h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Post it notes on the vcr have helped many times, but it still won't tape six tapes worth....maybe the digital recorders would be a better option, thirty hours or so before erasing something.

Care to trade the loud music channel for the racing channel?

no.. I decided I'd better give up and wait until cyber age comes up with a better VR device.
Last week I was in Belgrade, now in Moscow.. my vcr is at least 2000 miles away and certainly not within proigramming range
I just hope that in -say twenty or so years- all these series will be reposted in whatever technology

Streaming media television of your choice would be cool. Speaking of technology that doesn't exist yet, I'd like to be able to defrag my memory...

Vegetarian Haggis?: http://www.interlog.com/~john13/recipes/haggis.htm

vegetarian haggis.. I was wiorried for a moment until I read the last line
and streaming media is available BUT on a very small scale, experimental and if implemented on on large scale probably verrrrry expensive maybe in another ten years or so..

(* I'll send the recipe over to a Scottish friend *)

I work in a natural food store with a vegetarian restaurant. That has possibilities of becoming a lunch special...except we don't serve alcohol.

Did I mention my brother? He has joined the local Celtic Society, and recently taken up playing the bagpipes.
Should I be alarmed?

should you be alarmed??

I think you should panic

you'd better cure him before Burn's feast

*panics*

We were always told that we were 1/8 Spanish, 1/8 Scotch Irish, and the rest of all the sides of our family is French. Apparently, I look enough like both sides of my family to be stopped on the street by cousins I had never met(three times that happened, in two different cities).

*looking for a place to hide in case haggis is involved in the next family gathering*
*starts drinking just in case there is no hiding place*

a mild form of panic is ..
Haggis is really very good, tasty, although possibly not as spicy as you'd like it
I tried it, and liked it, even while knowing what's in it

(* and I had just a tiny bit of whisky before dinner *)

*calms down to mild panic*
Did I mention the kilt? One official Louisiana tartan expected to arrive any day now.

Where could they possibly get a haggis here? Surely the place that makes turduckens wouldn't make haggis... And, if they did find one, it still wouldn't be the oddest thing put in front of me...that would be hog head cheese. I can eat organ meat, but I draw the line at hooves, beaks etc.

Turducken: http://www.thesalmons.org/lynn/turducken.html
Hog head Cheese: http://www.cooks.com/rec/doc/0,161,147184-250193,00.html
*still drinking*

.. I knew about the hog head cheese.. that used to be prepared over here up to (estimate) 1930s.. (after that it just wasn't sold anymore..no one will volunteer to eat it )
The TurDuckEn is new to me.. I've been glancing over searching for a clause like "feeds four" or so..

and Haggis.. well.. what can I say.. any sheep farms around? I do not know if haggis is home made at all (the ones I had came from the supermarket) but you can try..

A turducken will feed several; usually ten to twenty depending on how many side dishes. One option is to bake it, cut into serving sizes and then freeze the extra portions for future individual meals. Basic menu: Turducken slice, gumbo, potato salad, green salad... and don't forget dessert.

No farms around here. Actually, very few farms at all. Texas has lots of cattle ranches and oil wells.

in that case you'll have a hard time finding traditional haggis ingredients?? those part of a that are listed in the recipe ( )are usually not sold by your neighbourhood butcher

Well, in that case we'll just have to make do with a turducken and whiskey.

How have you been?

I am trying a new recipe tonight: Guiness Chicken. In a large pot, Brown Chicken pieces on all sides. Sautee in same large pot: chopped leeks and garlic. Add: water or broth and one bottle Guiness extra stout. Season with: Lea & Perrins, Tabasco and maybe a spoon of molasses. Let simmer until done.

..arrr.. excuse me

Hey that sounds great! (* molasses..?? I have some doubt about that *) I'll have to try that

Life over here ... continues.. I still travel between home and Moscow and (recent news) will continue doing that for the next year or so

The chicken was good. I did add a bit of molasses(honey would work as a substitute) and a little apple cider vinegar. Next time I'll probably add some potatos or rice to the broth.

That is quite a commute to work.

I'll try the Guiness chicken ..

and commuting..

a coule of weeks ago I had to travel daily to a city ~120 km (almost 80 miles) from here.. I complained about the traveling
Moscow is only 6 hours and there's no need to travel there and back again every day

The server ate my reply...it was in between the Welcome and We are having technical difficulties screens....

My daily commute is 40 miles round trip. At least my current car is comfortable enough(air conditioner, radio etc.).


A couple of weekends ago I went to a book bazaar. Thousands of old books were donated to the sale to raise money for a local university. I Bought a stack of books for about $13.00. Surprisingly, none of my purchases were cookbooks.

book bazar.. I was at a company when the library was cleaned out. anything older than 10 years was sold for not-a-lot.

So I bought a set of chemistry books dated 1905, a complete set of physics books dated 1910.. and the guy in next to me just got hold of a series of Einstein books I bought about a meter for .. something like $10

That is some impressive book finds. I simply adore ! With a special soft spot for old history books(before history was re written and sanitized).

history books when history was still history and not science. When the good guys were real good and the bad guys were real bad