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My no.1 weakness is bookstores, I can't walk past one, I first have to see what they have new in stock and 90% of the time I buy something. my addiction has cost me quite a lot!

 

These are most of my food related books only, some were not present for the photo shoot.

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And then my comfortable reading books, mostly fiction, some fantasy. I usually discover an author and become completely obsessed and try to get all of their published works. (once again not all of them were available for the photoshoot, add another two dozen).

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The ultimate modeling shot for books, I think you could have Barnes and Noble use that for a center spread :4rofl: You made me think how much I would lose myself in reading. For example, yeah I'm a big fan of King books, in fact most horror, fantasy, sci fi... and I've actually fallen so far behind on reading...but in a way, it kind of creates a nice tension and anticipation of a future where my interests have changed, and I'm not so much as on a computer anymore, but in the snuggle of a couch or late night in bed, delving into distant lands in a more comfortable manner.

 

Posting on Communities has been a fascination of mine ever since I played my first online game (yes Sacred!) back in 2004. And with it came the fabulous concept of posting to others as gifted to me by the Sacred International Forum. I guess this just tied in with my fascination for spamming :lol: or talking, as we may see it. I guess this kind of writing is a kind of addiction... though it's funny cuz I never even thought of it this way until me and Schot years ago were talking about writing, and in an enlightened moment, the utterance of "Rommel you write all the time" clicked for me, and I saw that having to keep talking to others was now empowered by the net.

 

Net = addiction!

 

:)

 

gogo

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Wat is 'n kombuis nou sonder 'n Kook en Geniet? :agreed:

As for my addiction... browsing the net for the latest and greatest games - even though I know I'm not going to get them all! :cry:

 

Ja wragtig! ek het altyd my ma se stok ou ene wou wegdra! LOL!

 

Translations

 

What is a home without a Kook & Geniet? (an afrikaans cookbook that is fundamental in every Afrikaans household)

For sure! I always wanted to take my moms 1st edition.

 

Another, thankfully smaller addiction, is kitchen appliances. I have already planned out the kitchen that I one day want in my own home. mostly industrial style stainless steel countertops, 8 gas stoves, 2 ovens, walk in fridge and freezer, and many many appliances, some of which I've started collecting. Like a Bamix (of switzerland) mixing wand, Ice cream maker, big bad blowtorch, wafel maker, stand mixer.... :Just_Cuz_21:

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My addiction has to be the internet because I'm on it 24/7 nearly, I love books too, can never walk past Waterstones in town without looking in it, I need more books to read and yay! for Harry Potter :D. I also have an addiction of owning things from my favourite bands, I would buy all their cds (even the behind the scenes edition ones with live performances), would try to get t-shirts and I would get posters too, Evanescence is my favourite and to be honest I think it always will be, been a true fan since the very first album Fallen, I love every one of their songs (even the rare songs and EP's), I am going to buy posters and t-shirts (totally want to get a bag too) I just go nuts when I'm crazy about a band haha. I really want to play the piano like Amy Lee too, I have the Fallen piano book. I'm the same when it comes to a book series I like or a programme I like more than anything, I HAVE to own them!, ALL of them! lol. Any book suggestions? I love fantasy, some non-ficton books that relate to life, growing up, the situations and the things you get up to growing up (I guess teen fiction) such as Paper Towns and Looking for Alaska by John Green (amazing books), Princess Diaries books are cool too. I love Goosebumps books too (a collection I need to own too haha). Yeh I'm jsut obsessively addicted at owning everything of what I love.

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My addiction is breathing ! I tried to go without it once, but it did not go well ! :whistle:

 

Hehe, nah, I love books too, and always snap up any bargains. I read a lot, but it will take forever to read everything I own !

 

Steve. :)

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Can't say no

... too often when my daughters were sitting on my knees and asking: "Can I have...."

 

Known weakness:

Loosing too much time by optimizing stuff (damn german gene pool). I do a working solution really quick and then I waste 10 times more time to optimize it. Even if it is something idiotic like repairing our wooden patchwork house and knowing that the next time I can try out the optimized repair won't be before 15 years in future.

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I've been somewhat of a "hoarder" for my entire life... but with some help from family and friends I have kept something of a check on my addictions... and the fact that my interests change often enough that I don't get too carried away with any one of them.

 

Books - I used to take stacks/boxes of books back to the used bookstore every month or so and pick up a new batch... a lot cheaper than buying new, but probably more costly than the library option. But I hate the library, its' rules, etc... so used was the way to go for me.

Comics - kept all of them, thankfully... but I was into them for the art and stories rather than the collectible/money making aspect so I may have a few books worth some $$, but they aren't top-$ condition. :sigh:

Cards - Always have been a playing-card kinda person ;) But I was into comics and not so much with the collectible sports cards - 4 or 5 sets of baseball/basketball cards from 99-01 or so. Then came Magic: The Gathering... goodbye University Tuition :whistle: And then I sold all my high-end cards to eke by while I was failing said post-secondary education :whistle:

Video Games - Only have a Super-NES and a (Sega) Dreamcast system left in my possession.... but I think I've had most consoles at one time or another. Some time ago I decided that finding ONE game and playing the stink out of it would be the best way to lower the cost of this "habit"... yay Sacred! And Ascron's decision to put it on PS3!

Music - At one time, I chucked all my "tapes" - but the parents' vinyl and the CD's I bought are still kicking around somewhere. Today I have the Sirius satellite radio system to curb any spending urges I have for music. They have everything I could want from that industry...:shameless plug:

 

OK... that's enough rambling... this could be 1000-word post if I got out of my high-school/University years... :twitch:

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Can't say no...

 

...Even if it is something idiotic like repairing our wooden patchwork house and knowing that the next time I can try out the optimized repair won't be before 15 years in future.

 

I also have the problem of not being able to say no, especially to woman. :whip: My mom and sisters knows it too well and abuse it often.

 

At least if you do something it is done properly Chattius! :thumbsup:

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Frankly, my addiction is staring back right in front of my face as we speak. :P I pretty much traded in the TV for the net, and there have been enough times where I've stayed up late just because. >>; Luckily, it's not something I would go insane over if I lose it, though once I'm on it, I can lose track of time if I'm not paying attention.

 

Same thing with games, where I'm perfectly fine when I'm not playing them, but when I do, depending on the game, it's like crack injected through an IV. I borrowed a couple of Castlevania games to play on a DS, and I was on them for hours till I completed everything. :P

 

A more serious potential addiction would be gambling. I say potential, since I didn't go down the deep end, yet I was surprised at how much I spent during the one time I went to a casino. I definitely understand how people can get addicted to that stuff once you toss in that dollar into whatever machine you see.

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Beef Jerky is my addiction. Never seem to have enough. :blush2:

I make my own.

It takes 3kg of raw meat to make 1kg of the best darn yummy beef jerky imaginable, using my special secret recipe. :tongue2:

 

And it takes me 1 week to eat the lot.....1 hour if I offer it to my mates with a beer or two. :dry:

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Beef Jerky is my addiction. Never seem to have enough. :blush2:

I make my own.

It takes 3kg of raw meat to make 1kg of the best darn yummy beef jerky imaginable, using my special secret recipe. :tongue2:

 

And it takes me 1 week to eat the lot.....1 hour if I offer it to my mates with a beer or two. :dry:

 

 

In South Africa Jerky is known as "biltong" and it goes very well with "droewors" basically thin sausages left to dry as well.

For some people it is almost a staple food, (my dad) we always have biltong and droewors at my parents house! although it leaves you feeling very very thirsty!

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In South Africa Jerky is known as "biltong" and it goes very well with "droewors" basically thin sausages left to dry as well.

 

Hey thanks for the heads up Delta :thumbsup:

I did a little Google for droewors and I like what I see. :wow:

 

Now I just need to find a newbies guide to making it. :D

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Droewors--- Trocken is german for dry and Wurst/Worst is german/dutch for a sausage. So even without googling and reading only your description I thought that is similiar to the Landjäger in southern germany and the alpes. So Droewors is this typical english/dutch mix which led to some africaans words?

 

One of my favourite sausages is a local variant of Feldkieker. Read the article for more info, Wikipedia has only a german page for it. In our area a pig was slaughtered for a feast when a kid was born. A special sausage was made from still warm meat, spices and then put into the hide which is around the fat at the pig's belly. This hide is not elastic enough at fast growing pigs, but 1 year old half wild local forest pigs are fine. Their is just enough fat hide for one sausage. Then the sausage is 'dried' or make ripe for nearly a year in a clay room: a mix of fresh air, moisture and a low but not freezing temperature. The sausage was put into the clay room with the words: "Für die Amm" = "For the midwife"(the wife who helped at birth). If the child survived till its first birthday the sausage was given to the midwife. Century old traditions and I am lucky that an old person remembered our local recipe and that I have a ramped clay cellar which can be used.

 

Old clay cellars here have a temperature between 4 and 9 celcius the whole year and can easily replace several refridgerators. I store in my cellar like 1000 pounds potato, 400litres Sauerkraut in barrels, 4 barrels apple juice, dozens of different beets, ...

 

I was told that in our area this sausage was called Fellgucker = local slang fur watcher. In old times a fur was wrapped around the new born and you could just see its watching eyes.

 

Nowadays there are commercial variants, not using fat hide but bowel, quickened riping, .... But still these variants are around 20euro the pound. And the real original ones: nearly impossible to get, except you make them yourself or are a midwife.

 

 

Just discovered that I have 2 more addictions: I am totally interested in old local traditions and talking about recipes in other areas.

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Droewors--- Trocken is german for dry and Wurst/Worst is german/dutch for a sausage. So even without googling and reading only your description I thought that is similiar to the Landjäger in southern germany and the alpes. So Droewors is this typical english/dutch mix which led to some africaans words?

 

One of my favourite sausages is a local variant of Feldkieker. Read the article for more info, Wikipedia has only a german page for it. In our area a pig was slaughtered for a feast when a kid was born. A special sausage was made from still warm meat, spices and then put into the hide which is around the fat at the pig's belly. This hide is not elastic enough at fast growing pigs, but 1 year old half wild local forest pigs are fine. Their is just enough fat hide for one sausage. Then the sausage is 'dried' or make ripe for nearly a year in a clay room: a mix of fresh air, moisture and a low but not freezing temperature. The sausage was put into the clay room with the words: "Für die Amm" = "For the midwife"(the wife who helped at birth). If the child survived till its first birthday the sausage was given to the midwife. Century old traditions and I am lucky that an old person remembered our local recipe and that I have a ramped clay cellar which can be used.

 

Old clay cellars here have a temperature between 4 and 9 celcius the whole year and can easily replace several refridgerators. I store in my cellar like 1000 pounds potato, 400litres Sauerkraut in barrels, 4 barrels apple juice, dozens of different beets, ...

 

I was told that in our area this sausage was called Fellgucker = local slang fur watcher. In old times a fur was wrapped around the new born and you could just see its watching eyes.

 

Nowadays there are commercial variants, not using fat hide but bowel, quickened riping, .... But still these variants are around 20euro the pound. And the real original ones: nearly impossible to get, except you make them yourself or are a midwife.

 

 

Just discovered that I have 2 more addictions: I am totally interested in old local traditions and talking about recipes in other areas.

 

It is very interesting stuff! keep on posting! :thumbsup:

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I think it would be best we would open a thread about sausage recipes from all over the word instead of stealing this thread: There is a thread about bratwurst already. Perhaps someone can volunteer to opn the thread and maintaining the first post with lists ti all the mentioned recipes.

Sausage recipes are a bit tricky: different laws about raw meat, nitrat salt, ... Or the items you need: a room to do hot,warm or cold smoking, a drying room, a good meat grinder with holes of different sizes, a sausage press (best a hand driven one, not electric), access to bowel, bladder, (how are local laws), ...

Access to meat: can you slaughter yourself, can you buy a slaughtered whole or half pig, again local laws, ...

 

The legendary how to do make your own german Bratwurst thread;

http://darkmatters.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=16339&st=0&p=6902041&hl=bratwurst&fromsearch=1entry6902041

 

Landjäger, Feldkieker, and probably Droewors are harder to do, since drying and smoking is involved, ...

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Gotta make a confession. Even with my regards to blood sugar lately I... I ...I just can't resist these... and I'm addicted... halp

 

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Must...re...sist

 

 

:oooo:

 

gogo

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Gogo: Guess that's same to Mars-bars to me. :P Just got addicted to 'em again a time ago. Now, I nearly always buy one or two when I go to shopping.

Shouldda watch my diet a bit, now that I'm still on good condition...

 

Also, I guess I could list manga as one of my addictions too. Little over 300 paperpacks and counting. After I found out Play.com sells some in bargain prices I order something almost every time I browse the webshop. xD Don't even want to think what it's cost as of now...

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prawn cocktail pringles? I"ve never e'en heard of them. Who makes them? I remember Marks and Spencer used to sell Shrimp Crackers...small cute, pink chips with little lines... melt in your mouth goodness

 

:)

 

gogo

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There were times when you could buy 20 different peas at the supermarket and only 2 variants of potatoe chips, now there are 100 variants of potatoe chips and you can't get the dried green peas in scales anymore which I prefered for soup. You can do potatoe chips or, more healthy apple chips, easily yourself. But the damn green peas won't get ripe at my place.

 

Party recipes thread:

http://darkmatters.org/forums/index.php?/topic/18502-party-time/

 

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Blossom from potatoe chips glued with cheese, leaves are zucchini, filling prawns

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