Boring Stuff About My Life

[The Mean Lady 604]

i hate making mistakes. Sure, I learn from them but I still hate making them...reminds me just how imperfect I am. Good morning Sunday and hello Scandal, that show is great , I wanna be Olivia Pope.

I made the tiniest mistake that resulted in a VERY pissed off client.

I cried for 3 days.

2 Weeks Later I found out the client was also leaving us a result.

I cried for another 3 days.

I beat myself up over mistakes in this business.

[SAT 9,609]

I made the tiniest mistake that resulted in a VERY pissed off client.

I cried for 3 days.

2 Weeks Later I found out the client was also leaving us a result.

I cried for another 3 days.

I beat myself up over mistakes in this business.

Do what I do......next time you make a mistake, just blame your slave assistant

[Mr. Borkström 63]

Hello, I want the recipe!

yes please !

Recipe for meatballs

Ingredients:

ground beef (you can use ground pork of course, but the meatballs will have a somewhat different flavor)

egg - about 1 per pound of beef

onion - about one medium sized onion per pound of beef. I usually use yellow onion, but you can use other ones too

breadcrumbs

salt

pepper

paprika powder

optional: if you want a little bit of heat you can also season it with ground pepper

optional: garlic powder

beef bouillon

cooking cream of heavy cream

flour

soy sauce

Instructions:

Finely grate the onion.

The ground beef will be easier to work with if it's not straight from the fridge. If you get it straight from the fridge the beef will be cold and your fingers will get cold and it's easier to roll the meatballs if you've let the beef sit on the countertop or something so it's not as cold when you start cooking.

Mix all the ingredients together. I usually start with the beef and the onion.

The egg binds the mix together.

How much breadcrumbs you use is up to you. I'm not used to US measurements yet, so I would guess maybe 1/4 to 1/2 cup.

Some people add milk or cream, but I don't care for that personally. I use cream for the sauce so I don't think you need cream in the meatball mix.

The seasoning all depends on your taste. I like putting a little bit of hot spice in, I think it makes the meatballs better. I also like a little bit of garlic, just a touch, but that is optional.

I can't really give you 100 % exact amounts on all the ingredients. I don't do it that way when it comes to meatballs, I sort of guestimate. After you've made them a couple times you will know how much to use of each ingredient so that you get a paste that you can roll into meatballs.

Mix it all together. I always use my hands (remember to wash your hands people! Hygiene is very important in the kitchen!) but you can use a food processor I suppose. Mix it until you have a smooth-ish paste with the ingredients evenly distributed.

Take a little bit of it and start rolling the meatballs. In my opinion, the smaller they are, the tastier they will be. Last time we made meatballs my wife's daughter use what I think was a small ice cream scoop. But you still want to roll them in your hands. Don't just take a scoop and stick it in a bowl or whatever like they do on American cooking shows. It's important to actually roll the meatballs so they get a nice consistency, shape and texture.

Mix water and bouillon according to instructions on the box and bring it to a boil.

Start putting the meatballs in the bouillon. We only have a small-ish pot so we usually do a batch at a time.

The meatballs will be ready when they pop up to the surface. Important: if you use ground beef it is OK if they are a little pink in the middle, but if you use pork they have to be cooked all the way through!

To finish the meatballs you want to fry them in a frying pan till they get a bit of a crusty surface and more color.

You can fry them later. Last Sunday we had almost 5 pounds of beef that we made meatballs from. We put them in a Tupperware type bowl, brought them to my wife's parents' house, fried them up and ate them for our Super Bowl dinner. If you're going to fry them later (I think freshly cooked food is always the best), remember that you are not supposed to re-heat food more than once. So if you boil them in the bouillon first and let them cool (and maybe have them the next day or whatever), it's probably best to eat all of them after you've fried them up (re-heated them). Not a 100% sure that's super important, but that's what I was taught at least...

For sauce I use the same frying pan - you want to use the juices and flavors from the meatballs you just fried.

Mix the cooking cream or heavy cream with bouillon. Amounts and the ratio of cream and bouillon depends on how much you're making - you probably don't wanna use all the bouillon, or you're going to have to use gallons of cream and thus have gallons of sauce...

I usually mix in the spices (same as for the meatballs) at this point.

Put a touch of flour in the cream/bouillon mix, just to make it a little thicker. You want the sauce to be sauce, not think like gravy. At least that's how I like it.

Add a little bit of soy sauce. It will give the sauce a nice color and flavor. Soy sauce is salty so you probably won't have to put salt in the sauce.

I prefer to eat meatballs served with boiled potatoes, the cream sauce, lingonberry jam (if you can't find lingonberries at IKEA or someplace else, cranberry is a good substitute), and sliced pickles (not sweet pickles, the other kind).

I hope these instructions are useful and that you'll be able to make delicious, scrumptious, heavenly little balls of meat.

Questions?

Edited February 10, 2013 by Mr. Borkström

[JTB11 1,079]

omg finally the meatballs, thought you forgot about us copying and pasting right now !! thanks !!

[JTB11 1,079]

i am definitely going to have a problem with how much of stuff i will need to make the right mix but i guess i can always play around with the amounts but can you give a ratio to how much of cream to bouillon for the sauce you use ?

[Dr. Obvious 49]

Thanks!

[N-o-l-a 7,167]

Thanks for the recipe!

My math is boring me out of my mind. I really really don't care about group theory.

[moemac59 192]

I made the tiniest mistake that resulted in a VERY pissed off client.

I cried for 3 days.

2 Weeks Later I found out the client was also leaving us a result.

I cried for another 3 days.

I beat myself up over mistakes in this business.

This reminds me of my old job in terms of the client. I worked in project management in TO for new condo construction and one of our biggest clients (hint he uses a lamb for his advertising)had the most imcompetant staff in his office especially one of his assistants. She lost a bunch of cheques from homeowners that we had sent her and tried to blame it on us by cc'ing BJL (owner of the development company whom we were doing work for). Well me being as organized as I was sent all corresponding paperwork (emails, transmittals and copies of courier slips to show I had sent the cheques). I even went one further and called the courier company to find out who signed for it on their end. Needless to say, she got in big trouble. She was always trying to gaslight the f&%k out of us...she had a personal vendetta as she used to work for us and wanted to sleep with my boss..he rejected her.

The client that we had was a demanding ahole. He paid his people like ####### while driving around town in his Bentley and wearing $5000 suits, wanted to go the cheapest way as possible but charge homeowners a premium dollar and make a huge profit...complete Dbag

[JTB11 1,079]

since we are talking jobs ....let me vent about my last one (yay)....so i was hired as a manager for an MBA program (humanitarian) since there was a problem with previous 3 managers (1 year they had 3, i might add) and the academic director. Well, first I was told that they did not have enough money to pay me the usual per year (since the previous managers wasted all the money they could....i am serious, i handled the finances afterwards) so I say ..."hey its humanitarian, I dont mind 15% less pay" then comes the....well, you wont have an assistant either, or marketing person or communications person or financial person....well, i like to be busy so sure i will take on all the responsibilities (including the cleaning btw...yah i know, i only did that sundays so nobody sees me).....so for 2 years I bust my #### from 5am till 11pm, all weekends, no holidays ...you know, thinking .....its for a good purpose. Turns out the 15% i thought was going towards things we needed for the program, the director took stating that since we have less staff aka only me he needs to work double. When I was leaving he says " well, i am sorry but you let people take advantage of you but thank you i got to relax for 2 years , oh and btw help me find a good candidate to take your spot and dont forget to speak highly of your experience". wohooo ....I learned from this....I hope !! But it still pisses me off that i was this stupid.

[N-o-l-a 7,167]

I had to explain to my husband what Juggalos were several weeks ago

[moemac59 192]

since we are talking jobs ....let me vent about my last one (yay)....so i was hired as a manager for an MBA program (humanitarian) since there was a problem with previous 3 managers (1 year they had 3, i might add) and the academic director. Well, first I was told that they did not have enough money to pay me the usual per year (since the previous managers wasted all the money they could....i am serious, i handled the finances afterwards) so I say ..."hey its humanitarian, I dont mind 15% less pay" then comes the....well, you wont have an assistant either, or marketing person or communications person or financial person....well, i like to be busy so sure i will take on all the responsibilities (including the cleaning btw...yah i know, i only did that sundays so nobody sees me).....so for 2 years I bust my #### from 5am till 11pm, all weekends, no holidays ...you know, thinking .....its for a good purpose. Turns out the 15% i thought was going towards things we needed for the program, the director took stating that since we have less staff aka only me he needs to work double. When I was leaving he says " well, i am sorry but you let people take advantage of you but thank you i got to relax for 2 years , oh and btw help me find a good candidate to take your spot and dont forget to speak highly of your experience". wohooo ....I learned from this....I hope !! But it still pisses me off that i was this stupid.

WHAT AN AHOLE!!

[JTB11 1,079]

tell me about it, i am only hoping karma gets him eventually. (wishful thinking)

[Dr. Obvious 49]

I had to explain to my husband what Juggalos were several weeks ago

In a moment of pure shame, I admit I watched that terrible ICP Gathering documentary on YT for lulz. Well, that's time of my life I'll never get back.

(Stockholm Syndrome )

(Hysteria)

aaand since Tool is awesome too

(Aenima)

Thanks! )

[N-o-l-a 7,167]

In a moment of pure shame, I admit I watched that terrible ICP Gathering documentary on YT for lulz. Well, that's time of my life I'll never get back.

I've seen it.

It make me feel better about myself.

[Dr. Obvious 49]

tell me about it, i am only hoping karma gets him eventually. (wishful thinking)