raymond carver fan:
"Aggie had been in the restaurant business about 15 years before venturing out on her own. She tried working in an office once but said being confined to a desk made her nervous. She likes to study recipes and try new things."
― scott seward, Wednesday, 14 March 2012 19:11 (twelve years ago) link
i mean if you can't see the story possiblities in those three sentences then you ain't a writin' type.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 14 March 2012 19:12 (twelve years ago) link
lol scott, that article's opening quote:
"I grew up," Scott said, "In a family that..."
Worst place to break up that quote!
― Mordy, Wednesday, 14 March 2012 19:16 (twelve years ago) link
"I grew up in," Scott said, "a family that..."
― Eric H., Wednesday, 14 March 2012 19:20 (twelve years ago) link
"I," Scott said, "grew up in a family that..."
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 14 March 2012 19:25 (twelve years ago) link
"I grew," Scott said, "up in a," he continued, "family that ..."
― Eric H., Wednesday, 14 March 2012 19:27 (twelve years ago) link
all less coherent, but still better i think that what they went with! (obv the best place to break it up would be at the end of the idea)
― Mordy, Wednesday, 14 March 2012 19:31 (twelve years ago) link
than*
okay now i'm hooked on her old reviews. and not in a condescending way.
"My idea of a club sandwich is turkey, bacon, tomato and lettuce in a toasted double-decker format. The Southgate version has all of that plus some bland cheese that seems unnecessary. It is good. It is excessive, and so half of it goes home to join other leftovers in the refrigerator. My check was $8.49."
― scott seward, Wednesday, 14 March 2012 19:33 (twelve years ago) link
for a lady nicknamed "the appetite" she sure take a lot of leftovers home.
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 14 March 2012 19:34 (twelve years ago) link
it is a really weird place to break up that quote.
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 19:35 (twelve years ago) link
this review makes me happy. places like the olive garden make me very happy.
― surm, Wednesday, 14 March 2012 19:36 (twelve years ago) link
maybe "the appetite" is also ironic
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 14 March 2012 19:36 (twelve years ago) link
maybe it refers to her legendary sex drive
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 19:37 (twelve years ago) link
;_:
― brownie, Wednesday, 14 March 2012 19:37 (twelve years ago) link
My new favourite thread.
― Suede - the fabric, not the band (DL), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 19:59 (twelve years ago) link
I thought someone was going to pull a Misery and kidnap Lex and tie him to a stove in a remote cabin and force him to make ravioli from scratch.
― And I have been called "The Appetite" (DL), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 20:01 (twelve years ago) link
aahahahahahahahahahah
― surm, Wednesday, 14 March 2012 20:03 (twelve years ago) link
scott I didn't really think you were being condescending, sorry if it came across that way
― boxall, Wednesday, 14 March 2012 20:04 (twelve years ago) link
i can make ravioli! just put in boiling water and it's done in 3 mins. my staple food to eat when returning tipsy from the pub
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 14 March 2012 20:04 (twelve years ago) link
gauntlet thrown
― thuggish ruggish Brahms (DJP), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 20:04 (twelve years ago) link
Scott's store story deserves it's own thread/internet meme imho
― the sir edmund hillary of sitting through pauly shore films (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 20:05 (twelve years ago) link
Pics or it didn't happen, lex.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 14 March 2012 20:05 (twelve years ago) link
i can make ravioli! just put in boiling water and it's done in 3 mins
lol
Picnics or it didn't happen
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 20:06 (twelve years ago) link
lexcooks.tumblr.com
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 14 March 2012 20:06 (twelve years ago) link
oh wait you mean MAKING THE ACTUAL RAW RAVIOLI?
it had never crossed my mind that people could do that :o
this is like when someone told me you could make your own pesto, my brain couldn't really process it. pesto comes out of JARS.
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 14 March 2012 20:06 (twelve years ago) link
Making pesto is easy! Basil, pine nuts, olive oil, blender. Takes five minutes at most.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 14 March 2012 20:07 (twelve years ago) link
pre-filled jars that grow on trees
xp
― the sir edmund hillary of sitting through pauly shore films (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 20:09 (twelve years ago) link
might want to put some salt/pepper in that Ned
Making pesto is easy! Basil, pine nuts, olive oil, blender.Unscrew jar. Takes five minutesseconds at most.
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 14 March 2012 20:09 (twelve years ago) link
unless i drop the jar which has happened ;_;
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 14 March 2012 20:10 (twelve years ago) link
some cursory googling leads me to believe I need to finagle a business trip to the UK around Pancake Day
xp: omg lex you are killing me
― thuggish ruggish Brahms (DJP), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 20:10 (twelve years ago) link
Sounds like someone should compile an ILX cookbook.
― o. nate, Wednesday, 14 March 2012 20:10 (twelve years ago) link
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, March 14, 2012 3:07 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
somehow this would with lex running screaming from a building engulfed in fire, with pine nuts being projected from it at 180 MPH.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 20:11 (twelve years ago) link
would END
Store-bought pesto is unworthy bullshit.
― Carlos Pollomar (WmC), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 20:11 (twelve years ago) link
True but I've cut back on salt a lot since the high blood pressure kicked in, so...
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 14 March 2012 20:11 (twelve years ago) link
ALL of my housemates own store-bought pesto. and two of them are really good cooks who love it and do it regularly.
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 14 March 2012 20:12 (twelve years ago) link
That somehow led to an image of Lex's housemates being Jamie Oliver and Gordon Ramsay.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 14 March 2012 20:14 (twelve years ago) link
I think Jamie Oliver has better taste than to do it with Gordon Ramsay.
― butvi wouls (Phil D.), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 20:15 (twelve years ago) link
there is really nothing in the world like fresh fluffy pesto
― surm, Wednesday, 14 March 2012 20:17 (twelve years ago) link
nothing
Now I'm imagining dry cotton ball pesto.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 14 March 2012 20:18 (twelve years ago) link
is lex mr. bean
― max, Wednesday, 14 March 2012 20:18 (twelve years ago) link
I was gonna say, "fluffy" is not generally an adjective that comes to mind when I am trying to describe the consistency of pesto
― thuggish ruggish Brahms (DJP), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 20:19 (twelve years ago) link
Little fluffy pestos
― Respectfully, Tyrese Gibson (Nicole), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 20:19 (twelve years ago) link
would watch Food Network "Lex vs. Food" TV show
or alternately read a series of kids' books (Lex and the Case of the Exploding Hard-Boiled Egg, etc.)
― the sir edmund hillary of sitting through pauly shore films (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 20:20 (twelve years ago) link
pesto comes out of JARS.
i really don't want to continue this aghast @ lex thing but this is the first thing he has said that is actually depressing to me.
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 14 March 2012 20:20 (twelve years ago) link
drop him by helicopter into a kitchen and make him cook an omelette.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 14 March 2012 20:21 (twelve years ago) link