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Food and Drink / Re: What are you eating / What did you eat.
« Last post by 8ullfrog on April 10, 2024, 01:23:31 AM »
I do not. I live at the end of a five-and-a-half-minute hallway.
The "secondary exit" required by California are the windows and would likely be an unpleasant experience.

Tonight was chopped cheese, but it was mom's turn. It was kind of funny, she made a plate of it. She does not like taking advice or critique on cooking, for years an easy way to start a fight was simply mentioning a roux.

Specifically, a chopped cheese is nothing fancy. It's chopped up meat, chopped up cheese, shredded lettuce, mayonaise and ketchup, on a roll.

Mom somehow made something of a salad of it. Not sure how. My contribution was sandwich oil, considering the vegetation.

We both enjoyed it, which is a happy thing.

We've got a new ten-inch stainless skillet, which will make dinner much easier. The frying pan she loves has a dip, which means cooking meat in it was not much fun. The new pan is a bless'ed champ.

The only downside is now I need to buy a bigger lid. I suppose that is a problem TO HAVE. Not sure how to translate that line, imagine it in a new jersey accent. "A problem TO HAVE"

So it's a nice one.
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Food and Drink / Re: What are you eating / What did you eat.
« Last post by 6pairsofshoes on April 07, 2024, 07:16:29 PM »
I pulled a couple small servings of tomato pasta sauce from the freezer that I made last fall from my homegrown tomatoes.  It makes for an easy spaghetti dinner.  The number is dwindling, though.  I guess it's time to plant more tomatoes.

8ully, do you have a small balcony where you could plant any vegetables?
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TV / Movies / Re: Late to the party dept.
« Last post by 6pairsofshoes on April 07, 2024, 07:14:58 PM »
Thanks.  So I probably haven't seen it.  Given the state of my memory these days, it will probably seem fresh and new to me.
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TV / Movies / Re: Late to the party dept.
« Last post by 8ullfrog on April 07, 2024, 06:17:26 PM »
The 2004 series was a redo, the original was sued out of existence by George Lucas and was weirdly Mormon. It starred Lorne Greene.
Lucy Lawless would have been ten.
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Chaos / Re: what will you be doing tonight
« Last post by goldshirt*9 on April 06, 2024, 11:33:57 PM »
Hopefully sleeping
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Food and Drink / Re: What are you eating / What did you eat.
« Last post by 6pairsofshoes on April 05, 2024, 10:56:49 AM »
You're a creative guy, 8ully.  I suspect you could whip up your own taco sauce from scratch and it would be awesome.

I'm having the usual EG tea and scones.  Boring and repetitive but delicious just the same.
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TV / Movies / Re: Late to the party dept.
« Last post by 6pairsofshoes on April 05, 2024, 10:53:46 AM »
So, here's the thing.  I figured that BSG was an older series and that the 2000+ versions were some kind of revival that I'd missed.  It looks like, from the earlier link you sent, that I've already seen it?  Oh well.  Then I'm bummed not to have found yet another unseen sci fi series.  Thanks for bringing me up to date as I don't know that I would have been able to dig up the long discussion we'd had about BSG, which I enjoyed.

I'm reading a sci fi book recommended by a friend that isn't particularly good but I'm about ¾ of the way through so I'll finish it.  My husband doesn't really like science fiction so I'm kind of on my own looking for new stuff.  The current book, The Wild Shore, by Kim Stanley Robinson, is kind of slow and lame.
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TV / Movies / Re: Late to the party dept.
« Last post by 8ullfrog on April 05, 2024, 12:12:34 AM »
Yes and also no.

The miniseries that launched the series? Absolutely worth it, but Lucy Lawless isn't in it.
She comes in around the end of season 2. Annnnnnd... eh.
She's fantastic, but what she is given to work with isn't great.
I don't want to give spoilers, but she essentially breaks down over time. A true follower of the faith to someone screwed over by prophesy.

If you do any web searches at all about her character, spoilers will pop like a soap bubble.

Also...
https://www.diasfora.co.uk/index.php?topic=5571.0
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TV / Movies / Re: Late to the party dept.
« Last post by 6pairsofshoes on April 04, 2024, 09:03:02 PM »
I was looking at a series called "my life is murder" by "looking at the series," I mean my husband mentioned it so I looked it up online.  It stars Lucy Lawless, aka Xena Warrior Princess.  As I was reading Wiki entry, I see there's more Battlestar Galactica than I had known about.  Series from the early 2000s and a prequel. Lawless apparently acts in some of them.

Info here:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlestar_Galactica_(2004_TV_series)

So here's my question.  Is this worth watching?  (BG, I mean, not the murder series).  Thanks in advance.
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Food and Drink / Re: What are you eating / What did you eat.
« Last post by 8ullfrog on April 04, 2024, 03:07:30 AM »
Can't find taco sauce anywhere in town. Also, can't find lettuce or sour cream, but taco sauce was something I could do something about.
Took a half bottle of Texas pete (underwhelming poo) and dumped it in a pot with two cans of tomato sauce.
Still too spicy so I added half a cup of water. Still too spicy, but the yield was already too large.

So, I dumped it over a tray of already made red enchiladas, and it was fantastic. There's something to be said for tasting a sauce in a vacuum.

The sauce was complimented. In future, I'd just use less of the hot sauce. The bottle says it has something like 35 servings, and I feel like 10 servings would have made for a tasty, not over spiced enchilada sauce.

Source: I watched a ton of enchilada sauce videos on YouTube, and didn't want to deal with corn starch slurry. (gross)

Almost went with the base ingredients and flour but felt like that's just a slightly less objectionable corn starch slurry.

I really should just go boot first into flour and get to know it, but lazy.
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