Lorelei, Tumbling

asortofbookevent: Remember when Kirk kicked Khan’s superhuman...

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 11:55:45 -0700

Remember when Kirk kicked Khan’s superhuman ass with a plastic phallus?

Kirk was always good at knocking people out by hitting them real hard between the shoulder blades. It’s his own personal nerve pinch.

jmixb: Always hilarious

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 12:20:44 -0700

jmixb:

Always hilarious

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Tue, 16 Apr 2013 12:13:37 -0700

natgeofound: Tourists in the old town hall of Bremen look up at...

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 09:55:10 -0700

natgeofound:

Tourists in the old town hall of Bremen look up at a model ship in Germany, January 1969.
Photograph by James P. Blair, National Geographic

These are peanut butter banana oatmeal cookies. Sort of. I saw a...

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 15:26:35 -0700

These are peanut butter banana oatmeal cookies. Sort of. I saw a link to these two-ingredient cookies just a couple days after I got a produce box with bananas. And obviously I can just, you know, eat bananas, but I wasn’t really feeling it, I wanted to see what else I could do. So I tried the recipe with just some honey and cinnamon. They came out ok, but they were strongly banana-flavored, and the texture was not ideal, distinctly uncookie-like.

So I wondered if I could use it to make a less messy version of the peanut butter oat balls or peanut butter granola bars I’ve taken to work in the past. Peanut butter is my favorite afternoon snack, but a key feature of a good work snack in an open-plan office is that it’s not embarrassing to eat, and the balls and the bars were both problematic. Eating whole peanuts works, but is just not the same.

Anyway, for round two I mashed one banana, added a little more than an equal amount of peanut butter, ground half the oatmeal in a food processor to make the texture smoother, then added cinnamon, honey, and a couple tablespoons of cocoa powder, and baked for a total of 20 minutes.

They are great. I mean, you’re not fooling anyone, they taste like banana, peanut butter and oats, but they are an extremely tasty and convenient way to eat banana, peanut butter and oats, and more cookie-like overall. More involved than the original recipe too once you process the oats, but still easier than real cookies for someone extremely baking-challenged like me, and IMO the texture payoff is well worth it. I’m getting more bananas this week, and I think they might become a staple.

girlonadragon: I am not a shrimp - I am a king prawn! I...

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 23:05:16 -0700

girlonadragon:

I am not a shrimp - I am a king prawn!

I searched the Internet for game of prawns and was not let down

stuffonmyrabbit: Chocolate bunny

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 11:52:53 -0700

stuffonmyrabbit:

Chocolate bunny

This is chicken with beets, greens, and orange butter, suggested...

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 09:51:05 -0700

This is chicken with beets, greens, and orange butter, suggested by New Roots Organics’ newsletter as a good way to use the beets and lacinato kale raab in last week’s box. The onion and orange also came in the latest box. I made it this weekend and then forgot to publish the post until today.

As you can see, I did not grate the beets. This is because my food processor does not have a grating disk and just the thought of using a box grater on a pound of raw beets makes my hand hurt (also I’d probably grate the rest of my fingertips off if I tried, and I’m still typing with 9 fingers thanks to the blender incident of a couple weeks ago). I subbed onion for the shallots since I had the onion already.

Anyway it turns out slicing raw beets with a mandoline is still kind of a pain in the ass, and then when you cook them they bleed all over and don’t have the same beety intensity in the end. So from now on I plan to cook beets whole first, regardless of recipe. Also, plain sliced beets are boring. I expect plain grated beets would have been, too.

The greens and onions were the real stars here. Apparently kale raab (which is kale that grows over the winter after the usual fall harvest) is sweeter than normal kale, and I found it surprisingly tasty. The dense, narrow lacinato kale leaves were also quite palatable in texture, though I’m sure chopping it and adding other stuff helped. The orange segments were my addition, I supremed the orange that I’d zested and added it to the greens at the end, and that was an excellent call.

I don’t know that I’d make the whole meal again, plain pan-cooked chicken breast is kinda meh even with lots of butter, and if I’m going to eat a pile of beet slices I’d rather have them pickled, but I know what I’ll be doing with lacinato kale in the future.

I am watching Star Trek: The Motion Picture for the first time...

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 21:54:39 -0700

I am watching Star Trek: The Motion Picture for the first time in approximately 18 years, and basically liveblogging by yelling commentary at Peter in the other room. I’d forgotten so much about this movie. The space pajamas!

basilton: In the early years of space flight, both Russians and...

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 20:32:12 -0700

basilton:

In the early years of space flight, both Russians and Americans used pencils in space. Unfortunately, pencil lead is made of graphite, a highly conductive material. Snapped graphite leads and particles in zero gravity are hugely problematic, as they will get sucked into the air ventilation or electronic equipment, easily causing shorts or fires in the pure oxygen environment of a capsule.

After the fire in Apollo 1 which killed all the astronauts on board, NASA required a writing instrument that wasn’t a fire hazard. Fisher spent over a million dollars (of his own money) creating a pressurized ball point pen, which NASA bought at $2.95 each. The Russian space program also switched over from pencils shortly after.

40 years later snide morons on the internet still snigger about it, because snide morons on the internet never know what they are talking about.

reblogging for science

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Sat, 16 Mar 2013 11:09:31 -0700

The latest produce box included baby bok choy, right after I saw...

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 21:37:47 -0700

The latest produce box included baby bok choy, right after I saw Steamy Kitchen’s recipe for miso udon soup, so the next step seemed obvious. The leaves are perfect for a quick dunk in boiling water, and the bottom parts are crunchy enough for me to eat without being grossed out.

The box also had carrots, every box so far has included carrots, I will be eating carrots with every meal forever, so in the carrots went. I had some chicken breast in the freezer, and while I was at the Asian market getting miso and udon, I picked up some fish cake too because I love fish cake.

I had some extra prep work to do, washing the bok choy and chopping the meats, but otherwise the recipe is just about as easy as advertised, and delicious. Next time I might use dashi instead of chicken broth though, it just doesn’t have quite the same rich miso soup flavor I was hoping for.

Oh, and the timing on this was perfect, because I woke up this morning with a sore throat, and swallowing udon with a sore throat is heaven. Much better than the colcannon I made this weekend with CSA box parsley, where I ended up food-processing my finger in an act of supreme stupidity. I’m fine, I just have two parallel cuts all around the fingertip, not too deep and not through the nailbed. The worst part may have been the urgent care nurse making fun of me.

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Sat, 09 Mar 2013 01:00:32 -0800

the triumphant return of half-assed food blogging! this is a...

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 21:30:58 -0800

the triumphant return of half-assed food blogging!

this is a grilled ham and cheese sandwich with caramelized onions and roasted red peppers. here is how you make this sandwich:

step 1: get a whole lot of onions from your new biweekly not-a-CSA produce delivery service, make a whole lot of caramelized onions. end up not using them all.

step 2: see that your grocery store has a huge discount on some nice deli ham this week. suggest ham and cheese sandwiches to your boyfriend, who does not love ham as much as you, get lukewarm response. remember leftover onions, suggest grilled ham and cheese with caramelized onions, obtain more enthusiastic agreement.

step 3: on sandwich day, remember there’s a bell pepper from aforementioned produce delivery that you don’t have any plans for yet, decide that roasted red pepper is exactly what this sandwich needs. stick pepper under broiler until skin is wrinkly and charred.

step 4: chop pepper into strips, grate cheeses, build yourself a damn fine pair of sandwiches and toast over medium heat for 3-4 minutes per side.

step 5: (optional, but highly recommended) follow up with a pear crisp made from produce delivery pears.

buzzfeed: Oh my God the shopping cart is full of carrots.

Fri, 15 Feb 2013 19:54:21 -0800

buzzfeed:

Oh my God the shopping cart is full of carrots.

top secret app testing

Fri, 01 Feb 2013 14:55:53 -0800

top secret app testing

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Wed, 30 Jan 2013 08:12:48 -0800

iamspookyvulpesvulpes: Fallon vs. Cobert IM GON...

Sat, 26 Jan 2013 21:36:16 -0800

iamspookyvulpesvulpes:

Fallon vs. Cobert

IM GON PISS

literally LOL’d

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Sat, 26 Jan 2013 21:18:54 -0800

I’ve been rewatching A:TLA and just noticed that Sokka’s...

Fri, 25 Jan 2013 20:55:36 -0800

I’ve been rewatching A:TLA and just noticed that Sokka’s schedule in s3 is a giant gantt chart. I love this show.