Random thing you love right now that doesn't deserve its own thread

Just trust me here: mix it with ranch dressing. Good with wings, pizza, taquitos, etc.

MaxShrek wrote:

Candy Loving. To be an adult male in th 1970s..

I'm guessing she's one of Woody Allen's Playmate conquests he discusses so dismissively in his new book...

As for the adult male part, that's probably a fraught topic.

MaxShrek wrote:

Candy Loving. To be an adult male in th 1970s..

Rykin wrote:

Just trust me here: mix it with ranch dressing. Good with wings, pizza, taquitos, etc.

I tweeted some activity ideas to Candy involving ranch dressing and it just got me blocked.

ThatGuy42 wrote:

Siracha hot sauce. I didn't realize how awesome it is until we had a bottle at home. Now I put it on everything. I mix it in with mayo, I add it on sandwiches, tastes great on eggs, it's just the perfect sauce I need right now. Thank you, grocery store, for being out of Tobasco, so that I could buy this fantastic sauce instead.

Five minutes ago I put some sriracha Brussels sprouts in the oven. Then I sat down to check the Goodjer forums while they bake.

Recipe:
Wash your BSs, chop a little of the stem off, and slice them in half. If your BSs are huge, you can chop each into thirds, which gets tricky, maybe chop into fourths?

At this point, all you need to know is
Preheat oven to 400 deg f
Bake for 20 min

Before you put them in the oven you can season or flavor them any way you like. For my sriracha BSs I put soy sauce, sriracha, honey, and a tad bit of canola oil. Toss together with BSs. Lay them on a baking sheet and go.

To make basic oven roasted BSs just toss them with olive oil, salt, and pepper. You can put any sauce or seasoning that you want to.

I've never had, nor known of anything other than, boiled brussels sprouts. I also dislike them, muchly. I must say, though, I'm interested to try the roasted recipe. Curiosity.

Roasted little cabbages are heavenly

In the spirit of love, the baby cabbage comment just reminded me of bacon and cabbage. My mum would make that when we were little. I loved it.

They are MUCH better roasted than boiled, but do still need some heavy flavorings for me. Chopped bacon with balsamic vinegar is pretty good. The sriracha and honey that Rawk posted sounds like a good combo too.

RawkGWJ wrote:

If your BSs are huge ... Toss together with BSs

Huge BSs tossed together with other BSs is how we roll in the politics section of the forums.

"We all have the power within us - I'm just a little more full of it than everyone else."

- Harry Anderson

MaxShrek wrote:

Candy Loving. To be an adult male in th 1970s..

The first centerfold I ever saw. Found that issue in my dad’s sock drawer.

Ok. I just want to amend my casual recipe that I posted earlier. After tasting the BSs I realize that I should have done it differently. I should have roasted them tossed with oil for 15 min. Then took them out, tossed with honey, sriracha, soy sauce, and continued to bake them for 7 to 10 more minutes.

For basic olive oil, salt, and pepper, toss before baking and bake for 20 min at 400 f.

I like them just tossed in a pan with some salt, pepper, and butter. Cook them until they take on a little color and enjoy.

Remember too, that brussels sprouts got way less bitter in the last 2-3 decades. They may have been gross in the past, but now they rock.

Edit: I usually roast after halved and tossed in olive oil, salt, and pepper because it's easy for a side. Not the best way, but it's easy to prep and time.

tuffalobuffalo wrote:

Remember too, that brussels sprouts got way less bitter in the last 2-3 decades. They may have been gross in the past, but now they rock.

Edit: I usually roast after halved and tossed in olive oil, salt, and pepper because it's easy for a side. Not the best way, but it's easy to prep and time.

That’s how we usually do it too. I love them this way. I was messing around with sriracha sauce out of boredom from sheltering in place.

At Sam's Club to get some quarantine goods. The devil in me says to just go in, buy a toothbrush and some jelly beans, and leave, and show people what I bought. So next time they see me they will social distance without a pandemic.

Just thinking of stuff to amuse myself while standing in the cattle queue.

The Jackbox drawing party game Drawful 2 is currently free on nearly every platform:

https://www.jackboxgames.com/drawful...

HBO has set up over 500 hours of content that anyone (in the US) can stream free. This includes all episodes of several HBO classics and some new stuff, along with a bunch of Warner movies and HBO documentaries.

If you haven't watched The Wire, now is the time.

SallyNasty wrote:
BadKen wrote:

Yeah, my mom's on Facebook. My whole family: brothers, their children, my children... Oh well.

The Zuck can suck it, though. I'm never going back.

This.

Concur.

Stele wrote:

If you haven't watched The Wire, now is the time.

Yes, it is.

Okay, this first part might not seem like a thing I love, but both my parents are doing okay for now, for which I consider myself very fortunate.

My (80 yo) dad is in recovery from heart surgery. Not cut-open-the-chest heart surgery this time (he had that about 20 years ago), but eventually one of the valves in his heart needs to be replaced. His cardiologist did some cardiologist things as a temporary measure, and his valve replacement is a couple months away. The surgery took longer than expected because they spotted a couple problem spots in his legs.

Not the best time to need heart surgery.

My mom is also in rough shape right now from what I can best describe as "super IBS." I believe that's the technical term. Her gastro doc doesn't know what is causing it. She had a flare up this past weekend, of course while my dad needed her help because pre-op he was on a special diet and had to move around as little as possible.

I think it will be a miracle if they both survive. They should be camping out in their apartment with a positive pressure setup and heavy duty air filters!

MEANwhile, I discovered this section of the website my doctor's practice uses to store patient info. Everything is there all the way back to 2005 when I first started seeing him. So I made this:

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It doesn't make a whole lot of sense, but at least the trend is in the right direction. Before I moved to Tucson, my weight stayed pretty much near the top of that chart for years.

BTW, middle of 2013 is when it became safe for me to live alone. I... ate a lot of fast food.

And rereading this, I realize I have become the old woman on the porch who sits around talking about her health problems and the health problems of everyone she knows to anyone who will listen. Including her seven cats.

Congrats, Ken.

And how are the cats?

DoveBrown wrote:

I love watching the Masterchef contestants struggle to avoid crying while John and Greg tell them their food is wonderful.

Edit:
Oh and I love this too which always remember when I talk about Masterchef

I remember Greg Wallace complimenting a contestant on their sauce by saying, “This sauce is like me. Rich and thick.”

From TeeFury.com

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RawkGWJ wrote:

From TeeFury.com

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edit: sorry my initial reaction was not appropriate, forgot which thread I was in!

RawkGWJ wrote:

From TeeFury.com

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How do we not have a tiger king thread?

For the record, I don’t love that show. I love that TeeFury has a goofy mashup with Calvin and Hobbs. And its kind of timely I suppose.

edit:
When it comes to tasteless forms of entertainment I’m more of a Borat kind of person.

Sometimes I put extra items on a shopping list when I go to the grocery store. Among the stuff like eggs, milk, cheese, veggies, I throw in stuff like "chainsaw for dismemberment" and "woodchipper for body disposal" and circle those items several times. Then I leave it in the shopping cart.

Make a poor attempt to scribble out the incriminating bits. Adds verisimilitude.