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Food Make really good food notes--pictures and text. Reminders. Things to remember to eat. More here. Chowhound Slashfood Cook's Thesaurus 101cookbooks RecipeSource The LSpace Web: The AFP Recipe Archives Visual recipes: Bruschetta with Mushrooms, Avocado, and Greens Pizzas with Fresh Mozzarella, Pine Nuts, and Basil Sherry and Mushroom Soup Bacon, Cheddar and Beer Soup in Bread Bowls Cucumber Rounds with Hummus and Yogurt The Perfect Reuben Sandwich Mustard Seasoned Chicken with Pasta Chicken Cordon Bleu & Mashed Potatoes Duck! stuffed mushrooms (crab, cheese) stuffed peppers (crab, cheese, way more) baked chicken w/ lots of garlic and butter chicken in milk goetta cottage cheese w/ tomato, salt and ground red pepper Campbell's Cream of Tomato soup! Sausage gravy and biscuits! Pancakes! eggs poached baked coddled rancheros (stack: warm tortilla, black beans/sausage/garlic/onion, poached eggs, salsa, avocado) sunny-side up, with rice with bacon or sausage pasta carbonara! olive oil & garlic alfredo cream/mushroom soups bread bowls crawfish bisque tomato soup w/ grilled cheese cheddar beer cheese/alcohol bacon/cheddar/beer salads caprese; balsamic; olive oil; cherry tomatoes; basil; mozzarella spinach cobb (lettuce, tomato, bacon, chicken breast, hard-boiled eggs, avocado, Roquefort, chives, Cobb vinaigrette) salad dressings Cobb (water, red wine vinegar, sugar, lemon juice, salt, black pepper, Worchestershire, dry mustard, garlic, olive oil, salad oil) sandwiches don't forget about hot sandwiches; frying them in skillets, compressing them with spatula or bricks don't forget mustards! focaccia, mozzarella, tomato, tapenade, deli meat, olive oil various oils butter! various cheeses; use that memory! reuben (rye, sauerkraut, bacon, butter, corned beef, lorraine swiss; fry) grilled cheese (with cream of tomato!) vegetables asparagus!! broccoli (steamed, w/ cranberry Wensleydale!) cauliflower rice curry ful peanut rice! (cook rice in broth; add meat; 1T peanutbutter per serving of rice) oats steel cut w/ cream and currents old-fashioned sweets tiramisu cream puffs tapioca pudding rice pudding kulfi less bad for hypoglycemia Celestial Seasonings/Rice Dream icecream Sacred Things tea honey chocolate coconut oil Books Aquaramarine Blue 5: Personal Stories of College Students with Autism Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes and More Ruthless Rhymes, by Harry Graham Originally published in 1899, this is the book of verse from which the Comtesse culled so many amazing poems for the Morbid Fact du Jour. Quotes There's LIGHT! That we CAN'T SEE! But with the right equipment, we can watch it do light-like things! - Chris Forrester -- "So . . . you disagree with people, to stay alive, to disagree with people?" Tom Ballard, on Waiting for God "All the people I liked are dead. Too late to start liking new people now. Too much responsibility." -- Diana, from Waiting for God -- "I can take mine and beat yorn and I can take yorn and beat mine." -- Bear Bryant -- A butler is a frame of mind rather than a status or a series of duties. It is a mindset that anyone can adopt in any situation in life to very satisfying results, because it is founded on the truths that it is better to serve than be served, and that life can be rational and serene when one assumes responsibility for all things. Butlers are superior service professionals. Their model has value. It is the future of service. --- "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." Thomas Jefferson. --- Trefusis's quarters could be described in one word. Books. Books and books and books. And then, just when an observer might be lured into thinking that that must be it, more books. Barely a square inch of wood or wall or floor was visible. Walking was only allowed by pathways cut between the piles of books. Treading these pathways with books waist-high either side was like negotiating a maze. Trefusis called the room his 'librarinth'. Areas where seating was possible were like lagoons in a coral strand of books. Adrian supposed that any man who could speak twenty-three languages and read forty was likely to collect a few improving volumes along the way. Trefusis himself was highly dismisive of them. 'Waste of trees,' he had once said. 'Stupid, ugly, clumsy, heavy things. The sooner technology comes up with a reliable alternative the better.' Early in the term he had flung a book at Adrian's head in irritation at some crass comment. Adrian had caught it and been shocked to see that it was a first edition of Les Fleurs du Mal. 'Books are not holy relics,' Trefusis had said. 'Words may be my religon, but when it comes to worship, I am a very low church. The temples and the graven images are of no interest to me. The superstitutious mammetry of a bourgeois obsession for books is severely annoying. Think how many children are put off reading by prissy little people ticking them off whenever they turn a page carelessly. The world is so fond of saying that books should be "treated with respect". But when are we told that words should be treated with respect? From our earliest years we are taught to revere only the outward and visible. Ghastly literary types maundering on about books as "objects". Yes, that does happen to be a first edition. A present from Noel Annan, as a matter of fact. But I assure you that a foul yellow livre de poche would have been just as useful to me. Not that I fail to appreciate Noel's generosity. A book is a piece of technology. If people wish to amass them and pay high prices for this one or that, well and good. But they can't pretend that it is any higher or more intelligent a calling than collecting snuff-boxes or bubble-gum cards. I may read a book, I may use it as an ashtray, a paperweight, a doorstop or even as a missile to throw at silly young men who make fatuous remarks. So. Think again.' And Adrian had thought again. The Liar, by Stephen Fry --- "When he found himself bridling at the prospect of committing some new outrage on behalf of Rob Holland Incorporated, Paul liked to picture himself as loyal underboss, with Rob as capo. You did what you had to do. Once in, never out. Semper fi, Cosa Nostra forever. Someday, he'll have his own chef de cuisine and would leave the scrounging, the hustling, the lying, the blood-letting, and the bulk of the cooking to him. That was the way it was. That was the way it would always be." -- The Nasty Bits: A Taste of Fiction; A Chef's Christmas; by Anthony Bourdain --- Quotes from Earthly Powers, by Anthony Burgess: "You're really being most awfully decent. It was some damned fish I ate, loup or something, wolf that means, wolfing a wolf, oh my God." But there seemed little more to come up. He s tood upright and sniffed in briskly sea air. "Better, I think. that loup is still around thought, flying through the ozone, I can smell it, a bloody werewolf, I say, what's the French for werewolf?" "Loup garou. Those police, look, are still looking. Can you walk more or less straight?" I took his left elbow and trembled. The first male flesh, or bone at least, I had handled since, ah God. "You needn't blame the loup for my benefit," I said. "You've ingested more than loup tonight." "Loooo garooooo. I say, I like that." Fiction, pronounced the sergeant, is written from the imagination, it is invention, it requires no meddling in the dangerous exterior world. These two in bed wer at first too shocked by my appearance to be abashed at being caught post flagrantem. "What have they done to you?" cried Hortense. "What has he . . ." I began, but I knew the answer. "You dirty swine, you bastard," I told Domenico. "My own sister." "Many women," Hortense said, her pert breasts still blazing from the bed, "are the sisters of somebody. Out, both," she ordered. "I want to get dressed." "Get your clothes on," I said to Domenico. "You're going to be hit." "Deflowerer," I tried to snarl. "Defloratore." That sounded too mild. Domenico seemed to think so too. He suggested "Stupratore." "It's not worthwhile, you know, trying to explain things to you. You're dense as well as homosexual." --- From Blood Canticle, by Anne Rice, Lestat as narrator: I drew close to her, pushing gently against Quinn. "Let her go, Little Brother," I said. I lifted my wrist, broke the inside skin with my teeth and put the blood to her lips. "It has to be done this way. I've got to give her some of my blood first." She kissed the blood. Her eyes squeezed shut. Shiver. Shock. "Otherwise, I can't bring her through. Drink, pretty girl. Good-bye, pretty girl, good-bye, Mona." She drew the blood from me as if she'd broken the circuit that kept me alive, as if she meant to kill me. A witch had me by the blood. I gasped and reached with my left hand for the post of the bed and missed it, falling gently back with her on the nest of flowers. Her hair was catching in the roses. So was mine. --- from the Monks of New Skete: Genuine monastic living means living a life without division, looking for God in the soil of each and every moment of daily life, not merely when praying and worshipping. In a sense, we are always beginners, and we have found a learner's stance to be beneficial in increasing our knowledge of training and breeding. --- It's odd -- I do run into people (particularly Americans, for some reason) who believe that Good Writing is impenetrable, and uses Lots of Long Words. I was taught, growing up, reading people like Fowler and Graves, that the secret of good writing was clarity and, where possible, simplicity, and that the aim was, above all, communication. By all means use any word you want, as long as it's exactly the right word for what you need to say. --Neil Gaiman --- Blind is the man who cannot see this! The days of seductive, flattering ideals, the days of the hermits, are coming to an end. With greater eagerness than it ought to, the world is rushing to the wellsprings of pleasure, and those who know how to temper this dangerous inclination with healthy morals shall take the palm. Cooking is a troublesome sprite. Often it may drive you to despair. Yet it is also very rewarding, for when you do succeed, or overcome a difficulty in doing so, you feel the satisfaction of a great triumph. --Science in the Kitchen and the Art of Eating Well, Pellegrino Artusi --- Yves started to make small talk about a production of Aida that he and the director had both attended in Verona. In deference to Guy he spoke English, constructing elaborate sentences that the director matched, clause for clause, the two of them performing a kind of second-language fencing match. He subscribes to the theory that London (and to a lesser extent other cities) causes an immense distortion of the earth's natural energy field, a distortion that inflicts physical and psychological suffering on the people forced to live inside it. --Transmission, by Hari Kunzru --- You know, I've been thinking that maybe the universe would be somehow more efficient if octopus tentacles just sort of randomly showed up almost anywhere. posted by Dood-san --- "Trust your instincts, Elaine Belloc. If mercy's your aim, be relentless in your mercy. Be absolute. Be yourself, until you bleed." -Lucifer #72 --- Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so.--Bertrand Russell Self-Care water stims tiny spork shielding black leather gloves collar coconut oil information organization> butler quotes sample-sized spoons icecream music simple novels! RP writing, sometimes photography! (usually macro) fascinations (autism, animals, linguistics) clay cardboard egg yolks Zingerman's Anthony Bourdain Two Fat Ladies cats ferrets contact contact juggling chocolate Music Les Charbonniers de L'Enfer Great Big Sea The Cure Miyavi Alison Moyet Tracy Chapman Tom Waits Hamish Imlach TV Red Dwarf Blackadder She-Ra (in Italian!) Waiting for God Homicide: Life on the Street Hill Street Blues EZ Streets The Two Fat Ladies Jamie Oliver (Oliver's Twist, Pukka Tukka, etc) As Time Goes By Keeping Up Appearances Are You Being Served? Gargoyles Software Citrus Alarm Websites Morbid Fact du Jour Products The AirWalker, a movement therapy item. This is one of the coolest things /ever/. Things to Do I should make Strindberg and Helium wallpaper. With quotes. The 100 basic words The 100 basic words used in conversation are shown below. These typically comprise around 50% of all words used: 1. a, an 2. after 3. again 4. all 5. almost 6. also 7. always 8. and 9. because 10. before 11. big 12. but 13. (I) can 14. (I) come 15. either/or 16. (I) find 17. first 18. for 19. friend 20. from 21. (I) go 22. good 23. goodbye 24. happy 25. (I) have 26. he 27. hello 28. here 29. how 30. I 31. (I) am 32. if 33. in 34. (I) know 35. last 36. (I) like 37. little 38. (I) love 39. (I) make 40. many 41. one 42. more 43. most 44. much 45. my 46. new 47. no 48. not 49. now 50. of 51. often 52. on 53. one 54. only 55. or 56. other 57. our 58. out 59. over 60. people 61. place 62. please 63. same 64. (I) see 65. she 66. so 67. some 68. sometimes 69. still 70. such 71. (I) tell 72. thank you 73. that 74. the 75. their 76. them 77. then 78. there is 79. they 80. thing 81. (I) think 82. this 83. time 84. to 85. under 86. up 87. us 88. (I) use 89. very 90. we 91. what 92. when 93. where 94. which 95. who 96. why 97. with 98. yes 99. you 100. your From: 'Use Your Memory', Tony Buzan BBC Books, London, ISBN 0-5633-37102-1 Mind Maps