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11:55 am
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A Brief Entertainment Intermission....
(Sung to the tune of "The QuarterMasters Song"...or as I learned it as a kid "The Tamperwinkle Store" song..)
I have squirrels squirrels squirrels squirrels living in my yard, in my yard, in my yard
I have squirrels squirrels squirrels squirrels living in my yard, digging up the rockwall, the rockwall in my yard
They're making holes....and rocks will fall, I cannot get rid of them at all...
Current Mood: GAHHHH!
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01:29 pm
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Why is it always the hospital...
Lars says I've watched enough disaster/horror movies, and have made enough survival plans I should write a book on the subject. He was joking, of course...but WTF, he's right. So, I'm going to start compiling all the weird rules/scenarios I've accumulated in my brain, and see what I end up with. I'm going to assign them random numbers, keeping the lower numbers for the all time important rules.
Scenario #36 -
If you are in the hospital and the power goes out, it is very quiet, AND you either a) hear screaming, or b) no ones comes when you call for help GET THE HELL OUT OF THE HOSPITAL BY ANY MEANS IMMEDIATELY. Do not go looking for help, or for the source of the screaming. Do not try to make it to the front doors, or save anyone else. Smash your window and crawl out that sucker, dragging your IV and monitors with you if necessary. If escape is not available get your ass to the morgue and crawl into a drawer. (Cause no one ever looks in the morgue for people to kill, eat, or whatever.) Extra urgency can be assigned this case if any or all of the following exist:
- it is raining
- there is an escapee from the local prison/jail/mental unit
- anyone near you is having sex
- you or someone very near you has recently experienced a birth, marriage, death, divorce, breakup, move, loss of job, or other MAJOR life crisis
- the anniversary of any of the above happening to you or someone very near you
- any foreign object/meteor/large fire/strange lights have been sighted in the sky or on the ground in the area
- it is any holiday
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12:01 am
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Feeble attempt #1
Aliens...
Not the movie, and not the illegal ones, just the overall space type/sci-fi ones. I believe the topic of aliens is very important. See, I am all over the idea of an alien invasion. Its gonna happen one day, I know it. But I've been thinking about it lately, and I have some ideas on how things are gonna go down.
First off, ain't no technologically advanced civilization capable of interstellar travel gonna come to our planet, land, and kill us one at a time like some kid frying ants with a magnifying glass on a hot summer day. Lets face it folks, they are gonna gas/nuke/wtf-ever us from orbit.
We make lousy slaves, as we are very high maintenance as a captive workforce. Food, shelter, motivation....its just too time and resource consuming to keep us around. Now, we might make great food for the aliens or their slaves...or maybe even their pets, but lets face it we die easy and wont last long. Maybe they'll vacuum pack us for later use, kind of like I vacuum seal all the meat I buy for long term food storage. Its keeps thing fresh and freezer burn free.
Furthermore, we assume every alien and their five headed dog out there wants our planet for its resources. HA. This is based on the oh so human belief that we are the greatest thing this universe has created. Not only that, but why do we assume the aliens out there give a rat fat bollocks about water, and air, and the minuscule amounts of metals, elements, and other substances that make up our planet. Its probably more profitable to mine other astronomical entities than our small sad little planet. Faster and easier as well.
We cannot assume that all life is carbon based, and requires H2O and our exact mix of "air" to survive. We are so full of ourselves that we believe we are so bloody important that everyone out there wants our planet, and we have to fight them off with proverbial sticks in order to keep it.
So my idea on the whole thing is that at some point we are going to annoy someone, who are then going to park their butts a couple of miles above our heads, and wipe us off the face of the planet without ever having to break a sweat.
We are so @#$%ed.
And I need to stop watching alien invasion movies this late at night. Whilst eating badly made chocolate chip cookie dough with the dogs. Cause this is the crap that comes outta my head when I do that.
Hey, maybe next time I'll give you my whole theory on zombies, and my ZEAP (zombie emergency action plan.) Woohooo......
Current Mood:  AAALLLIIEEENNNSSSSS!!!!!!!
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06:31 pm
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The awesomeness is INCONCEIVABLE!!!
(Sorry this is so long and not cut, but lj-cut wont work for me, and yes I know WTF I am doing. Its broked for me. So read on and deal with it.)
I was perusing the internet for a recipe using leftover mashed potatoes this afternoon, when I found a recipe for what has to be Gods gift to the culinary world. Let me explain. No, there is too much. Let me sum up.
I had oodles of leftover potatoes from a NYE dinner I made for my immediate family. See, right in the middle of dinner we had a person become, well, ill. At the table. On the table. And on several of us in the near vicinity. Not much got eaten after that. But fear not, the food was on the buffet table, and was unaffected by the projectile nature of said episode.
So, here I am with a schload of mashed potatoes, trying to use them up. Shepherds pie, you say? Heck no, I hate that glop. And so a-hunting I went. I found a recipe that intrigued me, a meatloaf with a mashed potato crust. However, I did not like that particular recipe, and went off in search of other variations via Google.
Which is where I found the recipe of all recipes. The culinary delight of all time. The single most important food creation of the century.
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you...
THE MEATCAKE!!
Now I know that it looks like the ugliest cake ever made, but give me a moment. Its a cake....made out of meat. With mashed potato frosting. Yes, I know, can you BELIEVE IT?!?! When I saw the recipe I had to make it. Lars has been ill, overworked and stressed lately, and this would be the perfect treat to give him.
I found the instructions at http://www.blackwidowbakery.com/demo/meatcake/index.html
Now I have my own family recipe for meatloaf and the tomato "filling" to go on it, so I basically used her instructions, with minor variations. My meatloaf has ground beef and sage sausage in. I also add cheese, because what cant cheese make better? The cheese also helps add fat to the meat, since I buy lean meat to begin with.
Due to the nature of the low far content, my meat layers shrank quite a bit, but I didn't have to worry so much about letting the grease drain off. I also molded the meat in a concave shape, so that 1) the grease would pool and be easily removed and 2) it made a nice hollow for the filling. I also hoped by making it concave the cooking process would even it out more, and I would not have to even out a bump in the middle. As you can see from the photo below, my plan worked well. You can see I have removed the pooled fat on one layer using paper towels already.
After cleaning up all the layers I spread a thick coating of filling on each layer, careful not to get too close to the edge as I didnt want it to squeeze out when the layers were stacked.
I then placed the layers back in the oven and broiled them for a few minutes, to "set" the filling, and to give it that nice caramelized flavor everyone loves.
I took them straight from the oven and stacked them on a nice cake plate. Here is where I found an oopsie, as you can see below. I had spread filling on top of all three layers, whereas one should have been left plain to be the top. So I scraped it off the top layer, and voila!
I had taken the homemade mashed potatoes, thrown them in my new Kitchenaid mixer with some hot cream and butter, and whipped them within an inch of their life. They are homemade, so they are lumpy and have skins, and just didn't have that buttercream appearance. I decided to add some food coloring, and maybe go for a lumpy cream cheese/carrot cake look. The potatoes were hot and ready by the time I had my layers stacked, and I frosted them in a typical cake form.
And there you have it. The awesomeness of meatcake. Lars loved it. I even have half the cake left to freeze and reheat for leftovers. I also have some pretty good ideas for my next one. I obviously want to try the instant potato frosting, and maybe color the frosting next time. That will allow me to break out the cake decorating kit and have a try at making it more elaborate. I also thing I will make extra filling next time to spoon over the slices as they are served, and perhaps use a slightly fattier meat next time, as this one was a bit dense but still delish.
Current Mood:  artistic
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05:14 pm
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LTNS....
No posts in a long time, I know. Not sure what to say, not sure how to say it. So for now, I'm going to post photos I just took in my backyard.
Current Mood:  blank
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