Hmm. If my PC didn’t freeze, I never found another reason to turn it off. Boot sequence is a pain, ‘cause I’ve already arrived, parked my behind, and now I’m useless for minutes. I’d rather waste the hundred watts or so and have my computer always ready.

Thanks!

Duh!

Free advice 1: after washing and peeling, and washing again, as long as celery root is not immersed in the cream, let it have a sheen of lemon juice, to prevent oxidation.

Delightful read, this. Thx.

I was let off after 19 years with one hi-tech outfit. I was tactically surprised, but not strategically (in the sense that I knew it would eventually happen). I thought I took in in my stride, and convinced myself that all was fair and square. However, some 6-7 years after the event, I found out I was deeply offended…

you may perhaps want to corner the rights to “Pluripes, The Human Centipede”

Looked it up (Nigella Lawson recipe). I like spicy, but the quantities she has in her recipe scare me. Still, it must work, even if I’d add some chopped parsley 30 seconds before all’s done.

Since it’s about cooking, rather than merely frying, I’ll stake a claim for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakshouka.

Re: you’ll be surprised at how much salt this dish can soak up, here’s a tip - every other time you make this, ‘fix’ the dish, while oven hot, with soy sauce. It’s a tasty alternate that works!

Meh. With a capital M.

you are, of course, wrong - but the mummy simile is great!

there is much truth in your comment; it gets to be an absolute truth if the brie is cold

well nigh required!

no one mentioned this yet, but since the whole piece is aimed at newbies, I’ll add my measly 2 cents:

or a surgeon taking home his obsession 

Amen to that. That axis is taken care of by nature. messing with it is OCD!

Nah, not a Nazi salute. I’m amazed at the amount of traffic it generated.

Best treatment for snakes in scrotum is to spill boiling hot peas on them!