peacefuljeffrey

What's the capacity of your slow cooker? I'm using a 12 quart pot and another smaller pot. Four beefs in the 12 qt. and one in the small one as overflow.

I don't like to do labor-intensive, time-intensive cooking unless I'm going to make enough to feed a platoon for a week. I like to have a LOT of whatever I make.
Here is the recipe from the magazine. This makes the tastiest corned beef I've ever had.

Beer-Braised Corned Beef and Cabbage

1/2 tsp. coarse-grind pepper (you'd better grind it fresh yourself if you know what's good)

4 lb. corned beef brisket (flat cut is the preferred kind)

1 Tbs canola oil (I had to substitute peanut oil, but that's fine)

2 bottles (12 oz. each) beer (I used Harp, and curse you and your kin if you use anything but IRISH beer! )

2 Tbs. Dijon mustard, preferably country-style (don't skimp on this -- good mustard is good mustard)

2 cloves garlic, thinly sliced

1 head green cabbage, about 1.5 lbs.

1 cup shredded carrots (instead, I used chopped carrots and a lot more than one cup, but then I'm using 5 corned beefs)

Sprinkle pepper over both sides of the corned beef (I actually cover it in pepper). In large pan, heat oil over medium-high heat. Add beef; cook, turning once, until browned, about 3 minutes per side.
Transfer to large pot, add beer, mustard, garlic, and enough water to cover corned beef. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat to medium; cover. Simmer 3.5 - 4 hours or until tender, turning after 2 hours. Meanwhile, core and cut cabbage into 1/2 inch thick slices (I go to about 1 inch thick). Transfer beef to serving platter and cover to keep warm. Add cabbage and carrots to liquid in pot. Increase heat to medium-high and cook until tender, 15-20 minutes. Transfer vegetables to serving platter using slotted spoon. Makes 8 servings.


Okay, but I increased everything, using 5 bottles of Harp, lots of mustard, three heads of cabbage (it's not cut yet; I may need only two of them, we'll see). I cut out the garlic because a woman at work can't have it, and she's often instrumental in organizing these dinners so I didn't want to blow her off. Each corned beef I used was about 2.75 - 3 pounds or so, and I used five of them!

I figure that once the water mixture has what it needs, it really doesn't matter how much beef you put in it.

Good eats!
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Dentist's drill!

I like that one, actually -- when I have a tube of nitrous oxide flowing over my nose!!


Gooo-o-o-o-o-o-d-d-d-d stu-u-u-u-u-f-f-f-f-f-f!!!
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Yum.

I don't have a slow cooker, and if I did, I'd probably need five of them...! They're simmering in pots on the stove, and have to cook for the better part of 3.5 hours, possibly more, but at that point I'm gonna have to tote them off to work. Good thing I got my ass moving and had them in the pots by 13:30, 'cause they're due at work at 17:30!

If you want the recipe, I'll post it. It's a good one, that a woman at work photocopied for me out of a magazine two years ago when I did it for the first time.

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I took up a collection this week from co-workers, got $53 and brought it to the supermarket to buy ingredients to make Beer-Braised Corned Beef and Cabbage.

As you can imagine, $53 buys a good deal of the stuff, so right now, FIVE corned beefs are simmering in Harp lager and Plochman's premium natural stone ground mustard.

I must do something right, because this is the third year straight the they were eager to have me make this stuff...

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My sister asked me if we were going to see the movie Sybil.

...I don't get it. That movie hasn't been in theaters in years!



edited to add: because I just know someone will think I really didn't get the joke...


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Around here, the "biker type" of stickers can usually be found at a table at the South Florida Gun Show. I got some of those white text, black background rectangular ones that say stuff like, "Question Authority," "Question Reality," and my favorite: "FUCK FEAR". I also got one that looks like a U.S. Interstate sign, and it says, "I-69".


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Thanks. I love the cat and all, but frankly, I'm poor, and so she's going to have the bargain spaying. Her warbling and...well... goopy dripping (EWWWW!!) is getting really hard on my nerves... Plus, it's hard to see her suffer in want. She wants it bad!...

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Good on you for taking in a stray, and a handicapped one at that. I know a network of shelters around the country that will spay for little to no cost in some cases. PM me your city, and I'll see if there's one around you.

Well, I'm in West Palm Beach, and they will do the spay for $50 at the Peggy Adams Rescue League thingie (which, incidentally, is where I got my Feather -- pre-spayed).

Is there somewhere cheaper? The vet's office wanted like over $200 and I was like, "You gotta be kidding!" They try to sell it as they're giving your pet such better care, but come on... Every stray I ever had came to me through a shelter that had spayed it -- my sister's cat, my other cat prior to these two, my current cat, and Wee (who is kinda my girlfriend's cat, though she stays here with me). They didn't botch it or something. So the $150+ difference is ... what exactly?

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Yes, she will be a hussy; she's fed, comfortable, and relatively safe...what else is there to do but bring kittens into the world? She's street walking for sure, but it really can be hell on the humans, and also isn't too good for her.

OMG hussy is too mild a word! It's amazing how instinct tells her exactly how to, um, display herself...

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I tried to tell you what I think of you, but amazingly, even though we've never had it out via PM, you're not accepting them from me. Oh well. Back atcha, babe.

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One was enough.

Whatever. At least I'm not on some pathetic bandwagon hurling daily innuendo insults at you, the way you are regarding me.

Are you saying we had it out in a PM exchange? I don't even recall.

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Well I'm sort of with you on the mellow cello and high pitched Violin, but my preference lies in the middle with the Viola, more mellow than the violin and higher pitched than the cello Very cool sound

BUT my preferential instrument sound is BLUES HARP Cotton, Portnoy, Popper

I always had wondered what role the viola had, and whether it was versatile or what. I was drafted to play the double bass in my junior high school orchestra, but I was not into it -- I envied those who got to play the melody. Is the viola strung the same as a violin? How do they differ?

Blues harp is good, yes. I love the Neil Young song "Natural Beauty" (on the album "Harvest Moon") -- it has a beautiful, plaintive harmonica part recurring throughout.

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No no no, she's in heat because we took her in as a stray, as opposed to from a shelter, and haven't had the time/money to get her to the place to get her a discount spaying. Gonna do it soon, rest assured. In the meantime, she's a frickin' HUSSY!!!!!

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You would think that someone who could read would see that this had been posted multiple times. Though at least one of them was in SC...

I tried to tell you what I think of you, but amazingly, even though we've never had it out via PM, you're not accepting them from me. Oh well. Back atcha, babe.

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okay, i've only been a frieght train conductor since last july but in that time i've worked probly about 6 days a week almost every week and have a litle experiance with frieght trains. you would be suprised on how quite a train can be coming up on you at times and if you couldn't hear it , it would sneak right up on you.

That makes it clear that even HEARING people should not walk along a train track. And this girl was DEAF. That's what makes no sense to me.

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that's harsh! forgive us for not catching every single post that gets thrown on here. There are over 5100 threads in SC that I haven't even looked at. Don't worry Jeffrey it was new to me.

Dude, some people here (and in SC) just want to give me shit because I'm me. Let 'em. Fuck 'em.


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Why on earth would a deaf person walk right alongside train tracks, since it's pretty obvious they would be unable to know of the train's approach from behind?

This girl was killed doing something I would think a deaf person would never do. It's tantamount to her putting on a blindfold and agreeing to try to cross a busy street. Hey, trains come. If you're deaf, will you know it? Counting on feeling the ground vibrate? I don't know how well that would work, but I guess it was not well enough...

Sad for her and her family, but really... come on...

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well, then you are hurting yourself more than he will hurt you. tell the annoying idiot to shut his pie hole.

Yeah, don't hurt your hearing -- just tell me to shut my damn pie hole!


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Did you hear the one about the Cannibal Beatnik?



He ate three squares a dayyyy, daddyo!

There -- more convincing. I got a chuckle out of it, thanks.
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Would you steer clear of people of the same sex? it' s really an interesting Q if you think about it.

I'd probably eat GFD since i'm sure she's tasty

Yes, I would steer clear of people of the same sex, for certain.

I would prefer to eat based on aesthetic appearances, and thus would prefer women who were attractive (I guess, since the question is odd in the first place, and I also find the idea of eating the flesh of another human -- for consumption -- pretty abhorrent).

I would think that for some reason, pretty body correlates (this is non-intuitive, I know, since there's no reason for the correlation) to pleasing taste. So I'd stick to blondes who have nice figures.
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Synopsis, please?


And...what is your home country?


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Klutz Books, for those who don't know, are published as fun, how-to manuals for various crafts or activities.

They have things like Klutz Book of Knots; Klutz Book of Juggling; Klutz Book of Bubbles, etc. Each book comes with what you will need to learn the specific skill that the book teaches. The knot book has two pieces of cord; the juggling book has three beanbags; the bubble book has a giant bubble maker, with soap mixture recipes and tips...

I bought the Klutz Book of Paper Airplanes recently ($16.95) It teaches how to make ten different models of paper airplanes, and gives tips on throwing them. It comes with a pack of 40 sheets of paper, 20 pairs of each given pattern.


I've found the Klutz books to be pretty cool -- generally worth checking out. Of course, many of the books they publish are written in a flippant, humorous style aimed at kids, but they're still good for adults. The company's motto is, "Create wonderful things; be good; have fun."
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As are some so called law abiding citizens apparently.

Really? Which citizens, and why is it "apparent"?

Not sure what you're reaching for, here. Could you make it more clear?


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wrong forum - guns belong to s.c - or are you still banned there so you have to post rubbish like that in bonfire

Couldn't see that it was a direct parody of "Why I am a nun"?


That isn't my fault.


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Rhondalea, myself and SwedishCelt

One of each flavor...

That's just a total invitation to turn this thing into a foursome!
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me, myself, and I...

I will be on top of me, with myself in the rear.

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Hell I'd pay to see that...

Did ya ever see the movie "Wishmaster II"?
The evil genie grants a prison inmate his "wish" and has the guy's lawyer fuck himself!

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