The Florida Masochist has asked folks to be praying for his sister, Patty, who has been diagnosed with acute Leukemia. Along with GM Roper and his lung cancer, add Patty to your prayers, would you?
Thanks.
Easy Tostadas: Quick snack or meal
UPDATE! UPDATE! Christine, of Morning Coffee and Afternoon Tea, has the menu up for this week’s Carnival of the Recipes. (Fast work, Christine!) Head on over and “place your order” now, eh?
Coupla tips on the way to the quasi-recipe, ‘K?
What makes this a quick snack or meal is advance prep of two essential ingredients. When I buy several pounds of ground meat (usually a mix of ground sirloin and ground chuck–just enough fat for flavor enhancement), I fry it up in advance, then divide it into “meal sized” portions, depending on how many folks I expect to be feeding at any one meal during the coming week. Usually, when I do this, I just go ahead and sautee some onion and garlic and add it in toward the end of the browning, cos I probably won’t cook a meal with ground meat w/o those two, anyway.
So, have the ground meat, already pre-cooked.
As for tostada “shells”–baked flat plain corn tortillas do just fine. I usually broil mine in my convection oven. Broken, they make great corn chips for dipping. Unbroken, perfect bases for tostadas.
Otras ingredientes
Chili powder or ground, dried ancho or annaheim chiles (a tablespoon or more per pound of ground beef, cooked)
Cumin (2 tablespoons or more per pound of ground beef, cooked)
Diced yellow (scourge) onion or freshly-chopped green onion
Cubed Roma or fresh, ripe beefsteak tomato
Shredded lettuce
Shredded jack, colby or cheddar cheese–or your fav mix of any two or three.
Place the pre-cooked meat and spices (and maybe a wee tad of water) in a covered microwave-safe glass or ceramic container and m-wave for 3-5 minutes, depending on your m-wave’s power, age, etc.
“Pre”-Assemble your tostadas: Meat, cheese
M-wave for about a minute to gooey up the cheese a bit if you prefer
Garnish with the rabbit food, some of your fav salsa or hot sauce (chipotle!) and chow down!
Make it a meal: add rice and beans (or refried beans).
Simple, exceptionally quick, and if you have rice and beans as leftovers, a frequent blessing here at third world county central, you can have a whole meal ready for two in about 10 minutes.
Zap! You’re done!
And the hits just keep rollin’ in!
Because my Wonder Woman is a librarian, I get to hear some of the woes inflicted on other librarians by dumbass principals. While I’m already pretty darned familiar with the idiocies perpetrated upon classroom teachers (and students) in the name of school administration, librarians are often a particularly vulnerable crowd, because an amazing number of administrators (and teachers, it should be noted) think librarians aren’t a part of the education process, aren’t teachers and have damn all clue as to what librarians do for that matter. Many haven’t a clue what a library is, either, as a couple of recent Tales From the Crypts demonstrate.
NOTE: I have deliberately changed information, paraphrased and obfuscated in order to protect innocent librarians from whence these stories came. I will NOT attribute this information or in any way reveal whence it came. If you think that in any way impeaches the validity of these first-hand accounts, then you’re stayin’ for detention… we’ll teach ya a think or three…. 🙂
A principal at one librarian’s school decided the librarian should do away with the Dewey Decimal system. He wanted it arranged by class and course, e.g., all US History books, Biology books, Physics books, etc. grouped together in sections “so students could easily find them”.
*sigh*
Let’s see… DDC (Dewey Decimal Classification): History: 900; North America: 970. etc. In order to become a principal in almost any state of the union any more, a person needs an “Education” degree, experience and a grad degree in pubschool administration.
And the principal in the above example still doesn’t have a clue about the DDCS?
Idiot.
And then there’s the administrator who knew he needed to get an inventory of the library for the close of the school year. So, does he assign the librarian to do the inventory (she had one on hand, in fact, as simply a matter of course. She was, after all, a librarian.)? Nope. Assigned a “coach” to inventory the library.
The ath-a-lete turned in a one-page inventory that read: “One Library”.
And here’s my fav. A principal who had been “relieved” (that ought to have been a clue) was assigned to fill out the year in a vacant librarian position (clue two that the administration of that district was incompetent). Decided to reorganize the library. Organized all the books… by size. Yep. Largest to smallest. Made sense to this dumbass. And looked oh so much nicer! (But it would have looked even nicer had this dumbass rearranged the books by size and color! Incompetent even as an interior decorator… )
*sigh*
Pubschool administrators, not just arguably the stupidest people in public education, demonstrably the stupidest people in public education.
Sure, these are just anecdotal examples. But you could fill a book with these kinds of tales. And it’d be at the beginning of principal number three’s library reorganization. Biggest book in the library.
Updating the card catalogs at The Crazy Rants of Samantha Burns, TMH’s Bacon Bits, Rhymes with Right, People Are Idiots (mastering the obvious? :-)), The Liberal Wrong Wing, and Free Constitution: Transcending Sovereignty.
“Word!” from The Yak
The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (And the Crusades)
I’ve found the Random Yak to be someone worth paying attention to, so when he recommended this book in a recent comment, I thought it wise to heed his words.
While I have a rag bin fulla factoids from years ago when I more than doubled the hours required for my bachelors by adding tons of unrelated courses (and continued the practice during grad school–heh, I could happily go back to classes again today… ), the smattering of stuff I recall from couses and personal rading in M.E. history and archaeology, comparative religion, Western Civ, et al, will no doubt be buttressed, challenged and filled out by this book. I look forward to its arrival, and if you want a broad-spectrum look at Islam through the ages, I’d suggest, based on Random Yak’s recommendation alone, if nothing else, you look into this one, too.
The barbarians are no longer at the gates; they are at our doors, thank to Muslim apologists and enablers on the left and poor border security as a whole. This is not Vienna in 1683, and there’s no John III Sobieski to ride to our rescue. Knowing the enemy is important if we are not to fall for its age-old strategies and tactics.
Get the book. it couldn’t hurt, and it just might help.
Noted at Blue Star Chronicles