Posts made by Ganymede

@ominous

Let me be clear: your chili looks amazing.

I use Cacique's beef chorizo. I use one tube of that to go with 3 lbs. of ground beef. This is my recipe:

Gany's Garbage Pail Chili of Doom

3 lbs. ground beef
1 tube of Cacique beef chorizo
1 large onion, diced
4 cloves of fresh garlic, minced
2 small cans (10 ozs.) of diced tomatoes with green chilis.
2 tbsp salt
2 tbsp sugar
2 tbsp pepper

Oil a pot bottom. Sweat the onions and garlic. Add the beef and chorizo to brown it with the onions and garlic. Add the salt, sugar, and pepper and mix in well. Then dump the diced tomatoes and green chilis, stir until blended, and then simmer for an hour.

I'll admit mine isn't as fresh as it could be and doesn't require much love, but when I'm sticking spoonfuls of the meaty goodness down my throat for any damn occasion, I'm not picky.

@ominous

I am offended that you would not use chorizo.

Offended.

But this sounds like some smashing shit and I'mma stealin' it.

Gany's Chicken Tikka Motherfucking Masala

First, you got to marinate the chicken in a yogurt and spices before you cook it. You probably don't need to marinate for more than 2 hours, but I did it for 24 hours because I was lazy and took the family out to Bob Evans last night.

How much chicken? A couple of breasts, of course. HAW HAW HAW. Go for two pounds. Breasts are fine, but thigh meat is better.

Here's the marinade:

1 cup plain yogurt
1.5 tbsp minced garlic
1 tbsp ginger powder
2 tsp garam masala
1 tsp ground turmeric
1 tsp ground cumin
1 tsp ground red chili powder
1 tsp salt

You'll also need to make this sauce and keep it simmering while you cook the chicken:

2 tbsp vegetable oil
2 tbsp butter
1 large onion, diced finely
1.5 tbsp minced garlic
1 tbsp ginger powder
1.5 tsp garam masala
1.5 tsp ground cumin
1 tsp ground turmeric
1 can of tomato puree (14-16 oz.)
2 tsp ground red chili powder
1.25 cups of heavy cream

To make the sauce, stick the oil and butter in a saucepan, melt down, sweat the onion and garlic in it, then pour the puree in with all the spices, stir, and add the cream. Let it simmer while the chicken cooks.

After marinating, heat a cast iron pan (yeah, motherfuckers) in the oven at 450 degrees. Pull it out, oil the pan, toss the chicken in (yes, with the marinade on it, but not too much) and then stick it in the oven for 10 minutes.

Take the chicken out of the oven, stick it into the sauce, and let it finish in the simmering sauce for 20 minutes. Serve on rice or whatever.

Easy as shit. Ingredients may be found at your local Kroger's.

I'm opening this thread so as to share recipes and food pictures, if people want to.

Also, I'm aggro to fuck by those fucking sites where you have to fucking scroll through eleventy-billion pages of "this recipe was passed down from the progenitor of my family, who inhabited a ziggurat" or some shit, I don't fucking know, so, like, put your recipes down, and don't give us a fucking story!

Well, a story is fine, but, you know, just -- talk about fucking food, okay?

@macha said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

So, I did something today I might get mocked for.

I may have mocked you for it a decade ago, but I've grown the fuck up since then.

Faith and hope are in short supply these days, so wherever and however it comes embrace it.

@ominous

@mietze

Cats. Are. Assholes.

I'm finally getting to watch Aggretsuko, and I am disappointed it has taken so long.

Like, it's pretty much me at work and then me at the karaoke bars.

@macha

Take a moment to read through this.

Then contact the EEOC or your state's civil rights body.

@macha said in The Work Thread:

So now I need to do research and see if I refuse to do something not in my job description/something with a higher pay rate for those whose job it is, if I can get unemployment if they fire me for it.

In the retail world, we call this "bait and switch."

In the world of employment law, if your employer fires you for refusing to do something outside of your job description then you may have been terminated without cause. In Ohio, where an employee is terminated against their will, the board of unemployment compensation may nonetheless award unemployment benefits where the employee can demonstrate that they were terminated without cause or agreement.

I would say that refusing to do something clearly outside of your job description is perfectly reasonable. If you were hired to do IT work, you could justifiably refuse a demand that you clean the toilets. If you were terminated for your refusal, the board would likely side with you because cleaning toilets isn't related to IT work. So, the analysis revolves around whether the work you were being asked to do fits within the job description of the position for which you were hired.

Based on what you're telling me, I think that that there's a good chance you'd qualify for unemployment compensation. Still, it sounds like you may want to talk to an employment attorney.

@betternow said in Movie / TV / Streaming Peeves or Whatever:

Yep, and he's all the better for this because it affects his money directly, paying more to do gunfire in post-production instead of using blanks on a set.

It also works for him because most of his stuff is usually hand-to-hand anyway.

@too-old-for-this

Or cats are just assholes.

@il-volpe

This makes me sad.

@groth said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

If you are going to spread a scent around, one of the nicest ones is probably fresh bread.

That's not bread.

@derp

When people want sandalwood, they want weed.

Leather? Steak.

Amber? Wealth.

So come up with a ritzy steakhouse you can smoke reefer at.

I would be there.

@testament

None of us are good, really.

@macha said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

In a fantasy world, I would eventually be able to quit the rat race and make nice smelling things all day long, instead.

Well, I mean, you won't get there unless you start.

But if you get your gear and want to market your good-smelling stuff here, I would not object.

Because, y'know, we're so fucking toxic.

(I mean, Derp is, sort of, if we're talking about scent.)

(He's from Indiana; they smell.)

@betternow

Yeah, once'll do it for me.

But that was not what I was really getting at. You were talking about credibility. Based on the person at issue and other things I know about the emo music scene, yeah, I believe 'em.

Also I tend to believe allegations from sexual assault survivors.

@betternow said in Movie / TV / Streaming Peeves or Whatever:

I... am not sure what to say. That article in particular claims James Gunn responded to a tweet, but clicking on it says "page does not exist". That website is owned by a Gen Z media influencer company. So I am again...I want to believe women without question, but I'd like to see the actual accounts/accusations on their actual social media rather than things "resposted" on sites I can't determine the credibility of.

Let me put it to you this way.

3STM played Warped Tour. Warped Tour is pretty much how emo got big enough to get out of Hot Topic as a fashion, movement, and style of music. Warped Tour, and similar concert events, are known for rampant sexual harassment. At least, that's what the person who ran the tour said.

If you were young and female, you invited problems. It got so bad that some emo bands stopped going after sexual assault allegations were raised against other artists. Bands like Paramore, for example, stopped going, and if there's someone who understands rape and sexual assault it's probably Hayley Williams.

So I believe them. I believe them because other artists on tour believe them. I believe them because of the repeated allegations. And I believe them because I have little reason to believe otherwise, given how much of an adolescent douchebag Jared Leto presents himself to be.

@silverfox said in Critters!:

They for sure don't really trust people and aren't ready to be adopted but I am REALLY hoping you are right.

I mean, the behavior you described sounds like what my kittens exhibited. They came from a shelter. I think there's a difference between "feral" and "not-socialized," and it sounds like the latter.

Alternately, ship them to Derp.

@Derp