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11:00 PM

@aediaλ Yeah...Ok, so their not attending the Dem thing is not a beneficial thing in itself, but a corollary of the fact that people can't be at two places at the same time, right?

The article also seems to imply that the primary figures would be more public than the caucus ones, so the Dems want to give the Republicans as little info as possible about who's really likely to turn out

@aediaλ Wow, interesting! I wonder in which direction causality works here.

@Cerberus That and you're probably not allowed to vote in both

Mmm, peanut ginger stir-fry.

Sounds good except for the peanut part.

11:02 PM

@KitFox Oh, yummy...

@aediaλ OK.

@KitFox gives you freshly baked cookie

@Mahnax gives you another cookie

Stir-fry is quite possibly the best way to consume vegetables.

Baby boy says "Gah"

Aww.

@Cerberus Another?

11:03 PM

@Mahnax Another one than the one I had just distributed (to Kit).

Mommy says "Mommy's in chat"

Say hi from uncle Cerberus!

Baby boy says "Oh OH oh"

@KitFox Hi from unicornland!

@Cerberus Delicious thanks.

11:05 PM

@Cerberus Ohh.

nods

@aediaλ I'm going to try it without peanut sometime to see if it is suitable for my brother-in-law.

Ginger is strong enough to carry a dish!

So many typos today.

Baby boy waves.

11:07 PM

That would do it.

He's pointing at @aedia and making horse noises.

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Why is February so special? It has so few days.

@KitFox Clop clop clop neigh!

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@KitFox I wonder what noises he makes when he sees @cerb.

@JasperLoy Have a cookie!

11:11 PM

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omgpwnies!

Cute.

How old were you when you won the purple?

@JasperLoy oof oof oof

@Cerberus Oh, that's just a friend. I've always been pink'n'purple, though my hair has darkened a bit over the years.

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Mes biscuits.

drools, shields child's eyes

11:16 PM

@Mahnax Ohh very nice!

The lighting is a bit off, so that's not quite how they looked.

@Cerberus Merci!

They look much less fatty than mine.

@aediaλ Ohh I see!

Baby boy says "OH way oh ho, WOW!"

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@Mahnax Yum yum.

Haha!

11:17 PM

giggles

Oh! And something that sounded distinctly like "cookie!"

@Cerberus I made 40 cookies with around 1.2 kg of margarine.

@Mahnax What did you put in the dough?

@KitFox The internet has a bad influence on children, so much is clear.

@Cerberus Flour, baking soda, brown sugar, white sugar, margarine, vanilla, and chocolate chips.

Ahh...

How much flour?

11:18 PM

4 cups.

And how much sugar in total?

3 cups.

I'll write it out quickly if you like.

Hmm how much is 3 cups?

About 750 mL.

Huh, then your 1.2 kg margarine must be wrong?

11:19 PM

@Cerberus Yeah, hold on.

It should be about a pound, rather.

I used 1.5 cups of margarine.

I'm not sure where I got the 1.2 kg...

Here's the recipe:

(I doubled this)

2 cups flour mixed with 0.5 teaspoons of baking soda.

Ah that makes more sense.

In separate bowl, cream 0.75 cups melted margarine/butter with 1 cup of brown sugar and 0.5 cups of white.

Add two eggs and 1 tbsp vanilla to the sugar mixture.

Combine all, add 1 cup chocolate chips.

Or howmanyever survive your freshness sampling.

11:23 PM

The chocolate chips? I add the full cup, a little more, then just eat a "few" out of the bag.

Ugh. Now we're on to Marvel Action Hour. I wish the big brother wanted to watch more Avengers.

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@Mahnax They should sell your cookies at KFC.

@JasperLoy I do not think they would compliment the chicken, and I have no food permit.

I would love to, though.

You want the recipe for the peanut sauce?

Oh, yes!

11:25 PM

I'll get it. BRB.

Please, that is.

@KitFox Haha, exactly.

@Mahnax Why the separate bowl?

I just throw it all in the same bowl.

Heathen!

In fact, I threw it in my bread-maker.

groan

11:26 PM

LE GASP

@KitFox Oops! What will happen?

@Cerberus Death, hell, taxes!

You need to cream the butter and eggs, then fold the dry mixture into it.

Break-maker is great at kneading. It does all the work for me.

@Mahnax Not taxes!!

@KitFox Why?

Otherwise, you will end up with rockhard cookies.

11:27 PM

@Cerberus Aye, taxes!

My cookies aren't hard at all!

giggles

They're fine.

Sounds a bit like a myth, no offence...

Anyway, peanut-ginger sauce:

2 Tablespoons soy sauce

3 Tablespoons peanut butter (I like to use crunchy)

scribbles furiously in notebook

11:28 PM

1 Tablespoon brown sugar (or palm sugar if you happen to have it)

uses such Modern Ways as copy-pasting

points out that XP is hardly modern

Oh snap.

0.25 teaspoon ginger (dry powdered spice kind)

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@cerb I like the Windows 8 logo which you hate.

@Mahnax points to separate bowl

@KitFox Why no fresh ginger?

11:29 PM

1 teaspoon chili-garlic sauce for heat, or sri raacha, or just minced garlic if you don't like spice.

@JasperLoy It looks a bit like your logo!

@Cerberus I don't keep it on hand.

I'm not sure the fresh to dry proportion either.

@KitFox I always wonder whether fresh ginger makes much of a difference.

@Cerberus It tastes better.

1 Tablespoon lime juice, or white vinegar if you don't have any lime juice.

@Cerberus Kidding, I like XP too. If I have to use Windows, that is.

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11:30 PM

@Cerberus Yes blue and simple.

I've never used dry ginger in sauces: but is the difference really noticeable?

@KitFox Ohh no, use lime juice! I like!

@Cerberus Like the difference between powdered garlic and fresh.

Mm, lime juice.

Now you've gotten me all confused.

0.25 Cup water or chicken broth or coconut milk to thin the sauce.

@KitFox Which do you use?

11:33 PM

Anyway, peanut-ginger sauce:
2 Tablespoons soy sauce
3 Tablespoons peanut butter (I like to use crunchy)
1 Tablespoon brown sugar (or palm sugar if you happen to have it)
0.25 teaspoon ginger (dry powdered spice kind)
1 teaspoon chili-garlic sauce for heat, or sri raacha, or just minced garlic if you don't like spice.
1 Tablespoon lime juice, or white vinegar if you don't have any lime juice.
0.25 Cup water or chicken broth or coconut milk to thin the sauce.

There.

Mmm.

Ah, all in one place.

Let me know if it turns out to be good sans peanut.

@Mahnax I use water, so that it is veggie. It's not enough to bother opening a can of coconut milk.

@KitFox I'm actually not so sure about that either. Of course everyone wants you to use fresh garlic, and I normally use that; but I have this faint suspicion that it doesn't matter much in certain sauces. On bruschette, it needs to be fresh, of course.

11:34 PM

@KitFox Ah, okay.

@KitFox Aww I had just copy-pasted all the lines.

However, you can adapt the recipe to make a very nice masamun curry.

@Cerberus If it's a simmered sauce, it doesn't matter much, but I still notice sometimes.

@aediaλ It's a big amount of the sauce, so I'm not sure what to substitute.

Part of me wants to try almond butter, but that's probably a mistake.

Hm, could one add sesame oil? Would that clash?

@KitFox Hmm OK. Have you ever experimented side by side? I would like to do that sometime.

@Mahnax Sesame oil would be a great addition.

@Cerberus giggles

11:36 PM

@KitFox Ah, okay. If I make it, then I will add a little to see what happens.

@KitFox Hmm. That other thing I can't think of that's in my fridge right now that's like hummus but not really?

Cooking is often so unscientific!

shakes brain trying to make the word come out

Actually, you could do your stir fry in sesame oil.

@Cerberus It’s a craft.

11:37 PM

@aediaλ Garbanzo beans?

Sesame paste?

No the other thing that's in hummus... yeah that!

Tahini!

Thank you!

I was picturing the jar, but couldn't remember the word.

It's pretty gross in large quantities.

It is disgusting if you try to eat it by itself and I don't like the smell when I open it either, but then it becomes awesome when it goes with other stuff.

Well, I have a bit of stuff to get done, back later.

I have a recipe that uses like 1/3 cup of tahini in a sauce with a lemon and onion and garlic and maybe a couple other things, and it all goes over roasted veggies like broccoli/cauliflower, and it's awesome.

Except I haven't figured out the presentation because no matter whether you mix it with or pour it over the veggies it all looks kinda brown/lumpy/gross. But tastes yummy.

11:40 PM

@JonPurdy That, too!

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@aediaλ I just learnt that houmous=hummus!=humus.

@aediaλ drools

@aediaλ Probably tahini and a little something else would make it come out OK.

BRB

Maybe just 2 T tahini and 1 more T of brown sugar.

Mmm, brown sugar.

I love eating the lumps.

11:43 PM

Mmm.

OK, must put the birthday boy to bed.

See you later.

Night!

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@KitFox Good night little Kit!

There, stuffs be done.

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@Mahnax Wow what sentence is that?

@JasperLoy A poorly constructed, incorrect one.

user19161

11:52 PM

@Mahnax You seem to be issuing the command "Be done" to your stuff.

@JasperLoy I am declaring that the stuff is done.

user19161

Just stare at the flour, say "Be done" and it will turn into cookies. QED.

That is not how one properly uses QED.

user19161

The OED has detected my use of QED here and it will soon enter their electronic database.

I am harbouring massive doubts about that.

Your use of QED is incorrect. QED is used at the end of a document (usually mathematical in nature) after re-stating a thesis of sorts that was previously stated at the beginning of the document. You use QED incorrectly. QED.

11:56 PM

Technically, if a statement is self-evident, then a proof consisting only of that statement follows the usual format, and can thus end with QED.

user19161

Well, my QED here simply means "case closed".

@JonPurdy Okay, but his comment was not self-evident, ergo the QED is invalid.

user19161

No need to discuss a joke so seriously.

user19161

Unless the discussion is also a joke.

Nah, it just bothers me, haha.

user19161

11:59 PM

I think Oreo cookies are good.

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