The Frying Pan

derobert

10:00 PM

@Jay having an open container of alcohol in the driver's reach is often illegal...

Mien

It's legal here.

You can have 2 regular beers.

Or a small glass of wine or something.

Jay

lol ok

I guess ill just wait till i go home

Mien

But I think they're making it illegal for youngsters.

Jay

@Mien i bought a 24 pack of hoegaarden!'

i cant wait to drink it

Mien

Congrats.

rfusca

10:00 PM

like there's this one about two horses racing and you go on about all their races and such and at the end this unknown dog comes up and wants to help them reconcile their differences so he starts talking with them and the joke ends with 'what do you know... a talking dog'

Mien

I'm not a very huge fan of hoegaarden.

Do you have Hoegaarden Grand Cru?

Because that is one tasty beer!

It's not a white beer.

Jay

@Mien I like its flowery fruity taste

rfusca

the stroganoff last night was great!

Jay

@Mien no i only got the reg ones

Mien

We also have Hoegaarden rosé, but that's waaaaaaaaaaay too sweet and fruity.

Sobachatina

10:02 PM

@rfusca What was the recipe again? Did you post it yesterday?

Mien

It's like a smoothie of strawberries with a layer of foam on top.

derobert

/me turns on the "WARNING: ROOM ON TOPIC" light

rfusca

@Sobachatina no, let me go find it

Sobachatina

@derobert It's ok- it looks like @gigili isn't around so it won't spoil our reputation.

derobert

@Sobachatina well, that's true, as long as we don't starbait too much on-topic material. Yesterday half the star list was on-topic, that can't be repeated.

rfusca

10:04 PM

@sob there ya go

its from e-mealz.com

Sobachatina

That looks excellent. Thank you! Perhaps I can kill one more culinary phantom from my childhood.

rfusca

i didn't do it in the slow cooker though, in the DO

Sobachatina

My nemesis liver and onions remains unchallenged. I still run away crying.

rfusca

and I did stock instead of broth

Sobachatina

@rfusca DO?

rfusca

10:06 PM

but otherwise pretty much that

dutch oven

Sobachatina

ok.

Mien

@rfusca how strong is the paprika flavour?

Jay

ok im going home to get drunk now

bye

rfusca

i made it right before bed, and stuck it in the oven at 225 while I slept. Woke up, cooled it down, and then put it in the fridge till dinner.

anything slow cooked like that really benefits from a cool down and reheat

@Mien not very at all

Mien

Cool, it's doable for me too then :)

rfusca

10:08 PM

i bought a chuck roast and cut it, it worked out well

@Mien cool!

Mien

I might try it first for just mr. bf and me though :)

rfusca

sure

i took some to my dad and he even called to see if I could bring more that he liked it so much

Mien

Haha, that's cool :)

I like it when I try something new and a person takes a second serving :)

rfusca

yup

the wife was really hesitant to try it, cuz she had bad childhood memories of it

and she had seconds and took leftovers for lunch today

i cut that 80% baguette recipe in half and it was still too much

Mien

I won't use beef broth, but I'll use a cube and water instead. I don't think this will give problems with the sour cream?

@rfusca It's on my to-do list :)

ElendilTheTall

10:13 PM

bah, stroganoff isn't supposed to be a stew

evening everyone by the way

rfusca

@Mien dissolve the cube first and then add it, and its fine

@ElendilTheTall it didn't really come out stew like

Mien

hi @ElendilTheTall

I thought stroganoff was a sauce to be honest.

with wodka.

ElendilTheTall

brandy!

rfusca

it was beef and gravy like

ElendilTheTall

I wonder why it's served with noodles in America?

I think the standard elsewhere is rice

rfusca

10:15 PM

i'm sure it would have have, but I'm not cooking with alcohol now and I don't think anything from e-mealz.com has alcohol in it

@ElendilTheTall hmm, always seen it with egg noodles here

ElendilTheTall

always seen it with rice here :)

egg noodles are a Chinese thing AFAIC

rfusca

here was this week's e-mealz list

ElendilTheTall

I'm not sure if Caleb's comment here: cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/21650/… is snippy or not...

Mien

@ElendilTheTall C = care?

Sobachatina

@ElendilTheTall Yeah- I couldn't tell if he was being sarcastic or not.

Awesome answer by the way.

ElendilTheTall

10:17 PM

Thanks @Sobachatina

rfusca

ElendilTheTall

What difference would barometric pressure make, the water needs to be 80ºC regardless of pressure

rfusca

i'm pretty sure Mercury needs to be in retrograde for that to work.

Sobachatina

@ElendilTheTall Yeah I think he's joking.

Either that or he has some strange personal grudge against Blumethal.

ElendilTheTall

Indeed. Well, I've updated it anyway

@mien AFAIC = As far as I'm concerned

gtg shape some bagels. Didn't realise the sponge was made same day >.<

Mien

10:22 PM

k :)

@Sobachatina Or against Elendil.

Pff, I have to go to a hippie party tomorrow but I don't have hippie clothes.

Any advice?

ElendilTheTall

But I'm as mild mannered and friendly as they come...

Mien

Oh, and I'm not going naked. :p

ElendilTheTall

@mien tie-dye a t-shirt

Sobachatina

@ElendilTheTall I like that you added the chicken species. THat's important.

Mien

@ElendilTheTall Oh good idea. But I don't want to go to the store.

rumtscho

10:24 PM

@Mien nothing with flowers on it?

Mien

I might have an old tie-dye shirt somewhere.

@rumtscho I hope not.

Sobachatina

I'm going to post a followup question now. "I now know how to poach chicken eggs but how do I poach my quail eggs! Help!"

Mien

I have a very hippie-like pair of sunglasses :)

rumtscho

If your mother has a wide skirt with flowers, maybe you can clip it with a safety pin to fit you.

Mien

And I'll do a ribbon in my hair.

My mom's asleep now, I'll look in her closet tomorrow.

But I don't like skirts :p

Cerberus

10:25 PM

Hey I've baked my bananas and made them into a shake!

It's great!

Better taste and less slimy.

rumtscho

You have to make a sacrifice if you want to blend in with the hippies.

Cerberus

I used green-tipped bananers; next time I will use all green ones.

rfusca

@Sobachatina "I'd like to know how to do the perfect ostrich poached egg...in space"

rumtscho

Else, you will have to find flared-bottom trousers. You are probably too young to have some from the last time they were in.

@rfusca You mean, "in a boat"

@Cerberus Baked in the oven?

This recipe said to do them in a pan on stovetop.

Cerberus

Oh, yes, in a pan on fire.

Got a beautiful golden-brown coating.

rumtscho

10:27 PM

Which reminds me to drink my last shake.

Cerberus

I could just have eaten the bananas whole.

Ahh you sneaky...you made several portions!

rumtscho

Did you use ice cream or whipped cream?

Cerberus

Whipped cream.

rumtscho

@Cerberus I made the portion described in the recipe.

Cerberus

I'm not a huge fan of icecream.

@rumtscho Hmm I'll let it pass this time.

rumtscho

10:28 PM

When used with a 300 ml glass half-full of ice cream, it produces 3 glasses.

Or maybe my glasses are 250, not sure any more.

Cerberus

I am very, very bad at sticking with recipes.

I usually think, "oh, I can also do it this way, that's easier".

rumtscho

I don't stick with them either.

Mien

@rumtscho But I don't want to! :(

rfusca

recipes, especially for non-baked things are suggestions

rumtscho

@Mien don't want to make a sacrifice, or don't want to blend in with the hippies?

Cerberus

10:30 PM

Yeah but some people insist on following them to the letter.

Mien

Both actually :p

rumtscho

@Cerberus Normally, I stick to the rules for everything. But in some areas, I know better than the rules.

Mien

@rumtscho Wow, and you're a mod....

Cerberus

I always think I know better than the rules.

Even when I don't.

ElendilTheTall

I usually follow a recipe fairly strictly first time round, then modify based on the results

rumtscho

10:31 PM

@mien wear your hair down and bind a leather cord across your forehead. Should be enough, even if you are wearing jeans and a single-color t-shirt.

Mien

@rumtscho Yes, that's what I'll do if I don't find anything else.

But I really like the glasses.

Cerberus

@ElendilTheTall I can't even manage to control myself that little!

Sobachatina

@rfusca You'd have to poach an ostrich egg in a hot tub.

Mien

Almost exactly the same :)

@ElendilTheTall Yep, me too.

rumtscho

@Mien give us a pic of yourself, not of Ozzy.

Mien

10:33 PM

Maybe one from the party.

rumtscho

Or, wait with the picture until you are ready for the party.

Mien

Last party was a disco party. Horrible.

rumtscho

@Mien why are you going to these parties at all?

Mien

My bf was disgusting :D

@rumtscho Housewarming parties.

rumtscho

@Mien how so?

Mien

10:34 PM

The first couple started with a dresscode, now they all do it.

@rumtscho I'll post a pic if you want...

rumtscho

and you sit by and tell them "wait for my party? And each t-shirt has to have been bought and worn at a concert?"

@Mien of course I want to see it, you know I am curious about everything

rfusca

@Sobachatina sounds doable

rumtscho

oh, another chicken absorbs salt question.

With each question added, I am more convinced that he has some crazy idea about the chicken getting full of salt from the water.

Mien

imgur.com/n7yCa

But I'll delete it in a few minutes :)

ElendilTheTall

dammit, too many bagels, not enough pans

2

Mien

10:39 PM

He normally doesn't look like that.

ElendilTheTall

@mien that's what I think of when I think 'Belgian'

Mien

Good :D

rfusca

dang, mr 'salty chicken' is back

Mien

No stereotypes here.

rfusca

how many ways can you ask about salt, chicken, and soup

ElendilTheTall

10:40 PM

how many questions can you ask about bread?

:P

Mien

:D

@rumtscho can I delete it?

rumtscho

@Mien yes, you can

rfusca

@ElendilTheTall MILLIONS

rumtscho

Thank you for posting.

Mien

Good.

Don't tell him ;)

ElendilTheTall

10:41 PM

what can I do with these extra bagels?

Mien

@rfusca I challenge you!

ElendilTheTall

can I freeze them?

rumtscho

But yes, not the most flattering outfit.

rfusca

yes

you should be able to

ElendilTheTall

form them first?

rfusca

10:41 PM

i probably would

Sobachatina

@ElendilTheTall That's what I think of when I think "New Jersey mob".

Mien

@Sobachatina Now what would that make me? :(

Sobachatina

@Mien Unfortunate?

ElendilTheTall

@Sobachatina naw, this guy's your archetypal Belgian "Hey fellush, how you doink? Letsh go and haff some friesh and beers ja!"

Mien

I can live with that.

ElendilTheTall

10:42 PM

;)

rumtscho

@Mien I was on the verge of saying that he looks like an unsuccessful pimp, but then decided that you don't want to hear it.

Mien

@rumtscho I think that's what he was going for.

Sobachatina

@rumtscho The "unsuccessful" would be particularly insulting.

rumtscho

@Mien Really? I would have gone for successful pimp.

Mien

Well, he was my pimp...

That causes the 'unsuccesful' perhaps.

rfusca

10:44 PM

i gotta figure out how to make a healthier chicken nugget that my kind will eat

Cerberus

@ElendilTheTall Sounds more like German!

ElendilTheTall

this looks good gilttaste.com/stories/…

rumtscho

What, you wouldn't turn tricks if your bf asks you to? How prude.

Mien

@rfusca Boil it in water and ask a question about it.

Cerberus

Except the haff.

ElendilTheTall

10:44 PM

@Cerberus German would be "YOU WILL COME VISS ME AND VE WILL DRINK BEERS, SCHNELL!"

Cerberus

Hahahaha yes!

ElendilTheTall

I jest of course, Germans are lovely people

Cerberus

That is even more German.

rumtscho

@ElendilTheTall There's no urgency in German beer drinking. It is done leisurly.

Cerberus

@ElendilTheTall No need for the PC crap!

This is Europe!

ElendilTheTall

10:45 PM

My wife has a German pen-friend who stayed with us a while back

she was nice, but her sense of humour was completely different to ours

Cerberus

Hmm.

Where do you live?

ElendilTheTall

British humour is generally quite sarcastic and dry

Cerberus

Oh, yes. Let's say Germans just lack the humour gene.

It's not their fault. They are hard workers.

rumtscho

@ElendilTheTall another recipe which calls paneer ricotta?

ElendilTheTall

So I would say something sarcastic "Wow, that guy's got a great haircut", say, and she would pick it apart

rumtscho

10:47 PM

It could be tasty, but the misnomer bugs me.

ElendilTheTall

"Really, you think it's great? Why is it great? I thought it was not good."

Cerberus

@ElendilTheTall It could also be because of the language.

Mien

@Cerberus you were from the Netherlands, correct?

ElendilTheTall

@rumtscho what's the difference between paneer and ricotta?

rumtscho

@ElendilTheTall ricotta is made from whey, not milk

Sobachatina

10:48 PM

@rumtscho I agree.

rumtscho

The taste is different too.

Cerberus

@Mien Correct!

And you?

Mien

@Cerberus Hmmm, I'm sorry, but I'm supposed to hate you.

Cerberus

Are you Spanish?

Mien

I'm not.

Cerberus

10:48 PM

Belgian?

ElendilTheTall

@rumtscho so you could take the whey from making paneer and use it to make ricotta?

Mien

Do Spanish people hate Dutchies?

Yes :)

4 europeans now!

Sobachatina

That's funny- if someone said that they were supposed to hate me I wonder what groups I would assume.

Mien

We have a majority I think

ElendilTheTall

We're taking over slowly

rumtscho

10:49 PM

@ElendilTheTall I don't think so, I think you need another whey. From yogurt or so.

Cerberus

Well, we shook of the Spanish yoke. Which means our guilders stopped streaming into their pockets.

Sobachatina

@ElendilTheTall And sarcastically.

rumtscho

Must check it, I think McGee describes it in detail.

ElendilTheTall

You might say we're taking over A MILLIMETRE AT A TIME

bwaahahhahhah

Sobachatina

@rumtscho Yogurt whey doesn't work.

Mien

10:50 PM

@ElendilTheTall Oh wow :D

I had to think twice.

Cerberus

@Mien The funny thing is, we don't hate Belgians at all. we just think they're dumb, or at best cute.

Sobachatina

Yogurt is already heated to 90F to denature the albumin before it is fermented. There's nothing left for the ricotta.

rumtscho

@ElendilTheTall If you now say "We are at every kilometre", I would be genuinely worried.

Mien

@Cerberus I know you think that, that's why we hate you.

And because of your gierigheid.

Cerberus

Oh, so that's it!

Mien

10:50 PM

I can't come up with the correct english word.

Cerberus

Yes, we are gierig.

ElendilTheTall

Though as a Brit I occupy a Swiss-like neutral-zone between Imperial and Metric

Mien

I know you are!

Cerberus

Niggardly?

Mean?

Miserly?

Mien

And with all your kroketten in the wall... Crazy Dutchies.

agenerous?

ElendilTheTall

10:51 PM

Tight is how we'd say it in Britain

rumtscho

@ElendilTheTall There is nothing Imperial about Switzerland.

@Mien Kroketten in the wall?

Mien

Eager!

ElendilTheTall

@rumtscho measurement systems :P

Mien

@rumtscho Yes.

Cerberus

But hey, while you were building your indoor airports and air-holed condoms, we invented copper wire!

rumtscho

10:52 PM

Is this an expression, or a reference to something which actually happens?

Mien

@Cerberus So now you're stealing it all back?

(we have a lot of copper thieves in Belgium now)

rumtscho

@Cerberus air-holed condoms? Sounds bad.

Cerberus

@Mien Are we? I thought it was the Poles...

ElendilTheTall

I believe Belgium also gave the world the pedal wheelchair

Cerberus

@rumtscho Uhuh. It is a typical "Belgian" joke we make here.

Mien

10:53 PM

We gave the world a lot.

ElendilTheTall

Tintin

Sobachatina

And I believe we already mentioned today the sheer joy of Belgian waffles.

ElendilTheTall

Chocolate

Mien

Yes.

Cerberus

The copper wire is a "Dutch" joke the Belgians make.

ElendilTheTall

10:53 PM

Waffles

2 dutchmen fighting over a penny?

Mien

@Cerberus Do we?

ElendilTheTall

We have the same joke about Scots

Cerberus

We invented the wire when we were fighting over a copper and pulled at it from two sides.

@ElendilTheTall Ding!

ElendilTheTall

I saw a Scotsman drop a coin once; he bent over so fast it hit him on the back of the head

Mien

Oh I see. I don't think I've heard it.

Cerberus

10:54 PM

@Mien You don't know it?

Mien

Well, I'm a Belgian, so I'm stupid.

ElendilTheTall

It's all the beer

Cerberus

@ElendilTheTall Haha, nice. Yes, our Calvinist north-eastern friends shares our values.

@Mien Goes without saying.

Mien

@Cerberus do you like Heineken?

Cerberus

@Mien Sure!

But I like Jupiler too.

rumtscho

10:55 PM

@Mien ouch, this was mean.

Cerberus

Oh, and Wieckse Witte!

Mien

I hate Heineken, but Dommelsch (?) and Grolsch are drinkable.

@Cerberus A white beer?

Cerberus

Correct.

@Mien Yeah, isn't it Belgian?

It's great.

ElendilTheTall

I drank a (non-alcoholic) Dutch beer just tonight

Mien

@Cerberus I don't know, we have a lot of beers :p

rfusca

10:56 PM

@Mien btw, whats the third kind of waffle. you said two, but they were the two I knew

Mien

@rfusca Ah yes, I was searching for the correct place name.

It's not as good as the other two.

It's eaten cold

Just like a cookie or something

It's a soft waffle.

rfusca

odd

Cerberus

@ElendilTheTall Eww...why?

Mien

I'll search a pic.

rfusca

i need to find a recipe for liége waffles

Cerberus

10:57 PM

@Mien grudgingly, toe-turningly admits that you win there

rumtscho

@rfusca we have one linked

very involved

Mien

@Cerberus Cool :D

ElendilTheTall

@Cerberus I don't drink alcohol

rfusca

@rumtscho really?

i think i'd have trouble getting pearl sugar

derobert

Hmmm.

Cerberus

10:58 PM

@ElendilTheTall Oh...then why bother with beer?

derobert

Dare I post on meta, "Shall we declare salting chicken off-topic"?

ElendilTheTall

@Cerberus Makes a change from Coke or fruit juice

Cerberus

@ElendilTheTall Hmm...I only ever drink water, tea, wine, and beer.

Well, occasionally other stuff.

ElendilTheTall

but not all at once?

:)

Cerberus

They make a lovely lukewarm shake together.

rfusca

10:59 PM

@derobert seriously

Cerberus

Especially with a hint of fish oil and soap.

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