Hmm, so no one has troubles with the twister on level 9 ("SPINNY THANG....")?
Right. I did it on first try, with 2 twisters. geoo took more twisters, and was too trigger-happy with the laser blasters, destroyed necessary terrain, and had to fix that with glue.
We met at Ichotolot's place yesterday. Ichotolot has a nice gaming mouse, but he's set it to have acceleration. He likes this in every other game, but it makes smooth L2 twister control impossible.
The meal of the day was
Gargantua Blargg's lava pot, a spicey stew.
This list of ingredients works for about 5 people.
- 1 bottle of white wine
- 400 g of goulash, we chose lean beef goulash
- 800 g of carrots
- 500 g of mushrooms
- 1 liter of puréed tomatoes
- 100 ml of olive oil
- 4 onions
- 1 Gargantua Blargg
- 1 bulb of garlic
- 1 bundle of spring onions
- 2 bundles of parsley
- some leaves of laurel
- some allspice, some pepper, some salt, some herbes de provence, some oregano or marjoram
- 3 baguettes, or any preferred type of bread
Cut carrots, onions, and spring onions into little pieces. Cut mushrooms into slices. The goulash should already come in handy cubes that don't need further cutting.
<IchoTolot> we are cooking right now and geoo put way too much garlic (the whole tuber) in our meal
<NaOH> there's no such thing as too much garlic
<IchoTolot> oh yes, i smell it in the next room
<IchoTolot> it's waaaaaay too much
<NaOH> that's like saying Akseli doesn't have enough towels
<IchoTolot> bite in pure garlic, that's what it is right now :P
<NaOH> well, tell geoo I applaud his audacityWhy all this rage? In general, you have two choices with garlic. Take all the cloves from the bulb and crush them into a few pieces, or take a few cloves only and grate them finely. Expert chefs claim there's a difference in flavor, at the same strength. The lava pot recipe calls for many cloves, crushed. You should never take all the cloves and grate them, that would have been way to strong. (geoo declines to comment on this last statement.)
Take the largest pot you can find. Pour the oil in. Put crushed garlic and cut onions in. Fry the onions until they are transparent.
Put everything else into the pot, except for the bread. Mix thoroughly. When you think you've added enough parsley, add again twice that amount.
Cook for at least 3 hours with medium heat. The carrots take very long to get soft. Stir the stew every once in a while, but overall maintainance is very low. Enjoy your video games. The wine prevents the stew from sticking against the pot. The blargg will enjoy the hot stew and rise out of the pot, see picture below.
Serve with bread.
-- Simon