Don’t get a Dyson Vacuum until after you get new carpet. (This is just a .gif experiment. Note to self: use more pixels.)
Explicitly detail how to deal with printers when you provide image files to your dad.
Eating a big breakfast is a surefire way to guarantee sloth for the rest of the day.
(Photo by Gregory Clifford Denton)
Mmm… I’d never cooked my own scallops before, bt it turned out so well I’m definitley going to do it again.
Jared’s intern and a friend of his came over for dinner on Thursday night and we had a great time. I made a pound of angel hair pasta and a pound of scallops, along with some garlic bread and it wasn’t quite enough to stuff the younger guys. I’ll have to remember next time that teenage boys eat a LOT more than a 25 year old man on a weight-loss bender.
I rinsed the scallops with cold water to thaw them, salted both sides, and rinsed them again after 10 mintues. The salt had pulled out a bunch of water. I think this is a more important step if you get “wet scallops” than if you get “dry” but I’m still glad I did it. I also dried the scallops with a paper towel before I tossed them in the frying pan.
As an aside, while I was preparing the yummy scallops, I also washed, sliced, salted, left for 15 minutes, rinsed, and dried two very large zucchini, and tossed them in a deep, covered pan with pre-heated olive oil and garlic. I ended up turning the burner off instead of turning it up (which is pretty much the last step) and only noticed they they had not cooked AT ALL as I was getting ready to serve them. Don’t be like me. I’m still mad about the loss of veggie.
Back to the scallops:
Before they went in the pan, I started out with a stick of butter, two cloves of garlic pressed in, and the zest from a lemon. When that was heated nicely, I dumped in arrange the scallops neatly and LEFT THEM ALONE for about 5 minutes. Leaving something alone in a pan that is sizzling is VERY HARD for me. It’s also VERY important to do in order get a nice “sear” “carmelization” or “yummy brown crust” on anything from scallops to onions to hash browns.
I turned the scallops over after 5 minutes, and right then I should have turned the heat down. I didn’t, but they still turned out ok. I LEFT THEM ALONE for another 3 mintues or so, just to get done on the other side, (who needs carmelization on more than one side, anyway, it’s just for looking at, right? Kinda. Anyways.
I put the pound of (cooked, drained) angel hair pasta in a big bowl, arranged my scallops on top, and it was pretty just like that! You relaly do need sauce with pasta though.
So, I just added another stick of butter and the juice of the lemon I had just zested to the scallop cooking pan. You can take the pan off the heat to do this, you just want to melt the butter, you don’t need to cook it any more. Scrape up all the yummies from the bottom of the pan (unless they look absolutely black, they will be delicious. If they are really, really black you can just avoid the scraping part, and swirl the lemon juice and butter around on top ouf your burned mess) and pour the whole delicious buttery goodness over the pasta and scallops. I took a bunch of chopped up fresh basil and sprinkled it on the top, then shredded some parmeson over the whole bowl.
Oh, it was good. I don’t have any pictures, you’ll just have to take my word for it until you make it yourself.
If you’re worried about the flavor of the scallops you don’t need to be, they were so lemony and buttery. I’m sure you could make this same recipe with chicken though, if you have picky family members.
PS: Don’t forget to make sure all of your burners are on, or you won’t have any veggies.
I just accidentally spammed two posts. I had a list of 50 that were marked as potential spam and noticed as I was clicking “ok that Amy PT’s and Christina’s comments were in there. I’m sorry ladies! I value your input, and deleting your comments was purely accidental!
Maybe ya’ll are smarter than me, or have more of a drive to look things up when you don’t know what they mean, but until today, I didn’t know exactly what the phrase “apropos or nothing” meant. I knew how to say it, thanks to a Sheryl Crow song (”App-roe-poe” in case you’re interested) but never was quite sure of how to use it. Well, I’ve been enlightened, and now you will be too.
Apropos (app-roe-poe): with regard to what we’re talking about.
Apropos of nothing (app-roe-poe uf nu-th-eeng): off the topic.
So there’s your (my) lesson for the day.
Apropos of nothing, when we were younger, a lot of people mistook my little sister for a boy. (Love ya Cassie.)
He can officially “shake paws”
That’s on top of “sit”, “stay”, “lay down”, and “take it gentle.”
We’re still working on “get your big hairy black butt out from in front of the refrigerator.”
Jared knows that one though.
We can still be friends. I’m still going to take part in social networking, like Twitter, blogging, and e-mailing but some of the other websites I visit have been too much for me lately and I need a hiatus.
I don’t get pre-menstrual symptoms, I get trans-menstrual symptoms. And yep, right now, I’m a bitch. A crampy, bleeding, generally unpleasant person. Don’t even get me started on the stomach issues.
I had been on some form of hormonal birth control since I was 16. The pill was my best friend, even when I had a little trouble remembering to take it. It got me though flings, friends, not-boyfriends, boyfriends, and yes, I even was on the pill when I got married. It was baby-free bliss. I never had a pregnancy scare, not once, in my 10 years of getting laid. I was comfortable, I was care free, I was everything the tampon commercials wanted me to believe I could be. (I even wasn’t getting my period. It’s a miracle!)
Then I decided to try the shot.
First off, I don’t like shots. I don’t really know what I was thinking when it comes to this point. I turn into a shaky, weak-kneed wuss the second I see a nurse aiming a syringe at me.
(Well, maybe I couldn’t SEE her eyeing the bulls-eye on my ass, but I knew she was there.)
I had had it so good.
I got the shot in December, and after having a total body-wide system freakout finally got my first “real” period (not just the random spotting I had for the 3 weeks after I GOT the damn shot) in July, and now I’m on the second one.
And I’m grumpy about it.
I think I’m going back to Seasonale.
PS, if you need to figure out your birth control, I’m not trying to dissuade you from trying the shot. I do know people that love it. I wish it had worked out for me!
(I don’t talk about work a lot, first off I don’t want to get Dooced. Secondly, I think where I work and what I do are kind of boring and don’t want to bitch too much here, because that is what I would do if I got too much on a roll, but I am going to mention it today. )
Yesterday I felt pretty cruddy all day. I had a cough, my sinuses were blocked, and I had this little headache that didn’t seem bad enough to do anything about, but was still annoying. I mentioned it to my co-worker, with who I share a double-wide cube (Klassy.) and let her know that I just thought it was a sinus thing.
This morning I took a hot shower, and on the way to work, the floodgates weren’t just opened, they were bombed and destroyed. By the time I got to work, I was sneezing, snotty, and so distracted that by 9:00, I had barely gotten started on the days work, which is highly out of character for me.
Now I had a conundrum with a few circumstances to consider.
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