Snowballs

[rhivolution]

As noted on Twitter, I managed to make a US Thanksgiving dinner with only one mishap, which was not related to the taste of the food or major injury at all, thank fuck. Unfortunately, it WAS related to setting myself on fire...okay, setting on fire the oven glove I was using to hold the gravy pan. No Rhis were burned in the making of this dinner. My family has always had electric stoves, okay?

The meal was lovely. It's pretty hard to fuck up the pre-basted turkey breast, but I successfully pulled off pumpkin pie and mashed potatoes and green bean casserole.

There is snow in Glasgow! Enough snow to stick to the ground and the road, likely wreaking havoc on traffic.

I may need to make a locked post to muse about my Festivids ideas--recip is not on my circle/friends list and I don't believe ze's closely connected to anyone. I do a lot better when I talk these things out, and seeing as the entire month of November has been blown with me being sick and pushing out visa stuff* and wedding thank yous, I need to get on it.

Without giving anything away: does anyone know of any songs about fathers that aren't good or bad, just conflicted? Clapton's 'My Father's Eyes' is just a little too slow.

At least I have a filmmaker/vidding icon on Dreamwidth now. Yay, Abed! He's far closer to my own sensibilities than Mark Cohen.

* Probably due for that locked post on the [adjective redacted] state of UK immigration under the current administration.

Comments

[littlebutfierce]

Oh, the fathers song thing has my brain ticking--I'll see if I can remember anything. (Edit: First thing my brain threw out was Everclear's "Father of Mine," which I read as conflicted, but might be too "conflicted trending towards negative" for your purposes?)

I always had electric stoves growing up, then had gas in NYC & grew to love it. I wish we had gas here--it's so much more difficult to do effective temperature control w/electric. (But yeah, our oven mitts at home frequently had singed bits at the tips, hahaha.)

There's snow in Bristol. Enough to coat windshields but it's all melted off the roads. Apparently there is a warning for blizzard conditions on Tuesday here. People here know jack shit about dealing w/snow, so that should be fun. (I'd imagine they were somewhat better in Glasgow about it!)

[rhivolution]

I love how stuff heats faster with gas, but then OH GOD ON FIRE and then M is like oh my god what did you do and worries about me.

Blizzard conditions? Seriously? We're allegedly due for sleet tomorrow. [sigh] Actually, they're not used to snow much here, it's that west coast thing of more rain than snow. Still not melted off my street.

ETA: I listened to Father of Mine earlier and it might work, but I need to watch the canon to see if it fits. Thanks though!

[azuire]

Ohh. Is it like those induction stove things? I'm utterly fascinated by those. Our family has always used the flammable stuff: we use a lot of pressure cooking. Glad your Thanksgiving dinner went okay and you're also unharmed. *cookie*

There's snow in Edinburgh too! :D Already wrecking havoc on the roads.

No songs about fathers, I'm afraid. (There's Carry On Wayward Son but I don't think that's what you have in mind...)

Enjoy your day! <3

[rhivolution]

The stove at my mom's place is like this, a glass-ceramic one. It's nice because it's wicked easy to clean once it cools down, but unlike induction, it heats and stays hot regardless of your cookware.

However, before Mom moved to her current house, we had electric stoves with coils on top--think four high-powered hot plates. The stove I had in my student flat in Birmingham was also electric, but with flat plates instead of coils. Also, it was tiny, even for the UK. (US appliances are huge, probably because our energy costs are artificially low.)

I don't even want to know what driving is like here. We live on a side street and I don't dare venture out. M's gone to volunteer at the charity shop and I'm sure he'll say the trains are terrible as well.

[azuire]

*is fascinated* I've never used one of those. Not sure if I can get a pressure cooker that works with those sort of stoves. In Japan they were hot plates, and took forever to cook anything.

Well considering everything is snowed under. Have you managed to explore Glasgow properly? I need to go with someone who knows the city well so I can enjoy it as much as possible, so as to minimise my homesickness :(

[rhivolution]

From what I'm reading, you can use most pressure cookers on electric stoves as long as they're not induction. You just have to be careful and use two burners--one on low and one on high, switching as needed--because they're hard to cool down. I've never used one, despite being a foodie (they have come back en vogue)...I am slightly terrified it would explode, knowing my luck.

I've explored Glasgow some--I know the city centre and the south side a lot better than I did before. However, I've only been back once to the west end, which is lovely and indie and twee, because you really need some cash to do it properly, and I (as they say here) am skint until my visa stuff is sorted and I can find work.

[azuire]

Oh no, I've used pressure cookers on stoves -- just not the the stove you just showed me. Was trying to figure that out.

Ohh the west end. I'd love to go there: it sounds like my kind of place. I only barely know the city centre.

[rhivolution]

Well, it sounds awkward, but I'd be happy to show you around the West End, though some of it's changed since it was my haunt. It's overall just become more of itself, though, from what I hear from friends!

[azuire]

Ohh if you have spoons, and time, I'd love to! *excited* Now I'm trying to think of nice things in Edinburgh to recommend to you, but you've probably seen them already.

[rhivolution]

Sure, I'd like that, once the whole 'holiday season' has done its thing, because right now it'll just be chaos.

As for Edinbra, I've actually only been there twice, so recs are great. I've seen the Parliament and the Royal Mile and some bits and pieces around the area where ladyvivien used to live (near the uni? I am not sure).