The Frying Pan - 2015-11-29

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7:03 AM

Tum tee Tum

Hey you, just the person I was hoping to see.

I've invited the tooth-monster's owner for dinner on Monday.

I've told her that she can expect leftover turkey. I want to keep it light because she is trying to lose weight. I also want to keep it inexpensive (for obvious reasons).

@ElendilTheTall so I'm planning the menu tonight.

I'm working on a soup that may turn out to be stellar. I made broth from the turkey carcass and thickened it with potato. Once I get the kitchen clean I'm going to try to make dumplings with stuffing ingredients (no butter, I'm going to use eggs kind of like making matzoh balls) with celery carrots and onions in the soup and the dumplings.

If I do that for the dinner I'm thinking of a Waldorf salad with turkey too. If I do that I need another element. Crostini maybe?

I'm not married to that idea though for the dinner. I'm also thinking of going Asian.

7:51 AM

Hey baby

Let me scale this wall of text

OK, so the soup is a starter?

Or are you thinking soup and a side salad

I'm thinking of the soup served with the salad, it's way too casual to do courses.

If I go Asian I was thinking turkey lettuce wraps, potstickers and a corn soup.

Oo, go with that

Turkey yuk sung

Any fool can do soup and salad. You're a seasoned advisor!

LOL

since she will have just returned from a family Thanksgiving, she will probably be sick of Thanksgiving flavors.

Exactly

It works on many levels

pretty easy too since I have most of the ingredients.

7:59 AM

That's settled then

Beef it is

;)

I'll do beef potstickers (since I have some in the freezer), turkey lettuce wraps and some kind of soup.

Hot and sour

I could sneak some turkey into that too.

I know she likes that flavor profile.

'also, there's some turkey in the coffee'

'I call it turkoffee'

exactly! :)

I have the freezer insert of my ice cream maker in the freezer so it's ready to go. I could do a lime sorbet for dessert.

8:11 AM

You could.

that would be a nice finish I think. I will replace half of the sugar with the artificial sweetener I make. I'll make it tomorrow just to make sure turns out the way I want it.

Bless your cotton socks, you're all excited.

She has been really good to me. She drove me to the hospital when I needed it and replaced my flat tire in exchange for dog training I had not yet performed. She has also invited me a few times to ride around with her to take pictures and I've always declined because I was tired (lazy).

'Friiiiiieeeeeeennnnnndddddd!!!'

Yes. I have a guest who isn't CN!

8:17 AM

Take pictures?

Yes, she is only in Alaska for six months and she's a bit of a shutterbug.

I see

Is she any good? :D

She particularly wants to get pictures of the northern lights. I told her that good pictures of those require getting out of the city, but she's afraid to drive on the highways here (curvy mountain roads without guardrails). One of these nights when lights are out I'll offer to drive. Her car is a rental, so she might just go for it :)

@ElendilTheTall from what I can tell, yes, but not nearly at your level.

Flattery will get you everywhere

:)

8:23 AM

I've taken all my photos off 500px. They'd made some deal with a Chinese site who were basically cloning 500px and selling the photos without attribution.

she'll still be scared on the mountain roads, but I imagine I can reassure her with stories of living in Chickaloon

@ElendilTheTall your photos?

Not that I know of, but the principle annoyed me in any case.

I would imagine so.

I'd use Flickr but they want your life story when you sign up

But it's not like anyone looks at them anyway, so they don't really need to be online at all

we look at them! But you could just use dropbox for that.

8:27 AM

Yes, or imgur

My shutter button finger has been itchy for weeks now but the weather has been singularly terrible. Wet and windy.

I am waiting for a crisp, bright morning.

the weather here has been beautiful, but we're expected to get ice pellets over the next couple of days :(

my car is a death trap on ice.

Ice pellets? Is that something different from hail?

@ElendilTheTall yes, it's kind of halfway between freezing rain and hail.

It starts as rain, but freezes just before it hits the ground. It's the worst of all worlds.

When it's really bad, it covers your car in about a solid inch of ice. Never-mind the roads and sidewalks.

Ah yes. I've seen that once here. The road was a single sheet of beaded ice. Very nasty.

Alaskan cars should vent exhaust heat in an air blade in front of the car. Everyone would then be collectively clearing the roads!

Probably smacks too much of socialism though.

most of the parking spaces here have outlets to plug-in block heaters. On payday I'm buying an appropriate extension cord. My car seems to handle starting in the cold pretty well, but I don't want to push it. I'm counting on that heap to get me through winter. Plus, it's much better for the environment to plug in your car overnight.

apparently we have three cars belonging to people in this building who have handicap plates, and only two handicap spaces. I need to put on my daughter-of-a-lawyer hat to get one more space designated.

That would definitely fall under the "reasonable accommodations" clause of the Americans With Disabilities Act, but prior experience has shown that the management here is difficult when it comes to things like that.

8:49 AM

Here I believe the recommended number of handicap spaces is 5%

I'm not sure, but I think we are at about 2% here.

(At this building)

It's not that big of a deal unless the parking lot is icy.

A couple of days ago someone was parked in one of the two handicap spaces without handicap plates. He was there at least long enough for me to print out a nasty-gram and put it under his windshield, and for me to call the police. I asked the dispatcher to send an officer if there was one available, but she said that said that since it is a private lot, they wouldn't come.

Interestingly, a cop drove by the next day, paused at the spaces, and then drove away. Of course by then the unauthorized car was gone. I can't know that that's why the cop was there, but I suspect it was.

I need to get some stuff done in the kitchen, I've got food out, but I'm around and will be back.

9:13 AM

alright hon

the day has started in earnest in any case, now that Mrs the Tall has stirred from her pit :) (Sunday is her lie in day)

3 hours later…

12:16 PM

Hey @Jolenealaska! I had just finished answering the sherbet question when you deleted it just as I was about to push the button!

<grumbles>

I hate it when that happens. I'll see if I can undelete.

It's back.

I deleted it because the sugar isn't the only issue, so is the fat. I hadn't thought it through.

Let me know if you still have the answer. If not, I think I'd rather just leave it deleted until I've given it a shot.

12:44 PM

@Jolenealaska Well, what's copy-paste good for? Sure I have it! (And my answer talks about fat a tiny bit too.)

@Jolenealaska - here you go!

@Stephie That's happened to me a few times. It's really annoying.

12:59 PM

@FaheemMitha Well, closed, yes, deleted, no.

@Stephie I was thinking along those lines :) I thought I'd try to churn it while we had dinner with a bit of Grand Marnier in the mix.

I'll do exactly that and update the question after giving it a shot.

Sounds like a plan. And better to serve it a bit softer than having a solid chunk.

Want to hear about my most memorable sorbet experience?

Agreed. There will be plenty left over, so I can see what it is like after time in the freezer.

@Stephie sure!

In Switzerland there is this mountain with a restaurant on top. And not just "food", but the full five-star experience. A friend of the family celebrated a major birthday up there, including charting the whole group up with the ropeway.

stanserhorn.ch/en

A gigantic multi-course meal including a delicious champagner sorbet as palate cleanser between the warm starter and the main course.

And then back down again during the night with the ropeway.

Truly magical!

One of the evenings one remembers for a lifetime.

1:14 PM

Sounds lovely. The pictures of the restaurant are very inviting.

Alas, it's in Switzerland, which automatically means $$$!

And you need to ignore the pictures with the "cafeteria", that's just for quick snacks for hikers. Excellent coffee, though.

<severe bout of itchy feet>

The champagne sorbet gives me an idea. I'll make the sherbet as in the question plus an airplane bottle sized bottle of Grand Marnier. I'll have a bottle of bubbly on hand just in case. If the sorbet's texture isn't great, I'll serve it in a parfait glass with the sparkling wine like I meant to do it that way all along.

As we programmers tend to say:

It's not a bug, it's a feature!

:)

Hello wimmin

1:25 PM

Hi Tall!

@Jolenealaska And many dishes were created that way - Tarte Tatin & ganache for example.

Hi Tall!

The Tarte Tatin brings to mind another question I plan to ask on main.

Along with the free turkey and a few other things, I was given a whole bunch of apples I don't like. They're mealy. I know from experience that making applesauce from mealy apples results in mealy applesauce.

And I'm wondering if there's any way to ameliorate that mealiness.

Is it just texture or are they bland as well, as often with mealy apples?

Hard cider :)

the flavor isn't great, but it's okay.

1:32 PM

The kind that doubles as paint stripper

I could use some of that just about now.

The tooth-monster is being ludicrously cute. He has figured out that he is "forgiven", so now he is being very demanding of attention. He's pretty effective.

He is a damn cute little dog.

I'll be taking a nap now - long party yesterday evening! But it was sooooo great! See you later, folks!

See ya @Stephie! Thanks for the advice.

1:48 PM

Cya @Stephie

@ElendilTheTall Is Mrs Le Tall as opposed to the idea of a pet as you?

2:02 PM

I'm also curious if your daughter has dropped any hints in that direction.

2:34 PM

@jolenealaska no, but she is equally aware of the impracticalities.

And no, daughter hasn't expressed any interest.

is she (your daughter) still into very girly stuff? and pink?

3:00 PM

yup and yup

good grief :)

2 hours later…

5:00 PM

@jolenealaska her mother was a model. Apparently dressing up and posing is genetic. Who knew.

3 hours later…

8:13 PM

Quiet this evening

By which I mean, tum tee tum

1 hour later…

9:36 PM

Very quiet

Just wanted to say "good night"...

@Stephie boooo

Awwww, I'm really tired yet here I am, just so that you don't need to go all "tum tee tum" on us!

Small comfort when you're going to bugger off in a moment

Woe, woe is me

But where is everyone? Not even a jojo in sight?

9:49 PM

nope.

I'm here. Trying to write some TeX code. Which is proving uncommonly tiresome. About to post a question.

TeX is always tiresome

A TeX question, I presume?

Sometimes it is. I'm 80% there. To lazy to figure out the remaining 20%.

@Stephie Yes.

It's quite windy tonight - how about on the other side of the Channel?

9:54 PM

extremely

it has been a foul day

blowing gales of sleet

Here too. Sleet? Really? Awww, so we'll probably get it tomorrow.

Quiet here.

Cat was only outside for a total of perhaps two hours - various bathroom trips and the slaying of one too adventurous mouse.

@Stephie What's your kitty's name again?

@FaheemMitha Chester.

9:58 PM

@Stephie Oh, I remember you mentioning it. Named after anything in particular?

The Cheshire Cat?

@ElendilTheTall In Alice?

@FaheemMitha Perhaps a subconcious mix of Cheshire Cat and Jester, but basically it just seemed a good fit.

@Stephie Ok.

Of course as in Alice!

"Pawlow" would have been fitting, too - whenever he sees a family member entering the house (let alone the kitchen) he expects food...

10:02 PM

I'd have expected something more Germanic.

Parzival

Though I can't think of any German cats right now.

@ElendilTheTall That's about the Holy Grail and stuff. It's a bit short on cats.

@FaheemMitha it doesn't have to be a cat

On the other hand, classical conditioning taught him "sit" and "down".

that's rather limiting

10:04 PM

Though I'm thinking of the Wagner opera here.

@Stephie Pawlow? Don't recognize the reference.

Pavlov

Pavlovian Conditioning?

Pavlov's Dogs?

Yup. He's written with 'w' in German.

Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (Russian: Ива́н Петро́вич Па́влов; IPA: [ɪˈvan pʲɪˈtrovʲɪtɕ ˈpavləf]; 26 September [O.S. 14 September] 1849 – 27 February 1936) was a Russian physiologist known primarily for his work in classical conditioning. From his childhood days Pavlov demonstrated intellectual brilliance along with an unusual energy which he named "the instinct for research". Inspired by the progressive ideas which D. I. Pisarev, the most eminent of the Russian literary critics of the 1860s, and I. M. Sechenov, the father of Russian physiology, were spreading, Pavlov abandoned his religious career and...

@FaheemMitha Why Germanic? Ok, admittedly I had thrown "Schrödinger" in the ring, but family vote nixed that quickly.

@Stephie Why not?

I can think of plenty of cats in fiction, some of them magical. But no German ones.

DWJ liked cats, for example. Major theme.

Frig's chariot was drawn by cats

@FaheemMitha why not what? Germanic in general or Schrödinger in particular?

@ElendilTheTall Good point.

10:13 PM

not sure if they had names though

@Stephie Why not Germanic.

ah-ha! Bygul and Trjegul.

I don't think Schrödinger works as a cat name.

Maybe something Egyptian.

@ElendilTheTall Rolls off the tongue just so smoothly ;-)

@Stephie Bygul isn't bad

Biggles

I see the residents of Hamburg have issued a hollow laugh at the suggestion they host the 2024 Olympics

10:17 PM

They should have it in Berlin. It's been a while.

Maybe 2036.

@FaheemMitha You wold be surprised. I learned afterwards that apparently Schrödinger is very common for cats. Or (as I see it) it's a pseudo-scientific reference that even those understand that haven't got the foggiest about science.

@Stephie Oh. Those poor cats. As long as nobody locks them up with radioactive pellets.

@FaheemMitha Been there, done that, don't see it happening in this century.

@Stephie :-)

@ElendilTheTall Very hollow.

10:18 PM

Why hollow?

@FaheemMitha Hosting the Olympics is very expensive.

"Hey guys! How would you like to spend BILLIONS on hosting a corrupt farce of a sporting event?" "HA! Fuck off."

> HA!

= hollow laugh

That about sums it up

@Stephie I see. Why does anyone do it then?

I don't know anything about the Olympics. I may have earlier mentioned my lack of interest in sports.

a misplaced sense of prestige

10:21 PM

Oh?

yeah

but it's too late to go into it tonight

Ok

@Stephie sleep well, @FaheemMitha good luck with your TeX problem. See you all tomorrow, all being well. G'night!

@ElendilTheTall Thank you.

Good night! @ElendilTheTall, sweet dreams! See you all tomorrow! @FaheemMitha, good luck!

10:25 PM

@Stephie Thank you.

user116848

11:21 PM

Hi all.

user116848

Oh I came at an odd time. See you all tomorrow!

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