Oh, it's not a bad alergy. It's just refined MSG that bugs me. I don't have a dangerous reaction, but it's unpleasnt. For example, Soy sauce and parmesan reggiano don't bother me, but refined msg powder does.
Any ideas on ingredients?
Hmmm. If you went pineapple, onion chunks, and a little bit of bell pepper, you'd be more than halfway to a sweet and sour sauce accompanyment!
Sounds Hawaiiany and Chinese all in one!
I also get a little loopy if I have any tangible amount of monosodium glutamate in my food too, so I completely understand.
I have to be careful about what I eat, but I don't have any actual food allergies. There's a lot of things that give me a horrible stomach ache if I eat more than a small amount. Certain meats, eggs, and anything with trans fat fall into that category for me.
I've never been a big fan of TGI Friday's anyway...
Another simple dish came to mind - minced garlic, sauteed in olive oil until golden brown, tossed into pasta with a little salt. It's also great for saying "oh, I have some of this!" as you can just throw in fresh or dried herbs, grated parmesan, tomatoes, squash...
And now I'm wondering if a balsamic vinegar glaze would go well with it.
Good luck with the JD glaze, Shaharazad! Let us know how it turns out.
Zith a restaurant i worked for had this as a house recipe.
2-3 large cloves garlic minced
1/2 red onion thinly sliced
1/4# cleaned washed baby spinach
2 oz sliced sun dried tomatoes
6 oz angle hair pasta ~~~ al dente (enough for one person)
2-3 tb of expensive unfiltered olive oil (or good extra virgin olive oil)
1 & 1/2 tsp of good kosher salt (Crystal Diamond)
3/4 tsp of fresh cracked pepper
saute garlic and onions until translucent ( this is tricky.. low heat ! onion should be sliced paper thin ~ ideally you know about onions and garlic well enough to cut, slice, or dice them to cook at the same rate of speed .For the non-perfectionist.. Just cook them (garlic and onions)a little underdone, underdone onions and garlic just adds a little fire to your palate. Over cooked is very bitter or has a burnt flavor ~~ avoid going past light brown!!!)
toss in tomatoes (fresh tomatoes work here too) (and or add squash, zucchini or pealed eggplant here.. both? all three?)
and the spinach ans stir until it almost wilts.
alot of salt and pepper into the oil and then add in hot (semi hot?) angel hair pasta and toss.
Gourmet mushrooms are dandy here too.. golden Chanterelles or Moreles!!! (I would add them when the garlic and onions are 3/4 done)
variation: replace spinach with arugula and add lots of crushed red pepper flakes with the garlic saute .. skip the tomatoes, Myer lemon slices are good here
This dish is super simple! Quality ingredients are essential! lots of Salt and pepper required!
any fool can make this dish happen .. just buy the good stuff!
place diced grilled chicken or jumbo shrimp over the top.. buy some decent bread.. make a simple salad with balsamic or Moscatel vinegar w a tangerine/ blood orange olive oil (pm me for salad ideas)
I have an off-topic request for advice. I know that some of you guys have done tabletop roleplaying.
Have any of you experienced a game that was based around warfare between kingdoms?
I had inspiration for a game where one large kingdom's king is assassinated, as well as his prepaired sucessors to the throne, and eventually the kingdom fractures into several smaller "monarchies" or areas controlled by powerful opportunists or groups.
The thing is, I'm truly inexperienced as far as gming goes, and I'm honestly a little self conscious about the whole deal.
I'm wondering if it would be cool for me to bounce some ideas I have off you guys, to get your opinions.
I have an off-topic request for advice. I know that some of you guys have done tabletop roleplaying.
Have any of you experienced a game that was based around warfare between kingdoms?
I had inspiration for a game where one large kingdom's king is assassinated, as well as his prepaired sucessors to the throne, and eventually the kingdom fractures into several smaller "monarchies" or areas controlled by powerful opportunists or groups.
The thing is, I'm truly inexperienced as far as gming goes, and I'm honestly a little self conscious about the whole deal.
I'm wondering if it would be cool for me to bounce some ideas I have off you guys, to get your opinions.
You asked the right guy. I've actually MADE card games, board games, and role playing games.
(We don't always have to talk about food, y'know!)
But on the other hand, Zith stopped by yesterday and we whipped up some tasty whole wheat mini-pizzas. We even picked up a basil plant ahead of time for the event, so maybe this is the first step for me to have an herb garden!
We played Rock Band: Beatles, watched Sunshine Cleaning on Blu-ray, and even fit in a few rounds of Magic!
Yes, a fun time was had. It always feels too short, though.
I've done some playing in a couple wartime D&D3.5 settings, and just prematurely ended* Paizo's pre-made campaign setting involving a drow vs elf war. So I can offer some commentary, though my GM experience is slight.
*We got to one point where most of they party's character motivations were to pull a stolen artifact out of the dimensional gate it's empowering and return it to its human owners instead of going through the gate to save the elf general, theoretically also sealing off the drow, and so we return as The Heroes halfway through the story.
We were supposed to jump through an erratically functioning portal to an enemy base that we have suspicions is doomed to complete destruction in just a day or two to save a single elf war hero... yeah. All this when we were told that non-elves distrust elves (we're all non-elves from human civilization) and some of the elves actively hate us for being non-elf. Just a great way to foster loyalty to the elves in the PCs, no?
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My anecdotal evidence disagrees with yours! EXPLAIN THAT!
Cool! Well, what I'm wanting to do is have a war in Cormyr of the Forgotten Realms.
I have two possibilities:
1. Start the game off at first level and slowly unfold the events of the fall of Cormyr the the resulting war. More or less, start it off as a normal adventure, and the players will be able to pick up on what is going on over time.
2. Start it at slightly higher level (around 8ish), and jump right into the thick of things.
I'm a really inexperienced GM, and I'm thinking that option 1 would be more suited for me, as it would let me really take my time and build up my confidence. However, I'm not really feeling like running a normal adventure game, so it seems like I might get derailed or bored in the process. Option 2 would let me pretty much jump right into the thick of things, but it would be much more daunting.
Edit: Just talked in gmail with several of my group and we thought up a third option that I really like.
3. Start it off at first level to lay the groundwork. Depending on how things go, continue on normally. But if we want to jump into the war, we could do a time skip where they can write about what happened to their characters, and level up a bit before continuing with the game.
You can always give reasonable excuses for the passage of time and characters levelling without playing. Most PCs won't mind a few free levels here and there until they're at the stage you want them to be for the game campaign you have planned. If you wanted them to start somewhat experienced, you could always pick a halfway point, like 4th level, and introduce them to the setting, then have them raise levels interspersed with events and what not. Some players may like the opportunity to see what skills/abilities will be most useful to them in the upcoming game and plan ahead rather than create a full-level character and realize they've gone and invested in paths that have little use/relevance to the campaign. Unless you like to keep stuff extremely secret from the other players, it may not be a bad idea to warn them that they'll be introduced at X level in the prologue, but by the time the campaign is in full swing, the players will be at 8th level or so at the start of the main game campaign.
Of course you're welcome, Pinoy_Guy! What's cooking?
I made another trip to Bouchon Bakery this morning. My Sunday D&D group is on a two week hiatus because one of us is off in Hawaii, so I'm having some friends over in what is to me early morning (now, 9:00am, being the middle of the night to me). So I figured I'd offer breakfast - and I can't resist the call of their donuts. A chocolate and a raspberry on fillings, a croissant for one who isn't into cream (heresy!) and a raspberry macaroon because I can't resist.
I'm starting to worry that this will become a weekly thing, in which case it'd be up there with the monthly cost of having a smartphone (something I've been looking into).
Also on the menu is some unhomogenized whole milk from a lovely local dairy. I'll offer to get some espresso if they'd prefer - it would certainly be more traditional - but it's a little ways to the good stuff, so it'd have to be Starbucks, of which a ridiculous nine are in town (population: 40,000). There's a terrific coffee shop a 15-20 minute drive away that tends to win the regional barista/baristo competitions and is just amazing stuff, but I doubt they'll want to travel that far.
And I realized I could snap a few poor photos using my laptop's built-in webcam, so here goes:
First up is the lovely little bags you always get. I'm used to places being more ecologically minded, but they're often called a "designer bakery" so I guess it comes with the territory:
Next up, croissant. And oh no, I forgot to include something for scale! It's a littler over six inches long, perhaps close to seven, and right around three inches tall.
Then the two donuts. Raspberry jam filled, then, my favorite, chocolate pastry cream, covered in tiny malted milk balls. Each is about as big as my palm - say four inches in diameter - and close to two inches thick.
I entered my first magic tourney in two years. It went as rough as I expected it to be, but I had fun. I would have done a lot better if I hadn't made some ridiculous play errors (like forgetting to swing with disciple of the vault). It was also my first Legacy tourney. Legacy is really my favorite format, and I'm so happy that we're finally getting some legacy action within a 200 mile radius.
I've had some ideas about the monarchy campaign I mentioned too, but I'll get into it later on.
I'm about to go into work, so I don't have much time for posting.
Oh! Kank, the cards came in several days ago. Should we even bother leaving feedback anymore? It's been somewhere between six to eight transactions we've had. I don't believe feedback stacks, and I can't think of what else to add at this point.
@Zith: Ooooh! You've been talking about those mythical donuts for months! Are they as tasty as you hoped? (I finally finished that god-forsaken fence today!)
@Shaharazad: We can if you'd like to. We certainly don't have to if it's inconvenient/bothersome.
Something always quits working. Now it's the washing machine. I had to go and get a new one yesterday from Home Depot. Anyone do anything fun for Halloween this year?
@Kankennon - Nah, no one... And I mean NO ONE. Celebrates Halloween in this part of the Philippines. ( not including those people with a tad bit more money to celebrate those things. )
P.S. Mind if my sig is about this group? ehe... ehe...
I was going to get pictures of the cross-section of what I ate (half a croissant and the chocolate donut) - but it was just too good. They're amazing. The croissant was everything it's supposed to be: butter in a flaky form. And the donut is... not exactly heavy, but substantial. In the case of chocolate pastry cream, it then enters the realm of heavy. The raspberry jam filling is still light, somewhat sweeter. I messed up with that one and put it back in the bag hole-down after the photoshoot, spilling some of its contents.
Glad to hear you had fun, Shaharazad. Legacy's an awesome format.
My Halloween was very quiet, which works for me. Watched a couple movies, Star Wars and Lawrence of Arabia, played some Beatles: Rock Band... yeah. My house isn't designed to be particularly inviting, what with the front courtyard being walled in, requiring you to walk up a steep driveway to go through the gate, and it's basically pitch dark in the yard, with steps up to the door that really are pitch dark without the light on. From the street, you've no way to notice any lights being on in the house. And we don't really feel like setting up decorations to change that, though I've sometimes wondered what kind of an awesome set-up could be done with our little walled-off area if we tried.
And of course you can sig about your clan, Pinoy_Guy.
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My anecdotal evidence disagrees with yours! EXPLAIN THAT!
Well, my Halloween was spent at the Legacy Tourney early on. Then I went to eat with a friend, and finally came home and played Torchlight. Fantastic game by the way! It has been called the spiritual sequal to Diablo II, and that name is fitting.
I really like the place where the tourney was held. I don't often get the chance to drive that way, but it's a store owned by good people. Younger, cool, and they care about gaming. It's also one store down from a decent Indian restraunt.
I'm not certain what I'm going to play next tourney. I may stick with affinity, but I'm also feeling nostalgic for my old merfolk deck. I played it years ago when they weren't quite so good, so it would be nice to revamp it, and also it would give me a chance to bust out the force of wills. I also wouldn't mind rebuilding my old enchantress deck, and part of me wants to try to break diminishing returns.
I'm contemplating casually going to some friday night magic there for fun. However, I really don't want to spend my magic budget on tons of new cards when I would rather be buying revised duals and such. Guess I'll play vampires if I go. All I need for it is two more Vampire Nocturnus and three Bloodghast. However, I may try to do something interesting with Pyromancer ascension.
Tomorow, I'm planning on cooking some of my chicken fried rice. I don't know if it's authentic or not, but it's yummy. I start by reducing some chicken stock, and then simmer it with soy sauce and brown sugar at a very low temperature with a bit garlic and ginger. In the wock, I do the mushrooms, carrots and onion. I pull them to the side and cook the chicken, which was marinated in a little soy sauce with black pepper. Before cooking I pat it dry and dust it with corn starch. I pull it all up to the side, add some oil if needed (it always is), and do the eggs. Extra oil makes for great stir fry eggs. I finally mix my rice in, and some frozen peas, and start spooning the sauce in until it's just right.
Pretty basic stuff, but it works well, and blows away the take-out restraunts.
I never really know what's with this country I live in. Nobody has the Halloween spirit...
Although, we do celebrate Christmas season early, like about September.
All I'm eating for dinner is breakfast. Mainly Longganisa and Barbeque.
@Shaharazad Is Torchlight really that good? I'm planning on giving it a whack sometime. And that Chicken Stir Fry does sound good. Goooooooood. Indeedy-o.
Fun for all! I took our 5 year old trick or treating. She went as Sleeping Beauty.
I just picked up Lego: Rock Band and Dragon Age: Origins today. (They street tomorrow, but I gotz connexyuns! :D)
I literally just got them and haven't been able to even start up the game system yet. In any case, I still have to finish Ratchet & Clank: Crack in Time first! (Loooove that series!)
Pretty Local Cuisine. And I'm reaaaally craving for some Sinigang! YUM YUM!
Sinigang is basically either shrimp or pork that's simmered with tamarind soup or veggies. It's really basic stuff, just saute some garlic, onions and tomatoes, add some water, tamarind powder ( which is available here almost everywhere ) and pork or shrimp. You simmer that for about, say 15 minutes or until it's tender. That's the best on cold nights. YUM!
BTW, Just want to ask if rice is really important in food, because here, we always eat rice. everyday. all day. and not just us, everyone in the country.
I don't know how it is elsewhere, but I feel rice is pretty important. It is cheap and easy to cook, and you can flavor it any way you want to. There is no dish that rice won't go well with!
Do you usually cook rice separately like in a rice cooker, or in the same pot as the rest of the meal? Both ways are nice, but I usually prefer to cook everything in the same pot, it gives the rice more flavor that way.
Rice is a power starch that I certainly wouldn't be able to live well without.
I consider the primary carbohydrate source of a meal (rice, potato, pasta, bread) far more important that whatever the meat/primary protein source is.
I don't need meat for my Mexican or Italian food, but there better damn well be some beans and rice and/or pasta and sauce/veggies. Cheese is next on my list of importance!
Welcome to the new visitors, RozalinaDracovitch and johnald!
I'm all about the video games right now. I'm now ensconced in the middle of three video games: Ratchet and Clank: Crack in Time, Lego Rock Band, and now Dragon Age: Origins.
Gadzooks! There aren't enough hours in the day!
Pretty Local Cuisine. And I'm reaaaally craving for some Sinigang! YUM YUM!
Sinigang is basically either shrimp or pork that's simmered with tamarind soup or veggies. It's really basic stuff, just saute some garlic, onions and tomatoes, add some water, tamarind powder ( which is available here almost everywhere ) and pork or shrimp. You simmer that for about, say 15 minutes or until it's tender. That's the best on cold nights. YUM!
BTW, Just want to ask if rice is really important in food, because here, we always eat rice. everyday. all day. and not just us, everyone in the country.
That sounds very good.
Rice is on about equal footing with pasta around here. I have it a couple times a week, though I have a horrible diet - I think I've had cupcakes for dinner more often than not lately...
And I've recently made a friend who has a gluten intolerance; for him rice is huge, a daily thing.
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My anecdotal evidence disagrees with yours! EXPLAIN THAT!
I don't know what I'd do if I had a gluten intolerance. Likewise if I was lactose intolerant. If I had to live without bread and/or dairy, I'd really be an unhappy camper!
Hmmm. If you went pineapple, onion chunks, and a little bit of bell pepper, you'd be more than halfway to a sweet and sour sauce accompanyment!
Sounds Hawaiiany and Chinese all in one!
I also get a little loopy if I have any tangible amount of monosodium glutamate in my food too, so I completely understand.
I have to be careful about what I eat, but I don't have any actual food allergies. There's a lot of things that give me a horrible stomach ache if I eat more than a small amount. Certain meats, eggs, and anything with trans fat fall into that category for me.
I've never been a big fan of TGI Friday's anyway...
Zith a restaurant i worked for had this as a house recipe.
2-3 large cloves garlic minced
1/2 red onion thinly sliced
1/4# cleaned washed baby spinach
2 oz sliced sun dried tomatoes
6 oz angle hair pasta ~~~ al dente (enough for one person)
2-3 tb of expensive unfiltered olive oil (or good extra virgin olive oil)
1 & 1/2 tsp of good kosher salt (Crystal Diamond)
3/4 tsp of fresh cracked pepper
saute garlic and onions until translucent ( this is tricky.. low heat ! onion should be sliced paper thin ~ ideally you know about onions and garlic well enough to cut, slice, or dice them to cook at the same rate of speed .For the non-perfectionist.. Just cook them (garlic and onions)a little underdone, underdone onions and garlic just adds a little fire to your palate. Over cooked is very bitter or has a burnt flavor ~~ avoid going past light brown!!!)
toss in tomatoes (fresh tomatoes work here too) (and or add squash, zucchini or pealed eggplant here.. both? all three?)
and the spinach ans stir until it almost wilts.
alot of salt and pepper into the oil and then add in hot (semi hot?) angel hair pasta and toss.
Gourmet mushrooms are dandy here too.. golden Chanterelles or Moreles!!! (I would add them when the garlic and onions are 3/4 done)
variation: replace spinach with arugula and add lots of crushed red pepper flakes with the garlic saute .. skip the tomatoes, Myer lemon slices are good here
This dish is super simple! Quality ingredients are essential! lots of Salt and pepper required!
any fool can make this dish happen .. just buy the good stuff!
place diced grilled chicken or jumbo shrimp over the top.. buy some decent bread.. make a simple salad with balsamic or Moscatel vinegar w a tangerine/ blood orange olive oil (pm me for salad ideas)
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Have any of you experienced a game that was based around warfare between kingdoms?
I had inspiration for a game where one large kingdom's king is assassinated, as well as his prepaired sucessors to the throne, and eventually the kingdom fractures into several smaller "monarchies" or areas controlled by powerful opportunists or groups.
The thing is, I'm truly inexperienced as far as gming goes, and I'm honestly a little self conscious about the whole deal.
I'm wondering if it would be cool for me to bounce some ideas I have off you guys, to get your opinions.
You asked the right guy. I've actually MADE card games, board games, and role playing games.
(We don't always have to talk about food, y'know!)
But on the other hand, Zith stopped by yesterday and we whipped up some tasty whole wheat mini-pizzas. We even picked up a basil plant ahead of time for the event, so maybe this is the first step for me to have an herb garden!
We played Rock Band: Beatles, watched Sunshine Cleaning on Blu-ray, and even fit in a few rounds of Magic!
I've done some playing in a couple wartime D&D3.5 settings, and just prematurely ended* Paizo's pre-made campaign setting involving a drow vs elf war. So I can offer some commentary, though my GM experience is slight.
*We got to one point where most of they party's character motivations were to pull a stolen artifact out of the dimensional gate it's empowering and return it to its human owners instead of going through the gate to save the elf general, theoretically also sealing off the drow, and so we return as The Heroes halfway through the story.
We were supposed to jump through an erratically functioning portal to an enemy base that we have suspicions is doomed to complete destruction in just a day or two to save a single elf war hero... yeah. All this when we were told that non-elves distrust elves (we're all non-elves from human civilization) and some of the elves actively hate us for being non-elf. Just a great way to foster loyalty to the elves in the PCs, no?
I have two possibilities:
1. Start the game off at first level and slowly unfold the events of the fall of Cormyr the the resulting war. More or less, start it off as a normal adventure, and the players will be able to pick up on what is going on over time.
2. Start it at slightly higher level (around 8ish), and jump right into the thick of things.
I'm a really inexperienced GM, and I'm thinking that option 1 would be more suited for me, as it would let me really take my time and build up my confidence. However, I'm not really feeling like running a normal adventure game, so it seems like I might get derailed or bored in the process. Option 2 would let me pretty much jump right into the thick of things, but it would be much more daunting.
Edit: Just talked in gmail with several of my group and we thought up a third option that I really like.
3. Start it off at first level to lay the groundwork. Depending on how things go, continue on normally. But if we want to jump into the war, we could do a time skip where they can write about what happened to their characters, and level up a bit before continuing with the game.
That is, if anybody here still remembers me. :))
My Sig's smile is better than yours.
Pinoy Guy!
Where ya been?
I lost the election to Obama because you weren't here to help me!
Are you gonna stick around this time?
Yeah... Sorry about that...
My Sig's smile is better than yours.
I made another trip to Bouchon Bakery this morning. My Sunday D&D group is on a two week hiatus because one of us is off in Hawaii, so I'm having some friends over in what is to me early morning (now, 9:00am, being the middle of the night to me). So I figured I'd offer breakfast - and I can't resist the call of their donuts. A chocolate and a raspberry on fillings, a croissant for one who isn't into cream (heresy!) and a raspberry macaroon because I can't resist.
I'm starting to worry that this will become a weekly thing, in which case it'd be up there with the monthly cost of having a smartphone (something I've been looking into).
Also on the menu is some unhomogenized whole milk from a lovely local dairy. I'll offer to get some espresso if they'd prefer - it would certainly be more traditional - but it's a little ways to the good stuff, so it'd have to be Starbucks, of which a ridiculous nine are in town (population: 40,000). There's a terrific coffee shop a 15-20 minute drive away that tends to win the regional barista/baristo competitions and is just amazing stuff, but I doubt they'll want to travel that far.
And I realized I could snap a few poor photos using my laptop's built-in webcam, so here goes:
Next up, croissant. And oh no, I forgot to include something for scale! It's a littler over six inches long, perhaps close to seven, and right around three inches tall.
Then the two donuts. Raspberry jam filled, then, my favorite, chocolate pastry cream, covered in tiny malted milk balls. Each is about as big as my palm - say four inches in diameter - and close to two inches thick.
I entered my first magic tourney in two years. It went as rough as I expected it to be, but I had fun. I would have done a lot better if I hadn't made some ridiculous play errors (like forgetting to swing with disciple of the vault). It was also my first Legacy tourney. Legacy is really my favorite format, and I'm so happy that we're finally getting some legacy action within a 200 mile radius.
I've had some ideas about the monarchy campaign I mentioned too, but I'll get into it later on.
I'm about to go into work, so I don't have much time for posting.
Oh! Kank, the cards came in several days ago. Should we even bother leaving feedback anymore? It's been somewhere between six to eight transactions we've had. I don't believe feedback stacks, and I can't think of what else to add at this point.
@Zith: Ooooh! You've been talking about those mythical donuts for months! Are they as tasty as you hoped? (I finally finished that god-forsaken fence today!)
@Shaharazad: We can if you'd like to. We certainly don't have to if it's inconvenient/bothersome.
Something always quits working. Now it's the washing machine. I had to go and get a new one yesterday from Home Depot. Anyone do anything fun for Halloween this year?
@Kankennon - Nah, no one... And I mean NO ONE. Celebrates Halloween in this part of the Philippines. ( not including those people with a tad bit more money to celebrate those things. )
P.S. Mind if my sig is about this group? ehe... ehe...
My Sig's smile is better than yours.
Glad to hear you had fun, Shaharazad. Legacy's an awesome format.
My Halloween was very quiet, which works for me. Watched a couple movies, Star Wars and Lawrence of Arabia, played some Beatles: Rock Band... yeah. My house isn't designed to be particularly inviting, what with the front courtyard being walled in, requiring you to walk up a steep driveway to go through the gate, and it's basically pitch dark in the yard, with steps up to the door that really are pitch dark without the light on. From the street, you've no way to notice any lights being on in the house. And we don't really feel like setting up decorations to change that, though I've sometimes wondered what kind of an awesome set-up could be done with our little walled-off area if we tried.
And of course you can sig about your clan, Pinoy_Guy.
I really like the place where the tourney was held. I don't often get the chance to drive that way, but it's a store owned by good people. Younger, cool, and they care about gaming. It's also one store down from a decent Indian restraunt.
I'm not certain what I'm going to play next tourney. I may stick with affinity, but I'm also feeling nostalgic for my old merfolk deck. I played it years ago when they weren't quite so good, so it would be nice to revamp it, and also it would give me a chance to bust out the force of wills. I also wouldn't mind rebuilding my old enchantress deck, and part of me wants to try to break diminishing returns.
I'm contemplating casually going to some friday night magic there for fun. However, I really don't want to spend my magic budget on tons of new cards when I would rather be buying revised duals and such. Guess I'll play vampires if I go. All I need for it is two more Vampire Nocturnus and three Bloodghast. However, I may try to do something interesting with Pyromancer ascension.
Tomorow, I'm planning on cooking some of my chicken fried rice. I don't know if it's authentic or not, but it's yummy. I start by reducing some chicken stock, and then simmer it with soy sauce and brown sugar at a very low temperature with a bit garlic and ginger. In the wock, I do the mushrooms, carrots and onion. I pull them to the side and cook the chicken, which was marinated in a little soy sauce with black pepper. Before cooking I pat it dry and dust it with corn starch. I pull it all up to the side, add some oil if needed (it always is), and do the eggs. Extra oil makes for great stir fry eggs. I finally mix my rice in, and some frozen peas, and start spooning the sauce in until it's just right.
Pretty basic stuff, but it works well, and blows away the take-out restraunts.
And Kank. I went ahead and left another feedback!
Although, we do celebrate Christmas season early, like about September.
All I'm eating for dinner is breakfast. Mainly Longganisa and Barbeque.
@Shaharazad Is Torchlight really that good? I'm planning on giving it a whack sometime. And that Chicken Stir Fry does sound good. Goooooooood. Indeedy-o.
My Sig's smile is better than yours.
I just picked up Lego: Rock Band and Dragon Age: Origins today. (They street tomorrow, but I gotz connexyuns! :D)
I literally just got them and haven't been able to even start up the game system yet. In any case, I still have to finish Ratchet & Clank: Crack in Time first! (Loooove that series!)
So Pinoy, what's cooking in the Philippines?
Sinigang is basically either shrimp or pork that's simmered with tamarind soup or veggies. It's really basic stuff, just saute some garlic, onions and tomatoes, add some water, tamarind powder ( which is available here almost everywhere ) and pork or shrimp. You simmer that for about, say 15 minutes or until it's tender. That's the best on cold nights. YUM!
BTW, Just want to ask if rice is really important in food, because here, we always eat rice. everyday. all day. and not just us, everyone in the country.
My Sig's smile is better than yours.
Rice is nice, but its just a grain!
Do you usually cook rice separately like in a rice cooker, or in the same pot as the rest of the meal? Both ways are nice, but I usually prefer to cook everything in the same pot, it gives the rice more flavor that way.
I consider the primary carbohydrate source of a meal (rice, potato, pasta, bread) far more important that whatever the meat/primary protein source is.
I don't need meat for my Mexican or Italian food, but there better damn well be some beans and rice and/or pasta and sauce/veggies. Cheese is next on my list of importance!
Welcome to the new visitors, RozalinaDracovitch and johnald!
I'm all about the video games right now. I'm now ensconced in the middle of three video games: Ratchet and Clank: Crack in Time, Lego Rock Band, and now Dragon Age: Origins.
Gadzooks! There aren't enough hours in the day!
(The Kank word of the day: ensconced)
That sounds very good.
Rice is on about equal footing with pasta around here. I have it a couple times a week, though I have a horrible diet - I think I've had cupcakes for dinner more often than not lately...
And I've recently made a friend who has a gluten intolerance; for him rice is huge, a daily thing.