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Ahem.. so.. here's what happened.  I picked three bamboo steamer baskets and a lid (they stack, you see), along with some azuki, with the intention of making steamed buns last night.  Well.. I made some, and they actually came out pretty good.  Well.. the first half of the batch came out pretty good.  The second half, I forgot that I had to add water to the pan during the steaming, and all the water that -was- there evaporated.  Shannon noticed the smoke about a minute before they were supposed to be done and caught the whole thing before it actually caught on fire.  The bottom-most steamer was charred quite badly, and the buns on that layer were lost.  The rest of the buns.. well.. now they're smoked buns :oP  I have yet to try one, but they should be sufficiently weird..

Anyway, I need to go pick up another basket from E-W Imports, and wash the two I have thoroughly to hopefully get rid of <em>some</em> of the smoke flavor.

By the way, the internet says I'm most like River Tam.  I think it's because I said I'm most likely to say, "My food is problematic."

Edit:  I kinda got roped willingly into working as line manager at 5:30AM on weekends again.  The problem is that my manager changed his schedule, so instead of working that position on sundays, I now work it on saturdays.  Looks like no Alley Cat for me after the furmeets..