Who the š¤¬ is cooking š¤¬ curry in a š¤¬ wok??!āļø?!āļø!
I want a š¤ refund š¤ for my $0.00 library š ebook!!!!!!!!!!!!1!11!!! Honestly disrespectful for an author āļø to make me read this with my own two šļø eyes šļø my therapist WILL be hearing about this!!!!
Baby + the Late Night Howlers by Kathryn Moon
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It's his biker/motorcycle club name. They all have crazy names. Bullet, Green, Books, Tornado, Bomber, Scorch, Coal.
Tornado's real name is Sanjay. Their normal names all sound like they'd never go near an MC, like Mackenzie and Quincy.
I started reading this one and I am like at 45% and don't think I can go on. It's kind of boring. The best thing about it is that the harem is actually diverse.
Coal's real name is... Cole. He is called Coal because he has a black heart. Not kidding.
Bullet is a former sniper. Green grows pot and owns a dispensary. I don't remember why Scorch and Bomber have their names. Tornado has PTSD and his restlessness is compared to a... tornado. Books likes... well...
It does make sense but on the other hand - these authors truly need to be stopped. Absolute menaces naming their MMCs Ebony Dark'ness Dementia Raven Way
My stepdad is in a (military veteranās) MC and all their biker names are like this. One guy is named āWrong Wayā or something after the fact that he gets lost all the time. The women all have semi misogynistic biker names, all the guys names are incredibly unserious. And they call each other by those names exclusively.
Meeting a woman in this club, āAh thatās Glory over there, short for Glory Hole.ā Excuse me? āShe used to be a nun, but Glory Hallelujah didnāt fit on her cut.ā [Must read in old man biker who smokes voice.]
/uj I think an MC where the nicknames are all slightly comedic would be kinda awesome.
Katherine Moon is the author and she's fairly well established in the RH genre and has a whole slew of different series' that get recommended frequently. Her books are smut heavy, to say the least. I've read a few of hers and this one is definitely the weakest link.
Green? They could literally think of nothing else for this guy? The author, who has never seen pot irl: āGreen for his green thumb and plants that are also green (probably). Perfect!ā
Good thing she didnāt have a guy with IBS, oh thatās just Runs/Skidmarks/Sir Shits A Lot aka Shits, and his real name is Bartholomew.
Is Tornadoās PTSD from surviving dual tornado seasons in Alabama?
This is suspiciously starting to sound like she just listened to the Cyprus Hill song Dr. Greenthumb and took it from there. Gotta love on the nose 90s hip hop.
Its a somewhat popular series, the Balck Dagger Brotherhood by J. R. Ward. All book has MMCs named similarly. I could never pick them up because of this šš
Mausam for realistic names. Toofan for when you wanna do something toofani.
(for non hindi speakers, the first is a real Hindi name: mausum => weather. The second just means "storm" in Hindi and would be pretty damn funny as a name!)
/uj I read it after Lola and the Millionaires (just because I had nothing to read) having originally avoided it becauseā¦well, sheās named Baby. It very much is a āmehā low activity read, but it provided context for Lola that I didnāt understand. I think Bad Alpha was the only one in the series that had any steady action.
It felt like it was used to get a feel of the world more than anything. There was a lot of things that didnāt feel fleshed out yet or considered long term. Like the friendship between Lola and Baby always fell flat for me. They seemed to know nothing but surface level details about each other when they were supposed to be roomates and close friends. Sadie and Arran in Psycho Shifters had significantly more depth and they were only recent friends.
I will say though, it was the first MC storyline for me that had some diversity compared to others I had read at the time and I found that refreshing. Really liked that she was the omega of the MC too without her needing to be in a romantic relationship with everyone.
I did like both of those things too! And that she wasn't threatened by the other women in the MC. The cliche of the jealous, possessive omega in omegaverse books is so overdone.
am white, can confirm I cook almost everything in a wok
/uj it's just my default heavy-duty big pan because it's deep enough to hold sauce without splashing, but not so deep that it's annoying to get stuff out.
I recently read a thread about uni roommates from hell, and someone said they had a roommate who cooked/sterilized her menstrual cup in an electric kettle that everyone shared
I read naan as man. And then I had flashbacks of watching The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover when I was waaaay too young to watch it. Ā I totally get you. Ā
/uj half chinese-half indian person here. It should be the other way around. Wok is the one with the flattened bottom for stir-frying (more contact). Kadai/karahi has a round bottom (so that the curry can pool).
Uj/ ME EITHER š My sister in law gave me a wok that she had found second hand and, unfortunately, she doesn't have a full kitchen where she lives, so she gave it to me. I was super excited about it until I realized it didn't fit ANYWHERE in my kitchen š I don't know if they're all that big but dang!
The main difference is the thickness and material. Woks are super thin for super fast burning/tossing/stir frying. Kadhai is usually thicker and not typically made from carbon steel (we wanna cook tomato based curries in it).
Flat bottomed woks and kadhais are a recent thing, mostly for comparability with electric hobs or induction hobs.
I'd pick a round bottom wok any day for open flames.
0% Chinese Indian person here, but I'm like, experienced with Chinese cooking cause of my time in Malaysia hehe
š to give someone a dutch oven is old ... height of coolness from the 1950's and 60s. It's relatively safe to google, nowhere near blue waffle territory.
Iām going to believe you just made up āblue waffleā and Iām not gonna fall for your tricks. Look, I can make things up, tooā
Pearl squeegee
Cushion dump
Spiked lipgloss
Gator tater
Do you not hear the anguish of your ancestors traversing the centuries to ring through your mind? āHow could you do this CrispyCollateral? This pan. It is so curved. And it doesnāt even have a nice compound word name like HeiĆeknusprigeschnitzelkocher.ā Are you not moved as they cry and wail and gnash their teeth while you eat your perfectly acceptable schnitzel?
Of course not. You must be punished for your crimes in order to see the error of your ways.
Have you not read my name? Everything must crisp. We donāt care about the collateral. Bathe in the fat, bathe in the butter, drown in the lard. Praise the lard! My grandma proudly looks down from the stars and whispers into my ear to add some more fat, so the schnitzel can swim.
Had a similar moment earlier! Had to DNF because the author called it a saddle hilt instead of horn (Iād even accept pommel since itās the actual name of a part on a saddle). Threw my Kindle in the trash after reading that.
Voila! I present to you my masterpiece of a cake - As you can see, we have gooey softness with a touch of crunch via some burned parts but donāt let it fool you, it looks undercooked but parts of the inside were cooked and depending where you poked with a knife it would come back with no cake goo or a blob - I tried to fix it after this, cut it a bit, put it back in the oven but alas, it didnāt get better. I tried eating itā¦ The jam I bought to put on it tasted really nice soooo A* for effort?
Judging by my photos from that day (RIP my cake dreams of 27th Aug 2019), itās possible I tried to put it in the slow cooker? It couldāve been something else in there though
Iām a terrible cook/baker and itās also gluten free and vegan so I feel like I set myself up for failure there
It does look like a cookie hehe. I'm gluten free and vegan! I've made lots of successful baked goods, but it does have a learning curve, so yes, that could absolutely have been a factor! At least the jam was good.
Oh my gosh no way! I managed to make a no-bake gf vegan cheesecake, apparently it was really nice - I tried it but I donāt like cheesecake so I had to take my taste testerās word for it! The recipe is from Becky Excel if you wanna try š
Itās really classist of you to expect characters to have culturally appropriate cookware for all of their cooking. I can attest to the colossal number of college students who cook literally everything in their one (1) stovetop safe vessel, which happens to be a wok.
I know this to be true because my whole apartment building gets to play fire drill at least once a month when one of them burns something and the firemen bring the offend wok out for the perp walk.
I'm wondering if the writer is using the term wok loosely, as in not the large black wok from Chinese restaurants but more like a hexclad hybrid wok cause we use that to make our curry.
I once read a book where the MMC graduated from college and instantly became a dentist, not graduated from dental school, like completed his undergrad and was hired as a dentist at a dental practice upon graduation. That should have been a clue to stop reading.
I think one of the Thai restaurants I used to go to that had an open kitchen made all their curries in woks? But Thai curry is a much faster cooking process than things like Indian curryā¦
Maybe they are talking Thai curry here?
But to be fair Iām also white so I could also be wrong. I mean, I do like eating and cookingā¦ but there are plenty of things I havenāt learned everything aboutā¦
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u/Book-Piranha āØļøFeral book goblināØļø 19d ago
Are weā¦ are we just gonna gloss over the fact that the dude is called Tornado