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prosodicI just made the BEST. PORKCHOPS. EVER.
I think the secret is that I actually left them a bit pink in the middle, which I usually don't do. Lance has some weird aversion to food that's pink in the middle, even if it's totally okay for meat to be a bit pink. I think the pork chops are wonderfully juicy and delicious. Making sure they were fully cooked has always resulted in them coming out dry.
So he'll just have to eat them this way. Oh my God...these are amazing. I made a glaze of olive oil, balsamic vinegar and an Italian dressing/seasoning packet.
In other news, I just talked to my friend Kathy on the phone, and she asked me to give her titles of the worst books I have ever read. She and her sister exchange horrible books at Christmas...it's their tradition. And the deal is that no matter how awful it is, they must read it in its entirety.
While I think it's hilarious, I also think that life's too short to read bad books. But that's just MY own personal philosophy. Everyone else's mileage may vary. (She has threatened to include me in this tradition.) So...now that I'm thinking about this topic - and I may have to reach back into the dark recesses of my brain, where bad book memories go to die - I want to ask all of you what the worst book is that you have ever read.
For me, the worst one in recent memory is Black Lamb and Grey Falcon by Rebecca West. I gave Kathy that title and told her it might serve her purpose. Some critics have called it one of the greatest books of the 20th century, and it gets high marks on amazon.com. But I thought it was 1200 pages of the most self-centered, boring drivel I've ever read in my life. It was torture. But I had to review it, so I tried to slog through it as best as I could. I think it would be great for her book exchange due to the fact that it's TWELVE HUNDRED PAGES. I mean, holy crap! I've seen editions of The Bible with fewer pages.
However, since it is so critically acclaimed, I am skeptical about recommending this to her. I need to think of something else. After all, there are a number of times when I have started reading something and thought, "who in their right mind would to publish this crap?" And yet, there it was.
I think the secret is that I actually left them a bit pink in the middle, which I usually don't do. Lance has some weird aversion to food that's pink in the middle, even if it's totally okay for meat to be a bit pink. I think the pork chops are wonderfully juicy and delicious. Making sure they were fully cooked has always resulted in them coming out dry.
So he'll just have to eat them this way. Oh my God...these are amazing. I made a glaze of olive oil, balsamic vinegar and an Italian dressing/seasoning packet.
In other news, I just talked to my friend Kathy on the phone, and she asked me to give her titles of the worst books I have ever read. She and her sister exchange horrible books at Christmas...it's their tradition. And the deal is that no matter how awful it is, they must read it in its entirety.
While I think it's hilarious, I also think that life's too short to read bad books. But that's just MY own personal philosophy. Everyone else's mileage may vary. (She has threatened to include me in this tradition.) So...now that I'm thinking about this topic - and I may have to reach back into the dark recesses of my brain, where bad book memories go to die - I want to ask all of you what the worst book is that you have ever read.
For me, the worst one in recent memory is Black Lamb and Grey Falcon by Rebecca West. I gave Kathy that title and told her it might serve her purpose. Some critics have called it one of the greatest books of the 20th century, and it gets high marks on amazon.com. But I thought it was 1200 pages of the most self-centered, boring drivel I've ever read in my life. It was torture. But I had to review it, so I tried to slog through it as best as I could. I think it would be great for her book exchange due to the fact that it's TWELVE HUNDRED PAGES. I mean, holy crap! I've seen editions of The Bible with fewer pages.
However, since it is so critically acclaimed, I am skeptical about recommending this to her. I need to think of something else. After all, there are a number of times when I have started reading something and thought, "who in their right mind would to publish this crap?" And yet, there it was.
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Date: 2008-10-01 02:45 am (UTC)Anyway, worst book I've ever read...Hm. That's tough. I have a terrible memory anyway--for good or bad--but one that comes to mind was a book called "Otherwise Engaged," that someone gave me when I got engaged. It was kind of a joke--someone had given it to HER when she got engaged, so she passed it on to me. It wasn't even worth finishing. I agree that time is too precious to waste it on bad books, so if I don't get interested in a book quickly enough, I don't bother to finish it.
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Date: 2008-10-01 03:11 am (UTC)God, it was just so horrible. It was some one size fits all philosophy in military marriages...such BS.
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