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Where is the Random Thread of Randomness stuff that doesn't belong in other threads thread?

I don't know if I've posted this anywhere here before, but I present to you the MacWaffle*.

Get some of them round Eggo style toaster waffles. And them little preformed hashbrown patties. Also some sausage, cheddar cheese, an egg, salt, pepper, maple syrup, and your hot sauce of choice.**

The order you prepare and assemble this is critical so I will attempt to get it right.

Stick the hashbrown patty in the toaster while you fire up the griddle/pan. Spray the bastard down with butter flavored Pam. Cut a frozen waffle sized slice of sausage (like a hockey puck or so) and get it going on the griddle. Get your egg frying. Slice off some cheddar. When the hashbrown pops up, slap it on the griddle too and stick your waffles in the toaster. Flip things as they get cooked. Your choice if you do the egg easy over or sunnyside up. I probably favor sunnyside.

Here's where it gets tricky: Drizzle a little maple syrup on the hashbrown patty.*** Throw the cheese on top of it. As soon as the waffles pop out of the toaster and there's space, get them on the griddle. Salt, pepper, and hot sauce on the egg. Now. Sausage patty on a waffle half. Cheese-side down, put the hashbrown on top of that. Add the egg and top with the other waffle. Enjoy.

The assembly order is important because the cheese holds the hashbrown together (this is redundant with a preformed patty but it also helps to get the cheese out of the way). It also binds the sausage to the hashbrown. The naked side of the hashbrown and the waffle on top serve to soak up any yolk that didn't cook through. You can just cook the yolk through (especially if you go easy-over) but I prefer the fight to keep yellow eggy protein goodness from dribbling all over everything.

*Because it is a nod to both the McMuffin and MacGyver.
**Substitutions are allowed. Any cheese will work. I usually use ham but sausage is much better.
***You'll be tempted to put syrup or other things on the waffles. DO NOT. It will break down their structural integrity.
 
OK. A healthier simpler recipe: Shrimp stir-fry. Get one of them little packets of salad shrimp. Get a package of mixed frozen vegetables appropriate for stir-fry (so nothing with lima beans or peas and carrots, water chestnuts or spring peas are nice but anything with bell peppers, green beans, broccoli, etc will do). Get some rice cooking. It's easy. A cup of rice and 2 cups of water in a pan with some salt, bring to a boil and then back the heat off and simmer however long the package says the rice will take. Splash some olive oil into a wok. Get it heating. crack an egg into it and beat it up (I'm still working on when the egg goes in, I'm going for the fried rice effect). When the egg is cooked like a scrambled egg dump in the veggies. Then the frozen shrimp. Put spices on it. Whatever seems appropriate. I use ginger, curry, paprika, soy sauce, hot sauce, and maybe a few other things. Mix it all together. When it is done and the rice is ready, throw in the rice to soak up the last of the oil. Add more hot sauce and soy sauce (and lately I've been on a paprika kick so I'll add some of that too). Enjoy.
 
OCD tendencies, drinking, and constraints are a dangerous combination. "What the hell is he on about now?" you may ask. Let me explain: Unwinding for the evening with a couple cocktails. Realize I've somehow run out of ice. I got distracted from refilling a tray and then forgot about it so when I used up the other tray there was zero chance of usable ice. But I wanted another cocktail. So. Neat. Bourbon and a splash of water at any rate. But while I'm at it, I should also do scotch. And at that point I realize I also should have a glass of brandy, just to hit all the bases. So for want of ice I'm having 5 drinks tonight instead of 3.
 
Aye Aye,
Thats the way to go.

Trying to decide what to make for dinner tonight.

I've got so many vegetables from the neighbor's gardens I could eat something really healthy, but I don't feel like eating healthy and I want meat. I really want meat. And its cold outside.
 
Mirah said:
Aye Aye,
Thats the way to go.

Trying to decide what to make for dinner tonight.

I've got so many vegetables from the neighbor's gardens I could eat something really healthy, but I don't feel like eating healthy and I want meat. I really want meat. And its cold outside.
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Crock pot. Chop up all the veggies. Throw some meat in. Salt and whatever other spices seem appropriate and let 'er sit for 18+ hours. If it needs to be stew, throw in a fistful of flour. If you want it soupier, leave the flour out. Chicken, pig, cow, sausage, any meat with veggies will become magically delicious in a crock pot. (Now I've got to test this theory.)
 
On a related note, since I've shared a different recipe recently, Fox Gumbolaya:

I came up with this because I had skin and bones with meat on them left over from chicken stir-fry and was underwhelmed by my chicken soup attempts.

Buy a bag of them little salad shrimps. And whatever Slim Jim sausage stick you can find. Okra. (Canned, frozen, fresh, whatever you can get.) What else? Ro*Tel tomato chile can, celery, a jalapeno pepper, a green pepper, garlic, maybe a tomato if you're feeling fancy. Onion? I forget. I don't think so but why not? You should have beer, booze, rice, oil, Worcestershire sauce and assorted other spices in a well stocked kitchen.

Put a cup of white rice and 2 cups of water in your crock pot on "high" while you throw all your leftover chicken bits in a wok with some olive oil and cook them on high heat while you chop up other things. Stop from time to time to stir the stuff in the wok around (when you see smoke/steam coming from the edges of the wok lid, it's time to stir). Throw stuff in as it is ready to be added. Once everything's in the wok, transfer it to the crock pot. Add beer and/or bourbon as seems fit. Appropriate spices include salt, garlic salt, paprika, hot sauce, and Worcestershire sauce. Let the shit simmer on low for at least 10 hours. Enjoy.
 
Unless your name is "Wolfman Jack," a cool affected radio DJ voice is never a good idea. "Alternative radio" DJs, a fake working-class English accent just makes you sound like an annoying douche. Ditto for classic rock DJs who try to make it sound like they're chain-smoking filterless Camels and drinking Jim Beam straight from the bottle. Or classical DJs who try to sound like 1970s John Houseman. It's fine to make your voice lower or sexier, but actually trying to create a sound just makes me change the station.

On a related note, unless your name is "Howard Stern" and it is the 20th century, just play the songs and do the hourly station IDs. No one wants to hear you talk. You're not funny or interesting and--classical DJs, I'm looking at you--DO NOT start reading liner notes: That was Finwood Gamblefargle, directing St. Martins on the Field Orchestra in JS Bach's 3rd Overture in Liverpool on a rainy Sunday in January of 1965. The conductor had a slight cold so he was taking Ny-Quil..." I DON'T CARE. You also don't have to talk after EVERY FUCKING SONG. Introduce the song you just played--song, director, composer, orchestra, and the song you're going to play. Then play that song and another song and repeat. I don't need to hear who's playing the piece before you play it and again after. Play music. That's all I want.
 
How come some gungans have fleshy tentacle moustaches and others don't? Do they shave their tentacles?
 
Back in my latter college undergrad years I'd been on spring break and came back with a gigantic sombrero. So I was over at a friend's place getting shitfaced one evening after that and we were rummaging around the storage places in the basement and I found the snazziest vibrant colored sun dress in one of them, so I had to steal it. So I was wearing the sun dress and the sombrero and my flip flops when a slap fight between two girls broke out in the hallway.

So. I wandered out there in my garb and just stood about 10 feet away from them, anticipating fisticuffs at any moment. I had a bottle of beer in my hand that I was trying to uncap with my car keys. After awhile I noticed that things had gone silent. so I looked over at them and one of them yelled out 'WHAT THE FUCK IS YOUR PROBLEM?" I simply replied "I can't get my beer open."

They looked at me like I was the crazy one and took their fight outside.
 
Colonel Kira's Left Tit said:
Back in my latter college undergrad years I'd been on spring break and came back with a gigantic sombrero. So I was over at a friend's place getting shitfaced one evening after that and we were rummaging around the storage places in the basement and I found the snazziest vibrant colored sun dress in one of them, so I had to steal it. So I was wearing the sun dress and the sombrero and my flip flops when a slap fight between two girls broke out in the hallway.

So. I wandered out there in my garb and just stood about 10 feet away from them, anticipating fisticuffs at any moment. I had a bottle of beer in my hand that I was trying to uncap with my car keys. After awhile I noticed that things had gone silent. so I looked over at them and one of them yelled out 'WHAT THE FUCK IS YOUR PROBLEM?" I simply replied "I can't get my beer open."

They looked at me like I was the crazy one and took their fight outside.
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Did you follow them and carry on gawping at them while they beat the piss out of each other?

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