Complaining. And pimping

[thegrrrl2002]

I managed to cook the worst dinner ever tonight. It's one thing to have a grand experiment go terribly wrong (been there, done that) but this? The trout was fishy, the baked potatoes had a nasty metallic taste and carrots were rubbery. That's what I get for forsaking Peapod and venturing into an actual grocery store.

Bleh.

We are now eating toast. With butter and strawberry jelly. Meanwhile, the cats are very happy and full of trout.

Now for the pimping portion of the show: Go and check out the atlantisbasics fic challenge! Only a couple more days left for sign-ups. Come on...you know you want to sign up. And, you know, maybe request a fic where they break into the kitchen and cook lousy food.

::wishes she hadn't signed up already::

Comments

[mmmchelle.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry your trout didn't turn out well. Dinner was okay, although we steamed rather than broiled the broccoli. /g/ I have no idea why I wrote that.

The hot chocolate with Bailey's was very good, however.

'night, sweetie.

[thegrrrl2002.livejournal.com]

And here I was going to report you for broccoli abuse! *g* I figured it was low blood sugar affecting your typing.

John really is quite rakish, isn't he?

[kuwdora.livejournal.com]

I'm on the college diet of hamburgers and desserts and right now toast with butter and jelly sounds SO SO SO SO SO good..

[thegrrrl2002.livejournal.com]

I just had an almond butter and banana sandwich for breakfast, and it was very comforting.

Although a hamburger is sounding very good...

[reedfem.livejournal.com]

Sorry about the dinner. I've had some epic failures myself. Salmon cakes come to mind.

With all the fine authors signed up for that, there should be some fabulous stories. Woo.

[thegrrrl2002.livejournal.com]

Salmon cakes? Do those have frosting on them?

*g*

I think fish is definitely one of these things that can go terribly wrong. But at least you tried doing something exciting with it. I just...pan fried. Darn it!

[mousewitchy.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm sorry dinner wasn't what you wanted it to be, but I really can't bring myself to regret your singing up in the challenge because---whoo! More grrrl-fic!

*boogies*

Also, on a more serious note--because of the recent hoo-rah, I'd like to take a moment to do two things: one of which is make the nebulous hand motion of "you-me?" and say,

"We cool?"

'Cause, dude, I am sooo Switzerland.

Also, I'd like to link you to this comment (http://rivier.livejournal.com/353722.html?thread=5232826#t5232826) I posted to Riv, and between that and what I've linked to there, I think I've pretty accurately explained my stance.

But, boiled down, it pretty much comes down to "Don't hate me, 'cause I don't hate you. Switzerland. I am Switzerland, baby."

*hugs*

You have a good night, hon.

[thegrrrl2002.livejournal.com]

Oh, hey, don't worry about that, I understand completely. You're your own person. We are very cool. As cool as alpine ski slopes. Although I'm a terrible skier. How about hanging out in the hot tub with hot toddies?

::hugs::

[feather-autant.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, the basic, been-there-done-that-but-it-fucked-up-anyway experiment is the worst! *g*

I thought about signing up, but I've got this A/A bunny in my head. I'm thinking John and Rodney are gonna be in a mess of trouble pretty soon here, and I'm a one-fic-at-a-time kinda writer. Any more than that and my head explodes. LOL

[thegrrrl2002.livejournal.com]

LOL yes! It's so disappointing to spend time on cooking dinner and have it be inedible.

And I understand completely regarding the ficathon. I'm the same way. I rarely do them, but this one had a really long lead time for writing so I felt a little more comfortable with it. I still may regret it. *g*

[selenay]

Food disasters I know too well.

Did you know that an extra twenty minutes in the oven will cinderise fairy cakes?

And chocolate, it turns out, can burn. It has a smell that stinks out the kitchen for day.

And then there was the time I skipped a vital step in the making of risoto. It was the 'cook the rice' step.

I'm an expert an inedible food :-)

[thegrrrl2002.livejournal.com]

LOL! You *are* good! Most of my disasters actually involve flinging food about the place, like that incident with the lentils--man, you wouldn't believe how far those things can scatter.

And we won't talk about the spaghetti sauce on the ceiling.

BTW, what's a fairy cake? Although burned ones sound very, very sad. Poor little cakes.

[selenay]

*g* Fairy cakes are little individual sponge cakes, about three or four inches across, and they are usually iced. Except, obviously, when I've cooked them into cinders *g*

Did I menion the time that I burned condensed milk while trying to make lemon meringue pie filling?

I'm a kitchen disaster. Burning things is my speciality *g*

I don't often fling food around - although I totally understand about the lentils, having had a kidney bean escapade once - but can get a little...liberal with the application of cake batter to walls when using an electric mixer :-)

[thegrrrl2002.livejournal.com]

Mmmm. Fairy cakes sound quite delicious. The uh, unburned kind.

There must be something wrong with your oven. ::nods::

And it's probably a good thing that I don't own an electric mixer. *g*

[nicole9514.livejournal.com]

Oh hon. That's why I let my husband do all the cooking. All my meals would turn out like that. :)

[thegrrrl2002.livejournal.com]

Hee! Icon snap!

If I let my husband do the cooking, we'd starve to death. But he is very good at doing the dishes. *g*

[nicole9514.livejournal.com]

Mine can cook. (bows to him) He loves to do it. I got lucky in that aspect cuz I hate it.

Oh love your icon too.

[roaringmice.livejournal.com]

My poor husband. As a cook, he's better than me, but he has a limited repratoire, and when he ventures outside it, sometimes...

...for example, he used to be so proud of his turkey burgers - you know, hamburgers, but made with ground turkey instead of beef. And they were good, until he started putting mint in them. MINT

[feather-autant.livejournal.com]

M-m-m-mint? *mint*? /jaw drops/ *g*

[thegrrrl2002.livejournal.com]

Hee! Mint!?

I just don't quite see that working.