That would probably work if I still lived in upstate NY but probably too much layering for Central FL. I grew up in Binghamton. Where abouts are you, Taxi?
I will definitely give that a try. For as long as I can remember, wool has made me itchy. I can wear any of the synthetics, cotton, or silk knits, but wool…yargah!
tanooki, did I space something out? What happened to you???
swampy in orange short shorts <snerk> Seriously, the hooters girls probably love you guys cause you don’t stare into their buzooms and try to pat them on the butt.
misstake, if I was you, I’d be plannin’ next year’s holidays way, way far away from those awful people. Jeese, whatever happened to the holidays being a time of peace and goodwill?
I have a serious case of cubeland inertia. Maybe it was too many carbs over the weekend.
Pfft. Frying pans are versatile. You can make all kinds of other stuff with frying pans besides quesadillas. This electric thing we got is the mutant bastard cousin of a waffle iron, and it’s no good for anything except making quesadillas. Just like a waffle iron is no good for anything except making waffles. It’s the friggin’ pinnacle of pointless culinary consumerism.
Is that the CL recipe from one of the recent issues? That’s on my evergrowing list of things to make. I am so not in the mood to cook, though - this week is going to be sandwiches and frozen dinners. Then mom & dad come, and it’s dinner out. Well, at least my kitchen will stay clean - cleaners come tomorrow.
I actually have done some work today - truly a miraculous thing. I also did some research into a long weekend down in FL in a couple weeks - yay!
Yesterday I ordered highspeed cable service. I have no idea when I will get it. I want it NOW! It’s very amusing, though - when I turn on my new computer, it tries to log in to other people’s networks - it picks up almost half a dozen signals. When I get my network set up, I’m going to make it private - don’t want to have others using it!
Yep, susan, that’s the one. There’s another one from that same issue with butternut squash and Parmesan (I think it’s Parmesan) that I also want to try, but I don’t want to OD on bread puddings.
Besides, I have to use the heck out of my new crockpot. I’ve already found a potato chowder recipe that I’ll make over the weekend.
I broke my arm and not a normal break where you get a cast for people to color whoo nope not me I went and twisted it so the ligament yanked a piece of bone off and so now I sit with my arm in a sling (can’t put a cast on your shoulder dontcha know!) and hope that little piece of bone stayed put so the next time I go to the doctors they say I’m healing up right and don’t say eeep that’ll need to be pinned.
Well, but waffles can’t, AFAIK, be made without a waffle iron. Quesadillas are easily made in a skillet that is oven save. And I thought that Starbucks was the pinnacle of pointless culinary consumerism.
You’re right, maybe I’m just jealous. But Susan Foster might be coming to Florida, so I’ve go that going for me. Woot!
I’d love to make fun of you for this, but really can’t bring myself to do it. Where’s Welby when you need him? I recall once seeing a demonstration for a kipfel maker in a department store. This was close to your hedonistic level, since until that moment I’d never even heard of a kipfel.
So, do all you people rent pods or something to store all these extraneous appliances? I was lucky I could find space for the hand mixer I bought recently.
The one room in my condo that actually has lots of storage is my kitchen. But as it stands, the crock pot is on my counter. I have lots of counter space, so that’s probably where it’ll stay.
The only other closet in the joint is in my bedroom.
Capital Region. But I grew up near Oneonta so I’m at least familiar with the Southern Tier. Bet you’re glad you’re not here in the snow and single-degree weather!
I got four kitchen items for Christmas, a set of nice colanders, a pizza cutter, a cheese plate and a sturdy pepper mill. These all tuck nicely into the existing space. Beyond that my children gave me a pair of female hamsters, which somehow reside in their room. :dubious: But that’s okay, I got myself a bottle of Armangac. Helps with the cooking, you know.
Oog, I just now woke up. Mr. Bear made a very comfy landing pad after my candy crash. Guess what I’m having for breakfast? No, not chicken wings, Mr Bear said no, 'member? I’m having jordan almonds and chicory coffee, breakfast of champions!
Scout, you are waaay behind in your candy technology if you’re just now trying Toffifay. I remember those from when I was in grade school so that was a million years ago. Get down to the Circle K and catch up, then go to Cost Plus and into the hard stuff-- candy from Europe and Asia! Kiwi flavored gummis from Japan, Violet Crumble, Fred Ferkel, Italian licorice!
Ha ha Wintermute, I have the last Peeps maker, my mommy found it at a drugstore and snatched it up, beating off hordes of ravening parents to do it, too. Console yourself with pink grapefruit flavored mentos, I mean they’re mentos, how much actual pink grapefruit could they possibly have in them? I’m guessing none, maybe even negative pink grapefruit flavor, so you could use them as an antidote next time somebody sneaks actual citrus into something.
I haven’t tried the Peeps maker yet, but it seems you have a great big hypodermic needle injector of Peeps ooze that you squirt into a mold and then roll in sugar and decorate with stuff. And of course Peeps are disgusting. That’s what makes them so good! But they’re not satan’s snot, that is reserved for watermelon Jolly Ranchers.
Lissla, one of my students bought a hat with flaps on it. It made him look disconcertingly like Goofy from that cartoon where they went camping. But the closest to mukluks we’ve gotten was knock-off Uggs from Target. Why anybody would need either item is beyond me because the lowest the temp has gotten is about forty and that was an overnight low! This is the desert children; wear shorts and a light sweater like normal people!
That’s what I remember about microwaves: most people fought having them. You would hear things like, “I understand it is good for boiling water. I don’t really mind waiting for water to boil.” Then people got them, and now they are indispensible. The freezer industry must be ecstatic.
I have an idea for a diet: nothing microwaved. That would mean cooking would take more effort, and leftovers would take longer to heat up. You would have to weigh the effort against the result, and I bet most people would lose weight.
I’m blessed with a nice, big kitchen with plenty of counter and cupboard space. It’s getting a little crowded now, though, what with the toaster oven, pizza oven, microwave, smoothie maker (which I got last year for Christmas!), and Foreman grill. I’m thinking of storing away that silly coffee pot that we never use anyway.
