Thread for things that dont deserve threads

[DzM]

Anyone who can make their own pasta is on a higher level and should be encouraged. Can you freeze it and still have higher quality than fresh in store?

Egg pasta is easy (at least as far as recipes go). Even easier than pizza dough. The hard part is the rolling out. Flour everywhere and some fair amount of counter space needed.

Yeah, it can be frozen a kept for a while. Cook's Illustrated claims it's good after four weeks (and that just refrigerating fresh pasta loses it's magic after only 18 hours due to oxidation). https://www.cooksillustrated.com/how_to ... resh-pasta

Something I haven't tried but want to is to split the fresh pasta into single-meal amounts, freeze them, and then vacuum-seal those amounts. Make a crap-ton and store it for months.

[Frances]

Even easier than pizza dough.

There is something to be said for being ghetto as all hell.

[DzM]

Vacant Pictures
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erotic love poems
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Goddammit, it's poetry! (beatnik finger snap finger snap)

I haven't shared any of these in a while. The punchline wears thin quickly. Still - this one really struck me today:

alien
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movie
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I don't know what it means, but damn if it isn't poetry.

[DzM]

Even easier than pizza dough.

There is something to be said for being ghetto as all hell.

[left]

I mean, it makes sense to have large provisions of flour, but what do people do with flour at home these days? Beside cakes... When was the last time all these people tried to make bread at home?

But I guess that’s what people will eat in emergency: flour, rice and fish sticks.

Pancakes? Cookies? Brownies? Biscuits? Muffins? Pie? Donuts? Tortillas? Pizza crust? Pasta? Roux?

Baking is hard.

Well you got me with pizza and pasta.
Beside these two there’s not much you’d want to store away for hard times, though! I mean like “we haven’t got too much left to eat” times, not today’s “we should stay at home a few months but stores are still open and filled” times

Not really, we make bread sometimes, which can be tricky but good yeast is as much the issue as technique. But other things like cookies, pizza dough, cakes, pancakes, waffles etc etc are pretty fool proof if you stick to basic recipies. I do buy flour in big 5kg bags but it's only recently the shelves have been emptying!

True! Stick to the recipes, but with a grain of salt

If I’d bought 5kg bags of flour they would be filled by mealworms in less than a few days...

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I bake the occasional whole wheat bread. It's good, but I always want to make it fancier with seeds and stuff. Somehow I never get it right and end up with a really dense brick.

The only thing I use flour for consistency around the DzM Estate is the pizza we make on Sundays (Pizza nd Zombie night. It's tradition, dammit). I really enjoy making fresh pasta, but the Lovely Mrs. DzM feels it takes too long and makes far too big a mess to be worth the effort, so I tend to do it only once or twice a year.

Is your bread leavening enough? In a hot enough, protected from cool breeze, room? Normal flour?

Anyone who can make their own pasta is on a higher level and should be encouraged. Can you freeze it and still have higher quality than fresh in store?

Egg pasta is easy (at least as far as recipes go). Even easier than pizza dough. The hard part is the rolling out. Flour everywhere and some fair amount of counter space needed.

Yeah, it can be frozen a kept for a while. Cook's Illustrated claims it's good after four weeks (and that just refrigerating fresh pasta loses it's magic after only 18 hours due to oxidation). https://www.cooksillustrated.com/how_to ... resh-pasta

Something I haven't tried but want to is to split the fresh pasta into single-meal amounts, freeze them, and then vacuum-seal those amounts. Make a crap-ton and store it for months.

Wait...what? You make fresh pasta and then freeze it? You mean already cooked pasta?

Chicken pesto fettuccine is life.

What the hell is chicken pesto?

[Frances]

What the hell is chicken pesto?

I suppose that was a informal description.

So, yeah... chicken fettuccine with pesto sauce.

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[Frances]

A morning DJ team at KROQ just got canned and one of the guys said the only good thing about it is he never has to hear “Chili Peppers” again.

Sometimes I feel like I don’t have a partner biddy biddy bum bum.

That song is such bullshit.

Ugh.

They ruined Beavis and Butthead Do America.

[DzM]

I've never really been into the Chilli Peppers. Just wasn't my back. I gotta say, though, that one thing I HAVE liked about them over the years is that they just seem to be having fun. They seem to like the music they make, they seem to enjoy performing it, they seem to recognize (in a Bill & Ted kind of way) "whoa - I'm a fucking rock star. Boom!" I have to respect that bit at least.

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

[Frances]

I've never really been into the Chilli Peppers. Just wasn't my back. I gotta say, though, that one thing I HAVE liked about them over the years is that they just seem to be having fun. They seem to like the music they make, they seem to enjoy performing it, they seem to recognize (in a Bill & Ted kind of way) "whoa - I'm a fucking rock star. Boom!" I have to respect that bit at least.

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

I actually thought Flea was o.k.
Other than being in that band and being a Laker fan.

He was in Suburbia and My Own Private Idaho and was photographed reading a book I like, Geek Love...
but he’s not o.k.

Thought he was going to try and help this lady who is clearly saying “No”.

Never heard of or saw this video before.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9XaUacoLxI

Ugh.

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Not the best time to announce a new birth... but anyway, our second child was born on the first day of spring, last friday. Hope she’ll make it OK in this more-than-ever fucked up world!

[Frances]

our second child was born on the first day of spring, last friday

Congratulations!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6Z9zFXsfAU

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

[firehazard]

Not the best time to announce a new birth... but anyway, our second child was born on the first day of spring, last friday. Hope she’ll make it OK in this more-than-ever fucked up world!

Congrats left

[Low D]

Not the best time to announce a new birth... but anyway, our second child was born on the first day of spring, last friday. Hope she’ll make it OK in this more-than-ever fucked up world!

Congrats left

Yes congratulations to you all!

I don't know if it helps, but I had the same mixed feelings as you when our youngest was born at the same time bombs started falling on Iraq (the 2003 time). But life goes on, hold her close & raise her well 'cause it's not an easy world to grow up in.