Inspired by a few comments on the other thread, particularly when vampireshark didn't understand the meaning of the term "vent", I've decided to create a happy thread to counterbalance it. So, post things that have made you happy recently!
For me, I graduated the other day with first class honours.
And today I saw two films for free - brilliant offer....
Mmm, just had an absolutely delicous courgette and mushroom pie. Mushrooms from the wild (my gf assures me they're edible - I shall know by tonight) and an egg from our chicken coop. Maybe, one day, it'll be our courgettes!
Courgettes, like aubergines, are vegetables that I have never really seen the point of. Not keen on the texture when cooked, and their native flavour is stubbornly indistinct.
Salmoneus wrote:(NB Dewrad is behaving like an adult - a petty, sarcastic and uncharitable adult, admittedly, but none the less note the infinitely higher quality of flame)
Ew courgettes are vile and I should very much like to stomp on every single courgette plant in existence. If I want tasteless sludgy green gunk in my food I'll leave it in a stagnant pond for a month.
You guys are crazy. Grilled courgettes and egg plants are amazing, and it's so easy. It really brings out their inner flavor. And then there's stuff like baba ghanoush.
They're definitely prone to overcooking if you prepare them differently though. Or making your dish watery. Best try to extract some of the water with some salt, first, especially with courgettes.
If you ever decide to grow courgettes, though, be prepared for more courgette than you ever thought of consuming in a year.
din wrote:You guys are crazy. Grilled courgettes and egg plants are amazing, and it's so easy. It really brings out their inner flavor. And then there's stuff like baba ghanoush.
They're definitely prone to overcooking if you prepare them differently though. Or making your dish watery. Best try to extract some of the water with some salt, first, especially with courgettes.
If you ever decide to grow courgettes, though, be prepared for more courgette than you ever thought of consuming in a year.
Salmoneus wrote:(NB Dewrad is behaving like an adult - a petty, sarcastic and uncharitable adult, admittedly, but none the less note the infinitely higher quality of flame)
din wrote:You guys are crazy. Grilled courgettes and egg plants are amazing, and it's so easy. It really brings out their inner flavor. And then there's stuff like baba ghanoush.
They're definitely prone to overcooking if you prepare them differently though. Or making your dish watery. Best try to extract some of the water with some salt, first, especially with courgettes.
If you ever decide to grow courgettes, though, be prepared for more courgette than you ever thought of consuming in a year.
E.g. 1 courgette.
In that case, change year to decade. Eggplants are great in Indian food, too, by the way. They absorb all the flavor (and oil, and therefore flavor...).
Rui wrote:Translation for Americans: courgette = zucchini, aubergine = eggplant
I went for a happy, confused, intercontinental mix. I sometimes forget which one's which, living in a French-speaking area and the French terms also being acceptable in English.
Courgettes/zucchini and aubergines/eggplant are delicious when done right. When done wrong, they can be horrible. They're also an acquired taste: it wasn't until I became a vegetarian that I started liking imam bayildi (cold eggplant/zucchini/other vegetable salad).
Happy: starting my first day tutoring engineers in writing. No lessons to prep and no essays to grade!!!
ol bofosh wrote:It would be like films: the first one is The Pole, the second one would be The Pole II.
POLE II: THE REVENGENING
Some of my friends hosted a clothing exchange this weekend, and it was a pretty good time. I got some slacks and a nice khaki skirt (which I never would have considered, but I love it).
Morrígan wrote:I got some slacks and a nice khaki skirt (which I never would have considered, but I love it).
Cool! What's it like?
Slacks are plain black, and dark grey and pinstripe. The khaki skirt is a fairly short a-line, probably mid-thigh. Plus I got a light, plaid blouse, and some kind of clutch-wallet thing that I see Persons of Quality use.