# A love for cookbooks: An Epicurean MMP **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [November 10, 2008, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-love-for-cookbooks-an-epicurean-mmp/471971 "2008-11-10T01:49:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 18
**Author:** ![Sticks\_and\_Scones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sticks_and_scones/32/16951_2.png) [@Sticks\_and\_Scones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sticks_and_Scones)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2008, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-love-for-cookbooks-an-epicurean-mmp/471971/341 "2008-11-15T02:58:13Z")
> [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#): > > I put my pic in my profile, FYI Say… You look familiar. Possibly like someone I know on Facebook?😉 ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2008, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-love-for-cookbooks-an-epicurean-mmp/471971/342 "2008-11-15T03:00:29Z")
> [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#): > > I put my pic in my profile, FYI > [@Always Brings Pie](#): > > Say… You look familiar. Possibly like someone I know on Facebook?😉 No! That’s someone _I_ know on Facebook! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2008, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-love-for-cookbooks-an-epicurean-mmp/471971/343 "2008-11-15T03:11:25Z")
> [@Always Brings Pie](#): > > Say… You look familiar. Possibly like someone I know on Facebook?😉 > [@anyrose](#): > > No! That’s someone _I_ know on Facebook! 😉 Whomps you both with a pillow. ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2008, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-love-for-cookbooks-an-epicurean-mmp/471971/344 "2008-11-15T03:17:14Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > What do you call a rooster with erectile dysfunction? > > Boneless Chicken > > How’d I do? 😃 What do you call it when it’s a Jewish rooster? Boneless, Skinless Chicken! You’re welcome… It’s been a less than wonderful day for several reasons that I don’t feel like going into right now so I won’t… I’m gonna hang up the laptop and read for a while–I have a whole buncha holds at the library I need to pick up so I should git giddlin’ on finishing what I already have! ---
**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2008, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-love-for-cookbooks-an-epicurean-mmp/471971/345 "2008-11-15T05:00:28Z")
Sorry I’ve been absent. I was sick, I worked 95 hours last week, and Nelly ran away Wednesday night.☹ {{{{Shadow and **mousie** }}}} ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2008, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-love-for-cookbooks-an-epicurean-mmp/471971/346 "2008-11-15T06:47:36Z")
Oh no, **doggio,** that’s terrible! How did it happen, have you heard any word, do you have a Craig’s List ad up for her? She has tags and/or a license, right? Poor Nellie pup, she must be so scared… ☹ I will keep all my extra puppeh type happy thoughts bent on improving her sense of direction so she comes back home soon. Maybe you should put Thrak on a leash and tell him to go find her… **{{{doggio, Nelly and Thrak}}}** ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2008, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-love-for-cookbooks-an-epicurean-mmp/471971/347 "2008-11-15T06:52:57Z")
> [@Mahna\_Mahna](#): > > I know I’ll probably be eating a lot of pasta and polenta and porridge… any other suggestions for nice soft un-chewy foods I could eat? Preferably nothing too hot or too cold, as my teeth are a little sensitive. (so no soup and no ice cream… _sniff_) ☹ Stuff involving minced meat. Veggies (but not on the wok, damn I want me a wok). Beans. Lentil soup is de yum and doesn’t need to be scalding hot to be de yum. Hands some more {} to **Shadow** and **Aleq** and fresh ones to **doggio** ---
**Author:** ![Sticks\_and\_Scones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sticks_and_scones/32/16951_2.png) [@Sticks\_and\_Scones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sticks_and_Scones)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2008, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-love-for-cookbooks-an-epicurean-mmp/471971/348 "2008-11-15T12:07:48Z")
> [@dogbutler](#): > > Sorry I’ve been absent. I was sick, I worked 95 hours last week, and Nelly ran away Wednesday night.☹ :eek::(:(☹ ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/22080_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2008, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-love-for-cookbooks-an-epicurean-mmp/471971/349 "2008-11-15T12:12:15Z")
Holy guacamole it’s warm out this morning!! Over 60F at the moment! And wet. And there are a gazillion leaves on the ground that I had de-leafed earlier this week. But I did manage to sleep in till almost 7, so there’s that! And I know the warm won’t last - a front is due thru today, then temps plummet, possibly to the 20s for lows in a few nights. :eek: Daughter and I are going grocery shopping today for most of what we’ll need for Thanksgiving and the after party. I need to check one recipe while I’m on line to be sure I have everything required. Then I’ll shower and poke the kid with a pointy stick to get her buns in gear. We’ll run to the store first thing, then come home and get back to work in the basement. These final details are taking forever!! Speaking of the after party, I might see \*\*BibKitty \*\*- she sent a tentative positive RSVP… _\_ \*\*doggio \*\*- so sorry about Nelly! ☹ Assorted hugs all around, with a few pinches and gropes added for variety. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![tarragon918](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d26b3c/32.png) [@tarragon918](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tarragon918)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2008, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-love-for-cookbooks-an-epicurean-mmp/471971/350 "2008-11-15T12:28:52Z")
Glad to see **Doggio** back in the MMP, but so sad to hear about **Nellie**. Sending good thoughts and hope that she comes back to you. **FCM** is right, it’s quite warm for mid-November indeed. That’s okay, though, because the cold is coming in tonight. It’s going to rain all day today, unfortunately; I’ve got several errands to do which will probably get pushed to tomorrow. And yes, I’m going to start Thanksgiving shopping tomorrow too. Wee! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2008, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-love-for-cookbooks-an-epicurean-mmp/471971/351 "2008-11-15T13:41:30Z")
Poor Nelly… Morning all- windy, humid day here. Where is my late fall/winter??? 😃 ETA: Hey first on \_\_\_\_. What page are we on? ETA2 8. We are on page 8. Carry on. ---
**Author:** ![gardentraveler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gardentraveler/32/3576_2.png) [@gardentraveler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gardentraveler)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2008, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-love-for-cookbooks-an-epicurean-mmp/471971/352 "2008-11-15T14:05:53Z")
Hi **doggio**! We missed you. So sorry about Nellie. ☹ Hope you’e getting a day off now. It is never a good thing for the boss to call you at 8:08 on a Saturday morning. Especially when he’s not a morning person. Power outage last night at work is delaying a major release that was supposed to go in this weekend. Now I get to go into work to make sure that everyone who needs to know is informed and that we’ve thought of everything. (We have a bunch of external groups who were affected by this change.) Hope everyone else is having a better weekend than I am… GT ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2008, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-love-for-cookbooks-an-epicurean-mmp/471971/353 "2008-11-15T14:15:39Z")
**{{{Doggio}}}** I’m so sorry. Yay **Swampy** for graduating! I’m sure you were completely sick of training. It’s our monthly dinner out tonight. Dad wants Red Lobster, which I’m thoroughly sick of, but what the hey. It’s his dime, and I don’t have to cook or wash dishes! Off to take the mutts to the park. Even though it’s _freezing_ out there, with 15-20 mph winds! Ok - 49°. But it’s beautiful and sunny, and they are _so_ insistent. Later! ---
**Author:** ![Sticks\_and\_Scones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sticks_and_scones/32/16951_2.png) [@Sticks\_and\_Scones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sticks_and_Scones)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2008, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-love-for-cookbooks-an-epicurean-mmp/471971/354 "2008-11-15T14:21:27Z")
I confess. I’m a puppy cam addict. ---
**Author:** ![ShelliBean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f9ae1b/32.png) [@ShelliBean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShelliBean)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2008, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-love-for-cookbooks-an-epicurean-mmp/471971/355 "2008-11-15T15:11:36Z")
> [@dogbutler](#): > > Sorry I’ve been absent. I was sick, I worked 95 hours last week, and Nelly ran away Wednesday night.☹ > > {{{{Shadow and **mousie** }}}} Aww. Do you want me to send you chocolates? I will. ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2008, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-love-for-cookbooks-an-epicurean-mmp/471971/356 "2008-11-15T15:25:29Z")
**{{{doggio}}}** here’s hopin’ Nelly returns safe. I just reupped _Country Woman and Birds and Blooms_ subscriptions for mom. She lurves those magazines! Anywho… her bday is in December so those are her birthday present from me for the past several years. I’m such a good son! 😃 **SmartiePants** HEE! I liked that. It’s cooler than yesterday. Yesterday it rained almost four inches and was warm all day. Today it’ll be mid 60s. Good weather to dig up and transplant palm trees. Ok, need to go get cleaned up. I need to make a Wally\*World run this mornin’. Later Y’all! ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2008, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-love-for-cookbooks-an-epicurean-mmp/471971/357 "2008-11-15T16:34:26Z")
The MMP is invading my Facebook page, so I figure that’s a sign for me to get my ass back in here and say hi. Hi! ---
**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2008, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-love-for-cookbooks-an-epicurean-mmp/471971/358 "2008-11-15T16:39:10Z")
Up and off to work. I put up posters, and did Craigslist, but no Nelly for a week and a half. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2008, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-love-for-cookbooks-an-epicurean-mmp/471971/359 "2008-11-15T16:50:37Z")
> [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](#): > > The MMP is invading my Facebook page, so I figure that’s a sign for me to get my ass back in here and say hi. > Hi! Hi **LOUNE**! ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2008, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-love-for-cookbooks-an-epicurean-mmp/471971/360 "2008-11-15T17:07:28Z")
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