tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7854090250820154334.post2471377617309592205..comments2022-12-12T02:22:42.378-05:00Comments on Not There Yet: Nutritious SlothfulnessDavidShaghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02378015294494222646noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7854090250820154334.post-38946623125823770362011-02-08T13:37:43.033-05:002011-02-08T13:37:43.033-05:00@Shaky Jake - I actually do usually eat them, alth...@Shaky Jake - I actually do usually eat them, although I HAVE had the totting experience also. One problem is that nearly anything I cook doesn't need a whole one. I put them in chili, spaghetti sauce, salads, stir-fry. I just feel like they go with garlic and onions when I cook anything with those. And I include them because they DO last two weeks at least...DavidShaghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02378015294494222646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7854090250820154334.post-4564911500846851782011-02-08T00:13:54.076-05:002011-02-08T00:13:54.076-05:00It's interesting (to me, anyways) that you lis...It's interesting (to me, anyways) that you list bell peppers as being a necessity to have on hand, because I share that same thought every single time I go to the grocery store.<br /><br />I say, "oooh, self, you should get a couple green or yellow bell peppers. There's tons of things you can use those for!"<br /><br />And three weeks later, those peppers inevitably have mold on them...Shaky Jakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08650018102735905907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7854090250820154334.post-71794489538176778312011-01-31T10:43:45.370-05:002011-01-31T10:43:45.370-05:00@MizAngie - I agree there are few things more offe...@MizAngie - I agree there are few things more offensive than 300-pound fatboys. I understand breeding and feeding to achieve certain ends but usually, as with chickens and turkeys bred for the big breasts or eggs, we kill them when they are no longer useful. One of the main reasons I find team sports uninteresting is that in most cases players have to be bred to freakish proportions - so it is not like watching real people achieve anything. For the same reason I find James Bond-type films boring - this character has nothing in common with real people. I used to think baseball was an exception (and therefore kind of admirable, because these were average guys (physically) who worked to achieve, but now that I find it is drugs, not people, making the plays, I have lost interest in that, too. <br /><br />@JennyD - Who knew?DavidShaghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02378015294494222646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7854090250820154334.post-76905858572233650232011-01-30T19:10:42.652-05:002011-01-30T19:10:42.652-05:00...and Angie, if I keep going with this vat of lin......and Angie, if I keep going with this vat of linguini, I might be able to join the team by next week.<br />And to David: Yes, we read.JennyDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14329171741191991379noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7854090250820154334.post-16365211615501623252011-01-30T18:52:12.522-05:002011-01-30T18:52:12.522-05:00But...we need our 300 lb guys. They're offensi...But...we need our 300 lb guys. They're offensive and defensive linemen! Duh.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7854090250820154334.post-27251148765006696032011-01-30T16:26:44.885-05:002011-01-30T16:26:44.885-05:00@JennyD - Thanks for the ego-boost. I have actuall...@JennyD - Thanks for the ego-boost. I have actually thought a lot about feelings and I am convinced there are 'real' ones and distorted one - these latter are when the actual feeling is not acceptable or doesn't make sense. For instance anger is real, but guilt is a distorted sense - perhaps I am angry at, or feel hatred for my Mom but I can't because I love her and that is wrong, so I'll take it out through the fear exit and end up with guilt. Rage, as opposed to anger, is, I think, a distorted or false emotion which is why it is dangerous, unproductive and hard to address or deal with. But that is just me. Have a pepper...<br /><br />P.S. - You mean people READ these comment responses???DavidShaghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02378015294494222646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7854090250820154334.post-24516612831003738042011-01-29T20:38:14.246-05:002011-01-29T20:38:14.246-05:00Oh....and just pass me a whole jalapeno pepper, pl...Oh....and just pass me a whole jalapeno pepper, please. Make it a whole jar full. I'm heading to Miz Angie's :DJennyDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14329171741191991379noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7854090250820154334.post-58581047731720567942011-01-29T20:37:25.826-05:002011-01-29T20:37:25.826-05:00I had a minute to just sit and breathe, and then I...I had a minute to just sit and breathe, and then I didnt' know what to do with it. I decided to come back over here and read for a bit. David. You wrote something in a reply to OneGirl that stopped me dead in my tracks. It was about people getting angry over injustices to others rather than to themselves. I might faint. I never thought of it that way. I am one of those that stand up for others in a heartbeat and I can rally like the best of them. Sometimes I even get a real bent out of shape feeling if I happen to be the target. But stand up and yell about it? Not usually...and now I can see why and believe me, my eyes not only opened but almost popped out of my head. Dead on right. It never even dawned on me "why" I'm so prone to be first in line to stand up for a cause or a person, but you can bet I'm first in line. Whew. What an eye-opener. I thank you for that. A new wrinkle in my brain that actually counts.<br />xoxoxoJennyDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14329171741191991379noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7854090250820154334.post-16015908835732410842011-01-29T11:19:26.244-05:002011-01-29T11:19:26.244-05:00@OneGirl - oops, I meant 'if wrath is your sin...@OneGirl - oops, I meant 'if wrath is your sin of choice'.DavidShaghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02378015294494222646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7854090250820154334.post-66931083791127479112011-01-29T11:18:34.977-05:002011-01-29T11:18:34.977-05:00@OneGirl – It is not surprising if sin is your sin...@OneGirl – It is not surprising if sin is your sin of choice, so to speak. I am not sure why, but there seems to be a general idea that people who react as you do – that is, wrath on behalf of others rather than one’s self – is somewhat benign. I think that in fact, wrath on one’s own behalf is more honest and also far healthier. I suspect that most people who get angry over injustice to others, over politics or religion or kids these days are merely misplacing deeply held and unacknowledged anger on one’s own behalf that on fears to examine – either because it is ‘sinful’ or because it is hard to admit one can be so angry at loved ones. I think this is a dangerous situation because unacknowledged (i. e. anger one isn’t aware he feels) can only feed on itself because it is never addressed. So people end up picketing funerals or shooting Congresspersons or blowing up buildings – or often just killing themselves. Feel free to use the quote any time. I am sure many people have said something similar; I probably read something like it somewhere myself. <br />@Marge – As I said to JennyD – the cute version of sins are not why they are sins. Not bothering to get out of your pj’s is not a sin, not bothering to have a life, and not enjoying it are. In short if you actually enjoy not doing something, it is not sloth. What seems to be the real meaning of the term is giving in to depression. Not good and not fun. And I am indeed guilty. As to your additions to my list, I think these are right for your cupboard, but I am not all that into chocolate chips (I like them, but it is easier not to have sweets around than to moderate my inake when they are) and Velveeta is kind of nasty (I do keep a block of nibbling cheese and often buy a wedge of brie with some bagels when I happen to be out shopping). I don’t bake much – as I said 5 cakes in my whole life and these tend to be made when I actually DO feel like taking trouble. Which is rarely. I eat hardly any preseves (I end up throwing out moldy jars of it when I get them) and although I like peanut butter OK, I hardly every eat it. I do have brown sugar, but I really can’t stand honey. Like evaporated milk or cream of mushroom soup – one drop and that is all I can taste. <br />@MizAngie – I love Tex-Mex but I usually buy it ready made and hot. I don’t like foods too hot (in the spicy sense) because then I can’t taste anything else. I keep all kinds of spices, I only mentioned the ones I use almost daily . I use semolina pasta when I feel like it – spaghetti especially - but actually the whole wheat tastes great to me in most cases. As I said, use the shapes that hold the sauce – and also whole wheat noodles actually taste better in chow mein or stir frying, in my opinion. Never heard of colcannon – I wonder if I call it something else?DavidShaghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02378015294494222646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7854090250820154334.post-62786129114446933802011-01-29T10:50:17.664-05:002011-01-29T10:50:17.664-05:00@Beth – Isn’t Schadenfreude a great word? I have ...@Beth – Isn’t Schadenfreude a great word? I have reached the age where I have had to listen to so many accounts of celebrity addictions and the consequences thereof that I can’t get up much interest in Sheen’s issues. I cannot even sit through his current sitcom which is all leering and slime. I like a good dirty joke, but the implied and smarmy stuff is both boring and disgusting – it is a direct descendent of Three’s Company herein each week someone overheard an ‘innocent’ conversation which sounded lewd to the auditor and high-jinks resulted – which were neither very high nor remotely jinky enough I reserve my Schadenfreude for the falls of self-righteous politicians, businessmen and especially the clergy who pontificate against sex (especially gay sex)and greed and who inevitably get caught screwing leather-clad drug dealers or selling their votes to the opposition .<br />@Laoch – I actually put convenience above flavor every time – but thanks for the tip.<br />@JennyD – A vat of pasta – yes – should pasta ever come in any size smaller than a vat? I got interested in the seven deadly sins and did further reading and pride seems to be the DESIRE to be better than another, which moves it into a more mundane (and harder to avoid) plane. Sloth is not the comfortable indolence which you describe – which I would love – but rather joyless listlessness. Not so attractive, but far more often my case than I could wish. One of the modern problems is that there seems to be a ‘cute’ version of many sins which, if accurate, wouldn’t really be sins at all. Relaxing in pj’s with a book is not sloth, alas. Nice-looking man indeed, thanks for the thought; however if you do a quick résumé of those who have held my heart thus far, you will see a type emerge somewhat different from this man.<br />@Patricia – Actually WANTING to do the running off with the flat screen (with or without konking) should get you to the hot place. Still, you could always cook some pasta there – why waste the heat?<br />Blogger gets all snippy if my responses are long, so I will publish these first few and start another response to the rest of you commenters.DavidShaghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02378015294494222646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7854090250820154334.post-2224216119920898652011-01-29T10:17:26.397-05:002011-01-29T10:17:26.397-05:00My spice cabinet also includes Cajun spices. Must ...My spice cabinet also includes Cajun spices. Must be a regional thang. I use a lot of chili powder and Mexican seasonings. Lotsa Tex-Mex at my house. And lotsa Tex-Italian. Ha! I've been using the whole wheat pasta but, while I know I'm doing the healthier option, it just ain't the same as some good ol' semolina pasta. *sigh* Today, though, I'm having colcannon. Yer mama ever make that? It's a good ol' Irish recipe. I add carrots to mine, though, and I don't mash the potatoes. Yummy. Hats off to mi grandfither...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7854090250820154334.post-8266931055634063862011-01-28T21:18:06.940-05:002011-01-28T21:18:06.940-05:00You covered the full spectrum of sins very tidily,...You covered the full spectrum of sins very tidily, David--I commend you, and am glad you were minimally tainted by each. At the end of it all, sloth sound like a pretty darned good thing to me! Me? I tend to think of it as "economy of exertion".<br /><br />Your suggestions for the well-stocked larder sound about right, but you forgot to include one large-sized bag of chocolate chips, a block of Velveeta (which can be melted onto anything--including that broccoli you mentioned), and a honkin' big jar of peanut butter (that's survival food in the Midwest).<br /><br />Oh, then there's a bag of dark brown sugar, a jar of honey, and a box of Bisquick.<br /><br />Hmmm...you'd probably need a couple jars of nice fruit preserves and, of course, RAMEN NOODLES!!! (If the Donner party had had one case of ramen noodle mixes, well, things might've gone better for them.)<br /><br />Come to think of it, your neck of the woods could really get snowed-in big-time...those noodles might just save your life...or your neighbor's.<br /><br />Thank you for another great essay! Steve is downstairs, most likely wondering what the heck I've been laughing at again (can't wait to tell him). The cool thing is, you aklways manage to make me smile, but you inspire me to think, too...<br /><br />...and that can’t be a bad thing, either.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7854090250820154334.post-67804611823712874542011-01-27T20:26:23.497-05:002011-01-27T20:26:23.497-05:00Wow, what an interesting blog, it really got me to...Wow, what an interesting blog, it really got me to thinking, where do I fit in with Sin. <br />I was having a hard time deciding until I got to your last sin, I too, had forgotten about Wrath.<br /><br />And even though it shames me to say, that is my sin. I am not sure why but if someone harms someone I love, in any manner, my wrath is unbearable. People actually speak of it, and not getting on my bad side.<br /><br />The funny thing is if people do something to me, I do not really give it a thought, it may hurt, or anger me, but I do not even have a fleeting thought of "getting even" but my family and friends, I will plot for long period of time.<br /><br />To me someone said it perfect, "Revenge is a dish best served cold"<br /><br />That being said, YOu really through me for a loop with where you took the blog after wrath. LOL Actually I was looking for the comment tab and went back up several times thinking I must have wandered on to another blog. <br /><br />I read something on your profile page:<br /><br />"I never allow anything I believe today relate in any way to what I will believe tomorrow"<br /><br />I really like that, I would like to use it if you do not mind. That statement alone indicates you are open to learning, changing, adapting.<br /><br />People who think they know it all or will never change, sadly have stopped being open to learning.One Girl's Storyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06417023080381049197noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7854090250820154334.post-69870209455411390702011-01-27T19:26:39.615-05:002011-01-27T19:26:39.615-05:00Have tomatoes, can cook...pasta is my downfall, lo...Have tomatoes, can cook...pasta is my downfall, love the stuff, just about any way you prepare it...and, glad to know a bit of envy won't send me to the hot place unless I konk somebody on the head and run off with their flat screen...enjoyed reading...Clan MacAulay WVhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06848037355892202344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7854090250820154334.post-67385871550906549632011-01-27T19:09:01.901-05:002011-01-27T19:09:01.901-05:00Well, I'll be, you cook like I do, AND you'...Well, I'll be, you cook like I do, AND you're a pasta nut. If I could die in any food in the world, it would be in a vat of linguini. Just the thought of it at this very moment is sending me into...well, you know. Give me a second to catch my breath.<br />Ok, done. You don't know it, but that moment took a good 45 seconds.<br />Your thoughts on pride. In my mind, it's not pride per se, because I think of pride exactly like you do. I think it's 'false' pride that's in question. The people that run around openly flaunting or even outwardly speaking the 'I'm better'n you are, I have more than you do..." ad nausem, all false pride. I think that kind of pride gets mixed up with bragging, and braggin' fo'nothin' if I might say.<br />God, I'm hungry now.<br />Ok, onward to sloth. So be it. You work all your life, you give your life to a company, you never get to do what you want to do for all those years, shoot, it's your turn. Feel like staying in pjs? Do it. Feel like having pie for dinner? Do it. Feel like turning off the phone and ignoring friends? DO NOT DO IT. There's a limit.<br />David, dear David, this post was once again into my own realm or being so like you. I get it, seriously. You might not really know that, but I do.<br />OH, I want you to look at THIS. You are going to drool! My friend, Lou, the artist, is having a showing in less than 2 weeks and within that showing is an unrehearsed talk between him and his long time best guy friend, Scott (omg, get ready to faint). I just want you to see the photo of Scott, that's all. I am NOT going to miss this.<br />http://www.scottcampbellbooks.com<br />After you drool, you can thank me ;)<br />xoxoxoJennyDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14329171741191991379noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7854090250820154334.post-60073408839519979812011-01-27T16:21:53.778-05:002011-01-27T16:21:53.778-05:00Generally olive oil oxidates once it is opened and...Generally olive oil oxidates once it is opened and begins to taste bad if it is not used in a reasonable time period, thus it is better to buy it in small bottles even though that is not the most economical way.Sultanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06506141014376919585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7854090250820154334.post-33118577726688512812011-01-27T11:38:40.639-05:002011-01-27T11:38:40.639-05:00Great post David! I had to google Schadenfreude t...Great post David! I had to google Schadenfreude to find out it meant 'delight in another person's misfortune.' I have to confess that I do get a kick out of someone like charlie s. getting caught with his pants down.<br />The cooking tips are very good. I follow them all and keep pretty much everything you mentioned on hand except for the garlic.Bethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12020604933621899108noreply@blogger.com