Tuesday, December 15, 2015

Dessert


This thing was super easy to make. It's basically water, gelatin, sugar and fresh cranberries whirred in a blender and poured into a mold.  'Cuz I can use blender.  ;P

28 Comments:

Anonymous arekino said...

Wow, it almost looks like a living things. for a moment there I wondered if you'd put up a pic of some kind of jellyfish. The glass plate looks like it's part of it. :)

Looks tasty BTW. :)

What's the white stuff?

Wednesday, December 16, 2015 9:24:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The mold itself had a lot of ridges and grooves and the flash from the camera just made everything glisten. The white stuff is a layer of sour cream. It was really delicious. :)

I didn't think to get a pic of the latkes. If I make another batch I'll get a pic. :)

And what are you up to on this fine day, Arekino-san? I've been washing my bed linens and putting them away. It's very hot outside. :/

Wednesday, December 16, 2015 2:12:00 PM  
Anonymous arekino said...

If I make another batch I'll get a pic.

Please do. :)

And what are you up to on this fine day, Arekino-san?

Apart from pricking my fingers and drawing blood to get a full blood sugar day curve, I've received some new comic books. I'm reading those now. Two comics drawn by Mike Mignola, one written by Alan Moore and one made by a couple of French guys in 1971. I had read parts of that last comic as a child in a magazine that my dad once had a subscription on. The title is "The Empire Of A Thousand Planets", an adventure of Valerian and Laureline, a team of space/time travellers. Apparently there's going to be a movie made based on that story.

I bought that book mostly for the art and the nostalgia.

It's very hot outside.

That's odd. It not even warm here. Hm.

Wednesday, December 16, 2015 4:19:00 PM  
Blogger Xul said...

That's odd. It not even warm here. Hm.
Well, for Florida it's not that odd. I'd prefer the temperature that you have over there, though. ;)

I'd like your opinion on something. Earlier today the guy who buys fruit came around to see what we had on the tree. QoH is paranoid about the neighbors working for the govt as spies. The guy gave her $ for the fruit but she wouldn't let him pick it because the neighbor was outside "spying". Fruit guy left and was going to come back later when the "spy" was gone. When he did come back, QoH gave him back the money and he left without the fruit.

I thought QoH made it clear that she wasn't selling because the govt would find out. She seemed very adamant about it. Then she started screaming at me about patching the roof. Well, I couldn't do that while the fruit guy was here, because then he would know that we had a leak, right? ::facepalm:: Anyway, I go up on the roof and start working. An hour or so later QoH comes out and starts screaming at me that I need to take the orchids out of the tree. I'm like 'why the hell do I need to do that?' She gets pissed and says snarkily 'why the hell do you think?' Oh, I get it. You who was so adamant about not selling the fruit because govt, has suddenly changed your mind and I'm supposed to be a mind reader.

She proceeded to take all but the 2 heaviest orchids out of the tree and then yelled to me that the next time I come down if I could take the last 2 out of the tree. Eventually I had to come down for a break. QoH had gone back in the house. I took the 2 orchids down and put them with the others. I went back up on the roof to finish.

A while later QoH comes back out and starts talking at me about something (I don't have a chance to get a word in). Then she gets nasty and wants to know when I'm going to take the 2 orchids down. I told her I already did. She gets mad and wants to know why I didn't tell her. ::facepalm:: (because you were in the house and when you came back out I couldn't get a word in edgewise) Then she says, 'Oh that's just like you, always sneaky.' I'm thinking WTF?!? You asked me to take them down, I did, and now I'm sneaky because I did what you asked of me? Arekino, seriously? WTF? Am I missing something here? I know I've lived inside the looking glass so long that my perception is getting funky, but what the actual fuck? How the hell am I wrong in this? This shit does my head in.

Wednesday, December 16, 2015 11:24:00 PM  
Anonymous arekino said...

How the hell am I wrong in this?

Nah, it's not you, it's her.

What kind of fruit are orchids BTW? And they grow on trees?

Thursday, December 17, 2015 1:30:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Oh, the orchids (exotic flowers) are hanging in their baskets from the avocado tree. The guy wants the avocados. So the orchids have to be moved so they don't get damaged.

Thursday, December 17, 2015 1:59:00 PM  
Blogger Xul said...

Arekino-san, would you be amenable to adventures if you had a Xul to go with?

Anyway, QoH must think I'm some sort of personal chef who is here to make any culinary whim of hers. Now she wants me to make cheese blintzes. Grrrrr...that involves making crepe skins and then the cheese filling and then frying them. Not really difficult as I am the crepe skin master, just a pain in the ass. I'm planning on making some gingerbread, though, as it is the season for that sort of thing. :)

Thursday, December 17, 2015 8:18:00 PM  
Anonymous arekino said...

would you be amenable to adventures if you had a Xul to go with?

Having Xul to go with may actually be a required. ;P

I wanted to go on adventures when I was a kid. Never got round to it. What kind of adventures are you thinking of?

Friday, December 18, 2015 1:21:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Well, if I ever make it over to your side I intend to make the most of it. I'd like to see Mont Saint Michel and some of the dolmens and neolithic crap in France and England and maybe some of the old cathedrals and crap like that. There is also some old mine/cave thingy IIRC near Maastrict that I'd like to check out. I hear that it has some old naughty graffiti in it. ;P

BTW, I ran into some interesting things while virtually exploring last night. Do you happen to know what your rh factor is concerning your blood type? And if you don't mind me asking, what is your blood type? I assure you it's for strictly scientific purposes. ;P

Friday, December 18, 2015 2:06:00 PM  
Anonymous arekino said...

I wouldn't mind seeing the Norwegian fjords in real life. Or the Swiss Alps, of course. I'm staying the hell away from mount Etna in Italy though. There's the hot geysers in Iceland, the pyramids in Egypt, the African and Southern American jungles. They say Siberia in Russia can be a beautiful place. The cities in Japan. The villages of Tibet. Venice. New York. The hurricanes in Florida. :)

I assure you it's for strictly scientific purposes.

I'm sure it is. Unfortunately, I know neither the Rhesus factor nor the type of my blood. I think the local hospital knows but they've never bothered to tell me. Also, I never asked.

Are you planning on doing scientific experiments on my precious and vulnerable body? ;P

Saturday, December 19, 2015 2:01:00 PM  
Blogger Xul said...

I'm staying the hell away from mount Etna

My friend Fuzzy sent me a pic maybe 15 or 20 years ago from when she went to Vesuvius. It looked like something from the moon. Very barren. I wouldn't want to visit something like that. I'd like to see Iceland, though. My ex-friend C went to Egypt with her husband several years ago and said the place was a shit hole and the pyramids weren't that impressive when you see them in person. ;P I'd like to see the Alps, too, as well as Japan. Take it from me, you don't want to have to go through a hurricane. ;P

Are you planning on doing scientific experiments on my precious and vulnerable body? ;P

No, I was just doing some anthropological research. ;)

QoH is being her usual nasty self today. I got a recording of her ranting at me for 10 minutes. It wasn't her nastiest, but close. I want to get a recording of her saying her most vile rhetoric. Usually she starts in on me when I'm nowhere near my phone or I can't get to in surreptitiously. It'll happen eventually because she is nasty with me almost every day. Then I will have proof of her abuse and no one can say I'm exaggerating or taking things the wrong way.

Saturday, December 19, 2015 6:37:00 PM  
Anonymous arekino said...

I was just doing some anthropological research.

What kind?

Then I will have proof of her abuse

When do yo think you will you need this proof?

I hope your weekend is going well otherwise?

Sunday, December 20, 2015 12:28:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

What kind? The migratory kind. ;P

If I ever decide to seek help.

Weekend is as shitty as any other day. Tell ya about it later.

Sunday, December 20, 2015 5:45:00 PM  
Blogger Xul said...

Okay, I am back home. What a freakin' day. Earlier I was on the phone with a family member (I was in my room) and I opened the door to go to the bathroom when who do I find standing outside my room eavesdropping? Yep. And she was giving me the most evil and hateful look. We were supposed to go to the Sam's up in Sunrise and I was sure she was going to berate me the whole way there. To my surprise, she didn't. But she was her usual idiotic self when she got there. Any normal person saves getting meat for the end. She gets it at the beginning and then it's sitting out at room temperature for 2 hours before paying. She annoys me so bad when I'm shopping with her that I just have to wander off to preserve my sanity, then she gets all pissed off because I wander off. There was some minor sniping back and forth at the store, and I stormed off at the end, but the big blow up came when she wanted to go to the Walmart.

She is sooooo fucking annoying when she drives. Suddenly she becomes all waify and has to ask me every 2 fucking seconds 'Is this my turn? Don't let me miss my turn. Is this my turn?' GAH!!! It's not like it's the 1st time she's been there. It's SO FUCKING ANNOYING. And then she's constantly saying that she can't see. Fuck me running. If you can't see, then why the hell are you driving? Well you sure as hell know she isn't going to give up control to let me drive.

Anyway, I had reached my saturation point of annoyance and said something sarcastic and she fucking started flipping out screaming abuse at me. I pulled out my phone to start recording her and that caused her to flip out even more. She was threatening to smash my phone/cancel it, screaming 'fuck you!' at me, the whole shebang. She even hit me in the leg in an attempt to grab my phone (nearly wrecking the car in the process). Then as she's pulling into the Walmart parking lot she's still trying to hit me/grab my phone so I jumped out. Then she screams at me "fuck you!' again and tells me I can walk home. Home being 15 miles away. She drove off and I saw her exiting the parking lot to the main street. I wasn't that concerned and I went inside the store to go to the bathroom. No sooner had I went in and washed my hands then guess who is calling me? Yeah, with more threats that I had better come to the front of the store and get in the truck RIGHT NOW or she's going to leave me there, then she hangs up. I called her back and then calmly asked her about the lemon extract that she wanted me to get. Long story short, she eventually calmed the fuck down and came inside. She had also wanted me to look for bras and underpants for her (a set-up for failure, as only she can decide if she likes something or not). Anyway, me luring her into the store was a good way to get her to calm down because she isn't going to pull her shit in front of peeps in the store. Eventually she got out of rage mode and back to normal. She was fairly normal on the ride home. What a fucking life, eh?

Sunday, December 20, 2015 10:12:00 PM  
Blogger Xul said...

Arekino-san, would you be willing to accompany me to "Dracula's Castle" aka Bran Castle in Romania? I found good lodging for cheap. I haz platinum card with high limit. ;P ;D I'd also like to check out Castle Predjama in Slovenia. That one kills 2 of my interests with one stone as it's a castle IN a cave. ;P

Sunday, December 20, 2015 11:01:00 PM  
Anonymous arekino said...

And she was giving me the most evil and hateful look.

Hm, I don't think she likes you much...

What a fucking life, eh?

Never a dull moment. ;P

I found good lodging for cheap.

Something tell me the price for that would be... a pint of blood? ;P

So that's why you wanted to know my blood type. :)

Have you been watching travel shows or something?

Monday, December 21, 2015 1:54:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Yeah, she's screamed in my face many times that she hates me. Lovely thing for a parent to say to their kid. :/

Nah, no blood required. It was a cute little guest house. The room was like $20/night. They had lots of pics on the website. It seemed like it had nice modern amenities, free wifi, and was very tidy and clean looking. I've heard before that eastern Europe can be a good value. :)

It wasn't a travel show, it was one about Stonehenge and some other neolithic sites. I had run into an interesting article speculating some genetic things. I'm a big nerd for that sort of stuff so I was compelled to do a little independent research. IMO I think the conclusion of the one article I read is backwards. Rh negative IMO would be direct decedent's of Japheth and not comingled with nephelim dna not the other way around. And Basque have the largest concentration of rh- because of their isolation.

Monday, December 21, 2015 2:44:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Arekino-san! I am watching an episode of Bizarre Foods and they are showing food from your fine country. I am shocked and appalled that you lot are having issues with those pesky geese yet peeps over there are not too keen on hunting them. There are a few hunters but not enough it seems. What you lot need is some American wimminz with shotguns (like yours truly) and let us loose. Then you will rediscover the joys of roasted goose. Tis a shame you lot don't do game foul like we do over here. They're quite yummy. :)

BTW, do you like smoked eel?

Tuesday, December 22, 2015 12:00:00 AM  
Anonymous arekino said...

Rh negative IMO would be direct decedent's of Japheth and not comingled with nephelim dna not the other way around.

Ehm... What now? Japheth? Nephilim? Aren't you taking this a little too seriously? These are fictional characters... right?

you lot are having issues with those pesky geese

Yes, they're trying to take over the country. They want to start a goosocracy.

... I'm not aware of any goose problems here. There's just us chickens...

do you like smoked eel?

I think so. I had some a couple of decades ago which I really liked. Why dost thou asketh?

Tuesday, December 22, 2015 12:53:00 PM  
Blogger Xul said...

Aren't you taking this a little too seriously?

Nah, not really. It doesn't really matter that much. It's just interesting.

These are fictional characters... right?

No, they're real. Japheth was one of the sons of Noah and his offspring are where European people came from. The Nephilim were the offspring of the Watchers and human chicks. Humankind became corrupted with their DNA (Giants and shit) and the Biblical Flood was sent to destroy them. The only problem was that it is suspected that Ham's wife (Noah's youngest son's wife) must've had a bit of Nephilim DNA because Giants reappeared after the Flood. They were all eventually killed off by the Israelites. Anyhoo, just my opinion-- I think Japheth's offspring buggered off to Europe before getting all co-mingled with the other 2 brother's offspring. But after millennia of different waves of human migration, peeps get all jumbled up funky DNA eventually. ;P All I know for sure is that my rh- means that I have above average IQ and I cannot b cloned, so should I run into any mad scientist types while traveling around Europe they'll be SOL. ;P ;D

they're trying to take over the country.

I hear that they have problems with them flying into airplanes at Schiphol Airport. (like goose jihadi suicide kamikazis ;P)

Why dost thou asketh?

Just wondering. I think eel is delicious (especially on sushi). Some people have food hangups and won't eat an eel (like QoH). Glad you don't have that problem. Being around finicky eaters is exhausting. (CB was probably the most finicky "adult" I've ever seen. Like dining with a toddler. My friend Lil was like me and she even said she liked going out to eat with me because I would try anything and not reject food if it was different from what I was used to.)

BTW, I cooked a delicious roasted leg of lamb last night and today I'm busy with cooking some acorn squashes. QoH made some stuffing. I think I'm supposed to make some steaks for Christmas. :)

Tuesday, December 22, 2015 4:39:00 PM  
Anonymous arekino said...

No, they're real.

Listen... You hear that? That's the sound of my sarcasm meter exploding. ;P

I cannot b cloned

Well... Damn! There goes my Christmas wish. ;P

I think I'm supposed to make some steaks for Christmas.

Reindeer steak? :)

You think Xmas is gonna b gud this year? Got any Christmas wishes?

Wednesday, December 23, 2015 1:09:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

You had better watch out Mr Arekino. You're being very sassy and might require a smacked hiney. ;P Or maybe I'll have to send Krampus on over (although I don't think you'll fit in his basket). ;P

Besides, real Xul is better than a cloned one. ;P

I'm assuming the steaks are beef. I don't think QoH would eat reindeer meat.

No wishes in particular. Anything I'd want isn't likely to happen anyway. :/

Wednesday, December 23, 2015 2:36:00 PM  
Blogger Xul said...

I could always get you some Christmas themed novelty underpants. That would fix ya! ;P

Wednesday, December 23, 2015 5:24:00 PM  
Anonymous arekino said...

You're being very sassy

Hey, hey, You're the one being all satirical and stuff. I'm just trying to keep up with you. :)

real Xul is better than a cloned one

Wouldn't 2 Xuls be better than 1? How about 10 Xuls? Think of the erotic possibilities. :D ;P

I don't think QoH would eat reindeer meat.

What she doesn't know won't hurt her. ;P

I could always get you some Christmas themed novelty underpants.

You mean like Rudolf The Red Nosed Reindeer style underpants? ;P

Thursday, December 24, 2015 12:37:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I was being completely serious.

Any clone would only look like me. They wouldn't have had the same life experiences as me to be me. Peeps are a combo of genetics and their experiences + reactions to those experiences. Besides, I don't think you could handle more than one. ;P

She would be able to detect the difference in flavor and color.

Is there a peek hole in those underpants to poke through your shiny polished... ;P

I found a Krampus thong of all things and then a lovely website in the UK that had these ones called "period" underpants. I'll have to post a link when I'm on my laptop. They had kinda awesome graphics for most of them. Only they were of the "boy shorts/briefs" variety. I like bikini or string bikini underpants. They also cad an awesome pair of pants that I wouldn't mind having called "corset" pants. They were basically tight black jeans with lacing all the way up each leg. Very nice. ;D

Thursday, December 24, 2015 1:01:00 PM  
Blogger Xul said...

Here are the linky-loos to see all the kewl things.  Kinda reminds me of a UK version of Spencer's.

I especially like the Cthulu and Krampus ones.  What do you think about the corset trousers?

And MERRY CHRISTMAS AREKINO!!!!!!!! ;P

Thursday, December 24, 2015 11:33:00 PM  
Anonymous arekino said...

I was being completely serious.

About Japhet and Noah and Nephilim and Giants and the Flood and Noah's ark...? How is it at all reasonable to take that in any way seriously?

MERRY CHRISTMAS AREKINO!

Merry Christmas to you too, Xul.

Friday, December 25, 2015 12:08:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I'm not going to get into it with you. Anyway, you didn't give your opinion on the underpants and corset trousers. :X

What are you doing today? Any celebrating?

Friday, December 25, 2015 1:17:00 PM  

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