Lesson of the Day...

[Asherdan]

When your standing your hoss in the arena and having a talk, pay attention. He may be stupid enough to stick his nose out for some tempting vegetation and stick it right into the fence's hot wire and get zapped, then freak right the hell out while you're on him. This is not funny for you, but it is hilarious for the people you were talking with.

Y'all learn anything cool lately?

[pmcd9]

Hey, Rodeo at Ash's corral.

[jay-ell]

Ah, our own private "LFMF" thread. It's about time.

I (re-)learned recently that you should always, always get a solid dollar amount before you ask your lawn guy to do extra work. It was still a bargain for the amount of hours he put in, but I seriously underestimated the amount of work involved and was seriously unprepared to write a check $250.

We covered it fine, but that money was supposed to stay in our savings account for a rainy day, and Pedro was kind of pissed about it.

[pmcd9]

write a check $250.

Dang, that's a lot of yardwork.

Also, what is LFMF?

[Carlos del Vaca]

"Learn From My Fail"

[side_show]

I learned that when a person makes you some traditional home cooked food of their culture that there is a good possibility you are about to be ruined for eating at ethnic food restaurants of that culture, because it is unlikely that the food you get at any restaurant will be even moderately as good as the home cooked version.  My coworker Rajinder brought me samosas today and now I'm ruined.  I have previously been ruined when it comes to perogies due to another coworker's wife's Ukrainian cooking too.

[jay-ell]

I learned the other day that if you are in a super huge hurry and you decide to just give your hair a quick rinse in the shower without shampooing, you should remember before you blow it out not to add any more styling product, because the stuff you put on after your shower the day before is still in there and your hair will look worse than it did before you half-ass "washed" it.

[Carlos del Vaca]

I learned that when a person makes you some traditional home cooked food of their culture that there is a good possibility you are about to be ruined for eating at ethnic food restaurants of that culture, because it is unlikely that the food you get at any restaurant will be even moderately as good as the home cooked version. 

Ain't that the truth?  My MIL tutors a couple of Indian kids, and a couple months ago their dad gave her some homemade butter chicken. She said it was too spicy and gave it to me. IT WAS FRICKIN' AWESOME. I've asked her to arrange for me to go to her house for a cooking lesson. I've tried several butter chicken recipes at home and never come close to as good as any local Indian restaurant, let alone this guy's version.

[pmcd9]

Butter chicken you say.  I've never heard of it.  Sounds good, but of course having butter in the name it would.

[Carlos del Vaca]

If you've ever been to an Indian buffet, you've probably had it, or at least seen it. It's also called chicken tikka masala, or "the national dish of England."

[pmcd9]

Of course.  I have had that.  Never heard it called butter chicken.

[Mr Trout]

I worked with a guy from Sudan and during Ramadan he would bring in all these amazing dishes from the night before. Since they fasted during the day, and didn't eat leftovers at night he always had a surplus of amazing food he would bring in.

My favorite was this really spicy chicken that had some kind of dry rub on it. You would just tear chunks off and dip it in this spicy sauce. I can't remember what it was called, but I've never had chicken that good before or since.

[side_show]

At least in my understanding, tikka masala is not butter chicken - they are distinctly different recipes, and from what I understand from my cook books they're from different regions of India, with slightly different ingredients and are prepared differently, although both are awesome.  I've ordered both at once from my fav restaurant, and found I like Butter Chicken better (richer and more complex tasting).  Butter Chicken is sometimes called murgh makhani, but I've been told by people of Indian ancestry that calling it that is actually a mostly Western practice, as it's typically called butter chicken in India. 

Regardless: I <3 Indian food, and my pal Rajinder has ruined me for ordering both samosas and butter chicken at this point.

[Asherdan]

Oh hey, regarding food and failure...

When your kid hands you one yogurt and says "this is bad" and it really really is you should prolly check the other yogurt he's eating before he gets halfway done and complains of it tasting terrible.

[side_show]

Today I learned that taking a Gravol will not help me with my anxiety over the dentist.  I will just be drowsy and extremely anxious at the same time, which is actually worse.