BTW, had Chinese for dinner last night, (curried chicken) and I saved this one for you:
You find beauty in ordinary things.
Do not lose this ability.
In bed! <snerk>
A similar thing happened to me. I’ve talked about this before, but some of the newer MMPers might not know. A little over 4 years ago, I was a highly paid senior programmer/analyst for a local company. On a certain monday, the boss called me into his office and gave me ‘the speech’, complete with severence check and ambiguous RIF letter.
7:30 the next morning the phone rang.
Ex-boss: “the AS400 isn’t running!”
Me: “Why are you telling me? I don’t work for you anymore.” (I’m paraphrasing here.)
The upshot of it was that they offered to pay me $50.00/hr to pull their ignorant asses out of the fire on a regular basis. Until a couple of years ago, when I got really pissed off at their asshattery and told them I wasn’t ever talking to them again.
Nowadays they pay me $75.00/hr.
I’m thinking about getting pissed off at them again.
P.S. I hate! Hate! HATE! oysters. Love scallops and clams however. Crab and lobster? Very good if it’s done right.
Okay, if we are narrowing down the meal to seafood, I’d have to say the Nova Scotia Lobster tails my BIL grilled last summer at the beach house. To effin die for.
I love almost all seafood. Orsters are nummy. I luuurves them all icey raw with some racey cocktail sauce. Clamseys, too. Allmost all fish except shark. Srimps is lurvely almost anyways ceptin’ raw. Scallops is good, too. Crabs are a lotta work but I like the big Snow Crab legs.
Escargot is just an excuse for a butter and garlic feast. Plus I don’t do mucousy worms.
swampy, good on you bein’ the hero dude. Bet that made you feel all warm and gooshy inside.
The damn bread isn’t rising fast enough. Maybe shouting at it would help.
On the up side, I had crumpets and strawberry jam for breakfast. I’m hungry again. Leftover roast potatoes with roasted garlic, or leftover butter chicken? Drat. Mr. Lissar is getting up (he’s working nights this week). That means I’ll have to share.
I think the best food I ever had was an omelette with sauteed potatoes, onions, and swiss cheese. Really. It was the Platonic Ideal of food. Right after that is anything my stepmother-in-law cooks. Right after that are the pain au chocolate at the bakery nearbye. Is that spelled right?
(chaoticdonkey, who likes tuna, shrimp, scallops, and generic white fleshed- fish when cooked, and who is addicted to all sorts of sushi. I just don’t like bivalves, except scallops.)
Yes, Lissla, making a loud noise very near rising bread will certainly solve your problem. Let us know how it works for you.
VBob I understand why people make fun of Red Lobster, but I’ve always have a good meal when I go there. Just lucky, I guess. Or maybe I have diminished expectations, so I am always pleased that they manage to present something edible.
mmmmmmmmmmm, seafood! I loves it all, except for oysters. To quote some stupid sitcom I saw eons ago “I won’t eat anything that looks like it came out of a ox’s nose.” That pretty much sums up oysters for me. But everything else, assuming it’s fresh, of course, is nummerrific!!
There’s a local joint near us - Capt. Leonard’s Seafood - where they serve wonderful crab cakes and shrimp and scallops and a bunch of other stuff, but those 3 are my favorites. We were just there last weekend. I’m thinking we need to go back this weekend. Tonight even. I loves me some seafood!
Escargot = yum Plus you get to make the other people at your table all oogy if they’ve never had some.
I don’t believe that loud noises will make bread fall. Oh sure, shaking it and/or maybe changing the air pressure by slamming a door could make it fall. So **Lissla ** should yell at her bread and just generally have a nasty arguement, but shouldn’t slam the door or smack the table next to the bread.
[sup]I have no idea whether this is true, but I want to see if I can get someone to yell at bread dough. I don’t know why.[/sup]
Amazing meals, hmmmm…seems like mine split up into good food and great company or great food and good company. Very few double-great experiences. Maybe a couple in Germany: dinner at home with my housemates, cooked by an Egyptian friend. I don’t remember exactly what we ate, but it was delicious. Also, dinner at a little Thai restaurant in Lüneberg. Again, I don’t remember exactly what we ate, but the sauce was a curry with coconut milk and it was AMAZING. Oh, and the people were fun too.
Seafood: had a really nice fish last year in Mexico. The sides weren’t all that exciting, but the fish was perfect. Can’t remember the name of the fish - it has a funny name in Spanish and one I’d never heard of in English.
Warmest people memories are probably holidays when I was a kid. We would get together with a couple of families and have wonderful food and lots of fun. Always felt like family even though we weren’t - technically.
We got 3 inches of rain between yesterday afternoon and this morning, but it was slow and steady, so it actually greened everything up quite nicely.
I’m tired (how many times have I said this recently), so I’m going to be lazy tonight. Really need to clean up around here and also mow the lawn, but that’ll keep till tomorrow.
The bread’s done. I think I should have put a little more salt in it, but it’ll primarily be used for peanut butter and nutella conveyance, so I’m not too worried about the taste. Pthibbit to all of your useful suggestions.
I wanted to make snerky comments about the Mennonite sausage balls and the being put off of seafood due to once bringing home a buttload of it (I’m sure that would put anyone off seafood), however I have a cold and I feel like crap so I’m too tired to go back and find those posts to quote. Besides it’s probably not as funny as my fevered brain seems to think.
What really sucks about getting sick now is I am taking my first real “leave town” vacation in a very long time this weekend, going to Dragon*Con in Atlanta. I have always wanted to go to one but I can never coordinate getting time off work or having enough money. So now I get to go and meet celebrities who will run away from me screaming because I’m all germy.
I decided it’s the boyfriends fault. He asked me a week or so ago, “You’re not going to get sick are you?”. So he jinxed me and I got sick. Then tonight he said “Well, just don’t get worse.” So tomorrow I will probably be in the hospital with pneumonia.
Well, for everbody who wants to know and the rest of y’all, too, ah hem, this is my birfday eve. That’s right! As of Friday, September 2, I’ll be sliding that much closer to my sixth decade. ::gulp smilie:: It’s all good, though, considering the alternative. And in honor of aforementioned day, I am taking a vacation day tommory so that I will have a wunnerful four-day weekend. ::aaahhhh smilie:: The Princess[sup]TM[/sup] and Mr. Anachi are cooking up something for dinner tomorrow night…literally. I don’t know all the details but I’m sure it will be nummy.
toons, just give it up and post whatever. We all find it totally entertaining.
lissla, excellent interpretative spelling of a rasberry.
This morning, I got an angry e-mail from a woman who’s wondering where her order is. It was supposed to be sent two-day air, sez she, and it’s been four business days now.
Gee … I don’t know, lady. Maybe it’s because you live in Lafayette, Louisiana, and people are a little busy down there. Did you notice the big hurricane? Maybe the Red Cross has your damn camera battery. You live 135 miles from New Orleans. Sure, that’s a decent ways … but I’m pretty sure everybody in that general area has better things to do than worry about whether or not your camera works.
Luckily, I have refrained from responding with any of that. Yet.
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