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By: Lemmonex » Weekending

Lemmonex » Weekending — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:36:32 +0000

[...] for you procrastinators from me. Still don’t know what you are making for your BBQ? Make this cous cous salad, or perhaps this potato salad, or maybe even these burgers and people will love you. If you want [...]

By: BatesHorn

BatesHorn — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:03:22 +0000

FYI: this was a huge hit with the fam this weekend. Thought I would pass along the positive feed back.

Oh, great! So glad to hear it.

By: Jewcano

Jewcano — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 02:33:10 +0000

I wish I had seen this post -before- I made couscous for dinner tonight. I’m still working on the riddle of how two cups of water and two cups of couscous turns into 5 cups of frikkin food. And to top it off (or, rather, not to), I’m out of vinegar. Frikkin couscous.

Of all the pastas, couscous is the biggest bastard.

By: agnostic

agnostic — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 21:19:11 +0000

They’ve sure got some bad girls up there in Rhode Island, eh?

They sure do. They cannot all be as sweet as me.

By: LivitLuvit

LivitLuvit — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:40:35 +0000

Does anyone else remember “geoboards”? It was a wooden plank with equally spaced nails covering it, and we as second graders used a multitude of brightly colored rubber bands to create shapes and, I guess, inadvertently learn something about geometry.

One morning, someone noticed that one of the geoboards had a different design or picture on it every morning when we came in. Someone was sneaking in and altering the geoboard during after-or-before school hours. Bizarre, yes. But more importantly, it was infuriating that we couldn’t figure out who it was. My teacher was genuinely perplexed, and this went on for weeks… finally we figured out it was a HER as well.

Cute little girls get away with so much… but then, I guess that never really changes…

I remember geoboards! Wow, what a blast from the past…

By: Arjewtino

Arjewtino — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:40:08 +0000

Are you sure she was the thief? Are you sure it wasn’t just someone prematurely cleaning out the fridge?

I am never going to hear the end of this. People, don’t ever mess with Arjewtino’s leftovers.

By: BatesHorn

BatesHorn — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:19:44 +0000

Cooked, Garlic is right up there next to butter as one of God’s gifts to humanity.

But Raw, Garlic is borderline unedible. I have a friend that throws raw garlic into her potato salad. Takes days to get that taste out of my mouth.

Yeah, it is really acrid. I don’t quite understand the compulsion to just throw it in everything and I LOVE it. Just a bit much sometimes.

By: Velvet

Velvet — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:04:32 +0000

What an excellent story. I love the kindergarten bandit. It’s usually those kids whose parents are the ones who don’t let them have junk at home. Same sort of theory behind prohibition…

Anyway, thanks for this! I had a couscous recipe at a friend’s house and I think every third ingredient was garlic. Yum. Who knew you could toss stuff in there and make it edible?

I love garlic as much as the next person, but you have to watch out with it, especially with something as delicate as couscous.

By: Former Alpha

Former Alpha — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 13:58:06 +0000

K is now in congress where she has learned that she never need to apologize for stealing other peoples stuff.
I prefer my couscous with duck duck and brandy/merlot cherries.

K is still living in our small town teaching at the high school. May her lunch be stolen by her students…

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 13:41:05 +0000

Have you ever tried making it without the diced pepper? I’m not too crazy about peppers and probably would leave them out if not crucial to the recipe.

I haven’t, but you definitely could leave them out. They add a nice contrast to the fruit, but they are not essential.