How are _you_ doin'?

[darkitysnark]

• The Mister accidentally left our stand-alone freezer unplugged over a very hot four days. We lost 75 pounds of meat.
  
• I'm over it now, but for a while I was disproportionately furious. It's been a tough two-and-a-half-years, y'all.
  
• The food smells wafting from the neighboring office are going to kill me - I've been so hungry all the time lately.

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[darkitysnark]

It was already disposed of by the time I got up for the day. His friends tried to convince him that the meat was salvageable (After four days! In a garage! At 90° temps!) but he wisely decided to not tempt fate.

[another_masque]

Yugh. I'm glad you weren't awake to witness the damage.

Unrefined coconut oil? Applied directly and undiluted?

[darkitysnark]

It was truly tragic. All that beef, pork, lamb, and Umpqua sesquicentennial ice cream! Gone! Sniff.

Yup. I just melt a very small amount on my finger tips and rub it in. Apparently when we had our recent spate of sunshine (yellow, hurty thing!) I got a little sunburn on my (facial) cheeks, which resulted in some... molting. The coconut oil was the only thing that kept everything smooth (and delicious!).

[ex_starkrav]

argh, that's disappointing about the meat. too bad you couldn't lend it out to your local crime scene investigator for some decomp. experiments. yeah, we've been watching WAY too much CSI lately...

i'm still recovering from (what i thought was) a mild sunburn two months ago on my arms. man, just 2 hours in the sun = months of stubborn farmer's tan.

[darkitysnark]

I've been watching this horrible show on Spike TV (a/k/a The Phallic Channel) that compares the weaponry/fighting style of various warrior types (ex: Shaolin Monk vs. Maori Warrior or Ninja vs. Spartan). They often demonstrate the damage the weaponry would cause by attacking various large cuts of meat. I have yet to make it through an entire episode (the gore gets to be too much for me. Me!)

I've got a good base tan going for my summer Reverse Panda (tm).

[cattleprodshock]

You lost //75 POUNDS// worth of meat? HOLY SHIT, DUDE, THAT'S NOT AN ACCIDENT, THAT'S OFFERINGS OF FLESH ON A BIBLICAL SCALE! (What Babylonian deity were you guys trying to appease? *winks*)

Every once in a while I find myself walking in mental circles about bread machines - I love the kneading aspect of bread making (for me, it's the MOST MAGIC part of the process), but sometimes 10 minutes of hardcore effort can reaaaaaaaally wipe me out due to being sick. So I'm stuck with "IS IT BETTER TO BE LAZY AND LET SOMETHING ELSE KNEAD FOR ME, OR DO I SAVE BREAD BAKING FOR DAYS I'M FEELING SUPER AWESOME AND UP FOR IT?"; haven't made my mind up, but if we DO get one it'll probably be AFTER an ice cream maker.

[darkitysnark]

I'm hoping the offering has me in somebody's good graces now. Sheesh!

I loved kneading until I did it for FORTY MINUTES a couple weekends ago (when it was uncharacteristically hot and humid as well). Ugh. That was too much.

We do have an ice cream maker as well. There's a salted caramel ice cream recipe I've been wanting to try for a few years...

I owe you an honest-to-goodness handwritten something-or-other. There I've said it, it's been invoked. Now it will finally happen!

[cattleprodshock]

LET'S HOPE THAT YOU WON'T BE REQUIRED TO BUILD A GOLDEN CALF ANYTIME SOON! (<- PS: YOU PUT THE KIDS //INSIDE// BEFORE YOU ROAST THEM ALIVE! IT'S ALL SO MESOPOTAMIAN WICKER MAN!)

Holy fucking shit - 40 MINUTES? That's some serious effort on your part! R's become a lot more hands on in the kitchen recently (MP3 PLAYER + POT + NO IN-LAWS = CULINARY COUPLE TIME!) so I can always depend on him to help me knead for half the time, but I'm not sure if he could handle a 20 minute session! I hope whatever you baked was worth the energy!

I owe you an honest-to-goodness handwritten something-or-other. There I've said it, it's been invoked. Now it will finally happen!

IT SEEMS SO EASY, DOESN'T IT? I have a stack of handwritten letters from a few friends in the States and when a new one arrives I go "AWESOME! I'LL READ IT AND IMMEDIATELY CRACK OPEN WORD AND GET A REPLY IN THE MAIL, //TOMORROW//!" but, so far, it hasn't happened. (The thought is way, way easier than the execution!)

[darkitysnark]

EXACTLY. When I do actually break out my little fountain pens and cards and get to the writing, it goes pretty quickly... but getting to that point is Sisyphean!

The Mister is a Most Excellent soux chef. He does all my prep work chopping and what not... but I have yet to snare him into the kneading. Just as I was getting into bread baking, he decided to cut carbs out of his diet (aiya!).