#evilmidnightlurker

[prokopetz]

Your stew recipe from last year says to put it in the fridge and serve twelve hours later. Does this detectably improve the flavor, or is there some more abstruse reason?

(With reference to this post here.)

Flavour-wise, it’s really a matter of preference; letting a stew rest for half a day before serving lets some of the starches in the vegetables break down into simple sugars, resulting a sweeter, mellower flavour, which can be a plus or a minus depending on your palate.

The real reason that recipe calls for letting the stew rest is that it assumes you’re using the cheapest stewing beef you can get your hands on; if you are, and you don’t give it the extra time, the meat may still be unpleasantly tough by the time you serve it, even with the lengthy cooking. It’s not so essential if you’re using the good stuff.

[loreweaver-universe]

@evilmidnightlurker I spent several years not taking care of my teeth.

I just didn’t have it in me.  Couldn’t see the point.  I was under so much stress that I didn’t have the spoons to brush my teeth or commit to any kind of oral hygiene.  It’s not the only thing I neglected; I wore dirty clothes and didn’t shower every day, too, for example.  And, well...once my teeth started to fall apart, that just reinforced the notion that there wasn’t any point.

Now I’m taking care of myself.  I’m showering more than twice a week.  I’m wearing clean clothes.  I’m taking vitamins, and eating regularly, and cutting back on sugar, and brushing my teeth twice a day, but the damage has been done--my teeth are in shambles.  I have one bottom molar left, now.  It sucks.  It makes me feel ugly.  I’m still adjusting to how to chew things now that these teeth have come out.  Thankfully, I still have all of my canines and incisors, but it still sucks.

I have three problem teeth up top, still--a molar that’s almost worn in half, and the two wisdom teeth, which are nubs.  I’m...having to look into getting partial dentures on the bottom.  It feels horrible to have to do, like I’ve personally screwed up.  Frankly, before partials were brought up, I felt kind of hopeless.  I still don’t feel great about it, but I have some hope, now.

Ugh.  This sucks ass.  At least I shouldn’t be getting anything else out for a long while.

[camthewizard]

Ding Dong Daddy, like Mad Mod, is a villain from the original late Sixties Teen Titans who has never managed to -leave- the Sixties.

Oh I just had assumed that DDD represented the greatest villain we all must face in our lives: Hipsters.

[mindareadsoots]

I like that theory.

I mean I really like that theory.

The problem is that Little Voice isn’t a singer. Almost all of the major guest stars on Steven Universe have notable musical careers. Yellow and Blue Diamond are voiced by Broadway performer Patti LuPone and singer Lisa Hannigan. All of the fusions are also singers of one type or another.

Cristina Vee, the actress who plays Little Voice, is a major anime voice actress, but that puts her in the same company as Crispin Freeman, the voice of Connie’s dad, a character who last appeared in Winter Forecast. 

So as cool as it would be for the Little Voice to be more than she seems, my hopes aren’t high that she’s going to show up again.

[loreweaver-universe]

@evilmidnightlurker actually, I’ve been calling it Hatred’s Demise!  It bookends a couple things from Skyward Sword, and ends with hope, not the stagnation of the past cycles.

[loreweaver-universe]

@luxmyth I’m excited too :>

@morganwick Not off the top of my head!  Fill me in.

I actually haven’t  It’d be a good use of my brain, but it’s not what I love to do.

This is what I love to do.

@jeeperso @evilmidnightlurker so it is!

[timemachineliveblogs]

Kinklauding.

this is a breakthrough