Mabelline

SO finally found an enormous cauliflower at Wal-Mart (good thing, too, I was worried it would get to Cauliflower Smuggling), so it is definitely on the boards for tomorrow. Got everything -red onions,ceci, and fresh 3-day old (tomorrow) free range eggs. Now I'm debating for Indian or Greek seasonings?

Boo. MT PBS does not carry it yet, and I have e'med them to distraction.

Oh yeah, I like that jaw and the flexible wrench. Good to have around for way more than jars, too. Oh, boy, I got something I can go shopping for.Happy dance, happy dance.

Well, there's perfectly well-intentioned folks all across our great country that take pride in slopping Bullseye on a chicken and turning it black (including my dear little landlady, for whom I had to do this this summer, after I'd smoked a pork roast and a brisket---but she's a star with her interpretation of cooking corn in the shuck) and calling that bbq. And if they're happy with it,so cool. It don't bother me.BBQ is one thing for sure-- an American ritual.

And with the availability of small propane handtorches, as a last resort you could cut it off (PLEASE NO, JUST KIDDING)

My never-fail opener is a 6'2" fireman. Seriously, I had one of those monster sauerkraut jars from Costco, and it took all three: the butterknife handle rimrap, followed by hot water for about 3 minutes, followed by the solid lidsmack on the counter. Took two cycles of them, but the bugger finally gave it up.

Name something you want that I can send you, and its yours. Thanks. E-Mail me.

My little ladypal at the Korean Food Store picks for me; I am a stout believer in pictures on the can. Then I take them to her, and if she cracks up, I realize that dog won't hunt. Plus my grocery stores are becoming way more sensitized to ethnic nowadays.

I have only one caution about avocados. Although it's probably a moot warning to the majority of people, please be aware that avocado leaves are toxic to horses and sometimes donkies. I realize that's a stupid warning for 99.6 percent of eGers, but I'm thinking of maybe that one person it might do some good for.Some folks are into those mini critters, and they would definitely be a candidate for munching off a tubbed avocado.

Man, what a can of hot worms. You could cook a piece of meat off the machines. I only want to get in this for the hell of it, but what do you guys reckon the vaquero and indio descendents in Arizona, New Mexico, California and Texas would say if you tried to say that a whole spitted beef cooked two days, or a cabrito or porker that came out of a pit in the ground with no fire ever touching the meat, and they've called barbiqoa for 'bout 450-500 years, did not qualify as bbq? That's barbeque to me, as soon as it's on a plate, sauced or not. BBQ is like sex appeal; a highly subjective thing by it's nature. To each their own.

Well, SO has been known to accuse me of keeping my bees there, but I don't even own any bonnets

I never said I was producing any fruit in an apartment, but it is very possible. The only thing you need to do is your own pollenization. But seed-grown citrus is iffy at best, and I only grew these because I had so many seeds all the time. I keep cutting these seedlings back so they'll stouten up.

I am admitably the world's worst consumer of 'celebrity' products. And I think if a manufacturer wants you to be an unpaid advertiser of their goods, they should give you the stuff. But I'm an ornery OB, as fifi calls us (BY the way, fifi, that does mean old bat, doesn't it?)

Just dropping you a note to let you know you are pencilled in for a 9 am meeting on Monday with the High Priestess of Prograamming...Queen fifi Ist.

I adore those little sprouts of Nigella's. When she made the after school snacks and they sat there and shaved their own cheese and passed it around, it stole my heart. She (Nigella) has had a very bittersweet life that was made very public. A real woman's woman IMHO.

Many years ago, I bootlegged two flasks of whiskey into Alice Cooper, Rick Derringer and Johnny&Edgar Winter in Phoenix. Everyone bitched at me for getting First row Balcony seats until Welcome To My Nightmare started, and then out came J.D. for the barbarians, and Scotch for me. A memorable night.

A whole series on different religious food observances. This is a serious suggestion. Dead Rock Stars' Favorite Indulgences Alaska Foods and Cabin Fever Relief Kitchen Confidential---The Movie Tantric Foods With Sting (make one meal last for hours)

Ah....so no wonder I didn't recognize it! My doctors usually won't let me out of the straitjacket to read their literature. But I was close, in an eG way-task forces use it!

Okay, Chris, I'll bite. I figured it for something that shoots.

I'll definitely add affirmative to flavorsome recipes. We crash on people so much sometimes that I wonder if JC had not been the founding goddess of the genre, and starting out now, how would she be received? Or is that sacreligious to say, or spew such heresy?

Can we have one that's a big old screw at an angle through something Atkins like one of those international don't do it signs?

GR, that's got to be better than the earworm from Sandra Lee: I'm a Barbie girl, in a Barbie world....gah...somebody ship me some earwigs and I'll attempt Night Gallery surgery! Edit for dumbosity

Pickles, you're watching her right now, aren't you? I am and the this is gonna be so good thing gets me a little too. Kinda like Rachel Ray behind a real quality downer?

We could also do one for shits and giggles where the show is actually done in English, but dub it in Japanese. Then you can still sit around and guess what's up, but Japanese viewers could watch also.

They are very sly little fruit, bleachboy. Once you start using them, you'll start thinking maybe a little will work in this, or that, and it nearly always does. I put some into green chile pork tonight, and it was really good, and accentuated the tomatillos in the verde. fifi, I want some of those calamondin sooo bad! And that's just like citrus. Baby one along, hiccup around it one day, and it goes toes up. Leave one be, it'll produce like the furies.