Dusty Chalk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2tPkSbcvhQ

Reposted from my Facebook (also in Crock Life): Most of my recipes consist of the following: - meat - tomato sauce - other ingredients (onions, garlic, olives, beans, tomato chunks, etc.) - spices - filler Throw together, allow to cook overnight, doctor spices to taste, add filler to texture. Really, that's it. This could go in several directions -- a chilli based concoction, a spaghetti sauce based concoction, or...yeah, I don't know what to call my experiments lately. Someone asked me, "what do you got there?" "Chilli. I mean, in Facebook terms, 'it's complicated', but it started life as a chilli, and it's still in the orbit of 'chilli', so I call it, 'chilli'." So far, my favourite filler has been oatmeal -- it doesn't add starchiness to the concoction, its taste is compatible enough not to draw attention away from the intended targets, but I feel strange adding too much of it. Experimental filler #4 yesterday/today was Trader Joe's Harvest Grains blend -- Couscous, Orzo, Garbanzo beans and Quinoa. Again, turned out a little too starchy, but not unpalatable. And any pasta or pasta-like substance is not going to be "_al dente_" once it's cooked beyond its recommended cooking time. Thing is, I added so much, it's now >50% vegan...not that there's anything wrong with that. So I'm tempted to take a stab at a vegan concoction. (And the meat is 99% lean turkey, so it's pretty [waves hand] healthy, which is the point.) So the question arises -- which of these things retain their texture in a crock pot, and which become mush? Some mush is fine, as long as it's not all mush. I know eggplant skins and olives and mushrooms all retain their texture. Chestnuts? Butternut squash? Garlic. I know I don't mind running into a cut clove of garlic, but how many of you mind? I love onions and beans and...(Yes, I fully intend to get experimental.) Cauliflower? Broccoli? Bamboo shoots? Water chestnuts? Cloud ear fungus? Asparagus? Carrots? Eggplant? Peppers?

I love Red Sparrowes.

I've seen Thai spelled a couple different ways when transliterated. I wouldn't worry too much about spelling. Did you mean Thom Ka Kai (sometimes spelled Tom Kha Gai)? (Also: see what I mean?) Yeah, Dusty loves himself some Thai. Almost had Indian tonight, but someone told me that Glory Days still had Beef on Weck, so...the power of suggestion.

Happy birthday, Jeff! (party favour noise)

It's funny, sometimes my cat responds when I play cat sounds over the speakers, but he didn't respond to that one.

Nothing, why? He shows up every now and then.

wai, wha?

I'm glad you're breaking in those quality speakers with some seriously audiophile musics.

That's hilarious. It's like Beastie Boys with all the evil taken out of it. Also, why does the one girl have blood all over her outfit? EDIT #2: Obviously, I need to get out more.

"Honey, you drew a picture of me!" "No...it's Wilm..." "Oh, thank you sweety, I love it!" "... "You're welcome."

This person maintains that any canine can be won over by a good butt scratch:

I will have to look up that Super Guitar Trios disk, looks intriguing. Me: John Wesley, Live at Katie Fitzgerald's -- singer/songwriter/guitarist extraordinaire, in a well-recorded unplugged-ish setting

You only have one charger? Looks like Gryphon just hit "fully charged" and you can plug in Tab now. Or is it just too hard to reach the outlet behind the couch?

'?' -- yes, exactly. (Hard to tell if staged, deathwishywashy, or surviving on the kindness survival instinct of others.) (Also ASCII for you don't have that particular foreign letter in your set of fontses.)

Catmosphere sampler (samples of cats put together as a track) -- this is mental

Yeah, it was all melted and rained off by the time I got up earlier. I have no idea what the final accumulation was in my area.

5 out of 5 head-casers agree. I love how my reaction to this was like, "oh, well, now that it's coming from a doctor..." Lollers.

Alright, so change the caption to, "what the hell are those arches made of?" -- it's still fairly impressive to survive even one of those incidents.

(j)yes(h)!