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Git bumped, food thread!

Today is good, too. Fried potato... soup? Chowder? Stew? Something. It looks like thick soup or chowder, but there's no milk, just butter and cheese, so... anyway.

Airfried diced potatoes (2, russet) with black pepper/paprika/chilli powder seasoning mix and olive oil (360f for 21 minutes), then put in pot, covered to top of potatoes in ~50/50 unsalted chicken broth and water, and boiled at about half strength for another 25 minutes, adding ~2 servings of butter (something like two tablespoons, I think?) and some parsley at the 10 minutes remaining mark, then a bit of shredded cheese at 7/5/3 minutes remaining, along with a couple slices of shredded up honey smoked turkey at the 3, stirring occasionally.

Topped with some bacon bits, and it's... well, it's good. Not hard to make, either. Probably be better if I had, like... milk or something to make it a proper chowder or whatever (and maybe peeled the potatoes; it's good as is, but I think the texture'd be a bit better with something else done to the skin), but heck, it's good enough.

E: ~2 weeks later, frumple has discovered what happens if you add some brown sugar to buttered pepper/curry beef ramen and it is amazing. Put in slightly too much, but it's just. Nearly perfect. Almost the exact blend of savory and sweet that's basically my favorite taste in the world. Slightly less and it'll be right on target and I might have to stop cooking it out of fear of never eating anything else.

Exact makings... did cup of unsalted chicken broth and cup of water for base, once it started boiling added a serving of unsalted sweet cream butter and generous amounts of curry powder and black pepper. Boiled for 4 minutes (mostly due to starting the timer a bit before it actually started boiling), then put in bowl with ~ 1/3rd a seasoning packet and about as much brown sugar (recommendation, 2/3rds to 1/2 the amount of sugar to beef seasoning). Dumped in some diced up chicken nuggets for meat and it's just. Almost the platonic form of "frumple's favorite noddle dish".

I've been experimenting off and on with putting brown sugar in stuff lately, and apparently I really need to keep doing it because results so far have been "okay" to "I might consider murder if you try to take this from me".

I mean, if you stick a laptop in a geriatric jackass's brainpan, things are going to go wrong.

Oh, I'm fine, personally. Worst we've seen/are expected to see here is like 40 mph gusts and a few inches of rain; we've had worse non-supercell thunderstorms this year, basically.

Folks east of me are kinda' fucked, though. Idalia's apparently hit cat 4 and it hasn't quite made landfall yet. Mostly just hoping it doesn't do the full michael and omnifuck the area it hits with cat 5 winds... cat 4's bad enough -- anything over 2 is going to cause substantial damage where it hits worst, anything over 3 is going to be fucking devastating -- but cat 5 is like someone taking an angry drunken lawnmower to your skyline. At least with cat 4 it'll probably only be drunk

Though this rapid intensification thing... I can't remember if it happened more than this, but at minimum this is the second time this has happened to florida in the last five years. At this point, I think you're probably safest just assuming every hurricane going through the gulf is a cat 4-5 and acting accordingly. The lower category hurricanes are relatively harmless outside of flooding/storm surge, but... we can't even somewhat reliably predict storms are going to stay those anymore, apparently

E: Any case, it turns out "behold the sun" was an entirely too apt moniker for a storm. Giant ball of hate destroying everything it touches. That's the sun, a'ight.

... so is there any context to that, or what? Looks like someone got stabilized by oxygen and then refused further care once they were coherent enough to do so, with the first line covering whatever costs were involved with that.

E: Though an idle lookabout suggests it might have been a weewoo wagon call, where they stabilized someone on-site with ox and then were sent off. It's unfortunately common for ambulance calls to get charged like that, even if they don't do super much; the price is for the mobilization more than anything.

From what I've heard of ambulance calls, they're probably lucky there wasn't another 0 in that price

Pet cones they... they have an actual formal name. They're not just the, well. Obvious. Pet cone. I never knew.

... the worst part about it is their official name is apparently Elizabethan Collar. I have lost respect for the pet cones this day

Cat 3 or lower plz

... though, like. They were talking about record breaking water temps down south not too long ago, so. NOAA forecast doesn't currently look like it's expected to break 110 mph winds, but that thing could intensify fast enough to break someone's neck and hard enough to knock over a bunker.

Here's hoping it's relatively mild

E: And yup, there's weather.gov noting, hey, yer in the potential impact area, keep an eye on the news. Blech.

I mean. Noise music? Probably the closest thing I can think of to "hardest music in existence". Stuff sounds like fornicating industrial machinery, most of the time.

hypnotoad says okay

... though it's less on the love than the know. The song's great, but that damn scene gave me nightmares as a child.