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This week, we have tickets and CDs to give away before Friday's Bella Morte show at the Howlin' Wolf!  Come out, have a drink, and win some free stuff!

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New Orleans's premiere Goth-industrial weekly returns for another round!

( Corrosion! Wednesday night at the Rubyfruit Jungle )

This week, we have tickets and CDs to give away before Friday's Bella Morte show at the Howlin' Wolf!  Come out, have a drink, and win some free stuff!

I drove my boyfriend to another city this past weekend so he could take his math subject GRE. I wanted to make it a special trip, so I hunted around for a simple, elegant, no-fuss cake to pack up and bring along. My friend sent me this recipe from Orangette's blog: Gâteau aux Noix, or French Walnut Cake.

This cake has a subtle flavor of white wine, and the toasted walnuts are absolutely delicious. If you're looking for a simple, quick cake to grab a hunk of after dinner, this is the perfect choice.



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To read more of my thoughts about this cake, view more yummy photos, or just to listen to me brood about my holiday schedule, please head over to my baking blog, Willow Bird Baking!

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Hi Everyone

So my sorority is having a potluck supper this Sunday. I need to bring a dish and really don't just want to bring a bagged salad or something really boring, it would be nice to bring real food. I have about 2 hours during the day to prepare whatever I making. If it can be prepared the day before and just cooked that day in those 2 hours that would work too. I'm looking low cost. There will be about 35 people there, but not everyone will eat every dish. Also I do have to transport the dish and we do have a ceremony beforehand something that would taste good and not have to be really hot would be ideal. I'd like to make some sort of warm dish, but cold recipes are definately good as well. I'll be getting there at around 5:30, we won't be eating until about 6:30, but the food can stay covered until then to keep somewhat warm.

Thanks in advance for any recipes you think would work for this occasion!!

I am looking for a super yummy can't stop eating buttery roll recipe. I love making rolls but for some reason... I can't find a good dinner roll recipe.

Anyone have one they love?

I have four pounds of conventional American hot dogs that I need to use before they go off. I don't like hot dogs very much just as hot dogs, though I can take them once in a while. I hate throwing away food, especially when I paid for it. Baking them in biscuit dough will get rid of six or eight of them, but I badly need a few ideas for making the rest of them interestingly edible.

I've already Googled around for a while and mostly came up with recipes involving cutting up the dogs and heating them with canned beans. Or baking them into "corn dog muffins". I want to go a little more exotic and less middle of the road than that, to put it mildly. I have a big pantry full of Asian, Mexican and Italian ingredients and seasonings along with all the American staples, and spicy-hot is no obstacle. Has anyone tried treating hot dogs the way they might treat, say, Chinese sausages or chorizo? Were the results acceptable/horrifying/surprisingly good? Kickstart my imagination, please. :)

Edit: Thanks very much for the nice assortment of ideas! I figured this group could easily kill off those dogs with its combined brain power. :)

I am currently making potato soup with fennel, leeks and shallots.  I am using the darker part of the leeks for a veggie stock and was wondering if I could use the stems of the fennel in the stock as well?  it smells the same as the bulb, but i'm not sure if it tastes different.  help????

My apologies for what's probably another stupid question...

I found a recipe for clam sauce I'd like to make here. At present I have minced, not chopped clams...

My question is, since I assume the canned clams are uncooked (alliteration ftw!), how do I know when they are cooked?

I've made clam chowder with them before, but since my recipe for that has the chowder simmering for an hour I never really thought about it.

Is it like shrimp, where they will change color? Or will I just have to guess?


Thanks =).

Hi all!

My good friend Caleb's birthday is on Sunday and all I can get out of him as to what he wants is cheesecake. So Cooking Community, hit me with your BEST cheesecake recipes, links, whatever.

Thank you in advance.

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cooked quince today, the pulp is in a jelly bag overnight dripping away. missing the cat being around, strange.

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Good Morning everyone, I could use some direction!
I have a client that wants me to cater her Christmas party with friends, family, and co-workers. She wanted me to come up with menu ideas, I gave her 2 choices "An Italian Christmas" with all Italian dishes and dessert, and "Holiday Breakfast" (Breakfast for dinner!)
Neither one did she like, PLUS she has 2 people who are on gluten free diets so can't eat pasta/rice etc. I dunno why but Im having a major brain fart and just can't come up with any great exciting ideas for this party! Please help!!! 
Thanks in advance :) 

Hey everyone,

Is Precious showing anywhere in the New Orleans area? I can't find movie showtimes online.

Thanks!

sometime earlier today.

91X Wrex the Halls Tickets
San Diego, Ca.
Hope this is okay to ask here, but does anyone have a General Admission ticket for this event that they'd like to sell? My best friend was a little late on getting hers & while I have a floor access ticket, she didn't get one in time. =/

Side note;
Just got back from listening to the entire "This is War" album. It is amazing. No words could describe the wonderful things I've heard. My favorite is "Night of the Hunter" but there isn't really any track I'd "skip". I love all of it. And a cool fact from the Q & A, Shannon wrote and played guitar on "L490". Amazing right? I agree. ♥

My friend and I do a monthly booze dinner, which is basically like an Iron Chef night where the secret ingredient is a type of alcohol. Every part of the menu either includes the ingredient or complements it. Previous nights have included basil vodka, chai liqueur, red wine, pumpkin beer, and tequila.

Well, this month is cinnamon. I'm making some more cinnamon vodka, and we'll probably supplement that with cinnamon schnapps or liqueur. What's more, this is going to be a brinner (breakfast + dinner) sleepover for some friends. We're going to cook and watch cartoons all night.

Part of our menu is obvious, as cinnamon french toast and cinnamon rolls are tops. We'll probably also make some cinnamon bacon, though I am not sure that I can stomach bacon for a while after this weekend's bacon party (and bacon explosion). But what I am looking for are savory cinnamon recipes.

Can anyone suggest savory cinnamon dishes. Hopefully they will be breakfast appropriate, but if not I will find a way to adapt. If they are vegetarian, so much the better, but if not some people just won't eat it.

Recipe here: http://www.theklutzykitchen.com/2009/11/klutzy-quickie-white-bean-dip.html

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This tomato soup is my new obsession, and my roommates and I have been guzzling the stuff like it's the elixir of life. I'm pretty sure that it sharpens the mind, improves the senses, and regulates your digestive system. At the very least it's wonderfully comforting on a cold rainy night. The hummus is a little fancier than the simple version I normally make, really great for garlic lovers.

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Does anyone have a tried and true recipe for a really custardy pain perdu? I had a craving for it last night & made some baked french toast, but it didn't come out right. The leftovers are rock hard & I have them soaking in milk.
I usually think of french toast as something really yummy when it's hot, but that I choke on when it starts to cool & get tough. Is thicker bread the secret?

PHILIP BUTLER
TRAPPED AT SEA
Sawmill / Steelmill

I know nothing of folk music apart from the simple fact I recoil from the twee worldview I associate with anything reared from Steeleye/Fairport sap, but Butler is like a descendant of the darker moods evoked by John Martyn or Michael Chapman. And, why we’re contemplating this, he’s got ‘There's ghosts in the coaching house........’ written on his myspace page, and announces new song ‘Jack The Moment’ (or ‘Jack The Mommet’ according to the myspace player) as concerning, “a supernatural scarecrow that abducts young girls and transforms them into his straw brides,” which is definitely a direction we want to see him going in, tapping into a fertile territory. I figured I’d tip you off about this because it was released earlier this year and it’s a limited edition of only 100.

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at Pinchaford a tree fell down and took the telephone out, found ivy from this tree. crawled in hedges to find Bellicum, broke gorse from the moor.

a morning of mist. driving over Dartmoor, past Haytor Rock. Houndtor was a cycle ride away, to get there you would pass Jays Grave. but this morning, bright clean sunshine, road would dip drive into mist. high view looking into valleys, ribbons moving up the slopes.

I recently got a ticket in Orleans Parish for going through a stop sign. It's my first traffic ticket in Orleans Parish. Every other city/state I've lived in, when I got tickets I either went to court and won my case easily, or there was an option (California) to sit through "traffic school" for an evening and get the ticket wiped from my record.

From what I understand (from friends and from calling the city today and asking), my options here are:
1) Go to traffic court and represent myself. But if I don't win, I pay not only the amount of the ticket ($180) but also "court costs" plus, of course, the violation stays on my driving record. Other possible outcomes are that I win and it all goes away, or I can get the fine reduced. My girlfriend told me she cried in front of the traffic judge once and they took pity on her.

2) Hire a lawyer (can do this for $200 through a friend of a friend) to represent me in traffic court. But possibly the lawyer won't win either or they will only get the fine reduced and then I still pay everything plus the lawyer, too.

3) Just pay and suck it up.

Of course, the cost of everything is a concern. I am most concerned about my car insurance premiums going up because of a ticket on my record. My job is super busy right now, and actually this week is particularly busy and doesn't leave me a lot of time to sit around waiting to talk to the traffic judge in the court house. However, I think I could call or go to court and reschedule the court date?

What are people's experiences? What do you advise? Have you been successful in going to traffic court yourself and winning (best case scenario)? What about this hiring a layer thing, which I've never even heard of anyone I know doing for a traffic ticket before I moved to New Orleans.

I imagine I will get many different perspectives, but I am interested in hearing people's input because, well, how do I put this... the municipal and legal system in Louisiana works very differently than any other state I've ever lived in, and I'm a little concerned about proceeding without as much information as I can get.

Thanks.

So yesterday was my last dose of avelox and yet I still have the cough
of a healthy weevil ready to take a evening stroll through the sewers of
Cardiff :P



I got tired at lunchtime of coughing and expecting to see my lungs on
the floor or desk and so I went to the drug store and came out with
liquid death. I mean seriously, I'm expecting to see wallpaper come off
if this was ever smeared on the wall. Buckley's DM Decongestant...
eeeck!



It swears it will give you fast acting relief from dry hacking cough and
nasal/sinus congestion. I still have that cough and I cough long enough
that I swear my sinuses are going to drown me from the pressure. So I
figure AHA this will work.



I'll tell you why they claim fast acting relief ... cause within moments
of taking it ... you start wanting to rip off your nose and pull out
your lungs and sinuses.



Nothing should be swallowed from a combination of Ammonium Carbonate,
Camphor, Canada Balsam, Pine Needle Oil and Menthol, it's just wrong and
against nature.



Buckley's .. it tastes nasty and smells even worse. I know because I can
smell now ROFLMAO!!!!

71 Total : 30 Seconds to Mars, Adam Lambert, My Chemical Romance, The Boondock Saints

[01-20] Jared Leto
[21-40] Shannon Leto
[41-42] Tomo Millicevic
[43-51] Leto Brothers/30STM Group
[52-62] Adam Lambert
[63-69] Frank & Gerard (My Chemical Romance)
[70-71] The Boondock Saints

Teasers:

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I'm 2 I swear to god.


Doing switchboard on my computer and I get every so often the name of
the caller which makes it easier. But today my inner slash loving 2 year
old self comes out at A. Rimmer



I am so ashamed of my inner 2 year old.

I must be feeling better, I'm spam posting my journal.



I've accomplished the following today so far as of 11:10 am:



The sick line summary

The general mailbox voicemail clean out and passing out of messages

The checking of the AM hospital bags

Switchboard

Checking our Purolator deliveries

Calling IT for a visitor



I'm good for the morning hahahahaha



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In other news ... I feel the need to thank curriejean for
some awesome reading last night and has almost persuaded me to go break
down and watch GN9 because of said fic. Key word .. *ALMOST*

I also feel the need to thank Caz for her lovely universe that she's
created in her fic along with her partnership with Teach. Beth McCombs
for her Collective Dreaming universe and the fact that it gives me hope
that one day I may be able to get over the block I have in my head
towards trying to be prolific in writing once more.

Okay so we've surmised that I'm slow with some of our technology, but
Friday I discovered how to scan other people's barcodes into
Blackberry's messenger. \O/



I'll put up a screened post later with my pin if anybody on the
friendslist wants a new friend on their Blackberry's friendslist.

( The cake is a lie... )I'm new to cake decoration, and I have a lot to learn, but I had a LOT of fun!

First of all thanks to everyone who gave me tips on my Broth project. Here's what I ended up doing:

5 Carrots
5 Stalks of Celery
2 Small Onions
3 Cloves of Garlic
Fresh Herbs
3 tbsp Dried Porcini (approx)
1 litre Water
1 cup mushroom stalks
3-4 tsps salt
Pepper to taste
Worcestershire Sauce
Light Soy Sauce
1 Cup White Wine

Cut into chunks and roasted with a bit of olive oil and a touch of salt for 30 minutes. Deglazed the pan with about a cup of white wine (actually last years Primrose Wine cause I didn't have anything else in the house). Put the whole thing in a medium sized pot and added no more than a litre of water (I basically topped the pot up and can't remember how much it holds exactly). At this point I added about 1 cup of mushroom stalks and a small handful of dried porcini as well as a handful of fresh herbs from the garden (right now that's thyme, oregano, summer savory, sage and bay laurel). Seasoned with about 3 tsps of salt and some dried marjoram. Gently simmered for 45 minutes. Strained and added some Worcestershire Sauce and Soy Sauce to taste.

It turned out to be a very nice stock, not quite ready for the big time of being served as a soup.

What I wish I had done different or had on hand: I wish I had chopped the veggies more finely, I'm too used to my 6 hour chicken stock and need to take into account the shorter cooking time. I did not have tomato puree, if I had had some on hand would have added it to the roasting veggies. I did not have Parsley, would have added the Parsley stalks to the pot and at the end added some chopped parsley to the finished product. I wish I had soaked the dried Porcini mushrooms, they were an impulse addition and I did not take into account the short cooking time of veggie broth so I don't think I got all the flavor out of them that I could.

I ended up using the stock in some bread stuffing as well as a mushroom sauce that along with some spiced red cabbage and sprouts made up our dinner last night. I think the stock added a lot to the flavor of especially the stuffing and I will definitely continue refining my recipe and experimenting with different options. I suspect that we will start making a pot of veggie stock that will vary seasonally every weekend and keep it in the fridge to use throughout the week instead of using the (very excellent) Marigold Stock Powder. Thanks again to everyone who commented on my original post.

lastly in the watrs of this quarry i would observe leeches & newts.

a rock. would sit here and write letters many years ago.

this is one view of Haytor Quarry. the london bridge in arizona was cut from here.

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Had a very good weekend. Spent Saturday night doing some video stuff at a party... up most of bthe night drinking and running around!

Sunday I spent the day with Leah, my ex gf. We had a lovely day. Most pleasant.

Definition of WTF ...

Im lying on my bed because the avelox is still messing with me and am enjoying the Hall and Oates concert on HDnet ... Missy comes and joins me and proceeds to lay some of the most nauseating farts in the history of the known universe. I swear to all who control fates that I have no more nose hair because she's melted them all!!!!

Call her on it and I swear I witness her doing an impression of that cartoon dog that used to put its paw to its mouth and go tsh tsh tsh (laughing)

She's evil!!!

The party is tonight starting at the Bank st. Bar 7pm
and then the 1135 Decatur at 11pm

The party is tonight starting at the Bank st. Bar 7pm
and then the 1135 Decatur at 11pm

THE DELEGATES
SHELTER FROM THE HARD RAIN
Bristol Archive Records

This is an unusual band in the Bristol Archives series as they’re late eighties, and seemingly ran aground at the very end of that decade, so it’s a whole different ball game, more rocky than Post-Punk. I’d stop reading now if I were you.

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Sunday, November 8 @ 5pm – Zeitgeist (1618 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd).  I’m doing a full set of poems from and not from Dodging Traffic.  Hope to see y'all there. (iheartfailure.net)

"J. Bradley is the Veruca Salt of the literary chocolate factory, writing with a satirical brazenness that leaves cavities among the readers eyes. There is a sugary darkness to his work and a lackadaisical charm; that of a black-market dental hygienist. J. delivers new audacity, important romance, and certainty. He acknowledges the sensational ugly without apprehension. His ideas are of an entirely different species and his wit knocks at postmodern... stunned today, laughing tomorrow. Dodging Traffic is the classic, the sequel will forever envy." - Sarah Morgan, author of Animal Ballistics

Translation: the icon *points* is now 2 as of yesterday hahahahahahaha

She had a birthday bath, a birthday grooming by grandpa (maintenance because I dont feel comfortable around her face with sharp pointy scissors) and a walk around her newly favorite park. She got from her Nanny, a little stuffed poodle that we've now dubbed Missy's "Mini-Me" because its identical to her. She got from her mama a new fuzzy coat to wear while her belly hair grows back (pink and white checked) two new big skinnez (a rabbit and a squirrel I think) to drag around the house and make squeak, a vest that is too small alas :( and a purple and pink collar that has argyle on it mixed with a skull every few checks. (think preppy meets punk)

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navigated some narrow twisty lanes, from Houndtor to Manaton past Bowermans Nose. where once there was a gate now is a cattle grid. then took self to Haytor Quarry, wandering along the cattle tracks through, through prickly gorse. the ponds in the quarry rather full, surprised that the large deep working, normally dry, was full of water. too many people around, came home with some gorse. getting to know mitzi cat, quite delightful to be around.

All right, I have some roast that needs potting and I would love to hear your best recipes! I will report back later tonight how it went :)

Thankies <3

My mum popped over to visit today. She gave me a 2L ice cream container full of mulberries!

I love mulberries, but can't eat that many before they'll go off.

Hit me with your best mulberry recipes people. Good crumbles, jams, other ideas, I'll take 'em all.

I just had a bowl straight and now my fingers, lips and teeth are purple/black. Oops.