[Mimi]

skigod377 wrote:

mimitrek wrote:

ruffian wrote:

Do you like my new signature???

Mos def! I’m feeling that way right now… 🙂

And that’s a neat transporter effect! Where do you find these things?

Awwwww…having a bad day? Who do we need to vaporize?
Some idiots at work…but I think the Klingon agonizer would be better than vaporizing them. 😈 Actually, these people are at an outside company that my company’s hired to do chip designs for us. They don’t do what they’ve committed to, and are always late with their action items. And they have the gall to come back 4 months before the chip design is due to be finished and say that they haven’t put in features that were discussed and specified a year ago…

[Mimi]

I think this is one of the few things you can do without a license!

And if I ever catch one — provided he doesn’t rush off right away — I’ll invite him inside for some toasted nuts (and a free shampoo and fluff if he wants one)…

[Mimi]

Beautiful as usual!

[Mimi]

ruffian wrote:

Do you like my new signature???

Mos def! I’m feeling that way right now… 🙂

And that’s a neat transporter effect! Where do you find these things?

[Mimi]

skigod377 wrote:

SilverArrow wrote:

And some people have waaayyy too much time on their hands.

Squirrel Fishing

Now that is funny! Much better than fishing! Noone gets hurt!
Exactly! The squirrel fishing is definitely a neat idea. I need to go to the park and try that sometime…the squirrels in the backyard are too shy for fishing…

[Mimi]

CherylKaufman wrote:

hahahahaha!!! I can see a little squirrel sitting in front of a computer computing earnings and thefts for this year…

Oh, I think they use Quicken for that (SquirrelLand version)…

[Mimi]

I got mine yesterday also! Very yummy…I’ve never had chocolate with cinnamon before.

Thanks Ski, that was very thoughtful of you.

[Mimi]

Wow, what a neat article! The squirrels in my yard need to read it — they keep burying nuts even though they’re shelled!

As for keeping track where the nuts are buried…I’m pretty sure they use Excel spreadsheets for that…

[Mimi]

That looks great! The blending is beautiful as always.

[Mimi]

That must be it! 🙂 Actually, my parents’ dog had eyes which were just about the same color as the ones that your wolf has right now…

[Mimi]

OMG…I can’t believe they would actually have someone hold the target…

[Mimi]

WolfenMachine wrote:

In Houston, we don’t have that problem of cars etc. freezing up, so we don’t keep any, but I’ve heard the animals like it because it tastes sweet to them o.O

I read that in the newspaper a few months ago. Some sicko was poisoning dogs in one neighborhood by lacing meat with antifreeze and throwing it into people’s backyards. So far they still haven’t caught the scum…

[Mimi]

mimitrek wrote:

skigod377 wrote:

Arlla wrote:

Took me a while to remember this one and come back to it LOL
Here’s my recipe, which was pirated from several other recipes including my great Aunt Corinne’s :

Ingrediants:

(FILLING)
1-1 1/2 lbs ground turkey (or beef or lamb)
1 bag frozen carrot/pea mix (1 lb. bag, used whole bag instead of half)
1/2 small golden onion
1 clove garlic
1 tblsp olive oil
1 cup beef broth (or 1 cup water + beef bullion)
rosemary (1/2 tsp)
thyme (1/2 tsp)
nutmeg
worchestshire sauce (2 tsp)
salt (1/2 tsp)
pepper (3/4 tsp)

(MASHED POTATOES)
4 yukon gold potatoes (2 lbs.)
milk (5 fl. oz.)
1 tblsp butter or margarine
salt (1/2 tsp)
pepper (1/2 tsp)
1/4 cup parmesan cheese
paprika
butter (~ 1 tbsp for dotting on top of potatoes)
parmesan cheese (for sprinkling on potatoes)

-Start potatoes: cut potatoes into equal chunks and set to boil in generously salted water – allow to boil on low until filling is completed
(I put the potatoes whole in a pot with unsalted water and boiled for 40 min.)

-Mince onion and garlic; sautee in olive oil until tender (don’t burn the garlic!)
-add ground meat and cook until brown
-you can attempt to drain the fat if you like
-add beef broth (or water and bullion) and bring to boil
-add spices and worchestshire sauce to taste (I usually do a pinch of each spice, a generous splash of the worchestshire and then salt and pepper)
-add about half a bag of the fozen carrot/pea mix; mix in
-boil until liquid is gone; taste and add any additional spices if necessary

When the liquid is close to being boiled off, finish up the potatoes
-drain potatoes
-add butter salt and pepper
-begin to mash (I use a hand held electric mixer) add milk slowly while mashing to achieve desired creaminess
-add parmesan cheese and mix well

-add filling to cassarole dish
-spoon potatoes evenly across filling
-dot potatoes with butter
-sprinkle potatoes with parmesan cheese
-sprinkle potatoes with paprika
-cover and bake in preheated oven at 400 for 30 min. (if a slightly crispy crust is desired on potatoes, uncover for the last 10 minutes of baking)

….hmm. That seems long and complicated looking at it now…it’s really not that hard, though. Sorry, I know there’s a science to writing out recipes, but I just wrote this one up off the top of my head…I hope it’s not too confusing or convoluted.

I made this last night. It was pretty darn good. My bf liked it too, though he had nothing to compare it to since he had never had sheppards pie. He told me he didnt think sheppards ate this. I told him I visited http://www.sheppards.com and asked them and this was indeed what they ate. Where did he think I got the recipe?? Thanks for posting it!
Arlla and Ski, how much salt and pepper did you guys use? I’m really bad at doing things “to taste”…I always measure everything…
I made Arlla’s shepherd’s pie recipe for lunch today and it was really good! In case anyone’s interested, I’ve put the amounts that I used for the ingredients that didn’t have exact quantities listed, and I made a couple of changes too (these are all in red above). I also made buttermilk biscuits and they went with the shepherd’s pie pretty well.

I’m going to try Cheryl’s version next…

[Mimi]

Saydee72 wrote:

It was a dark and stormy night. Me and my freind decide we want to make chocolate chip cookies. But we have no eggs. So we go over to my neighbors house, sliping and falling over on all the ice, and borrow some eggs. We get home and realize we dont have enough chocolate chips to make the full recipie on the package, so we cut the recipe in four. We mix all the ingrediants together. Unfortunatly we added two eggs like the original recipie said, instead of cutting it in four. Opps. We put the cookie dough on cookie sheets, then decide it looks too runny, and scrape it back into the bowl, and add more flour. We leave on cookie to see what would happen to it. So we add more and more flour to the dough. Then we decide it was too thick, so we add more milk. Then back onto the cookie sheets, and into the oven, and cook them for 10 minutes.
After 10 minutes, we take the cookies out. They are very lumpy, and very big. They look like bisquits. They also tasted like sugary, chocolate chip buisquits. They are very hard, and very bad. Me and my freind sit there and wonder what we did wrong. By the next morning however, all the cookies will be gone, proving that my family will eat anything with sugar in it. Me and my freind decide to call the Cisquits, or, as my other freind suggested, Bookies 😆

Moral of the story? Dont add to much flour or eggs to batter. Hey, thats a moral![/i]
😆 😆 😆

I had a similar experience when I tried making my first loaf of bread — I think I was ~12. I put boiling water on the yeast (if warm water is good, boiling water must be even better) and I kept adding more and more flour until the dough was completely non-sticky (had no idea what non-sticky meant, ended up putting in almost twice as much flour as the recipe called for). That bread was very, very bad…

[Mimi]

Wow, he looks really nice! Straw colored eyes might look even better for that color scheme…

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