The Frying Pan

Jolenealaska

10:02 AM

And on that note... Hello melatonin! Good night all.

rumtscho

night!

Stephie

Night!

Do you think that will give jojo bad dreams?

rumtscho

I am sure Jojo's internal life is so varied and positive, this small snippet will disappear and leave space for other dreams - weird but pleasant.

Stephie

good

ElendilTheTall

10:20 AM

> weird but pleasant

the FP motto

fatum, sed suavior

Stephie

Suavis?

ElendilTheTall

10:48 AM

maybe ¬_¬

don't get cocky, lady

Stephie

11:02 AM

Was just checking, my Latin is quite rusty.

ElendilTheTall

better than mine I'm sure

Stephie

12:17 PM

@rumtscho turned out a bit mushier than I had planned, but the Boskoop apples fell apart as soon as they hit the pot...

rumtscho

Looks interesting.

I would never come up with the idea of combining noodles with semolina or apples.

Stephie

And that was a walk down memory lane. I swear I saw and heard my Great-gran in all her tiny, wrinkly and head-scarfed glory.

rumtscho

they used to wear headscarfs in the black forest?

Stephie

@rumtscho it's clearly a poor people dish. You find many similar ones in southern Germany, the Alps and Austria in general. Replacing the semolina with poppyseeds is another favourite.

rumtscho

Better than making soup out of old bread!

Stephie

12:23 PM

@rumtscho to work? Heck, yes. But I'm speaking of the Danube-Swabian side.

rumtscho

I wouldn't know the difference, I'm afraid.

also, I thought that headscarfs are a typically Eastern custom.

I sometimes find it sad that the look is so terribly outdated and provincial

It is a great way to keep your face warm

Stephie

@rumtscho That roots: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danube_Swabians

So with lots of influence from Austrian and Serbian cuisine.

And wonder of wonders: minor 2 ate it w/o any complaint.

rumtscho

I thought her complaints are usually about vegetables?

Is she not a noodle eater?

Stephie

Yep. Noodles are fine. But preferably "naked" ones. But of course there was nothing green or veggie-ish in sight...

Arrowfar

Good afternoon.

Stephie

12:31 PM

Well, hello! Haven't seen you in a while!

Arrowfar

Hi stephie, rumi, tall.

Stephie

@rumtscho it's all about attitude:

rumtscho

hi @Arrowfar

@Stephie should I know the lady in the pictures_

also, please try to read an underscore as a question mark if you see it at the end of my sentences, I cannot remember to check the layout every time so my punctuation can vary

Stephie

Elizabeth II

Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; born 21 April 1926) is, and has been since her accession in 1952, Queen of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, and Head of the Commonwealth. She is also queen of 12 countries that have become independent since her accession: Jamaica, Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Belize, Antigua and Barbuda, and Saint Kitts and Nevis. Elizabeth was born in London as the first child of the Duke and Duchess of York, later King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. She was...

rumtscho

that's what I thought, but didn't dare voice it

Stephie

12:37 PM

Also known for her hats...

rumtscho

I am afraid I don't have her fearlessness and confidence when it comes to fashion

Stephie

And luckily not her age.

rumtscho

also, I see her granddaughter in law as a better model to copy

ElendilTheTall

@Stephie billions of tax-free pounds is great for the confidence

Stephie

@ElendilTheTall welcome back! How was lunch?

ElendilTheTall

12:44 PM

edible

Arrowfar

It's tea time here.

rumtscho

Do you observe tea time?

Arrowfar

Yeah in the evening, around 5 to 7 pm.

It is usually just tea and some biscuits etc.

rumtscho

to 7 pm? when do you eat dinner?

Arrowfar

types

sorry my typing is kind of slow.

I don't always eat dinner, I just take something light in the evening after tea.

Like a thin roti and some stew etc.

rumtscho

12:50 PM

In Germany, dinner is usually eaten between 6 and 7 PM. Not many people have tea, but those who do, do it earlier, like 3:30 to 4.

Arrowfar

I see. Nice.

J doh

Hello.

Whenever I have chicken rice (the boiled chicken and stock-seasoned rice dish), it's served with some kind of black sauce - like a reduced, sweetened soyasauce type thing. Does anyone know its name or, even better, how to make it?

Stephie

@rumtscho <shuffles over to the kitchen in search of coffee>

rumtscho

I don|t know the dish, but it vaguely reminds me of a question we had on main

ElendilTheTall

@Jdoh probably kecap manis

fussfreecooking.com/recipe-categories/meatless-recipes/…

J doh

12:53 PM

yes. That looks like it. Thanks

ElendilTheTall

no problem

Good catch ladies. @Stephie goes for coffee and @rumtscho goes bimbling off through the dusty archives

meanwhile some of us just answer the gosh darned question

:P

Stephie

We trusted you to handle it all by yourself...

ElendilTheTall

uh huh

Arrowfar

@Stephie @ElendilTheTall your avatars changed. they used to be lighter.

Stephie

@Arrowfar mine auto-changed. And no, I don't like it, but can't be bothered to do sth. about it.

Arrowfar

1:02 PM

heh they are not bad.

ElendilTheTall

yes, Stephie has gone for that lovely baby-poo brown

Stephie

Who stole my coffee filters ?!?

ElendilTheTall

uh oh

rumtscho

you have a coffee filter gremlin?

time for Turkish coffee!

Arrowfar

Hello @Cindy! I hope you are well.

Stephie

1:08 PM

@rumtscho I have children!

Arrowfar

Do you put sugar in your coffee? Some people find it yucky. I can't drink anything without sugar except water.

ElendilTheTall

1 sugar

rumtscho

ayran?

Stephie

@Arrowfar depends. Lots of milk: no sugar, little to no milk: sugar, generously so.

ElendilTheTall

I'd rather have milky coffee with no sugar than black coffee with lots

i dislike black coffee

Arrowfar

1:15 PM

Yeah ayran too heh.

Stephie

@ElendilTheTall how about espresso?

ElendilTheTall

nope

Arrowfar

I had to search "ayran". Here we call it "lassi".

Journeyman Geek

heh. I like my yogurt with salty things

rumtscho

I also like coffe with lots of cream but no sugar most, then black coffee. Coffee with sugar is not my style.

ElendilTheTall

1:17 PM

i don't mind the espresso with a little milk in it

Journeyman Geek

Like indian pickles.

coffee is 50/50ish, 2 spoons ;p

Arrowfar

Doesn't "ayran" seem an like american pronunciation of "Iran"?

rumtscho

Ah indeed, English doesn't have the tradition so it imports all the loanwords from the different places which have it

Journeyman Geek

that's eyeran, and eye-ran-ians.

rumtscho

but lassi can be sweet, can't it? I have seen fruity lassi

ayran is yogurt, water and salt

Stephie

1:18 PM

That was my first thought, too.

Arrowfar

Yeah it is tasty.

Journeyman Geek

@rumtscho it mugs other languages in the night, and rifles through their spare pockets for spare vocap

rumtscho

the first time I mentioned it here, all westerners were taken aback of drinking something salty

Journeyman Geek

Ah hah!

We call that neer moore. Or watery buttermilk

tho we often add some curry leaves and tempered mustard and other tasty things.

that said, most people are somewhat confused by the concept of yogurt rice

rumtscho

on the Balkans, Turkish ayran is drunk. It has no additions. Neither does yogurt, those fruit yogurts were unheard of before Western supermarkets started opening in the end of the 90s

we take our yogurt seriously.

Journeyman Geek

1:19 PM

lol

@rumtscho fruit yogurts are... very much an invention of people who don't get yogurt

rumtscho

I mean it. We have our own culture, Lactobacilicus Bulgaricus. Although nowadays, not many of the big producers are using it.

Journeyman Geek

ah yes

and I'm told the texture is very different

rumtscho

That guy who believed that yogurt is magic, Metchnikoff, was specifically talking about Bulgarian yogurt, at times where the US didn't know what yogurt is

the texture depends more on the milk and fermenting conditions than the culture itself

the culture has an influence too but it can produce different textures

it also tends to make more sour yogurt than the streptococi used in Western yogurts

ElendilTheTall

you can't beat a good tzatziki

Stephie

Magic yogurt? What kind of bacteria culture is that? ^_^

ElendilTheTall

1:23 PM

last time I was in Greece on holiday, lunch every day consisted of good crusty bread and a tub of tzatziki the size of a small dog

mmm-mm!

rumtscho

@Stephie "magic" in the sense of it being a superfood

magical beliefs about food are as old as human culture

Stephie

@rumtscho I was joking....

rumtscho

they actually served as a pretty reliable ingroup/outgroup marker in antiquity

@ElendilTheTall I am now imagining one of these squeeze bottles for bad honey, but shaped like a chihuahua instead of a bear

I am of course biased, but I prefer Snowwhite salad over tzatziki

less garlic, and it is made with fresh cucumber, not pickled

Stephie

@rumtscho another fairy thing?

rumtscho

@Stephie a fabulously tasty thing

Stephie

1:27 PM

Don't take me too seriously - I severely overdosed on lunch, parasympathicus in full reign and the coffee hasn't kicked in.

ElendilTheTall

@rumtscho no tzatziki I've ever had has used pickled cucumber

and as for 'less garlic'... what?!

you say that like it's a good thing

Stephie

1:53 PM

There is no too much garlic only too little.

Except for those cases where garlic doesn't fit at all, then it should be no garlic.

ElendilTheTall

@Stephie a woman after my own heart

Sobachatina

3:57 PM

@rumtscho I love ayran.

rumtscho

@Sobachatina me too. But I don't get that much occasion to drink it here, as it is a very cooling drink.

Sobachatina

I was given an interesting device for my birthday.

It's a controlled pressure cooker.

Not crazy.

But it has settings for steaming, soups, slow cooking, and rice cooking.

rumtscho

I think Jolene wants to buy one of those

Sobachatina

I'm thinking of getting rid of three appliances and just keeping this.

It's fantastic.

I make cacik regularly.

At least when cucumbers are in season.

The Greek version of the word sounds silly to me.

rumtscho

4:38 PM

I suppose it depends on which language you used when you heard it first

@Sobachatina do you still have goats?

Sobachatina

6:51 PM

Sadly no.

Moved away from the country

No goats but also no commute.

Jay

@Jolenealaska have you seen this yet? its super adorable

GUMBY IS REAL

►

the dogs name is Jolene also ;)

Stephie

7:16 PM

@ElendilTheTall pizza sauce, eh? Like your comment.

Catija

Pizza sauce is not that complicated...

Jefromi

7:59 PM

Well, they self deleted. They did eventually clarify that they made sauce from only tomatoes (not sure if canned or fresh) and it didn't come out well.

I think the "cook it long enough" comments were the answer they needed, shame they didn't ask clearly enough to get that as an answer.

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