Utterly uninspired for this week's mealplan

[conuly]

Maybe I'll think of something with enough cookbook flipping.

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Comments

[thewayne]

I found a new (to me) recipe site, Yummly, that asks guided questions before giving you a list of recipes. My wife doesn't like a lot of tomato product as it doesn't agree with her, somehow the keywords I was using hit Yummly and the parameters I entered I ended up with Szechuan beef. I made it a couple of nights ago and it came out quite well, surprisingly easy which was good as I was kind of intimidated. Unfortunately I didn't realize that I was out of onions, so the flavor was a bit weak. Still, the only unusual things that I needed were hoisin sauce, rice noodles, and green onions which I rarely use and the only really unusual cooking technique were the rice noodles: you bring water to a boil, throw the noodles in, then take the water off the heat!

Definitely going to be making it again, adding some peanuts to give it some crunch and maybe a little peanut butter, take it slightly Thai.

[conuly]

Take my advice: When you're cooking rice noodles, glass noodles, anything like that? Boil broth, not water. Mmm.

[thewayne]

That sounds like a good idea!  Cost would be a bit high (might encourage making my own), but I'm sure it'd be worth it.

[conuly]

Making your own is always a good idea, though for this it's just as easy and cheap to simply toss in a spoonful of Better than Bouillon and call it a day. One jar will last months.

[greghousesgf]

liked the parrot article. I've had a few pet parrots, they're great birds but they can outlive their owners and get depressed when that happens, they're very social birds.

[conuly]

And it sounds like a lot of people who don't know how to care for them properly try to do it improperly. Same old story there.

[greghousesgf]

It's a shame. I took good care of mine and I was a kid when I had most of them.

[conuly]

I don't understand it either.

[elenbarathi.livejournal.com]

Hope you think of something good!

I sure wish you'd put some kind of an indicator on these links, as to which ones of them are to paywall sites, because there is no way to tell that from your 'tiny URLs', and I keep wasting all my free views on articles I wouldn't have clicked on if I'd known there was a paywall.

And yes, I'm aware there is some arcane procedure that I could use, if I clawed my way up the learning-wall to figure it out, to (illegally?) evade the paywall. However, in the Actual Real World, there is not a snowflake's chance of my ever doing that.

[conuly]

Well, the easy way to do it is to just clear your cookies. The second easy way to do it is to use multiple browsers.

At any rate, most of the paywalled sites have different bitly urls - instead of bit.ly/whatever it's nytms or wa.po or whatnot. You can hover your cursor over them and the URL will pop up in the usual way. (I have thoroughly cheated and now use a paywall blocker and thus hardly ever remember which sites have paywalls anymore at all except for the Times, which I pay for anyway, and Washington Post, which is a joke. You can just hit esc as soon as the text loads and the paywall won't pop up.)