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Somebody remix that Samwell song with Kyle's mom going "whatwhatWHAT?" plz thx.

Oh hell yes.

Ned, I don't think I've EVER started an ILM thread!

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 16 February 2007 16:00 (seventeen years ago) link

HERE'S YOUR CHANCE

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 16 February 2007 16:01 (seventeen years ago) link

I want to go back in time to Michael White's wedding reception.

And I want some King Cake! Yum. (Did you make it yourself Sam? Also - is it already that close to Lent? Whoa.)

I have a take home test to do over the weekend. BLAH.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Friday, 16 February 2007 16:08 (seventeen years ago) link

(Did you make it yourself Sam? Also - is it already that close to Lent? Whoa.)

HA!

In fact I shouldn't even call it a king cake as I bought it at the grocery store. oh the shame. I just wanted to bring something in this morning since my boss is letting me leave early. I've had three slices already and still no baby!

(yes it's almost lent. My aunt and uncle are leaving for NOLA in the morning. so jealous.)

― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Friday, 16 February 2007 16:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Wait, what's a king cake? Is it like a cake served at epiphany?

― Michael White (Miguelito), Friday, 16 February 2007 16:18 (seventeen years ago) link

The king cakes I've had always have a delicious almond filling; I think the cake itself is kind of like a sweet yeast bread, isn't it? (It's been too long!) They were also decorated with purple sugar on top. Oh yeah, and there's a charm inside - is it a little plastic baby Sam? - that, if you get it, you are "king" for the day.

I hope I'm remembering that all right.

Usually served near Mardi Gras, I think.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Friday, 16 February 2007 16:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh yeah, and you can get a kit to make one through the Baker's Catalog aka kingarthurflour.com. Highly recommended! (Maybe it's too late to do that this year - maybe *I* should go to the bakery...)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Friday, 16 February 2007 16:22 (seventeen years ago) link

In Louisiana: any time from Twelfth Night to Mardi Gras -- they're traditionally cinnamon and on the dry side, but then they started making cream cheese and praline ones, and now they've got 40 flavors like everything else. Find the baby in your piece, and you have to buy the next one. (During a long Carnival season, offices go through a lot of king cakes.)

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 16 February 2007 16:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Every time I read this thread I wind up hungry.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Friday, 16 February 2007 16:26 (seventeen years ago) link

Don't even get me started -- I went grocery shopping last night and today is a flurry of kitchen activity with gusts of Coca-Cola.

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 16 February 2007 16:32 (seventeen years ago) link

... well, and work.

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 16 February 2007 16:32 (seventeen years ago) link

i def. want a real king cake now. this ones way too sweet. it's got some sort of pecan-y filling and insanely sugary icing, then purple, yellow and green sugar pony beads on top. ack!

― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Friday, 16 February 2007 16:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Wow, that does sound too sweet. I just want the almond filling from the Baker's Catalog (I make no claims as to "real" or "not real"). Almond filling is almost as awesome as dark chocolate...

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Friday, 16 February 2007 16:37 (seventeen years ago) link

'Cause in France you make galette des rois for epiphany (twelfth night). It's usually pâte feuilletée willed with frangipane. If you get the fève ( literally fava bean, but now they're made of porcelain. *) you're officially the king of the party and have to host next year's. It's said that the fava bean they used has its cultural origin in Saturnalia, the 'king' of many Roman feasts being elected by having the most beans depositied in his urn.

― Michael White (Miguelito), Friday, 16 February 2007 16:37 (seventeen years ago) link

You are all making me too hungry. Happily I am having Persian cuisine tonight. And Brazilian tomorrow. All is well.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 16 February 2007 16:38 (seventeen years ago) link

willed with frangipane

Found poetry!

― Michael White (Miguelito), Friday, 16 February 2007 16:40 (seventeen years ago) link

that page is in french!

― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Friday, 16 February 2007 16:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Well, yeah. There is a link there to 'king cake, though.

― Michael White (Miguelito), Friday, 16 February 2007 16:45 (seventeen years ago) link

In Expiation, Sam. ;)

― Michael White (Miguelito), Friday, 16 February 2007 18:51 (seventeen years ago) link

You know, sometimes I really hate people.

― luna (luna), Friday, 16 February 2007 18:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Is that who I think it is on that thread, lune?

― Michael White (Miguelito), Friday, 16 February 2007 19:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Ha, and here I thought luna had a serious hatred of French!

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Friday, 16 February 2007 19:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Beats me.

Haha - no, if that was true Sara, I'd be disowned. It's bad enough that I don't like lobster.

― luna (luna), Friday, 16 February 2007 19:17 (seventeen years ago) link

I should say, I thought it was, M., but now ???

I was referring to my bosses being helpless bitches with my hate post, though.

― luna (luna), Friday, 16 February 2007 19:19 (seventeen years ago) link

I just spruced up my killfile so it does this:

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b288/lasttycoon/killfile2.jpg
and I hate people less as a result.

Real life killfile takes 30 days to finish loading, though.

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 16 February 2007 19:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Don't like lobster?! So sad. :(

(My husband doesn't like it either, though.)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Friday, 16 February 2007 19:26 (seventeen years ago) link

It's doubly worse for me because my dad's family is from Maine.

― luna (luna), Friday, 16 February 2007 19:35 (seventeen years ago) link

You are traumatizing me!

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Friday, 16 February 2007 19:37 (seventeen years ago) link

ohhhh king cake. I gotta get some. like as soon as the kid's up from nap. and paczki.

it's neat to live in a city that gets into mardi gras.

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 16 February 2007 19:42 (seventeen years ago) link

I miss paczki, but Bloomington was really inconsistent about them and I didn't even manage to get them every year I was there.

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 16 February 2007 19:44 (seventeen years ago) link

My sister isn't fond of crab and when we have crab feeds, we make her something else. Strangely, however, she likes to pick the flesh out of the shell which she then deposits on my plate. Such a good sister.

― Michael White (Miguelito), Friday, 16 February 2007 20:52 (seventeen years ago) link

You know, I really wish there was a way to disassociate myself from "take her dude" because I found it completely offensive at the time, and as it turns out, still do.

― luna (luna), Friday, 16 February 2007 21:22 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm trying to figure out a way to befriend your sister, Michael, and then get her to go out for seafood with me.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Friday, 16 February 2007 21:50 (seventeen years ago) link

She likes lobster, though, Sara.

She's in tight with an exquisite (one michelin star) sushi restaurant in Sausalito down the street from her business called Sushi Ran.

― Michael White (Miguelito), Friday, 16 February 2007 22:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Worth it just for the extra crab! ;)

Mmmmm sushi. And in the Bay Area, too. I'm so envious I could cry! (But I won't because it would just be embarrassing.)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Friday, 16 February 2007 22:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Good monday! How was everyone's weekend?

I've never had lobster mostly b/c the way they are cooked horrifys me. I have had crab though and I suppose they are cooked the same way? Didn't really like it anyway.

we tore up our kitchen all weekend. New cabinets came in Friday and one wall's worth was installed along with the new dishwasher! Haven't had a dishwasher in two years so this is exciting. After this week though I will be without a kitchen sink for about a month, not good.

Other than painting I mostly supplied support and good ideas (re: how to actually install the cabinets.) G. tore shit up and discovered he had to not only reroute more pipes but install NEW 2X4s in the walls. Replacing main pieces of the basic house structure really defines this renov. as top to bottom. more pics later.

― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Monday, 19 February 2007 14:57 (seventeen years ago) link

My Girl Scout cookies came today! I ended up baking cookies this weekend, but I refuse to be over-cookied. One can never have too many cookies.

― molly mummenschanz (molly d), Monday, 19 February 2007 16:08 (seventeen years ago) link

Remember, Sam, one eats oysters ALIVE!

― Michael White (Miguelito), Monday, 19 February 2007 16:19 (seventeen years ago) link

ewww! I've never eaten those either. (do they move while you eat them?)

― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Monday, 19 February 2007 16:23 (seventeen years ago) link

No.

― Michael White (Miguelito), Monday, 19 February 2007 16:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Y'all feel free to leave the lobster, crab and oysters to me. I always dreamed of getting gout.

― Michael White (Miguelito), Monday, 19 February 2007 16:25 (seventeen years ago) link

I am a fan of most seafood, except scallops. The texture and lack of distinctive taste (at least, to me) doesn't do it for me. When I was a little kid, however, the family would take trips up to Kennebunkport every summer. I would, at age 6, put away a whole plate of steamed clams. I can still do this.

― molly mummenschanz (molly d), Monday, 19 February 2007 16:29 (seventeen years ago) link

I'll help you, M.
I MISS DUNGENESS CRABS SOOOOO MUCH, WAAAAAAH.

― Bellicose Veins (Rock Hardy), Monday, 19 February 2007 16:30 (seventeen years ago) link

http://media.laredoute.fr/product/picture/20130752o_aix.jpg

― Michael White (Miguelito), Monday, 19 February 2007 16:32 (seventeen years ago) link

http://media.laredoute.fr/product/picture/20130752o_aix.jpg

http://static.flickr.com/76/204323335_bd236e62a4.jpg

― Michael White (Miguelito), Monday, 19 February 2007 16:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Dinner last night at Betelnut was SO good.

― Michael White (Miguelito), Monday, 19 February 2007 16:36 (seventeen years ago) link

I'll be right over. (xp)

― Bellicose Veins (Rock Hardy), Monday, 19 February 2007 16:36 (seventeen years ago) link

serious question: has anyone else considered leaving email/login passwords with other essential info in case of your death? I'd want someone to be able to go online and "clean up my affairs", what there are of them at least.

― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Monday, 19 February 2007 16:39 (seventeen years ago) link

wrong thread. continute shellfish talk. :)

― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Monday, 19 February 2007 16:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Hell, yeah, Rock!

In the west of France they serve weird stuff like bulots (whelks) and bigorneaux (periwinkles). Mmmmmmm.

― Michael White (Miguelito), Monday, 19 February 2007 16:42 (seventeen years ago) link

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