OnionSoup @pmarin The forepaws have rudimentary thumbish digits. Ditto for a lot of the rodents. Raccoons do, too. Oooooh, yeah.

@owenversteeg For some of us, canola is a major hazard; this entire group is a no-fly zone for me.

@Kerig3 yep. Fresh batch made to order with dating in 2023

@Kerig3 @troy they’d be in the back of the fridge well into 2025

@Kerig3 @stolicat @troy

they’d be in the back of the fridge well into 2025

Except for the one found in the back of the pantry in 2033, forgotten behind a gift box of chefashionista sauces that your now-ex’s in-laws burbled over at the Turkey Day dinner gathering where you found yourself sandwiched between overly enthusiastic beer-soaked football fans for a marathon of their bingewatching games.

If this seems overly specific now, just wait. And don’t say you weren’t warned.

@Kerig3 03/03/2023 to 07/11/2023 to be specific

@stolicat not anymore

@werehatrack what is the deal with canola??

@rollingupbynow It puts my digestive system into a painful hyperdrive condition. That stuff they give you to purge your gut for a colonoscopy is gentle by comparison. I am not the only one who has this issue with it.

@pixelated you can easily replicate all of these by simply adding some spices and other sauces to your mayo (pesto, hot sauce, taco seasoning mix, stuff like that). I do it on the regular - make just enough for whatever mean I’m creating and prep it the day before so things have a chance to bland.

I’ve got a ton of favorite spice blends from spices, inc and Pensy’s that are perfect for this (Penzy’s “Bold Taco” and “Sunny Paris” are awesome, and I love “Mother Clucker” and the El Pastor taco blends from spices, inc (ALL of the rubs from spices, inc are excellent IMO))

PANS! GLANDS! CRAYONS! AWESOME!

@pixelated @Pufferfishy Penzy’s does have lots of great seasoning blends, and you’re spot on about making your own flavored mayo…

@pixelated @Pufferfishy I’m not willing to wait a day just to make it bland.

@pixelated @Pufferfishy @rpstrong I think they meant “blend”. Spices and herbs added to mayo typically take at least several hours - and preferably overnight - to reach a useful level of blending with the oil.

@rpstrong lol - by the time I saw the 2 typos the editing window had passed…
s/bland/blend
s/mean/meal

@pixelated @Pufferfishy
Mixing spices, herbs, and lemon or lime juice into sour cream can make a nice sauce, too.

@werehatrack Cooking should be fun, not a test!

We do quesedillas at least once a week and it’s always a new version… lol

@Pufferfishy James May did a season of shows called “James May Can’t Cook”, and the commentary done with subtitles is amusing, particularly when he’s in the process of screwing something up. A couple of the attempts ended up getting scraped into the trash bin on camera.

@werehatrack I also tend to wing it when cooking. The upside is that sometimes everything lines up and something exceptional is created. The downside is that it can be hard to duplicate the success in future attempts.

@MrNews Same here, the ones in stock at Central Market are $5.39 each. Fortunately for me, I dare not try them anyway, because of what’s in them.

@werehatrack Yes, the emulsifiers & stabilizers are problematic for me, but in small quantities, it’s okay. I just put some of the Bacon Aoli on thin-sliced Boar’s Head roast beef- pretty damn yummy! We got one at a local hot sauce store for $7, and like helping keep their small shop in business…

@trickynick They are all best by 2023 – anywhere from March-July of 2023 specifically

@bass1193 I always enjoy the write ups. This one is no exception. However… if you have an immersion blender, you can make “aoili” (mayo) in under a minute.

Drop an egg into a jar that just fits your immersion blender head. (Use two, and just add yolks if you want it extra rich.) I prefer lemon juice, but anything acidic needs added: vinegar/lime/whatever. Throw in all your garlic and spices. Add a little oil. Start to blend.

While running the blender, slowly drizzle oil in until it emulsifies. Bonus if you are a molecular gastronomy nerd, now would be the time to drizzle some liquid lecithin (emulsifier) and xantham gum (stabilizer). Because everyone should have those!!! Seriously, though, you can leave those out and still have a better tasting product than this.

@bass1193
You might enjoy this, then…

Weasel Help, as defined in 1996 by Jacque Marshall

Example A - Loading the Dishwasher

1. Open the dishwasher.
2. Take weasel out.
3. Put away clean dishes.
4. Take the other weasel out.
5. Rinse pots and put in bottom rack.
6. Reach waaaay in, pluck the first weasel out of the standing water in back.
7. Load the plates.
8. Take both weasels out.
9. Load the glasses.
10. Swear a lot, reach in, pluck both weasels out of the standing water in back.
11. Load the bowls.
12. Take the first weasel out.
13. Load the soap dish.
14. Stop the second weasel from eating the soap.
15. Close the dishwasher and latch it.
16. Count the weasels.
17. Open the dishwasher, count the weasels.
18. Close the dishwasher and latch it again.
19. Count the weasels.
20. All weasels accounted for,. Start the dishwasher.

Example B - Making the bed.

1. Get laundry basket containing fresh sheets.
2. Evict weasels from nest therein.
3. Spread out bottom sheet.
4. Extract first weasel from under sheet.
5. Smooth out first sheet, tuck it in.
6. Pull toes away from playful weasel teeth under bed.
7. Evisct second weasel from laundry basket.
8. Spread out top sheet.
9. Remove first weasel from under top sheet.
   10 Pry second weasel loose from ankle.
10. Obtain blanket.
11. Shake out weasel.
    . . . et cetera until bed is made or psychosis sets in.

@bass1193 And my similar thing, posted to the forums here when the daily item was a sheet set…

Fitted sheet installation procedure:

– Remove cats, pillows and other obstacles from the bed.
– Lift the most annoying corner of the mattress and slide fitted sheet over it.
– Move to next-most-annoying corner, pull sheet taut, discover that the sheet is in the wrong orientation.
– Return to first corner. Remove two cats; one from pile of clean sheet, one from open space on bed.
– Reposition sheet to align correct corner.
– Return to second corner. Pull sheet taut, slide bottom edge under mattress, fish cat out from under sheet.
– Proceed to next corner; stretch sheet into place and flip lower edge under mattress. Extract cats from under sheet.
– Proceed to final corner. Remove cats from remaining section of sheet and from open area of mattress. Stretch last corner into position, shoo away cat trying to sharpen claws on mattress pad apron, remove other cat from sheet, restretch corner, and flip it down under the mattress. Note large mobile lump under sheet. Make daiquiris.

@machete It’s in 2023.