Cooker doors

[luckykaa]

I broke the door to the cooker. I must find time to see a play. And I think I'm getting the hang of veggie cooking.

Actually, the cooker door just broke. I don't think I was really to blame. I was simply cleaning it and the window fell out. Mister Muscle probably doesn't do the glue a lot of good. Glued it back now (I am also the proud owner of a pair of tubes of heat resistant binary adhesive), but the door is sitting and waiting until such a time as it can be used again. That takes about 4-6 hours. Getting the glue wasn't easy. B&Q doesn't mention it has any heat resistant adhesives on its website. Homebase doesn't mention anything at all, but that's local, so I went down there. Looked. Couldn't find it. So I asked. The first thing I was shown was some impact adhesive. I tried to explain that I wanted it to be heat resistant, which is why I asked for a "heat resistant" adhesive. The girl at the information desk was kind enough to find someone who could help. He looked, but couldn't find anythign that he could recommend. Eventually found what I was looking for in Halfords.

I've recently started trying to get the hang of veggie cooking. Todays recipe was a veggie korma. Made from Aubergine, Sweet potato, and cauliflower. Worked... adequately at first. Then I threw in some tomatoes. That really improved the flavour. Bit of a problem though. Currently I don't seem to be able to come up with a veggie recipe without tomatoes or spinach.

My game has got somewhere at last. Still no game, but I can actually click on a landscape, and add an object. No objects as yet. I'll have to add some mechanism to add them. It actually looks like I'm heading for more of a game designer than a game engine. I'm starting to wonder if I can add all the game logic as scripts, and only have a couple of basic types of entity (moving and static). All AI and stuff can simply use primitives in the code. This is starting to look doable, and it's a lot harder to crash from within Lua.

Ah yes. Lua. What a lovely scripting language. The syntax is simple, the library is lightweight (500K, but that's debug build. Goes down to 186K when I turn on optimisations), and it requires very little work to get to compile. The only problem I had was an easy to fix problem with the compiler, and that hardly matters since I'm just using the library.

For some reason, I really want to see the play "World Cup Final 1966" at Battersea Arts centre. Strange that, considering I hate football. Don't want to go on my own though. Once again I need more friends in London.

The acting thing seems to have stalled slightly. Partly out of apathy, and parly because I realy don't know what to choose. It looked like there are 7 amdram groups. And that seems promising. Which one do I want though? Indecisiveness is often a problem.

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[emerald-le.livejournal.com]

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But you can look at photos of me:))))
Thank you for the long posts!!!!:)
And sorry for the mistakes.


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[ingaborg.livejournal.com]

Veggie meals without tomatoes are a bit of a challenge. I have a few standards:

veg stuffed with nut, cheese, herb and onion stuffing
macaroni cheese
Risotto
Sliced mushrooms fried in butter, then add red wine and cook down, stir in yoghurt at last minute, serve with rice

tomato-free vegan is trickier though!

[luckykaa.livejournal.com]

hmm...

What nuts do you use, and what veg do you stuff?

I don't know any vegans. If I even find any that want to be fed, they can either like tomatoes, or cook their own meals.

[ingaborg.livejournal.com]

I use a mix of nuts, ground in a coffee grinder (you could chop them finely if you don't have a grinder, or buy them ready chopped). I grind the different nuts separately, then mix them together. Nuts I use include brasil, hazel, almond, walnut.

Then I mix them up with finely chopped onion, grated cheese, herbs, salt and pepper. The exact proportions don't seem to be critical - just make up enough stuffing to fill your veg. I expect you could add breadcrumbs or cooked rice if you wanted to stretch the stuffing further.

Veg to stuff include butternut squash, mushrooms and peppers. Remove seeds and halve if appropriate, then shove the stuffing in, and bake the veg in a moderate to hot oven until done. In fact I'm pretty sure I've fed you these on occasions?

Potato and chickpea curries can be good even without spinach or tomato. I've also been served some excellent wacky curries, such as banana, or boiled egg. If you can find Jack Santa Maria's Indian Vegetarian Cookery secondhand, it's a fine book.

[ingaborg.livejournal.com]

If you want to choose an amdram group, why not write down the pros and cons for each - if that doesn't allow you to pick a shortlist, then do it with dice.

[luckykaa.livejournal.com]

The die roll thing is a good idea.

Don't happen to have a D7 do you?

[ingaborg.livejournal.com]

Roll a D8 until you get a non-zero!

[luckykaa.livejournal.com]

I could just roll a D6 for each one eliminating the non-highest scores, but that ruins the joke :P