# 'No' Means November Rants **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 31, 2013, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-means-november-rants/672729 "2013-10-31T07:36:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 712
**Author:** ![flatlined](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb9ed0/32.png) [@flatlined](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flatlined)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2013, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-means-november-rants/672729/712 "2013-11-30T03:56:03Z")
Huggs and chocolate to \*\*PHS. \*\* **Cat Whisperer** is right, you aren’t wallowing, you are grieving. Everyone grieves in their own way and on their own schedule. More chocolate to **Morgyn** and **Lynn**. I love that site. With those instructions, I am considering trying my hand at [Tiramisu](http://www.cookingforengineers.com/recipe/60/The-Classic-Tiramisu-original-recipe). According to the comments I can use pasturized egg yokes from the grocery store. I didn’t learn to cook when I was growing up, so when I was poor, I didn’t try to cook because if I screwed it up, I didn’t have dinner. Besides, cooking is kinda expensive and I didn’t know how to do it, so I mostly lived on salads and microwave food. When I had a kitchen and stuff in the drawers, I didn’t try to cook because I didn’t know how and I was used to microwave food and I lived in BFE, so if I forgot something for a meal, it would be a half hour drive to get it. Agrees with everyone that the above sure does read like a bunch of excuses. So, anyhow, I’m learning to cook. So far, learning Latin has been easier. I don’t get burned if I screw up conjunctions, and all it takes to clean up after studying Latin is to put the books/discs away. My method of mixing powder with liquids has always been to put some of the liquid in a jar, drop the powder in, put the lid on and give it a good shake, then pour that into the large container of liquid and stir it around. This seems to stop the powder from getting lumpy. Yesterday, I learned that there was a good reason that I was taught to do this with a glass jar that had a screw top. Yesterday, I also learned to get all of my cooking tools out before hand. I couldn’t find an empty jar in the kitchen and was in a hurry…so put some of the boiling giblet stock and some baking powder in a plastic storage container, put the snap top on and gave it a shake. I really cannot tell you what a bad idea that was. Trust me, don’t do this. Really. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-means-november-rants/672729)._