Do you know how to butcher a cow.

More importantly, do you know where the good steak comes from?

I figured as much. Is this true Art? Do your people really cook rice in cheesecloth?

Um....


She voted against all the names we have put up.


And what does that have to do with how you vote?

If by 'your people' you mean Americans, no.

Where I grew up the community was built around 3 lakes (small lakes, but whatever), with more not too far off.

When I was a kid we would walk across the street and through the neighbours yard to one lake. Or I'd quick walk up to my friend's, and she live across the street from another lake. When I got a little older they actually built a little park and beach across from her place.

Then when I was 12 my parents move to a new house that was actually on the lake, across the water from that little beach.

Then I moved to Ontario where the lakes are polluted. I miss swimming.

Not by much.
We have better rawk.

I heard that Art's people can order take out faster than you can say perspicacious.

C'mon, he's a single LA surfer/climber duhd who's only real culinary skill is having Domino's on speed dial.

This is true....I assume. I know people from NS and NB make trips down to Acadia there as one of the closer places in the states for rock. How is it over there?

In Japan it came in many forms. My favorite was the bulk vending machine type. Bring a 3 gallon bucket insert 500 yen (US$4.75) and it fills.

[culinary geek moment]

To prepare white long or short grain rice, the best method is to rinse the crap out of it until the water is no longer a milky color. Using either a colander or placing the rice in a large pot you rinse, rinse, rinse, rinse, and rinse. When that milky color is gone, you want to soak the rice under about a nuckle of water for 12 hours.

I steam my rice on a bamboo steamer and the cheesecloth comes in handy throughout the entire process. First, it keeps the rice contained and managable while rinsing; I've mastered rinsing in a colander. Then you let it soak for about 12 hours in a bowl; again the cheesecloth keeps everything together. And finally, when steaming the rice, the cheesecloth keeps everything together and from falling through the slats in the steamer. My rice comes out super sticky and fluffy. By pre-soaking the rice, also, the cooking time is down to about 5 minutes.

Cooking it this way requires some planning and preperation but the quality is much better, and you can get rice cheaper when it's uncooked. For flavor, rice takes on the flavor of whatever you put in it. It's the ultimate starch.

[/culinary geekery]

Cooking is a passionate hobby of mine, can you tell? I like eating good food, and if I can get supurb taste cheaply I'll do it.

Yore rong!
I'm a single OC climber/surfer dhude who can cook a mean batch of chili and knows how to grill a good steak.

I dunno. My parents could only afford that cheap black plastic you use for painting projects. We only used a hose and more often than not the plastic - being black - was super hot regardless of how much water we put on it. It was good until about the 5th or 6th slide when it would tear and we'd have a rock go through our chest - living in the desert isn't really conducive for lawns. We had one, but it was thin and brown most of the time.

My pool involved a 1/4 mile walk to a pond. This pond had multiple vehicles - cars, jeeps, motorcycles, 4-wheelers, and a school bus - in it. I didn't swim much there. No one in my subdivision of 250 houses had a pool. If you could call it a pool, it was more than likely a horse trough, or one of those 10" deep plastic thingys.

Camden isn't bad...but Acadia is the Maine (get it?) place for climbing in Maine. I've never been there!

My statement wasn't entirely accurate, as when it comes to climbing, NH and Maine are the same state in my mind, since I do all my climbing in NH.

The crag near my house is pretty good granite, though. Granite is great.

No I don't. Just the really stupid ones.

Normally I stay out of it. I don't want to get in the middle of problems between my husband and my friend.

Man, less than 100 posts separating me from the top 5 losers.

I haven't been to NH yet

No, I meant his people. Japanese, not the other half of his people, Americans.

*looks up*
I'm not reading that.
Seriously couldn't you just buy a rice cooker at an asian market?

It's possible, but I don't think you were a bitch to them. Just out of it. The nurse in ER just said you were "combative"

Epoch is more Japanese than Art. He has at least lived there. Art is American.

Yes

You don't need to be a hunter to hunt. Just like you don't need to be a climber to climb. Deer meat is awesome. And really cheap if you can hunt near where you live and process it yourself.

I started swimming competively at the age of nine.
Swimming pools have never seemed fun to me.

Man, less than 100 posts separating me from the top 5 losers.

Those people aren't my people.