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[rebness]

Hmm. With regards to the phone poll, I guess it shall be a fanfic-reading. I'll probably read part of First Light and part of one of the parody fics.

I wish I could bloody finish one of the dozen or so fics currently in limbo on my computer. INTERNET, you destroy my life.

Anyway! Phone update tonight, hopefully.

In other news, I cooked my first ever lasagne on Saturday. Don't look at me like that. I cook tons of stuff, but lasagne has always baffled me (sauce first? Sheets first? what goes on top? OMG IS THIS RIGHT?)

In the end, my lasagne was eclectic at best. Ingredients included a dash of tabasco, courgettes, mushrooms and...er...okra. The okra made it taste so good. The family were all, "what is that gorgeous taste?" and I'm all, thank Asda for its Indian food section. Hardly Italian cuisine, but then there's debate over whether the British in fact invented lasagne, so I'll stand by it.

I also discovered the ultimate oxymoron yesterday, courtesy of Mary. BRITISH WINE.

*Gags*

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[setting-sun.livejournal.com]

I had a Sainsbury's lasagne yesterday. It wasn't the best experience.

[rebness.livejournal.com]

Pshaw! Sainsbury's lasagne is mere purgatory to the hell that is the Asda Smartprice lasagne ready meal!

[ozfille]

Just call it "fusion" cuisine. All the trendoid cooks call the mix of Asian/French cuisine that has been fashionable here for yonks call it that. You might even start a new trend the "All mixed up-bang this in there-she'll be right" cuisine and market it to the young and trendoid a la Jamie Oliver as the new wave of must-eat cuisine and get your own TV show. *g*

[rebness.livejournal.com]

LMAO!

AM COOKING PRODIGY.

Now to make millions with annoying cookery programmes!

[diana-molloy.livejournal.com]

You should go the Nigella route. One million calories in a single bite. Delia wears too many cardigans. Ainsley'smanic hand gestures makes a girl want to send his address to Armand in the hope that the auburn-haired one decides he wants a new pair of hands. And Anthony-Worral-Thompson looks like a scary, human Paddington Bear.

BRITISH WINE.

I have been conned by this foul concotion in the past too.

I like making my lasagna (when I can be arsed which is a rarety) the old italian way with not much white sauce and a few slices of good ham in between layers.

[jaffacakequeen.livejournal.com]

"Ainsley'smanic hand gestures makes a girl want to send his address to Armand in the hope that the auburn-haired one decides he wants a new pair of hands."

ROFLMAOPMP thats the funniest thing i have read in a long while!

mmm the lasagne sounds gorgous, send me a frozen one!

[versailles-rose.livejournal.com]

Okra is so good. Cook it with onions and tomatoes VERY slowly and serve it with rice and chicken. *New Orleans heaven*

[rebness.livejournal.com]

Oh, God. I have to try that recipe now!

[wiebke.livejournal.com]

Living in the South I've had lots of exposure to okra. It's really exquisite with tomoatoes. You saute onions and a bit of garlic in a pot, then once that's done, either fresh or canned tomatoes, chopped, then chopped okra (across), water. Add salt, Cajun spices, black pepper to taste and let it simmer for an hour until everything is soft, steaming and smells irresistable.

[rebness.livejournal.com]

Am drooling. I'm going to have to get some more okra on the way home tonight.

Lovely stuff. Distinctive taste, and healthy, too.

Will try out both recipes!

[wiebke.livejournal.com]

Some people hate okra because it's slimey (it really is) but it's really wonderful.

Also recommended: FRIED okra. Truly, if you're going to be bad and eat fried food, this is the thing to eat.

[versailles-rose.livejournal.com]

OMG. Fried Okra. The One reason I go to Cracker Barrel.
And also the way they make it at PETUNIAS in New Orleans...

[versailles-rose.livejournal.com]

Yeah, wiebke's recipe is the way to make it.

I put this over chicken thighs and simmer away. It is SO GOOD!

[wiebke.livejournal.com]

I had some English wine and enjoyed it very much. I love country wines like blackberry, cherry, and so on. Can't compare apples to oranges where wine is concerned.

[rebness.livejournal.com]

This one tasted kind of like port, but with a very bitter aftertaste. Knowing Mary, it was probably cheap, but still...

[sroit.livejournal.com]

I can't speak to the recipe, never had it, but I can relate to the internet taking over one's life.

Am on "forced leave." Today.

Um..so yeah, you didn't see this post. :P

[rebness.livejournal.com]

What post? ;)

[sroit.livejournal.com]

So much for forced leave.

Actually, I was off a few hours, and am only checking in here and there.
That counts, right? Right. Any time I don't sit staring at this moniter for hours counts..yeah.

[mothergoddamn.livejournal.com]

If you use sheets on food-what you put on your bed?

[rebness.livejournal.com]

No Friends icon here... instead, we switch to:

KEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEL!

[mothergoddamn.livejournal.com]

Do you want share my methods of window cleaning to the world? DO YA?

[rebness.livejournal.com]

*Twenty minutes of faffing about later...*

I will soon! You have been warned, Missy!

Poor Darren. :p

[mothergoddamn.livejournal.com]

Your login skills leave me in awe.

[saffronlie.livejournal.com]

Come and cook for me! All I'm eating for dinner is toast!

(yes, you've found out my big secret. I am fabulous at desserts and pretty sucky at anything else.)

[rebness.livejournal.com]

*Gasp*

You break my heart, Anna. :(

[saffronlie.livejournal.com]

How so?

[rebness.livejournal.com]

There I was, thinking you were my Antipodean Nigella, and instead you're my Antipodean Homer Simpson (setting cornflakes on fire when he tries to make breakfast.)

Also, the poll? GREEDY PEOPLE GET SPORKED. :p

Also, some of the lines in that haiku I sent you have six syllables. WOE.

[saffronlie.livejournal.com]

I am not! I can handle breakfast no problem. (But not crumpets for lunch with a high-tech toaster.)

Then you should have put radio buttons instead of check marks. Gee, I thought it would be obvious. :p

Who's counting? Not I.

[rebness.livejournal.com]

I had a miserable cereal bar for breakfast. Oh, the pain. HOWEVER, if I were at home, I'd cook something excellent. Glad that you don't put crumpets in the toaster. :p

Radio buttons...? Anna, it took me twenty minutes to find the poll button, let alone fabulous buttons.

I counted. It gave me something to do at work. >:)

[saffronlie.livejournal.com]

I like breakfast bars. I like toast more. Mwahahaha. Are you still low-carbing it?
GUESS WHAT, BECKY. I've lost the weight I put on around Christmas. Go me! (Still need to lose more, though.)

[rebness.livejournal.com]

Well, I only went back on it yesterday. Once I started on potatoes and rice (my favourite foodstuffs, man) it was so hard to stop.

Um... the scales told me I'd actually lost weight since then, but the scales are about as trustworthy as Fox News.

Anyhoo! Yes. Back on. If it goes as well as last time, then I'll be fitting into that gorgeous skirt I bought in the January sales. Huzzah, etc.

You lost your weight despite peppermint creams and such? OMG, u suck. ;)

[saffronlie.livejournal.com]

Mmmm potatoes. I went out for dinner last night and ordered bruschetta and fries. Way to be adventourous, Anna.

Whoo! Skirt! I haven't made peppermint creams for months, actually. :p I've lost the weight on a diet I like to call Chocolate and Toast... I think it's the exercise that actually did the work. ;)

[tsaress.livejournal.com]

go you now try mousksae and you've cracked it.

[diana-molloy.livejournal.com]

what are the beads you and glitterbats are talking bout over at moon? I would have asked there but I avoid sounding too much like an idiot unless absolutely nessesary.

[rebness.livejournal.com]

Oh, fabulous Mardi Gras beads. They’re given away to people at the carnival, um…often for flashing.