This blog has been pretty Trump-heavy of late, so here’s a bit of a respite. Talk about anything other than Trump. No trolls or Trump fans allowed, obviously; post personal stuff in the latest open thread for personal stuff.
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@Nequam
Sounds delicious, though my minority prevents me from obtaining the rice wine.
@PeeVee:
Actually a serialized novel (Heftroman).
Every time I see a recipe I look at how to veganise it.
Veg stock and udon noodles. But not sure what to use in place of the egg.
@Troubelle: oh, I forgot! Though I had bought a cooking rice wine, which are usually in grocery stores away from the wine section proper (cooking wines are usually salted so that only the most desperate soaks would try to drink them– that’s why the recipe has no added salt. If you have to watch your sodium, you’ll want low-sodium broth or salt). My underage days are long past, though, so now I don’t remember if the underage can get cooking wine. :/
ETA: A Google search suggests that yes, cooking wines are all-age (just like alcohol-based extracts). I’ve never seen Chinese rice wine other than the salted cooking stuff, so you should be good.
I’ve been listening to this song on repeat because it’s so damn good.
It can be interpreted as dancing or murder according to Jackie.
@Nicola: I think you’d be better off doing a Google search on vegan hot and sour soups– I’m sure there must be some out there! And the egg, at least in the chicken soup, is optional. It just adds some nice thready texture. You could probably put in some tofu cubes for chewiness.
Non fiction. Since she’s already read some books on her and knows all the basics, nothing too 101.
@Nequam
Huh. Would never have guessed.
Also, Nicola made me think: I don’t have egg noodles, but I do have at least some instant udon lying around. And God, I love udon…
I’m sure udon would work great (I’m more a soba fan, me). I usually just get the western-type spiral egg noodles for the soup– it’s a East/West fusion, why not?
David, what the hell is going on with your Twitter avatar?
http://i.imgur.com/DOz91y6.jpg
Those eyes startled the absolute shit out of me. =P
@Nequam
Finals are next week for me, and that plus sickness leads to me not planning to take the bus anywhere for a while. So I’ll stick with the crap-ton of udon I got (and some that my grandma got me).
I can confirm that I’ve purchased cooking wine in the self-checkout lane with no prompt to show ID. But there’s also alcohol-free mirin (Japanese sweet rice wine) that might be a good substitute in a pinch.
Mirin’s flavor profile is a bit different, but it would probably be good. You might find that a pinch of salt could be added back in if the broth seems too sweet.
Finding images cool link: tineye.com
Tin Eye does a reverse image lookup. I used to use it to find stolen art. It’s helpful for working out where some folks ‘come from’ (i.e.: on other forums we’ve found bad actors on 4chan using the same icon/name so we know to just treat ’em like the troll they are).
Fake mirin is mostly sugar water with traces of alcohol and rice lees added. Real mirin requires you to be 21 (or whatever the local drinking age is) to purchase because it’s an actual form of rice wine, with just high enough alcohol content to qualify as an alcoholic beverage. They don’t normally add things to make it “undrinkable” like most other cooking wines.
I would love to hear ((((Zero))))’s Pizza Hut story.
Also, Brony SJ Cenobite, are you still out there? I’ve always enjoyed your comments. And your troll dissections. Seems a while since I’ve seen one.
I’m contemplating improvising a corn-dog fritter/muffin recipe.
Anyone need a new webcomic to read? I’ve latched on to this one of late, Shattered Starlight. Farah Shaughnessy is the magical girl Arcturus, Guardian of Heaven. Or she was a decade ago, when she led Montreal magical girl team the Star Guardians. She still has her powers, and using them on her nasty boss just got her fired from her graphic design job. So her overseer, the Empress Celestial, decides a job at a café is a good way to keep her out of trouble.
Like that kind of thing ever works.
http://www.shatteredstarlight.com/
’tis the first time I ever hear of cooking wine with stuff added to make it undrinkable. Damn, America’s weird.
Not sure we even got cooking wine here at all. More like we just grab a bottle of whatever cheap stuff we find and just go about our business with it.
Admittedly, I stopped even looking at wine when I was about 18, after too many of my teenage years were wasted getting drunk on plonk and waking up wondering what the hell kinda animal came in during the night to die inside my mouth. So that stuff may actually exist and be sold here, and I may just be gleefully ignorant of it.
On a somewhat related note, my favorite sport is to find the cheapest and nastiest boxed red available and cook it into the most wonderful mulled wine you’ve ever tasted. Not bragging, it’s just the recipe I got that’s awesome. The owner of my favorite bar (place closed down a few years ago and I almost quit drinking, that’s the kind of favorite I’m talking about) gave me his recipe and it’s the best thing ever. As a bonus, it’s possible to entirely remove the alcohol from it to make it suitable for kids – did this last year for Christmas and my cousins (8 and 12) absolutely loved it. ’twas wonderful.
S. John for President of your friendly neighborhood bar.
So I just went and saw Moana today and really enjoyed it, probably better than Frozen! I won’t spoil anything important.
The basic plot structure is your standard hero’s journey story, but the execution was beautiful! The water looks like it must have been a nightmare to animate, but the end result was worth it.
You gu-uys, I know I don’t usually post much but I’m stuck on a train at the moment and the reason I’m stuck on a train is that I’m going to submit my thesis today! I’m currently veering between euphoria and feeling like a turd that someone wrapped in tinfoil and then microwaved (yeah, I don’t manage well on zero sleep).
@wwth
Some I know…
Eleanor of Aquitaine : By the wrath of God, Queen of England by Alison Weir
Eleanor of Aquitaine : The mother queen of the Middle Ages by Desmond Seward
She-wolves : The women who ruled England before Elizabeth by Helen Castor
Eleanor of Aquitaine : Queen of France, Queen of England by Ralph V. Turner
Eleanor of Aquitaine : Queen of the troubadours by Jean Markale
The titles above are some I read for an uni course ages ago. I liked them, but they might be too 101 for your mother already.
@Frantic Caps,
That is exciting. Try not to get caught out by the post-thesis blues (i.e. what the hell do I do now?). Keep us posted! 🙂
@wwth,
LittleLurker’s list is great, imo, especially the Weir one. This is one I’d love to get, and it’s definitely not 101:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1JK9xkNim84/TxyTNLhnoNI/AAAAAAAAD4Q/pbhf12v22ao/s1600/img017.jpg
It’s 2003, so not recent, but looks like a fantastic collection of essays.
Guess who just caught their first Gen 7 shiny. 8)
Thanks, Little Lurker and Mish!
A short article about masculinity and mental health from one of my buddies.
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/stephen-bentley/mental-illness-is-no-resp_b_12781672.html