Dr. Memnus Lagbane Soultooth the Mad

I took a final look at dinner and decided that it wasn't so much a salad as a vegetable soup without liquid. Chopped pecans, sunflower seeds, leeks (chopped fine and cooked down hard), beet flesh and greens, shredded cheese, sun-dried tomatoes, probably some other things I'm forgetting now. Definitely best eaten with a spoon.

That title almost implies I'm going for a paleo diet. I'm kinda against the paleo thing in general -- it's expensive and unbalanced, takes more prep work for less food, plus doughnuts are delicious. But when you're trying to use up the contents of a CSA box before you get the next one, meals like this are kinda inevitable.

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Step one: make pie
Step two: Decide how to make pie better
Step three: return to step one

This attempt:
half stick butter
1/3 c sugar
two cups mini marshmallows
1 tbsp corn starch
1 tbsp sweetened condensed milk
one egg

Melt the butter in a double boiler, mix in sugar and corn starch as it melts. Once homogenized, melt in the marshmallows, stirring constantly. Once those are melted, remove from the heat. Stir in the sweetened condensed milk. Once it's mixed in, it should be starting to cool off, stir in the egg. Pour into six silicone muffin cups. Bake those, in a water bath, at 325 for 30 40 minutes.

Things I forgot: vanilla or Tuaca, greasing the muffin cups.

To do for next time: Don't bother taking the mixture off the heat. Beat the egg well into frothiness before adding it. Bake hotter, without the water bath.

EDIT: Also skip the sugar entirely?

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The tags list on this is going to be huge, I can tell...

( Trips to Claremont, past and future )

( The fate of HAVEN )

( My pentannual computer upgrade )

( Gaming )

( Archer talk )

( Food )

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I've been waking up with sore throats and stuff, and now my lymph nodes are swollen and painful to touch. Thank gods this waited for after the semester. Skiing today was very much out; getting dressed may also be for that matter.

Something seems to have broken my OpenRPG game tree. This is very strange, and the only way I can think of to fix it is by digging down into unparsed XML to see where it went astray. Even more worrisome is that this could have happened in the first place. After a bit of digging, it turns out that the problem is that the Mudd CS filesystem is down. Get that - a few images it wants to load are stored there, and rather than gracefully failing to load them, it gets into a loop of error dialogs. Hoping that's back by tomorrow. (EDIT: It's back.)

Today is also the day when I need to get rid of all my perishables in anticipation of them perishing while I'm gone. The count is: Two one cups of yogurt, three apples, a small amount of Montery Jack cheese, one egg, three fajita-sized tortillas, a fair amount of deli turkey, and a cup or two of milk. There's also about half a head of garlic, several sticks of butter, and eight unopened ounces of cheddar, but those I'm not as worried about. There's also the usual assortment of non-perishables to help make the above tolerable. I am now accepting suggestions as to what to do with my food, before dinnertime comes around and I do something I regret.

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I burnt my grilled-cheese sandwich. So much for shaved legs and a skirt helping with cooking... damn you socially perpetuated myths and improperly connected corellations!

Speaking of improperly connected corellations, I had to laugh at the study I heard of (no link, I'm afraid) that showed people that drink make more money than those that don't. Not a single time did it mention the possibility that maybe, just maybe, people that make less money don't drink because it's damn expensive. Especially at bars.

The new Barenaked Ladies CD is out, and the tour to go with it comes through Salt Lake City (well, West Valley City, but who's counting?). The problem is that the concert here is the day before Thanksgiving, and I've already promised to be on the East Coast for Thanksgiving. Translation: bloody hell. There are shows in LA and San Francisco the next week that I might consider.

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