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Want Some Soy With Your Veg and Two Veg?

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  • DrZiplockDrZiplock Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Some soy sauce, McCormick Montreal steak seasoning, little olive oil...nothing fancy at all that time around.

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  • StratoStrato Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
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    Strato, forget that marinade. I find they are often way too sweet especially in plain vegetable stir-fry dishes. If you make stir-fry often, invest in some ginger, garlic, sesame oil, and if you eat seafood, fish sauce and oyster sauce. There is a mushroom-based sauce that is supposed to be similar to oyster sauce, so maybe look for that. I also have hoisin sauce and a concentrated dashi stock, but I make a lot of stir-fry. If you like the sweetness of the marinade you use, hoisin sauce will make an excellent replacement for it. If you toast some sesame seeds in the oil first, then add them later; that is also delicious.
    As far as basics, get some oil really hot. Throw in grated ginger, grated garlic, and chopped onions (the peanuts too, if you want). Get them translucent, then throw in your egg. Cook, then throw in your other vegetables. Add soy sauce, a shot of sesame oil (1-2 if dark, 3-4 if light), and if you eat it, a splash of fish sauce/oyster sauce. Hoisin or dashi can be added now. So can the toasted sesame seeds.
    Black bean sauce can also be used. If you like it hot, chili garlic sauce or sriracha. House of Tsang has Mongolian fire oil that is tasty, but be careful if you use sesame oil, things can get a little greasy.

    Cool, thanks a lot! I don't eat seafood, so I will try out the hoisin.

    I wonder if veggie dishes at chinese restaurants usually use oyster or fish sauce? Maybe I don't want to know.

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  • DrZiplockDrZiplock Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    You likely don't.

    Hoisin is often referred to as "chinese BBQ sauce". Oyster sauce, while tasting nothing like oysters, isn't as sweet. Both have about the same color and consistency.

    Fish sauce? Yea, you'll know it when you see it. It's pretty powerful stuff.

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  • .. Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited February 2010
    According to just the Chinese places around here, their veggie dishes usually don't have oyster sauce in them but their beef dishes tend too. But I guess if you're eating beef, what's the harm in eating oysters? Heh. Yeah, fish sauce will be noticeable. And if you are curious, ask them. When I was a vegan, I asked about everything. I would be more concerned about them sauteing/boiling things in some sort of meat stock before worrying about oyster sauce content.

    Ah, I've tried that marinade, Dr. Z. I think it's on their website.

    And for anyone who likes to use seasoning blends, for pete's sake, don't use Weber's Zesty Lemon Seasoning. It is so bland. It's awful.

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  • DrZiplockDrZiplock Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    It's also on their bottle.

    I was looking around for something quick and found it. Works in a pinch.

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  • queuewindowqueuewindow Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Right click > block content.

    no, like firefox. i don't want to block every fucking ad on the page manually

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  • FramlingFramling FaceHead Geebs has bad ideas.Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    I don't really get the need for adblock. Are you just allergic to banners or something?

    I mean, sure, if there's something that's popping up over other shit or something, but I never have much trouble with those.

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  • AntimatterAntimatter Devo Was Right Gates of SteelRegistered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Framling wrote: »
    I don't really get the need for adblock. Are you just allergic to banners or something?

    I mean, sure, if there's something that's popping up over other shit or something, but I never have much trouble with those.

    I think it's because viruses and shit can sneak onto your computer through ads or something?

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  • FutoreFutore Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    yeah, any website that i spend time at isn't a shitty enough website to have annoying ads popping up all over.

    so penny-arcade wants to have 2 ads on their front page? yeah alright. homies gotta pay bills

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  • queuewindowqueuewindow Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    after years of browsing ad-free even a couple of banners make a page seem cluttered to me

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  • Fort1tudeFort1tude Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Antimatter wrote: »
    Framling wrote: »
    I don't really get the need for adblock. Are you just allergic to banners or something?

    I mean, sure, if there's something that's popping up over other shit or something, but I never have much trouble with those.

    I think it's because viruses and shit can sneak onto your computer through ads or something?

    some people have netbooks or older computers and the ads slow the computer down

    especially when you have multiple tabs open

    plus the whole malware entering your computer through ads thing, which my avast has caught several times from legitimate sites

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  • AneurhythmiaAneurhythmia Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Right click > block content.

    no, like firefox. i don't want to block every fucking ad on the page manually

    I don't use FireFox, so I don't know how AdBlock works. There are several community-compiled filter lists for the Opera blocker, if that's the sort of thing you mean. The default block option is also at a lower level directory, too, so it knocks out multiple ads at a source.

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  • AneurhythmiaAneurhythmia Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Fort1tude wrote: »
    Antimatter wrote: »
    Framling wrote: »
    I don't really get the need for adblock. Are you just allergic to banners or something?

    I mean, sure, if there's something that's popping up over other shit or something, but I never have much trouble with those.

    I think it's because viruses and shit can sneak onto your computer through ads or something?

    some people have netbooks or older computers and the ads slow the computer down

    especially when you have multiple tabs open

    plus the whole malware entering your computer through ads thing, which my avast has caught several times from legitimate sites

    I have both an old pile of shit desktop and a netbook, I usually have up to 2 dozen tabs open, and ads have never been make-or-break on a site for me before.

    Flash on the other hand...

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  • FutoreFutore Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    ohhhhh Flash. you and Java can go poop on eachother forever

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  • Fort1tudeFort1tude Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    i meant flash based ad's

    which a lot are

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  • HoovesHooves Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    so on the startup page for google chrome. those icons of your most visited sites. is there any way to choose what sites are represented? because that would be so awesome to have all my favorite sites right there on the startup page.

    as opposed to just porn and wikipedia

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  • FutoreFutore Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    incognito keeps you from having a creepy front page, tardo.

    and yeah, you can delete things off that part or have them pinned there. also your bookmarks should be shown at the top of that page

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  • HoovesHooves Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    I know that I can turn it off. I really just want to be able to set it to things myself.

    edit oh so I can pin things there? how?

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  • AneurhythmiaAneurhythmia Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Fort1tude wrote: »
    i meant flash based ad's

    which a lot are

    I don't think I've made notable use of a site with flash ads since... Oh man, remember that site Daily Radar?
    Hooves wrote: »
    so on the startup page for google chrome. those icons of your most visited sites. is there any way to choose what sites are represented? because that would be so awesome to have all my favorite sites right there on the startup page.

    as opposed to just porn and wikipedia

    Just click on that button at the top of the window that looks like the letter x, then click on the Opera shortcut on your desktop.

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  • Tweaked_Bat_Tweaked_Bat_ Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Or better yet, hover over the thumbnail of the page you don't want to appear until the little X pops up. Then press that little X. Press it like you've never pressed a little X before.

    Edit: On the other side of the X is a pin icon. You can pin pages you want to always appear. If you pin 8 pages then I assume you'll never have the problem of unwanted pages popping up again.

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  • DogDog Registered User, Administrator, Vanilla Staff admin
    edited February 2010
    im thinking of getting opera just so I can uninstall it

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  • Fort1tudeFort1tude Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    robothero wrote: »
    im thinking of getting opera just so I can uninstall it

    i installed it, used it once, uninstalled once i found out it has no adblock

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  • FramlingFramling FaceHead Geebs has bad ideas.Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    I installed Firefox, used it once, and uninstalled it once I found out it doesn't have like two dozen features Opera has.

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  • Fort1tudeFort1tude Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Framling wrote: »
    I installed Firefox, used it once, and uninstalled it once I found out it doesn't have like two dozen features Opera has.

    yes but they do have add-ons to customize firefox so it has the features you want

    operas garbage, there is a reason it has less market share

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  • DogDog Registered User, Administrator, Vanilla Staff admin
    edited February 2010
    I've never used opera, but I don't like firefox either.

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  • Fort1tudeFort1tude Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    well if i had to choose, i would say chrome is the best in terms of speed and the fact that each tab is its own process

    but it fucks up stuff that firefox doesnt

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  • FerrusFerrus Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    What about all that "lol teh googelz is spying on u" jazz I heard when Chrome was released?

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  • queuewindowqueuewindow Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Right click > block content.

    no, like firefox. i don't want to block every fucking ad on the page manually

    I don't use FireFox, so I don't know how AdBlock works. There are several community-compiled filter lists for the Opera blocker, if that's the sort of thing you mean. The default block option is also at a lower level directory, too, so it knocks out multiple ads at a source.

    yeah, that's what i meant, an autoupdating filter. the other things that turned me off to opera are the way it handled mouse gestures and the lack of password sync across your profile. oh, also the interface isn't as customizable, but that's a minor thing i guess; the interface is pretty minimal to begin with

    still, it's the little things

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  • Fort1tudeFort1tude Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Ferrus wrote: »
    What about all that "lol teh googelz is spying on u" jazz I heard when Chrome was released?

    if you are that worried about your privacy on the internet you would be using proxies and probably not posting on an internet forum

    if they want to see data on what causes crashes and my system specs, oh nooooooooooo

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  • FramlingFramling FaceHead Geebs has bad ideas.Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Fort1tude wrote: »
    Framling wrote: »
    I installed Firefox, used it once, and uninstalled it once I found out it doesn't have like two dozen features Opera has.

    yes but they do have add-ons to customize firefox so it has the features you want

    operas garbage, there is a reason it has less market share

    Yes, but opera doesn't force me to spend a day and a half tracking down all the features I like every time I install it.

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  • .. Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited February 2010
    So, I'd like to marinate some tofu for our fajita dinner tonight and I would like to use some of the adobo from canned chipotles. Any ideas what to use with the adobo sauce? Should I use the adobo after the grill so it doesn't burn? Anyone used it on grilled food?

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  • AneurhythmiaAneurhythmia Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Fort1tude wrote: »
    operas garbage, there is a reason it has less market share

    You've almost achieved a tautology. Maybe if you try a little harder, you can make it.

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