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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

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

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― 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

M., if I weren't saving and planning for Amsterdam in Sept., I would be taking trips to SF and Chicago this year. I'm shooting for '08.

― Bellicose Veins (Rock Hardy), Monday, 19 February 2007 16:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Just let me know when you're out here.

We could go to Swan's Oyster Depot.

― Michael White (Miguelito), Monday, 19 February 2007 16:53 (seventeen years ago) link

You're supposed to eat oysters alive?! I had no idea!

Molly, I'm so happy to hear that someone else on earth does not love scallops. I find them to be rubbery and tasteless, too, and just don't see what everyone else loves about them.

Sam - it sounds like you had a crazy busy weekend.

Um - good morning to all!

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Monday, 19 February 2007 16:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Scallops well-cooked are excelLent but many places serve frozen scallops and then cook them 'til they have the consistency of rubber = DO NOT WANT!

Gm, Sara.

― Michael White (Miguelito), Monday, 19 February 2007 16:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Hmmm, maybe my hatred of scallops is connected to the fact that I live in a place where no scallops dwell...

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Monday, 19 February 2007 16:58 (seventeen years ago) link

My mother used to get the frozen scallops and I think that's what made me not love them.

Ben cooked some gigantic fresh ones up and wrapped them in BACON for New Year's Eve. We ended up getting sick.

They tasted much better, but I took that as a sign: No scallops for Molly.

― molly mummenschanz (molly d), Monday, 19 February 2007 17:01 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't know if I've ever had scallops. I should widen my area of food consumption. Perhaps when have our brand-new shiny kitchen I shall become a true gourmet!

― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Monday, 19 February 2007 17:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Scallops are beautiful when prepared right. Also when barely prepared at all (ie at the sushi bar).

― Bellicose Veins (Rock Hardy), Monday, 19 February 2007 17:04 (seventeen years ago) link

I am no good at cooking fish. I'd much rather have someone else do it for me.

Oh, and while I love smoked salmon, I must admit: salmon steaks do nothing for me either.

And this has been today's episode of "Molly's Seafood Dislikes."

― molly mummenschanz (molly d), Monday, 19 February 2007 17:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Salmon is much better raw, in my experience. I love raw salmon when I have sushi. (I am sure that I shouldn't feel this way, but it's true.) Mmmmm smoked salmon.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Monday, 19 February 2007 17:08 (seventeen years ago) link

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This is exactly the terrible device that caused me to suffer from horrible food poisoning during my one and only business trip to Cannes - and since I had 38 meetings booked and no-one to take my place I had to soldier on.

I still love seafood though. Maybe not ice-cold any more.

― It's Teatime in Buttercup Land (Maaarghk C), Monday, 19 February 2007 17:08 (seventeen years ago) link

Yes, I do like salmon sushi. Mackerel will probably always be my favorite, sushi-wise.

Raw clams are great too.

― molly mummenschanz (molly d), Monday, 19 February 2007 17:09 (seventeen years ago) link

I do not feel like eating my lean cuisine today. :( I was so good about not buying lunch there for awhile now it's gone to hell. I will probably go get an overpriced "wrap" in a moment.

― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Monday, 19 February 2007 17:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, scallops seem to be best when cooked as little as possible. I hated them when I was a kid, because even though the coast isn't far from here, I rarely had access to seafood that wasn't frozen and breaded. Do that to a scallop and it's like eating vaguely fishy pencil erasers.

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 19 February 2007 17:23 (seventeen years ago) link

vaguely fishy pencil erasers

OTM

― Michael White (Miguelito), Monday, 19 February 2007 17:31 (seventeen years ago) link

No one was selling Girl Scout cookies outside my grocery store, btw, but I don't know if that's the usual place round here or not. Plus it was fifteen degrees out.

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 19 February 2007 17:32 (seventeen years ago) link

They would have to be some hardy Girl Scouts to venture out in that weather.

― Michael White (Miguelito), Monday, 19 February 2007 17:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Tep, I'm not sure if you're in MN, but often in early March there are Girl Scouts inside stores selling the cookies. You can just pick up a box and eat it right away. I've seen them at the local colleges, too, come to think of it.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Monday, 19 February 2007 17:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Mmmm mackerel sushi is the best. Do we like onigiri as well? I had one the other day for the first time. I'm working my way up to the plum one.

― It's Teatime in Buttercup Land (Maaarghk C), Monday, 19 February 2007 17:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Yum onigiri!

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Monday, 19 February 2007 17:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Nope, I'm in NH at the moment. But I'll keep an eye open!

I love ume onigiri. Oh man. The sushi joint in Bloomington that I liked so much had them on the back page, and they were one of my backups if I couldn't decide what else I wanted along with scallop and sweet shrimp sashimi.

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 19 February 2007 18:30 (seventeen years ago) link

is onigiri eggs or squid?

an ethiopian rest. is opening up here, so excited.

― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Monday, 19 February 2007 18:30 (seventeen years ago) link

yay ethiopian food!

I don't think I've had onigiri! But it looks delicious! I'll tell you one thing, I don't love Uni. I do, however love the flying fish eggs and salmon roe.

― molly mummenschanz (molly d), Monday, 19 February 2007 18:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Onigiri are rice balls -- the rice is pressed around a filling (ume is pickled plum, it's sweet and very sour but having all that rice cuts the taste enough; they also had octopus and tuna, not sure what else is common).

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 19 February 2007 18:37 (seventeen years ago) link

I've never had Ethiopian food. But I want to!

When I visited Japan in 1996, you could get onigiri from vending machines. They were surprisingly good. I have a friend who makes them as well, but since she moved to Iowa, I haven't had them for a while.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Monday, 19 February 2007 19:29 (seventeen years ago) link

I'd love to visit Japan. . .

I haven't had eth. in many years but am looking forward to it again. actually I look forward to eating all foods. who am I kidding?

― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Monday, 19 February 2007 19:31 (seventeen years ago) link

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Ava REQUIRES petting. Now!

― Michael White (Miguelito), Monday, 19 February 2007 21:29 (seventeen years ago) link

aww, such a sweet kitty on such a classy chair!

― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Monday, 19 February 2007 21:30 (seventeen years ago) link

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