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Hey Norwegian forumites,

I made brunost!

It's not that yellow, the lighting in my kitchen just sucks. It's definitely not brown either though--more like beige-ost. It's very salty and a little sweet. This is my second shot at whey cheese; I tried making it a couple of years back but the pot boiled over and burned me and I threw the whole thing away out of spite.

Now what should I eat with it?

Aww, congratulations, Pooka. She's perfect. :)

No, but I'm willing to be persuaded. What do you think?

In a good way or a bad way?

I re read some of the posts and found this, I am happy to think that it seems they avoided most of these?

I really like the Johnny Lee Miller and Lucy Liu combo despite initial hesitation and overall have enjoyed it. Occasionally it feels a little CSI, but then it is a show about solving murders.

This--the writing and acting have both been top notch and I ended up loving Elementary. It's the only show I'm watching on TV at the moment, and I always look forward to it. One of the few shows I trust to handle race, sexuality, and gender without making me cringe--and that's down to good writing and good character development.

You mean room to grow vegetables? We have a sort of deck area where we could set a few pots out, but it gets about 5 minutes of sun on a good day so it's not a great option.

YES!

Whitney's parents send her home with bok choy every time she visits them. She usually cooks some dehydrated garlic in canola oil over medium heat, then throws in the bok choy and cooks it until it reduces down, turns off the heat, and adds a couple of tablespoons of oyster sauce. It's really good!

My wife got me this for my birthday:

Aww thanks guys! Lou, would if I could. I'll let you guys know next time we visit Ann Arbor, maybe we can have a little STH get-together. :)

I will offer the caveat that I haven't kept up with it after episode 4, so I'm not sure how they're doing these days. BUT Orlando Jones has been energetically trolling the fandom on Tumblr, so it's worth watching just for that.

No, my worry is that I watched that and had a bob each way. I kinda understand Furys point. Someone tasked him with protecting a society, and that society is the declared target of people like Red Skull and Hydra and so forth. If he plays by the rules of Gentlemanly Behaviour he will fail his task and families will be burnt to death by fire-storms. A follows B folks, and would you rather have your outmoded sensibilities offended or your child's eyeballs not boiling?.

This is the problem with creating a fictionalized universe where you really DO need "preemptive justice" to save the world. It creates a false moral conundrum.

Also, this is especially prominent in superhero comics, where the villains very rarely are motivated by anything which motivates real world villains, but rather want "world domination" or just plain like to make people suffer, or are crazy. In the real world most villainy has a political source, and thus a political solution, in a superhero world that isn't necessarily the case.

+1

Congrats Greg. :)

Wow, that's beautiful. Great job Avaunt, that is a very cool talent to have.

For reference:

Cornrows: out

Undercuts: IN

Whitney has an undercut, along with roughly 75% of urban American hipster dudes, and 98% of lesbians under the age of thirty.

]It's like your haircut is cancelling itself out, fashion-wise.

Umm, OK?

Like, one is very trendy and the other is very un-trendy--you know what I mean. Never mind. It looks good, is what I meant to say.

Was that a quick year or WHAT ! ! !

I know right? Thanks everybody, we had a good one! Even ate a slice of year-old wedding cake out of the freezer (it was gross).

Today is Whitney's and my first wedding anniversary, and sixth relationship anniversary. If all the years are like this one has been I will be a very very happy woman. :)

I'm really enjoying Sleepy Hollow actually--it's dumb, but reasonably fun, and I love the "woman of color keeps an eccentric British guy on a short leash" dynamic that seems pretty popular right now. Actually, Whitney and I were talking about race in this show last week: [spoiler: as of the second episode, every major character from the modern world is of color, which is amazing and very very unusual for a mainstream network show. All the white characters are either transplants from the past (Ichibod Crane & the Horseman) or exist only in dreams (his dead witch wife) or flashbacks (George Washington, Abbie's dead cop partner). In the world of the show, 18th-century (all-white) Sleepy Hollow is basically invading 21st-century Sleepy Hollow (represented by a black hero, an Asian villain, and a black semi-sympathetic authority figure, with Abbie's sister being introduced as another potential black hero, this time an anti-establishment one).] However the show handles race going forward, it is definitely an interesting setup and worth tuning in for.

Actually Avaunt, I get to play lots of games while she does hundreds and hundreds of pages of reading for her classes and looks on enviously. It's awesome.

Lou, we're in Rogers Park/Edgewater, near the Loyola University campus--Whitney actually goes to Northwestern but the rent is way cheaper down here and there's a free shuttle for the commute.

Oh, Lou, that's heartbreaking. Still, it says wonderful things about you that you're a soft touch for animals in need.

I don't know if I mentioned this here yet, but we are in Chicago for the next few years while my wife does a PhD in Media Studies--i.e. she writes academic papers about video games. I think she's working on something about the CGI in LA Noire at the moment. Meanwhile, I am looking for jobs in academic administration--I'd love something where I can sit at a desk and write while nobody's looking--and sending my stories out to literary magazines for the first time in years. It's pretty exciting. :)

Here's a recipe for a cheese-egg-bread souffle, adapted from a recipe I got out of a 1936 issue of Woman's Home Companion (they called this sort of thing "fondue" at the time). It is absolutely delicious and requires only ingredients I always have in my house, so it's in regular rotation for the time being..

Cheese Fondue

1/2 a small onion, finely chopped

1 tbsp butter

1 1/2 cups milk

1 1/2 cups soft bread crumbs (i.e. hearty sandwich bread cut into small cubes)

1 cup grated cheese

4 eggs, separated

Salt, pepper, cayenne pepper, and paprika to taste

1. In a medium-sized saucepan, saute the onion in the butter. Add the milk and heat until it steams and just bubbles around the edges, then stir in the bread crumbs and seasonings.

2. Turn off the heat and add the cheese, stirring constantly until it begins to melt.

3. Add slightly beaten egg yolks.

4. Cool to lukewarm--you can even stick it in the refrigerator for a few hours if needed.

5. Beat the egg whites until stiff peaks form, then fold into the bread and cheese mixture.

6. Turn the mixture into a greased baking dish (8 inch x 8 inch is just barely big enough, it should be no more than three-fourths full). Bake in 350 degree F oven for 40-45 minutes.

7; Eat.

Whoa, Red, is that an undercut with cornrows? It's like your haircut is cancelling itself out, fashion-wise.

CONGRATS BRO!