Glad to hear it! Gribble-grubs for everyone!
Glad to hear it! Gribble-grubs for everyone!
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Originally Posted by Gronan of Simmerya
There wasn't much we didn't stuff down our gullets over the years, was there?
When it's Saturday at Origins and it's 8 PM and you haven't eaten all day it's amazing how un-fussy you get.
Though the prize has to go to Princess Vrissa for making Escargots at GenCon.
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Formerly known as Old Geezer
I don't need an Ignore List, I need a Tongue My Pee Hole list.
The rules can't cure stupid, and the rules can't cure asshole.
Well...I still count myself as a "modern gamer", by virtue of age. My tastes go from exacting historical simulation to wuxia where it's fully reasonable to fight someone to get to know him or her better.
That is true! That is true
"The best spice is hunger", as a Bulgarian proverb says!
The escargots sure sound nice, though.
"Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows. It's a very mean and nasty place, and I don't care how tough you are, it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain't about how hard you hit. It's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward; how much you can take and keep moving forward." - Rocky
Very true. Oh, for those halcyon days at gaming conventions where the $5 hot dogs that have been sitting out all day, squashed little bags of 'tater chips that somebody dropped, flat sodas where the kid behind the counter connected all the syrup tanks to the same line. That's gourmet eating, ain't it?
Not.
We were always pretty self-sufficient, given Dave's very minimalist approach to things like marketing and budget; Herself whipping up snacks behind the booth was one of the things that got the Akbar & Jeff Traveling Tekumel Road Show our reputation for High Weirdness. Remember the old Army surplus chests we used to lug the lead around in? They got lost years ago, but have now been replaced by color-coded chests that are being loaded what all the crap we used to tote around to shows to save fees. It's all part of my Evil Plan For World Domination, don't you know. (I'd get a white Persian Long-hair, but both the Missus and the Daughter-in-residence are allergic to felines. Sigh.)
Agreed! I like fun games, and I have just as much fun in the former as in the latter. What's boggling me at the FLGS and at the conventions I've been to is this 'middle ground' is kinda unusual; lots of Very Serious People.Well...I still count myself as a "modern gamer", by virtue of age. My tastes go from exacting historical simulation to wuxia where it's fully reasonable to fight someone to get to know him or her better
That is true! That is true
"The best spice is hunger", as a Bulgarian proverb says
The escargots sure sound nice, though.
Yep. Took a while for me to reallize it, but I've learned that lesson.
Very true. You get hungry enough, anything starts to look good!
Hi, not Tekumel exactly, but this is Questioning Chirine, so.....was it a leg? And if so can I ask how you roasted it? Last few years I have really been reconsidering what I do with a leg roast.We are living high on the chlen-beast, my General; roast hmellu tonight with all the trimmings! Toasted flatbread, steamed rice, veggies in a nice sauce - no boot leather for us, no sir!
Yes. Oven, turned and based regularly. You have to keep an eye on it, if you want it the way Ambereen used to make it, but that's half the fun.
So medium oven or low? Dry roast or moist? I used to do it medium dry, the standard English way, and then tried low slow dry, with one stellar success but otherwise mixed results... last few times I done it in a Greek way, low but wet, and it gives the texture I want but still, not 100% satisfied...it's hard with a leg, and for us lamb is relatively expensive and a treat so I really want it to work, you know?
Understood. Medium, wet. Very Pakistani-style, where the Lady of the House would watch the thing like a hawk while it cooked, while getting everything else ready - normally, she'd prep everything before the lamb went in, and then time it so that the lamb was ready as the side dishes were nice and warm on the stove top. Yes, it did take a lot of attention, but special things like this were for her "Orphans' Thanksgiving", where all of us unattached gamers would be over for a long day of food and fun.
Watching Ambereen cook was a revelation, and gave me some really good insights into Phil's world. Totally different methods and tools; she used to tell about her grandmother's favorite hot stone slab. Basalt, from the description, and obtained via import at great expense and with great effort. Coal was considered a British thing; real cooks used hardwood. Cast iron was a new thing, and looked upon with great suspicion. Gas stoves were a North American thing, used with reluctance; electrics were acceptable, as they could be relied on to give a similar stable heat as hardwood did. Pots and pans were copper, and when steel became common were allowed in the kitchen for 'ordinary' meals; the copper ones were reserved for the 'special' meals - i. e., the feasts - and you could taste the difference. And there was the 'ordinary' china, and the 'special' china that was kept on display in the dining room under glass; her 'good' china was kept in great state, with Phil's massive collection of period weapons trailing far behind in status.
Ambereen's position was "Any fool can ride around killing people in battles; it takes a really good person to really cook." Typical Moghul, really.
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