Ask post: Colon Cancer

My sister Laura had breast cancer a couple of years back, and here's what she learned about chemotherapy:
"List of Coping Stuff for Cancer, in random order
(perhaps one day to be organized)
1. The hair goes away in about 18 days after your first chemo. It returns as short curls within about a year after your last chemo. Eyebrows take about a year and a half. Most people are nice and try not to stare, but there are assholes in this world. They will be... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by Sara Anne at 8:21 AM on February 17, 2006

Ask post: Momma told me...

We give our daughter (now almost five) a simple and true answer ("Thunder is the sound lightening makes"), and if the Why's get too persistent and annoying, we give her the complex and true answer ("Thunder is a sound of lightening, delayed because it's coming down through the atmosphere more slowly than the light, because the speed of sound is slower than the speed of light, which by the way is both particle and wave," etc. etc.). Usually this bores her, but the other day... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by Capri at 11:32 AM on May 30, 2008 marked best answer

Ask post: More than just tomato sauce?

I like to steam chopped broccoli and blend it with a little lemon juice, pepper, and garlic, put it on freshly cooked and drained hot pasta (usually rotini), then put in a few 1 cm cubes of Gorgonzola and stir until the cheese is melted.

It makes an attractive green sauce that is tasty, healthy (depending on how much cheese you put in) and different from the usual tomato sauce.

You can substitute steamed spinach for the broccoli and it works just as well.
posted to Ask Metafilter by hurdy gurdy girl at 12:23 PM on March 3, 2008 marked best answer

Take whatever vegetable is in season where you live, and cut it into pieces.

Sautee in olive oil with onion and garlic.

Toss with cooked pasta.

Finish with salt, pepper, Parmigiano-Reggiano, a drizzle of good olive oil and either a squeeze of lemon juice or a splash of balsamic vinegar.

This works with everything.

If you desperately need some meat-like product, start... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by dersins at 12:28 PM on March 3, 2008 marked best answer

(Good) Olive oil, crushed raw garlic, pepper flakes, and fresh corn cut off the cob.

Carbonara. Chop and fry some bacon. Put in a bowl. Mix in raw egg or two and too much parmesan cheese. Put small pastas directly in the bowl when still steaming hot. Mix well. When done right the egg is almost but not quite cooked, so if you are a non-runny egg eater you may not like it. Also it's way fatty.

Melt some butter. in some sage and keep on a... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by aspo at 12:33 PM on March 3, 2008 marked best answer

I like to roast a red pepper or two (depending on how much pasta I've got), and, with a stick blender, mix it into a sauce. You can use some cream, or olive oil, to emulsify. Or for a lighter sauce, I have added broth and thickened it with a little bit of cornstarch or even just flour. I season with salt & pepper, and also with some oregano. But a lot of tdifferent kinds of herbs will work, if you don't have oregano handy.
posted to Ask Metafilter by DrGirlfriend at 12:46 PM on March 3, 2008 marked best answer

Peas, prosciutto and sauteed onions with butter and a bit of cream over spaghetti, with an egg yolk mixed in at the last for extra richness.

Kale, cannelini beans, shallots, and hot sausage with large shells, fettucini or bucatini, topped with grated parmesan.

Arugula, garlic, fresh asiago and sundried tomatoes with angel hair. Also nice with grilled chicken breast or turkey breast cutlets.

Feta, black olives, olive oil,... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by TryTheTilapia at 1:03 PM on March 3, 2008 marked best answer

Ask post: I DO SO HAVE MORALS! WAAAH! YOU'RE JUST MEAN!

You say, "well, I'm an atheist, and I have a firm moral code. I'd appreciate it if you wouldn't generalize like that. There are some atheists who are jerks, and many who aren't jerks, just as with any group of people."

Also, you should talk to the chair -- or the director of undergrad studies -- of the department that this prof is in. (I'm a professor. This is not something you need to put up with.) Don't screw up your marks for this. You're certainly not the... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by LobsterMitten at 7:33 PM on February 12, 2008

Here's how humans can have morality without gods: we need morality to survive. If someone needs gods in order to keep themselves from committing horrible crimes, then that person is very scary. Go ahead and ask the next time you're prodded about morality: "So you're saying that if you were 100% convinced that [insert god(s) here] didn't exist, you would then immediately commence to kill, rape and rob whoever you wanted?" Of course they wouldn't. Those things are... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by tepidmonkey at 7:34 PM on February 12, 2008

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