Hee

We were watching “Shockwave” on the Discovery Channel or something the other night, and we’d gotten to the part where there’s a fire at a refinery in Hawai’i, caused by a holding tank overflowing when someone didn’t shut off the pipe pumping to it.
Narrator: …installed an early-warning overflow alarm…
TCB: You know what they installed for [...]

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Attn.

Gina McLane, please tell your friends that you have a new number. They’ve been calling us for the last year, we’re going to start telling people that you hate them and you hope they fall in a hole and die.

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Miniposts, food edition

Donate free rice by playing a vocab game
Dog cookie recipes
Joyful Cooking- a woman cooking every recipe in the 1997 edition

and pictures. Dog treats:

Eggs baked in Bacon Cups:

Meat-Filled Pastries with Brown sauce (Or: homemade hot pockets):

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Further review

As TCB said, they were pretty darn good and I’m almost looking forward to them for dinner (the thought of eating that brown sauce again is sort of bringing back the worst smell of making it, and thus I really kind of don’t want to touch it.) When we reheat them, I’m just going to [...]

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Tonight

I’m making Meat-Filled Pastries with Brown Sauce tonight, which has 2-3 referrals to other recipes (the sauce, an ingredient for the sauce and potentially the beef stock.) All this took way longer than the 2-3 hours I expected, and so, at 11 at night, we’re still waiting for the glorified, homemade hot pockets to finish [...]

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Eggs baked in bacon cups

Feeling adventurous this morning (after mostly cleaning the oven), I picked up my copy of “Joy of Cooking” and flipped to the eggs section and saw that we had all the ingredients for “Eggs Baked in Bacon Cups.” It’s really just lightly cooking some bacon, lining muffin cups with them and then baking, after adding [...]

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Slow learning

While TCB slept this morning, I thought I’d finally get around to cleaning the oven. I’d taken the racks out and leaned them up against the cabinets, then sprayed the oven with some dawn product and, while I waited the 5 minutes for it to really get the burnt-on butter loosened up, Piper J wanted [...]

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