bento version of “Starry Night”- Thank you for this!

It does seem to me that irreplaceable world-heritage-level assets ought to be protected by custom, fail-safe source, huge caliber, controllable pressure fire suppression equipment. I may be miles off target here, but I don’t think Paris had something like this in place. 

Eeeew.

Nifty idea, thanks. I have a feeling I’m gonna keep using my other method:

Preferring the cheap ones you miss on the fantastic experience of the putty gun in your mouth!

Whoa, a new way to incur dental bills - your own mastiff!

Oh, fantastic. Great read. My dentist for the last 25 years (he hung up his drill a month ago) was too nice, and would not make me wear a night guard. Finally, after lots of years I had a new, expensive as hell set of upper jaw hardware, and also an elder person acceptance of what times does to us all. Have been using…

I tried. It works well as a substitute for Tia Maria or Kahlua. In truffles or in their runny formulation - icing/dipping chocolate sauce.

Sometimes it is imperative that you unambiguously specify stuff. Quoth Jacob [of Bible fame]: I will serve seven years for Rachel your younger daughter. 

Thanks!

I’m much aware of the open possibilities, but don’t care to invest the time

It’s tough; I would suggest you approach this as a creative/artistic endeavor. An escape from timeline dictatorship into the freedom of decompression. Like a painting workshop. In that one you’d be a beginner too, but that’s expected. So’s with cooking.

this thing with onions and (later) garlic going in first is still true, but applies to stuff that will be ‘wet’ in the end, i.e. something in sauce, or a soup; when the onions are translucent and the garlic isn’t yet burned, one adds some ‘wet’ stuff, and proceeds from there

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”