Thank you, Bad Horse’s Filly:
A little bit of comfort food (at least Ravioli is in my house) for what has been a very cold and busy week. I make fresh pasta for special occasions – my spinach lasagna being one of them. I have only made fresh ravioli once, and once was enough. Much like making my own steamed dumplings, effort vs. reward is definitely unbalanced. Especially when with a little bit of experimentation, you can find really good fresh or frozen ravioli at a reasonable price.
On the board tonight:
1) Ravioli w/ Rosemary Basil Cream Sauce
2) Tomato-Zucchini Confetti
3) Tossed Salad
4) Sorbet or Gelato
Click on the highlight for recipes and shopping list.
Just Some Fuckhead
Does anyone really eat this late on Thursday night?
JK
OT
Obama’s Big Sellout by Matt Taibbi
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/31234647/obamas_big_sellout
clone12
Deep thoughts- Republicans will accept global warming as soon as they figure out how to blame teh gays for it.
MikeJ
@Just Some Fuckhead: 7pm? I haven’t eaten yet, but I was gonna order from Garlic Jim’s in about an hour.
James K. Polk, Esq.
That Glee finale was fantastic, better than I hoped it would be.
Seebach
@clone12: We’ll all be dead by peak oil before global warming is a problem. I say don’t worry about it.
Betsy
I had a shitty couple of days, so I am self-medicating with chocolate chip cookie dough that I made. Hopefully my nice organic eggs didn’t come with a free side of salmonella.
RedKitten
@James K. Polk, Esq.: Wasn’t it, though? I missed many of the early episodes, but my best friend Jen called me and basically ordered me to start watching the show. In our 10 years of friendship, I have never known her to be wrong about anything, so decided to give it a try. It’s definitely a fun show — and there is some serious talent on there.
Heh.
Betsy
@RedKitten:
Responding to a comment you made (I think it was you, anyway!) last week that I didn’t see in time –
Browned butter does, indeed, make everything better.
James K. Polk, Esq.
@RedKitten: I can’t believe Jane Lynch (Sue Sylvester) hasn’t had more roles. She was great in 40 Year Old Virgin, too.
Thank you, yet again, Terry Gross.
Annie
Thanks. Will try the sauce on pasta this weekend. Not leaving the house, so I will make on Saturday and eat all day.
cleek
1lb pork loin, cubed (aka 4 boneless pork chops)
1/4 cup onion, chopped
1/2 cup Herdez salsa verde. you can use other brands, but Herdez is perfect for this
1/2 cup water
brown the pork. add the onion, saute until soft. add salsa and water, simmer for 30 mins.
dead-simple chile verde!
Cat Lady
@Betsy:
Cat Gentleman, chef extraordinaire, makes a Brown Butter Cake that gives me a hApPy. Mmmm…butter. I’d share the recipe, but it’s mostly in the way the batter, and the butter, looks and smells.
Fern
@cleek: Now this is my idea of cooking.
James K Polk, Esq.
@cleek: If’n you like, that is a perfect slow-cooker recipe. Throw that stuff in, turn it on, and go to work. Impress your friends!
Betsy
@Cat Lady:
Yum. :) I have recently discovered using it in cookies, thanks to America’s Test Kitchen, and it is sublime.
RedKitten
@Betsy: Yep. We had a cake auction for a fundraiser, and I just took a plain yellow cake mix, substituted brown butter for the oil, threw in a couple of handfuls of Skor bits into the batter, iced it up all fancy, and the damn thing sold for $140!
asiangrrlMN
@Betsy: Sorry to hear it, Betsy. I can sympathize. And, cookie dough (especially with chocolate) makes everything better. I hope that life is better for you very soon.
@Just Some Fuckhead: I do, JSF. I eat whenever. Then again, I don’t cook, so this recipe, while delicious-looking, will not do me much good.
burnspbesq
Season 4 of Friday Night Lights is the best yet. By a lot. This week’s episode just killed.
Betsy
@RedKitten:
Holy jeez! That’s better than lead-into-gold!! Congrats. :)
@asiangrrlMN:
Thanks. I really appreciate it. I have no idea where things are going, honestly. I hope they resolve themselves soon, but I don’t expect them too. Just to move out of crisis-mode and back into limbo-mode. At least for a few months. (Not to be too cryptic. It basically involves me and my partner figuring out WTF we’re doing with our lives and how we will be paying rent. You know, no biggie.)
p.s. I’m headed to bed now, but I’ll check back in the AM. I hope you have a good night and enjoy your frigid temps. :)
asiangrrlMN
@Betsy: Aw, Betsy. I think I know what you are trying to say. I’m sending strong vibes that things will work out for you and your partner. Sleep well. I am loving the cold and the snow.
Yutsano
Sorry, but gonna show a little anal retentiveness here. Basil is not a spice, it is an herb. Spices come from seeds and roots, herbs are from the leaves. The sauce looks amazing despite that however, might have to try.
@asiangrrlMN: My wifey haz a happy, it’s about durn time! Can I take this as a sign you’re feeling better?
Thoughtcrime
Can anyone explain why Obama is constantly playing King Solomon and butchering every baby that is brought before him out of fear of what Conservatives will say about him? The latest instance is his rude snub of the Peace Prize social event invitations. Granted, Norway is one of those dirty rotten “SOC1ALIST” countries that Obama is deathly afraid of being seen palling around with. And maybe I’m letting my Norwegian heritage cloud my judgement on this matter, but, What The Fuck?: http://www.americablog.com/2009/12/bit-more-about-obama-turning-down-lunch.html
“Obama has also turned down a lunch invitation from the King of Norway.
According to a poll published by the daily tabloid VG, 44% of Norwegians believe it was rude of Obama to cancel his scheduled lunch with King Harald, with only 34% saying they believe it was acceptable.
Especially since King Harald LIVED in the White House during WW II when he was a kid as guests of his god father – FDR.
I’m all for ignoring royalty, but King Harald is a somewhat different case. He still speaks English with a pronounced Tidewater accent, and calls people ‘hon’. He crawled out of his sick bed to accompany his father to President Kennedy’s funeral. Like his father before him, he has never invited a Republican President to the royal palace because they hate Republicans.
Does anybody in this fool administration know anything about anything?”
Nice to know he also gave a “Sarah Palin approved” acceptance speech for the NPP, which essentially was all about justification for “just wars”.
Change we can believe in, indeed.
Yutsano
@Thoughtcrime: I smell a PUMA. Bitching without offering an alternative is background noise.
FlipYrWhig
Fuck Aravosis. I come to Balloon Juice to stay as far away as possible from that dipshit.
Sentient Puddle
So I got a friend who’s in China teaching ESL to grade schoolers. Upon hearing about the relevant story, he got his class to yell “GREEN BALLOONS” on camera. Yup, they’re going to be scarred for life.
I also have another friend who totally hates Keyboard Cat and wants to one-up it. End result:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RaMsOUGgPg
FlipYrWhig
I mean, I’m a longstanding misanthrope, but I really truly personally despise that fucker, and I want bad things to happen to him.
Yutsano
I sooo want a YouTube of that.
Sentient Puddle
@Yutsano: Here’s the original version.
Yutsano
@Sentient Puddle: TEH. AWSUM.
Thoughtcrime
@FlipYrWhig:
I’m not a stinking PUMA, nor am I an avid reader of Aravosis, who I find to be way too shrill on too many issues.
I voted and phonebanked for Obama. And I know that he’s faced with a shitload of challenges facing the country and for him personally because he’s a Black, Muslim-named Democratic President having to clean up the mess left by his Republican predecessors. He’s also not getting much help from the establishment Dems. But enough of reaching across the aisle to those who will stab you in the back regardless of what you do. If you’re going to take your knocks, at least take them while doing the right thing. And caving to the opinion of Republicans or the media isn’t what I consider the right thing on any issue these days. They don’t deserve the least bit of respect or deference from him. If Obama keeps this up, the Republicans and the media will keep playing him this way, and his term will be a complete waste. He should ignore these assholes and work on the obstructionists on the Democratic side.
And, I’m sorry, but while I know Obama isn’t the second coming of FDR, he could at least show some courtesy to FDR’s godson.
FlipYrWhig
@Thoughtcrime:
Anything that comes near my cognitive processes by way of Aravosis’s involvement I have learned not to trust.
Here’s the thing. I know I’m not an expert on very many things. What’s killing me about the liberal blogosphere is that it’s getting _overrun_ by people who are _sure_ that they are experts on _very, very many things_. Woulda done this, coulda done that. They’d punish Lieberman, they’d bring home the soldiers from Afghanistan, they’d tell the “banksters” to fuck off and die. All very satisfying. All leading to massive disasters the next morning. Then what?
Clearly it’s damn hard to fix a truly fucked-up health care system or it would have been done by now. I don’t see why everyone is so gleeful about wanting to throw shit around so that they can attempt to prove that they’re the smartest, toughest, and somehow at the same time the saddest and most emo people in the virtual room. Enough already. Their disappointment doesn’t do shit for me, for us, or for the country.
Yutsano
@Thoughtcrime:
Bully for you. And somewhere along your voyage of self-awareness you come up with…
Just out of curiosity, who the fuck did you think you were voting for? Did you not get that community organizers listen to every voice at the table no matter how insane or inane? Did it not occur to you that just MAYBE Obama would have his administration like that?
And what, pray tell, makes you think he is not doing exactly that? Because you don’t have your magic unicorn now? Do you have the first FUCKING clue how our government works? We are from our very design incrementalist. Bush only got around a lot of that because he was a proponent of the unitary executive and had a pliant Congress willing to go along with him. Nothing in what I’m saying excuses the Democrats for how they’ve been acting on a lot of issues, but Buddha on a bicycle get a clue about how change happens in this country before you write off Obama as a failure barely one year in. Sheesh.
2th&nayle
One of the many things I enjoy about BJ is the give and take exchange of ideas and opinion. But when I read this kind pissing match between progressives and radicals on the left, I’m left with the image of some wingnut in a basement somewhere reading this thread and popping wood and laughing up his sleeve, as visions of a GOP return to power in 2012 dance in his head.
2th&nayle
On a lighter note, I picked up a small rotisserie chicken and brought it home and de-boned it and made a casserole with frozen stir-fry vegetables, CofC soup, and sour cream. Used black pepper laced potato chips and cheddar for the topping. Took about an hour and a half from start to finish and it came out great. Ate also half of it by myself. Left-over casserole is one of my favorites right behind left-over meat loaf.
Elizabelle
Annie Laurie: would you share that spinach lasagna recipe?
It’s one of my favorites, and I’ve misplaced the one good recipe I found.
Thanking you in advance. (And good morning, all.)
DZ
Well, at least this recipe did not include bouillon cubes.
Randy P
@Just Some Fuckhead:
Didn’t check into this site last night, but as a matter of fact yes, at about 10 pm last night, I was throwing together a dinner for myself, having decided that I was going to cook instead of having yet another restaurant meal.
tenkindsagrumpy
while it maybe correct on one level that it’s not worth the effort to make your own ravioli, for me making ravioli, which we do frequently, is a great way for my wife and I to bond doing something we both enjoy together. And the filling possibilities are endless. Yum.
Yutsano
@Randy P: And FWIW I ate lasagna around 11ish last night. My sister in law works late so we usually hold the final meal for her.