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[Vector]

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[MaximumZero]

Nothing I do is light. I weigh two Vectors, and stand almost four inches shorter, IIRC.

[Sirus]

Is Vector a standard unit of measurement now?

[Neonivek]

Is Vector a standard unit of measurement now?

Technically? yes...

But not the way it is being used.

[Knit tie]

I am six feet tall, weigh 191lb and have almost no fat on my frame. How or why this happens is beyond me, as I tend to eat pretty much everything and in large quantities. For breakfast, though, I prefer quark cheese with sour cream and varenye or honey. My dad also likes to add cereal on top of that, but I've never been a fan of it myself.

[Sirus]

Quark cheese? Is that anything like Boson cheese?

[Helgoland]

Quark, at least in Germany.

[Orange Wizard]

Muon cheese. Mu... on. Mooon.

Mooon cheese.

[Akura]

I'm starting to get excited because I found a recipe for homemade ice cream that I want to make and looks within my ability. (I only intend to make the ice cream part of that, not the rest of it)

Question, when they say "vanilla" in that recipe, do they mean that dark-colored stuff that smells fantastic(typically called "extract", often imitation), or am I heading for a serious disaster here?

[Vector]

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[timferius]

I'm starting to get excited because I found a recipe for homemade ice cream that I want to make and looks within my ability. (I only intend to make the ice cream part of that, not the rest of it)

Question, when they say "vanilla" in that recipe, do they mean that dark-colored stuff that smells fantastic(typically called "extract", often imitation), or am I heading for a serious disaster here?

In almost any recipe you'll be using vanilla extract. It will specifically refer to vanilla beans if that's what you're supposed to use.

[Helgoland]

Vanilla beans? I think you mean Tonka beans, which are quite different from vanilla. Actual vanilla comes as pods, which you slice open to get the pith. The used pods you can use to make vanilla-flavored sugar - just put them in the sugar's container for a couple of months.
EDIT: English is weird - why would anyone call the pods beans? They look nothing like beans.

[timferius]

Well, green beans are beans despite being in pods? I don't know honestly, most likely because it looks like a bean pod (as Wikipedia also mentions under Beans), and a lot of the English language developed through use and colloquialisms, often by people who didn't quite know what they were talking about.

[Bauglir]

Yeah, the pods look kind of like bean pods apparently? English does a lot of stupid things. We called a plant beefsteak, for godsakes.

Also, next time any of you lot make omelettes, put a bit of lime juice in with the eggs when you whisk them. It's amazing.

[VerdantSF]

Also, next time any of you lot make omelettes, put a bit of lime juice in with the eggs when you whisk them. It's amazing.

Oooooh, that does sound good!  Will try this the next time I make an omelette.  Does the acid cause the eggs to curdle at all while whisking them?

Here's what I made a few nights ago.  I used to hate spinach as a kid, but Indian food turned it into a favorite .

Saag Chole / Chana Palak (Spinach and Chickpea Curry)