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Open Thread: Thursday Night Menu Edition

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From Bad Horse’s Filly:

Continuing our theme of quick and easy recipes for the holidays, here’s a slow-cooker meal you can set up the night before and have ready at the end of a busy day of holiday events. This is a recipe from a restaurant in Ouray, CO that was in an old bank. They gave it to me 15 years ago on my honeymoon and I make it all the time. This was my first experience at having to change a recipe for 60 into one for 6-8. It’s spicy, so ease up on the cumin and chili powder if needed, you can always add more during the last 30 minutes if needed. On the board tonight:

1) Spicy Black Bean Soup
2) French Bread
3) Red Grape Salad
4) Apple wedges & Cheese

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  3. 3.

    Brick Oven Bill

    Your recipe does not sound appetizing Anne. No honest male wants to eat red grape salad. Here is tomorrow’s lunch for The Facility:

    1. Beef tri-tip ($1.99/lb). Cook it for a long time and then cool it. Cut it into little bits.
    2. Cook lots of carrots ($0.10 each) and onions ($0.50/lb) in olive oil (just buy the olive oil).
    3. I once stated that 50 lbs of rice was $12. This was incorrect. 50 lbs of rice is now $17, I think this price has gone up. In any case, make a bunch of rice.

    Place the meat/vegetables on top of the rice and you have an economical, tasty, and healthy lunch.

  4. 4.

    Steeplejack

    I am something of an expert a finicky douche on the subject of black bean soup. I will scrutinize this recipe with interest.

  8. 8.

    Midnight Marauder

    Is it just me or does it seem like BOB has been in overdrive today for some reason? The insanity sounds like it’s hooked up to an IV of Taurine.

    This Oregon/Oregon State game is insane. I will be thoroughly unsatisfied if the second half does not feature at least 6+ plays of over 60 yards.

    +5

  9. 9.

    kommrade reproductive vigor

    just buy the olive oil

    Yes, just buy the olive oil.

    Do repeat BOB’s mistake and buy the bottle of olive oil flowers and chocolates and take it out to dinner and then back to your place and read it poetry and then have sex with it because the doctors and nurses in the E.R. are only human and they will laugh so hard they won’t be good for much the rest of their shift.

  11. 11.

    MikeJ

    One good reason to cheer for the ducks is that it will piss of the Disney Corp.

    Every year when Disney hires new first year associates for their legal department they get one person who thinks he has noticed something nobody else ever has: that Orygun uses Donald Duck for a mascot. He sends them a C&D, threatening dire consequences (shuttering the school, imprisonment of the dean, rape of the cheerleaders by Goofy[1]). The University then produces a hand written letter from Walt himself granting them permission to use Donald as a mascot in perpetuity.

    You know that the Disney Corp is chock full of people who hate hate hate Walt for giving something that valuable away. Help piss those people off and cheer for the ducks.

    [1] Disney joke: Mickey Mouse’s attorney says, “As I understand it Mr. Mouse, you want a divorce on the grounds that Minnie is insane?” Mickey responds, “I never said she was insane, I said she was fucking Goofy!”

  12. 12.

    jharp

    You need to mention the health benefits of black beans. It’s about the best food there is for protein and fiber combined.

    And forget the cans. Buy the raw beans and soak them and cook them.

    And don’t forget the black beans for huevos rancheros.

  13. 13.

    Sanka

    Now he tells us:

    “The tension we’ve been seeing is that what is good for the longer term may not work as an immediate short-term stimulus. We’re still getting slapped around in the Recovery Act for this,” Obama said. “The term ‘shovel-ready’ — let’s be honest, it doesn’t always live up to its billing.”

    But….But….INFRASTRUCTURE!! THE BRIDGES ARE FALLING! THE KIDS HAVE CRUMBLING SCHOOLS!!

    (See liberal/progressive hysteria ca. early 2009, post-election hubris)

  14. 14.

    PanAmerican

    MikeJ:

    It’s sad they use the continual copyright extensions to churn out low grade direct to DVD crap-o-la utilizing the classic movie characters.

  15. 15.

    MikeJ

    It’s sad they use the continual copyright extensions to churn out low grade direct to DVD crap-o-la utilizing the classic movie characters.

    Amen. I’m in favour of copyright law the way the founding fathers intended, seven years. With today’s tech and numerous was to exploit IP if anything the exclusive use term should be shorter instead of longer.

  16. 16.

    arguingwithsignposts

    @Sanka:

    Well from the Kaplan Test journalism enterprise where reporters can’t count, there’s this:

    coming closer to an admission than he has before that the current $787 billion stimulus may be moving slow.

    Fully half of that “stimulus” was bullsh*t tax cuts that don’t do a damned thing to provide jobs. So, yeah, there’s that.

  17. 17.

    arguingwithsignposts

    @Sanka:

    But….But….INFRASTRUCTURE!! THE BRIDGES ARE FALLING! THE KIDS HAVE CRUMBLING SCHOOLS!!

    And they are. States are facing hundreds of billions in deficits over the next three years. Arizona is selling its administrative building. California is … well, totally f**ked. Schools are laying off teachers, states are laying off workers.

    So yea, STFU, troll.

  19. 19.

    4jkb4ia

    Done! 6-6! After the likely Steelers victory this will be simply keeping pace with the scrum. And Sanchez hurt his knee.

  23. 23.

    Midnight Marauder

    I tell you, the 113th Civil War is living up to the hype! More touchdowns, please! Nom nom nom!

    +7

  27. 27.

    BDeevDad

    I highly recommend John Oliver’s Daily Show interview tonight with Swiss Ambassador to UN was all kinds of awesome. The Ambassador literally looked ready to kill when he asked a harsh question about the ease the Swiss had in being neutral during WWII and accepting Nazi gold.

    Well, it seems they’d still have ease at doing the same and not worrying about the non-Christians. After passing a Minaret ban,

    the president of the Christian Democratic People’s Party of Switzerland (a mainstream party which is part of the country’s current coalition government) on Thursday told a TV interviewer that there should also be a ban on separate Muslim and Jewish cemeteries.

  38. 38.

    Jason Bylinowski

    @PanAmerican: What the deal with Lower America these days? I say lately, but of course I know from reading the footnote-obsessed Noam Chomsky that this has been going on forever. But this region and Africa, I just cannot figure out and/or don’t know what to believe. I’m told of both quite emphatically from my better-traveled peers that the tourism (food, culture, etc) and natural resource potential is so high there and in Africa that by all rights, everybody there should be richer than God’s gardener by now (who, although not as rich as God, is still quite rich indeed).

    I recall that some of Reagan’s SA policies were pretty much based on Kissinger’s philosophy of propping up brutal authoritarians just so the communists could not get a foothold there (anything but communism, I guess), so why haven’t things evolved past this point now that Reagan and the Soviet Union are both gone? Seems to be no shortage of popular movements down there (Africa is a different story, sort of like the Middle East in that much of the region is split up into tribal groups), but they never seem to stick. I want world peace dammit.

  39. 39.

    charles johnson

    “Amen. I’m in favour of copyright law the way the founding fathers intended, seven years. With today’s tech and numerous was to exploit IP if anything the exclusive use term should be shorter instead of longer.”

    Oh hell yes. If you can’t figure out how to squeeze all your money from making Terminator 8: The Bread Machine Wants You Dead, in 7 years, then you have no business in business. If we had civic-minded legislators the protections on a piece of intellectual property would expire in 5-10 years.

  40. 40.

    Bad Horse's Filly

    Hi, just popped in before bed. Love the holidays, but they are a very busy time here. Wanted to pass along some good news, my cousin, who has been in a coma with H1N1 for the last month is awake today! It looks like she’s out of the woods. I’m very, very grateful.

    As always, Anne, thanks for posting the menu. hugs and kisses.

    @Ailuridae: Gee, thanks for that.

  42. 42.

    Yutsano

    @burnspbesq: The Quackers are going Rosing. I now feel for the University of Oregon band. That parade looks fun from the outside, but as someone who has marched it twice it’s a grueling event regardless of the weather conditions. I hope the director knows enough to get his kids into some kind of shape.

  44. 44.

    MikeJ

    @Yutsano: This is why Orygun has so many breweries. You can’t get into shape for this sort of thing just by walking. It will require some serious drinking.

  46. 46.

    General Winfield Stuck

    Andy Mccarthy is mad about American Muslims trying take over Amurika with their evil ways, by starting a special fund to assist families of victims of the FT. Hood shootings. And speaking to troops about the Islamic faith.

    5.3 degrees of separation is close enough for the wizards at NRO to be outraged by this outrageous show of support to the infidel dogs by Moooooslim devils.

    Wolverines!!

  47. 47.

    Yutsano

    @MikeJ: BRING ON THE LIQUID BREAD!!

    Actually I’ve been to both Eugene and Corvallis they’re pretty quiet towns with great bar scenes. Fantastic Thai place in a strip mall in Eugene (loved it) but can’t recall the name. What I get for letting a chick tuba player talk me into dinner!

  50. 50.

    MikeJ

    @Yutsano:

    What I get for letting a chick tuba player talk me into dinner!

    Man, I do not want to know what she did this one time at band camp.

  51. 51.

    Kiril

    @Jason Bylinowski: They just started modernizing later than we did. Even countries like Bolivia regularly post double the US economic growth. They tend to go really high furious growth followed by very slow growth while the gains are assimilated. But in relative terms, things are getter better in most countries of SA faster than in the US, they just haven’t caught up yet. It will take them a while yet.

  54. 54.

    Elie

    @jharp:

    Having been born and grown up for a while in Brazil, I can attest to the mighty black bean. For the famous Brazilian black bean feijoada, significant cooking time and the addition of pork make this a rich, dark and creamy dish to enjoy forever….

    My Brazilian friends/relatives here in the US no longer cook the old fashioned but decadent feijoada all day, but leaner less fat version they modified from the old recipe…My Mom refuses to eat that saying it just doesn’t taste the same. To me, they are both good but we all secretly lust for the old one that cooked all day and put huge amounts of plaque in your arteries but hell, who cares..

    As a point of interest, Brazil sports a brown bean as well as black bean feijoada that responds to regional differences. Both are wonderful…

  58. 58.

    Yutsano

    @MikeJ: Heh. She was a tall leggy blond. Wonderful dinner companion who I wouldn’t mind getting in touch with again. Of course she knew I didn’t play for her team so that made dinner much less awkward.

  59. 59.

    mcd410x

    Great game tonight. Ducks!

    Is there anything better than a Weihenstephaner Hefeweissbier?

    Mcd +3

  61. 61.

    Jason Bylinowski

    @Kiril: Well, I hope things do continue to get better, and I’m not saying that just because of my DFH status, which is well-deserved and incredibly surprising considering I live in Antiabortion Jesus City, Georgia. /Go AJC High Panthers, can I get a w00t w00t!

    Hey, you know what’s off-topic? This question: anybody got a website one can go for blog criticism/advice? There’s some pretty good general writing/copy criticism but I don’t know about blogging, because although I’ve had one for a couple years now, I’ve been taking it only slightly more seriously than I took college the first time around, which is to say I’m drunk all the time, constantly trying to get action, but generally succeeding only in headaches the next day.

  62. 62.

    Jason Bylinowski

    Shit, this is actually important and I forgot to ask when it was a better time to do so. My neighbors got robbed of all their Xmas stuff yesterday.

    I’ve already replaced their computer for them, as that is very easy for me to do considering I build them all day and have tons of extra crap laying around, but that’s really just the barest tip of the iceberg. Anybody here ever have to deal with this before? Any good wholesome soashalist resources I could point them toward in order to get some stuff for their kids? It was a real downer to hear my wife tell me that their kids were out in the yard, just falling down crying. Not just sad, you know? The little kid version of despair.

    Anyway, y’all’re probably all asleep – as I should be – so maybe I’ll post this tomorrow.

  63. 63.

    Yutsano

    @Jason Bylinowski: The holidays can bring out the worst and the best in us. Since we’re so flung all over the country, have you considered starting a fundraising account at a local bank/credit union? It won’t exactly be getting them their gifts back, but at least it will get them a little financial security (hopefully if all goes well) right about when they need it. Plus it will get the word out in the community that these folks could sure use some assistance.

    Also, might be a stab in the dark, but you could always call the Marines in:

    http://augusta-ga.toysfortots.org/local-coordinator-sites/lco-sites/request-toys.asp

    I don’t know much about their financial situation and what their specific rules are in this situation, but even if they can’t help directly they have tons of partners and connections that might point you in a better direction. Best part is it gives you contact info for the local coordinator on that site. Hopefully something there will pan out.

    Heh. Looking at that site is giving me ideas.

  64. 64.

    Jason Bylinowski

    @Yutsano: I’ve never before heard of this “fund raising account” of which you speak. Many thanks to you, gentle scholar. This is a reminder to me that although I’m supposedly fully adult, I still have a shit-ton to learn. Anyway, I was just proud of myself for calling the reporter who did that story, it was just a shot in the dark and I felt like “doing unto others yada yada”, to quote the phrase exactly. I also know one of the editors for our local paper, and she is getting me some info on their Xmas gifts program, so I have every reason to suspect that things will be alright for them. It’s also good that they have some time to recover.

    I don’t even really know them that well, though. Our kids play together but they work nights and I’m more of a nine-to-five type, so we never really talked before this. Interesting people, if a little unprepared – I mean, we have a thirty thousand dollar renter’s policy for just this sort of disaster. But again, I’m not so adult that I would neccesarily know about that (here in Antiabortion Jesus City, we’re supposed to just grin and bear all hardship) I just happen to have a good insurance agent who let me know, and i figured it would be prudent.

    Anyway, that’s good, I’ll look into that idea. Now I wish I already had it set up before the news people got here, but that’s what Facebook is for, I guess. (I think, I don’t even have an account there.)

  65. 65.

    Little Macayla's Friend

    @Jason Bylinowski:
    One advantage of a bank/credit union (here in the atheist PNW) handling the donations is to reassure donors that the appeal is legit.
    But if you have an in with an editor for your local paper that could be great leverage – kids front and center in the story, of course.
    It shouldn’t be more significant, but fire truck and ambulance sirens feel worse to me around a holiday.

  72. 72.

    Cat Lady

    It’s hard to argue with this:

    So I believe that history will side with me when it comes to evaluating the tenure of former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, one of the worst cabinet officials in American history. I believe that the overzealousness of death penalty proponents will ironically lead to a dramatic reduction in the use of capital punishment in America. I believe that John Yoo and the other authors of the “torture memos” set back for decades the global perception of American law. And I believe that the crooks and cronies of the Clinton Administration were penne-ante operators compared with their successors. Don’t believe me? Let’s you and I compare notes in 30 years.

  77. 77.

    Yutsano

    @Jason Bylinowski: Another note regarding the account: since we seem to have a few folks (including myself) willing to pitch in, a national bank over a local one might be better suited for the donations. We’re scattered all over the world, but if John’s appeal is any testament to our fundraising prowess, we could get them close to whole pretty quickly. A national bank usually can handle deposits opened in another branch easier. Not that I want to give the ass rapers any more business, but sometimes you gotta swallow the poison pill.

  78. 78.

    Platonicspoof

    @SGEW:

    Palin: Obama Birth Certificate “a Fair Question”.

    Sarah the Persecuted’s Spicy Moosey Soup:

    1) One Pile Bull Moose Sh_t
    2) Combine with One Million Bigot Brains
    3) Whip to a foamy froth, throw at wall
    4) Wait until sets with gluey consistency
    5) Walk back
    6) Profit!

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