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

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

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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.

Guessing you're not in the UK, joygoat?

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.

― jedi slimane (suzy), Monday, June 20, 2016 12:28 PM (2 hours ago)

IA = when people assume that you have space and money for a freezer.

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It was so freeing to realize I could just throw away the extra herbs (and coconut milk) left over from recipes. I threw off the shackles of my rearing where we'd sooner eat the herbs and drink the coconut milk on their own than ever "waste" them.

I still freeze some leftover herbs (and I grow quite the most common ones for convenience, but inevitable waste is not the end of the world and parsley and cilantro cost about $1 per enormous bundle.

Xp and yea, they take up valuable freezer space.

seeing a lot of emo Father's Day stuff on twitter/elsewhere

what happened to the cynicism that recognized that these holidays are essentially cash grabs? i miss that

Father's day is just a male answer to Mother's day isn't it? & Mother's day has apparently been totally distorted from its origins which were about returning to one's mother church meaning the parish you grew up and went through religious teaching in or something along those lines. There was something about it on QI when they had the guy from The Communards that wasn't Jimmy Sommerville on. He's now an Anglican priest so knows about things like that

The Reverend Richard Coles is probably more famous than the other guy from the Communards, at this stage.

#smugvicar

Coconut milk ice lollys/popsicles?

Celery is the worst for this.

But celery keeps in the fridge for some time! And you use it in so many things! Pasta sauces, soups, snacks, geez I run out of the stuff no matter how much I buy.

celery rules

cold celery stick by itself on a hot afternoon = dee vine

Mother's day has apparently been totally distorted from its origins which were about returning to one's mother church meaning the parish you grew up and went through religious teaching in or something along those lines.

Whereas Father's Day has been totally distorted from its origin about returning to Father Christmas. Or was it Father Ted?

father acid burnout

That wasn't remotely what I was saying. I thought Father's Day was a recent invention based on the idea that if there was a mother's day, which that is the correct origin for, then fathers thought they deserved one too. Or at least commercial concerns thought there might be as much money to be made from them, since Mothers Day has forgotten its origins and is more of a sentimental money maker. But, on looking up Father's Day it appears that there has been an acknowledged day devoted to the father since medieval times. I think it was originally in March but has different dates across the world now.

Mother's day apparently became a holiday for domestic servants before it became a more general public one. It was the one day they were allowed to return to their family home and go to the church they were raised in.

that there has been an acknowledged day devoted to the father since medieval times

Because fathers didn't get enough respect and honor back then, right?

fwiw I'm a father and I give exactly zero fucks about it. My own personal parents thought Mother's Day and Father's Day were silly Hallmark inventions and didn't encourage us to do anything about them that we wouldn't otherwise be doing.

Nowadays, schoolchildren are encouraged to make crafty things for both days, and I am appropriately thankful for that. What I find strange is the assumption that adults will give each other presents on these days. I like household harmony and marital bliss, and my wife likes presents, so I dutifully observe Mother's Day, but I told my wife that she should save her exertions for her own actual father, rather than giving me another tie or whatever.

Yes, i always assumed everyone was like my parents, so was alarmed to discover that, once we had a child, my wife was disappointed in my own failure to make a fuss of her on mothers day. I thought that was my daughters job. Why did nobody warn me?

Hah, my wife is similar. A male friend of mine was given an i-pad by his wife for Fathers' Day :0

Inappropriate imo unless you actually call your partner daddy/mommy.

Cab driver has been eating carrots the past 15 minutes. But not like a normal person. He nibbles them in various ways: in half lengthwise, munching off the outer ring, taking numerous rapid micro-bites.

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.

― Neanderthal, Sunday, June 19, 2016 2:25 PM (2 days ago)

dvd beaver does point-by-point edition comparisons, but they're not a comprehensive release catalog

a prairie home companion makes me ia

also televised sporting events of any kind

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UX9Mcla543g

My daughter and I just started watching the Great British Bake Off. Right now, Netflix only has season 5. Amazon only has season 1. PBS, which belatedly broadcasts it in the US, only has seasons 1 and 2 available to stream; I think season 3 "starts" soon? BBC won't let me watch it at all, I don't think, without using my VPN; I'm not even sure I can legally *buy* it from the BBC right now. And of course I think every episode is on youtube, and obviously there is always torrenting. This for old episodes of a publicly funded (in the UK) show, broadcast for free on a publicly funded (in the US) network.

Why can't I just have all of them available to watch in one place, right now?

re keillor i've never been able to forget this:

he sounds like he is perpetually massaging his own balls

― INSANE CLOWN FOSSE (Adrian Langston), Friday, June 2, 2006 6:00 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I have probably complained about measuring 'cups of butter' in pretty much every thread on ILX

Walter Presents, the world television thing on All4, twice now they showed the first episode of something on tv and then expected you to watch the rest online. and haven't made this clear until after i've watched it.

if they dropped all the big fat gipsy wedding repeats or grand designs from 2011 they'd have plenty of space...