Spontaneous….meal planning? Well, yes. I’m not going to talk about menu planning except in the vaguest of ways. I’m also not going to talk about meal prepping. If you are interested in learning more, there is an entire subreddit dedicated to the subject, or check out Budget Bytes. She also has a good explanation of meal prepping and many recipes and suggestions. Instead, I think of meal planning as being ready to cook and making it easier to cook.
I mostly cook one meal, one serving at a time. I do it to control portions. I can’t go back for seconds because there are no seconds. Cooking one meal, one serving at a time means that I have to cook every meal. I love to cook, and usually view cooking as kitchen therapy. It’s a way to shed the stress of the day. But there are days when having to cook dinner is just One. More. Thing. I. Have. To. Do. and I can hear the siren call of take out. It’s always been hard to resist delivery, but DoorDash and Uber Eats are making it even harder.
I resist the siren call of takeout by making it easy to cook. I shop once a week and have a general plan of what I will make during the week. I don’t have an explicit plan like if it’s Tuesday, it’s meatloaf. I will spiral back into bad habits if I try to be that rigid. I buy family packs of chicken thighs, chicken breasts, small steaks, and pork chops; then wrap and freeze them individually. That way, I can just take out one at a time to thaw. So, when I shop, I’m mostly just looking for the vegetable side dishes for the week. I get the vegetables ready for the week every Sunday.
So, what does it mean to have a general plan? Unless I have a craving for something specific, I plan at the grocery store by looking to see what produce looks appealing. For example, if the Brussels sprouts look good, I will also buy baby portobellos to make a sauté or some apple to make a slaw. I almost always pick up some veggie basics like carrots, celery, onion and garlic.
Once I have picked my vegetables for the week, my next step is to get them ready to be cooked and eaten. I do most of my peeling and chopping on Sunday afternoon. I also prep veggies and make pickles on Sundays. As long as I am chopping, I might as well. Here is this week’s haul.
I bought cauliflower, romaine lettuce, red and yellow tomatoes, green beans, mushrooms, a bell pepper, onion and garlic. I already have an apple and lemons on hand. Obviously, I have a lot options for side dishes this week. I don’t have to decide right now what to make, I just need to get them ready to be cooked.
The first task is to clean the lettuce and wash the tomatoes. Having the lettuce cleaned and ready to be made into a salad makes it much more likely that I will eat salad. The washed tomatoes can be used in the salad or are ready to be a snack. I will have salads for lunch (the only meal I do meal prepping for) this week with lettuce, tomatoes, apple, almonds, cheddar and baked chicken breasts.
I cut the cauliflower into florets.
Just about anything I want to make with cauliflower will need florets. I plan to have sautéed onions and bell pepper as a side dish sometime this week, so I cut those into thin strips.
If I need onions for a pan sauce, it won’t take much work to make a fine dice. Same with the bell pepper.
I’ll also clean and slice some of the mushrooms (not all) to use in omelets, or potentially, in a mushroom cream sauce with the green beans. All the side dishes I’ve mentioned can go with any of the proteins I have available. When I come home from work, I can look at what I have in the refrigerator, decide what I want, and make it quickly. I’m not tied to a specific meal and cooking will still be easier and faster than takeout.
I often make roasted carrots, but it isn’t in the plan this week. Spring is here, with sunny skies and the highs during the days reaching into the fifties. It won’t be long before I’ll want to sit outside with a martini and pickled vegetables. So, today, I’m making pickled carrots -the thin sliced onions do double duty here. If I were going to need carrots for other dishes this week, I would make regular size carrots sticks. Those are good for roasting, and if I want dice, it will take only a moment to turn them into dice.
The green beans are already cleaned, so when I’m ready to cook them, they only need to be cut into bite sized pieces. Along with green beans in a mushroom sauce, I also plan to make green beans stewed with tomatoes, and maybe even roasted green beans.
Getting the vegetables ready to be cooked doesn’t take very long. The most time-consuming thing today was cleaning the lettuce. I don’t always prep things like onions or bell pepper, but I know that this week is going to be a bear and I want it to be as easy as possible to stick to eating healthy. I spent about one hour getting ready today and that includes getting the chicken into the oven, making salads, and making bread dough.
Everything looks so good. I love all those things in a salad rather than cooked. Bell peppers, cauliflower, lettuce, what’s not to like. Mrs F eats pretty much the same.
Thanks, T, for sharing, the pictures and preparation look super.
I know some folks that prepare ingredients in advance like you do.
I don’t think I could pull it off.
Cooking isn’t therapeutic to me, it’s another chore. It can be a chore I look forward to, but it is a chore. I’d rather prepare a big batch of something that can be portioned out and frozen. Then during the week I’ll pull something out of the freezer, warm it up in the microwave, and eat it. Good enough for me.
I tend to make big batches of sauces and stews (of various descriptions) and portion those out to freeze. The basics are all covered: tomato-based spaghetti sauces as well as meat-heavy bolognese, beef stew, chicken curry, butter chicken, coq au vin, cassoulet, chili (meat- and vegetable-based), chicken stew, red beans with andouille (or sometimes chorizo) for red beans & rice, boeuf bourgignon. I also do small “mini-loaves” of things like meatloaf and freeze those, as well as small deep-dish pies of beef or chicken or lamb or tourtiere. It’s come to the time of year where we have to start eating through all the stuff I’ve been putting away, but that’s okay, ’cause it means we can go out and do stuff and get back (relatively) late and still have a decent meal.
I’ve always found putting together the starches and veggies “on-demand” to be easier.
My basics are jambalaya and beef burgandy.
In winter, i almost always have some veggie soup in the freezer. I use it in place of a green salad as a starter course. Good when you come back from walking the dog in cold weather.
I also find cooking somewhere closer to “chore” than “fun”. I have a rotating cast of three or four favorite dishes which I make 2 or 3 servings of and alternate reheating the leftovers. Every few months I seem to find another favorite dish and drop one of the others. Well, I don’t do takeout or delivery so I guess there’s that.
I like cooking, but you know what I hate? Grocery shopping. I loathe it. I just want to open the refrigerator and it to have food inside. But if I had the Star Trek replicator, why cook as well?
Presumably because the replicator might only have one or two examples of a dish, the recipes of which might be pedestrian or downright nasty.
I think the answer DS9 gave for Sisko’s dad being a Cajun chef was basically the whole “artisanal” thing. Also he must be running his restaurant for fun because no one uses money on Earth.
Sort of like Picard as an artisanal vineyard laborer?
I think that’s more his space-Alzheimer’s
PeOpLe WiLl KeEp DoINg bAcKBrEAkInG LaBoR aFtEr we tAKe aWAY the fiNaNcIAl iNcEnTiVe
/UBI proponents
I actually enjoy food shopping, though I hate all other shopping.
I enjoy buying the main courses (i.e., steaks) but not the boring stuff. My gf goes on her own for the weekly sundries and whatnot.
I have a certain threshold for other shopping. I have to be in the mood and only specific places that I find satisfying.
Most of the stores here have delivery available, just go online and pick out what you want and often it’s either free over a certain amount or a pretty minimal charge.
I usually go late at night or very early in the morning. That way I don’t have to deal with other people as well as shopping. It’s also why I stock up on meats, frozen veggies, canned goods about every 6-8 weeks. That makes other trips quick.
For HM
Thanks, Tulip! Throwing together dinner from leftover ingredients is a learned skill. Then it becomes fun.
Sunday with Spud and OMWC: We buy a bunch of shit that looks good, lay it all out on the counter, then stare at each other, asking, “OK, so what are we gonna do?”
This is planning.
I shop and cook the same way although I don’t prep to that extent. I keep basic staples on hand (spices, baking supplies, rice, beans, onions, peppers, potatoes, carrot, celery, eggs, canned tomato products, etc). Buy bulk meat, divide it up and freeze it, and but whatever other veggies that look good that week. Then I put a couple proteins in the fridge to thaw and I can pretty much cook on the fly based on what I have on hand or what I need to get rid of.
I tried to do this for a while but all those prepped veggies were to tempting as crudités and by Wednesday It’d have snacked them all up. Luckily my life is never that hectic and I kinda like taking an hour or so and cooking every night.
I need a commis. When are you coming back?
After the heat goes away again.
So, never?
No, it was perfect weather in February.
I try to buy fresh vegetables but I guess I throw 80% of them away. I am a fan of frozen as far as veges go. I spend my weekend cooking and do leftovers all week for lunch. As to salads, I know it is not economical but I like the chopped salads in the bags because I am lazy. I use about 1/4 of their carb laden dressing and then finish with RWV to taste. Top with a protein and there is dinner.
throw 80% of them away
Mrs JI and myself share a loathing of throwing food away – we both take it as a personal failure. So one part of our meal planning over any 3 or 4 day period is checking on what must be consumed (or at least cooked) in that timeframe.
Yes, most of how I decide what to make consists of looking at what needs to be used. Hmm, half a jar of capers, half a tub of sour cream, salmon it is.
What is fascinating about some of the articles here is how thoughtful/mindful people are about day to day things. I think that’s where happiness/contentment hides.
Thanks, Tulip.
I plan ahead each week, but not with any rigidity. Depending on my schedule, I’ll know I can make between four and six dinners, so I’ll pick six dinners I haven’t had in rotation in the past week or two, then make a grocery list. None of the meat ends up in the freezer, because if we do seafood, it’s same day, and the rest will keep fine in the fridge in the time it’ll be there. I grew up eating leftovers 3 or 4 nights a week and hate them, so I don’t make enough to have them. I like cooking, and I don’t have to commute, so I can afford to spend an hour or so unwinding after work by slicing veggies.
I just tossed a pound of ground beef that I swear was ruined in the freezer. As in super dry when I cooked it (and it was 80/20). I dunno because I never had that happen before but it makes me not want to freeze meat again.
/bites tongue
Oh, come on. I teed that one up.
If you’re meat freezing, I recommend a Foodsaver vacuum sealer.
The worst part is have one and didn’t use it. ?♂️
It’s usually user error.
I’ll do that for something I want to last 6 months frozen. For normal rotation I just use quart freezer bags with as much air squeezed out as possible.
We bought the Foodsaver after a 5 day deep sea fishing trip in San Diego and had over 100lbs of fish that was processed (cleaned, cut, vacuum-packed and frozen) and months later, even the mahi-mahi was still good.
low-hanging fruit….
ZING!
That’s why I’ve kind of stopped freezing meat, I’ve taken something out to thaw one too many times to open it when it’s time to cook, and go “how the fuck did this go bad when I froze it??” By that time, of course, it’s too late to go to the store and get some fresh for the meal and we end up eating out. So these days, our fridge is always full, and our freezer pretty much has nothing but ice cream in it, and a few bags of emergency frozen veggies.
I do have a FoodSaver but I don’t use it as much as I probably should. Certainly not something I plan to eat in a couple days. So in this case, yeah, I just tossed the store package in the freezer. Probably not a smart decision.
I had one, always seemed to forget to use it, and when I did use it, it was kind of a pain so it gathered dust in a bottom drawer in the kitchen until I gave up and got rid of it. I need to do the same with my crockpot. I’ve used it all of four times and it’s been sitting in a closet for at least five years now. So many tools/products that other people swear by that I could just never fall in love with.
Was it in the auto-defrosting freezer above the fridge?
Yes.
Auto defrost is of the devil.
While I can see how it probably contributed to my problem, I would never trade it for the @#$@#% old-style freezer compartment again.
I use heavy duty plastic wrap and put the individual wrapped portions in a freezer (heavy duty) Ziploc bag. I’ve never had a problem, but the meat isn’t in the freezer for more than 6-8 weeks.
The way they are flogging this coronavirus crisis, I’m afraid we will see 20,000 on the Dow before it all blows over. Knock about $200K off the old retirement fund – what the heck, it was only going to Bernie and his fascist friends in the long run anyway.
It’ll come back, if the underlying fundamentals of the economy are sound.
If.
1. Don’t count gains or losses until you sell.
2. Don’t sell when people are scared.
Profit.
Don’t shop when you’re hungry.
Don’t reply when you’re mad.
Don’t promise when you’re happy.
or any of the above whilst drunk
Haven’t lost (or made) a dime ’til you sell.
Yours truly just got off a department wide conference call. They’ve split us up into two groups. One group works at home 2 weeks while the other is in the office. After that we switch. What a PITA. My wife works at home and we share the same small home office. Works fine for my occasional work at home. This won’t be fun.
Also will miss my language lessons in the city, but I won’t mind that break so much…
My wife works at home and we share the same small home office.
Make the best of it.
I haven’t heard that in a while.
I just read Amtrak suspended the DC to NYC Amtrak Acela. No idea if non Acela service is also suspsended.
Those lying dog-faced pony soldiers.
Amtrak always made sure the train from Wilmington, DE to DC ran on time as Senator Biden used to commute on it from Wilmington to DC most nights.
I lived in DE and used to commute to PA on Amtrak when I got my master’s degree.
Apparently not. Falling demand.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/07/amtrak-cancels-nonstop-acela-service-between-dc-nyc-due-to-coronavirus.html
This is Glibs. Just say what you mean.
Sadly fewer and fewer are going to know about the talents of Ron Jeremy.
We can erect a monument in his honor…
It wouldn’t have to be the most extravagant, but I bet pound for pound it would be the best.
I get the thrust of your argument.
Pigeons the world over cheer.
But then who would come…
“…who would come?”
Hedghogs from all over the world
lol……..BOOKMARKED!
Dr. Strangeclicks or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying About My Browser History and Love HM’s Links
HM’s links aren’t all that bad.
Incoming!
HM’s links are always opened incognito. Problem is that disables my ad-blocker. But that’s a small price to pay.
I have a setting in Firefox that keep uBlock running in private browsing.
The best Ron Jeremy line I heard in a movie (the title escapes me):
“Im gonna lick your labes, babes”
Good time to buy cheap stocks.
I’m a fan, I have variety of foods to consume, Chili, Dinty Moore Beef stew, Mac and cheese, Bologna sammiches, and
Milk!
/Tall Cans!
HEY YUFUS!
Tomorrow the interview day ?
Yeeeeeesss, I’m going in eyes wide open, no expectations, it’s just HVAC, what could go wrong?
/No STEVE SMITH sightings in the Hotlands, yet……………..
I hope you do well!
Good luck!
Tall CANS!
Ill happily be a reference, if you need one.
“Yufus taught me that the V stood for vacuum.”
And you taught me me T is for,
Tall Cans!
TURN THAT ISH TO 11 !
Good luck! You’ll knock their socks off!
Tonight: Laotian style green papaya salad, stir-fried baby bok choy, and… something else, haven’t figured out what yet.
Sounds delicious.
You better have snake beans in that mak hoong or you have failed.
Had to tone down the chile for Dutchman, unfortunately.
Booo.
Fortunately, I met enough of his countrymen in Bangkok that 1 data point doesn’t damage my evaluation of their spice tolerance.
That coffee maker is not Glibertarian approved!!!!!!!!!
What’s wrong with my coffee maker? Perfect for weekdays. Some weekends, I use the French press.
I think he’s saying your coffee maker is not family friendly.
Take my words outta your mouth!
I’m sure it’s . . . adequate.
That other outlet isnt GFI either….
Just the one closest to the sink
Which would be the important one….
Then again, my house is pre-GFI age. And Im always reaching for the disposal switch with wet hands.
You do realize that you can use GFI breaker or daisy chain off of another GFI outlet…
Why do you hate code inspectors ?
My house is from the 1920s. The electric has no rhyme or reason with what is on what circuit.
The correct answer is because they are illiterate fuck sticks.
Why do you hate code inspectors ?
How much time you got?
My 1st house was built in the 1930’s. Knob & post through the attic, and it was never possible to tell when a wall a switch was switched on hot or neutral. Lots of fun.
The one closest to the sink is GFI. I’m not really concerned about the others.
I was busting on Tres. Your approach seems rational. If you have a concern at some point it is easy enough to change the outlet.
I have some outlets daisy chained off of GFI outlets. It was fun figuring out why an outlet didn’t work when the one GFI outlet went bad.
The coffee cup, on the other hand….
I thought you guys would appreciate that.
Glad someone pointed it out. I can, of course, think of one glib who’s already happy about the purchase.
We usually do the Sunday meal prep thing. I’ve got enough meat, veggies, and salad to carry me through the week. With enough variation to keep me from getting bored with my meals.
Seldom do I want to cook anything on a weekday.
Mood:
Currently in love with Eddie Felson’s 1984 Fleetwood Brougham. White, red interior, an underpowered diesel engine.
*swoons*
You drive a car like that, and it should be a law that this is the only sound that can come out of it.
Nice, I was thinking of a Curtis Mayfield song, but then again I’m almost always thinking of a Curtis Mayfield song.
You can play Superfly on Sundays.
I’d prefer Freddie’s Dead Fridays, If that’s cool.
This?
Damn close, same album different song, I was thinking “Move on up.”
To a deeeee-luxe apartment in the sky?
Since HM had to reference The Mack, have some Bro. James.
(from Black Caesar)
?
Here is the shirt that caused Coronavirus.
Chopstickin’ nachos…not sure if I should fear it or mock it.
Wait until you turn a corner and you see your daughter using chopsticks to eat Cheetos out of the bag while watching Let’s Plays on Youtube.
What?! It keeps your fingers clean. I’ve also used chopsticks to eat popcorn.
Y’all Fuckin’ weird,
Chester’s Puffcorn or GTFO!
“I’ve also used chopsticks to eat popcorn.”
Heinous cultural appropriation aside, using chopsticks to eat popcorn is absolute madness – wipe your hands on the couch or your shirt like a person!!!!!! – but Covid19 safe.
I’m a glibertarian. I don’t care about cultural appropriation. I’m a woman glibertarian. Keep your greasy fingers off my couch!
I chopped up a scorpion pepper earlier today and added it to a container of Sam’s salsa. Damn, it really has some heat now.
If you see Sam’s salsa in your grocery store, give it a try. It’s really tastey.
https://www.freshcutproduce.com/products-retail.cfm#salsa
How that week actually worked out: I made green beans with a mushroom cream sauce (with a chicken thigh). I made the sauteed onions and peppers (with pork chop). There was lots of the peppers, so half the leftovers went in a salad and half into a stir fry with more onions, ginger, garlic, mushrooms, cauliflower and green beans. I had a partial tub of creme fraiche and some egg noodles, so I used more mushrooms and onions and a steak and made beef stroganoff. I also had another chicken thigh and mashed cauliflower. Everything got used, nothing took more than about 30-45 minutes to make.
That’s pretty damn incredible. Dinner for 4 each night normally runs me between 45 to 90 minutes, although part of that is I’m trying to make my kids learn and help, and part is that I’m rarely in a time crunch. I like your idea of making pickled veggies at the beginning of the week, too. So many dishes that can be dressed up just by adding something pickled to the top.
I’m only cooking for one, so it doesn’t take long to chop, but knowing stuff is ready to go makes it easy.
Has anyone watched Avenue 5? I dig Iannucci very much, but I have heard bad things.
Plus Josh Gad.
Nightmare is almost over for Japan’s airborne brigade. They’re finally going to get someone to make tea and serve their drinks at meals.
The OLborne.
“O-cha All The Way!”
I’ve seen that episode of Shuttle Japan’s Bukkake Airlines series.
モザイクはだめだなあ。
Feature, not bug.
$90?
Cant I just rent one ?
Just shave your pits and use your imagination.
http://www.shuttle-japan.com/DWK/DWK-07-1001e.html
Thats…..really specific
Nasty day on the course, winds from Cali, meaning SSW at 20, we finished 18 and gave up, Angus Burgers with Vidalia onions and Colby Jack cheese, clothes are done, ready for an interview…
Good luck!
YARG! that’s me mood, Matey!
Break a leg!
I read the title as ‘Spudalicious Meal Planning’ and was confused for a few minutes.
The Irish deal-a-meal.
You get potato, potato, potato, or potato.
Let’s call the whole thing off!
you’re awesome !
Some nice time saving tips there. Thanks. I worry about your cooking, however. Not one use of the word “infused”.
If it helps I was trying table top smokers on Amazon. I still want to recreate the smoked olives I had in Vancouver.
Eyeing not trying.
Spud’s smoking article was the first time I’d even looked at smoking. If you need some remedial description practice…
http://www.brooklynbarmenus.com/
Sorry, I’m not drinking tonight, so *woosh* missed your point.
/sarc off. Your post was straight forward and in normal terms. I’m just making fun of the pretentious manner some people use to describe their food.
Yeah, I eventually got it. No problem, the menu generator is funny!
“hand-pulled butter”
LOL
That one and “frightened butter” cracked me up.
I got one with “free range artichoke”.
Totally keeping that one.
That’s cute. Reminds me of the fun little sites of the early aughts.
“massaged kraut extract”
I don’t think this is a restaurant, Becky.
Maybe this?
Very versatile!
The coronavirus has reached my area. I guess I need to get ready to self isolate. I won’t be buying cases of water or toilet paper. I’m much more pragmatic. I plan to buy booze. Next weekend will be my big shop, so I’ll buy meat and some canned goods as well, but mostly, I’ll buy booze.
What are self isolation plans?
I don’t have the luxury of doing that.
Are you feeling better, UCS?
My fever is still at 99-100 depending on the whime of the thermometer.
Sorry, get well soon.
Thanks.
It’s really my new subordinate’s fault, he gave me the bug.
I trust this will be reflected in his 90-day evaluation.
Hope you feel better quick.
Buying booze or self-isolating? I won’t be self-isolating unless work tells us to do so. Otherwise, hi hi hi hi, it’s off to work I go.
I hate autocorrect. Hi ho, hi ho
Self-isolating.
Self-loathing and self-pleasure are my defenses.
#TrueSconnie
A case has been reported in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area, too.
there’s 330 million people in the US, yet I still went to church this morning, and Meijer’s after.
I only wash my hands cause I wear contacts, and dip Grizzly.
Church hand shaking was in full force today here too.
I had some much sanitizer on my hands when I walked out of service, I prolly coulda ruined a breathalyzer.
Or that was from last night.
I used to do both of those things. Put my contacts in once after not washing my hands as well as I thought I did. Feel the burn!
I chopped peppers once to make chili. Washed my hands 2X with Dawn and HOT water. Did it get the oil off? Hell no….took me a week before I would even think about contacts
you know, kitchen gloves are useful for things like processing peppers…
I was proud enough to think that Dawn™ would eliminate it, and I knew what I was doing. Since then, the box of Harbor Freight 8mil gloves I have in the garage get used for dealing with any capsicum.
Here.
Yup.
I always wear plastic food handling gloves when dealing with peppers. I do touch my face and eyes too much and it just isn’t worth the pain to deal with peppers without gloves.
Ramsey county.
I was downtown last night. Theater was packed, streets were busy, no masks in sight.
Self isolation?
Do you mean to say people go outside ON PURPOSE?!
I need to go out to get paid.
Yes. The house gets dull after a while. Women aren’t beating on the door to get in. I have to go out to get booze and food too. I can get some booze shipped here, but not everything I like.
I was supposed to go to NYC later this month to visit my headquarters office, but I’m beginning to think I’ll end up having to postpone/cancel. If things get bad I’ll stock up on frozen meat and canned vegetables and booze and carry on as usual. Self isolation won’t be much different from a normal week for me. I go a normal week without physically interacting with anyone other than my children and my husband, and am perfectly content to stay at home all day every day. Once a week my husband will insist I face the rest of the world by going grocery shopping with him or out to eat…. so I’ll finally be able to get out of that, and live how I was intended. My hubby will have a lot more trouble with it; he’s a lot more naturally social.
Wait, what? Are you me?
Do you have a NYC headquarters office?
She is me, too.
And me. I have a multiple hobbies, I don’t get bored. Unfortunately, the dog and cat (and I) like to eat, have a roof, etc. So, I work. It’s interesting, but I won’t really complain if we have to self isolate temporarily. Although, I don’t really like working from home. If I have to work, I’m better off going to an office.
I spent several years doing my best to arrange things so that I could work remote full time, succeeded, and have been a remote employee for nearly fourteen years. I have to go to NYC two or three times a year to visit the home office, but otherwise I stay at home. Unless we’re traveling. We have a travel trailer and spend three or four months out of each year on the road seeing the sights in the US. Since as long as I have cell service, I can keep working, and I like the people I meet at random campgrounds a lot more than I like the majority population of Northern Virginia, it works out very well for me. It’s the perfect mix of socialization plus isolation where I can generally do my own thing and don’t have to get dressed in more than jammy pants and a tank top more than a few times a month.
Just saw a TV commercial on ESPN for the NYT’s mendacious 1619 Project. They are really pushing this hard.
I’m definitely reading that later.
That’s just the latest update I noticed – there are more in-depth reviews elsewhere. The scope and potential reach of the thing has to be seen to be appreciated.
Candice Owens, white-supremacist
Would.
Seconded.
Condoleeza in a 3rd
Great article, Tulip!
I love pre-prepping or making stuff for the week.
So much can be done early. Even blanching and freezing veggies. I just did enough compound butter with gorgonzola for a month!
There is really no excuse for not cooking for yourself.
Unless you hate cooking. So many options available today, if you hate it, well, life is short. I do think it’s the best option, but YMMV
Yes, very true.
I guess it always appealed to me. Even in college, in my tiny little studio with the galley kitchen, I would cut up a shit-ton of stuff for stir fries. Easy and good.
The downside is that I can’t bring myself to make a stir fry today…:)
*adds to
covid-19 prepgeneral wish list*A draft model motion in support of trans comrades
“Or, a plan to not get elected for a generation”
While I am greatly annoyed by the documentaries that feel they must cram a message into their runtime and can’t just tell us the interesting information about the subject matter, I am even more annoyed by the trend of not having any form of linking narration.
That’s a lovely bunch of interview footage you’ve shot, when are you going to finish the documentary?
What doco are you watching?
Random crap on prime.
Since it’s bundled in with the expedited shipping, it’s there anyway.
Are you wearing your Prime g̵l̵o̵v̵e̵s̵ Mask ?
*cough**cough**hack*
Nope. There’s no one around me and I already have the bug.
Fun fact, that is an onomatopeia for the pattern of my coughing when I have to.
Onomatopoeia I wouldn’t want to be ya
Fucking Boomers and their cruises – what level of idiot would go on a cruise at this time?
https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/health/2020/03/08/coronavirus-iowa-kim-reynolds-cases-covid-outbreak/4954032002/
Look, if something popped up in Mr. Mojeaux’s email that said, “You won a cruise for 4, all expenses paid,” we’d be on that boat in a hot minute.
You’d take a cruise now?
Yes. Oh, yes I would.
If that pops up it’s probably someone selling time shares
It is not unreasonable to believe he would have won a cruise. He’s won 3 trips, a car, cash, and other things not quite as valuable as a car, but lots and lots of stuff.
He’s Lazlo Hollyfeld.
I see the appeal. The hotel moves with you- unpack once, no need to drag luggage around. The restaurant and bar moves with you. I would be more inclined to do a river cruise in Europe, but that’s just taste.
The crowds and the fixed itenery and the floating prison are the big downsides for me.
What crowds?
Go when nobody else wants to go.
Wait… unpack?
You don’t unpack your suitcases, you have a clean suitcase and a dirty suitcase, and the dirty clothes get packed in the dirty suitcase for eventual lundering. The only thing unpacked is what you carry on your person.
Savage.
I have never left anything behind.
You just carry 2x the suitcases.
That, PLUS I don’t have to see my kids for a week and they’ll be able to eat and do stuff and unless they actually fall off the boat, I don’t have to wonder where they are. I can float in a pool all day every day, watch all the movies I want, and whatever else they have to do. Like a vacation in a vacation.
See also: Disney Cruise
That was the most Karen thing I have ever read on here.
I need to speak to your manager.
I’m a free man!
GlibFit update. I checked our routes online and discovered that dog and I walked 8 miles over three walks today. No wonder she’s acting tired.
Well, gnight. I downed another dose of nyquil, hopefully there won’t be a repeat of last night (I don’t blame the medicine for that)
Feel better
NyQuil- mix it with vodka and have a “Cosby-tini”
needz moar qualuudes
And pray you wake up
+1 puddin’ pop
Hrmm… I can’t get a temp reading this morning because my nose has completed clogged, and the damn thermometer takes too long to register that I need to take a breath before it’s finished, ruining the reading because I opened my darn mouth and let in the cold outside air. No, I’m not going to use alternative measurement spots, I’m just going to call in sick, take some more medication and go back to sleep.
Wise move. If your subordinate is still sick, I hope he has someone else to call so he doesn’t wake you up. As we keep saying, hope you feel better ASAP.
Enjoy.
https://mobile.twitter.com/davidgura/status/1236829798133108736
I, too, racially identify as “Queens, New York City”.
You have to admit, it makes more sense than all the alternatives.
Multiple fabulous personality disorder?
Good Thai food in Elmhurst “me” as well.
I was arrested and held for 48 hour in Kew Gardens, Queens. Fuck off, SoyBoy
I didn’t pass the indecent exposure laws in “me”.
I have you beat – I lived in Queens for 7 years, voluntarily.
Granted, Im drunk. That has to be the funniest, stupidest, argument.
Why don’t you take racism seriously?
To play a riff off a James Baldwin paraphrase, the only way to deal with individual racism is to not take it seriously. If anyone calls you a cracker, a coon, a chink – the only proper response is to laugh. To not do so is to give the word a power to denigrate your basic human dignity that it shouldn’t have.
On the other hand, systematic, institutional racism, the kind that can only come from a government through force of arms. That should be taken dead seriously. And resisted by any means necessary – up to and including The Blood of the Fang.
That guy is very proud of his torso.
Wouldn’t you be?
I just find it amusing. The whole notion of me looking like that and flaunting it is so outside my reality I can’t even conceive of it. I want to say “no” but who knows.
That’s Jefferson from the original Broadway cast of Hamilton, btw.
He’s got a point. Met an acquaintance at the bar last Friday. He comes over to our table and we chat. He throws out some political comments to see where we stand. I make a Daily Stormer joke and he asks if I read. No, dude. You should. They have good articles. I tell him I’ve seen it and it’s racist crap. His response? “You need to read it regularly to understand it.” True fucking story.
“Good Articles” = “The Holohoax an Analysis”. Next headline “Hitler Made a Good Start, Let’s Finish It.” Stormfront is a bunch of white welfare recipients complaining that black people are lazy and won’t work.
He pointed out that it has a variety of topics it covers, so it’s not simply about race. All I could say to him was, “If you were a full on racist/neo Nazi in 2020, the DS is exactly how you’d organize your site.”
I read the Daily Stormer only for the centerfolds…I swear!
Yes, articles on why cats are just “purring Jews” require a large amount of context.
Finally, figured out what my next one month challenge should be.
OK–if there is an uptick in cat adoptions in straff’s city any time soon, along with large shipments of yarmulkes to the same area…just prepare for some extra weird stuff in chat.
I should’ve been more clear. One month DS challenge. Red pills take time to digest.
Digest?? You don’t snort ’em?
That dynamic has happened a few times in my life. You’re joking with some friends about race in good fun when one guy says something that isn’t really a joke. You can see the air sucked out of the room. “WTF dude?”
That basically describes the entire internet for the past decade.
Too many Whites?
The log in Howard Dean’s eye.
Ok. But does the Glibs playbook tell me that I shouldn’t think that note is 99.99997% a hoax in this situation? I’m confused and seek guidence.
Hmmm….is ‘politician’ an approved-of, special status? If not, then no*.
*I’m not sure she’s smart enough to have come up with it (maybe she is). Could be a staffer… Doesn’t really look like feminine writing; doesn’t really come across as masculine thought.
I hate to break it to you, but they are the most special of the special.
I mean, the Secret Service wouldn’t investigate a death threat against me.
Touche’. I should have qualified it better.
More importantly than whether it is a hoax is this. Why in the hell is someone being insulted news? The problem with lese majeste is not that it only applies to the king, it is that it applies to anyone.
Oh, I agree–up to the point that it stops with insults. My first thought was that she should laugh it off, not make it a news story. Then again, James Hodgkinson happened. As well as Antifa. They aren’t notes on cars, but the leftist violence does seem to be ramping up.
True. It’s important to distinguish between muh words are violence! crowd and no shit violence. I don’t wanna play their game.
I find HoDean to be a rather pungent turd. For him to kinda ‘double down’ on the note, when Stefanik is pretty much a nobody, in political terms, makes him even shittier.
But, yes–I did find it odd that a note on a car was newsworthy. The original report on it plays the “someone following me” angle.
One note? I’d crumple it up and go on with my day.
Hey everybody! what happened while I was passed out drunk?
COVID-19 hit us, and we re-named ourselves “Coronatarians”.
Also, prayers and well-wishing for your interview. Walk in, kick ass, and fear no man.
*Zips up*
Nothing much. Why?
Look at the sophisticate here with his “pants”.
Pants? My dildo case has a zipper.
Right?? If clothing isn’t an option, togas and muumuus are ideal.
In fact, if you’re in the market for the latter…
Same link?
You know, one of these nights, I will figure out what dafuq is going on with Chrome.
Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPjggN-KByI
I had some pretty good beer battered Mahi Mahi tacos for lunch at Title Town development next to Lambeu field. Made me want more tacos, got everything prepped for steak tacos when ever I get hungry tonight.
Well, you seem to be holding your own on the shift, even if you are/were having trouble sleeping. Were you @ Title Town with family?
Met my little brother and his family there. His 1.5 year old son adores me, spent the whole day clamoring to be around me. It so cute, but the best bit, they have a full sized football field there that is open to the public to play on and there were people out there playing small pickup games and such, I took him out there and he was ‘football! Wow!’ He’s the 9th of nieces/nephews all of whom I’ve unsuccessfully tried to get interested in football until now. Football, Dinos and cars. I love this kid!
Outstanding! Guess either you or I should be glad I’m not one of your nephews….or, neices.
As for sleep, it’s more about days off than on. To make sure I’d be awake today for family fun, I didn’t sleep after getting home from work yesterday and ended up being awake for 30 some hours, so I would sleep last night and be awake today, now tonight I need to not sleep so I can sleep tomorrow to be awake for the shift; and now the rotating schedule begins where my days off will change every week…Danny Glover sums it up.
I hope you have a case-phone, too. But, yeah, this is what I do on weekends, as it’s what tends to work: Get up in the evening on Thursday, stay up until Friday evening/night (if I can), then try to sleep a long time only to get up Saturday morning and be up through ’til Sunday morning, when I sleep for a good, long time.
I’m even older, for this shit. But, it’s what is working for the time being. Fortunately, I don’t currently have any kind of rotating schedule. ::crosses fingers and squints real hard::
Wah? Thing is, I am prone to insomnia, and it could extend beyond the days off very easily. Having to work during a 24-72 hour period where I don’t sleep isn’t fun, and would not be good for my keeping the job.
But, they announced they are going to be making some new hires, and asked about requests for shift transfers, so hopefully I’ll be off the shift before I go all Tyler Durden.
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NSFW.
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NSFW.
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NSFW.
NSFW means I’m SOL. 🙁
At least you’re aren’t SOP, am I right!? (Shit Out of Pants)
1. I would hope “out of”
2. Ewww
Fur Fuck Sake.
I imagine SNL is a mandatory stop on the Dem candidate tour now.
Sometimes The Critical Drinker comes across as much of a snowflake as the people he’s attacking, but the Teddy Bear analogy he starts this video off with is actually a very concise summation of modern politics.
I haven’t seen him be a snowflake in the reviews I’ve watched, which isn’t all of them. And, I agree with that summation on the last ST: P review.
He does it in this same-self review, acting like Doctor Who has never before had any kind of political bent, and it’s all the SJWs ruining it, every episode for last 50 years made total canonical sense, until the SJWs arrived! No snowflake, the show has been shit before, and not always due to politics, sometimes it was just shitty writing, the two aren’t mutually exclusive.
That’s not what I took away from the review. I think his gripe is that, bad writing is one thing, bad writing due to socio-political posturing is, for him, a bridge too far. We do that same thing around here, although we do also push back/get contrarian/offer nuance. And, usually not with entertainment as the sole focus.
It feels, to me, his gripes only come about when bad writing and politics he doesn’t like coincide. I don’t think I’ve seen him criticize anything without bringing politics in. I mean, sure that get’s clicks, but it’s boring. I can’t even think of a film I like where I do agree with the politics.
Although I can’t say difinitively, this may be true. I know he offers up criticisms when he doesn’t think writing doesn’t work as presented, but I can’t say for sure that he’s done any w/o mentioning social stuff.
the show has been shit before, and not always due to politics, sometimes it was just shitty writing
Zombie JNT approves this message and thanks the new “Who” for rehabilitating his reputation.
Well, from reading about him, it seems that, at least, he was trying to bring in new fans, as opposed to attempting to shame/re-educate the current viewers.
That it failed, and, that he seems to have been the wrong person to try this, is a shame.
Huh. OK. I gave up on Who a couple seasons ago.
He does the same, as of this last review. He notes a decline, although his gripe is mostly the infestation of leftist thinking in its production. But, the guy’s a fairly prolific author, and talks about telling good stories. I have no idea if he does or doesn’t.
Never heard of him or anything but FWIW I laffed at the video and I didn’t expect to. It did capture some things I felt about Who for awhile now.
Yeah, his reviews can be entertaining and point out some great examples of failings in writing, but like my gripe above, he always seems to bring it all back to politics. And it gets boring in that sense.
To be fair, the writers started it.
I’m not just talking about his Doctor Who reviews, every fucking one of his reviews brings politics into it. He doesn’t ever seem to review anything unless he can complain about the politics.
I mean, even when he praises an old movie, he has to contrast it with modern politics.
Oh, an update on my little-not-brother. He got released from jail (where he was for child support non-payment, because he didn’t have a job, and the baby-mama he he owed the support to used her tax money to get him out) Thursday. He said he’d follow my rules to let me know where he is and where he’s going in exchange for me to let him stay here again. Last time I saw or heard from was Saturday morning. What the fuck is wrong with people? And when I kick him out he’s just going to cast himself as the victim in some fucked up way. Jasper crimony.
Dude! Buddy! You didn’t actually mean that I had to, you know, tell you, like, everything I’m doing, or, like, every place I’m going…..didja??? I thought you were cool, man!”
/not him, but…sounds like he’s doing just this.
Yeah. “You can live here rent free, just try to find a job and let me know when you’re going somewhere and when you’ll be back.” OPPRESSION!
Responsibility is hard enough, and, when those close to you ‘get it’ and you don’t, the world is a crueler place. He probably wonders, in the quieter times in his life, just how THEY got to you, and how you could be so easily tamed.
I’m kinda kidding, and kinda not–I would think he does wonder how/why you would be strict with him, considering how close you are AND are peers. Responsibilities are for older people.
Hah, me being strict and following grown-up rules! I’m working my first 40hr job since I was in my early 20s and drink every fucking day.
To be fair to you, responsible != 40 hr/week job. Now, if you live in a (family compound), where the authorities and creditors can’t find you…well, you know.
Digby, I don’t recall, did I share my story about my foray into politics with you?
Yes-even the commercial.
“Even”, as in, you included it in order to tell the story.
So, you might not like dogs or something?
No, no–I fully intend to travel back in time, buy a residence in MI, and vote! No one’s gonna be able to say I don’t like the
dagsdogs.Tauchen and Powers were real simps.
Voter fraud! Also, I don’t know who those politicians you mentioned are (wink-wink anonymity). Also also, when I met the one I ran against who is still our representative while I worked in radio; he didn’t recognize my name that I had ran against him, but my last name that he knew my uncle.
See? A real simp. Still…should I vote for your uncle?
My uncle is retired, leave him alone! (He’s the only extant male of his generation in the family my other uncle and my dad having predeceased him)
Oh, gawd…I enjoy many of the ‘Reddit question’ vids that infest Youtube, but–I just discovered one titled “What common practices should be illegal?”
Not today, Satan! I ain’t even about to watch the residence of Mos Eisley pontificate about how much less freedom there should be.
I have the death sentence in 12 systems! So here are the things I want to outlaw!
Cue “Going somewhere, Solo?”
Cue adding back in the scene where Jabba showed up, but replacing him with a cartoon version and animating Han to step up when he walks over Jabba’s tail, whence he makes a cartoon face, which leads to George creating Jar Jar.
Now, when you say “leads to”…do you mean he was inspired to do so, or, that it follows in the chain of events?
Or, both?
I’m not privy to the chain of events to make the distinction.
Was answer #1 being a deplorable?
I’ve shared this before, but this is my theme song.
I’ll take this song, version and all.
Of course, it all starts here.
Is that these same Eels?
I knoweth not. In fact, that is the only song from them that I’ve ever heard (that I know of).
I think I’m gonna cook up them steak tacos now.
Sounds like a plan.
Those tacos were good, also I think any mortal would have alcohol poisoning at this point, therefore I am immortal. Fight me bitch! Science!
Well, if you’re renting beer, I would imagine you’re processing it efficiently.
Meaning, I ain’t getting close, ’cause I don’t want you pissing on me.
*gets a sad, kicks pebble*
It’s all fun and games–playing grab-ass–until someone gets pissed on.
Then, it’s cam-show.
Oh, yeah–what prompted the question about your political foray?
I just didn’t remember if I shared that with you. I’m guarded in talking about that in even my real life, cuz you never know how people will react.
Gotcha.
Pizza and Wine.
Going Back/Going Home
The said band that caused a riot in China.
Sounds like a good date.
Or, maybe a bad one…
Not that you would talk here, but, have you learned anything ‘interesting’ in your time on the job that isn’t specific to your employer?
Not really. Remember how I thought it was super secret we were DOJ? Well, apparently that is the preferred response when people ask what my job is, despite that the job was listed as surveillance, so that’s what I told everyone and the DOJ connection was told me like a super-secret thing, I guess it’s supposed to be the other way round.
Huh…So, no training in how to spot what you look for? Or, is it pretty obvious type stuff?
Such as: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-M2hs3sXGo
I can’t talk about what I’m trained to see, and if you keep asking I will have to report you. *this is my actual training*
::takes furious, vague notes::
I’m not sure how to read that.
The preferred response is that you’re DoJ?
If he’s still up, I’ll leave it to him to give any explanation. But, I know what he’s referring to, and it’s not .
Dammit, computer…..::sigh::
I know what he’s referring to.
Your guess is as good as mine, but if you ask me more I will have to report you.
*reports CPRM*
My sovereign government laughs at your state government! Identity politics FTW!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmzsWxPLIOo
Digby gets it. He always gets me, but not in a gay way.. NTTIAWWT…
What a fantastic idea: Sovereign Citizens casino!
/Lord, do I ever hate that term.
Aaaaand, so much for timing of responses….
You think I’m reporting you to the state?
*laughs mightily, interrupted by a coughing fit*
Oooh…getting interesting!
I’m sorry UCS; there are levels to these jokes I can’t share with you (well, I mean I can, but you aren’t my bestest glib friend like Digby, not that this is a HS lunch room, but a drunk can only keep track of so many things at a time)
Plus, you probably don’t want to see me carry him around when he starts getting “beer legs”.
Which, as I’ve been told, is much better than the breaded “Beer nuts”.
::shudders::
*”Dreaded”, not “breaded”.
That you know of.
Big Bird Mode!
Not exactly what I had in mind….but,
loveyes, actually.Great little film, considering all the talent they were able to get.
/Nicky Katt fan
That was the film that convinced me Vin Diesel was a great actor, and since then he has seemed determined to prove me wrong.
Yeah; capable of greatness.
I thought he was rather subtle in Babylon AD….I mean, for him and for the role.
He can act very well, but most of his roles make Arnold and Sly’s dumbest characters come across as geniuses.
Yeah…but, I tend to be entertained. Still waiting for the wrap-up of the Riddick series. Have never seen a F&F movie, and don’t plan to start.
Riddick!!!
Gotta say, while the story has been a bit uneven in its telling, props to him and Twohy for coming up with a distinct universe/lore.
When you realize Universal owns both the Riddick movies and fast and Furious, it makes a lot more sense.
Yes, it does. I guess quality takes a long time, when the other option is “Drive expensive cars real fast and blew shit up.”
Speaking of those Reddit YT videos, the voice I would love to hear narrate glibs chatter: https://harposoftware.com/en/english-uk/140-brian-british-english-voice.html
Did you catch the links this week about speech synthasis AI trained to talk like Trump? It would make my
jobcartoon making so easy.Well, I saw you respond to it (I may have responded to you…can’t remember). I agree that it would be a goldmine for your production.
Think I asked if you had a thirst for it…
Yeah, that’s right. Another guy who trained an AI, I might try it.
That seems a bit pricey, all things considered. It’s off juuuust enough to take me out of the moment. If there’s better, I say hold off until prices come down.
I would say I could get a lot of mileage out of 50 words, but you’re the one who hasn’t been drinking for the last hrs…
That you know….
/”breaded”??
Why are all the Dems crossed out?
::radio static::
Code RED! Code RED! JD knows too much!
I know nothing!
Sugar Free is the one that does that. I just make cartoons based on his demented dreams…I think I might actually go to sleep now. I think I’ll put in my DVD of The Explorers I picked up this week.
Nice. By the way it’s 11:30am here in the future but I have yet to put on pants. That’s just how this week is starting out.