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[wombat]

I forgot that Mrs Onstad is a vegetarian. So that was a very thoughtful present indeed - in my house anyone who bought Bacon of the Month Club for someone else would be suspected of wanting it for themselves.

I want to slap him when he starts to talk about mirepoix, but he wins me back completely with his suggestion for the use of kidney beans. It is a fine line that he treads sometimes.

[linnea]

I forgot that Mrs Onstad is a vegetarian. So that was a very thoughtful present indeed - in my house anyone who bought Bacon of the Month Club for someone else would be suspected of wanting it for themselves.

I want to slap him when he starts to talk about mirepoix, but he wins me back completely with his suggestion for the use of kidney beans. It is a fine line that he treads sometimes.

Chris seems to use the descriptive "fat little" quite a bit and it disturbs me. It comes out a lot in Philippe's blog, but his as well. Like fat little sardines or something, I seem to remember Philippe mentioning something about that and it's just a gross mental image. Maybe it's because I don't like sardines.

...The UPS man dropped a fat little package of a new sort of bacon into the rattle of all that misery....
...He was from Germany, but he didn't have a mustache and fat little boots...
...I saw a corgey dog! I'm not sure if that's how you spell it. He was little and fat and he was super nice...

[MrCB]

Should not a man obsessed with Bacon be a man obsessed with fat also?

As a man who is not experienced with Bacon, on account of religion, I have always assumed that they are just tiny slivers of meat in a comforting blanket of pure white fat.

[Drastic Action]

I agree completely with his assessment of kidney beans.  They do need to stop showing up in food.

[jaydub]

I have always assumed that they are just tiny slivers of meat in a comforting blanket of pure white fat.

Ah, but what is red, but the vibrations of light at 428 THz?  Simply stating a thing's physical parameters tells you nothing of the poetry of the experience.  I do find it tragic that, but for a quirk of traditional lore, a significant fraction of the world will never know the sublime taste of crispy bacon.  Indeed, much of the violence in the Phillipines probably stems from the cognitive dissonance of Polynesian pork palates meeting with Muslim dietary laws.  I have several coworkers who hail either directly or generationally from the Phillipines, and all not only love pork in various guises, but find Spam to be the equivalent of Soul Food.

[CortJstr]

Dammit Beef, you do not need to get another ring. New diamonds are for suckers. Go old school and get a birthstone ring if you must have something store-bought.

[littlefallsmets]

I love it when the strange continuity of Achewood comes back around to explain a situation in a fashion that completely makes sense but makes no sense outside of Ache-logic.

He has to pay all these costs because her family has been dead for four hundred years.

These are the perils of meeting a girl in Heaven.

[Ruta Bagas]

A shame the family's not around, really. I hear there's a fine Welsh tradition whereby the bride's family kidnap her before the ceremony and the groom and his friends have to get her back.

[littlefallsmets]

I had not heard of this tradition.

When you consider that her family would all be zombies/ghosts, that sounds even cooler.

Ray would love it so much.

Getting to help his best friend save the best friend's lady from ghosts before the wedding.

Airwolf would definitely get in on the act.

[CortJstr]

OK, so stamped knives are bad, what's good? Forged? I forget how to tell the difference.

[littlefallsmets]

Basically, you want a knife with "full tang".

My mnemonic for it is asking myself what kind of knife Bill Clinton would want.

And then I rememeber. Full tang.

[CortJstr]

and in this situation what does tang mean?

[AugustWest]

I thought I saw W have good things to say about cheap stamped giraffe boning knives the other day...

[littlefallsmets]

Cheap stamped knives are great in situations where proper balance is not required, such as in light knives made for their flexibility and lack of heft.

Bigger knives where balance and equal distribution of force are important traits, you want like a drop-forged full-tang sorta dealy.

Or so cookbooks and cooking shows tell me. I can barely scramble eggs.

[Turbo Ninja]

Compare and contrast Little Nephew's blog against blogs by similar jagoffs on MySpace.  The black-on-white isn't fooling anyone, Onstad.  You need hella pix in da backgroundzzz that make tha copy 2 tuff 2 read, plus some gratuitous glittery Playboy bunny headz or something that looks like an airbrushed picture of a gun on a van's spare tire cover.