beat my crazy egyptian fiancee in scrabble' :rolleyes:

Get More food! i just had a reuben from the cafeteria. it was quite good, but i am HUNGRY.

EAT...I'm starving...

...take another pain killer. . .but NO . I have to GO TO WORK and be LUCID and mildly COHERENT. . . wtf?

(on the plus side i'm getting very good at typing with only one finger on my right hand!)

Heh...Amateur...I've been doing that for YEARS :p :D

I have had 2 Sweet & salty nut bars (peanut) from Nature Valley, and i am on coffee number 2. I want:

A movie and some time.

Me too, but for a dirtier reason :D

Let me guess, your hands are a bit fuzzy in the palm region and you are losing your sense of vision....

Hey how'd you know? Is it serious? Is it contagious? Am I gonna die? Can you see me right now?

Cup of coffee...And...


Get Dustin to take a hint...lol

Everyone can see you through the internet. Remember ITS WATCHING YOU.

Yes it is contagious. It makes baby jesus cry, and you will burn in hell. It's like aborting 1000 babies at once, you evil man. :)

Heh...It worked...He's making coffee...that was COOL :cool: LOL...He said, "Swweeeettt...Genocide rocks"

Sounds like skin head recruiting for the 90s

Dude, don't you like, totally hate it when someone non-white shows you up?

Hit him with a bat, then hate on him, TO THE XTREME!

Skinhead soda.. Now in Xtreme neon razzzberry and XXtreme Green

LOL...Nah...He doesn't discriminate...The only race he really gets disgusted with is the HUMAN race...lol



He's not so bad...He just made me coffee...With chocolate cream...mmmmm

I didnt think he was evil, thats just what the genocide comment made me think up :)

i havce a weird brain. fortunately, i know how to use it.

Make some banana pudding with whipped cream and Nilla wafers.
There's a recipe on the box of Nilla wafers.:)

Oh...That reminds me...I HAVE to make banana bread tonight...The bananas are ripe....I put pineapples in it, too :)

spend some bonding time with my beautiful fiancee. :D

Oh, that sounds GOOD....I've never had it with pineapple.....do you have a recipe?:)

Yes...But...It's my own...I've never given it to anyone else (never thought to actually), but everyone here just loves it...I have to make LOTS at one time, and it ALL goes within an hour or so...


I guess it's really more of a 'hawaiian bread' with the pineapples in it :)


1 cup Shortening
2 cups Brown Sugar (I use brown instead of white because it gives it a richer flavor and moister texture)
4 Eggs
1 1/2 cups Mashed RIPE Bananas (about 4-6 normal sized bananas...Best when they start getting black spots and turn squishy)
2 1/2 cups Flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon Salt
2 teaspoons Vanilla Extract
2 cans Crushed Pineapple (or 1 big can), or just 1 regular sized can, depending on how much pineapple you like

Mix shortening and sugar together, until smooth. Add eggs and vanilla, beat well. Add bananas. Mix completely.

In a separate bowl, mix all dry ingredients together. Add banana mixture to dry ingredients. Mix it all together. Dump in pineapples (and half the juice). Mix all very well.

Preheat oven to 350°.

Butter 13 X 9 pan and 9x9 pan (or whatever it takes for how much mixture you have, they should be filled 3/4 the way full).

Pour in mixture.

Bake approximately 45 minutes to an hour...Keep checking the middle to see if it's done after about 30-45 minutes. The size of the pans you use will determine how long it takes for them to bake all the way.


I know that doesn't sound like a 'formal' recipe...But, like I said...It's my own :)

yummy!

I've copied that recipe too....it sounds delicious...
i do have 1 question though, what is 'shortening'?
we don't have anything called that in the UK, so what does it consist of/what does it do? :confused:

Congratulations on rearranging your sweetie situation.



OH! You know what I want right now, is CHOCOLATE MINT coffee. I might be able to make some m'self if i can't find it. I have a strange desire for it right now.

Fat used for cooking.
Can get hotter before it goes crazy-smoky. Can be made with animal fats, or vegetable oils (or blended) Will generally solidify at room temperature. Good for high temperature cooking.
It can also stop gluten from developing in baking...erm, that would be it will stop the gluten from becoming activated when manipulated/kneeded/rolled with dough/pastry, and stop it from forming "long" strands (which is what it does for bread) and keeps those there strands "short", for stuff like shortcrust (sweet) pastry.
And yes, the name of shortening has SOMETHING to do with that, as I'm told.

That's great, thanks phalanx, i might have a go at this next week :)

Oops...I'm sorry...I didn't consider any possible culinary differences in other countries :o

Thank you Cheeba

And the vegetable kind is what you need to use...Do you have Crisco (the white solid kind, not the oil...Oil will NOT work)...Or anything like that?

vegetable oil in a solid block...you just know the guys aren't gonna understand that sentence don't ya, hee hee

i'm sure i'll be able to find some, thanks, as soon as i get some i'll try it out :D

Yeah...I know...It's not oil at all...It's kinda like a 'vegetable lard' if you can imagine that...It's called 'All-Vegetable Shortening'


I'm gonna find you a picture and see if I can locate a possible match in the UK :)

I found the PERFECT link:
http://www.practicallyedible.com/edi...9!opendocument

And it says this there:
Many people in the UK are confused by the term "Shortening" and don't think it is available in the UK. In fact, in the UK shortening is available under brand names such as Cookeen, Trex, White Flora, etc.

...punch a certain girl's lights out.

Sorry!...I was JUST sharing a recipe!!!


:p :D :D :D

That's brilliant, thanks, yeah that stuff's easy to ge here, just never heard it called that before :D

No problem...Now I have that information for future reference...I appreciate that :)

i really wanna...
 

kill my downstairs neighbour; she's thrown her bf out again and he's yelling and hammering on her door which is right next to mine:mad:

Be a movie publisher, or whatever you call it. I'm getting sick of bad dialog & grammar in movies.

That's an awesome recipe...I'm gonna try it next weekend:)

Right now I wanna smack Keanu Reeves for his bad english accent in Dracula....
If only he wasn't so cute.:rolleyes:

The bitchinest line in that movie: "I've SEEN many strange things ALREADY--bloody wolves chasing me through some blue INFERNO!??!"

Heal

Candy Bar

. . . cup of coffee (which thankfully has just finished brewing. . .ahhhh)