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omg sara i LOVE those! there was a place in rochester that made them with very minimal gel and more peeliness. it was awesome.

YES YES YES ALL THE PUDDINGS AND SWEET THINGS PLEASE

john is a turd-polisher

and no sara, i love it to eat chox-coated orange peel but diet means i can't.

That is usually what I buy when I go to the candy store. My MIL made a bunch of it one year for us for Xmas, but I think it is a *lot* of work.

Also, now I must visit that store in Rochester. NY is kind of a ways off, but...

Oh yay, pudding! I will make it from scratch sometimes, but not often because my husband doesn't like it that much. (Well, except for the chocolate bread pudding, but that's kind of different).

remy, I am sad for your diet not allowing for chocolate orange peel! ;_;

my diet doesn't allow a lot. but soon i will be in shape and can eat again. (176 --> 145 + 5lbs muscle)

GO REMY!

I suppose I should go pick up my biological children from school...

T/S "turd-polisher" vs. "turd-burglar"

i think turdburgler has a nicer poetic ring to it

m'kay Sara. *sniffs*

my diet requires i go eat something gross now. this thread has done a great job of distracting me from the crapness that was my day but I am going to tag in my good friend beer to continue the job.

'turd-fondler' also good btw.

lol ASSonance omg my sides doctor pepper what

lol why bring doctor pepper into it?

remy, if it makes you feel better, i have not had a chocorange peel in years. and good job w/ the diet!

Why are you all talking about poo. Disgusting.

Yay Remy diet. Not that I was helping by making him drink his way up the coast.

Ned Raggett IS The Drinking Enforcer.

ahem

Okay, so maybe it is John.

Or possibly it is a regional title.

I await the release of Ned and John's Excellent Drinking Adventure.

btw i'm pretty good at forcing people to drink, too.

we may have discovered a underlying theme to itr here

Clearly, you are in charge of the Northeastern region.

xpost

sara, go see if you can get one of your children to drink so we know if you are in or out xxpost

Wait, John just noticed the underlying theme TODAY?! What is in those Dr. Peppers anyway?

Now, Irish, you know I could never compete with you.

Well, I'm going to leave for class soon so that I can either totally ace or completely fail tonight's test (no idea which). I hope the rest of you have plans that are less lame than that...

i gonna meet a friend for quick dinner and then see two albee plays :)

itr is full of rofles this morning, while i have been sleeping!

well i have good news: a poem of jordan's is being published by a small press and he got a promotion today.

also: sara if you like choc orange peel, you better webmail me your address cuz i have something for you...

golden girls quote of today:

[after a robbery]

dorothy: they took my mother's jewelry.
blanche: they were probably looking for drugs.
dorothy: all we have is maalox and estrogen. how many thieves do you know that have gas and hot-flashes?

much later bump

RR, you are the sweetest! I will send my address to you by Facebook, but you really don't need to send me anything...

I got 37/40 on my test. One of the questions I got wrong was possibly the worst written test question I've ever seen. Almost everyone got it wrong (justify justify).

I'm super exhausted now and desperately trying to find something to eat.

i knew you'd be fine! ok there is this gross dark choc with tiny bits of orange peel which i hate and accidentally bought and started eating because i thought it was orange-FLAVOURED but i'm sure you would love it. it's by whittaker's which is a nz choc company, and this choc has travelled places: i've sent the 72% cocoa and almond to jordan; the kiwifruit to california to B.L.A.M and the coconut to iknowright in ireland.

by GROSS i mean that i hate not, not that it's a bad choc. i just really hate fruit peeel of any kind.

*hate IT

FUCK

Some people do hate fruit peels. Based on their reactions to my making panforte at Xmas (which is full of peels), both John and HI DERE are in your camp, RR.

Ha, but that chocolate sounds AWESOME to me!

fruit peel really makes me gag, which is why there will be no goddamn fruit cake at my wedding - chocolate all the way, baby!

Well, to be sure chocolate cake >>>>>> than fruitcake (x 1000000000000)

I don't really like fruitcake, tbh. Panforte, though, I love.

I am trying to think what I could send to you and to estela, RR. No lutefisk, I promise!

dont' send me anything - at least not until i'm in the US, since then it will be way cheaper!

It might take me that long to come up with something anyway!

Fruit peel can be love. When done well.

Tomorrow I will ponder roasted radishes.

Ned, you are amazing.

ned do you have any good vegan recipes for me?

anything involving potato would be awesome

Easy, roasted potatoes and fennel:

1 pounds potatoes
1 medium heads fennel (about 1 pound)
1 tablespoons olive oil
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon ground black pepper
1 tablespoon fennel seeds

Instructions:
1. Preheat the oven to 450F and put the rack in the middle position. Put a large roasting pan in the oven to preheat. Quarter the potatoes. Cut off and discard the fennel’s stems and bottom end. Cut the bulb into pieces roughly the same size as the quartered potatoes. In a large bowl, toss the fennel with the olive oil, salt, pepper and fennel seeds.

2. Pour the potatoes and fennel onto the preheated roasting pan.

3. Roast, turning and tossing them occasionally with a spatula, until they’re tender and brown in spots, 45 minutes to 1 hour.

Ned, I have been wondering what roasted fennel is like. We are not big fans of the seeds (they are kind of, I don't know... anise-y or something), and that's why we haven't tried anything with heads of fennel. Could you describe/compare it to something?

yeah i dunno about fennel...