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Apr. 4th, 2011 02:58 pmHuh, I should really look at this more often, 'cause there's folks that emigrated from LJ that post here exclusively now but I don't like how the reading page sticks to ONE PAGE. Is there a way to fix this? Otherwise I have to go to each community/person's page to read older posts there. But I do have hours of free time to fiddle around the 'net so I can suck it up and do the reading in a roundabout way.
LJ is apparently down, thus I am here lol. Here to bore a new group of people!
Saw a recipe for a chicken cordon bleu pasta, read it through and discarded it, though I did keep the main ingredients it used. Because I am lazy or just really not interested in standing over a frying pan to saute chicken, I boiled chicken tenders, bought a packet of pre-diced ham, and some applewood smoked bacon from the meat counter at Safeway. Working on a very basic roux formula, I did 3 cups of white sauce and added in spices as I liked. Nutmeg, fresh ground black pepper, a little garlic powder, some seasoned salt, splashes of tabasco sauce then cheese in once it was done. If I was going to stick to the idea of chicken cordon bleu I would have used gruyere but I had some white cheddar I needed to use. Toss it all together, drop some more cheese on top 'cause I am cheese fiend, and half hour later it's done. Turned out GOOD if I do say so myself. Did cheese biscuits to go with it and for dessert...
Paula Deen's Pink Lemonade Layer Cake. Verdict: it was okay. The frosting REALLY overpowered the rest of the cake. I like frosting--who doesn't?--but it was super sweet and so much of it that it seemed like each bite was more frosting than cake. You could probably halve the frosting recipe and still do good. Or you could halve the recipe and do a regular sheet style cake rather than layer cake. If I were to make it again, I would add more of the pink lemonade powder into the cake mix itself and look for a different butter cream frosting recipe. Frosting should be an accent to the cake, not drown it.
Got in an early viewing of AMC's new show, The Killing. So used to 40 minute crime shows where the case must be introduced and solved in a narrow time frame, I'd forgotten what it was like to see a nicely plotted mystery unravel before me. It's slow paced but it's interesting and the slow pace fits the way a crime is actually investigated. Definitely something to follow. HBO has got new clip up for Game of Thrones which is another I will definitely follow. Though I don't get Showtime, I might seek out a download for The Borgias, which is touted as "the world's first crime family".
And there's an X-Men anime? How did I not know this? INTERNET, YOU FAIL. Beast's character design sucks, makes him look more like a cat, which he isn't. Of course since it's anime the women have to be even bustier than they are in the comics. And like the movies, the anime wants to incorporate bits of the Phoenix plot while not really covering the plot line. I'm not going to do spoiler space as it's an old plot line and should be known by any comic fan of X-Men. Original has a build up of Mastermind using illusions to warp Jean Grey into the Phoenix and then she just cuts loose. Anime apparently just has Jean turning into the Phoenix due to her mind being controlled by the Inner Circle. Ignore how she became the Phoenix by tapping into its power and then slowly being corrupted by it, with Mastermind's illusions further eroding her control till she becomes seduced by it. Hey, if you're going by comic book mythos--Beast was indeed in the end of the Phoenix arc--then where's Nightcrawler? And Banshee? And Iceman? I'm only one ep in so don't know if they show up later. Promo shows Gambit which is my main reason of it giving a shot, to see what they do with Gambit.
LJ is apparently down, thus I am here lol. Here to bore a new group of people!
Saw a recipe for a chicken cordon bleu pasta, read it through and discarded it, though I did keep the main ingredients it used. Because I am lazy or just really not interested in standing over a frying pan to saute chicken, I boiled chicken tenders, bought a packet of pre-diced ham, and some applewood smoked bacon from the meat counter at Safeway. Working on a very basic roux formula, I did 3 cups of white sauce and added in spices as I liked. Nutmeg, fresh ground black pepper, a little garlic powder, some seasoned salt, splashes of tabasco sauce then cheese in once it was done. If I was going to stick to the idea of chicken cordon bleu I would have used gruyere but I had some white cheddar I needed to use. Toss it all together, drop some more cheese on top 'cause I am cheese fiend, and half hour later it's done. Turned out GOOD if I do say so myself. Did cheese biscuits to go with it and for dessert...
Paula Deen's Pink Lemonade Layer Cake. Verdict: it was okay. The frosting REALLY overpowered the rest of the cake. I like frosting--who doesn't?--but it was super sweet and so much of it that it seemed like each bite was more frosting than cake. You could probably halve the frosting recipe and still do good. Or you could halve the recipe and do a regular sheet style cake rather than layer cake. If I were to make it again, I would add more of the pink lemonade powder into the cake mix itself and look for a different butter cream frosting recipe. Frosting should be an accent to the cake, not drown it.
Got in an early viewing of AMC's new show, The Killing. So used to 40 minute crime shows where the case must be introduced and solved in a narrow time frame, I'd forgotten what it was like to see a nicely plotted mystery unravel before me. It's slow paced but it's interesting and the slow pace fits the way a crime is actually investigated. Definitely something to follow. HBO has got new clip up for Game of Thrones which is another I will definitely follow. Though I don't get Showtime, I might seek out a download for The Borgias, which is touted as "the world's first crime family".
And there's an X-Men anime? How did I not know this? INTERNET, YOU FAIL. Beast's character design sucks, makes him look more like a cat, which he isn't. Of course since it's anime the women have to be even bustier than they are in the comics. And like the movies, the anime wants to incorporate bits of the Phoenix plot while not really covering the plot line. I'm not going to do spoiler space as it's an old plot line and should be known by any comic fan of X-Men. Original has a build up of Mastermind using illusions to warp Jean Grey into the Phoenix and then she just cuts loose. Anime apparently just has Jean turning into the Phoenix due to her mind being controlled by the Inner Circle. Ignore how she became the Phoenix by tapping into its power and then slowly being corrupted by it, with Mastermind's illusions further eroding her control till she becomes seduced by it. Hey, if you're going by comic book mythos--Beast was indeed in the end of the Phoenix arc--then where's Nightcrawler? And Banshee? And Iceman? I'm only one ep in so don't know if they show up later. Promo shows Gambit which is my main reason of it giving a shot, to see what they do with Gambit.
