Month: August 2009

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Lil Kitchen Tip

While I have a wealth of cutting boards now, for quite some time we made do with a “practice” cutting board of mahogany that I’d made when I was in seventh grade (as a gift for my grandmother).

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(Click to enbiggen the pic 🙂 )

While using it exclusively for all our kitchen cutting n chopping, I devised a simple method that made things go a bit faster in the kitchen. When the pig’s facing right, cut veggies. When it’s facing left, cut meats. Sure, I still had to clean the pig–and the counter it was on–after use, but I didn’t have to clean it WHILE in use. No matter which I started cutting frirst, the veggies/meats were kept to different surfaces, as long as I cut all of either veggies or meats at once.

Later, our collection grew, of course (including the walnut/maple cutting board the mahogany one was practice for, as my mom had decided her “new”, smaller kitchen needed utensil/tools downsizing), but the habit’s remained and has continued to be a useful streamlining habit.

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BTW, that’s my two fav chef’s knives shown. An older Chicago cutlery knife that’s still in very good condition and a newer (only about 20 years old, now) Sabatier-before-Sabatier-was-devalued-by-WallyWorld that was an anniversary present from my Wonder Woman to me. (Last year, when Sabatier was still seliling directly online, this model was priced at $107, but I’m sure she didn’t pay that much 20 years ago.) She knows I loves me knives. *arrgh!* 🙂

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Greenie Sheeple

Greenie self-lobotomized dumbasses=~90% of the “movement” IMO.

Then again, perhaps I’m being too generous. Surely there can’t be 10% of greenies who are wittingly deceiving folks?

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Look for the Union Label

If you run into thugs attempting to stifle free speech at a townhall meeting, just look for the union label:

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Just check YouTube for “SEIU ACORN violence (or thugs) at townhall” for slews of videos.

Or, if you want some easy-greasy-sleazy money and can buff up your physique while dumbing down your intellect to the level of slime mold, you could apply to be an “SEIU organizer” and go around playing thug at townhall meetings, yourself!

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Check out a “teaked” verion of the SEIU Goon graphic suitable for posterizing at Woody’s Place.

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Green Pork Stew

N.B. This is a variation on a recipe whose name shall go unmentioned, because I’m pissed off at Mexico (and Mexican nationals) in general for encouraging and actively aiding an invasion of this country, so, as much as is possible, I’m deleting my knowledge and use of Spanish in general and any remotely positive Mexican references in particular from my vocabulary.

Ingredients:

28oz can of green sauce (avoiding the “e” word) or an equal amount of pureed green chiles.
8oz can of green chiles
1.5 pound pork roast, fully cooked and cubed
1 chopped yellow onion
16oz (or thereabouts) can of cannelini beans, rinsed and drained
16oz (or thereabouts) can of either white hominey or plain white corn–with liquid
1/2 cup rice
1 cup water

Prep:

Sautee the onions and brown the cubed, pre-cooked pork roast. Add everything to a slow cooker and let it come together for a while; use your best judgement. Eat with gusto. (Make your own gusto to taste.)

Next time, I plan on making this with beer substituted for the liquids–the plain water and water from the corn or hominey cans. A nice light ale to start, I think, though the recipe as is goes well with a medium amber ale with just a touch of hopsiness.

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No, of Course It’s Not a Double Standard

That would be hypocritical, and we all know hopey-changey-ists can’t be hypocritical, now can they?

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The manufactured Mass MEdia Podpeople Hivemind “outrage” at the Obama-as-Joker graphic that’s gone viral (check how many folks are using it as their avatar on Facebook!) is strange, given the eight years’ outpouring of anti-Bush graphics, ranging from Bush-as Chimp through Bush-as-Hitler all the way to Bush-as-vampire, included a Vanity Fair depiction of Bush as the Joker.

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Hmmm, could it be that, despite deep pockets pushing the images and Mass MEdia Podpeople Hivemind investment in them, the fact that the depictions of Bush-as Chimp, Bush-as-Hitler, Bush-as-vampire and Bush as the Joker did NOT go viral, did NOT strike a real chord in the hearts and minds of millions of common Americans, do you think that may play a part in the manufactured Mass MEdia Podpeople Hivemind “outrage” at the depiction of Obama-as-Joker?

Or could it be that those who wrongly see themselves as the elite (when they’re little more than mindless hacks and drones) really are too stupid and wrong-headed and basically unfair as to think that sauce for the goose is not sauce for the gander?

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Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau/Alfred Brendel – “Der Lindenbaum” -Die Winterreise

I think my appreciation for Alfred Brendel, first discovered as I listened to Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau accompanied by him instead of Gerald Moore, as had so often been the case, can be summed up in Brendel’s own comment,

“I am responsible to the composer, and particularly to the piece.”

That one simple, but extremely difficult, committment is why Brendel is so very good in finding the “voice” of his instrument–the piano. His committment to getting as close as he possibly can to the composer’s intention is fiendishly difficult, especially in a society where almost all artists seek to place their own thoughts, feelings and personalitiews above that of the desires of the composer, even when a composer may have explicitly stated directions and commentary for performance guidelines.

“I am responsible to the composer, and particularly to the piece.”

I can appreciate that, especially since in attempting to be responsible in such a way it results in such excellence of performance as Brendel’s.

Once again, one of my very favorite Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau performances, accompanied by Alfred Brendel:

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Ignorance at the “Cafe au Lait” House

The 0! to the elderly, “Take a pill.”

Now, after my Wonder Woman’s incident eleven years ago, when she was about The 0!’s age today, I learned a few things about the heart, both physical and metaphorical, that The 0! seems to have no concept of whatsoever. First, many types of arhythmias are untreatable by taking a pill, and none of them are treated by simply “tak[ing] a pain pill” as The 0! would prescribe in his best political medical wisdom. (Translation: he’s a complete jackass.)

And tghen there are matters of the heart of which he seems completely unaware. He counts dollar cost as more important than a 100 year old woman’s joie de vivre and her daughter’s enhanced quality of life with her vital, enthusiastic mother present. No, it might simply be better to give the old biddy a pain pill and let her die of the untreated arhythmia.

That goes beyond jackassery all the way to evil. F**k him and the horse he rode in on!

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Political Hypocrisy is Nothing New

The hypocrisy of the Obama administration is growing to match that of one to whom he has been compared by his cronies and sycophants in the Mas MEdia Podpeople Hivemind:

“Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government and form a new one. This is a most valuable and sacred right – a right which we hope and believe is to liberate the world” — Abraham Lincoln, 1861

This is, of course, the reason he went to war against the Southern States who did this very thing…