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TV / Movies / Re: What's your favourite TV program of the moment?
« Last post by 6pairsofshoes on Yesterday at 12:24:20 PM »
We are watching White Lotus.  The conclusion is:
combination of Murder she wrote and Fantasy Island. 
The title sequences have award winning artwork and the show is worth watching if only for those graphics.  We are on season 3.  Right now, other than Walton Goggins and his girlfriend, the rest of them could easily just fall in a hole somewhere and not be missed.
Jennifer Coolidge does a great job of playing a self absorbed annoying rich woman who stumbles through life nearly clueless in the first 2 seasons.  Tom Hollander is wonderful and demonstrates such range as an actor, that it's a real pleasure to see him act no matter what he's in (Season 2).

There's some good talent on here but the group of 3 girlfriends in the 3rd season is so shallow and artificial as to beggar belief.  They surely could come up with some better dialogue than this.  Anyway, in for an inch, in for a pound or whatever that saying is, we'll slog through the 3rd season.

If anyone has suggestions for some thing else worth watching, I'm all ears!
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Food and Drink / Re: What are you eating / What did you eat.
« Last post by 6pairsofshoes on June 15, 2025, 03:57:44 PM »
Wow.  Talk about heightening the temptation to consume the merchandise!  That's really funny.  I have a habit of overstuffing my quesadillas and making a mess on the plate.  It doesn't bother me as I clean up after the process with a spoon.  I love burritos but rarely eat them these days, probably because there's no decent Mexican restaurants that I know of -- maybe some in Boston, but that's too far to go for a casual meal.

I just had about ⅛ piece of heated up pizza.  I was going to eat the whole thing but then I'd spoil my dinner.  I was out buying groceries most of the afternoon.  We are having turkey chili for dinner.  And then I'm going to revert to slugdom.  I think it's a hangover from Covid but the least exertion is something I am keenly aware of.  I'll be glad to get my energy back.
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Food and Drink / Re: Plant based alternative products Review
« Last post by 6pairsofshoes on June 15, 2025, 03:51:51 PM »
There's a certain amount of savagery involved in eating anything.  Kill plants.  I'm sure they mind.  I used to fish and crab when I was a child and what one must do to those animals, usually when they're still alive, to prep them for cooking is pretty brutal.  The most you can do to absolve yourself is to show gratitude for the sacrifice and not to be wasteful or greedy.

On a lighter note, the first time I caught a soft crab, I brought it home and showed it to my mother.  She explained that it had to be cleaned before we could eat it.  So I took it into the bathroom and bathed it in the sink, working up a good lather with the Ivory soap.  I don't think the crab was a fan of that procedure.  But it sure beats having someone cut your face off and tear out your gills.
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Food and Drink / Re: What are you eating / What did you eat.
« Last post by 8ullfrog on June 15, 2025, 04:34:54 AM »
My mom worked good humor in the 70's!

(She smoked a lot of pot.)

Mostly a repeat day. Mom rolled her own burrito and she did a bang up job. I found a video that made it all make sense to her.

Specificlaly, turn the burrito into a clock. 10-2, keep it blank. Everything under it, go nut naffs. When you tuck the edges and roll the burrito you'll have a neat pattern and your burrito shouldn't leak. (prices and participation may vary)

I did johnsonville sausage, and feel very stupid. I've always cut the sausage post cooking, and I hate that. I've burned myself doing it.

Today I realized, cut the bless'ed thing while it's cold, THEN heat. It's horribly obvious and I felt very stupid.
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Food and Drink / Re: Plant based alternative products Review
« Last post by 8ullfrog on June 15, 2025, 04:29:59 AM »
Ethically, Rennet should have got me. It's horrifying, and no one has come up with a humane alternative.

Meanwhile, I like cheese.

It's a bad ethical compromise. The first time I learned the reality of meat production hit me I tried to go veggie.

I failed.

I respect those that can hold. But the alternatives still suck. I talked about morning star dogs on reddit and people tried to defend them.

Like no, they still taste like poo.
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Food and Drink / Re: Plant based alternative products Review
« Last post by 6pairsofshoes on June 14, 2025, 02:17:17 PM »
Vegan cheese is usually some kind of oddly concocted solid oil thing.  I'm not a fan, either.  I once went to a friend's house (he's vegan) for lunch and he served me caprese salad with fresh tomatoes, basil and this vegan cheese.  It was palatable, but I really would have preferred real mozzarella.  Life's too short to live eating guilt laden stuff like that.  I can see if you really have an issue digesting dairy products, but otherwise, you might as well give up.
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Food and Drink / Re: What are you eating / What did you eat.
« Last post by 6pairsofshoes on June 14, 2025, 02:14:56 PM »
I used to like various ice cream treats, mostly stuff that I used to buy from the Good Humor man when the truck came through our neighborhood.  I doubt that happens much any longer.  Dreamsicles were my favorite.

I went on a cooking tear today:
blueberry muffins, turkey chili, and a pot of vegetable soup.  I'll freeze a bunch of this so I can have it when I don't feel like cooking.  It would really help if we had a larger freezer.  I bought more ground turkey so I'm conflicted as to whether to make and freeze turkey burgers or a second batch of the chili.  When we were on the island, the temp. was around 80+ degrees year round but we often had soup for dinner.  You'd have thought that such warm meals would be too much in a warm climate like that, but no.  It became quite normal.  I don't know about warm American summers, though.  Today is a lovely rainy day with cool temperatures.  My tomato garden is really happy for the water.
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Food and Drink / Re: Plant based alternative products Review
« Last post by 8ullfrog on June 13, 2025, 11:27:41 PM »
I'm sorry I do not see myself becoming a chickpea fan.

On reddit there was a discussion on "vegan cheese" and I argued there really isn't a good "alternative" to the real thing. You can get lactose free in a strong cheddar, and cabot is like the best for that, but if your line is rennet... well cabot still does that.

I have never once enjoyed a dairy free "cheese" and have actually been horrified when accidentally buying a queso that isn't actually cheese. Especially when it is in small print.
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Food and Drink / Re: What are you eating / What did you eat.
« Last post by 8ullfrog on June 13, 2025, 11:25:27 PM »
Nerds popsicles.
I can't really eat nerds anymore. They're chunks of sugar. But the popsicles have nice flavor.
I had a recent health unpleasantness and the nerds bomb pops are fantastic. golly the regular bomb pops though, they suck.

It's also sad how small they have made these things. I remember as a child realize they were making popsicles smaller, and I wondered then, who the golly gets to do that?

I still wonder who the golly gets to do that. And wish someone could make them stop.

Dinner was tacos. Nothing fancy. Ground beef, sauce packet, cheese, small tortillas, some mild guacamole. The prepackaged stuff I find the medium has seeds and I don't get that.
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Food and Drink / Re: What are you eating / What did you eat.
« Last post by 6pairsofshoes on June 12, 2025, 08:15:52 AM »
Those muffins are like crack.  They turned out really well. And there's only one left so the temptation to bake another batch is pretty strong.  I'll have to rummage around in the fridge and see if it makes sense.  We take the paper off them and put them in the oven for about 10 minutes to heat them before we eat them for breakfast.  I'm going to have to take up jogging to counteract the calories.

And I use less sugar than is called for in the streusel and they're still plenty sweet.  Stuff like this makes one understand how gluttony became one of the seven deadly sins.  https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/blueberry-muffins/
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