[LHN91]

idk, a large pot of spaghetti has some serious lag time. of course im not making my own sauce, im using sauce out of a jar. but the idea is to cook the meatballs. and until they hit 170 they aint done.

Absolutely nothing wrong with jarred/canned sauce. Works as an excellent base to start from, add spices, veggies, whatnot.

[Nuke]

id like to hammer out my own sauce recipe, but i dont have much budget for experimentation. i have to feed x people for y days with z budget. and z is not very large.

[Bob-san]

With a half-decent sauce, you can boil beef chuck (don't forget to add salt, pepper, garlic, & onion). When you remove it, cut it into smaller bits with a spatula and freeze the excess. It's easier to select your portions when you have the finished product sitting in front of you. When you're ready to cook it, toss some sauce into the bottom of a pan, toss the cooked beef in, and top off the pan. For a single serving, a tiny sauce pot is more than sufficient with 4oz beef. Stir it as it heats. It's ridiculously easy to make meat sauce while you have spaghetti noodles boiling.

It's really simple and I usually use Aldi's store-brand tomato sauce. That entire store was a life-saver during my college years.

[LHN91]

id like to hammer out my own sauce recipe, but i dont have much budget for experimentation. i have to feed x people for y days with z budget. and z is not very large.

I hear that.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

Oh lord by nose is finally opening up. Oh sweet sweet air, it's so wonderful to BREATHE!

I'm reminded of that time my left ear unblocked itself after about three months because it was clogged with earwax, which I eventually removed. I was overjoyed.

In the meantime, is there anyone here who can tell me if phpBB or SMF is better? I recently joined a forum that uses phpBB, but it seems to have some problems including users being unable to update their profile.

[Scotty]

I like SMF a whooooole lot better.

[deathfun]

idk, a large pot of spaghetti has some serious lag time. of course im not making my own sauce, im using sauce out of a jar. but the idea is to cook the meatballs. and until they hit 170 they aint done.

Tip for meatballs: Bake them, and put them in the sauce once they've reached temp. Another method, cook in oil until done, and then add the sauce
Alternatively, precooked meatballs are an option and perhaps more suitable to your time/budget variables

[Nuke]

yea, if youre making sweedish meatballs, italian meatballs must be cooked in sauce! srsly its only 30 minutes and is totally awesome, and you cut out the oil.

[Scotty]

Hey, the Teleportation threadnought should be added to the Classics.

/random.

In case the mods decide they're too lazy to go looking.

[redsniper]

Second. Teleport threadnought was good threadnought.

[deathfun]

yea, if youre making sweedish meatballs, italian meatballs must be cooked in sauce! srsly its only 30 minutes and is totally awesome, and you cut out the oil.

Indeed. The meat basically absorbs the sauce into itself which just ends up being delicious
But that's true to say of most things
Specially mushrooms

My god... Chicken Marsala? So ****ing good. The mushrooms in the sauce just explode with flavour

Currently making fajitas right now actually. Going to marinate the chicken in light soy sauce, teriyaki, chili powder, coriander, cumin, and cayenne pepper, then cook it up with perhaps some mushrooms

[LHN91]

Just called in sick to my temporary side-job, the night shift helping renovate one of the local dollar stores. Realizing now that working two morning shifts followed by an evening at my other job, and then a couple of night shifts (And transporting my girlfriend to work as well, amongst all of that) is screwing with my sleep schedule to the point where I'm having random dizzy spells and sweats.

So basically, I gave a little-white-lie pair of reasons why I wasn't able to swap the day to Wednesday or Thursday when I'm technically available but frankly need to catch up on sleep, housework, and other obligations, and I *might* try to take a shift next week, if the renovation continues being behind schedule as it is.

I feel like a wimp, for basically bailing on available work, but my entire body is trying to shut down on me and I can't afford to not be functional for my main job. Guess I shouldn't have taken the temp job in the first place.

Edit: I kinda wish they were all evening or morning shifts. I can deal with the work-load, I just can't deal with the inconsistency of shift times.

[Nuke]

at 2pm i decided that the weather was good enough to grill outside, the sun was out and sparce fluffy clouds indicated little activity. so committed to bbq chicken. took it out of the freezer and got in a couple games of mwll. i also needed to go to the store. anyway i got back and it was pouring outside. having already thawed out the chicken, and with a deluge of semi-horizontal rain i decided that real men weren't afraid to get a little wet in the name of putting fire to meat. i got drenched, but my prowess with the bbq fork meant that i am now noming on really awesome bbq chicken.

[watsisname]

Hey, the Teleportation threadnought should be added to the Classics.

Indeed, one of the best threads I've seen on HLP in a long time.    I just now realized I spent the last hour and a half reading the whole damn thing.

[General Battuta]

I have come up with steadily more irrefutable and ingenious thought experiments in the time since

[deathfun]

What'd you do with the chicken Nuke?
As in flavouring wise
I'm assuming BBQ sauce

[watsisname]

@GB
Ah, Gedankenexperiments are fun, especially on subjects that are unintuitive.  I remember being taught the thought experiments for special relativity and it did take me some of time to finally get a grasp of it.  (Relativity of Simultaneity, say whaaaaaaa?) But once the underlying concepts click, it's a pretty rewarding learning experience.

I'd love to read your new insights if you're up for sharing.

[Nuke]

What'd you do with the chicken Nuke?
As in flavouring wise
I'm assuming BBQ sauce

just your run of the mill chicken breasts and bullseye. scortched corn on the cob and a baked potato, i wasnt feeling that ambitious today. theres more i coulda done, but i dont need nothing fancy when it comes to barbequing.

[Firstdragon34]

You're making me hungry in 1 in the mourning!

Anyways . .  .

I upgraded my Blender from 2.5 to 2.63, and for a change I'm using it, after sitting on my desktop for a year.  Still in the very basic, but I shall climb toward the top!

[deathfun]

http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?action=printpage;topic=55683.0

That is all
Made me laugh

*Found it in my hotmail account's sent messages a few years back