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[Vector]

Wow. Came for the food advice, stayed for the general Awesome. This whole thread is great. I love the rambling conversational ones, especially when they stay so darn pleasant about differeces of opinion.

Heh, I'm glad to hear it.  Hope you enjoy your stay here 

rice, beans and pineapple is the ultimate lazyperson food. Rice in the rice-cooker, black beans and pineapple cold from the can.  Utterly filling. Fairly nutritious. Protein. Vegan, even (for those who care, which I admit I do not).

Hm... I really want to eat this, but maybe with a bit of cheese grated on top (I can stand it in small amounts, dudes.  Just not too much) and onion.  Next time I have something resembling a stove, I'll try 'er out.

I also really like making Refritos out of Black Beans... grate an onion into butter, add cooked/canned black beans, and mash them into paste. Add some garlic and salt, and serve warm with chips. OR spread it on a flat tortilla with some fresh tomato, rice, and cheese. It's like Mexican Pizza.

I tend to experiment a lot with food, though... and I'm much more inclined to cook nice things when I have people over. Otherwise, I tend to go with easy solutions.

WANT.  Want so very much.  I'm about to go get dinner, but that sounds fabulous.  The only problem with my food experiments is that no one wants to eat them but me... I eat brown rice with cranberries, onions, cinnamon, and balsamic vinegar.  Occasionally hot sauce.  It's like a gustatory explosion, but no one other than me likes it that way >_>

I also cut baked sweet potatoes in half and put on a combination of finely chopped walnuts and hot sauce, occasionally a little salt (don't get much salt in my diet in general, so I occasionally eat really salty things without caring).  'Tis spectacular.

In CIV style games I follow the Prussian system; war begins with mobilization, not declaration. Somehow I never get a chance to de-mobilize before I've achieved continental hegemony.

Yeah, I'm the tech person who will pay you off with whatever you ask for ._.  (Kinda like Switzerland or somesuch).  I just like sitting around with my ridiculous economy and research rate, being neutral and eating things with my culture.

[Pandarsenic]

Aye, that's the MBTI thing I'm familiar with. Retook just to see, got:

ENFP: 39%, 50%, 50%, 67%, respectively.

Yeah.

[Solifuge]

The only problem with my food experiments is that no one wants to eat them but me... I eat brown rice with cranberries, onions, cinnamon, and balsamic vinegar.  Occasionally hot sauce.  It's like a gustatory explosion, but no one other than me likes it that way >_>

I also cut baked sweet potatoes in half and put on a combination of finely chopped walnuts and hot sauce, occasionally a little salt (don't get much salt in my diet in general, so I occasionally eat really salty things without caring).  'Tis spectacular.

Hmm... I'd have to try these before passing a judgment, but I'm a wee bit skeptical about the combination of Hot Sauce and Sweet Potato. I guess I've had spicy Sweet Potato Fries, which were good, so it's not too far out there.

I tend to try and stick within certain modes when cooking... but one of my weirder experiments involved a sauce made from peanut butter, chili powder, tabasco, milk, and peanut oil (makes the peanut butter more liquid), heated, and served over cooked spaghetti, with chopped green onion/ grated carrot on top.

Sort of a poor mans Spicy Peanut Noodle dish.

BTW: Civ IV Tourney this weekend, anyone?

[Vector]

Aye, that's the MBTI thing I'm familiar with. Retook just to see, got:

ENFP: 39%, 50%, 50%, 67%, respectively.

Yeah.

INTJ: 89%, 75%, 50%, 11%.  It swings around; I used to be extremely INTJ, but I've slowly been moving from J to P (and when I was a child, I was definitely a lot more on the P side). 

[Mephansteras]

I've always preferred the TDF system to the Briggs-Myers. More generally applicable and much less prone to change since it focuses on how you think as opposed to what you do.

[Flaede]

Hm... I really want to eat this, but maybe with a bit of cheese grated on top (I can stand it in small amounts, dudes.  Just not too much) and onion.  Next time I have something resembling a stove, I'll try 'er out.

Yeah, the only sumbling block to utter laziness on this one is having to cook the rice. (ricemaker and this takes the lazychef gold medal!) If you aren't like me and going for the lazycook prize, then I am sure there's lots that could be added to this. It does go fairly well with various cheeses, but I'm not so certain about onions. Now I'm curious. I don't know what spices would work, but I do know that soy-sauce did not.

your sweet potato creation sounds monstrous. And tasty.

I have to admit I am at a loss to think of snackable stuff that doesn't require a stove. Or at least a ricemaker. For brain-thinky-energy I have to agree with everyone else suggesting fruit.

Mexican Pizza.

I tend to experiment a lot with food, though... and I'm much more inclined to cook nice things when I have people over. Otherwise, I tend to go with easy solutions.

Refrittos sound Yum! I know what Im having for dinner tomorrow night. My roommate will be apalled.  (I also go for the easy route when cooking for myself... he goes for fancycooking he saw on the food network)

[Vector]

I've always preferred the TDF system to the Briggs-Myers. More generally applicable and much less prone to change since it focuses on how you think as opposed to what you do.

Not free--therefore I don't prefer it >_>  Mine has changed drastically as I started doing what I felt like doing, rather than what others wanted me to do *shrug*  Hopefully it'll become fully stable once I'm done growing up.

your sweet potato creation sounds monstrous. And tasty.

It is indeed   Takes some getting used to your mouth feeling like it's about to explode, but once you've got it figured out, it's quite good.

[Siquo]

OOh, onlin personality tests! Flashbacks to livejournal.

I'm an INTP! And How:
Introverted   Intuitive   Thinking   Perceiving
Strength of the preferences %
89   62   1   11

Man, I never knew I was such an introvert. I even fooled myself.

[JoshuaFH]

What did you change your avatar to Vector?

[Nikov]

rice, beans and pineapple is the ultimate lazyperson food. Rice in the rice-cooker, black beans and pineapple cold from the can.  Utterly filling. Fairly nutritious. Protein. Vegan, even (for those who care, which I admit I do not).

Pot of boiling water. Add;
1 Cup Rice
1 Can Kidney Beans... Sonnofacommunist, its not letting me use the return key now! Okay. One cup rice, one can kidney beans, three spicy 'Orleans Style' franks, sliced; one fourth onion minced. Tabasco and chili powder. I believe the term for this style of soup is 'hopping john', but its literally just all sortso f junk boiled together until the rice is done. My wife absolutely loves it. Of course, you're not allowing yourself to eat meat. Speaking of which, have you broken your fast on it yet?

[Pandarsenic]

Are you seriously going to keep harassing her over her vegetarianism, dude?

[Solifuge]

In the spirit of the thread, I think it's fair enough to talk about easy-to-make meat based dishes. However, preaching why vegetarians should eat meat is pretty lame. I know for a fact that I hated when my family did that when I was a vegetarian, and I know I hate it now when my ridiculously vegan friend gets honestly pissed off at me for bringing salami into her house. Both are legitimate choices, and work just fine for the body,  so just leave it at that. Besides...

Spoiler: This is all the meat this thread will ever need (click to show/hide)

I think I had a small heart attack from just looking at that. Yay America!

[Pandarsenic]

Seeing that made me a vomit a little and I freaking love to eat meat.

[Vector]

What did you change your avatar to Vector?

It's a pile of unbrewed chai tea.  In this case, it symbolizes ambition, so I'll change it to a brewed cup when I finally have the mental steel to pull off an 18-hour study day (or when I can easily prove my way through a graduate textbook; whichever comes first).  Hopefully that day will come soon 

Even though it looks like dirt, it'll become something very special and delicious soon.  It just needs a bit of time and hot water.

Of course, you're not allowing yourself to eat meat. Speaking of which, have you broken your fast on it yet?

Nope.  Sorry, I have this annoying tendency to stick to my beliefs even when others are trying to pressure me into doing something.  You're going to have to get in line behind the others if you plan to change me.

If I really wanted to eat meat, I'd eat it.  The fact is that I simply don't.  So I won't, kind of like one of those annoying toddlers you can't get to do anything.  Sorry.

In the spirit of the thread, I think it's fair enough to talk about easy-to-make meat based dishes.

Absolutely this.  I'd appreciate it if people tried to think up vegetarian dishes they know as well, rather than just filling the thread with stuff I can't eat, but meat in general is fine.

Spoiler: This is all the meat this thread will ever need (click to show/hide)

I think I had a small heart attack from just looking at that. Yay America!

...

Spoiler: This is all the channa batura this thread will ever need (click to show/hide)

So much delicious ;_;

[Rysith]

Jumping in randomly...

Vegetarian food: Bean dishes are awesome. I particularly recommend Falafel[1] (if you have time) and Harira[2]. I'm not a vegetarian, but I've found myself moving to less meat-intensive dishes for most of the food I cook, since I really don't find it needed. Vegetarian food tends to be fine as long as it's not trying to be meat.

Games: I generally end up choosing a buildy person and then trying to fight with them, since I get annoyed at people constantly asking me for things. Zhakarov/Morgan/Deidre for Alpha Centauri, Catherine for Civ IV. I used to be into waiting for unreasonable force, but I've found myself paring back to "By the time I need it I will have unreasonable force". I also tend to like heavily strategy/tactics games, with Homeworld and Ground Control coming to mind (and I'm working through XCom and Jagged Alliance thanks to Steam)

With that, I suppose it's not that surprising that I came out 89/50/75/100 INTJ on that MBTI, which is reasonably close to what I've seen on more-formal ones. Blah Blah poster child etc. I think that that also makes Pandarsenic my opposite or something like that.

[1] Don't listen to them on the shape, make them into 3/4 inch balls rather than patties

[2] They note that it comes from a vegetarian version. Just leave out the chicken/chicken broth. Also, when you don't have time just add everything other than the parsley/cilantro to a slow-cooker and leave for the day while you do other things