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People wonder why explodingcat doesn't normally stay up this late.

Well...

He says this kind of stuff while watching the Dixie Chicks video "Landslide":

They're vampires. All of them... Yeah, look at that. They seduce middle america wit h their cute country music. And then eat them. I think THAT one ate Stevie Nicks. Almost all the facial expressions in this video are "If you get too close, I'm going to bite you." I like how they sing this particular song, when they themselves are not going to age.

I'd just like to say that I said nothing to encourage this and I certainly didn't offer observations that bolstered his argument. Nope, not me... No comments about preternaturally beautiful and radiant pregnant vampires. No sirree...Ô

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Happy Birthday, blixa23!

I'm glad you're in my family. You help keep that woman of yours in line nicely. ;)

*love and smoochies*

Soup

For xiane, who loves apricots.

mactavish, I really think the tomatoes in this could be skipped--they add more color than flavor.

red_frog, there are some meat recipes in this cookbook boy would like to try. Maybe you and he should talk about it. I don't know if you've tried any yet.

( recipe here )

I'm reheating it now. It works very well, just remember to STIR well before/during reheating, as the lentil solids settle at the top while it's in the fridge.

We ate the rest of the pirozhki I made. boy loved the apricot ones and I ate my mushroom-smetana ones greedily. I splurged on a mix of "wild" mushrooms before I knew our super strict tight spend-no-money-for-two-weeks budget and they made ALL the difference. I finally managed to make a mushroom pirozhok that tastes like the ones I ate in Russia. YUM.

I'm currently making more fillings for the rest of the dough. I have cabbage/egg cooling and will boil up some potatoes soon for potato/onion/cheese. If I have extra dough, I'll make up something with quorn.

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wow.

i used half my sauteed onion for the potato filling, and left half in the pan. added more butter, dumped in some quorn. stirred that, adding more butter as needed (this is MEANT to be rich)... in a bowl, i poured in a little of my no-soy sauce (marmite, water, salt, angostura worcestershire sauce), whisked in a bit of flour, stirred in two big spoonfuls of sour cream. Added the quorn/onion mixture.

WOW. this is amazing. It's so tasty. I'm boiling an egg to add to it, too. Boy says it tastes like beef/hamburger stroganoff without the mushrooms or the rancid taste of meat. (okay, rancid was my addition.)

It doesn't taste just LIKE meat, but I wouldn't like it if it did. It's an adequate substitute, though, and should make a fine pirozhok filling.

i try not to overdo my quorn consumption, as i AM highly allergic to mold and anaphylactic to penicillium (particularly the strain used in brie cheese and other moldy cheeses). but damn, it's so yummy.

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I made a sheetful of cabbage/egg and potato/onion/cheese pirozhki. We've eaten half already (it wasn't a big sheet and we've not eaten much today). The quorn pirozhki are in the oven now.

I just called in boy's weekly dedication to Stu on xiane's radio show on http://wnrn.rlc.net

flooding

boy says, "let's go canoeing in the cow pasture!"

yesterday, after gawking at the raging creek near our house and bravely traversing the flooded roadbed, we reach the end of our road to see this sign. Fat lot of good it did US. Anyhow, we crossed six and cross two very shallow wash-overs, then came to Totier Creek. We saw this on the other side of the bridge and beat a hasty retreat.

Now, a bit of background. The creek by our house has a one-lane wood deck bridge over it. It's about two quick steps across during normal times, it was practically non-existent last summer during the drought. When we got home, we walked down the road to take some pictures. You can make out the creekbed--barely. It's normally half that width, but what you can't see is the water UNDER the crusty snow and the water expanding through the flood plain toward the nearest house. Here's the 3-4' fence designed to keep cattle away from the bridge (it's under construction).

I saw this little cedar walking back from the bridge.

The fog yesterday evening was purplish blue. It was gorgeous.

Yesterday. It was nice and warm during the day.

Tom likes our moat. Yes, it curves around the tree and continues westward, then turns southward. It's spotty, then it meets up with our sump pump run off at the southwest corner. There are ruts that are fairly full, though patchy, to the east, then the moat is patchy and turns a little north to where tom is standing.

I have some pics from last night's Bella Morte show to post, but I'll put those in another entry.

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On looking at a picture of a kitten too young to be away from its mother:

me: "kitten."
boy: "YAY!"
me: "I don't understand why people think baby animals are cute. I look at that and want a club right now.."
boy: "NOOOOOO! Kitten! No clubs! Kitten! Not a seal!!"
me: "hrm. I guess that's why I want to club it. mmm, baby seals."
boy: "HEY! I don't want to club baby seals."
me: "you don't? what's wrong with you?"
boy: "there's no challenge. i prefer to club... elephant seals."
me: "fully grown males, i assume?"
boy: "yeah!"
me: "figures."
boy: *mimics grown of elephant seal*
me: *types away furiously, doesn't hear*
me: "i believe some things should be recorded for posterity."
boy: "don't forget the part where i growl like a bull elephant seal"
me: "you did?"
boy: "yes, don't you remember?"
boy: *mimics elephant seal again, complete with head and flipper gestures*
me: *dies laughing, types some more*
boy: "*bull* elephant seal."

ahem. okay.

that's a typical evening with krasota and explodingcat.