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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

Sweet?!

Pushy little broad is more like it.

― Michael White (Miguelito), Monday, 19 February 2007 21:33 (seventeen years ago) link

that's wheezy. never seen a pushier, more loudmouth cat.

― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Monday, 19 February 2007 21:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Ha ha. She's only been there for what, a month, and she already acts as if she owns the place?

― Michael White (Miguelito), Monday, 19 February 2007 21:37 (seventeen years ago) link

adorable tuxedo cat!

Biff is a total loud mouth too. He's such a punk, but then he does adorable things like curling up next to you and resting his head against your cheek.

― molly mummenschanz (molly d), Monday, 19 February 2007 21:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Wheezy is a brat. she dominates the bed and you risk getting nipped if you push her. when she wants food she yells so loudly I'm sure the whole neighborhood can hear her. (this doesn't bother me so much except when I first get up and stumble into the kitchen. I try to tell myself to take a deep breath and get used to it. Baby cries are surely worse.)

Neither she nor our other shelter pet, Missy, are grateful. I constantly threaten to return them to their concrete kennels if they don't show us some respect. Only Bandit, gotten off of craigslist, is loving and thankful.

― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Monday, 19 February 2007 21:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Wheezy! So sassy! Biff whines and complains, esp. for wet food in the evening. He's such a jerk, but he's so adorable, and really can be the sweetest fellow imaginable. He LOVES to be held, and will yell at me if I put him down before he wants to actually get down. Gertrude, I'm convinced is the sweetest cat in the world. She has the best disposition. So friendly! She has befriended Stella, the stray kitty, who still hides a lot, but comes out and hangs out whenever I'm knitting on the couch. She and Biff don't really get along (because Biff is a bully), but it's way better than it was before.

― molly mummenschanz (molly d), Monday, 19 February 2007 21:47 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm so late in the game but Che Casino means what a disaster or chaos but it also means bordello. I used this on a professor in Rome to describe Roma II (his college and where I was on Erasmus) a few years ago, he didn't like me before and positively hated me afterwards!

― kv_nol (kv_nol), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:14 (seventeen years ago) link

What a cathouse! ;)

― Michael White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Exactly!

Also it was Roma III, pedantic I know...

― kv_nol (kv_nol), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:26 (seventeen years ago) link

Question for y'all: how do I handle this situation? I have a radio show here in nashville, and I'm getting emails from listeners who want me to DJ with them, or exchange mix cds! I politely bowed out of the co-DJing with "I find that I'm really lazy and can barely prepare for one show" (said a bit more tactfully). I want to respond, because I appreciate that people like my show, and it's the nice thing to do. But, I don't really want to meet these people.

― molly mummenschanz (molly d), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:30 (seventeen years ago) link

You can always just explain that, while you wish you could whatever it is you don't want to do, your busy schedule just doesn't allow it at this time.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:32 (seventeen years ago) link

That sounds good! I really don't want to sound like a jerk, because I appreciate everyone who listens. Today, though, I got a weird call of, "Did I meet you in Franklin? You were really good looking! You sound familiar." "Uhh, no, that wasn't me."

― molly mummenschanz (molly d), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Thank them for their interest in your show and for taking the time to write you to tell you they like it but explain that with the time demands on you from work, family, friends, etcetera, it wouldn't be fair to them to imply that you could dj with them or share mix cds. Then encourage them to continue writing with comments or suggestions.

― Michael White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:37 (seventeen years ago) link

I think what Sara says is good molly. maybe add that if you're time allows in the future you'd let them and maybe do something then? (that might be dishonest though). I have this problem with social activities period. ugh.

just returned from a pysch visit, 3 hours late to work, $200 and two vials of blood lighter. ugh. also a new script. for buspar. supposed to reign in my anxiety and "chatter". we'll see.

― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:39 (seventeen years ago) link

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