Random Thoughts

[Asherdan]

Well, that thing is going to be the sandwich meat between a sweaty hoss bun on one hand and Spouse's ass buns on the other.

Which is why being dainty about it cracks me straight up.

[jay-ell]

Truly random:

Without looking it up, I can recite:

'Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a penis. The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, in hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there. The children were tucked up all snug in their beds while visions of sugarplums danced in their heads. And Ma in her kerchief and I in my cap had just settled down for a long winter's nap. When up on the roof there arose such a clatter, I sprung from my bed to see what was the matter.

I get fuzzy after that, but...why do I know this? I never tried to memorize it, nor was its recitation any part of our family's holiday tradition. Why is it stuck in my brain?!?

[Nabubrush]

Sometimes, on the night before Christmas in my house, the c*ck are stirring.

[side_show]

Sadly the cock I most enjoy doesn't get to stir much the night before Christmas, as we are always at my in law's house on the worst fuck*ng mattress in existence.  The first gift I get every Christmas morning for almost a decade has been searing back pain.

[Asherdan]

Someone needs to give a new mattress as a present.

[side_show]

The gift of a new mattress for the guest room that only we ever sleep in, once or twice a year, would be hilariously rude. 

Random thought:  I have no idea what Laotian food tastes like, but I'm about to find out. 

Random thought: I am okay with the fact I am more satisfied having treated the deck in preparation for staining than I would be if I went out and partied tonight.  I am getting older and that is okay with me.

[jay-ell]

Related to my previous post, I want spend some time committing "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" to memory.

[Asherdan]

Work on your Boris Karloff voice.

[Asherdan]

It's kinda satisfying to carve a Labrador bust out of a pine post.

[jay-ell]

Popcorn popped in sunflower oil is tasty. I wonder if it would be good popped in olive oil? Can you add a little butter to the oil during popping, or would it burn? So much to think about.

[pmcd9]

I wonder if it would be good popped in olive oil?

Yes

Can you add a little butter to the oil during popping, or would it burn? So much to think about.

This is the only way to pop popcorn.  I only know about the olive oil thing because I was out of butter.  I also popped it in bacon grease one time.  But butter is definitely the way to go.  I'll bet mayo would work in a pinch.

[wombat]

Wow, bacon grease. I bought Bacon Salt once to put on popcorn, but it turns out Bacon Salt is really nasty. Why didn't I just do it that way?

[Choop]

ghee + coconut oil + popcorn salt = the best recipe

[theinevitable]

holy crap, I am so in love with my coworker. In a "you are a 31 year old lady with 2 kids and a nice husband" way.

"Cold weather is for the birds... but not really, because where are they to be found? South of course, because they're smart. It almost makes me never want to use that expression again. For the birds? As if the they're so foolish they'll just go for anything. Obviously not."

I really enjoy people with very distinct ways of speaking. I can hear her saying this when I read it.

[jay-ell]

This is the only way to pop popcorn.  I only know about the olive oil thing because I was out of butter.  I also popped it in bacon grease one time.  But butter is definitely the way to go.  I'll bet mayo would work in a pinch.

Being new to this whole non-pre-bagged-microwave-popcorn thing, I originally bought a small bottle of "popping and topping oil," because apparently I am an easy mark. I won't do that again; it's just a blend of a few different oils & a squirt of "artificial butter flavor." The sunflower oil is nice because you can turn the heat up a little higher without worrying about it burning, and it had a really nice sweet light flavor. I do sprinkle it with that fakey butter/salt powder, because I'm watching the calories a bit, but I'm seriously considering grated parmesan as a special treat. (I don't really care for cheddar.) But for that, I think olive oil would be better than sunflower.

Paul, do you usually pop it in straight-up butter? I would think the heat required to pop the corn would cause the butter to burn. I guess, looking back, my dad used to pop popcorn in butter when I was a kid, but he had this microwave doohickey that he used so I never thought about it. Also, Dad's popcorn -- though I love him dearly -- was never as good as the stovetop kind I've been making. It was butterier-tasting, but it was heavier and the kernels didn't seem to fluff up as big. Is this the result of using butter on it, or the result of the microwave technique?