My wife has always adored Velveeta, and I have despised it, but after having made the stove top version of Kenji’s ultra-gooey macaroni & cheese a few times now, it is absolutely the bomb for this recipe. I have had to put my snobbery aside long enough to acknowledge that particular shit (literally) is indeed good…

I was taking the soy sauce as a given with Tamago gohan. Mirin too, and a touch of hon dashi, if you have them. Spinach is nice, though I like the bitter kick of the nori pieces that are in most furikake mixes. No reason why you could not do both, though!

Why top it with an egg when you can mix one into it instead? Tamago gohan is already the bee’s knees, but adding extra umami by cooking the rice this way first would be the icing on the cake. (Well, technically furikake is the icing on the cake for that, but cooking the rice with a tomato would be an extra layer to…

Or possibly an anteater.

You left your mark again. . .

I hosed up with my FoST. My first year of ownership ended last August, and I never got around to doing the Octane Academy.

WINNING.

The pasta trick is in the book. It works. I accept nearly every short cut that he comes up with, but I am just too much of a risotto snob (and an aficionado as well) to take short cuts with that dish.

Kenji peddled that risotto method in his book as well. I love the dude, and have changed a lot of my cooking behaviors thanks to him, but I am going to stubbornly insist on cooking risotto the traditional way. I am not convinced enough to even give him a fair shot on that one.

But that was not the point of the section that you quoted, as I read it. It was comparing exploring the world from different perspectives to fighting & collecting. So your response made it seem to me that you meant that you should be able to do the exploration with the combat and collecting. Or am I…

As a lifelong cyclist, I think that I can guarantee you that having the rear wheels come off the ground while braking in a motorized vehicle would cause one of the biggest Code Browns in history — even though there is no real danger of the car actually flipping, unlike a bike. But the adrenaline memory would kick in,…

No. There are plenty of games that do both. Why not focus on elements that tend to get lost otherwise in the combat & collecting?

I have been dreaming of an RPG that minimizes (not eliminates) combat. Less combat encounters, but more meaningful ones, and more time to do interesting things other than fighting. Pillar…

7:30 tonight, baby! I cannot wait!

That proves a simple point: always, always listen to what The Electric Lady says.

I am a full-blooded Scandinavian mongrel (little bit of everything,) born in Minnesota, and, tragically, a Vikings fan. I am never as desirous of smashing my head into a brick wall as when someone brings up the Vikings in reference to racially insensitive team names. The analogy is so self-evidently stupid that it…

Now if you could get it to work, THAT would be genius.

You, sir, may sit in the back.

What could be better than making an already unhealthful food even more unhealthful? Fat on top of fat!

How can a lighter start a broken campfire?

I recently finished Spiderweb Software’s release of Avadon 3, and was about to pull up something different when I got to thinking about the fact that the next game that Vogel’s company is going to do is a remaster of Avernum 3. I started that series with Avernum 4, and have played his remasters of Avernum 1 & 2, but…