brain dump 006 [hey, august]
worst casserole recipe of all time: combine 1 cup uncooked wild rice (rinsed), 1 lb. fresh mushrooms (sliced thick), 1 cup onion (minced), and 3 cloves of garlic (minced) in a 3 quart casserole dish; add 3 cups of vegetable broth, cover, and bake at 350 degrees for an hour and a half.
excellent if predictable and not particularly healthy fix for worst casserole recipe of all time: dish up a bowl of baked casserole, stir in a dollop of sour cream, and salt and pepper the shit out of resulting mixture.
flexible pet ownership. like zip cars, but with live dogs! after paying $150 to register, $99.95 for yearly account maintenance, $49.95 per month, and $24.95 per weekday (plus applicable sales tax), you can rent your very own dog. wow, so people who aren't committed and/or responsible enough to have a pet of their own can bypass hanging out with the lonely dogs at the pound and hire animals like bikes! apparently the FLEXPETZ dogs are rescues and/or need homes, and i'm all for them getting attention, but implying that an animal's company is a commercial product seems, to me, like a good way to encourage people to treat them like objects. that business plan makes my skin crawl.
101 in 1001: 024 grow kitchen-worthy herbs from seeds [completed may 07]
i'm calling this one; it never got to the explosion-of-herbs stage i was hoping for, but we did manage to garnish a wee salad with the basil shoots i thinned on day 29, and that's a technical pass, i say; the rest of the basil croaked a month ago and i don't have much of an interest in sending away for more of those weird chia growing sponges. melissa has since given me a bunch of really kick-ass dirt (she and our friend dave actually do their own composting, the rock stars) and some carrot and lettuce seeds, though, so i'll certainly experiment again. i just won't, um, link said experiment to a public list.
the mole. joe and i just finished the first disc of season 1, and god, that show holds up (we watched season 2 when it aired on tv back in - '02? - but had never seen season 1). i'm glad anderson cooper got to get back to the casting of the news, but he was a fantastically arch host. why the long form game show evolved into shit like age of love and couldn't have spawned a bunch of spy-themed mole spinoffs is beyond me.
the eyelash perm (at last!). "first, lashes are individually curled over rubber rollers. next, two solutions are applied (the smell is reminiscent of a perm), followed by conditioner. then you're off, to bat those thick, come-hither fringes at any eyelash curler or makeup guru in your way." sweet lord! i didn't even know what eyelash curlers were until like two years ago; they looked like props from marathon man to me. folks will process anything these days (vaginal rejuvenation patients, i'm looking at you).
oh, that interview i was so nervous about in california ended up needing to happen while i was in california, and...no. the prep i would have needed to do to acquit myself well would have sucked up most of the vacation, and we were helping a friend move when it would have taken place, anyway. i'm still beside myself, though: how often does a ladymag give you the chance to talk to the speaker of the house?
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oh, i'm so sorry that the rice was a bust! certainly it doesn't doom all wild rices dishes to inferiority, but perhaps next time, i don't know...radishes? cheese? tomatoes?
Oh man. That interview bit blows. As compensation, they really ought to give you another shot. Ruth Bader Ginsburg, perhaps? (She could probably tell some neat stories.)
a friend prepared this brown rice, nut, & tempeh casserole last night, and it was amazing. perhaps you will like.
http://www.recipezaar.com/13578
in boston, you can borrow a dog when you stay at a certain hotel [name of which escapes me] and take it for a run, if you want. not really the same thing. but that's what it made me think of.
lately, i've been wanting a bunny. [didn't kari have bunnies? i feel like she did. noelle had a pig, but that's not really relevant here.] i know that i should not get a bunny because i am rarely home and would therefore not be a good provider for him. plus, my lease reads something like "no pets, blah blah blah."
then someone told me that you can't have bunnies within the city limits. i proceeded to google "bunnies illegal portland" and versions of [and then realized legal language about the alleged rule would not include the word "bunnies" and promptly changed my search to "rabbits illegal portland"]. i don't think they are illegal, because as it turns out there is a rabbit adoption agency in portland where you can volunteer to work with and care for the bunnies before they are adopted, which i think sounds like a nice way of giving a bunny some love without having to walk it every night.
lovely to chat with you yesterday.
-s
by the by, my officemates just discovered the FLEXPETZ site and think it's the best idea ever. since i can't say anything nice, i won't say anything at all.
wabes, the nice thing about the fix was that it really was a totally solid fix - plus sour cream, that casserole was actually good. i offer this as conclusive proof that sour cream solves most problems.
tom, the really sad thing about the interview is that we almost never work with people like la pelosi - they're just not our beat - so this was kind of a one-shot thing. i'm over it, though: my Serious Interview phase should probably wait until i have more practice, anyway.
sharon, that's a bummer about your lease - i've heard house rabbits are fantastic (if you can protect your electrical cords). i had a coworker at the spca who had like four (she was also dating one of the fucking champs - which you wouldn't expect from a bunny person, really, but they were punk bunny people), and she actually carried them around in baskets. thank you for the recipe - it was lovely to chat with you, too!
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