http://www.democraticunderground.com/115731540Oh my.
irisblue (1,685 posts) Fri Sep 20, 2013, 11:13 AM
question about lemongrass
(hello to any CC lurkers BTW)
I bought some to try making a thai dish, but the instructions for it's usage aren't clear to me, do I use the tips or the white root like area? Do I mince it or do I remove it, like bay leaves, after cooking?
Okay now, never mind that; lemongrass is apparently some sort of obscure and near-useless vegetable.
There's another reason I'm posting this.
I've been watching the cooking and baking forum for, uh, some time now, and there's problems with it.
It's important because the cooking and baking forum isn't just another small forum; it
used to be a gem, a jewel, for Skins's island.
Not so any more.
If one looks at the "title of discussion thread" for the forum, and goes over to the "last reply" column, one notices that sometimes there's
hours in between primitive responses.
There was a time, not so long ago, when there were only minutes, if not seconds, in between responses.
Traffic's down, way down, for the cooking and baking forum. The way things are going, within a few months, the deaf and hard of hearing forum, a champion at collecting cobwebs, is going to be busier than the cooking and baking forum.
The problem seems to be in dear old sweet Lu, the hostess of the forum.
Nothing
personal against dear old sweet Lu; she's been a definite improvement over the now-gone hate-filled hippywife primitive Mrs. Alfred Packer.
But dear old sweet Lu's no leader; she needs to voluntarily and with good graces step aside, abdicating her role in favor of another primitive with more drive, more ambition, more energy, to get the cooking and baking forum corking again.
I suppose if my fellow alum Skins is hesitant about firing dear old sweet Lu, he could at least set some goals for her; for example, he could demand that she write more, and not just title-lines of campfires. She shouldn't be merely asking the other primitives what's for supper and leaving it at that; she should be describing to them what she fixed for supper, and what bewhiskered Bill thought of it.
If I were Skins, I would set some modest goals for Lu if she wishes to remain hostess; something along the lines of a minimum of twenty campfires lit by her each week, at least half of which each should be sixteen paragraphs or longer, so as to incite primitive interest and involvement.
I would also insist Lu be present in the forum seven days a week, just as moderators here are; as it is, she takes a day or two off once in a while, compelling another primitive to make up for her sloughing off.
Dear old sweet Lu asked for the job, and she got it. Having gotten it, she should do it.
Finally, again if I were Skins, I'd demand that Lu contact former prolific posters of the forum, reminding them of their past valuable contributions to traffic and insight therein, and begging them to help her out by resuming posting there. Getting the sparkling old dude active again, for example, would draw traffic.
If Skins and dear old sweet Lu don't do something, the cooking and baking forum--once a gem, remember--is likely to slowly wither away, evaporating.
