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| 07:35am 13/05/2008 |
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| 08:30am 13/05/2008 |
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Spotted on Shelbyville Road at 10 am on Sunday.
When I drove by at about 11:30, it was still there. |
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| I R MAED OF WIN (or not) |
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| 11:12pm 12/05/2008 |
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So, I grabbed a beef stroganoff recipe off the intertubes today that was fairly low-cal to begin with (275 per serving) and modified it to make it almost non-fat to boot, so I was pleased about its content but was worried about the taste lied blatantly about its caloric content so all my effort was pretty much for naught, sinc eI can never make this again. It was decently tasty though.
While my experience with fat-free sour cream and cream cheese in the past have been failures when they were main ingredients, if used as cream base/thickeners for gravy they are absolutely indistinguishable from the real thing. It's also terribly easy.
- 2 lbs chuck roast/steak or sirloin and slice it into strips, removing all fat/gristle etc.
- 4 Tb. flour, white or wheat or whatever floats your boat
- butter or margarine or olive oil or pan-spray
- 3/4-ish cup green or white or yellow or red onions, chopped
- 2-ish cups beef broth or reconstituted boullion
- a bottle of harsh red wine (I used something called a carmenere on clearance, but a cab sauv or a merlot would work just as well)
- sliced mushrooms, either a couple of cups sliced fresh, or a couple of cans of... uh... canned
- PREPARED mustard... AKA not mustard powder but actual gloopy stuff in the bottle or jar. It can be yellow or dijon or weird foofy NoCal stuff, whatevs.
- GARRRRRRLIC. Like, warding-off-Dracula-for-5-years amount. I used 3 heaping teaspoons from a pre-chopped jar.
- Worcestershire sauce. Yes, I can pronounce it. Even while drunk.
- Fat-free sour cream. Yeah, they make that.
- Fat-free cream cheese. Yeah, they make that too.
- Salt, black pepper (fresh ground if you have the means), paprika (smoked if ya got 'em!)
So basically, take the Boeuf O' Choice that has been cut into strips and toss it into a med-hot pan with the butter/margarine/pam/olive oil/ whatever you use to brown things in your house.
Brown it. Tossing in some salt and pepper is a good thing at this stage.
When the meat is seared on most sides, scoop it out and set it aside. Dump in the onions and the garlic and let them soften and start to get clear but not brown.
Now, you can do the next bit one of two ways: Dump the flour into the broth and whisk it into a pseudo-roux and add the whole thing to the pan, or add the broth to the pan and sift the flour in while whisking. Either one ends up the same, just go with whatever personally gives you less lumps.
Dump the meat back in and turn the heat back down to med-low, whatever gives you a decent simmer without bottom-sticking. Stir in a couple tablespoons of the mustard and likewise of the worcestershire sauce. Pour in a Healthy Snort (AKA about 1/3 to 1/2 cup) of the harsh wine. Cover. Remember the mushrooms, curse, and toss them in too. Re-cover.
Go play a video game for about an hour.
Come back, uncover. Toss in a small palmful (2 tsp) of salt or garlic salt, and as much fresh black pepper as you can stand. Dump in another 1/3 cup of wine just because you tried to drink a glass and couldn't stand it and you need something to do with the dregs. Sprinkle in about 1/2 tsp of paprika. Stir.
Boil a buncha egg noodles or rice, as is your preference.
Add to the sauce approx 1/3 cup sour cream and 1/3 cup cream cheese and stir through until totally dissolved and sauce has thickened. Taste one last time and determine if it needs any more pepper, wine, worcestershire, or what. If not, serve over noodles/rice/carb of choice. :) |
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| 05:34am 13/05/2008 |
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mood:  pessimistic
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Any idea where I can find some Roderick Strong icons? =) |
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| it was a good idea |
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| 11:14pm 12/05/2008 |
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A few of the puppies that Captain and Fanny had went to some family friends who bred Labs. Mom thought of trying to reach them and maybe get another puppy who was related to my boy.
Unfortunately they've been out of the breeding business for a while. Well it was a nice idea anyway. |
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| Fly on the Wall |
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| 09:50pm 12/05/2008 |
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J.: So, what's the problem?
Me: I'VE BEEN FIGHTING WITH THIS @$#&ING COMPUTER FOR HOURS AND THE @&%*(^ING HD WON'T BOOT BUT I CAN GET WIN TO BOOT FROM CD BUT THEN IT SAYS IT CAN'T IDENTIFY THE #^*%^#ING HD IT JUST TRIED TO BOOT FROM AND I AM GOING TO LIGHT IT ON FIRE AGGGGGH!
J.: ...you've got the HD plugged into the slave cable.
Me: Well yeah, but I've got it unjumpered so it should override cable boot as single master.
J.: For BIOS, yeah, it'll do that. But for WINDOWS...
Me: ...*headdesk x1,000*
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Me: Thank you for helping fix the computer. *smeks J.'s shaved head*
J.: *playing Dawn of War* Mmm. Love you back.
*30 seconds later*
J.: Hey, baby, get your hot ass OVER here!
Me: ...wow, that was sudden! o_O
J.: Huh? Oh, no, I was talking to the mech. *points at screen*
Me: ...our marriage, ladies and gentlemen. |
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| Eddie Izzard Quotes |
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| 09:44pm 12/05/2008 |
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14 The Beatles Icons
2 The Beatles Banners
13 Eddie Izzard Quotes
Teasers:
01. 02. 03.
the rest here @ ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) old_fairytales! |
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| This diamond ring doesn't shine for me anymore... |
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| 09:09pm 12/05/2008 |
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So if you've got, someone whose heart is true....
Let it shine for you....
Ok, so, 7 years have passed and I have held on to this thing for so long...
Yeah, that's right, my ex-fiance's engagement ring.
I've sold it. and I took a bath on it, as, I guess, is to be expected.
I feel weird about it. I can't explain it.
It's like...that ring was supposed to mean something to two people and not only did she cast it off when she did what she did to me...but now I'm casting it off. Like it means nothing and I can part with it for the right price (which, in my mind, I didn't even get.)
I mean, it's not like I'm waiting for her to realize the error of her ways.
I wouldn't take her back if she was the last available hole to impregnate on this or any other planet and the survival of the human race depended on it. "It's been a nice run for the human race, shame it won't last past today."
It's just...weird.
Of course when I try to explain it...I fail miserably. One ticket for the Failboat please. Window seat.
I dunno.
Someone tell me they've been through something similar and tell me how to put words to it? |
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| I feel so ashamed but... |
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| 09:47pm 12/05/2008 |
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mood:  embarrassed music: - "" : []
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I.SHIP.THIS.LIKE.BURNING
And titan is sooo the power bottom |
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| No job for me. |
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| 08:32pm 12/05/2008 |
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mood:  disappointed music: Colin Meloy - Engine Driver
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So I'm not moving to Minnesota. It's a bit of a relief, since I don't really want to move to Minnesota, but it's hard to accept the loss of a job I would love and be very good at. So let's look at the bright sides: it means I won't have to abandon the faire this summer, it means I can keep writing for Goodman (and I'm working on lining up my first post-DMB job already), and it means I can keep living in my nice country house with my girlfriend.
I took the postal service exam in Louisville last week, and I'm pretty sure I did quite well. However, there were something like 4000 people taking the test, and in any case I won't get my results back for 4-6 weeks. Haven't heard anything back yet from the WSU interview I rocked a couple weeks ago, and that's a bad sign. Time to follow up on other leads now, I guess.
In other news (and I'm pretty sure this is old news to most of you), Iron Man was great. I about spooged in my pants when the words "Avengers initiative" came out of Nick Fury's mouth. |
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| Pagans Push For Change At Berkeley Festival |
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| 11:36pm 12/05/2008 |
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http://www.witchvox.com/wren/wn_detail.html?id=19668 People from all walks of life joined in the fun Saturday at the 7th Annual Pagan Festival and Parade.
It was a showing of acceptance and celebration across all ethnic backgrounds, sexual orientatio |
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| Off Topic - Rooms for Rent |
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| 07:32pm 12/05/2008 |
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Wondering if there are east coast rennies (or elsewhere...) looking for housing in Baltimore, MD... Thanks - x-posted - if this is a problem, let me know ! |
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| Off Topic - Rooms for Rent |
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| 07:29pm 12/05/2008 |
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Wondering if there are east coast rennies (or elsewhere..) looking for housing in Baltimore, MD... Thanks - x-posted - if this is a problem, let me know ! |
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| Pictures from 5/10 are already up |
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| 03:19pm 12/05/2008 |
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From TopRopePhotography at wrestlingfigs.com
Pictures from ROH's debut in the Hammerstein Ballroom are now up at www.topropephotography.com under the ROH section.
Server may be slow, and/or crash so if it goes down I apologize ahead of time.
In case people are linking pictures here, you have to copy and paste the address and enter it into your browser. Clicking the links people post will not work.
Gotta check them out ppl, this guy does some excellent work. |
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