Now that we found love what are we gonna do? The Winter 2011-12 Gay Thread

eat together! get drunk together! feed each other! grow fat together! hoorah

― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, March 13, 2012 12:17 PM (11 seconds ago) Bookmark

i totally feel this

today i was just recounting to my housemate the last time i tried to toss pancakes a few years ago, which ended in utter disaster*. i have not tried since

*the pancakes kept flopping limply and not going over so i tried to do it a bit harder and somehow tossed the entire frying pan :(

I can manage pancakes

some of u can give me a kitchen seminar when u come to EMP, eh

i am lucky to have Ryan's cooking in my life, he is like my very own mama celeste !

― surm, Tuesday, March 13, 2012 8:32 AM (45 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you are so cute

btw i will cook/bake/make cocktails for any of you dudes anytime

some of u can give me a kitchen seminar when u come to EMP, eh

only if certain panelists are the main course

i love cooking but i still manage to fuck up pancakes somehow, even tho i've made them several times

o i have no idea how to cook broccoli either lex, fyi

I've burned every pancake I've flipped...

I lost my fear of boiling when my mom forced me to cook my own Quaker Oats in high school.

yeah pancakes are tough

any good ideas on what to do with excess bacon grease/lard btw? was thinking corn muffins maybe

refried beans

make a pie crust with 1/2 lard 1/2 butter and make a savory tart

you can fry pancakes in bacon grease, if you're dirty like that

OOOOH that is an idea. maybe leek and goat cheese?

holy christ I'm hard

also bacon fat is v nice for skillet-roasted brussel sprouts or potatoes

i have heard that about potatoes but to be honest i don't feel comfortable using bacon fat to cook anything except bacon

that is just one step too far for me

oh shit yeah, potatoes cooked in bacon grease = all-time

i just . . . . the very idea

like let's use this fat from a pig

to cook my vegetables

no. i can't. i mean i'm sure i have no idea what i'm putting in my mouth half the time but yeah even animal broth freaks me out.

it's like what?

it's like making out with a sow

i mean i'm sure i have no idea what i'm putting in my mouth half the time

opengoal.jpg

:D

pancakes are one thing i am very good at. golden brown on both sides.

although, i flip with a spatula, and the implication i am getting from lex seems to be that he like...flicks his wrist while holding the pan or soemthing.

The key is to have the pan fairly hot and flip JUST as bubbles appear in the batter.

i can imagine u being really good at pancakes.

....

The key is to have the pan fairly hot and flip JUST as bubbles appear in the batter.

it's instructions like this that stress me out so much when i try to cook

yeah, i use an electric griddle for pancakes and flip them with a spatula. omelets require the high-flying wrist action imho.

I've no problem flipping omelets; they're easier to control because I like them a bit cooked on the bottom.

i usually make scrambled eggs because they require the least amount of effort when i'm hungover on sunday mornings

tbh one of the reasons i bought a rice cooker is to make brown rice & quinoa etc, so I can maybe make 'light cooking' easier on myself? in the kitchen i tend to default to rich / hearty / comfort foods that are not so good for you.

which reminds me, I need to buy a pork shoulder for easter

I looooove cooking for/with my boof

steve are u still vegan? is he?

boof cooked for me once (salmon/asparagus/potatoes) and we had a picnic date where we each brought something (i made cheesecake brownies)

xp no and no

jason used to love to cook for me because i would get very excited and devour everything. i could never return the favor though. the best i could do was pay for the groceries.

i mean, i can make some mean french toast! and i used to be able to do a good job approximating my mom's mac 'n cheese, but i can't bring myself to eat that much dairy all at once anymore.

i would TOTALLY watch a show on A&E that just profiles people who try and boil rice but in the process break down and cry and nearly go insane

ha- haven't seen it but i'm pretty sure food network has something like this.

i've no idea how one even begins to bake chicken or indeed do anything with raw meat.

yep. plus raw meat makes me want to hurl. :) and marinating? i'd inevitably find a way to fuck that up real good. maybe i could learn! i'm as anxious about cooking as i am driving. i stress out if i don't know exactly what i'm doing, and my inclination is to panic as soon as i do something wrong. but once i've done it like 5, 6, 7 times, then i'm set.

yeah. driving is the grown-up thing i still don't do.

parents split and cars became inaccessible partway through getting my full license (we have graduated licensing) and now I live somewhere where I never really need to. I know that I should but at this point it just prompts so much anxiety and i'm all about public transit and walking places.

I mean, future road trips with boy etc. want to be possible, but it's tricky. Boat may have sailed there.

yeah, I was wondering if lex drives.

lou, we should meet up and compare Brooklyn notes soon!

btw Veronica Peoples club bar in Greenpoint is closing this weekend! At least I got one gay metal night w/ Dr Druna there.

i stress out if i don't know exactly what i'm doing, and my inclination is to panic as soon as i do something wrong

oh god, this is exactly it for me too.

i don't drive, i live in london! i think i know maybe two people who can drive.

i don't know how people drive, what a ridiculous thing

selling my car was one of the better decisions i made in the past year. i'd much rather have the giant synth i bought with that $.

morbs- i'm down! i guess the EMP isn't too far off. maybe we can all arrange something then.

I drive and dislike it but it's the only other way I can listen to new pop music on the radio.

i don't drive. terrified of it tbh

sucks if i ever want to go to the desert tho

I don't own a car, but I love driving and do it at every opportunity. I never feel more at home than behind the wheel and on the freeway.

I don't understand how I ever afforded. I owned cars for 11 years - since I was 17 years old - until I moved to Chicago and I always paid for my own gas, insurance, and maintenance. And tickets. So many tickets. And lawyers.

Now it seems impossibly expensive even though I'm making far more money than I was in my late teens.

Just counted: I've owned 8 cars.

i love driving too i just find it terrifying, but one day i'm telling u i will be able to drive, and listen to music, and drive

one day

surm, if you haven't driven with the windows down and elbows to the breeze while smoking and listening to Mariah's "Someday" you haven't lived.

I KNOW :( o god u just hit it home

i need to learn