Need a quick and easy gift for the holidays? Consumables are a great option. Here are three variations on a nutty theme.
I’ll be posting some other last minute food gift recipes later in the week.
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I’m just stopping at the liquor store Friday after work and buying Dad some wine. Probably a box of Riesling since his taste buds aren’t sophisticated enough to tell the difference between that and the more expensive German Rieslings.
My late Mom would take our really nice, aged reds and add ice cubes to them. She also was infamous for adding generic diet ginger ale to any good sipping bourbon that was left at her house by Webdominatrix.
I don’t make enough to buy “nice, aged reds”. 🙁
At least the reds I buy have mostly been enjoyable.
Then there was the one time my father bought me a “white merlot”.
Ha. We are just old. Those reds were purchased when young and cheap, but are now…um…venerable, like OMWC.
Mad Dog 20/20 gets you just as drunk as Chateau Latour.
And twice as hungover!
I’ve heard anecdotally that in many other countries, it’s normal to put ice cubes in wine if you want it cold but haven’t chilled it in the fridge. It was a comment on some cuisine blog, so take that for what it’s worth.
My Mom was just, well, Mom. 😉
Excellent. The candied cashew recipe can be readily adapted to additional nuts (pecans, almonds, etc.) and you can change the spicing to, say, a commercially-available pumpkin pie or apple pie spice mix. Works a treat!
(I’m working my way through an apple-pie-spice mix variation as I’m typing this, so I know it works…)
Absolutely. Nearly any nuts can work for all three recipes. These are just what I normally use.
Wednesday evening’s post will be spice blends, including chai.
Did you find the carrot cake recipe you were seeking?
Maybe. May. Be. Can’t do baking in earnest for another couple of days, and my wife isn’t crazy about all the testing I wanna do (goes straight to the hips, after all…). Pacing may be everything.
Mmmm. Love the spicy. You are my kind of woman SP. Pulverized candy canes worked well. The peppermint was subtle, but definitely present.
Excellent!
In a cake. I’ll have to get an imgur account to start sharing pictures.
Yes, you should! In the meantime, if you send it to me at sp@ this domain, I will add it to your comment.
I’ll give it a shot.
Translation:
If you don’t have an 1100 watt microwave, throw yourself off of a bridge.
You so get me.
Fortunately, a good Panasonic Inverter in that power range is around a hundred Canadian, so you’re good. ?
We have bad teeth around here, so nuts are out, which is a bummer, but We do Fudge, Fudge Brownies and Peanut butter delights, all home made, plus the usual pies and things.
This Year Granddaughter #1 gets to do Fudge! And I bought a shit ton of Candy for the Stockings, Wifey was actually mad, Larf
I’ve been craving fudge, but no matter how much the recipe makes, it’s a single serving.
“My doctor told me to stop hosting intimate dinners for four, unless there are three other people involved.” –Orson Welles
MILs Recipe, we make Pounds at a time, and still goes fast, it’s neat to watch the generations learn to cook, one to the next, God Bless America!
So, are you going to share that recipe?
I’ll get it right now, I just buy the ingredients, Stand By
i posted the recipe below,
Yummy!
Thank you!
These look delicious.
Thanks, DEG.
Thanks for putting the top/bottom button on the left side. Awesome, SP!
You’re welcome.
Consumables… or comestibles. The later is proper.
So is latter, just say’n
Yes, but printer ink or toner is also a great gift idea.
Does SP stand for something? Squirrel add Panic?
Suppressive Person
Spouse of Pedophile?
OK, we will go with that.
I was told earlier that “P” is something dirty. No one would tell me what.
I’m not going to hazard a guess for fear of feline anus/ban hammers.
It does, but if I tell you, I will have to kill you or nuke the site or both.
Obviously it stands for Supreme Power
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substance_P
Looks tasty. I might try these out on the de facto in-laws. I mean they already pretty much love me (cause I always help cook for the holidays), but a nice little surprise would always be welcome.
The spicy ones are great with a bubbly like cava or prosecco.
Good thing my wife always brings something sparkling.
Learn how to make champagne cocktails, mang. The ladies love ’em, and you’ll be a hero.
Mmmm! Champagne cocktails! But don’t use actual, real, good Champagne…unless trying to impress someone.
I know a couple (I’m the family cook), my favorite is the Hemmingway
1 shot of absinthe in a flute
Fill the rest of the flute with champagne
???
wake up and assume you made profit
Point of order. As a person of French extraction, I feel confident in saying that “there is no such thing as *good* Champagne.” Champagne, historically and to this day, is made from B-team white wine (boring second-string Pinot Noir etc.). A much better “Champagne” is Italian Prosecco (less expensive and generally better quality), which makes *brilliant* “Champagne cocktails.” Other sparkling wines from the New World are also exceptionally serviceable. Save money and drink better booze at the same time.
Well lookee here, we got a sparkly expert…(cracks knuckles)
Seriously though. I didn’t know that. So I should look for italian Proseeco. Noted.
Could not disagree more. Yeah, there’s a lot of industrial swill cranked out in Champagne, but that’s true of any major wine region or type (especially Prosecco). A few years ago, SP and I had the good fortune to visit some small growers there who were producing AMAZING wine that happened to be Champagne.
Best New World sparkler for cocktails: Gruet.
Best non-Champagne sparklers for drinking straight: Sekt and Cremant de Loire.
Also, sort of OT? Has anyone here made spiced wine before? I had it when I was in Prague awhile ago and really want to share the love, I have a general recipe, but am looking more for any prep notes or variations I might have missed.
There are as many ways to mull wine as there are spices in Araby, the key is to not scorch the wine. I usually use a red base and fortify with Armagnac and Grand Marnier.
Sweet. Thanks for the tip, Gladus(?)
For reference as well, Armagnac works better (in my opinion) than Cognac if you’re using any pepper in the spice blend. I prefer white pepper and mace, hence the peppery flavor the Armagnac picks up from the Oak is a good add. I’ve always wanted to try long pepper but I have no idea where to find it. Honey is the traditional sweetener but brown sugar works just as well, add enough and you can cover some degree of temperature excursion.
Oh and I do like the idea of spiciness. Will definitely try it.
Also, you’re welcome. You can tip me with a package of those new Freedom Selects.
it’s on its way, via courier flap, as we speak.
I call him MHL for Miller High Life. Works unless and until he changes his avatar.
Yummy!
And now: some stuff about rape. Because who doesn’t think, “yummy candy, i want to read about rape now”? Not me. I definitely don’t not do that.
No, really, its Spiked, discussing the “Allen” UK case which has been mentioned here twice before, and about which i ‘sperged out over the absurd contradictions of UK rape-claim data.
(300% rise in 10 years, while violent crime fell by 20%, and rape-conviction rates fell into the *single digits* – because somehow the vast majority of these reports turn out to be ‘unprosecutable’)
some interesting background on what’s been going on in the UK, which i think might be a case-study to help provide some insight into our own bit of ‘sexual-assault’ frenzied news.
* i am not suggesting anyone take actual rape/assault less seriously, or that the scumbag/freaks being accused of misconduct in the current media environment aren’t scumbags/freaks. just noting that there are parallel trends occurring across the pond, and the way its affected the UK legal system is interesting to look at. Mentioned in that brief article is a curious thing called “Operation Yewtree” which seems to have been like the UK’s version of the Cosby case, only pedo stuff, (because ‘brits’, duh), and which snowballed into accusations against a whole slew of media people, some false.
I would include a link/reference to Brass Eye’s “Paedogeddon” episode here, if 3 links were allowed. If you’ve never seen it, its possibly one of the funniest and craziest things ever televised. check youtube.
I think you of all people can bend That Rule,
“British Isles… or Paedoph-Isles?: a special report from Brass Eye”
Larf
A special Christmas treat for HM.
Where Pokémon, ZARDOZ, and Marxism converge.
Fuck that guy. Seriously. I mean has EC always been this bad? I remember enjoying skimming them in college.
Arceus, what an asshole!
EC is definitely a commie troll posing as a comic philosopher; he is funny on rare occasion.
If I ever get to Chicago again, I would like to make reservations at Chez SP for every meal.
We’ve had quite a few of the Glibs over, and so far no reported deaths. From the food, that is.
So much for next Summers visit…..
/I’m heading that way 🙂
Lemme guess, Warty lives in your attic and STEVE SMITH in your basement? Are we just here to be lured by the impeccable recipes you post into out deaths to satiate the monsters that surround you?!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVoncsV9Psg
Bacon-magic mentioned a while back that he was there. His description of the night was, as near as I can remember; “the dog tasted good and the food felt warm in my lap.” I’ve been dying to visit ever since!
It was a great night.
OMWC does about 99% of the cooking.
And, you already have that highly coveted card. You don’t need to try so hard.
No. I am being serious. Those recipes sound absolutely delicious!
Nice! I went to copy paste the recipes and then I noticed the little “print” button you embedded. Life is good.
BTW; this seems like a good start for the “snacks” section of our Glibertarians Cookbook, no?
Partly why I added the recipe formatting. Easier to eventually pull them into a publishable form later. (But I thought the print button would be handy now.)
BTW @OMWC and SP, one of y’all mentioned liking a restaurant in Lex, does that mean you pass through often?
A couple times a year. Middle Fork Kitchen Bar. Outstanding!
Yeah that’s good stuff. Well, next time yall head this way drop a line. We could do another glibs meetup. The last KY one was small but enjoyable (TWSS).
OFFICE MANAGER MOHAMMED HAS ALLOWED YUSEF’S SON TO ADD HIS BIT OF INFIDEL CHEER!
Zander’s Apple Pie
1 part Everclear
4 parts Organic Apple Juice (whatever that is)
one half of a Mexican Cinnamon stick per portion.
Drink it fresh, warmed if you want, or leave it in the Fridge til Christmas Eve, I was impressed
NOW GO AND CELEBRATE YOUR INFIDEL HOLY DAYS! ALLALOLOOOLOLO!
Hokay. Can I get a link to the origin of Office Manager Mohammad? I enjoy the meme on principal but would like a little more context.
TRSHMNSTR CREATED OFFICE MANAGER MOHAMMED AS A NEW MEME!
ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED? YOU MAY JOIN IN CRUSHING THE INFIDEL! SOME USE ALL CAPS,SOME DO NOT!
BOW TO ALLAH!
Thanks Yusef. I will now commence with the JIHAD!
Thank the Editors for allowing us to put this crap up!
It’s really fun!
INFIDEL!!!!!
OFFICE MANAGER MOHAMMED DOES NOT APPROVE OF YOUR APOSTASY. ONLY ALLAH ALLOWS IT! ALSO, PLEASE REMEMBER TO MARK YOUR LUNCH WITH YOUR NAME AND DATE SO THAT WE CAN KEEP THE COMMUNAL FRIDGE PURE. AND CUT YOUR HEAD OFF IF YOU BRING SWINE AND CHEESE SANDWICH.
Well DEUS my VULT.
(slowly raises ham and swiss sandwich to mouth)
THAT’S HOW INFIDELS DO IT! ALLAHLOLOLOOOlOol!
Put it in a mason jar if you have one,
Sealed up in the fridge it just gets smoother over time
I’m opposed to the Masons. Too damn non-transparent. Who knows what they are up to? Call STEVE SMITH to disrupt their next secret meeting.
By disrupt, mean rape.
Also that sounds…tasty? I dunno but definitely a fuck you up sorta drink. My liver approves.
It’s way better than it sounds, the longer it sit’s the more flavor comes out, it’s a good mixed drink level thing.
I’m generally more of a bourbon/Scotch guy. But I will definitely give it a shot.
2 Fingers at first, it’s closer to Bourbon than Beer
Sounds like Boilo.
http://allrecipes.com/recipe/218664/coal-region-boilo/
i like Pie
How did the Up/Down arrows get to the Center of the page? it’s right in the middle of the text.
Lube.
(SP is experimenting)
How about the Mayonaisses? You could put in one of their jars?
Totally wrong place for this reply, oops
Still works.
Very well, actually.
Our digital masters are both cruel and capricious. Or the coding orphans fucked up again.
I was just getting used to the old location. I’m trying to give things a shot rather than dismissing and hating change on sight.
And now it’s gone like a cheesecake at Chuck Schumer’s Xmas party.
On the left now, where it will stay. It only covers comment number and a little of the first comment in the thread avatar on my phone now.
Thanks for your feedback, Gustave. I really do want the site to be a good user experience.
Dammit. How can I be a crotchety old man when it’s an improvement?
Oh, you can find a way.
I like the Left hand side, it’s out of the way
/Pass the Dutchie pon the LEFT hand Side
My Mom’s Fudge, also Called Fantasy Fudge
3 cups white sugar
3/4 cup margarine
2/3 cup evaporated milk
1 (12 ounce) package semisweet chocolate chips
1 (7 ounce) jar marshmallow creme
1 cup chopped walnuts
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Grease a 9×13-inch pan.
Mix sugar, margarine, and evaporated milk in a large, saucepan over medium heat, stirring to dissolve all the sugar. Bring mixture to a full boil for 5 minutes, stirring constantly.
Remove from heat and stir in chocolate chips until melted and thoroughly combined. Beat in marshmallow creme, walnuts, and vanilla extract You can cheat use a mixer if you wish.
Transfer fudge to the prepared pan and let cool before cutting into squares.
Well, it’d probably kill SF, but I’ll give it a whirl.
Thank you! This is pretty similar to the one I used to use before I married a vegetarian. I’ll have to see if marshmallow cream is now veg safe. (It used to have gelatin.)
from the texture, I think a no gelatin base would still work
Speaking of new memes….
I really like your mom’s fudge
Me too
/sick Fuck 😉
And since you’re an HVAC guy, you can Heat up and VACuum up any nasty mess!
OK . I get it………….
/tool 🙂
Now I’m just larfng my ass off!!!
I was at the gym this evening. The neighborhood lib had turned a TV to MSNBC in the cardio room.
Rachel Maddow was in full Baghdad Bob mode. She was seriously arguing that the FBI / DOJ anti-Trump texts weren’t a sign of bias. Rather, they were an indication of how outraged they all were over the obvious Trump – Russia election collusion.
Kim Jong-un should have such dedicated propaganda spinners.
By gym, you mean bar?
And by evening, he means mid-morning?
My mom makes these peppered pecans this time of year with Worcestershire Sauce and they are sooper amazing. Don’t have a recipe so this was kind of a pointless post.
*pours another beer before conference call with India in 30 minutes*
Also, I can’t donate blood or sperm for 6 months because of Zika in India. What the hell am I gonna do with my free time now?!?
Eww, why would you?
/except for the wiling of course
I want to like donating blood, I’ve done it a few times, but the feel of the needle in my arm and the almost overwhelming need to squirm while it’s in… eugh. Huge hangup for me.
I can’t imagine donating sperm. How big is that needle?
Short, but not too big around.
India? How’s her tits?
She has about a billion of em.
You’d better get to enumerating, then.
History is Bigoted and Must Be Purged, Part 158
First Lady Michelle Obama’s focus on health and exercise programs helped reverse childhood obesity trends in the U.S.
[citation needed]
I don’t get it. What was it called before?
The Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson Dinner; the press release was unclear about it.
The Jim Crow, KKK, lynch a negro dinner.
Zenome said it was the “Jefferson & Jackson Dinner” not the “Woodrow Wilson Dinner”.
LACIST!
Lord, I hate those fucks.
Let us name the dinner after the guy who, as President, knowingly allowed terrorists to smuggle cocaine into the country.
My comments are being eaten by an unknown force, Help!
The unknown force is less traumatic than the known force. Pause, take eight deep breaths, then carry on. You will be fine.
http://imgur.com/QBH7Iob
I know you are a fan of house decorating for holidays. Here’s my humble attempt.
I like Clean and sleak,
Nice!
I put those deer up this evening. When I lit them up I called to have my boy come and look at them.
The first thing he did was count the points on the buck.
He told me, “that’s a nine point, dad. When does hunting season come open again? “
Give him a BB gun, and prepare to replace light, hehehee
/i know he has real guns
I gave my boy his first bb gun on his 4th birthday. That’s how I have taught him marksmanship. he used that marksmanship to kill two deer this year.
I haven’t even put up one string of lights this year. Maybe I will tomorrow. While not a very Christmasy person in general, the lights do tend to cheer me up a bit.
I’m not happy with this years lights, but I have a post ready to go, should I bother?
Do it, I’m an apostate but I still enjoy the holidays.
very well, I like you, you do bad ass stuff,
God Bless
I went to Academy today to buy a gift for a dirty Santa that my family does every year. For the dirty Santa I bought a dartboard that you shoot spring powered velcro balls at.
While I was there, I found a 40 inch electric smoker by master built that was on sale for 200 bucks. I bought that for my dad. I think he will like it.
I have one. Advice to follow.
To add some missing context to my original post:
Here are two delicious looking baking projects made by Tulip!
Peppermint Cake
and
French Macaroons
Thanks for sharing!
Oh my. The peppermint cake looks and sounds very good.
I’ve never had a Macaroon. But they look very interesting. By interesting, I mean
rapegood.Macaroons Rule
Peppermint cake? recipe Please!
SP, I had a cricut question the other day. You failed to answer. I wanted to know which model of cricut to buy my wife for christmas. Since i got no feedback from you, I bought the most expensive model I could find.
It’s probably gonna work out just fine.
Sorry, I often don’t have much time to be on the site.
What you wanted was the Cricut Explore Air 2 or the Cricut Maker.
She will LOVE it, whichever one you acquired. It’s a game-changer for quilters, paper crafters, and artists of all kinds.
I bought the cricit maker. It came with some media. I think she will like it.
She will absolutely love it. It’s the top of the line model now. Husbands who buy their wives creative tools are the best kind!
What kind of art does she create?
she has done calligraphy, patching my jeans, house decorating, patching my son’s jeans, small amounts of quilting, and patching some more jeans.
And, maybe, some patching of jeans. 🙂
/clairvoyant
SP, if you find the time, shoot me a few ideas of what to do with the machine. I assume you have my email, you being the site administrator and all…
They have tons of ideas and patterns/projects on their website, but I’ll shoot you some ideas in the next few days, too.
I do much designing on my computer, and having a Cricut (which OMWC purchased for me as a gift), has made a huge difference. I used to have a Sizzix die cutting machine, but only a hand cranked one, and I had to design and then purchase custom made dies to do my work. The Cricut allows me to design and send it wirelessly to be drawn or cut or embossed on so many kinds of materials. It’s really fabulous.
OFFICE MANAGER MOHAMMED: my Friend YUSEF has gone home for the INFIDEL! HOLY DAYS and I have no one to berate. This is a sad time for OFFICE MANAGER MOHAMMED, alone in a land of False Kafir, some times I feel I should give into the Beauty, the lovely women and Freedom, But NO! OFFICE MANAGER MOHAMMED runs Business for ALLAH! AND JIHAD! ALOOLOOLOOO!
ZardoZ, OFFICE MANAGER HAS QUESTION? If I am stuck with the KAFIR, should i not Embrace the Culture and the Women? they are plentiful and Ripe, as is my swollen member,
should I give in, or follow ALLAH! NEVERMIND! I DECLARE JIHAD ON ZardoZ! AND HIS INFIDEL HEAD! ALLAHLOOLOLOOOlool!
I wouldn’t declare jihad on ZARDOZ…
Arthur Frayn? I LAUGH AT YOUR LETTERING! ALLAH IS ALL!
ZardoZ IS A HEAD! THATS SPITS GUNS! ALLAH IS MIGHTY!
“The reason dying is so easy is because death has no meaning… And the reason death has no meaning is because life has no meaning. All the same, have fun!”
– Janne Teller
Oh, goody, I was fighting a major depression I feel coming on. Now I’ll just embrace it.
Dude, smoke bowl or something
Janne Teller
Is that the symmetry-breaking in transition metal complexes to remove degeneracy?
OT: Higher Ed implosion.
https://www.city-journal.org/html/age-outrage-15608.html
i can’t seem to be concerned about the whole College harassment thing. maybe I’m just old but once you graduate, don’t you have better things to do?
why dwell on essentially, your Childhood? Grow the Fuck up. please
There must be a Harrasment Network that broadcasts 24/7 at this point.
TULIP? Where’s my Peppermint Cake Recipe!!!!
/please
Thanks for the recipes. We are running low on cashews, I gotta hit up Costco. My kids would eat up a barrel of those.
You’re welcome.
If you guys and gals like baking, I’d suggest you give clafouti a try (technically, it’s a clafouti if it has cherries, and it’s flaugnarde with any other kind of fruit).
I’ve done this recipe with blackberries, blueberries, and strawberries, and the results have always been great.
Yes! It’s my go-to summer cherry dessert. Mmmmm cherries!
Cherries are awesome. Thank you, Chile.
WOW! I’m baking in 2018 for sure!
I’m sick of “conservatives”
KURT SCHLICHTER: Some Real Talk For Conservatives About 2018.
“We conservatives need to get our heads right about the mid-terms or liberals will end up guzzling patriot tears and their gloating will be flat-out intolerable. We’re not doomed in 2018 – I mean, it’s not like tax reform or pulling out of the Paris Climate Scam,
whatever…..
I got calls in the AM, Good night Glibs!
Night Kia
Am, Am I the last one here?
WooHoo!!!
(pulls of tear away pants, starts chugging bottles of liquor and dancing to kpop.)
Maybe We should do a last GIF?
adios!
You slackers it’s still early in America’s tropical outpost.
(Of course I don’t even see Morning links until after 1100hrs EST.)
I’m barely here,where are you?
Nope. I’m still here. About to have an eggnog and stop working for the night. Self-employed night person.
You and my Wife , Agghh! I gotta sleep!
I’m recently night shift. It’s odd (but not unpleasant), then again I’m working in a warehouse.
For a decade I had a C-suite gig where I had to be at my desk and functioning at a high level by about 0630, six days a week, after a 45 minute commute. It was pure torture the entire 10 years. I never got comfortable with it.
More and more, I’m coming to believe that one should adapt one’s life to one’s natural sleep patterns instead of trying to force one’s sleep habits into the requirements of the rest of the world. My health and mental outlook improved greatly when I returned to what was for me a more natural rhythm.
I have always been a night owl, so that helps some. Of course in dream land I’d been spending the night writing not fucking about at a warehouse.
In dream land, I’d win the lottery and do my creative work from a villa in Italy! I may or may not allow OMWC to come along and cook for me.
Heh. Nice. I’m sure OMWC appreciates that you thought of him, even in passing.
I’m being very generous, really. He doesn’t even speak Italian. But he makes a damn fine pizza.
Surely he could find a group of his (((people))) running some legacy bank with which to cavort.
I’m with you on that. I’ve always been a second shift kind of guy. I passionately detest getting out of bed before 9 AM, and my energetic, productive hours seem to be between 6 PM and midnight. It actually works out well for me because I’m doing office work for a company that requires 24/7 staffing (long-term care mail order pharmacy) and second shift is the one that nobody really wants.
I used to teach evenings. It was really just about perfect. I’d get home around midnight, have a few hours to myself before the household awoke. Get them all on their way, then sleep, get up and do my prep work before everyone came home, we’d have dinner, and off I’d go to work.
My productive times are between like 9pm and 3am. It’s nice to work while the world is otherwise calm and silent. I always remember being up late in college, working on a paper, taking my smoke break in the late night solitude. It was bliss for my introverted soul.
Yes, I did also enjoy my brief excursion on third shift at the factory where I used to work.
My favorite part was getting off work on Friday morning at 7 AM, pouring some Scotch, firing up the BBQ, and watching all the neighbors go to work while I grill a steak.
the cut of your jib, I like it.
(although I go to bed as soon as I get home)
Definitely not
Well, lookee here, we got ourselves a lurker.
Welcome to the light.
Whatcha talkin’ about? I’ve been here since the “Great Migration”!
Although, since I post overnights, you could be forgiven for thinking I don’t post. 😉
Fair enough. As mentioned above I myself just started working nights. I’m getting used to the glibz night shift. So far, y’all are cool.
Some of us just get kept awake by overactive brains.
Or kidneys.
In my case tonite, I fell asleep too early watching the game and am now pinged awake. On the East coast no less so I gotta get up in 4 hours.
Must…count…sheep
Ugh.
Yes, if I get woken up, I’m OK unless something happens to start my brain. Then I’m up for the duration.
Do you meditate? It sometimes helps me.
Great minds….
Yeesh… Well, sweet dreams and all
My wife also has that. If she woken in the wee hours it takes a lot to go back to sleep. Me? I can sleep until something wakes me (and it takes a lot to wake me.)
Yeah, I tend to be up when awakened. I can’t turn it on and off like others (like my wife).
OMWC can go to sleep whenever he wants to, but he sometimes has trouble staying asleep. And then if his brain starts, well, that’s all she wrote.
It’s not uncommon for him to be coming down for the day at 0300 when I’m ready to go up to bed. We pass on the stairs.
He doesn’t even tuck you in or give you a glass of water? what sort of monster is that, to deny those things to a child?
I don’t meditate in any formal way. Sometimes I try to set some of the spinning wheels in my brain onto mundane tasks like thinking of a song and replaying it in my head, or reciting something I’ve read. Sometimes I bring to mind a movie I saw but didn’t quite “get” so I ponder it until I get bored enough to sleep. Best for me is to read kindle with no internet connection temptation til I fall asleep.
I run story scenarios in my head, plot lines, especially for BS projects I know I’ll never complete. It’s just a way to wear my mind out.
I tried to talk about brain overload to Mr Splosoves one time. I described it as how “ya know” how you have multiple spinning wheels in your mind, oriented back to front, not left to right or right to left, and you have that one wheel in the center that you are trying to think about, but sometimes the other wheels get brighter and noisier, so you have to shift to them? And how the shiny undulating paths out in front are parallel but shifting and sometimes it’s just brighter than others? He looked at me like I was insane.
I have never brought it up again to him or anyone else. I really thought there was a decent chance other people’s brains looked liked that to themselves. Now I realize how weird it is to have a mental image of one’s own brain/thoughts.
See, this is why I am awake.
I bet lots of us here would get that. I sure do.
Oh splosives, you are in the company of the largest collection of miscreants, lunatics, ASBOs, aspy and individualist this side of chan. You’re in good company and I think you metaphor makes good sense.
Thanks, SP. I feel more sane now. Because you lot who get me are all so perfectly fine.
In seriousness though, I like the multiple wheels in general. Sometimes one that is working on a low level task (I can’t control them but I can influence them) will suddenly brighten up with the answer to a calculus problem from 3 days ago that I didn’t even realize I was still working on. Weird.
Thanks, Rick. Maybe I am a little Aspy. But I am an extrovert and very empathetic so I’ve never considered myself on the scale.
But I do have trouble interpreting people sometimes, which is why I’ve had the work drama over the last week.
I think I will go look at cat pictures now…
Well, *I* am perfectly fine. Everyone else here…I have my doubts. 😉
I often think the incubation stage of thinking/creating is the most overlooked. I have trained myself to let it happen, even if my conscious brain wants to jump on the first solution. Sometimes it leads to more complete or fully developed answers. Sometimes it just leads to procrastination.
Have fun splosives! Best of luck with the squee search
Help me, Glibs!!
I just baked a round loaf of dark rye inside of my Dutch oven, and it’s stuck. I only have about an inch of space between the loaf and the side of the Dutch oven, so I can’t slip a knife or spatula under there like I usually do. I’ve tried prying at the edges, but it seems to be mashing the sides of the bread in rather than making any headway towards prying it loose.
The Dutch oven is sitting upside-down right now and I’m hoping it will fall out on its own, but do you have any tricks for this? It looks and smells beautiful – something that is rare for my rye bread experiments – so I really don’t want to ruin this loaf.
Have you tried attaching a spray straw to some spray butter? Organic cook WD 40.
I might try that next time.
I sprinkled some cornmeal down, but I guess I should have used more. I was stingy with it this time because the last loaf had a crust of cornmeal on the bottom that I didn’t care for.
I should have just laid down a square of parchment paper.
I generally use cooking spray, then parchment, then cooking spray if I’m baking in a dutch oven.
Sadly, I think your best bet is to cut it in half. You can take about a one-inch wide section out of the middle and then you can get under the other sides to pry it out.
(Photos of baking are always nice. Hint, hint.)
https://imgur.com/a/u5kfA
Sadly, the bottom crust did break off, but not too much. I just placed the crust section back on and put the loaf on a rack, so hopefully that will limit the moisture loss. The frustrating thing is that it was only stuck around the edges. That’s probably because I sprayed water on it prior to baking, and it must have pooled around the sides and resulted in a flour-water slurry that cemented the crust to the pan as it baked. I’m definitely doing parchment paper next time.
Still, it’s looks and smells great. I think it will be fine (although not perfect). This is my second Dutch oven loaf, and I love how the crust comes out.
That looks tasty af, as the kids say. I’m a fan of dark rye, both drink and bread but never tried Dutch oven bread.
And obligatory:
You know who else had trouble with Dutch ovens?
It looks FABULOUS! That’s a gorgeous loaf right there.
I’m a big fan of Big Island Candies for gifts – special delivery, UPS with cooling pads, etc – and insanely tasty. (Helps that I got to tour the factory in Hilo in 2014).
Well I think it was sweet that those Colorado dems were kind and fair enough to cup both sets of balls.