kayb

@ Saria: That explains a lot, but I still like mine sweet.
Only now I can stop blaming restaurants.
@ CIBC: No, I haven't. Is this a recent movie? Like November/December recent? I don't think I ever heard about it prior to your post. It sounds like you are lucky to have found such a good BFF. I need to start saying "all the good ones are either taken or our BFF's."

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One of my coworkers walked in the other day and say "good morning, girls," so of course I jump up and say "'morning Charlie!" He didn't get it.

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I ain't thirsty. There's plenty of fish in the sea, but I don't want all of them, can I have some standards? Or do we just have to settle, for someone's who meh and will do.
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curlylaura

Damn you dislocated jaw/slipped face disk! Damn you!

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Fat does not make you fat. It's actually pretty important.

CurlyCanadian

I always buy lots when we're in the Dominican. Over Christmas I was at my parents and noticed my Mom almost had a full bottle left of what I had brought her. I stole it....hope she won't notice

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TRBL

I don't have to work today, I don't have to work today, I don't have to work today. (looking at the bright side )

I'm happy, and relieved and devastated, and betrayed.

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Its chaos a few hairs at a time. ~Minxy

Saria

Even when served for dessert, it's just lightly sweet. Once a pastry chef where I worked serve it with candied kumquats and huckleberry compote plus ice cream. It would be inedibly sweet in most cases if you made the batter sweeter. For breakfast/brunch, I tend to not like huge amounts of sugar; the French toast I mentioned earlier at one place was made with fennel raisin bread and served with the honey and lemon yogurt and powdered sugar. It was so good and didn't taste like a sugar bomb.
The sweetest batter you'll get is for torrijas, which is a Spanish French toast, rabanada, which is Brazilian, or one in which the bread is soaked in creme anglaise instead of a raw custard. The creme anglaise one is still not that sweet.
Brazilian rabanada has sweetened condensed milk in the custard. Heh, this is why Latin American sweets tend to not be my favorite --- lots of sugar.

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Saria

Xcptnl, just be careful about Mexican vanilla because it's not always a safe buy or a quality one. You need to have a reputable source.

Tahitian vanilla bean is probably my favorite, but they're all wonderful in different ways. Madagascar bourbon is that classic vanilla flavor, the one that complements and doesn't overpower. Mexican vanilla bean is more spicy and with that tropical sugar smell to it. And Tahitian just has that floral scent that makes it the standout flavor in a dessert. It's great for when you want something cleanly flavored and to taste of vanilla.

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Like.Australia

I'm sorry, TRBL. I hope that this brings you the peace and the time to find something better.

ninja dog

I accidentally set a salad (in a styrofoam container) on fire yesterday.

This is a new low, even for me.

SCG

For some reason, I went outside earlier to move my car from the street into our garage (because last night there was about a quarter inch of snow on our driveway, so of course my car couldn't make it!), and didn't put on gloves... I don't know why I didn't. Within like a minute, they were totally numb. But I still needed to put a Shop Vac in my trunk. So I proceeded to attempt to do that with numb hands.

Not only did I manage to cut my finger at some point, which I didn't feel until I got inside by the fire, but I also put the Shop Vac in my trunk at a funny angle, so a bunch of dust and junk from inside of it dumped out in my trunk.

All of this because I couldn't bring myself to put on a pair of gloves! *headdesk*

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"And death is at your doorstep
And it will steal your innocence
But it will not steal your substance
But you are not alone in this"

“My ability to turn good news into anxiety is rivaled only by my ability to turn anxiety into chin acne.” - Tina Fey

TRBL

Somehow I think there is an interesting story there

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cympreni

I've been up for an hour and a half. I've showered and drank like 3 cups of coffee. I still feel like I just drug my butt out of bed 2 minutes ago. My husband was sick last weekend, I blame him.

ninja dog

Well, I was letting my leftovers from the night before come to room temperature on the stove, and although I kept the bag containing said leftovers well away from a burner I was using to boil water for coffee, apparently the heat was enough to extend through the bag, melting the styrofoam, singeing the lettuce, and turning the cheese into an oozing rock of goo.

(The bag was on the stove to avoid the need for a new entry on "What Sadie-Kate ate.")

I just hope that the record notes that I tried to eat a salad yesterday, but was prevented by random circumstances.

Saria

Kasutera again. Bigger pan. Thought infusing the milk with some of my jasmine tea pearls would go great with the flavor of this delicate honey-sweetened cake. Too bad I have to wait a day to try it!

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TRBL

LOL I love this line

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Its chaos a few hairs at a time. ~Minxy

nynaeve77

ninjaroonie, you crack me up!

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ninja dog

Thanks, nynaeve.

I like your stories about your Dad a lot.

CanItBeChristine

It came out in May.

I had a friend I wanted to set him up with...this girl I was close to in middle school who moved and was thinking of moving back to NY. I was describing her and said, "Well, personality-wise, she's a lot like me...and we actually really look a like, too..."

He got this look on his face and went, "Wait. CIBC. Are you trying to tell me something?"

Yes, yes. I was going to set you up with a friend who was a lot like me...and then I was going to show-up! "I'd love to be there to make the introductions, but I can't make it...(wink). and then we'd meet by a waterfall and you'd say, 'I was HOPING it'd be you!'"

spring1onu

Melted salad. I love that story.

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Byron,GA> Charleston, SC> Jacksonville, FL> Guilford, CT> Rohnert Park, CA! A southern drawl in sunny Cali! .
The amount of time from slipping on the peel and landing on the pavement is exactly one bananosecond.
I do have a secret yen for pink in unexpected places. ~ninja dog
I've decided that I'll never get down to my original weight, and I'm OK with that--After all, 8 pounds 2 oz. is just not realistic.

ninja dog

I really was going to eat it. The night before a friend said, "You're taking these leftovers home. Every time I call you, you're eating cookies and complaining of a stomachache."

I was going to eat the salad and call her, leaving a message with crunching sounds on her voice mail. You know, just to have it on record that I do eat vegetables. I mean, I'm normal, in that I do prefer chocolate in every instance, but I like vegetables, in their.....you know, way.

Hard cheese for me, it seems (literally, since when that stuff cooled off, it was like a little yellow boulder --- blech).

WileE-Dead

I'm wondering the same thing about curlylaura's...