It's Paulie Walnuts!

1: I tend to be too long winded. after reading several of these, i started writing my own in my head. Even in my head i realised some points would need footnotes because i am not concise.

2: when speaking i can sustain a single sentence for so long, that people glaze over, loosing focus on the words that im saying and become facinated by the fact that i am not breathing. they often feel forced to inturpt me to demand that i breath.

3: I have come to learn reacently that i place enourmouse value on respect. being respected by others, and in my giving it (more slack on that). this insight has come from my realising so many relationships (esp family) had not included it, and i had acepted this, without realising what was absent.

4: I often find that other people are facinating when i shutup and let them speak about themselves. doing so enriches me, and i feel my life events are so less interesting in comparison. There is a balance to be ahd here, which i have not achived

5: I am dislexic. i'm also lazy. i could spellcheck this, but i've chosen not to for ilisturtive purpoises. i often misspell phoneticaly. where i have not its probably a typeo. these are not the same thing. i've correct a few of those or this would be genuinly ilegiable.

6: I feel that the human mind is incredible. it can re-peace together information from a single with a lot of noise in. like typos/misspellings, or a crowded room/party. the mind is so good at this that we can stop listening to people, thinking we've heard them and understood, when actualy we havent. listening is a pasive act, not an active one.

7: i have insights that are not original and get me nowhere either.

8: I once had my right testicle swell from about walnut size to bigger than a tenis ball in a mater of minuits. my left was unchanged. they injected morphine into my leg to calm me down. this was good.

9: one of my middle names is Kevern. It is after a cornish town near where i was born.

10: my mother was one of the last débutantes, introduced to the queen. my father was working class, and became an anglican vicar. This has left me with mild class confusion. i can be neither upper, nor working class, as i lack the inside information both would have. so i must be a variation of middle. about as mild and irelivant an identity crissis as one can have. very british.

11: i consider myself both british and cornish, but not enlgish.

12: I am a geek. i read alot, would have collected comics had there been a shop near when growing up (and had i had money), played warhamer 40k/bloobowl, RPGs etc. still do. only reacently played DnD. wasnt keen. want to play a game with a few friends to a system im making up myself.

13: I dont belive women like men. This is not a logical feeling, but its clear i feel it deep down. I get symanticaly hung up on things, and feel the term "men" is to broad. "women tend to like some men" is perfectly true. this is only important because i consider myself a member of "men" but, not of "some men". this is deeply unoriginal i'm sure, but influences how i interact with people, and is so likely to be one of the many factors that maintain my singleness. I mention it because its something about myself i'd like to change, but about which i feel powerless to do so.

14: I have 1 older brother. I always wanted to have a daughter, but I now dislike my own genes so strongly, i would not like to be a genetic father. as i am 31, this may not matter. I would hope i could be a good father. I would be determined to not make the mistakes my own father did, but would likely faily in atelast part as well as making my own new ones. joy.

15: I am thin, but not fit. i'd like to be strong. but i play video games for hourse. I like dance, freestyle, and almost joined a dance group as a child, but was peer preasured out of it. i like to sing, but am not good. I have reacently started Capoeira. this seems to be a wonderfull balance of all those thigns for me.

16: I grew up always imaging i would go to university and get a degree because that was what you did. discovering that this was not an expectation/aspiration/the norm for some people shocked me, because it made me realise how much i'd taken that path for granted.

17: I wanted to be an astrophysicist. i longed for space but the UK has no space program and im not that bright.

18: i have changed academic course in my life several times, at alive, degree, and then quit my PHD after 18months of it due to realising i had a violent hatred towards it and was depressed.

19: I once had to ask a friend in class how to spell the word "the" because i had forgotten. this was a foolish move.

20: As a young child, my bowels did not tell me when they needed to be evacuated. they just did their own thing. This was socially disastrous. 2 years ago i had 1/3rd of my large intestine removed due to cancer, and now im just glad they work atall. perspectives change.

21: I have great respect for the military, but dislike that we need one. I understand their need for discipline, but had i joined, would likely have passively resisted it untill i had gone insane. i am contridictions.

22: I can hold long converastions with myself, often considering what i would say to people, going overthings and yet once did not speak to a person for almost a week. i was brushing amdness, had breakdowns, and have had a panic attack in a restaurant. the human condition can be frustraighting.

23: I've gone over 24hrs without eating more than once, because i've been busy/distracted. i dont always take good care of myself. i dont always care.

24: I have things i need to be doing. I barely watch any videos on VS any more, due to time. maybe 1 or 2 every 2 weeks. and yet i check sift-talk/blogs page daily. the people matter.

25: as i keep mentioning, my new belife system is atheist. It seems that lossing christianity is very common, but as when someone is first converted, the point of change can be a profund period internaly. I have a strong science background, and a respect for holistic things. i dont reject things i dont understand, but i dont integrate them either. i belive in chaos. belife is not worship. i dont worship anythign.

26: i found others lists very interesting. i doubt mine has been, but found value in typing it. theres in isight in the selections i chose, from many for the 25, and i apologise that being of interest to others is not the primary criteria i chose by

Mmm, oyster stuffing. I haven't had that since the last time we had Thanksgiving with my grandma, which was several years ago. She's in Florida..

I made stuffing with sausage, celery, walnuts and apples. Nom!

yup. grew up at 387 Black Walnut Drive, Rochester, NY, 14615.
bring it up in google earth and you can see where i lived til i was 13.

In reply to this comment by legacy0100:
yous lives new yorks?

I keep a 3 lb bag of unsalted, generic brand peanuts in my desk drawer. Think it cost 3.99... for 5440 calories, very good value for money. 13g fat, 7g protein, 7g carbs. A bit high fat - but definitely better than anything out of the vending machine. No transfats. Having to shell them means you can't just eat a handful
Walnuts and almonds are high in omega-3s which are very good for you- http://www.videosift.com/video/Dramatic-Effects-of-Omega-3-on-Rat-Brain-Function

Not saying this is unhealthy... but just to put this in perspective you need about half a pound of walnuts (cheap high calorie nut) or nine avocados (the highest calorie-content fruit/veggie) a day to get your energy requirements.

I think she probably lost most of her weight because of low caloric content. The non-cooked factor probably doesn't have much to do with it.

Reminds me of when I was 10 and my family moved into an old house surrounded by 2.5 acres of wooded land. My parents had a bunch of old trees cut down and hauled off. Turns out the trees were all older black walnuts, worth an average of $10,000 each. My parents figure they had at least 70 of the trees cut down.

We didn't figure it out until many years later, so we never tried to recoup any of that value from the lucky fucks who got to haul off the trees My Mom says they must have known the value based on how excited they were about the privelege of hauling away several loads of trees.

I'm seemin' to be glad a lot
I'm happy again, come, come in time
This mustn't hurt or harm yourself
Well, me, I give in to your arms

You're the match of Jerico
That will burn this old madhouse down
And I'll throw open like a walnut (blown up?) safe
More like a love that's a bottle of exquisite stuff, yes

You, yourself, and your father
Don't know him, so part in your own ways
You've really both bone setters
Thank you for mending me babies

You're the match of Jerico
That will burn this old madhouse down
And I'll throw open like a walnut safe
You will seem that being throughout
That same bottle of exquisite stuff
Yes, you are that match of Jerico
That will burn this old madhouse down
And I'll throw open like the walnut safe

You, yourself, and your father
Don't know him, so part in your own ways
You're really both bone setters
Thank you for mending me babies

*mind you, as close as a fan could get to matching the actual lyrics-none on the liners, and Liz was famously improvisatory.....

My personal favorites:

Multi-grain crackers with Spicy Hot V8.
A bowl of Grape Nuts with walnuts and honey.

Now them is some good eats!

Toe-shoes are the worst enemy of a female's foot-like smoking a pack a day and ignoring the damage, I have seen bunions the size of walnuts, and heard tomes from the book of woe is my feet, from many a dancer, professional, AND, adults whose parents sent them to Dolly Dinkle's Toe-shoe Torture center, after school.

Best thing you can do for your foot, is get a shoe made for YOUR FOOT! Otherwise, keep it flexible, and uncovered as much as possible.....go barefoot, and get some callous......treat yer feet to soothing soaks, and a variety of surfaces....millions of nerves meet up in yer feet, and affect numerous systems in the entire body-regular stimulation by way of massage is the best....

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This was so much fun to watch. I remember so many of the actors as Russ had made Lorna and Mudhoney at our ranch in Walnut Grove. Would love to find out about Renata and antonette. I heard Lorna has wandered away. I baby sat for antonetees daughter when she was very young.
Great memories
thank you
Nina

Yes, they have brains the size of a walnut...but that's what makes them so endearing: Seeing their little cat brains trying to figure something out.

We should all be such optimists. Or maybe this just shows the power of intermittent reinforcement on a walnut-brained creature.

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Of course! In fact, most of the best food is within reach of non-chefs. Mince up garlic and italian parsley. Add lemon juice and olive oil. Now stuff that into the cavity of a striped bass and sear on high heat. You'll go crazy for that one.

But then again, the availability of striped bass might be a problem if you don't live close to a coast.

How about pork tenderloin with apple, walnut and cheese? Just flatten the tenderloin with a meat hammer, dice up the apple and cheese, mix'em together with the walnuts and roll them up into the tenderloin. This was the entree for one of my first tests at cooking school and the teachers went crazy for it, but it's really super easy to do.

But those are more recipes, this video was showing the technique, more than anything. Using pan drippings to cook the other elements in your supper is almost always a good idea. Next time you roast a ham, try this: paint the ham with mustard first. Now get a roasting rack, and put the ham on. Now dice up carrots, parsnips, potatos, beets- whatever root veggies you've got around. put them in the roaster around the ham and roast like normal.

The veggies will kick your ass.

I wanted to mention another thing that I noticed, and really appreciated in this video. It looks like they sliced the garlic for sauteeing the asparagus, instead of mincing it. Too many people, especially professionals, cut their garlic way too small. If you slice the garlic thinly like they appear to have done, you get much better flavour. Remember the scene in GoodFellas? Slicing the garlic with a razor blade? That's how you start a good Spaghettini Aglio e Olio. You have to shave the garlic as thin as possible.

Anyway, I dunno, i've been cooking for 7 years, and i've definitely seen a very broad spectrum of cuisine from the very simple and flavourful, to the austere and difficult. Everything has its place- sometimes the best thing is a grilled kebap from a street vendor- sometimes you want 9 courses of haute cuisine.