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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.

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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...

That Barefoot Contessa lady (Ina Garten?) seems to use it a lot in her cookbooks. I have two of the books and the recipes we've made have been really quite good. But I need to know more about fennel before I start trying to cook/eat it!

RR, am I remembering right that your bf is a vegan? Tomorrow I will see if we have any recipes that you might be able to use.

Okay, I am going to go sleep for several hours and hopefully tomorrow I will feel like starting all over again with studying for next week. And don't let me forget to look for recipes, RR!

bake potato in oven

while that happens make pico de gallo or something a lot like it, with the lime juice and the olive oil and the diced tomatoes and salt and pepper and basil or oregano or whatever goes in it you get the idea

take the baked potato and do it up like a baked potato but pretend the pico de gallo stuff you made is the sour cream/cheese/butter and such

then you eat it it's good

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2353/2433165482_8c58064c16.jpg

tombot that sounds really freakin tasty.

This anti-fennel feeling causes me sorrow. Fennel is v. tasty, and you can make the recipe w/out the seeds should you desire.

But Ned, the rest of the fennel also tastes anise-y too.

fennel is the aniseed one right? Loooooove it

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you can make the recipe w/out the seeds should you desire.

NOTICE HOW NED DOES NOT DESCRIBE THE TASTE OF FENNEL HEADS TO US ;_;

Your palates are all suspect! (Except for Upt0eleven, clearly a wise person.)

Anyway Tombot's recipe is equally fine for you anti-fennel bigots.

I worked on a biodynamic farm in the south of France for a summer about ten years ago. Planting a LOT of fennel and nibbling the stalks along the way led me to develop a taste for it.

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