start a victory garden and ration your IRRATIONALLY ANGRY feelings, part 3

or maybe just donate $5 to Autism Speaks and make your own apple crisp? those mini desserts are basically a dollar per spoonful - I'd be almost insulted if a stranger passed one on to me as a heroic act of goodwill or whatever

xp: good thing to hate, imo.

A mini dessert is all you really need though, if you're being honest with yourself. They're actually doing YOU a favor. ;)

that apple crisp looks pretty good, I can't just buy it for myself and support the cause??

I guess it's like sake where someone else is supposed to pour it for you.

It's like that thing in Australia that McDonalds does--don't know if it's universal--where they get celebrities in to flog burgers for a day, and give $1 from each of a certain kind of burger sold to a charity. Nothing is ever said about all the extra $$ they must make from people wanting to buy shitburgers from faded singers etc

Do you get like John Farnham or something?

probably

Richard Jefferson's attached earlobes.

or maybe just donate $5 to Autism Speaks and make your own apple crisp?

or just don't donate to autism speaks at all

huh, I wasn't aware of all that (although it appears that they've since reversed their position on vaccination)

Guys u are seeing througb motivations for good acts so hard rite now i congratulate u all

"happy fathers day... to all the single moms!" "happy fathers day... but it's maybe not so happy for ppl who have a so-so relationship with their fathers so you know don't say this to them!" OK I GET IT YOU ARE THE MOST EMPATHETIC PERSON IN THE WORLD

people who post "if you are <insert criteria>, please go ahead and defriend me now"

when items on amazon are priced $27.56 - $253.00

lol I love when they have t-shirts with wildly swinging price ranges that are randomly more expensive for one size

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY to all the Dad's...even the one's NOT on Facebook!

i hate facebook so much Dad's one's

there was one dude a few years ago who was chastising people posting Happy Father's Day/Mother's Day, replying "why don't you PICK UP THE PHONE and tell them".

most people replied "uhhh ya doofus I already did" or "I'm sitting next to mine right now asshole"

insufferable spouse of an old friend wrote this long livejournally fb post about "please dont wish me happy birthday on FB because that means you dont care, please write me a letter or call me " but longer and more annoying and it annoyed the crap out of me

her analogy was dont buy me a storebought birthday cake, please bake it from scratch because that means you care rmde

if it's a competition then fuck it, get nothing & like it because i sure as hell dont like you enough to write you a bloody letter

googling recipes for stuff (which i never follow, just trying to look up proportions when i don't want to use cookbook/memory) and every recipe blog is the same healthy mom "eating clean" (retch) picture of herself and sad empty husband on the right side, annoying food photo you stood on a table to take w/ garnish that makes no sense, trying to turn my blog into a book deal

otm

and having to scroll past 20 paragraphs of crap where they refer to "hubby" and repeatedly use the word "nom" and then another 20 staged photos to get to the recipe at the bottom of the page

echoing a post from upthread, i'm trying to figure out a blu-ray edition to get but every edition of a movie has the same reviews, with few exceptions. so there's a blu-ray from 2015 and on the page there are reviews from 2001 crowing about how glad the reviewer is that the DVD isn't a pan and scan that you have to flip over halfway through.

xp oh god this recipe blog I used to go to for baby-led weaning drove me UP. THE. WALL.
Literally every recipe was 'I simply adore how the wholesome muffins are studded with gorgeously juicy fruit' bleaugh bleaugh
everything 'studded' and everything 'simply adored' and everything 'spiked with' herbs and 'kissed with' cinnamon 'nestling' in a fucking vintage dish

I feel a bit mean now because they are good recipes and it's not like I paid for them
but come on

http://i.imgur.com/qWhB8Xx.jpg

holy shit they are the literal worst

insufferable spouse of an old friend wrote this long livejournally fb post about "please dont wish me happy birthday on FB because that means you dont care, please write me a letter or call me " but longer and more annoying and it annoyed the crap out of me

her analogy was dont buy me a storebought birthday cake, please bake it from scratch because that means you care rmde

if it's a competition then fuck it, get nothing & like it because i sure as hell dont like you enough to write you a bloody letter

― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, June 19, 2016 1:28 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

wow that's a load of horseshit. I would be seriously irritated if every fucking friend of mine called me on my birthday - i'd be on the phone for hours. my bestie and family, ok...but beyond that, leave me some me time! I love my FB love on my b'day, and besides I usually see my friends at a pub later that night anyway where they can tell me in person.

and then if you wrote a letter she would say "I'm so sad nobody wished me happy birthday" when all the letters arrived weeks late

echoing a post from upthread, i'm trying to figure out a blu-ray edition to get but every edition of a movie has the same reviews, with few exceptions. so there's a blu-ray from 2015 and on the page there are reviews from 2001 crowing about how glad the reviewer is that the DVD isn't a pan and scan that you have to flip over halfway through.

Yes! I was trying to buy a DVD of a German film, preferably in German with a choice of English or German subtitles for German-practising possibilities, but good luck working out which version comes with what when all the reviews have been merged

and yes, recipe sites where you have to scroll past a billion photos just to get to the recipe, and they all have so many ads on that my laptop almost catches fire and it takes 30 seconds just to respond to page down or w/e. bonus rage points if you finally get to the recipe and the main ingredient is a brand-name sauce that you can't buy in whichever country you're in anyway

is there any website specifically dedicated to reviewing/cataloging the different versions of DVDs/Blu-rays and what they contain? I used to have the same issue above.

insufferable spouse of an old friend wrote this long livejournally fb post about "please dont wish me happy birthday on FB because that means you dont care, please write me a letter or call me " but longer and more annoying

How hilarious would it be if she'd cut and paste it from some meme rant as well, like a big hypocrite.

and then if you wrote a letter she would say "I'm so sad nobody wished me happy birthday" when all the letters arrived weeks late

Okay now I agree with the anger there, but you know that in the frankly medieval version of friendship that she endorses, you would be expected to remember weeks in advance and write the letter then.

xp I'm amazed that I can't find anyone ranting on the IA threads about American Recipes and 'cups'.

if you finally get to the recipe and the main ingredient is a brand-name sauce that you can't buy in whichever country you're in anyway

― a passing spacecadet, Sunday, June 19, 2016 10:24 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
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I know I've come across a website called the cook's thesaurus that had possible substitutes for ingredients a cook might be missing. i.e. alternatives to using butter and other forms of fat or if you can't get a certain type of bean or whatever.
Not sure if they went into things like proprietary brands' sauces but would think that if they didn't, somewhere online might.

Does the UK have a different cup value?

Weight not volume!

I mean also yes, its difficult to find measuring jugs or whatever that have US cups as a measure, but it's also not how things are sold. Are things like flour or cheese actually sold by volume in the US?

xp We did have a slightly different cup value but now we just use ml. Probably most people under 60 don't know what a cup is, unless they regularly try to follow American recipes or old cookbooks. (OK, maybe it's not that bad, since as an only very occasional recipe-follower I have a vague idea that it's somewhere in the 200-250ml range, which tbh is probably precise enough for me)

The ones which get me are the different verbs for things, e.g. sautéing for pan-frying, broiling vs grilling. I've probably complained about being confused by them on ILX before and there was probably a giant shitstorm of "omg British people are wrong about all these perfectly self-explanatory things and shouldn't be allowed near any cooking equipment" so let's not do that again.

un-xp ah yes, good point, a "cup" of a solid or powdery substance is confusing, esp if you're trying to buy the required ingredients

> Weight not volume!

tablespoons are a volume. does america have tablespoons?

ha ha

http://www.tablespoon.com/posts/tablespoon-conversions-tablespoons-in-cups/bdf92edc-7542-4af5-8d55-6bd11ef77101

Right, but because of that size differential, things measured in tsp/tbsp are more likely to be those that you buy in bulk and keep for ages - if I need 4 cups of cheese, I'm going to have to translate that in the shop because I'll be buying 4 cups of cheese.

Admittedly this formulation involves the concept of 'spare cheese', which scientists are still uncertain about.

It's one of those minor frustrations of cooking with recipes, no matter what side of the Atlantic you find yourself on: one will need to figure out how much of any ingredient you need to have in order to make a given recipe.

My peeve is things like coconut milk, where you can only buy it in increments of X. And a recipe will require either a little bit more than X, or one fifth of X. In the first instance, you either have to make the thing with slightly less than you need (possibly scaling everything else to match), or get two cans and have a huge amount left over that you can't really use or save. In the second scenario you're either going without that ingredient (which sucks because it's awesome) or open a can just to use a little tiny bit.

Freeze the extra coconut milk, it really is that simple. I have a tonne of 100-gram pots of various ingredients (leftover canned tomatoes etc) in my freezer at any given time.

Can't you find something more everyday to use extra bits of coconut milk in . Does it work as a cow milk substitute or anything?
Or can't you make something that uses that much of the milk.

Coconut milk itself is great - just lit on that as an example. Parsley and cilantro, say, are sold in big honking bunches, when all you really need is a few sprigs as garnish. All those ends add up, and then you're trying to figure out a week's worth of uses of something you weren't really enthusiastic about in the first place. Or you discover a big honking bunch of rotting parsley two week's later. We have two guinea pigs and a compost bin, which helps somewhat, but allowing more incremental purchases would avoid the waste in the first place.

We used to get a community-supported agriculture / farm share basket. Some weeks it was exciting - peaches! garlic scapes! - and other weeks it was like an armload of kale plus three cantaloupes and an onion.

There's no solution to usable amounts of herbs except growing them in a pot, I think. For this reason I just planted a bunch of chives outside my kitchen window, because there are two plastic bubble containers of rotting chives in my fridge and yet I never have them when I want them.

Celery is the worst for this.

Celery is the worst for this.

I freeze herbs now, it's not ideal but it's the least wasteful

is there any website specifically dedicated to reviewing/cataloging the different versions of DVDs/Blu-rays and what they contain? I used to have the same issue above.

I go to blu-ray.com, but I think they're pretty US-focused, so that may not be helpful for you.

sautéing for pan-frying, broiling vs grilling

To me these are four quite different things.