Yeah, I mean who shops at KMart? 
Well, there is that…
I’ll give them slack since it’s for layaway - that takes a while to pay off. However, they essentially fired the start pistol for all other Christmas ads by doing that.
Oh goody! Does that mean “The War on Christmas” will be starting soon?
Hey, I conduct “War on Christmas” ALL YEAR ROUND. I’m not a slacker, like SOME people!
I wanted to snip this to make it shorter, but every point you made was kinda right. It was boiled chicken, and I did know to save the water. I also added bullion. I’m guessing that the bolded part is what made my plan go wrong. It was a big pot of mush when I proudly opened the lid.
In other news, I just got the news that my bestest online friend died on Sunday. I has many :(
right now.
I’m really going to miss him, he was one of the good guys. Please drink some brandy and watch this in his memory.
Perhaps we could get the Russians to negotiate a peaceful diplomatic solution.
I’m sorry honey. No brandy for me, but I’ll raise a virtual toast to his memory.
Family recipe for stock, note that we don’t use a slow cooker, just a slow fire:
hen (a chicken carcass),
two whole carrots,
one or two (depending on size) leeks or similar vegetable,
bones (a chunk of veal ribs, head or chunk of veal thighbone - the marrow is edible, chunks of pork bone),
salt or buillon. For newbie cooks, better don’t add it at first, but wait until things have simmered for a while and then try it; it’s better to add a bit several times than to oops too much.
Set it to boil first thing in the morning; once it boils, set the fire to low and let it simmer for a couple of hours.
Recipe for “high day soup,” without pre-made stock (why “high day”? Because the everyday cooking version involves having made the broth before):
cut up the vegetables,
put a bit of oil on the pot and set it on high,
add the vegetables (the hardest ones first, so carrots then leeks then onion) to golden them,
add water (less than you think you need, adding more water is easier than taking off too much of it), ---- if there will be potatoes, add them here, but don’t cut the chunks all the way through, rip them (start cutting, then pull): they cook better
add the “bad meats”.
If there are potatoes, let it cook until the potatoes are done; otherwise, as before. Take the meats out. Separate any edible bits and add them back to the cooling pot (not the marrow, which will get pretty gross if you do this: set it aside).
If you are using noodles instead of potatoes, either cook them aside and add them into the pot right before the stew gets heated before serving OR add them in to the pot after taking out the meats, set it back to boil, lower the fire again once it starts boiling and let it cook while you clean the meats.
Texaco and Chevron (which I think are the same company), you can kiss my lily white Canadian ass for your policy of requiring a zip code for credit card users to pay at the pump. You know who doesn’t have zip codes? Everyone outside of the United States. Jerks.
Yes, I know, they have the right to set any conditions they want in their own country. I have the right to bitch about the inconvenience it causes me. 
I would just like to point out that it is NOT a “Random Act of Kindness” if someone does something nice for you on purpose because things are difficult for you right now. It is a deliberate act of kindness.
That’s all.
They’re not the only ones requiring postal code for cc payment; according to a British banker it isn’t the vendor, it’s their bank. For those who use that system, you have to input a code regardless of which country you’re listing as your location. And if the code is a 5-digit code, they treat it as a US code… :smack: Gee, what do you mean, my address does not match that 31430 ZIP code? Of course not, because it’s a código postal, you morons! List UK as your location, input a code with digits and letters and the system just freaks out :smack:
Oh, Boy- Geographic tongue! It stings.
Do the fun times ever stop?
At the store I work at, Early Christmas hits the shelves today.
What’s Early Christmas? Throws, candles, lanterns, oversized stuffed animals, scented pinecones, As Seen on TV hats and slippers and light up stuffed animals . . .
Happy 9/11, everybody!
I just texted that to my sister.
Apparently, I’m sick in the head.
I got bloody tempted to tell work to take their job and shove it, today.
We have been driving towards a project for months. We kept hitting delays, and I put in a whole bunch of hours to get my phase 1 role completed - which I did. But the testing of phase 2 has been slow and the phase 2 implementation (scheduled for this weekend) has been delayed.
Now, my contract expires at the end of the month, my house sells and I leave the UK for NZ as soon as possible. So my time is precious and I have plans for the time I have available. So I was pretty upset about being asked to switch to the next available weekend (when I have plans including seeing my daughter and visiting family for the last time), and I said I was not available.
Then the business tower 2IC (sitting on the call with 10-12 other people) says:
:eek:
This was technically true (they had a panic to re-engage me after my contract ended in March), but I have worked my butt off over the last six months, delivered critical solutions into live, and generally prevented most work in our tower from stopping dead. They have no plan for when I go, not enough resource or skills, and no-one to go do this work in live for implementation (which isn’t technically my job anyhow).
I bit my tongue, olive branched the situation by allowing that I was not critical for the second day (I would be only required if we had to roll back the first day) which was the important family visit, and moved on. But I almost called him on it. And then a colleague from the call rang on another matter, and could not believe what had just happened. I wasn’t surprised, I had heard the 2IC behave in a similar manner on other calls. But I have just been seriously demotivated, and will concentrating on my move, job search and house sale as opposed to completing the projects I wanted to get done for my employers.
Agreed. America’s Test Kitchen had a very good episode on making things like stew and/or soup in a slow cooker, and they made all these points, and I think one or two more. Here’sthe URL for that video online, although they want you to give them your email before you can watch it.
Good luck,
Roddy
I’m so sorry. As a matter of fact I do have some brandy in the cupboard. raises glass
My English professor is having us critique another student’s paper each week. And Jesus Harold Christ I’m not entirely sure the paper I just had to critique was written in English. Well, the parts that were blatantly copied and pasted from Wikipedia were anyways. :rolleyes:
OOh, I would have had so much fun with that! I was just chatting with a friend yesterday about the resumes she sees on the daily, as an HR manager. Oh, the stories she tells. The one she put on FB most recently was “thank you for your patients.”