Thistle vs Cooking: Round Two! (And FFXI)

[thistlechaser]

I give up. I just don't understand pierogies. My sister loves them, so when I saw them on sale I bought two boxes. Long ago I tried them fried and then boiled/fried, but both versions were tasteless and blah. I'm trying to clean out my freezer, so I decided to give them another chance tonight.

The back of the box said you could make a "casserole" by adding the box, a jar of sauce (alfredo? is that white sauce? I only had tomato so used that), and breadcrumbs on top, then bake. I could do that! (Edit: Oh yeah, they said to use ham as well but of course I wouldn't use that. That might have been my problem...)

But when it was all done, I found exactly the same as last time: They were totally tasteless. The box claimed they were stuffed with potato and cheese, but I saw (and tasted) no cheese at all. Into the garbage they went!

I'm going to throw my bread crumbs away, too. I don't like the spices/flavor of them. A lose-lose dinner all the way around. (But yay! Now I have a little more space in my freezer!)

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FFXI: My NPC is a selfish bitch. You'd think we could take turns, but apparently not! *grumble*



*snerks* Or not. He almost died yesterday, and I was quite amazed to see him curse. (Yeah, yeah, "dammit" isn't a bad curse, but it is one.)

Tonight went surprisingly well! Learned Blood Drain and Blastbomb in two hours! Yay! So I went XPing and got from 14 to 15. Yay chocoboing on this job!

BLU is an amazing, amazing soloer. I took a T+ and lived with more than half my HP. EM+ left me with most of my HP and half my MP. I'm kind of interested to see how it is in a party, but I'm getting just fine XP soloing, so I'll stick with that for a while longer. (I really do want to hit 18 by Monday though so I can go as BLU to Eco and have a chance of learning Cursed Sphere there. I might have to give in and accept a Dunes party to make that happen. :/ )

Hmm, besides if I did get a Dunes party I might learn Screwdriver, Bomb Toss, and Cursed Sphere in it... Hmmmm. Saturday is NIN static, Sunday is Mitts run and NPC static, so it would have to be tomorrow night. Hm.

I thought I had more screenshots, but nope! My whole file is clean now! Yay!

Comments

[draymor.livejournal.com]

I love perogies! They're so awesome when fried to a crisp on the bottom and topped with sour cream and bacon bits. It may depends on which type of fillings or brand you get though, I haven't gotten them in a while. Some salt and pepper never hurt anything either!

BLU really does look fun, being able to do all the mob abilities like that. Too bad I have other things to focus on right now or I'd hop on the band wagon too ; ;

[sylf.livejournal.com]

Alfredo is a white sauce, yes.

I really think you should give a Dunes party a go. Mobs will probably get TP really fast and spam their TP abilities for you to use (faster than when soloing at least, I would imagine). I think it'd work out great. :3

Curse all you BLU people, though, for making this sound so fun. I have enough jobs I want/need to level as it is. ;_;

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Mmm, that sounds like a good way to make them! Even when I fried them they never got really crispy on the bottom, just hard. Odd.

BLU is loads of fun! :D It's my favorite job at the moment. I want to try COR out as well, but like you: No time!

And hey, waiting on BLU is a good thing! Right now the low level mobs are so camped! I needed dhalmels to learn healing breeze from, but so did every other BLU on the server! Very annoying.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

I really think you should give a Dunes party a go.

I keep wavering back and forth. I could solo tonight, I could go to the Dunes and "duo" T things with my NPC (but if things got bad and I had to zone, I'd lose him), or I could party. I'm currently leaning towards partying both for the reason you gave and because I really want to see how BLU works in a party.

Curse all you BLU people, though, for making this sound so fun. I have enough jobs I want/need to level as it is. ;_;

Ha, I know that feeling! I was going to take NIN to AF levels or all the way to 75, but now I'm thinking that I'll drop it for now once I hit subjob levels. (I'd drop it right now if it wasn't in a semi-static.) I want to try COR as well, but I have no time! BLU is eating my brain.

[linmayu.livejournal.com]

There's an NPC on one of the Windurst missions who says "Dammitaru!", which made me snicker a lot.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Hee, that's cute!

[juliansinger.livejournal.com]

Sour cream, optional bacon bits (aren't you still vegetarian?) and SALT. Do not forget the salt. Never ever.

OTOH, if you don't like them, you dont' like them. (Though the entire idea of pierogies and bread crumbs fills me with fear.)

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Yeah, no bacon for me (though I hear tell that those Bacos are vegan! How odd!). Hmm, I never salted them, ever. I bet that would have helped a lot!

OTOH, if you don't like them, you dont' like them. (Though the entire idea of pierogies and bread crumbs fills me with fear.)

I can't see what's not to like (potatoes are good, pasta is good), but they just had no taste at all, no matter what I did with them. No use eating something with a good amount of calories and no taste...

And yeah, the bread crumbs did NOT help anything at all. Blech.

[kalin-nestar.livejournal.com]

awww...I love pierogies. You have to boil them til they float, fry them in tons of butter and onions until they are crispy and browned on the outside and put lots of salt and pepper on them. Yum!

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, that sounds so good! Maybe I'll have to try them again sometime. :)