charming potato

[extemporanea]

You know I make those oven-baked baby potato thingies for braais? Where you halve the baby potatoes and sling them into a pan with garlic and olive oil and whatever other seasonings occur to you at the time (herbs, lemon, spices, the flesh of the living), and bake them until crispy? Well, this evening Jo & I, via the essentially random processes

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[silmaril]

Want want want want some more and then want.

(Want?)

(Saved to memories.)

[extemporanea]

Thank you for a truly gratifying reaction :>. If you make it, let me know how it turned out.

[stringgeek]

I need to find out what's in your Thai seven spice, because that's the only ingredient I can't easily replicate in that heinously delicious-sounding recipe. I'm already salivating!

[extemporanea]

It's really not essential. The one I use contains chillis, black pepper, garlic, ginger, coriander, lemongrass, basil and lime oil; if you don't have a source of the spice, I'd substitute powdered coriander and ginger, and dried basil, and possibly lime and lemongrass, since the recipe has a lot of the rest of it anyway. Or just coriander. Or dried basil. Honestly, go wild. I tend to think of these things as being according to personal taste, anyway.

[rumint]

Yum! Very tasty. Makes me look forward to braais again. BTW I'm visiting CT in early November this year, instead of Xmas.

That Skyrim DLC looks great. Spears and arrow killcams would be great, and they really need the improved follower commands...

And you successfully earwormed me with dragonette too!

[extemporanea]

The lack of specific follower strategy options is maddening after Dragon Age. I really hope they release that one. Also, am very taken by the footprints in snow, and the ice/fire arrow options. But my life will not be complete until you can adopt a sabre snow cat in place of a stray dog.

[tngr_spacecadet]

I also intend to make this asap preferably this evening (just to test it of course). We also have everything in the house except the Thai seven spice. I wonder if that is the sekkrit ingredient in the fried rice as well?

[extemporanea]

Stv's delectable garlic fried rice doesn't contain seven spice, so I doubt it ;>. See comment above for seven-spice substitutions. Really, I don't think it's vital.

[herne_kzn]

What season of Veronica Mars are you watching. Have just seen S1 for the first time and have been..really rather impressed.

[extemporanea]

As soon as I've finished typing this comment I'm going to dash off to watch the final episode of Season 1, which I couldn't get to last night on account of dying of exhaustion at around 9pm. I'm so hooked, I've been avoiding spoilers because of the extent to which I enjoy trying to predict the twists. I have my Theories about the latest shenanigans, she says darkly. Theories. Will be annoyed if they aren't proven true.

And, yes, also rather impressed. As an index to my actual state of enjoyment, I ordered the second and third seasons a couple of days ago. Will twitch gently until they arrive.

[herne_kzn]

It's quite an episode!

[extemporanea]

Wow, that it is. Deeply satisfying on many levels. I called the murderer ;>. Feel smug.