Marilyn Haggerty's amazing Olive Garden review and the subsequent viral shitstorm

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xxp

serratted knives are good for tomatoes too imo

*mourns*

*not really*

I made pesto once and found it overwhelmingly garlicky, despite following a recipe (which I never do usually, I'm p good at wing-it cooking). TBH I'm happy with jarred pesto! But it has to be v good italian stuff, I'm partial to Sacla and nothing else basically, it has the ratios of basil to cheese to garlic etc I like, and also the pine nuts are pureed in, and not chunky. HATE IT CHUNKY.

http://tenerifeonlineshopping.com/userfiles/image/2011/cooking%20sauces%20&%20world%20foods/sacla%20pesto.jpg

...this is a very weird thread derail btw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeYdAoZyNMI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6e3z2H1O5zE

I made pesto once and found it overwhelmingly garlicky, despite following a recipe (which I never do usually, I'm p good at wing-it cooking).

this is the beauty of cooking, because next time you can just... make it with less garlic!

The idea that eating a giant pile of egg salad is "sticking to your diet" is making me barfy. xpost to that YT

slocki: indeed! My cooking skills have totally come from the mistakes Ive made, that I have no doubt about.

And yet I cant bring myself to apply that sam resolve to learning music? Hm.

I used to be that way about Madonna (and I still am tempted to be that way)

yield, YIELD, YIELD

guys the EZ Cracker is the vid to watch

that's what I imagine lex cooking is like

that infomercial made me a little sad when they wasted all those eggs just to prove a point.

lost my shit at the in-shell scrambler tool, what in the hell.

I know!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chEPougF_nQ

anyway now I'm just imaging lex trying to fork food into his mouth and accidentally stabbing his ear, or him eating a banana whole because he can't figure out how to peel it

alright guys - i went to the store today and looked at prices. avacado = 89 cents. yellow/red bell peppers = 1.49. tomatos = i dont know. here's what happened. there was a drought in Mexico and it killed a lot of vegetables. so they were pretty expensive for a while. anyway. I still think cooking fancy stuff for dinner is pretty expensive. I don't think you should equate your typical home meal to "a night at Olive Garden" because most people think the OG is pretty fancy. maybe equate it to Applebees.

how much were the solid gold bell peppers

I don't think you should equate your typical home meal to "a night at Olive Garden" because most people think the OG is pretty fancy. maybe equate it to Applebees.

oh my god what the fuck LOLLL

red lobster is fancy, OG??

Uh yeah my family's summer vacation once was staying at my grandma's house in Salt Lake City, ending with a trip to the downtown Olive Garden. My mom really built us up to it. She'd held it over our head for months as a discipline strategy. "If you keep acting like this at the table,well think how much they'll look down at us at the Olive Garden." We watched a dining etiquette video from the library to prep for it.

It was one of four-five times we ate at a non-buffet restaurant growing up.

When we dined there, I tried really hard to be enchanted. We were only allowed to pick items that were $8 or less so it cut off about 2/3 the menu. No appetizers or deserts, water for drinks.

I think it was the first time we ate at a real restaurant because I remember grabbing my dad's sleeve as we got up from the table and pointing out to him that he'd left some money behind on the table. That was how I learned about tipping.

http://www.moviespad.com/photos/jodie-foster-nell-3cab7.jpg

lol

fancy is relative(s), obv

/I used to be that way about Madonna (and I still am tempted to be that way)/

yield, YIELD, *YIELD*

Morbz, I know our thing is to disagree, but I come in peace to ask you what you mean by this bc I think music is a topic where we might align.

When we dined there, I tried really hard to be enchanted. We were only allowed to pick items that were $8 or less so it cut off about 2/3 the menu. No appetizers or deserts, water for drinks.

― Marilyn Hagerty: the terroir of tiny town (Abbbottt), Thursday, 15 March 2012 01:18 (1 hour ago) Permalink

next time you should try te raspberry lemonade

defining the self in terms of what one isn't. like not driving

Ugh, good example. People who wear their inability to drive like a badge of honor are the worst.

*whistles idly*

I cant drive but I dont go around going HEY I CANT DRIVE I RULE.

But car culture isnt quite as embedded in Melb as it seems to be in most of the US (NYC aside possibly).

Well, I just know I'm going to have my sitcom heart attack while with someone who can't drive, and the first car we find will be manual transmission.

DOnt they have ambulances where you live.

Ugh, yes.

I love love love driving and as I recently said, I never feel more at home than behind the wheel, but I recognize the atrocities of cars and I haven't owned one in almost 8 years, but ignorance or incompetence is NEVER a good thing. (except I guess ignorance of the best practices of genocide and undercover pederasty).

xp - I used to be perversely proud of not being able to drive a stick, but I was 15 and that was fucking ridiculous.

Yeah, bicycles.

jealous of anyone with a backyard overgrown with basil

I made pesto in honor of this thread tonight.

I'm a decent cook but I've never made a pesto better than a good store-bought one

weird. homemade pesto is almost always better than store-bought, ime.

Got some macadamia nuts I'm fixing to turn into a pesto.

Oh, were you talking about a television show? You see, I don't own a tv. In fact, I haven't owned a tv for, let's see... is it four years now? five years. maybe six... no five. I don't miss it at all, you know.

Reading the hilarity of Lex and his phobia about cooking suddenly made me want to put this over here...

the last time i tried to join in on pancake day and toss pancakes, which ended in disaster when i somehow managed to toss the entire frying pan :(

― lex pretend, Wednesday, March 14, 2012 12:40 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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Artists Rendition

floor-de-foor-de-foor. rihanna-four-de-floor?

OMG I totally read that Onion article in Fry's voice.

Way late to this thread but have to OTM Lex re: pesto. It's different in the UK! That Sacla stuff is one of the very few things I get people to bring over for me from Britain, used to eat it weekly back home and have not found an equivalent despite extensive looking. And I say this as someone that prepares about 90% of my meals from absolute scratch.
Also there is way better bread in Britain (sorry US but it's true). I have a breadmaker because I got fed up of chewy holey bread all the time (it's awesome sometimes, but not for everything) and it IS awesome but I know I won't bother bringing it back to the UK because the fresh bread there is aces.