Where are my manners - Welcome, ShermanAter! I’m far too modest to bring it up, but someone will advise you on the matter of chocolate love offerings.
Off to forage now…
Up and caffeinating! Whew, glad to hear that you and VWife are okay, BBBobbio. I emailed my cousin but haven’t heard anything from her yet; her power might be out, though. Ima calling her tonight.
Lots of great recipes to try out, thanks all! 
Happy Tuesday!
Morning all. TK is back today and has been round to dispense her usual gems of wit and humour…I sat on my hands and bit my tongue. You can imagine what was going through my head.
Nothing exciting to report over here, so will just throw around some hugs, yays, boos and stuff for you.
:waves to Sherm:
Ummmm… you sold the washer and dryer. Whachu gonna do, take the laundry down to the crick and beat it on a rock? 
Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffienatin’ here. Purtification for work to commence soon. Ick! Got the donwannas today but so what. Still gotta. It looks dreary out. I hope that translates to rain today.
Ok, gotta glam! Later Y’all!
We sold *our * washer and dryer. There’s still the pair that belongs to the house, and the house belongs to a friend of our daughter. So no crick rock beatin’ here.
Yes, Sherm, it is customary 'round these here parts to send some form of chocolate to our resident Moommm. IIRC, not white chocolate. Swampy would really like it if you sent him some beer - he’s not picky what kind.
The CD tray is a great delivery device.
Up and off to work again.
Blurf.
The commute sucked, as expected. I went through downtown Suffolk instead of using the bypass where the tornado hit, but it was elbow to asshole east of downtown. I didn’t see any damage when I got close to work.
No reported damage in Gates County, nor Bertie and Hertford counties where the tornado originated. Gates (Hooterville) VFD did get called into Suffolk for mutual aid last night. All they did was man the Whaleyville station while Whaleyville did exciting stuff. Knowing the Gates guys, they probably ate everything in the station fridge, then watched pornos on the station TV.
My beans were a hit at the fire station last night. I love being able to throw the pan away empty.
hack coff sneeze
back to bed with me. 
I guess “How you doin’?” is a stupid question right now…
::breaks out Level 1 Bio suit::
Howdy all. Another semi-busy day.
Rebo, don’t forget the cockies! swampy won’t be happy if there’s no cockies to accompany his beerverages! 
Okay, I better do some more work before it’s quit o’clock!
Hi, Sherm!
Gah. Gahhhh. Just putting baby down for his nap, got him asleep, look over. Demon-bug on wall. Pick up diaper (from the stack of clean ones), swing at it, damn thing runs down the side of the bed, along the blankets, and disappears down the wall. Gaahhhh. Die, evil scumsucking centipede!
(Demon-bugs are the common house centipede, and my least favourite creepy-crawly ever)
And the damn cat didn’t even move to try to hunt it.
Tankie sure knows how to make a good first impression, I love clam spaguetti.
We’ve been checking out any Glasgow restaurants which happen to be open at the hours my teammates deem appropiate for dinner, i.e., “bloody late” by local standards. I love being in a place that appreciates fish. Yesterday’s fish restaurant was great and we saw that the majority of their recipes were appropiate for coeliacs, which is cool as Boss is one.
MBG, what’s wrong with “cook until done” and “add salt to taste”? Perfectly valid measurements, say I!
Now that summer is coming:
Ensaladilla rusa (no idea why we call it “Russian salad”)
Compulsory veggies: small potatoes, carrots, green beans. Optional: peas.
Other optional things: green boneless olives, tuna (1), hard-boiled egg.
Mayo, garlic mayo, alliolli or pink sauce (mayo with a dash of tomato).
1: at home we normally use tuna preserved in vinegar, but I don’t normally find that abroad. The kind canned with just water works too. You can sharpen up the “plain” tuna by opening the can a couple days before and transferring the contents to a mason jar or similar recipient along with a generous amount of white vinegar.
Amounts:
Potatoes: about 1/3 what you’d use as a main dish. Less than 1/3 for beans, less even for carrots.
Peas, tuna, olives, egg: a sprinkling of each.
The veggies are cooked separatedly in salt and water (as they all have different times to be “just cooked enough,” you don’t want to overcook them), cut into crouton-sized pieces and mixed.
The sauce, chopped olives, tuna and cube-chopped egg can be mixed in as well, but I prefer to put them on the side so each person can use only those items he likes.
Nava’s Famous Tomato Salad
So simple it ought’a be a sin to get kudos for it.
Ingredients:
Ripe tomatoes.
Canned tuna.
White vinegar (optional).
(Olive) oil.
Salt.
Salad onion (optional).
Green or black olives (optional).
If you remember about it in advance, open the can a couple days before and transfer it to a mason jar with a generous amount of vinegar. This step is optional.
Chop the tomatoes; sprinkle with salt; add oil, tuna, olives and chopped onion. Shake. Serve.
Pa amb tomàquet (pamtumaca)
Bread with tomato. The first is the proper Catalan spelling, the second can be found in bars the world over. Well, maybe not in China.
Ingredients:
Toast.
Overripe round tomatoes.
(Olive) oil.
Salt.
Cut a tomato in half through its equator. This leaves you with two halves, each of which has these triangular holes on the flat surface. Squash this surface against the toast, moving it around to spread the goodness. Sprinkle a tiny amount of salt and pour a little bit of oil. Eat.
You can also do it on a bar of bread (doesn’t need to be toasted) and fill it with salami, ham or serrano for a great sandwich.
Am up, after having a dream in which water, attempted murder and Flaubert featured prominently. I don’t KNOW anything about Flaubert, except that he was French and therefore most likely wordy as hell and pompous with it.
And to think I’ve been off meds for over a month.
Dentist today to fix my toofum. I’m so tired of the lower half of my face hurting, especially since the problem was supposed to have been fixed. :rolleyes:
Hope everyone’s Tuesday is a good one. The sun is out here, so that’s good. #2 son has a field trip to the Shedd Aquarium today. He’s all excited.
I’m all showered, and the kid is still asleep. I may roust her because I’m hongry and I wanna get breakfast!! Lazy slug!
I just noticed that the rodent is gone. One less thing for me to fret over. Yay.
Howdy, all. Got to bed waaaay too late and up waaaay too early this morning for my tastes. Serious caffeination is in progress.
I thought of our SoVa Dopers when I heard about the tornadoes, so I’m glad everyone’s okay. Tornadoes are scary. And random.
All this talk of food and recipes! My contribution to household cooking these days is eating it. I’ll try to talk Papa Tigs out of a couple of his recipes, if I can get him to write them down; he definitely cooks by instinct. But it’s good instinct; he’s a master at marinating meat, for example. And can work wonders with a good stir-fry. But no two marinades or stir-fries ever contain the same ingredients, since he just uses ingredients as the spirit moves him. It can be frustrating, especially when he hits on a especially delicious combination but can’t reproduce it.
I’ve got another insane workday ahead of me, so I’d better get to it. Envy me my exciting life. :rolleyes:
tornado:* n.* (tor/nay/doh) Scary and random.
I have wasted my morning. Wah! Damned internet addiction. Off to do something in RL.
Glad no one’s been carried away to Oz.
So cold outside! Where is spring?
:: stumbles off for coffee ::
:dubious:
I believe he has a problem with Miller beer, seein’ how he walked out of the brewery job after three months…
This just in: remember how I said the bone doctors VWife and I see/saw were in a building behind the strip mall that is prominently in the national news? The actual office of the knee doctor took a car through the west wall, taking out a support column and the building sprinkler system. The building is condemned in the “You can’t use it until major reconstruction is performed” sense.
The medical office had some warning, and got everyone to the center file room, so there were no injuries.
My YMCA is closed today because it was commandeered for disaster relief purposes, and re-opens tomorrow.
Hola, Sherm! PNW represent!
ppr, thanks! If you were a carnivore I’d advise you that chicken makes a stellar addition to that tater salad but you aren’t so I won’t!
Rigs, if you were drowning Frenchmen in your sleep I’d say you’re just normal and don’t need meds. Fret not, the whole world wants to drown those guys!
LiLi, gah, shudder, hurl! I hates me some centipedes–I hate millipedes too but they’re slower. NOTHING should have that many legs!
VBob, glad to hear all is where it should be at your house. Tornadoes is scary stuff.
**Pie, **shouldn’t that be schnoring schnoodles? <–BAND NAME!
Rosie, none of that there Teh Sick stuff, you hear me missy? Stop that at once!
“Can I make ice in that?” heh heh, priceless!
Y’know, I really do have a bizzy day today–you’d never know it from my piddling about here… Gotta go wake the SO up ‘cuz he volunteered to help out today and there are a hundred caps needing a half inch tap (the shank’s too big to fit into a hand drill and the drill press doesn’t reverse so it’s done by hand and when I do it it makes my tits hurt so he’s in for it!) so I sure hope he’s eating his Wheaties this mawnin’!
Toodles!