No, working in the middle east made me paranoid (some of my friends there too). We would say "ah your being paranoid" then it would turn out, "not paranoid enough". It's something I brought back to the west, comes in handy sometimes other times not.

(09-22-2011, 06:01 PM)aussiefriend Wrote: No, I think working in the middle east made me paranoid, and it's something I brought back with me to the west. comes in handy sometimes, other times not.

You should start a thread about Sharia law. I think it would be very interesting & I know you got to be familiar with it when you were working there.

(09-22-2011, 05:33 PM)sally Wrote: he makes such a mess doing it that it's not even worth it. You'd be sweeping up onions, garlic and flour all day.

Desperate times call for desperate measures, I think I'd probably tolerate a big clean up...if he came in & made seven evening meals all at once, once a week, that would be totally worth it.

(09-22-2011, 06:07 PM)Duchess Wrote:

(09-22-2011, 06:01 PM)aussiefriend Wrote: No, I think working in the middle east made me paranoid, and it's something I brought back with me to the west. comes in handy sometimes, other times not.

You should start a thread about Sharia law. I think it would be very interesting & I know you got to be familiar with it when you were working there.

If we did a thread on Sharia, they would come poking their heads here in Mock and extreme ones would do something negative. I wouldn't touch it.

We all know the drill. It aint preddy.

I fancy myself as a pretty solid cook..well, at least until the other night. We had an out of town guest come over for supper. Wifey decides to make a shrimp scampi-type dish served over noodles.

Like a good hubby, I offer to help. The Scampi called out for the grated rind of a lemon, and the juice of one lemon

Yours truly dutifully cut the lemon in half, and squeezed the juice out, then grated the entire outside of the lemon, not realizing that the "rind" is only the part between the fruit, and the outer skin. There's a reason for that, as I/we found out.

Wifey makes the dish, and we all set down to eat. Holy shit, the dish tasted like someone poured a cup of quinine into the scampi sauce. Meal ruined. Wifey couldnt eat it, guest ate about ¹⁄₂ of it (and that says a lot, as he's a soldier that had just returned from 1 year of eating shit food in Afghanistan). I managed to choke mine down, but man, I was tasting the bitterness for about 3 hours after I had finished the meal. Daughter would have nothing to do with it.

Lesson learned, the rind of a fruit does not include the outside skin

Sammich anyone?

I'm thinking, my family and guest would have loved one the other night. Shoulda asked the wifey to makes us some.

(09-24-2011, 08:22 AM)thekid65 Wrote: I'm thinking, my family and guest would have loved one the other night. Shoulda asked the wifey to makes us some.

Shaddup Kid pud.