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thistlechaserToo much PvPing on WoW. Non-players: PvP = player vs player, as opposed to player vs "environment" (computer-run monsters). Last night I had a dream I was PvPing RL. It was an all new battleground (made just for RL PvPing!). 15 people on a side. My whole team was made up of "geeks" -- no one wanted to actually play the BG, they just stood around typing on their Blackberries and phones and stuff. Eventually I got tired of doing nothing so tried playing on my own. (Don't know what the other team was doing all this time, they were just standing around too.) Eventually they noticed I was trying to win, so one of the people came after me. A large, angry man intending to hurt me. Meep! I yelled and screamed all of my best BG-insults at my team ("idiot" being the worst of them, ha ha) and eventually got them to hold the guy down (14 of them to hold the one man!). But one by one they got bored and went back to texting, so eventually the guy got free and came after me again. Then I woke up! I will never, ever PvP RL, ha ha!
Cooking! I've had a success and a semi-success in the last week.
The success was the AMAZINGLY yummy Korean BBQ I did. The reason it worked so well perhaps was that I didn't really have to do much of anything. Bought the special cut of meat, stuck it in a ziploc bag with the bottled sauce 24 hours ahead, broiled the next day. OH MY GOD, so amazingly yummy! Even better than the few times I've gone to Korean BBQ places! I'm intending to go to the store tomorrow so I can make it again this weekend. MMMM. (Hopefully they'll have the special cut again, I don't think just any thin cut will work.)
The semi-success was making garlic knots last night. Chances are, you have no idea what a garlic knot is. They seem to not exist outside of New York. (I've been in California for ten years now, but there's so much NY food I still miss.) I saw a recipe online, so I figured I'd try it. Not about to make dough myself, I bought some fresh pizza dough and used that.
The recipe itself was a bit lacking (you know it is when non-cooking me thinks so!). Basically it was just: Melt butter. Mince garlic. Put garlic in butter. Put mix on dough. Bake. That didn't give it enough garlic flavor, I'd probably cook the garlic in the butter (or maybe use olive oil?) for a while next time. Also, I think garlic knots have salt on top, though the recipe didn't mention it.
I'm going to try to make the knots again next time, though not too soon. Dinner last night was most of a pizza's worth of crust baked in melted butter... not very healthy! But semi-yummy, mmm.
Cooking! I've had a success and a semi-success in the last week.
The success was the AMAZINGLY yummy Korean BBQ I did. The reason it worked so well perhaps was that I didn't really have to do much of anything. Bought the special cut of meat, stuck it in a ziploc bag with the bottled sauce 24 hours ahead, broiled the next day. OH MY GOD, so amazingly yummy! Even better than the few times I've gone to Korean BBQ places! I'm intending to go to the store tomorrow so I can make it again this weekend. MMMM. (Hopefully they'll have the special cut again, I don't think just any thin cut will work.)
The semi-success was making garlic knots last night. Chances are, you have no idea what a garlic knot is. They seem to not exist outside of New York. (I've been in California for ten years now, but there's so much NY food I still miss.) I saw a recipe online, so I figured I'd try it. Not about to make dough myself, I bought some fresh pizza dough and used that.
The recipe itself was a bit lacking (you know it is when non-cooking me thinks so!). Basically it was just: Melt butter. Mince garlic. Put garlic in butter. Put mix on dough. Bake. That didn't give it enough garlic flavor, I'd probably cook the garlic in the butter (or maybe use olive oil?) for a while next time. Also, I think garlic knots have salt on top, though the recipe didn't mention it.
I'm going to try to make the knots again next time, though not too soon. Dinner last night was most of a pizza's worth of crust baked in melted butter... not very healthy! But semi-yummy, mmm.
