A Challenge

[KeilCoppes]

I've realized as I've gotten older sometimes virtues are over rated.

At least the human (or pepperoni)-generated ones. I may have to turn my attentions to buttered microwave popcorn...

 

[kelco]

With lots of garlic salt?

 

[KeilCoppes]

I haven't tried that one. I don't think I could eat too much of that without sprinting down the hall. I'm very much a straight butter type of guy.

 

[kelco]

I love garlic. It's one of the 2 main food groups, the other being chocolate. Popcorn is really good with just a sprinkle of garlic salt and some parmesian cheese.

I just realized that this is my 400th post!

 

[hischildsindik]

Okay, this all sounds yummy..

 

[KeilCoppes]

Garlic is a good thing (in moderation of course). I really enjoy it as a seasoning.... but you need to graduate from parmesan to the king of italian cheeses, romano. (I'm not even going anywhere near gorgonzola, the slimy shoe cheese) - but the wafting of garlic and romano.... mmmmm.

Congats on your 400th post!

 

[kelco]

Since Keil's cooking I suggest we go to his place and party!

 

[KeilCoppes]

Since Keil's cooking I suggest we go to his place and party!

You'd be welcome. It's fairly sedate at the moment, though - watching Samurai Jack, reading a scifi novel, and posting. We'd have to get out a board game or just enjoy talking.

(42 minutes left on the bread and the crusty bread smell is just starting)
(watch out, Jack, floating sexy girl is going to try and take you out!)

 

[kelco]

Garlic is a good thing (in moderation of course). I really enjoy it as a seasoning.... but you need to graduate from parmesan to the king of italian cheeses, romano. (I'm not even going anywhere near gorgonzola, the slimy shoe cheese) - but the wafting of garlic and romano.... mmmmm.

Congats on your 400th post!

I use romano in my spaghetti sauce and always grate some up with my mozzarella when I make pepperoni rolls. I love gorgonzola cheese on fresh pears.

 

[KeilCoppes]

(see - I knew it!)

 

[KeilCoppes]

Well, you're a better italian cook than I - I never could manage gorgonzola. I did see a good honeyed pear recipe go by on Emeril a while back, though. I have to get around to trying it sometime. I bought the pears and the cottage cheese, but I ran out of time and ended up eating the pears raw.

 

[kelco]

You'd be welcome. It's fairly sedate at the moment, though - watching Samurai Jack, reading a scifi novel, and posting. We'd have to get out a board game or just enjoy talking.

(42 minutes left on the bread and the crusty bread smell is just starting)
(watch out, Jack, floating sexy girl is going to try and take you out!)

Cool. Who is your favorite sci fi author. Mine are Terry Goodkind and Anne McCaffery. I like mononpoly. Dibs on the race car.

 

[KeilCoppes]

I have a few favorites - at the moment I'm reading David Weber. I like Goodkind for his Wizard's rules and some of the true things the echo and McCaffrey for her dragon worlds. I do wish that the morality of their cultures were a little cleaner, though.

Favorite authors? Well, EE Doc Smith, LE Modesitt Jr., Robert Jordan, of course Weber, and a few others. At the moment I'm a bit miffed at Jordan for dragging his heels on finishing up his series....

 

[kelco]

Yeah. By the time the next Wheel of Time book comes out you have to go back and skim the last one just to get caught up. I read Skylark of Space some time ago and it was pretty good. I think my favorite sci-fi of all time would have to be Stranger in a Strange Land.

 

[KeilCoppes]

Jordan is currently in the business of expanding and expanding when he should be wrapping. If you enjoyed Skylark, then you should read the Lensman series. It starts slowly, but it is the most classic EE Doc Smith there is.

I've read Stranger, but I much prefer Starship Troopers and some of Heinlein's other works, particularly things like Tunnel in the Sky (the family workings in Stranger are not what I'd look for). However, if you liked Stranger, you should also consider reading Gordon R. Dickson's TimeStorm which is along some similar lines with regard to odd time travel. Dickson is another excellent writer. His Child Cycle is classic.

If you like political or philosophical scifi, then you might also enjoy Modesitt's book, Adiamante.

 

[KeilCoppes]

btw - I re-read Skylark on Wednesday night. I wasn't in the mood for Skylark Three, so I switched over to Weber's Honor Harrington series (Horatio Hornblower meets scifi). What was your last read?

 

[KeilCoppes]

Bread is out of the breadmaker and cooling on the rack - nice crispy crust (brushed on olive oil earlier).

 

[KeilCoppes]

Whoops - I take it back - I was thinking about Farnham's Freehold!

 

[kelco]

My last sci fi read was Naked Empire. I agree with you about Robert Jordan. He really should be wrapping it up, It has gotten to far away from the orginal starting point and there are too many characters to keep up with. I'm thinking of getting House Corrino for my next read. The Dune series was what started me out on science fiction.

 

[kelco]

I'm glad the bread is done I'm getting a little hungry. I'm gonna pick up Farnhams Freehold and Timestorm next time I'm on Amazon. They both sound like books I'd enjoy.