gaptoothsanta posted this recipe last week and it definitely struck my fancy and made it last night. Rob made it as a stove-top stew, but since I'm generally out of energy by 5pm especially on work days, we've been eating a lot of crockpot cooking, so I made it in the crockpot.

Here is Rob's recipe:
African based comfort food. This recipe worked well ( Read more... )

littlehoudini told me about this place Sweet Flour months and months ago, whereupon the self-preservation switch in my mind went off and blocked the memory that this place existed.

Then I parked right out front of it on Bloor verywest on an errand ( Read more... )

Let's see, my work is piling up and my Bean's schedule is way off thanks to the craziness of the Montreal trip. I'm more sleep deprived than usual this week (someone decided that it was PLAYTIME at 1am this morning) and I could use a seriously drunken evening, but for some reason I am overwhelmingly cheerful about all this ( Read more... )

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Babywearing is continuing to be my favourite way to go about my day, even as Sabine crests 10 pounds ( Read more... )

Of all the things I expected, planned and dreamed of doing with my daughter, taking her to a professional photo shoot was never one of them! (Unless maybe she wants to when she's older and it doesn't interfere with school ( Read more... )

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Any of you gamer nerds out there played an FPS called Nexuiz?

johnmoehrke's son wants to install it on the family PC and he's looking for pointers, warnings, or advice...

What's it like, for an open source FPS?

In France they have this habit of taking a root word and adding "asse" to the end or "ard" and turning it into an insult. Eg: Conard or Conasse (moron), Petard ou Petasse (slut)... and the favourite of all blondes everywhere: Blondasse (bimbo ( Read more... )

gothjen and margrock are fucking heroes ( Read more... )