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I'll take it.Quote:
Originally Posted by amuse
yes please, unless we resurrect the recipe thread...Quote:
My favorite chicken dishes are fajitas, chicken and broccoli bake and kind of a chicken kebab... Oh, there is chicken-corn soup as well... If you are interested, I will PM the recipe(s) to you...
lots! these are a few that come to mind...Quote:
Originally Posted by mono
1. to keep authors from hammering nails into their heads whilst in great pain.
2. to tell the truth when people - individuals and governments - would demand that it be hidden.
3. to romance.
4. to convince.
5. to blasphemize
6. to mock
7. to sing
8. to share both infinitesimally small and grand concepts and discoveries
9. to continue breathing
everyone else: same question :)
Bandini:
What area of philosophy are you most interested in? and which philosophers are you most impressed with?
ooh, good idea!!! *salivates :DQuote:
Originally Posted by papayahed
thai curry tempeh
you will need: cooked rice, curry, tempeh (sqs. or rects.), onions, coconut milk, 2-ish broccoli crowns
take one can (reg. size, not the sm/skinny one) of coconut milk - with as little water in it as poss. you want it to be pure coconut milk.
a couple of broccoli crowns
(don't you like the painstakingly accurate recipe? ;))
lop the top off of the crowns. if you want you can put in the stems, but the trees alone will do and your dish will be much prettier for it.
get square or rectangular tempeh- not the round burger patty. cut this into cubes or triangles. i've always done this with triangles; it's really pretty that way. make them about 1-inch wide on the angle unless you like fairly huge chunks.
cook up some brown rice to go with, or basmati, or jasmine. have a nice spot of tea to go with, and some to sip on as you cook.
take a large skillet (a 4-quart saucepan should do as well) heat some olive oil, and toss in the half-moons of a chopped onion. i actually don't :eek: put garlic in this, but go ahead if you must. you will want to saute the broccoli by itself in another pan. add the tempeh and most of the coconut milk. at this point, you will also want to add the curry i put it in to taste - turn the food a nice orange-yellow color, and watch it all bubble away. hmm. it's a good idea at that point to turn the food down to simmer at that point. add the broccoli and the rest of your coconut milk; let this cook until broccolis are fully cooked but not overdone, and if you must, check the tempeh as you go along. your dish is done when the broccoli's cooked but still bright green. serve over the rice and enjoy! :)
YO! You go girl!!!! GREAT One-to-niner........Quote:
Originally Posted by amuse
.....and the thai tempeh sounds good too (heads directly to the refrigerator)......
atig - see previous page.
Um...there are many...Quote:
Originally Posted by Mono
1. Expressing yourself
2. Giving life to something
3. Putting thoughts on paper
4. Sharing ideas
5. Exercising the imagination
6. Making problems
7. Solving problems
8. Creating something beautiful
9. Criticising
10. Making people laugh
Jay, just out of curiosity, what's your favourite Czech food? *drinks in the heavenly smell of dumpling soup* :D (Well, let's say main course foods first, and then desserts...*licks lips*) And that picture was really lovely...I wonder...*goes to do a Google search on bouřka*
;)
*looked at the tempeh dish in my mind and realized Orange! it's missing carrots - preferably med. sized roll cuts; if not, then chopped regularly or on the bias.
I attempt sharing an overall reverence for all types of philosophy; I have read much philosophy that I strongly disagreed with, but still learned much and respected it. If I devoted more time and study to any type of philosophy, I would have to choose transcendentalism, ethics, and existentialism. With that aside, I have a relatively diverse list of favorites with philosophers that always changes: Immanuel Kant, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Rene Descartes, Henry David Thoreau (if he fits the category), George Berkeley, Cicero, John Stuart Mill, Jeremy Bentham, Buddha, Lao Tzu, Jean-Paul Sartre, David Hume, Plato, Aristotle, Friedrich Nietzsche (only some material), Arthur Schopenhauer, Carl Jung (if he fits the category also), John Locke, Robert Anton Wilson (too), Pythagoras, and Confucius.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bandini
Hmmm, if I could ask such a broad question, I suppose I should have thought of the answer myself. Like many, many, many people have thought before me, I must claim agreement in saying that "art imitates nature." However, does it seem intrinsic in an artist's nature to create art, or does he/she adopt inspiration from outward, natural stimuli? The purpose(s) of writing, I would like to think, extend(s) far beyond mere story-telling, conversation, and communication between generations.Quote:
Originally Posted by amuse
To a writer, his/her creation should seem sublime - a concrete mixture of ink and paper for what abstractly reflects in the mind, which amazes me, considering there exist only so many words for multiple expressions and feelings. The purpose of writing, to me, should have no singular motive for fame (though it sounds pleasant, to a limit), but seem an end in itself - to express one's self, imitating by creation the natural abstractness of the mind.
Eh, how cliché.
subterranean: where do you find all of the news in music history that you print in the 'General Chat' section?
all writers: who influences you most in writing?
I don't want to 'assume' your particular meaning within this question, so here is my answer to my interpretation of what I think you meant... *whew*
In my own case, Who influences my writing? I'm not sure there is a 'who', but there is a what: Its a need, a noun with no real existence......that and the voices in my head.........and to use an 'Amuse-ism' , the autonomic need to continue breathing........I have read literally thousands of books so far in my life, and while all have contributed to who I am, no particular author influences my approach to my own writing. While I do experiment with style, usually gleaned from the latest successful literary approaches (Example:Raymond Carver's lack of use of punctuation/incorporating his speech tag lines into a sentence) I lack any hero or figurehead as motivation.............
Sher: Your 'location' printed below your avatar seems incosistent with your forum persona. Care to explain the descrepancy? And yes, feel free to blame my perceptions.
Why do you think it is inconsistent?Quote:
Originally Posted by baddad
Okay, I'll rephrase:
Sher: Where would you like to be? ... as I'm ' assuming' you mean metaphysically with your tag line.....
Let's start from the end... googling bouřka wasn't very easy, hehe, it kept coming with storms and thunders or forget-me-nots. Just in case anyone wondered, bouřka means storm :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Darcy
Food... Czech food... hmm... fave Czech food... no idea if it's originally Czech or not, but I like segedin... with dumplings of course ;)... though I think it might be Hungarian? Or onion goulash, yummy.
Well, desserts... all kinds of cakes, lol
Darcy: you? what's your fave Czech food? Aside of dumpling soup? :p
My heart had a jump... I'm not sure it has something to do with that thing you're talking about, but the city I lived in in Hungary is called Szeged, which in some languages translates as Segedin... And there was a dish called Szeged soup, it was a fish soup... Anything to do with that? Let's go deep into this mystery.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jay
As we are on the topic of food, I am not a great cook but in Hungary I 'invented' to cook chicken steak in lemon with a little bit of oil (olive oil of course) and paprika powder. Very simple but yummy :)
On a different note, the purpose of writing in my opinion is simply to express something, of pretty much any kind (feelings, ideas, stories that come up to mind...) and, incase it's shared, to share this experience with other people and therefore try to overcome the inevitable state of loneliness of the human being: by sharing experience we might find people who feel similarly and sympathise and therefore feel for a second close to other people and less lonely.
And I think some people write and some don't cos those who have the gift (or the necessary patience) of writing can give words to those who can't to express something they might have felt too.
You don't want to open that can of worms! ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by baddad