Nectar

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUZDe8LEnEg Love this song, love this album

[MEDIA=bandcamp]album_id=1014941096;track_id=1657062473;track_num=6[/MEDIA] I'm really loving this song, the guy's a pretty great musician

It's quite rough and there aren't really many exact measurements. You'll have to excuse my very vague understanding of cooking terms. A pack of 500g Beef mince, An onion, A red or yellow bell pepper. A tin of chopped tomatoes, A tin of red kidney beans, preferably in chilli sauce, A good amount of tomato puree, Beef stock cube. Seasonings. Add a small amount of olive oil into a pan. Throw in the beef and cook on a medium heat until there is no red visible. Add a diced onion to the pan. When the onion becomes nearly soft, add a sliced red/yellow pepper. Stirring throughout. Around 5 minutes later add the chopped tomatoes, puree and red kidney beans. (If the beans are in saltwater, I usually drain them first, but if they are in chilli sauce then I empty everything into the pan.) Add some water (if you didn't use the chilli sauce from the kidney bean tin) and put in a beef stock cube. Add salt, pepper, and chilli flakes/sauce. Cook for around 15 minutes. Continue stirring to agitate the mixture until the chilli reaches the desired consistency. Serve in the center of a ring of white rice. I think that's about right I'm really not a chef or anything like I just remember what I was taught to do

@zoop get the hell over here this thread has your name all over it but mostly this post because I just wrote it there I scoff it regardless! I've been brought up to eat what I'm given whether it looks and tastes toxic or not, and as a result I'm quite happy eating a failed dish just to get rid of it. Most of what I make is never really that destroyed anyway so it's usually okay to eat. I do quite a bit of cooking, my mum's been teaching me a lot of recipes on how to cook for myself since my dad is kind of useless with cooking and prefers to just eat unhealthy amounts of fast-food. I know better than that, so I feed myself, tyvm My favourite thing at the minute is Chilli Con Carne for flavour, and Macaroni Cheese for convenience. Chilli is the thing that I can make pretty consistently well, and my relatives have really taken a liking to my stepdad's previously unheard of recipe. With Mac and cheese, you can just chuck what ever you want in the sauce and it's one of the most versatile recipes I know of. Speaking of versatility, I'm also quite fond of my great-gran's old quiche recipe. It works in a similar way, you just throw in various bits of stuff you want to use up and whack it in the oven. It's optimised for speed too. Legendary family recipe.

You know I've really gotta agree with @zoop and @Kohloo on this I'm sorry but there's something strangely magical about an iced frappe in Winter. I get mine from either Costa, Starbucks or McDonalds. Typically the latter They are really nice whatever the weather, and since I'm always indoor drinking them anyway, I can't say I mind

Winter = Rainy and very cold. Icy. No snow. Spring = Rain. Rain. Cold. Way too much rain. Summer = Quite pleasant. And then baking. Too hot most of the time. Hell is colder. Autumn = Great. Colourful. Not rainy. Not hot. You can get away with shorts. And that's the beautiful British weather. Autumn is really great, it's my cycling season because the weather is perfect for it in September!

Restaurant chains? I share the creator's love of Greggs, they're the best here in the UK. Actual restaurants? My favourite is Beachcomber, a cafe/restaurant in the south of England. I've been about 3-4 times? Their food, cakes, drinks, everything is just top notch. Plus it's by the sea. Just perfect

*loads up instrumental* *sings at top of lungs new lyrics* They fit remarkably well that was such a laugh to do

The time I sleep largely depends on what I'm planning on doing the next day. If I'm off to work the next day, I'll go to sleep about 23:00 and get up at 05:30. If I'm off to school the next day, I'll go to sleep about 23:30 and get up at 07:45. If I'm not doing either and I'm not in any danger of being busy (no cycling, chores etc) I'll go to sleep as late as 04:30 sometimes, after the sun's up.

I will always use 12hr time when possible/can be bothered to alter the clock, I just prefer it and it's what I use in conversation. I would say "It's 2 o'clock!" EVERY TIME over "It's 14 hundred hours!" Idk it just sounds silly to me. Analog over digital though, since only when I look at a clockface can I clearly see how long I have to do something. I use a physical clockface to plan my day, I'll follow the hour hand round as it helps me to visualise the actualy amount of time I have to limit to various things. I can't seem to do that with a digital clock, it's just numbers to me

*resurrects* I sleep on my side, like most people I think. Except I'll lay on one side, facing say, the left, and I'll be perfectly happy there for a while until I feel a strange urge to turn over. I'll move all the way back around and face my right instead, until I feel the sudden need to absolutely not stay where I am but turn back to the left. It's quite strange

And while you're busy sawing the tree, I'll sneak up behind you with a large, sharp rock. Mmmmmm. *evil*

I would quite like Yuu's Time Leap ability from Charlotte. There's a lot I've seen and done in my life I'd like to go back on to observe, and to occasionally change. Although now that I think a little more about it, since the user's sight depletes with each use it might not be so great for me since I'm quite short-sighted already In that case, I think Konata's ability (Lucky Star) to be able to ace tests with zero effort whatsoever would be pretty damn awesome

You probably put more in than me, but I definitely do this as well all the time A lot of the time that I make a hot drink, I'm in a rush (on a morning particularly) and so I can never drink the just-boiled water straight away, even with lots of milk (if I take milk in said drink, usually coffee so yes). To tackle this, I put a couple of ice cubes in my drink to cool it quicker so I can neck it fast It's really quite helpful

Google: "anime forums" Since that's the name of these forums, it was right at the top of the list and the first (and last) that I clicked on.

A question! What hot drinks, if any, do you like or prefer to others? Personally, I'm an avid fan of strong coffee, milk and two sugars. I also love most teas, specifically the dark red ones with various berries, since I don't think much to lemon tea. But definitely also standard just tea... tea. Black. Two sugars xP I don't mind hot chocolate, or malted drinks like Ovaltine and Horlicks. I used to love those growing up.

Wow... that is very strange! And brilliant. I am gonna try really hard to use that now

What a weird and wonderful word ensconced is. If I can spell the damn thing right. Who comes up with these?!

Do you have a mug that only you have the right to use? That drinking vessel that is so very much yours and nobody else's? Or is it just me and my relatives Your mug. Let's see it. Or cup. Because plastic is fun too. Here are my pride and joys! The mug on the left is my *slurp* mug I had printed specially because for about 2 years I had desperately been searching for one and couldn't find anything satisfactory. So I made my own and you can often find me taking a noisy sip out of it while I have relatives telling boring stories around me, or for the perfect end to a long and absolutely correct statement I really love it it's just what I needed in my cupboard On the right is my favourite mug I think I've ever found. It was brand new when I bought it in a charity shop, they had lots of them commisioned for charity and I bought one. It has the most confortable handle in the world for my hand and I really really like the design of it. Anybody else? Any anime related mugs possibly? Does anybody in this world share my appreciation for a good mug or cup? Tell meh :3

This is my new keyboard I got off of a very nice guy from a few towns up. The second one I've ever owned and it's pretty great so far

I really love my hot drinks, so since this fancy Taylors of Harrogate fruit tea was on offer in the local supermarket I snatched some up and I've found it's pretty nice Just finished my first cup

Ugh I'm so gonna give into all of you eventually I can't get this on British Crunchyroll so if I wanted to watch it I'd have to find... alternate... means... *ahem* I'm thinking I like the look of it, and it is immensely popular here, so I'd be willing to check it out and make the effort to source it if anybody was to recommend it to me? Especially based on my previous experiences.