Small Talk: Ughngnggh! Ugghhnnn!

[nachomama]

Oh wöw! I wonder if grandpa had the dementia? Cööl story bro!

[kikismom]

If you liked the idea of Crab Rangoon Nachos, I saw this recipe and being a lover of Asian/Mexican food, I am considering it for the finale 90 minute viewing party.

This is Asian Tostadas with Beer Battered Avocados and Drunken Mushrooms

plus other good stuff.

http://ciaoveggie.com/2015/03/asian-tostadas-with-beer-battered-avocado-drunken-mushrooms.html

 

If you guys have nibbles ideas for the final show of Season 5 please share :-D

Edited March 26, 2015 by kikismom

[morgankobi]

I'm pretty sure I see cilantro!

[Anela]

If you liked the idea of Crab Rangoon Nachos, I saw this recipe and being a lover of Asian/Mexican food, I am considering it for the finale 90 minute viewing party.

This is Asian Tostadas with Beer Battered Avocados and Drunken Mushrooms

plus other good stuff.

http://ciaoveggie.com/2015/03/asian-tostadas-with-beer-battered-avocado-drunken-mushrooms.html

 

If you guys have nibbles ideas for the final show of Season 5 please share :-D

I'm trying to stick to a restricted diet, but I gave up on it last weekend, and probably will next Sunday. I can't believe it's the last episode for a while. Time is moving much too fast for my liking. Anyway, I just had chips and onion dip on Sunday. 

Edited March 26, 2015 by Anela

[kj4ever]

If you liked the idea of Crab Rangoon Nachos, I saw this recipe and being a lover of Asian/Mexican food, I am considering it for the finale 90 minute viewing party.

This is Asian Tostadas with Beer Battered Avocados and Drunken Mushrooms

plus other good stuff.

http://ciaoveggie.com/2015/03/asian-tostadas-with-beer-battered-avocado-drunken-mushrooms.html

 

If you guys have nibbles ideas for the final show of Season 5 please share :-D

I have an event for my business that day so I know I'll probably have regular food, but for me the premiere/finale is all about the desserts!  I might even make some home made ice cream....I'm thinking vanilla bean with red velvet cake batter because, you know, zombies.

[nachomama]

I HATE YOU! You've ruined two fiances for me! Holy fuck I love mushrooms! And I been on a tempura avocado kick lately. 2, 2, 2 things in 1!!!! I'm gonna be on some sister wives show soon with my irish, messican, Asian husband.

And I will flick cilantro bits at morgankobi.

[morgankobi]

Hey, I didn't put it there! :)

[kj4ever]

This show is destroying my sleep pattern...I get up at 3 am for work and I'm all wonky from staying up so late on Sunday nights and don't get my groove back until like Thursday.  Unless it's this week and I'm still up at 10:30 at night posting on this damn board.

[nachomama]

Go to bed! Or no zombies for you

[BrokenRemote]

Oh my lord, I go away for a week or so and you guys write like seventy-ZILLION pages!  

My mom and I had a standing appointment to watch Mommy Dearest every Mother's Day, and I was in the sweet spot for Poltergeist (which today would be too young), so I kinda think that's sweetly funny.

 

Grew-up on Stephen King books, and even though in the book Misery she <slight, very old spoilers> cuts off his feet, the scene in the movie of her hitting his ankle wedged by the board with a sledgehammer is somehow worse and still makes me sick to my stomach.

 

In a Voice class in college, we had to memorize, "amidst the mists and fiercest frosts, with stoutest wrists and loudest boasts,he thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he see the ghost."  I already knew it-anyone recognize it? :)

 

(ETA the first part of the quote that popped into my head a few minutes after. Man that's some useless info my brain just won't dump!)

 

My sister was a voice major, and she walks around saying that all the time.  It's creepy when you just hear it out of the blue in a dark house or whatever.

 

I'm always having stress dreams about high school and graduate school. At least once a week, I'd say. ETA: I've been out of grad school for almost eight years now!

I haven't read a lot of Stephen King, but I like the guy. Factoid about him: he loves Corgis. He has had a number of Corgis in his adult life. Currently he has an adorable little tri-colored girl named Molly. He sometimes posts pictures on his FB page. A Corgi is also in his Under the Dome novel (not in the crap miniseries, though).

SK loves Corgis, I love Corgis! We should be friends!

I dream I never graduated high school over some technicality, and I have to go back now and take my senior year again.  But something always goes wrong and I can't finish, and it's just awful. 

 

Oh another way you can tell if people are evil is if they like cilantro. Cilantro is evil. It tastes like soap.

 

Cilantro is evil.  When I visited my friend in Texas we couldn't find a Chinese restaurant that didn't cover all their food with cilantro!  You can't get food down there without the evil weed strewn all over it. 

 

Ted is somewhere laughing his ass off at how much easier it would have been for him just a few years later. I feel bad for my dad, he croaked before internet porn was all the rage. haha and he had refused to learn anything on the computer. But we were the first people I ever knew who had a vcr! We got one early early 80's and it was a monster, it loaded from the top and there was no remote. Actually there was a remote, literally a cord to a pause button! and we were so stupid we were watching recorded shows and we thought hitting the pause button skipped the commercials. No, stupid people, it was so you could pause them while recording the show then they wouldn't be there for playback later. But he got it so he could buy vcr tapes. 

 

We were also very early on the microwave front. Had a stove/microwave combo way before anybody else. But I never had a refridgerator with water and ice cubes in the door until the last few years. 

 

 

My Dad grew up poor.  Like so poor he didn't get to eat if there wasn't enough to go around because the people that could do the farm work needed the strength and he was the baby of the family.  He made up for it by working his butt off and being incredibly successful, so we had every new gadget there was.  I remember the neighborhood coming over to see an actual microwave heat something up...lol

 

OMG, you guys are my twins!  My dad grew up poor and made ok money by the time I came around, and we had one of the first microwaves that came out, and one of the first VCRs.  We used to just heat all kinds of random things in the microwave just to watch them, because it was such a novelty.  The funny thing about my dad was that he was a total cheapskate.  He couldn't spend money but he wanted the things.  He actually went to buy the VCR (this was probably 1983, and the thing was $300+.  In 1983 money)  and he came home, said he knew he could afford it but he couldn't make himself buy it.  He made my mom go and get it because he literally could not make himself shell out $300 for something 'frivolous'.  Every time we moved and bought a new house he made her sign the check, because he literally couldn't.  (Turns out that was the least of his mental problems, but that's a rant for another day...)

Edited March 26, 2015 by BrokenRemote

[kikismom]

Look at the not so bright side---you will have seven months to catch up on sleep.

[BrokenRemote]

Bah, don't remind us.  Where will we go?  What will we do?  I need to find a scarf to clutch!  BE BACK SOOOON!

[nachomama]

High fives brokenremote. !!!!/ <--fingers and a fumb. Cilantro free since '23.

I think we all have the same dad. My dad refused to buy anything he couldn't pay cash for. If you didn't have the money you didn't buy it. He was so poor as a kid they rented him out during the summer. He had to go sleep in a barn on whoevers farm and be a field hand. And thankfully he taught us credit is evil. I have credit cards but I try not to maintajn a balance. He had a very good job considering how he grew up. Great benefits. Health insurance, paid vacation stock in the company. A FREE HOUSE and no utilities for 20+ years. Sad thing is where the hell did his money go? Yes we had thd microwave and but but we didn't live like crazy people. Unfortunately for him he cashed in company stock every 10 years to buy a car. No car payment but 30 years of stock would have been a better retirement. He always had $500 cash in his Wallet and yes that but him in the ass. He came out of a store where some dudes followed him to his car. He kept a pistol under the seat but they got to him before he was near his gun. They got his gun and his money. But thankfully no worse than that.

[kikismom]

for me the premiere/finale is all about the desserts!  I might even make some home made ice cream....I'm thinking vanilla bean with red velvet cake batter because, you know, zombies.

I'm thinking this, because, you know, Carol.

And Aunt Bethany.

                                                                            

[nachomama]

=O What eeees eeeet?

 

Looks like jello mold with tato chips. and I can't think of the cereal embedded in the jello. FYI jello is also eeeeeeville

Edited March 26, 2015 by nachomama

[mandolin]

Cereal looks like Cracklin' Oat Bran. Delicious, but I'm not paying $4.99 for a teeny tiny box.

[nachomama]

Yes! I remember this because that is the cereal my sister stashed a bowl under her bed and months later we found it and it coulda cured a third world nations polio. 

[kj4ever]

I'm thinking this, because, you know, Carol.

And Aunt Bethany.

                                                                            

OMG I have a jello phobia....Only when it all gets together into a big heaping pile of jello...

 

Yes, my issues have issues.

[nachomama]

I don't like jiggly food! I've never liked jello. My mom used to make some kind of salad with pineapple and I thought cottage cheese but later I found it was cream cheese, I could tolerate that. I once went to a baby shower and the woman served jello that had noodles in it and tuna. and I was convinced it must be a savory gelatin as in not a fruit flavor but kinda throwback to old school english gelatins but nosiree bob, it was like lime jello with tuna and noodles. You thought regular tuna casserole is disgusting, you aint seen nuffin!

 

and apparently there's some kind of jello cake. Where you poke holes in your cake and pour jello in?? My mom made one of these once and told me go pour the jello on it. She didn't say stop when you've filled the holes so I poured the whole jug of jello in, so they had jello mush cake :D

[kikismom]

=O What eeees eeeet?

 

Looks like jello mold with tato chips. and I can't think of the cereal embedded in the jello. FYI jello is also eeeeeeville

 

 

Cereal looks like Cracklin' Oat Bran. Delicious, but I'm not paying $4.99 for a teeny tiny box.

Aww no! Nobody got the joke! I even gave you a clue! Aunt Bethany???

 

It's the Jello mold with---not cereal!--- DRY CAT FOOD!...that "Aunt Bethany" brought to the Griswold home in National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation!

[mandolin]

I am not a cat person and therefore would've blocked any and all cat references from my brain! But of all the parts of that movie, I can't remember that. Huh.

 

Either way, GROSS.

[nachomama]

Oh I shoulda got that! Footloose and original recipe Vacation movie are the 2 movies that closely resemble my life. We did not set out for Wally World but we were driving cross country with my evil grandma. I poked my sister with my elbow and whispered "is she breathing?" about gramma slumped over on the ice chest in the front seat. We watched her for like 15 minutes and couldn't tell if she was breathing. "I will never sit in the front seat again if she's dead", I whispered. Finally she snuffled to life and we thought, phew, crisis averted. We get to my aunt's house and she hauls my dad outta bed in the middle of the night to take her to the doctor. I was overhead muttering "big baby". Next morning my dad's in the kitchen and says she said her feet were cold so he went to get her socks and he came back they were working on her. She died  )=O which did not concern me greatly because she was frikkin evil, I am so not kidding. but they did point out that I called her a baby. Oooops! We did not strap her to the top of the car like Aunt Edna, we just turned around and went back to Louisiana to bury her. 

[Ocean Chick]

I, for my sins, recognized that reference.  My BFF and I always watch that movie every December.  Heh.

 

I like jello myself.  I grew up on it - my mom used to make it a lot.  But rarely with odd things like tuna or cat food.  We had the lime jello with cottage cheese and canned pears.  Or cherry flavored with canned fruit cocktail.  And I have a jello cookbook from the 20s/30s in my cookbook collection.  Some really odd ones in there.

[kj4ever]

Aww no! Nobody got the joke! I even gave you a clue! Aunt Bethany???

 

It's the Jello mold with---not cereal!--- DRY CAT FOOD!...that "Aunt Bethany" brought to the Griswold home in National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation!

I can totally blame it on my phobia...

[nachomama]

  Or cherry flavored with canned fruit cocktail.  And I have a jello cookbook from the 20s/30s in my cookbook collection.  Some really odd ones in there.

just the canned fruit cocktail makes me feel all squidgey inside. blergh

 

I need to go to my happy place. 

[kikismom]

I need to go to my happy place. 

[BrokenRemote]

I don't like jiggly food! I've never liked jello. My mom used to make some kind of salad with pineapple and I thought cottage cheese but later I found it was cream cheese, I could tolerate that. I once went to a baby shower and the woman served jello that had noodles in it and tuna. and I was convinced it must be a savory gelatin as in not a fruit flavor but kinda throwback to old school english gelatins but nosiree bob, it was like lime jello with tuna and noodles. You thought regular tuna casserole is disgusting, you aint seen nuffin!

and apparently there's some kind of jello cake. Where you poke holes in your cake and pour jello in?? My mom made one of these once and told me go pour the jello on it. She didn't say stop when you've filled the holes so I poured the whole jug of jello in, so they had jello mush cake :D

OMG, my mom made "savory jello". Her favorite: unflavored gelatin, made with chicken broth for the liquid, with shredded raw cabbage and carrots and chicken chunks, made in a ring mold, with the center filled with mayonnaise. I also can't begin to describe how green olives look peeking out of jello...

Now I need another scarf to comfort me from the memories!

I need to go to my happy place.

Hey, that's my happy place! Get yer own!

[nachomama]

You are going to smother in those scarves! several things my mother made have scarred me for life. stuffed cabbage, something she called "strip cheeser casserole"* it was rice, a "cream" soup, could be cream of mushroom, celery or cream of cream, green chiles, diced ham and kind of lasagna-nated with layers of american cheese. You put a layer of your rice glop, then a layer of cheese, sprinkle some chiles, more rice glop more cheese. Number 1) in my professional opinion "american" is not a cheese. And I am a professional, I slice cheese on weekends for money and I want to slap everyone who pays $9 a pound for "american" cheese in the face with the cheese like it's a fish, slap slap. go get the pre sliced crap cuz it's all crap! 

 

You know what I like and this will illustrate how white trash I am, I love me the sharpest damn white cheddar on the planet. Oooh yum yum and you know how people pair food with wine? Coca cola goes well with a nice sharp white cheddar. MmmMmm good. =)

 

*for the life of me I do not know why it's called this. I wanna say it's a play on "strip tease" and maybe because it's strips of cheese? ridonkulously stupid name

Edited March 26, 2015 by nachomama

[BrokenRemote]

Wow. That sounds awful. My mom was generally a good cook, but she was a product of the 60s and 70s schools of cooking. She's since reformed, fortunately.

And yes, you guys are going to read, oh 'long about late September, about a woman found smothered in a large quantity of scarves. The press will speculate that it was an attempt at The Dance of the Seven Veils gone horribly wrong, but you will know the truth...

[kikismom]

You know what I like and this will illustrate how white trash I am, I love me the sharpest damn white cheddar on the planet. Oooh yum yum and you know how people pair food with wine? Coca cola goes well with a nice sharp white cheddar. MmmMmm good. =)

 

I love sharp sharp needle sharp laser sharp white cheddar. I want it so sharp it makes me shake.

Never apologize.

[kikismom]

All right, I found a good nomnom for tv viewing.

1. no cilantro!
2. yes crab!
3. yes sharp white cheddar!
4. no ingredients that are weird or hard to find!
5. don't need to build anything time-consuming!

 

Hot Crab Dip:  https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7493/15523748203_30aff1c3c1_o.jpg

http://www.alexandracooks.com/2014/12/30/hot-crab-dip-ideas-new-years-eve/

[Anela]

You are going to smother in those scarves! several things my mother made have scarred me for life. stuffed cabbage, something she called "strip cheeser casserole"* it was rice, a "cream" soup, could be cream of mushroom, celery or cream of cream, green chiles, diced ham and kind of lasagna-nated with layers of american cheese. You put a layer of your rice glop, then a layer of cheese, sprinkle some chiles, more rice glop more cheese. Number 1) in my professional opinion "american" is not a cheese. And I am a professional, I slice cheese on weekends for money and I want to slap everyone who pays $9 a pound for "american" cheese in the face with the cheese like it's a fish, slap slap. go get the pre sliced crap cuz it's all crap! 

 

You know what I like and this will illustrate how white trash I am, I love me the sharpest damn white cheddar on the planet. Oooh yum yum and you know how people pair food with wine? Coca cola goes well with a nice sharp white cheddar. MmmMmm good. =)

 

*for the life of me I do not know why it's called this. I wanna say it's a play on "strip tease" and maybe because it's strips of cheese? ridonkulously stupid name

I love the white sharp cheddar cheese.

 

Damn, I'm not supposed to be eating cheese, but dad brought home pizza last night, and I just caved. I wasn't going to, but it was right there when I hadn't eaten. I hope dad has the rest of it for dinner. 

[nachomama]

I remember my mom making some kickass fried chicken and generally pretty good cook but there was some stuff that was off the rails bad. She went on some diet once where she made egg bread, I dunno if it was low carb =thus no flour and somehow eggs made up the bulk? but we know how I feel about eggs....puke. And as a snack my mom used to make...drumroll please...peanut butter crackers with MAYONAISE! It wasn't even mayo it was cool whip!!!!!!!!! cracker + schmear of pb + plus schmear of mayo = ralph, ralph, ralph ralph all over the floor. And it's possible my feelings about marshmallows were formed by my mom eating the fluff out of the jar. gross! 

[kikismom]

Our moms needed an intervention. :-)

My mom is generally a good cook.

But when we'd have the "canned peas in white sauce on toast" I knew we're getting pretty low on money. Or she was getting pretty low on patience with being a mom.

[mandolin]

That sounds gross!

On the other hand, my grandma used to put mayo on saltines. Yum!

[nachomama]

On the other hand, my grandma used to put mayo on saltines. Yum!

she just needed the peanut butter!

 

We used to have S.O.S. when the pantry was running low. We lived about an hour out of town most of the time, the company my dad worked for had remote facilities and provided housing, it was kinda like being a military brat, you moved every couple of years and the house was exactly the same as the one you just left, same layout, maybe different painted siding outside, you couldn't paint rooms, 1 bedroom 2 bath,* boring boring. But we would go to the grocery store once a month. Load up like $300-$400 dollars, pack everything in dry ice (at one point we lived 2-3 hours from civilization in Utah) for a week you would have fresh fruits and veg, then it was all canned corn, peas, beans and frozen meat, milk, bread. 

 

One time we moved and I was about 3, walked into the new house (exactly like our old one) and declared "this is not my house, this is Eddie Phelps' house" and started to walk home. And one time, I took a nice toasty bath and we had a nice toasty gas wall heater in the bathroom. I bent over to dry off my toes and branded my butt! I had cute little bar code striped burn scar for long time =) I was like Maggie Simpson, run me through the grocery checkout. 

[kj4ever]

Okay my friends, we were having a discussion at work today about the ones that have killed actual people that might not have been to terrible.  Of course the Coral conversation (he killed that boy!) happened and then someone said Michonne killed a dude in a cabin.  I totally do not remember this!  Anyone know what episode that was in?

[nachomama]

Yes! They ducked into a cabin hiding from some walkers and dude started making noise. He was attracting walkers, you could call it self defense. I'm thinking season 2 maybe before they even reunited Andrea with the group. So it was MIchonne and Andrea together and Andrea sick???????????? Am I cuckoo pants?

[mandolin]

It was Michonne, Rick, and Daryl on their way to Woodbury to get Glenn and Maggie. 3x08 maybe?

[kikismom]

No, it was Indifference.

Cuckoo pants indeed.

They run from the car, Tyreese finally pulls his personal shit together and joins them. They head for a remote cabin, walkers were in pursuit already. Had been since the car and following Tyreese.

So the poor dude inside is the one with the self-defense alibi.

He was minding his own business, they broke in. Michonne ran a blade through him and out the door he went as human food to distract the walkers while they went out the back.

Tyreese and Daryl gave her a couple funny looks, Daryl because she went for it while the cabin guy had a shotgun and it went off of course and almost blew Daryl's head off.

I totally get that they wanted him to be quiet. But how would they feel if someone broke into the prison? Multiple stranger someones with weapons? They would grab a gun if they had a chance to defend themselves! THEY were the home invaders! So what happens next...

....they get home in time for Woodbury to break in, refuse to leave, and threaten their lives with weapons! I said it before, karma. Karma will get you.

Edited March 26, 2015 by kikismom

[kj4ever]

Thanks!  I still don't know how I missed that part! 

[BrokenRemote]

No, it was Indifference.

Cuckoo pants indeed.

They run from the car, Tyreese finally pulls his personal shit together and joins them. They head for a remote cabin, walkers were in pursuit already. Had been since the car and following Tyreese.

So the poor dude inside is the one with the self-defense alibi.

He was minding his own business, they broke in. Michonne ran a blade through him and out the door he went as human food to distract the walkers while they went out the back.

Tyreese and Daryl gave her a couple funny looks, Daryl because she went for it while the cabin guy had a shotgun and it went off of course and almost blew Daryl's head off.

I totally get that they wanted him to be quiet. But how would they feel if someone broke into the prison? Multiple stranger someones with weapons? They would grab a gun if they had a chance to defend themselves! THEY were the home invaders! So what happens next...

....they get home in time for Woodbury to break in, refuse to leave, and threaten their lives with weapons! I said it before, karma. Karma will get you.

Plus the gun going off was kinda the opposite of quiet...

[kikismom]

Plus the gun going off was kinda the opposite of quiet...

The gun going off was at the end and they were so ass deep in walkers by then

Maybe one should think twice about backstabbing a guy with a loaded shotgun...facing their friend...oh what the hell am I thinking?

Talk about Father Gabriel running back to the church and leading the walkers; they've done it themselves. (and they did it at the quarry, didn't they?)

.At what point will they have a little brainstorming session and say one day there won't be some poor soul's life and home to wreck like we do every place we go, or a car or a hollow tree...maybe we should figure out a way to deal with that. y'know, before we die.

[Ocean Chick]

Actually it was when they (Rick, Daryl, Oscar and Michonne) were going to get Maggie and Glenn from Woodbury.  They'd left the car on the road to walk through the woods and were met by a bunch of walkers.  They ran to a building and went inside.  There was a dead dog in the middle of the room, and a lumpy bed.  Said lump was a crazy hermit who thought they'd come to rob or kill him.  He started screaming for the police, which was agitating the walkers outside, so Michonne calmly put her katana through his torso.  They ended up tossing the old man's body out on the front porch to distract the walkers as they escaped out the back.

 

Oscar was rather horrified by all of this.

 

And my mother was a great cook most of the time, but she had this one dish called "Chinese Hash" that was basically hamburger cooked in Cream of Mushrooms soup, with dry chow mien noodles on top.  We ate it when times were tough and hamburger was cheap.  It was neither Chinese nor hash.

Edited March 26, 2015 by Ocean Chick

[mandolin]

I think Daryl thought the lump was a fox and was actually disgusted enough to cover his nose.

Cabin Guy: I'm gonna call the cops!

Rick: I AM a cop!

I forgot about poor Oscar. Never to return to his newfound slippers.

[kikismom]

Actually it was when they (Rick, Daryl, Oscar and Michonne) were going to get Maggie and Glenn from Woodbury.  They'd left the car on the road to walk through the woods and were met by a bunch of walkers.  They ran to a building and went inside.  There was a dead dog in the middle of the room, and a lumpy bed.  Said lump was a crazy hermit who thought they'd come to rob or kill him.  He started screaming for the police, which was agitating the walkers outside, so Michonne calmly put her katana through his torso.  They ended up tossing the old man's body out on the front porch to distract the walkers as they escaped out the back.

 

Oscar was rather horrified by all of this.

YOU ARE CORRECT!!!

I am absolutely wrong on this!!!

My apologies to everyone who had it right. (I give out thumbs it's all I can do! :-D)

 

That was back when RIck would still say I am a cop!

 

Chinese hash? I thought that was something else.

Never trust any recipe that calls for a can of undiluted campbells mushroom soup.

I think Daryl thought the lump was a fox and was actually disgusted enough to cover his nose.

Like Daryl saying the barn smelled like horseshit. One would think he'd be noseblind.

[morgankobi]

I'm laughing because I just now saw for the first time (or noticed) the ad for 10 Things I Didn't Know About the Munster's with Grandpa's picture. 

Thanks, kj4ever!

Edited March 26, 2015 by morgankobi

[kj4ever]

I'm laughing because I just now saw for the first time (or noticed) the ad for 10 Things I Didn't Know About the Munster's with Grandpa's picture. 

Thanks, kj4ever!

It doesn't have anything about me in it, does it?  lmao

[morgankobi]

#7 Grandpa Munster, aka Al Lewis, once deprived a group transvestites from fulfilling their dreams of competing in a beauty pageant because he lost his damn mind on the set of Jenny Jones.

[nachomama]

Ok I member now.

Chinese hash sounds like s.o.s.

Guess what's on TV? National lampoons vacation! Original recipe. It's on amc!!!!!!

Hahahaha they take the wrong exit in St. Louis. Maybe they ended up in ferguson. Hahaha