Ask KQ Claus

[KQ]

Any baking and or cookbook recommendations?

Oh that's easy - Cook's Illustrated subscription. Get both the magazine and online subs. Fabulous!

If you want something that is great for a veggie lover Victory Garden Cookbook is wonderful. It even has info on planting and yields. LOVE IT! It has gone in and out of print. You can buy it used on Amazon but a couple years back I found it at a local book store new.

[KQ]

Everyone wants to hit the Catalina Wine Mixer...

how ami doin?

those are awesome!

[KQ]

KQ,

I'm having a purse made for my wife by a local leather guy. It's close to the purses she's been hinting at by showing me off the shelf stuff made by little Chinese ladies. I also bought her a drill so she doesn't have to steal mine anymore.

Am I on point here? Should I just say fuck-it and buy her a jack-rabbit?

Those are great gifts! Both thoughtful and practical!

Rabbit would make a great stocking stuffer (pun intended)

[skipowpow]

How the fuck do all you guys know what a souffle is?

[Skidog]

How the fuck do all you guys know what a souffle is?

We're not all devoid of culture. ?

[Skidog]

Oh that's easy - Cook's Illustrated subscription. Get both the magazine and online subs. Fabulous!

If you want something that is great for a veggie lover Victory Garden Cookbook is wonderful. It even has info on planting and yields. LOVE IT! It has gone in and out of print. You can buy it used on Amazon but a couple years back I found it at a local book store new.

2nd cooks illustrated. Good shit right there.

[KQ]

Lesbostrap 3000 or one of the newer models?

Lesbostrap 3000 is the gold standard, no?

[PNWbrit]

Lesbostrap 3000 is the gold standard, no?

Get the red one?

[KQ]

How the fuck do all you guys know what a souffle is?

It's really light whipped body cream - feels wonderful and leaves you oh so soft. Seriously - good stuff. I used the ginger this morning.



Hey... if you know someone who suffers from dry hands during the winter this is what you need to get them. Only thing that works for me:

REJUVENATING HAND TREATMENT

[KQ]

Get the red one?

Sure but if they make a candy cane striped one I'd go with that.

[PNWbrit]

really light whipped

Now you're just teasing.

Edit: Safe word is?

[skipowpow]

It's really light whipped body cream - feels wonderful and leaves you oh so soft. Seriously - good stuff. I used the ginger this morning.



Hey... if you know someone who suffers from dry hands during the winter this is what you need to get them. Only thing that works for me:

REJUVENATING HAND TREATMENT

So it is lotion with extra air so it can be sold for more $$. Bahh Humbug.

[bagtagley]

My wife is a wonderful anomaly for a woman. She rarely uses a cell phone, mostly for "I'll be late" or emergency calls. She has an old flip phone with a $100/yr pay as you go service that she never depletes before it expires. She "really" wants a smart phone to text & stuff, not that she she'll actually use it. (or she will use it too much until the novelty wears off and cost a fortune) Is there a smart phone & service you recommend that won't force me sign a contract and pay $50/month (or more) but gets decent connection service? I can't see paying $600+/yr for something she won't use.

Ringplus is free. You could get a cheap phone on eBay.

Cricket is $35/month all in and they have some decent free after rebate phones available.

[KQ]

So it is lotion with extra air so it can be sold for more $$. Bahh Humbug.

Sounds like it but no - more emollient than lotion. Less water.

They make a great lotion call Precipitation that I use every day (broke out the Ginger this morning because I was feeling spicy after my shower). Love the Precipitation, oh so light and goes on easy.

[KQ]

Safe word is?

Kris Kringle!

[Meadow Skipper]

actually I found the alpaca throw KQ posted quite fetching, and indeed did subsequently purchase one as a gift for that special someone for Xmas. No lie. Thanks KQ Claus!

Well played.

[huckbucket]

The latest fashions from www.yandy.com [NRSFW]

I want a job as "Manager of Digital Nipple Erasing"

[KQ]

What about the "Magic Wand"?

Wand is nice but bunny is better.. maybe... both? A girl likes to have choices.

[PNWbrit]

Kris Kringle!

Less ambiguous than "SWEET BABY JESUS!"

Yet still seasonal?

[KQ]

KQ is indeed killing it.

Meanwhile Meadow Skipper is fronting with his usual aw-shucks firefighter/ski patroller persona while a heretofore unacknowledged inner metrosexual is revealing itself, what with the Chanel fragrance and cashmere coat/aplaca throw questions.

EDIT TO ADD: actually I found the alpaca throw KQ posted quite fetching, and indeed did subsequently purchase one as a gift for that special someone for Xmas. No lie. Thanks KQ Claus!

Awesome! Lucky lady!

[Buster Highmen]

World Vision

World Vision is a Christian humanitarian organization - See more at: http://www.worldvision.org/about-us#....uBwqbhPc.dpuf

I don't do religiously affiliated charities. Religion conveys at least as much hatred as love.

[skiballs]

Do you think agreeing to the wife's terms for divorce is a sufficient present?
Or should I throw in a stocking stuffer?

[stuckathuntermtn]

Give her stocking one last stuffing for the road.

[KQ]

World Vision is a Christian humanitarian organization - See more at: http://www.worldvision.org/about-us#....uBwqbhPc.dpuf

I don't do religiously affiliated charities. Religion conveys at least as much hatred as love.

Well I guess you've got to follow your conscious on this one but here's a thought:

The (atheist) psychologist Jonathan Haidt has observed:

"In the US, religious believers give more money than secular [even] to secular charities, and to their neighbours. They give more of their time, too, and of their blood. Even if you excuse secular liberals from charity because they vote for government welfare programs, it is awfully hard to explain why secular liberals give so little blood."

[Buster Highmen]

I don't want to go down this path in your nice thread. So I'll just wish for Peace On Earth and Good Will to All and continue to make my little secular contributions.