I got over the aversion to wasting money and food w/r/t tomato paste, but I want to save the leftovers for convenience's sake.
think the 6oz can of tomato paste thing stems from a time when most americans used tomato paste only to thicken tomato sauce.
What else do people use tomato paste for?
― Pita Malört (Je55e), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 17:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
I use it in place of tomato sauce for things like meatloaf or pizza because I find regular sauce too watery. I just throw spices into the paste, stir and use.
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 17:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
cook your onions, celery, carrot base with tomato paste and put it in stews and soups
― biggie smallclothes (brownie), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 17:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
Unrelated to tomato paste (I buy the tube).
It makes me IA when a business won't return my call/email when I am trying to arrange to give them my money in exchange for their goods or services, and it makes me double IA when the business is located in the south or somewhere rural and I start to feel like maybe I'm just being one of them Type A City Folk who talk too fast and want everything yesterday and that my expectations are unreasonable.
― Polly biscuit face (carl agatha), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 17:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
yeah, slightly caramelized tomato paste is a great thickening/flavoring agent for all kinds of stuff
― Choc. Clusterman (contenderizer), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 18:02 (1 year ago) Permalink
Tomato paste in those squeezy roll-uppy tubes is the best. Lasts forever
sadly that's not what the packaging says (tho if I should just ignore the packaging and keep using the tube please let me know), the tubes I get say "use within 2 months of opening" and even then I only make it about a quarter of the way through
(this was true even before I started living with someone who doesn't like tomatoey sauces - tbh now it's more like a small thumb-shaped dent in the tube in two months)
― instant coffee happening between us (a passing spacecadet), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 18:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
I think you can ignore the packaging. I've had a tube that lasted 4 months and one that lasted 6 months, no apparent problem either time.
― improvised explosive advice (WmC), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 18:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
personally I use it until it actually shows signs of perishing
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 19:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
the flu/cold that's going around. & had me not wanting to move yesterday. didn't leave the flat.
A hard drive on my computer starting to beep when i got up this morning. Which presumably means that its the 3rd one that gave up the ghost over the last few months and I don't know what's on it, just that it's not backed up. thought it was the most recent one so started redownloading a few live sets and have now found out it's not. So, well I guess I do have some stuff in a couple of places now.
getting uptight about not being able to read smallish print spending minutes to see if something read 5 or 6 in the supermarket. Well i did manage to get the discount offer that should have expired yesterday. but fuck, worried about fuzziness of my eyesight.
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 19:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
I start to feel like maybe I'm just being one of them Type A City Folk who talk too fast and want everything yesterday and that my expectations are unreasonable.
I sometimes think about if I seem like City Folk when I have to call courts or govt. agencies in rural Illinois or Iowa. The court clerks are usually much friendlier and accommodating than the ones in Chicago, so I feel like a jerk if I don't engage in a slightly longer "how are you" type exchange. Or I wonder if they assume I'm going to have a Busy and Important Chicago Law Firm ,LLP snotty attitude or that I'm going to think they're bumpkins. I usually don't say I'm calling from Chicago.
― Pita Malört (Je55e), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 19:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
re tubes, tbh I used to just keep it in the fridge until the tube was actively cracked or grease-faded, which I guess was 6 months at least? and never noticed any ill effects
but now I am afraid the tomato-phobic mr spacecadet will find the tube in the fridge and read the instructions and become further convinced that I am just storing up poison in tomato-tube form
― instant coffee happening between us (a passing spacecadet), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 19:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
As long as air can't get into the tube, that stuff'll have the shelf life of a Twinkie.
― improvised explosive advice (WmC), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 19:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
You actually want a little air, that way anaerobic bacteria can't grow!
― mh, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 21:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
Being in a public place and listening to anyone talking on a phone. I know the world has adapted to this abomination but I will forever be knocking cellphones out of hands and yelling "Shame, you noise polluter!"
― President Keyes, Thursday, 3 May 2012 14:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
Ppl who don't pause/hangup when ordering/paying for coffee or going through a checkout. Takes these idiots twice as long to do EVERYTHING ragh I hate them so much
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 3 May 2012 14:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
I sat next to a woman on the train this morning who was doing her makeup, which annoys me but I can cope, except that I swear it took her ten minutes to put on foundation. She just kept getting a teeny little bit out of the tube, and then rubbing it on her face, getting a teeny bit more, and rubbing it on her face, then a teeny bit more, and rubbing it on her face, and then a teeny bit more, and rubbing it on her face. I think it was more the repetitive nature of the motions than the actual make-upping that was making me batty but phew, I was on edge until she switched to eyeliner.
― Polly biscuit face (carl agatha), Thursday, 3 May 2012 14:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
a dumb, obvious observation i'm sure, but i'm sometimes struck (or freshly re-struck) by the deeply sad weirdness of the fact that so many women basically can't face the world without first applying a colorful goo-based mask.
― 10. “Pour Some Sugar On Me” – Tom Cruise (contenderizer), Thursday, 3 May 2012 14:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
We don't really need your pity, just fyi.
― how did I get here? why am I in the whiskey aisle? this is all so (Laurel), Thursday, 3 May 2012 14:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
my only lament is that makeup isn't more creative. i'd love a lot people a lot more if they wore tiger stripes or tartan swatches across the bridge of their stupid noses
― fka snush (remy bean), Thursday, 3 May 2012 14:41 (1 year ago) Permalink
It's less about not being able to face the world, and more about being pressured from birth to be a very specific, ever more narrowly defined kind of lovely, achievable only through makeup.
Lots of people are very creative with makeup (maybe not stripes on their noses) but they do some really cool stuff - http://eyegraffiti.blogspot.com/.
― Polly biscuit face (carl agatha), Thursday, 3 May 2012 14:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
^ i have rarely/never seen makeup that interesting in person, except in magazines. I guess it could be kind of a cool hobby? I still wish special effects were A Thing, like people walking around with cat ears and bolts on the neck.
― fka snush (remy bean), Thursday, 3 May 2012 14:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
hello I am a man and I do not feel qualified to say anything about makeup
― mh, Thursday, 3 May 2012 14:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
xp You should go to more goth clubs! Or fandom conventions. I'm not even kidding. My post-Hunger Games commentary mostly revolved around how I wished people really did dress/groom themselves like the people in the Capitol.
Also, crazy nail polish is really becoming popular (one of my favorite examples, probably unsurprisingly - http://copythatcopycat.blogspot.com/2011/11/31-day-nail-challenge-day-17-galaxy.html) so maybe it's a trend towards everybody looking like a Star Trek alien (I am pro this).
Probably though in a year people will decide that elaborate makeup/nail painting is really trashy and it will be all about clear mascara and OPI Matte Nail Envy.
― Polly biscuit face (carl agatha), Thursday, 3 May 2012 14:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
But seriously, I am a total dolt with painting my nails, so I'm going to miss the fancy nails bandwagon (also maybe not conducive with my age and profession, alas) but I would really like to have galaxy nails for a week.
― Polly biscuit face (carl agatha), Thursday, 3 May 2012 14:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
those nails are amazing, i'd rock them if i could. i used to paint the middle fingers on both of my hands with mirror-reflective paint, because it seemed cool and 'alt.' It wasn't, though.
― fka snush (remy bean), Thursday, 3 May 2012 14:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
^ oh yeah, i know. the sad is a product of both the diastrophic pressure and the response to it. and my response is similar to the dorky, stonar-like "wow sprawl", "wow cars", and "wow clothes" flashes i occasionally get when, for whatever reason, i really look at and think about ostensibly "normal" things i ordinarily take for granted. sort of knew from beginning that this wasn't a subject i needed to shoot my mouth off about though...
― 10. “Pour Some Sugar On Me” – Tom Cruise (contenderizer), Thursday, 3 May 2012 14:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
shut your mouth you loud animals! being in another officedown the hall means I should not have to hear you all day
― The Cheerfull Turtle (Latham Green), Thursday, 3 May 2012 14:57 (1 year ago) Permalink
I've seen a lot of fancy nails that I think 'that's nice... as a picture on the internet, not on my nails' but those galaxy ones are 1000000 kinds of awesome and I want them!
― kinder, Thursday, 3 May 2012 14:57 (1 year ago) Permalink
oooh, I love those galaxy nails too. I wish I was talented; I can barely paint my nails. I glop it all on and then let washing my hands repeatedly wear away the polish on my skin :P When I was in high school I used to have the patience and would paint designs with toothpicks, like Union Jacks and stripes.
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Thursday, 3 May 2012 15:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
and I love makeup because it's fun. I don't feel any pressure to look any certain way, except the way I want to look because I like the look! In the last year I've given up on staying inside if I have a bare face, let the world know: I HAVE BLONDE EYELASHES. That's okay.
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Thursday, 3 May 2012 15:08 (1 year ago) Permalink
I wear makeup less often - my eyes are too puffy in the morning for me to really want to do anything about makeup for at least an hour or two after I get up. But my face is very pink/flushed all the time, I actually prefer how I look in makeup; I just wish I could be arsed to care that anyone else has to look at me without it haha
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 3 May 2012 15:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
this is not the right thread, but since we're talking about it, how do folks get their eyeliner to not smudge? without fail, every day, some smudging! i look at the cool stuff on the eyegraffiti page but then my very next thought is, if i wore that it would all be smudged to pieces...
― rayuela, Thursday, 3 May 2012 15:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
I will answer that on the appropriate ILS thread!
― how did I get here? why am I in the whiskey aisle? this is all so (Laurel), Thursday, 3 May 2012 16:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
Here, btw: I feel pretty--NOT! THE COSMETICS THREAD
― Polly biscuit face (carl agatha), Thursday, 3 May 2012 16:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
I feel this is a rational anger but for a lack of a better place to put it: ppl with umbrellas, please refrain from swinging them to and fro as you go up the stairs. People's faces are right behind you!
― rayuela, Thursday, 3 May 2012 22:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
i don't really care about ppl putting makeup on on the subway, but when they do the eyeliner i'm always afraid they'll stab themselves in the eyeball
umbrellas are just weapons in the hands of the oblivious
― mookieproof, Thursday, 3 May 2012 23:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
I am on this one email list for a store and to unsubscribe you have to mail them a letter to their physical address.
― Dale, dale, dale (Abbbottt), Thursday, 3 May 2012 23:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
haha wut
― mookieproof, Thursday, 3 May 2012 23:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
I hate makeup. I hate women using public transport as a place to do their toiletries. Keep it in the bathroom, damn. I hate the idea women feel obliged to wear makeup. I wont wear it unless I'm going out somewhere fancy or to a club. Makeup can be done subtly and well, but seeing people wearing a thick trowel layer of brownish slap all over their face with bright cheeks and eyelids... all I can think of is:
― fix it with like some music glue (Trayce), Thursday, 3 May 2012 23:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
BTW, you can preserve tomato paste in the fridge for quite some time in a very simple way: pour a thin layer of olive oil over the top of the paste. It keeps it sealed.
― fix it with like some music glue (Trayce), Thursday, 3 May 2012 23:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
but when they do the eyeliner i'm always afraid they'll stab themselves in the eyeball
Many many years ago I saw an episode of Sally Jesse Raphael that had a woman who WENT BLIND after poking her eye with a mascara wand.
― tokyo rosemary, Friday, 4 May 2012 02:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
*cries*
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 4 May 2012 02:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
It bothers me to know that people regularly apply makeup while actively, actually driving.
― Pita Malört (Je55e), Friday, 4 May 2012 02:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
A girl I worked with in college told me one morning that she was running super late for work, so she brushed her teeth while driving. She rinsed with Coke.
― Pita Malört (Je55e), Friday, 4 May 2012 03:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
Yeah Ive seen ppl putting make up on behind the wheel of a car in moving, multi lane traffic before. :(
― fix it with like some music glue (Trayce), Friday, 4 May 2012 03:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
My housemate fessed up to doing her nails in traffic when I noticed nail polish on her steering wheelO_o
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 4 May 2012 03:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
This is one of many reasons you can't get my brother to shut up about self-driving cars.
― Dale, dale, dale (Abbbottt), Friday, 4 May 2012 03:48 (1 year ago) Permalink
he can't wait to be able to do his nails in safety?
― Touché Gödel (ledge), Friday, 4 May 2012 08:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
i used to do my makeup and paint my nails on the train when i lived in AUS. Now I live in USA i do it at 70 miles an hour on the interstate. fuck a bathroom.
― fine with 49 (sunny successor), Friday, 4 May 2012 14:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
OH. I'm glad you brought this up again. Guess what? I was on the train with the make-up lady this time! I timed her foundation application and it was not ten minutes but it was a little over five, which is still a really long time to dab makeup on your face. I wasn't in the seat next to her so I could surreptitiously check out her technique and she puts on LIQUID EYELINER! On the train! Using a little hand mirror! I can't even begin to put on liquid eyeliner in a perfectly still bathroom with a big mirror and bright lights. I'm torn between still being irritated by how long it takes her to put on foundation/the impropriety of personal grooming in public (I'm sorry, sunny! I'm kind of stuffy about these things) and being completely impressed by her skill.
The person I was sitting next to was wearing earphones and also playing Words with Friends WITH THE SOUND ON. I don't even think she realized it.
― Polly biscuit face (carl agatha), Friday, 4 May 2012 14:55 (1 year ago) Permalink