Rainy, overcast, windy- the sky looks like a bruise, there are no leave on the trees, and Lily looks pissed that I am not holding the umbrella over her while we walked.
Only one thing can help- meatloaf and mashed potatoes. Who is with me?
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Phillip J. Birmingham
If there will be green beans I am so there.
flukebucket
Reporting for duty sir!
calling all toasters
And mushrooms?
Third Eye Open
I actually really don’t like meatloaf, unless it’s this kind.
MikeJ
Started to hike this morning. Rain soaked through my raincoat. Hiked, up, up, up the hill. When the first ep of Wait Wait, Don’t tell Me on my iPod ran out I said fuck it, turned around, and walked back down the mountain.
Now the rain is down to less than a drizzle. Grr.
Tonybrown74
Mmmm. Nothing like comfort food on a crappy day. The only thing that would have been better would have been chicken or beef stew!
Morbo
Leftover Chinese for me; mashed potatoes do sound good though. Similar weather here except that the rain got out of the system this morning; I made 60% of my practice putts at lunch despite that (usually struggle to hit half). I guess sun and warmth throw my game off.
Sentient Puddle
Starting approximately 30 minutes ago, someone from a little ways across the cube farm started (what sounded like) smacking two sheets of metal together approximately every fifteen seconds. Stopped about five minutes ago, but Jesus. WTF?
soonergrunt
It’s got to be brown gravy on the meatloaf! Not that catsup on top like my mom used to do. I loved my mom but anybody who does that should be arrested, or at least sprayed with a garden hose.
Brick Oven Bill
Copy cat.
It should also be noted that meat is bad for the environment.
R-Jud
No rain here, but we had wind that threw people’s bins around in the street and almost knocked me on my ass while I was running. The rain’s supposed to come tonight.
We had chicken en croute. The Mr. and Bean had mashed potatoes. I had a spinach salad. Meatloaf’s all right if there’s plenty of cayenne in it.
ruemara
sorry. on a diet. 2oz of chicken breast, salad and half a potatoe.
Eat for me.
MikeJ
To get over my crappy hiking wx, I had a smoked turkey, bleu cheese and cranberry sammich from metropolitan market’s deli and grabbed the stuff to make quiche tonight.
ploeg
Meatloaf and mashed potatoes are two things. Unless you make a sandwich out of them. Which actually sounds vaguely satisfying.
Woodrowfan
More of a grilled cheese with fries day me thinks…
Elroy's Lunch
Same weather here. Good choice but I’d go with grilled cheese (swiss) sandwiches and tomato soup. Can be made pretty quickly.
cleek
had a bit of oral surgery yesterday, so it’s all pudding, ice cream and jello for me.
Ed Drone
Spaghetti a la Carbonara, with fresh French bread is in store for me, once I leave this cubicle island.
Ed
Alan
OT: I received an email with this cartoon attached. The caption going around with it says, “This cartoon originated nearly 3 months ago in Scotland .. It looks like most of the world is laughing at our nation’s leadership.”
I find it hard to believe the cartoon originated in Scotland. But this IS a meme floating around the RW–that Obama is a laughing stock to most of the rest of the world.
Has anyone else heard of this?
Midnight Marauder
I know one person who is with you:
Fergus Wooster
Shepherd’s Pie for me tonight.
Or Cottage Pie, technically, since it will be beef. The wife thinks that lamb smells like B.O.
eyepaddle
Ooh I am so there. I make mine with a mix that includes hot italian sausage and some lentils.
Awesome.
jrg
The Devil is beating his wife down here in NC. I’m not sure if it will be raining or sunny in the next 10 minutes.
ellaesther
Not a single leave? Not a one?
I kid! And we are the same way out here in the Middle West, and have been all week. One is going away with one’s pals this weekend, and one couldn’t be happier about it!
And yes, please. Meatloaf, mashed potatoes, and a side of steamed asparagus. And cold meatloaf sandwiches on the morrow!
Andy K
Same craptastic weather here, John, and meatloaf sounds great- but I have to leave for work. Now. yay…
Sentient Puddle
@Alan: In the bottom right corner of the cartoon, there is a “Redstate.com”
So my guess is no.
Violet
Pork chops and sweet potatoes for me tonight.
How do you make your meatloaf? I can’t have the kind with breadcrumbs because I am not eating wheat. Sigh.
HumboldtBlue
It’s got to be brown gravy on the meatloaf! Not that catsup on top like my mom used to do. I loved my mom but anybody who does that should be arrested, or at least sprayed with a garden hose.
No way, Sooner.
Cole, cut up a spicy white onion and sautee it in some oil. On the side, mix is a half cup or so of ketchup, some Franks hot sauce, maybe a little Worstershrirershire. When the onions get nice and cooked, delgaze with a little red wine, throw in some shrooms and warm up. Add onions and shrooms to Ketchup mix and stir together. Spread mix over the top of the meatloaf and cook. Dee-lish.
joes527
@ruemara:
The Dan Quayle diet?
Seriously. Skip the potatti and have some broccoli instead.
gwangung
@Alan: Only if the world consists of Cletus, his other brother Cletus and the yahoos at Murphy’s Bar and Grill.
Martin
Always make extra meatloaf for sandwiches. A slab on good bread with mustard and a nice cheese, grill that sucker, and a beer on the side.
Napoleon
@Alan:
In the botton right corner doesn’t it say redstate.com?
Ugh
Nothing can help this day but vodka. Lots and lots of vodka.
Ben JB
It’s gray in Chicago, but I’m grading papers, so dinner might be microwaveable something. I suppose I could pick up microwaveable meatloaf and mashed potatoes, but it’s the devil’s own work to find lactose-free mashed potatoes.
Gray weather, grading papers, lactose-intolerant–it’s a grad student trifecta!
gwangung
@Sentient Puddle: They’d at least be consistent if they thought the rest of the world were off their rockers.
Believing that the rest of the world actually thought Obama was a joke is just delusional.
Royston Vasey
10:33am Friday morning
Green, green, green (trees, grass, everything!)
with blue skies, high white clouds, a stiff breeze keeping he temps down to bout 16C
New Zealand says Hello!
freelancer
Y’know, it’s kind of obvious to my why, but I can’t help but notice that whenever Cole remarks on the weather in WV, my reaction is always “Huh, that’s exactly what it was like here 36-48 hours ago.”
So I guess I could do him a favor and let him know when an awesome day is coming.
The Moar You Know
@Brick Oven Bill: That’s an interesting pic you’ve linked to, there, Mr. Bill. Westerners, who tend to live in multi-room housing units, tend not to approve of co-mingling of (presumably soiled) trousers, jump ropes, and the food item to be cooked. Nor do we just dump our food items on the (I hesitate to say this) cheap pleather couch, one that looks like it came from a Goodwill or some other similar charity establishment.
I hope you’ve sanitized the couch, Brick Oven Bill. Further photos show you grinding the skins of your potatoes into your mashed potato concoction, and seeing as how they’ve touched the couch, well…it’s your life. I know I speak for one and all here at Balloon Juice when I state that it would be an awful thing for you to perish from a disease caught by carelessness in your food handling.
The president, being a smart man, as well as one well-trained in the habits of Western living, does not throw his raw food items down with his soiled clothing and other items that, in a clean and orderly house, would be put away neatly in an assigned place. Nor does he eat potentially contaminated food items. This is dangerous.
licensed to kill time
I always loooved the crusty maroon catsupy bits on meatloaf when I was a kid, soonergrunt :)
I guess it’s whatever you get used to as a kid that sticks with your taste buds.
geg6
@Alan:
Well, next to the signature on the cartoon, it says “Redstate.com.” So I’m gonna take a wild guess and say that Scotland probably does not have it’s own version of RedState.
That taken care of, it sucks weatherwise here today, too. Overcast and almost dark already at 4:30pm. It’s been a hell of a week for me. Working the usual office hours (8am-5pm) all week with 3 local high school financial aid nights in a row (tonight is the last one). A Saturday in the office as we have an application day for admissions, meaning the student aid officer has to be there to answer any questions from prospective students and parents. Another application day Monday, meaning another late night. Thankfully, my birthday is Tuesday and I’m off from 5pm Tuesday until the next Tuesday. We’ve had a hell of a fall recruitment season. I’m exhausted.
No dinner tonight as I’ll probably not get home until about 9pm. But I had a wonderfully fattening lunch of bbq pulled pork sandwich topped with cole slaw, onion rings on the side, and a banana.
WereBear
We had fifty degrees F! Sunny sunny. Little bits of clouds. But this run of several days is ending.
And I will make everyone feel sorry for me in February. If not sooner.
ellaesther
@Ben JB: Hey there, I can help with that! Kinda.
I keep kosher, so mashed potatoes for any meal involving meat (like, say, Thanksgiving!) requires them to be dairy-free. I found a great recipe in a kosher cookbook, but if you’re looking for something carry-out, and you’re anywhere near Skokie or Devon (I’m in a western burb, myself), you could get some dairy-free mashed potatoes at a deli or restaurant, or probably any of the kosher grocery stores (I know that Hungarian Kosher, on Oakton, sells them).
I’d give you the recipe, but it sounds like you’re a little busy tonight!
Elroy's Lunch
I’m with HumboltBlue. My mom did the same thing when I was kid and now I won’t touch meatloaf with catsup on it. And I love my mom too. Also.
Randy P
Pho is one of the best things there is on cold, yucky rainy nights. A big bowl of pho (there’s a place here in Philly that sells you one for under $5) and a cup of hot sweet vietnamese coffee (they call it “french”).
But it hasn’t been cold enough yet this year for that. So far as I know, it’s fairly warm out and not raining.
But I don’t sit near a window. For all I know, I missed the Apocalypse.
jibeaux
@Alan:
Yep, that famous Scottish spelling “tendancies.” Sounds more like the “humor” and “satire” of the people responsible for NewsBusted, if’n you ask me. Or maybe Mallard Fillmore.
twiffer
@soonergrunt: secret ingredient: stonewall kitchen maple chipotle barbecue sauce. it’s a revelation.
Ash Can
And gravy. Lots of it. And don’t be bashful with the butter in the mashed potatoes.
2th&nayle
Yes, meatloaf and mashed potatoes w/ green beans or sweetpeas! Real ‘Merican food! I like my meatloaf with catsup or tomato sauce on top. Also use rolled oats instead of bread crumbs. Delish! It’s a sin if you don’t make enough for meatloaf sandwiches for tomorrows lunch. Got to go thaw some venison burger right now.
mommybrain
It’s a balmy 78 here , the sky the hazy blue of my first boyfriend’s eyes, but by coincidence we’re having meatloaf and (scalloped) potatoes tonight, too.
tisalaska
This will cheer you up John..a great parody William Shatner style by yet another Alaskan politician. Good stuff
http://www.andrewhalcro.com/part_ii_taking_on_katie_couric
enjoy!
jibeaux
Duh, the RedState thing was already noted. My baddio. I assume it was posted with the following:
“Send your bottle of hydrogen peroxide to Obama now. Order through amazon.com for just $.98 (plus $10.95 s/h)…”
Crashman06
@The Moar You Know: Keep it up with this, please, I beg of you. It’s hilarious.
R-Jud
@Alan: Others have answered your question already, but that cartoon wouldn’t even have appeared in the UK’s Daily Mail (nicknamed the “Daily Heil” over here), let alone anything up in Scotland.
smiley
Had that last night – except the potato wasn’t mashed.
@Morbo:
Me too. General Tso’s chicken.
twiffer
i’m all for meatloaf & mashed potatoes, but noting beats a good bowl of onion soup (with plenty o’ gruyere) and a french dip.
jibeaux
Oh, and also too. Leftover 3 bean chili. If you need a bean chili recipe, it’s a Rachael Ray recipe, I have mixed results with some of her recipes, but this one is good, simple, and includes beer. I just wish I had some cornbread.
R-Jud
@tisalaska: That cracked me up. I love the little butler with the snifter of brandy.
Gus
Just had meatloaf and (horseradish) mashed potatoes last week.
JenJen
Mmmmmm… meatloaf and mashed potatoes. Is there really anything better? Yes… gravy! And freshly snapped green beans.
Me, I’m on grilled chix on the Foreman until next Thursday. I’mma eat like a pig and watch football.
licensed to kill time
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I’d love to see a photo of Lily looking pissed.
GReynoldsCT00
Yum!! Want me to bring beer?
Alan
I found the original Hydrogen Barackside. And RedState.com is right there on bottom right corner. But the meme that it originated from Scotland is what bothers me. A RW family member told me last week that Obama is a laughing stock to the rest of the world. It seems there is a concerted effort to get that meme established amongst the Right. I wonder who started that, Glen Beck?
Punchy
Wait….John, you use an umbrella? Have you recently checked to see if your nads are still attached, cuz I’m afraid they may not be.
geg6
@licensed to kill time:
I don’t believe John Cole about this. Lily could not possibly look anything other than sweet and adorable. I think he’s just projecting his own curmudgeonliness (is that a word?) onto Sweet Lily.
Morbo
@smiley:
Me too! Bweeoop!
Carnacki
John,
One thing I do is mix my meatloaf like I normally do and then grease a muffin pan and spoon the meatloaf into it. Then I put the ketchup/brown sugar topping over each meatloaf muffin.
This has several advantages. The end pieces with the crunchy crust are always the best parts of meatloaf. This gives every portion the good stuff. This also makes it easy to put into freezer bags to save some for later, individual serving. And you can always throw it in spaghetti sauce and call them meatballs.
Kirk Spencer
Comfort food depends on what’s in the pantry and how much work I want to do. Grilled cheese (with a slice of onion) sandwiches and cream of tomato or potato soup is always fast and easy.
Sentient Puddle
@Alan: I looked a little more into the cartoon too and yeah, looks like you got to about where I did. Cartoonist is Toby Dials, and so my assumption was that he was an ex-pat now living in Scotland…but I can’t even come up with that. It looks like this meme is built upon a blatant lie.
Can’t say I expected anything more, really. But I guess we can point to this as an example of how Republicans come up with their talking points–by making shit up.
Martin
@Brick Oven Bill:
So is an open firebox. Ben Franklin figured that shit out ages ago, pal.
ellaesther
Hey, since this is shaping up into an open thread, could I ask for a favor?
Does anyone know where in the Jon Stewart interview of Lou Dobbs he tells Dobbs that his views are “abhorrent and wrong”?
I swear to FSM, I could listen to Jon Stewart talk to anyone on earth all day long, but if I have to hear too much of Lou Dobbs responding, I’ll lose my meatloaf and potatoes. I just want to hear that one snippet — but I very much want to hear it!
licensed to kill time
@Alan: Well, I googled “Obama laughingstock” and the first five links that come up are americanthinker, freerepublic, noquarterusa, texasrainmaker, rushlimbaugh and some googlegroup discussion. I imagine those are the types of people who are talking this up.
If you talked to a RW relative in the USA they’d probably say the same thing. It’s the RW part that’s relevant.
SiubhanDuinne
@R-Jud:
Yes! And the tinkling piano music in the background!
Sentient Puddle
@ellaesther: I’ll brave the depths and report back if I survive…
geg6
@ellaesther:
I’d say to try the Comedy Central website.
http://www.thedailyshow.com/
tomvox1
Throw in a pint (or 3) of Guinness and I’m in. Shepherd’s Pie will also do on a crap fall day like this one.
smiley
@Alan: It’s projection of their feelings onto the rest of the world. It comes from supposed gaffes that only they thought were gaffes. Examples: giving the Queen an iPod, Michelle touching the queen, Obama bowing to the king of Saudi Arabia and the Emperor of Japan, and I’m sure others.
ellaesther
@Sentient Puddle: Bless you!
@geg6: I fear I’ll be sucked into watching the whole thing…. I’m afraid, geg6, I’m afraid!
SiubhanDuinne
@geg6:
I think it’s “curmudgeonhood.” Or maybe “curmudgeosity.”
smiley
@Morbo:
What are the odds.
Fern
Oh god, you guys are killing me – now that I`m officially diabetic.
jibeaux
@Alan:
Just hit reply all and ask when the Scots bought RedState.com and lost their sense of humor and ability to spell. Look for some international polling information if you like. Yes, it’s a losing battle fighting dickitude with facts, but if you want to do something…
jibeaux
And I remembered the other good thing about Twitter, the hashtag. Specifically today #acornfacts.
Beauzeaux
I would LOVE to have some weather like that around here! Instead we have yet another day of sunny and warm in SoCal.
SiubhanDuinne
@Morbo:
My dad and I used to go to a Chinese restaurant every week, and he would always order the same thing — “General Tso’s Favorite Chicken.”
Except he never called it that. He persisted in ordering “General Tso’s Pet Chicken.” LOL.
Sentient Puddle
@ellaesther: Around 3:45 of part 1.
Whew. And I thought Jon was saving it for the very end of the interview…
Skepticat
Damned fall. Damned leaves. Damned ticks. Just mowed the leaves, as the broker is showing the house Saturday and there’s rain on the way, and I’ve brought in ticks, who apparently just love hiding in leaf litter. Just found one on the cat who’d been in my lap (thanks goodness he’s white) and one on me. I imagine there are others, which I hope to find before they burrow in. Not even cold weather slows down these little buggers. I’m not interested in another siege of Lyme disease, as the first untreated episode left me with lifelong problems. I think the solution is to let the yard go to hell til the snow flies.
Your dinner sounds wonderful, Mr. Cole. I just had zucchini relish made by a friend, although I had to find some hamburger to carry it.
I’m going to go sulk now.
smiley
@Fern: Sorry to hear that. I’ve been Type 1 for over 30 years, eat pretty much anything I want and my diabetes is well under control. All it takes is knowing your body and knowing how to compensate for what you eat (and yes, I screw it up sometimes but my A1C is in the normal range). If you’re on oral medications, however, then none of that may apply. I don’t know how those work.
Alan
@licensed to kill time:
Heh, the usual suspects. I should’ve made that search too.
@jibeaux:
Interesting. The image I receive via email had “tendencies” spelled with an ‘a’. The original has it spelled with an ‘e’. Is the use of an ‘a’ British spelling? Forged to create some kind legitimacy? heh
HumboldtBlue
Cole, you can also make the meatloaf more interesting by rolling it out flat and laying down a piece of thinly cut, quality smoked ham. Next, add a few slices of whatever cheese you like. Roll the meatloaf into a roll and bake regularly. Once you cut that sucker, however, be prepared gor some gooey deliciousness.
licensed to kill time
@Alan:
Wiktionary has this listed as “a common misspelling of tendencies”, lol.
MBSS
i see your meatloaf, and raise you a hot cocoa.
i only eat veggie meatloaf though.
it california it is sunny, but i still won’t leave the house.
Barry
Heck, experiment with stuffing almost anything in there – olives, cheese, green beans…..
smiley
@smiley: I should add that even though I said I eat pretty much anything I want, I don’t eat sweets unless I have fairly accurate info about the carbohydrate content. Having a rough idea of the carbs in something you eat is a key thing I should have included above.
PurpleGirl
Crappy day here in NYC too. Meatloaf and mashed potatoes sound good, but I like brisket or pot roast with potato pancakes more.
ilsita
The best most horrible meatloaf recipe, concocted by my dad:
Meat
Applesauce
Ketchup
Onions
Diced sharp cheddar
egg
ground up cheezits (instead of breadcrumbs)
garlic powder
lots of cracked pepper
(all ingredients to taste)
Smush it all up and put it in the oven at 350 till it’s cooked through.
To be served, with mashed potatoes, peas, and beer in the waiting room at the heart attack ward.
Enjoy!
DaddyJ
The other day I was walking my dog in the rain and holding the umbrella over him. A lady pulled her car over and rolled down the window to laugh at me. I explained he’d just been to the groomer and she understood. Soft-coated wheaten terriers turn into brillo pads when they get wet!
Shell
A cold cold rain’s just starting in here.
Don’t worry about Lily. Most dogs are prima donna’s when it come’s to rain. I keep telling my Katie, ‘Stop fussing, you are not made out of brown sugar.’
Dinner chez moi, lentil soup with sliced kielbasa. Toasted honey/whole wheat bread on the side.
valdivia
@Alan:
Confront them I say with the fact that this is an american idea not from abroad. Obama is wildly popular everywhere in the world–even China. Weren’t they saying the only reason he got the nobel is because he is popular abroad. How can they be laughing at us *and* love him so much as to give him the Nobel?
Anonymous At Work
Sounds decent, but I’ll be too busy getting drunk on Happy Hour Sake…
Alan
@valdivia:
Sadly, there’s no rationalizing with the irrational. But the Nobel Prize is a good point.
kommrade reproductive vigor
The weather sucks here. Also. I’m getting ready to go wait for a bus that will probably be late. But! I don’t care what’s for dinner, just want to go home. Youbetcha.
MattR
Interesting. My dog loves the rain (as long as it is not pouring and there is no lightning) and could care less than she and I are getting soaked. But try to get her in the bathtub and it is a completely different story. If only there were some way to reverse those behaviors.
Sentient Puddle
@Alan: It’s a good point to those of us who have functioning logic cores. The wingnuts probably just interpret the Nobel Prize as a way of mocking Obama.
Sentient Puddle
And to my dismay, it looks like the NY-23 drama is about to come to a close. Hoffman can’t win with the number of ballots outstanding. I mean sure, he can keep whining about how the election was stolen, but nobody will care anymore. Blast.
Anne Laurie
@Violet:
IANACook, but a friend who’s discovered she can’t eat wheat was experimenting with quinoa and/or barley as a meatloaf binder. If I get a chance (ha!) I’ll ask her about it when I see her at Thanksgiving.
To tell the truth, my favorite kind of meatloaf is “cold, sliced into a nice crusty roll”. Preferably along with colcannon, which is yesterday’s leftover boiled potatoes mashed with green onions and milk (or yogurt), topped with plenty of good butter. Yes, my people were Irish, how did you guess? As Pratchett once wrote, lots of the kinds of meals theoretically made from leftovers, without ever having the “original” meal…
Rick Taylor
For those of us who haven’t seen it, a video of former Guantanamo prisoners describing how we tortured them.
This is the kind of country we are now. Via Glenzilla.
valdivia
Not meatloaf but this clip from Colbert is just fabulous! Enjoy.
Bill H
Interestingly, I am making meatloaf and baked potatoes, and I very seldom make meatloaf.
Temp is in the high seventies, wind is out of the East at 5 mph, and there was a small cloud about the proverbial “size of a man’s hand” earlier, but it went away.
And the Chargers play the Broncos, who will not have their starting qb, for the division lead Sunday.
Bill H
@Anne Laurie:
My wife can’t eat wheat either, but she has found a gluten-free bread that makes very decent bread crumbs. She orders it from Florida, in a “pool” of friends of hers.
It’s quite a process where they get together and makes lists with much emailing back and forth and place the order, and then when it arrives there is a great deal of excited divvying up and traipsing around delivering things. A certain amount of swapping cinnamon rolls and stuff goes on as well.
Most of us don’t think about the role that bread and the like plays in our life until it is taken away.
The Moar You Know
@Crashman06: It’s a talent that I never, ever wanted, but since I’ve got it I might as well use it.
Ben JB
@ellaesther: Thanks for the advice and suggestions! (And for the reminder: my mom bought a number of “Quick and Kosher” cookbooks, and I was supposed to get one.)
As a non-Kosher-keeping Jew, I can’t tell you how much parve has made my life easier.
ksmiami
Only if there is warm cinnamon apples for dessert.
freelancer
@valdivia:
That clip is awesome.
Jamesons’ ad campaign is as lame as Dos Equis “Most interesting man” run, also.
demkat620
@Woodrowfan: Grilled cheese and tomato soup.
JeremyH
1/ Pork chops with apple/walnut stuffing, pan-seared then baked @ 350F for 8 min.
2/ Yukon Gold potatoes baked @ 400F for 1hr, scooped out of the skins, mashed with milk, butter, salt and pepper.
3/ Steamed sugar snap peas.
4/ Gravy made by deglazing the pan with a touch of white wine and some water.
Perfect remedy for the godawful rainy, windy weather we’re enduring here in Vancouver.
valdivia
@freelancer:
I just love his The Word segments and this one about the Republicans being all whiny was just perfection. He is a genius that Colbert.
ET
I was!!!
Had them for dinner just before reading this post (though while you were posting the post)
Max
@DaddyJ: Fellow wheaten owner here! I completely understand, it costs me $100 to get him groomed and I try to keep him pretty for as long as possible.
With Max, it’s about 2 days. Then he’s rolling in something or running thru the woods and my show dog is gone and I’m back to a roughneck.
Little Macayla's Friend
@licensed to kill time:
“World laughingstock” sounds like a bitter acknowledgement that the rest of the world did in fact consider Bush to be ridiculously (& criminally) incompetent, and now the RW wants revenge (as usual).
/ Off to clean out mimosa leaves in the roof gutters.
Mikeg
Anyone have a good turkey stuffing recipe that includes apples and/or cranberries and maybe some walnuts? My mother makes her stuffing with fatty sausage and I’m too scared to tell her I don’t like it anymore (38 years on….). I need a new recipe for next week; she’ll be at our house this year.
Robertdsc-iphone
Sounds good. I’m gonna need it because I’m working overtime tonight.
Violet
@Anne Laurie:
Thank you! I’m avoiding barley too at the moment, but quinoa is a staple. I could probably find some sort of rice-based “breadcrumbs” but I haven’t looked.
@Bill H: I sympathize with your wife. I live in an area with supermarkets that carry a fairly wide variety of gluten-free/wheat-free foods, but it’s still a pain. You are so right that you don’t know how good bread is until you can’t have it.
I’ve got a loaf of gluten-free bread in the freezer, but can’t summon the courage to try it. The last loaf I bought I tried toasting a slice. When I bit into it, it was so mealy that I spit it out and threw out the whole loaf. Yuck. And an expensive waste.
ellaesther
@Sentient Puddle: I’m finally back, and this was the first thing I looked for here! Thank you, you’re a peach, not a puddle!!
ellaesther
@Ben JB: There you go! I didn’t know if I should mention “parve” (those who get it will get it, but those who don’t really won’t), but that has got to be your life-line at this point!
Belafon (formerly anonevent)
Hey, it’s my 40th birthday. It’s not that bad.
South of I-10
@Belafon (formerly anonevent): Happy Birthday! Glad to hear it is not that bad, I am there next year.
Martin
Rain? What the fuck is that?
/socal
Delia
It’s a dreary overcast day in western Oregon with more rain promised for tomorrow. I’ve got a cold so I’ve canceled all my activities for tomorrow and I’m making a big pot of chicken stew.
Comrade Scrutinizer
@Belafon (formerly anonevent):
@South of I-10:
Hmmph. Kids.
South of I-10
@Comrade Scrutinizer: Should we get off your lawn?
Neutron Flux
@The Moar You Know: We should give a h/t to El Cid, who did the first one, IIrc
Corner Stone
131 comments and I can’t believe no one has left the:
I never eat meatloaf away from home – don’t know what’s in it.
And I never eat meatloaf at home – cause I know what’s in it.
And people – meatloaf is not sweet, mmmkay? Crusty ketchup topping is acceptable but if you add sugar (etc), then ur doin it rong.
As for me – root veggies tossed in EVOO + curry mix, then roasted for 40 minutes. (celery, carrot, onion, potatoee, and added cauliflower) PS – nothing better than roasted curry cauliflower.
Going to eat with a browned ground beef + white rice mix.