Lounge II (The Lounge Strikes Back)

[Robinski he/him]

Occurs to me now there was an episode of the X-Files about a golem 'haunting' a neighbourhood. Early one, I think... 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaddish_(The_X-Files)

Okay, not that early Season 4.

[shatteredsmooth]

Homemade pizza bagels!!!

Big tray is getting frozen. Little tray is going in the oven for breakfast. 

[Snakenaps she/her]

1 hour ago, shatteredsmooth said:

Homemade pizza bagels!!!

Big tray is getting frozen. Little tray is going in the oven for breakfast.

You are stronger than me. If I had made those, there would be so much cheese on top you wouldn't be able to see any sauce. 

I've discovered a 10 minute pizza dough recipe that is no-knead, no-rise-time, no-food-processor. Is it pretty? Absolutely not. Is it tasty? Yes. I love it, because now I can make pizza in less than a half an hour. 

[shatteredsmooth]

1 hour ago, Snakenaps said:

You are stronger than me. If I had made those, there would be so much cheese on top you wouldn't be able to see any sauce. 

 

Confession: I don't actually like a lot of cheese on my pizza. When I was younger, I actually used to take all the cheese off of my pizza. 

[Snakenaps she/her]

13 minutes ago, shatteredsmooth said:

Confession: I don't actually like a lot of cheese on my pizza. When I was younger, I actually used to take all the cheese off of my pizza. 

D:

More cheese for me then. Cheese is life. I was a senior in high school before I started liking toppings on my pizza. I was a cheese-only gal for most of my life. 

[Robinski he/him]

37 minutes ago, shatteredsmooth said:

I actually used to take all the cheese off of my pizza.

  

[Robinski he/him]

23 minutes ago, Snakenaps said:

More cheese for me then. Cheese is life.

It really is. I'm expecting to get gout at some point if I don't get run over by a bus.

What is your favourite cheese, @Snakenaps?

[Snakenaps she/her]

32 minutes ago, Robinski said:

It really is. I'm expecting to get gout at some point if I don't get run over by a bus.

What is your favourite cheese, @Snakenaps?

My favorite cheese changes depending on what I'm eating, but the most universally used cheese for me is probably medium cheddar. You can use it for pretty much anything. Pizza, eggs, grilled cheese, quesadillas, Georgian cheese bread, cheddar bay biscuits, everything. 

If I want to get fancy and spoil myself? Prosciutto and havarti grilled cheese. A rare treat. 

If I want something strong? A glass of cabernet sauvignon and a slices of a good pepper jack cheese. 

Am I listening to jazz or hanging out with my mother? Feta, brie, havarti, or Swiss cheese with various crackers, honey crisp apple slices, whatever else fruit I can get my hands on, and a bottle of white white, preferably pinot gringo. Toss in some salami, prosciutto, or coppa if the budget allows (which is rarely, a reason why it tastes so good). A hoard of dark chocolate is a good side dish. 

Mostly, I eat cheddar and mozzarella with sriracha grilled cheeses, and egg-rice patties with cheddar, sriracha, and rosemary. 

My sister got me an oven mitt that says, "[Sounds like fork], I love cheese." I cherish it strongly. 

[shatteredsmooth]

5 hours ago, Snakenaps said:

My sister got me an oven mitt that says, "[Sounds like fork], I love cheese." I cherish it strongly. 

LOL 

I like cheese much more now than I did when I was a kid, though I still like every other aspect of pizza better.

Granted, I am a little obsessed with loading brie onto baguettes and loading chevre onto my salads. 

[Snakenaps she/her]

2 minutes ago, shatteredsmooth said:

I like cheese much more now than I did when I was a kid, though I still like every other aspect of pizza better.

I like it more as an adult than as a child, but I had no taste buds until I lived on dorm food for a year. I used to be the pickiest eater. Now I like pretty much everything except for pickles. I still can't believe I didn't used to like lasagna. That stuff is delicious. 

[shatteredsmooth]

4 minutes ago, Snakenaps said:

Now I like pretty much everything except for pickles

I HATE pickles. 

I am very picky eater. Not as bad as when I was a kid, or in college, but still pickier than most adults. 

My spouse likes to tease me about only eating vegetables when they're locally in season. Like I will only eat potatoes that are from this one farm stand, or the ones I grew (using potatoes from that farm). I ate about 1 or 2 salads a month all winter, but have been eating "salad" almost every day now that I'm harvesting my own greens. Right now, salad = greens and local goat cheese, but I cannot wait for my cucumbers to grow. 

[Snakenaps she/her]

2 minutes ago, shatteredsmooth said:

I HATE pickles. 

I am very picky eater. Not as bad as when I was a kid, or in college, but still pickier than most adults. 

My spouse likes to tease me about only eating vegetables when they're locally in season. Like I will only eat potatoes that are from this one farm stand, or the ones I grew (using potatoes from that farm). I ate about 1 or 2 salads a month all winter, but have been eating "salad" almost every day now that I'm harvesting my own greens. Right now, salad = greens and local goat cheese, but I cannot wait for my cucumbers to grow. 

Pickles are so weirdly...not sour, but like tangy gone really wrong. Pickles taste like something gone wrong. 

I would kill to be able to eat more from my local farmers market. We've got a good-sized one, and normally, during the summer, we have them three days a week. Not this year, though. We're still down to a half-sized Saturday one. There are some great bonuses to living on the edge of the California valley. There is this man who sells the best oranges. They are killer. And I always pick up samosas from the Indian lady. At the moment, though, funds are a little tight, so WinCo has my loyalty more than the preferred farmers market. 

If anyone has any good rice (or other budget-friendly) recipes, hit me up. 

My friend has a garden and just gave me a bunch of dried oregano and I am so happy. 

[Silk she/her]

On 6/7/2020 at 11:33 PM, Robinski said:

@Silk, that was super! Enjoyed that  

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed.

15 hours ago, Snakenaps said:

Pickles taste like something gone wrong. 

Yes. Yes they do.

[Robinski he/him]

22 hours ago, Snakenaps said:

My sister got me an oven mitt that says, "[Sounds like fork], I love cheese." I cherish it strongly. 

Awesome  

I'm a big fan of blue. Not on things, or in things, but with crackers. Mostly UK blues: Lanark, Dunsyre, Shropshire, Stilton. Not a big fan of continental blues.

Cheddar, yes, sharper the better.

I like a lot of French cheeses, especially the soft ones. Like Gouda, and Jarlsberg. I love feta in a Greek salad, i.e. cold. Not hot. 

Strangely, I don't like goats cheese at all, although Feta comes from goats, so go figure. The Greeks must have a different process.

Mozzarella on my pizza, of course. Oh, and a really good grilled cheese sandwich. The last one I had was in Creston, B.C. Three cheeses. One was Monterey Jack, I forget the other two. One might have been mozzarella (for contrast, obvs).

16 hours ago, shatteredsmooth said:

17 hours ago, Snakenaps said:

Now I like pretty much everything except for pickles

I HATE pickles. 

16 hours ago, Snakenaps said:

Pickles are so weirdly...not sour, but like tangy gone really wrong. Pickles taste like something gone wrong.

1 hour ago, Silk said:

Yes. Yes they do.

Gone wrong........in the best way possible! What is wrong with you people  I love pickles. Mostly pickled beetroot it has to be said. I loooooooove beetroot, will actually drink some of the pickling vinegar left in the jar when it's done. And pickled onions. Maybe not so much the dill pickles and gherkins, to be fair, which I think are more the way in North America. 

[Snakenaps she/her]

50 minutes ago, Robinski said:

Gone wrong........in the best way possible! What is wrong with you people  I love pickles. Mostly pickled beetroot it has to be said. I loooooooove beetroot, will actually drink some of the pickling vinegar left in the jar when it's done. And pickled onions. Maybe not so much the dill pickles and gherkins, to be fair, which I think are more the way in North America. 

If and when I ever meet you in person, you can eat any pickles I may have.  

My mom loves the pickled carrots from the local Mexican food joint. I think I just don't like pickling vinegar. I like balsamic vinegar, especially with a good olive oil and some excellent bread. 

[aeromancer he/him]

17 hours ago, Snakenaps said:

Pickles taste like something gone wrong. 

I mean, the same could be said for cheese. Not that I'm saying it, mind you, I would never be so base as to accuse cheese of being nothing more than glorified fermented and spoiled milk which has been exposed to bacteria cultures and then repeatedly wrung out and allowed to just sit there and age so that the applied flavors to the milk by the means of said fermenting and spoiling by microorganism cultures can be allowed to become even stronger. No, I would never do that. I'm just going to point out that there's a form of socially acceptable cheese with live insects in it.  Pickles, on the other hand, are amazing and every pickle variant of any conceivable food is completely edible and there are never any problems.

All jokes aside, I'm firmly on @Robinski's side when it comes to pickles - they're amazing. The vanilla cucumber variant is delicious, and I happen to be a partial to pickled onions myself, but the real benefit comes from the variety - dill pickles, half-sours, garlic sours, sweet gherkins, bread-and-butter style. And, naturally, the true potential of pickles can only be expressed via sandwich (something they have in common which cheese).

[shatteredsmooth]

52 minutes ago, Robinski said:

Strangely, I don't like goats cheese at all, although Feta comes from goats, so go figure. The Greeks must have a different process.

 

Feta and chevre have very different tastes and textures. I don't like feta at all.

56 minutes ago, Robinski said:

Gone wrong........in the best way possible! What is wrong with you people

My spouse also loves pickles. He actually makes his own! 

Last year, my cucumbers did not do well, so I didn't let him pickle very many of them. Thankfully, he doesn't share my aversion to grocery store cucumbers. 

[Snakenaps she/her]

25 minutes ago, aeromancer said:

I mean, the same could be said for cheese. Not that I'm saying it, mind you, I would never be so base as to accuse cheese of being nothing more than glorified fermented and spoiled milk which has been exposed to bacteria cultures and then repeatedly wrung out and allowed to just sit there and age so that the applied flavors to the milk by the means of said fermenting and spoiling by microorganism cultures can be allowed to become even stronger. No, I would never do that. I'm just going to point out that there's a form of socially acceptable cheese with live insects in it.  Pickles, on the other hand, are amazing and every pickle variant of any conceivable food is completely edible and there are never any problems.

This is probably the best thing I've read all day. Thank you, my friend. 

[Robinski he/him]

1 hour ago, Snakenaps said:

If and when I ever meet you in person, you can eat any pickles I may have.

Deal!

1 hour ago, Snakenaps said:

I like balsamic vinegar, especially with a good olive oil and some excellent bread.

Yes. We can absolutely agree on that too.

1 hour ago, aeromancer said:

I mean, the same could be said for cheese. Not that I'm saying it, mind you, I would never be so base as to accuse cheese of being nothing more than glorified fermented and spoiled milk which has been exposed to bacteria cultures...

Good point 

1 hour ago, aeromancer said:

and there are never any problems

Ahem, yes. I am not a fan of rollmops, or any other kind of pickled fish. Fish are for smoking, or pan frying.

1 hour ago, aeromancer said:

And, naturally, the true potential of pickles can only be expressed via sandwich (something they have in common which cheese).

Hard agree.

59 minutes ago, shatteredsmooth said:

Feta and chevre have very different tastes and textures. I don't like feta at all.

Okay, so when we meet at up WorldCon in Athens, 2038, @Snakenaps and I get all the feta, @aeromancer and I will split the pickles, and we will share the bread, olive oil and balsamic.

"Casu marzu is created by leaving whole pecorino cheeses outside with part of the rind removed to allow the eggs of the cheese fly Piophila casei to be laid in the cheese." - Oh, come on people!!! I mean, clearly some poor sap discovered this by accident and, just to spare his own embarrassment, told everyone it was a delicacy. And another thing, what was the fly called before someone allowed it to lay eggs in the cheese? Or before cheese was invented?

Edited June 9, 2020 by Robinski

[Snakenaps she/her]

2 hours ago, Robinski said:

Okay, so when we meet at up WorldCon in Athens, 2038, @Snakenaps and I get all the feta, @aeromancer and I will split the pickles, and we will share the bread, olive oil and balsamic.

I've always wanted to go to Athens. Greece is definitely on my bucket list. 

[Snakenaps she/her]

My roommate is moving out, and I painted her a goodbye card of her cat Batman. I don't break my watercolors out nearly often as I should. I do not want to admit how long it took me to get Batman to stop trying to eat the card and look at me. 

[shatteredsmooth]

1 hour ago, Snakenaps said:

My roommate is moving out, and I painted her a goodbye card of her cat Batman. I don't break my watercolors out nearly often as I should. I do not want to admit how long it took me to get Batman to stop trying to eat the card and look at me. 

Batman is adorable, and the painting is fantastic! 

I have a cat, and getting him to look at my phone or any camera when he doesn't want to is not an easy task. 

[Snakenaps she/her]

I paint a pretty card, but my friend has completely upstaged me with this cake:

He paid extra money just to get oversized letters. 

My roommate is going to laugh her socks off when she sees this tonight. 

Update: My roommate loved it!

Edited June 10, 2020 by Snakenaps
Roommate at cake

[Silk she/her]

6 hours ago, Robinski said:

Okay, so when we meet at up WorldCon in Athens, 2038, @Snakenaps and I get all the feta, @aeromancer and I will split the pickles, and we will share the bread, olive oil and balsamic.

Can I have some feta if @Robinski and @aeromancer get my pickles?

1 hour ago, shatteredsmooth said:

Batman is adorable, and the painting is fantastic! 

Yes! Both of those!

Ooh. Cake.

Now I'm hungry.

[kais]

<--- is also a pickle lover. Will fight for pickles.