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Open Thread: Thursday Night Friday Afternoon Menu

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Sorry, I got busy Thursday evening and blanked out. My apologies, Bad Horse’s Filly!:

I don’t know about you, but my plan for the weekend is to be outdoors as much as possible and to cook as little as possible. With that in mind, tonight’s menu can be made ahead of time and served at the end of a busy day. The salad is sort of a Greek take on a macaroni salad and the apples add a nice flavor to a favorite cookie. What are your plans for the weekend? Anything adventurous?
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On the board tonight:
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1. Tangy Pasta Salad
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2. Artisan Bread
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3. Oatmeal-Apple Cookies

As ever, recipes and shopping list at the link.

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  5. 5.

    Tiparillo

    I don’t know about you, but my plan for the weekend is to be outdoors as much as possible and to cook as little as possible

    Yeah, but I live in the Pacific Northwest, where we haven’t seen the sun in what seems like a couple of months and continue to get rain dumped on us. Even native Oregonians are crying “Uncle.”

  8. 8.

    Punchy

    Going to company-sponsored KC Royals game tomorrow nite, which puts me in a quandry. Do I imbibe, per usual, to further enjoy the event and the surroundings (and the likelihood the game will suck), but risk giving the wrong percep amongst co-workers? Or stay dry, hate the whole outing, game, and heat, but likely avoid telling my cube-mate that’s she’s damn tall for a broad?

  9. 9.

    Maude

    @Svensker:
    Sunday will be 75 and cloudy. Get out your sweater.
    This is yek and it’s too early. Mid eighties tomorrow. Don’t know if there will be the T storms. Makes me want to do nothing.

  10. 10.

    Brien Jackson

    @Face:

    The worst part is, the worst one is one of my assistants, who’s also on the league’s board of directors. His kid started the year holding his hands against his shoulder, which made it impossible for him to extend his arms when he swung, although he did make some contact by basically sticking the bat out. I worked on his hands and taking better cuts, and he is making less contact as he gets used to swinging correctly, but when he hits the ball he’s hitting it much harder (which is to say, the ball is going frther than 5 feet from the plate). But his dad thinks I’ve ruined him, and that he was a better hitter the first practice.

    Would it be wrong to write a letter to the editor after the season trashing this league? It’s unbelievably cliquey at the top, and the structure of it is just terrible. My kid was playing t-ball last year where they didn’t even call you out on base, now this year he’s hitting from a machine and they’re calling strike outs. It’s absurd.

  12. 12.

    JohnR

    @Tiparillo:

    Over here it’s 90s with humidity as close to saturated as possible (your August weather today! now with extra thunderstormy goodness!). With our air conditioning on strike for whatever air conditioning wants more of (higher settings? more refrigerant? less compression?), I plan to find any patch of shade I can and lie there with my face in a punch-bowl filled with beer until I pass out. Or I may go in to work all weekend and let the family fend for themselves. I was nice last night and took everyone out to the movies – $73 for four of us, and that’s with only 3 drinks and the popcorn! That’s it – I’m officially joining my wife now in every anti-Republican demonstration she cares to be part of. That’s just too much; take away the circuses (and I already can’t afford the bread) and things get ugly. Too bad everybody else is only too happy to blame Obama – if Jeffrey Dahmer had the GOP PR machine behind him, he’d be eating kids to this day, and collecting defamation damages from their survivors.

  13. 13.

    Lowkey

    Gleeee!

    Tomorrow will be epic. My friends and I have VIP tix to the Beer, Bourbon & BBQ festival. It is a gleefully gluttonous and delightfully debauched event. We are then all cabbing back to my place, to finish drinking poolside, and grill up some din-din. I have ribeyes from my neighborhood artisan butcher’s, to go with corn on the cob and baby spinach and chevre salad. I need wine. Someone tell me something perfect I haven’t tried before. Go easy on the price… I’ll need 6 bottles.

    (The world’s going to hell. Spoil yourselves while you can.)

  15. 15.

    Xenos

    Youth soccer has turned out to be pretty free of that sort of obsessiveness. Maybe it is because we live in a university town, and half the parents have Ph.Ds and look genuinely surprised if any of their kids show athletic talent. Some of the competition, though… seem awfully wound up about 8 year olds kicking a ball around.

  16. 16.

    Face

    My kid was playing t-ball last year where they didn’t even call you out on base,

    Huh? No outs at all? That’s not even baseball!

    True story — while in LL, I went thru a moderate hitting slump, which was normal b/c I batted lefty and (for some reason) pitchers had a really hard time pitching to me, so I just got tired of walking and swung at anything. My dad was frustrated that I batted lefty (since I wrote righty), so he demanded I bat “the right way”. Sure enough, as awkward as it was, batting righthanded I managed to somehow wildly swing the bat and get 2 hits in the game. Luckily for me, my coach was awesome and knew better than to force me to change, and my dad respected the coach enough to shut his trap, even tho he felt vindicated.

    Nowadays, however, the dad would have likely forced the coach to make his son bat “correctly”.

  17. 17.

    Max

    @Tiparillo: Vancouver, WA here! I’m not sure I would recognize the sun at this point.

    I actually had to wear my down Northface jacket the other night.

    I hear rumors of a touch of sun on Saturday. Fingers crossed.

  18. 18.

    Brien Jackson

    @Xenos:

    When I was a kid, and when I helped coach my brothers teams, there was an awful lot of very competitive behavior in that program (I’m in a whole other state now). This is just petty bullshit where you have about 5-7 people in charge who are friends, and I got stuck in a situation where I’m ostenisbly the head coach and 2 of them are my assistants.

    The most galling thing is that one of them is saying I haven’t done a good enough job with our worst players (which isn’t really true, he’s just got unrealistic expectations, but I digress) when literally all they’ve done since te 2nd week of practice is organize the post-season traveling team they’re coaching.

  19. 19.

    Chat Noir

    @mr. whipple:

    pierógi

    Yum! I’ve never been able to find pierógi as good as my Polish grandma’s. She’d make them every Christmas Eve which was our traditional Polish vigilia (wigila? not sure of the spelling). Her cooking was out-of-this-world excellent.

  24. 24.

    Brien Jackson

    @Face:

    The no outs thing wasn’t all that terrible, because with 4-6 year olds, outs were so rare that when you did hit to the first baseman and they got you out, having to go sit back down was almost legitimately traumatic for the kids. But like I tried to explain to our idiotic league President, if you do that you can’t take them out of that and put them right into striking out on three swings; they’re not ready for that, and it doesn’t afford enough of an oppurtunity to instruct them. Plus they start thinking about striking out, especially the kids who can’t hit. But whatever, the thing is run by a group of people who think they’re baseball experts and unaffiliated with Little League because they didn’t want LL telling them how to do things. Guess I should have expected that. But I can’t believe one of them thinks it’s better to teach a kid poor mechanic so that he can hit the ball 3 feet than it is to teach him a proper swing, even if he struggles a bit while he’s adjusting to it.

  25. 25.

    peach flavored shampoo

    I suggest everyone call up their 401K, tell them how much you love it, and give it a big hug, because you may not have one come Monday at this rate.

    Market’s self-immolating.

  27. 27.

    peach flavored shampoo

    But I can’t believe one of them thinks it’s better to teach a kid poor mechanic so that he can hit the ball 3 feet than it is to teach him a proper swing, even if he struggles a bit while he’s adjusting to it.

    I always thought kids just took care of this themselves. The one who couldn’t hit (or kick a soccer ball) would get teased until he/she realized they’d better get their shit together. Peer pressure is a motherf#cker.

  30. 30.

    licensed to kill time

    @jrg:
    Boner wants apology for Sir Paul dissin’ Bush.

    Paul says:
    let it be, let it be, let it be ee ee let it be
    there won’t be no answer
    let it be

  31. 31.

    Chat Noir

    @jrg: I’ve loved Paul since 1980 when I first started listening to the Beatles. I read his comment yesterday and LOLed.

    Scary to think of Boehner as Speaker of the House. He’s marginally brighter than Eric Cantor, who has to be one of the dimmest bulbs in Congress.

  32. 32.

    PeakVT

    Anne Laurie – In case you missed it, I posted a potential fix to your bookmarks problem in the site issues thread.

    @peach flavored shampoo: It’s a big one-day drop, but the stock markets are still up 60% or so from the bottom.

  33. 33.

    twiffer

    outside and not too much cooking = smoking ribs for 4-5 hours. seems like a lot of cooking, but other than occassionally tossing in some more charcoal or hickory, really not much to do. plus, you wind up with ribs for dinner.

    mmm…ribs.

  34. 34.

    Calouste

    @Tiparillo:

    I commented today that the recent weather here in the PNW is about the same as when I went to Vancouver for the Winter Olympics.

    Actually, I think Vancouver had more sun and less rain.

  35. 35.

    Xenos

    @peach flavored shampoo: As far as I can tell a fair price for these stocks is somewhere in the Dow at 6500. It is not like I have mountains of cash, but I am not going back into stocks until they have been properly beaten up by reality.

  39. 39.

    Violet

    OT – Does anyone know if the online clips of The Daily Show and the Colbert Report work overseas? Someone I know is traveling to Europe and also to Asia (Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand) for work and wanted to watch some or all of them while gone. We weren’t sure if international IP addresses were allowed to view them.

    Anyone know?

  40. 40.

    twiffer

    @Xenos: i’ve got a char-broil barrel grill with a smoker box on the side. works rather well for me, and versitile as i can use it for regular grilling too.

  41. 41.

    Cheryl from Maryland

    Cherries are here — so poached chicken salad with cherries and almonds over romaine lettuce.

    Tomorrow is my spouse’s bday, so he is getting Chef Paul Prudhomme’s seafood crepes from me with a german chocolate cake from his mother.

  42. 42.

    elmo

    No cooking for me this weekend — we’re expanding our rescue operation to include equines. Mule coming Saturday, which means all hands on deck shoring up the fencing. I’ll be lucky if I feel like eating at all — it’s going to be ugly hot and humid for outside work.

  47. 47.

    maus

    @Calouste:

    I commented today that the recent weather here in the PNW is about the same as when I went to Vancouver for the Winter Olympics. Actually, I think Vancouver had more sun and less rain.

    The winter weather in the PNW seemed drier, sunnier, and of a much more pleasing temperature.

    I mean, the sun is technically up here for a much longer time, but it’s so hazy and cloud-ridden that it might as well not bother.

  48. 48.

    Yutsano

    @maus: I live east of the mountains in supposedly that part of the northernmost desert that runs all the way down to Arizona. It is June 3, and supposed to rain all weekend. I went to high school on the west side so I don’t mind it, but by now we should be dry and dusty and close to 100. A lot of folks here are getting very cranky.

    @Max: There you is! I was wondering the other day how things were settling in for you. I am ecstatic that you found a great guy, and as far as the jealousy thing, dogs get used to the idea of being the center of attention. When that changes, things can get ugly. But he’ll come around.

  49. 49.

    debit

    Mmmmm, salad sounds really good. I’m going to pick up some Rosemary Olive Oil sourdough this weekend and have the world’s best sandwich. Poach some chicken breasts, cool, roughly chop, mince some fresh Rosemary, dice up a couple tart apples, mix with some mayo, put between sliced sourdough and hope your mouth opens wide enough to bite. You could also put it on a bed of greens, but the sandwich is the best.

  50. 50.

    Yutsano

    @debit: Suggestion instead of poaching: get the breasts with bone and skin on, rub them with the rosemary olive oil and even slip a sprig under the skin. Roast at 350 degrees for 35-40 minutes or until chicken is thoroughly cooked. Allow to cool slightly (chicken is easier to bone when still warm) then chop or slice as you wish. Gives much better flavor than poaching and is just as easy to do.

    (h/t Ina Garten. Hey she worked for Carter she can’t be all bad!)

  51. 51.

    Katie

    I’m thinking I don’t have to cook. I’m going to one of your houses.

    We’re having a prime rib I’m planning on sticking in the smoker and then finishing on the grill one day and fresh Copper River salmon the other weekend day. I have no clue what we’re having with any of this.

    I’m lazy.

  52. 52.

    Yutsano

    @Katie: I made Italian-style stuffed pork chops and risotto for dinner. I can share with you the easiest risotto recipe in existence if you would like. It takes about twice as long as the traditional method, but produces the same results and you don’t have to stand there babysitting it.

  53. 53.

    Steeplejack

    @Punchy:

    Have fun at the game. Imbibe 60-70 percent of normal (but stretch it over a longer period and combine with food to mask consumption). Tell cube-mate she is damn statuesque. Leave out the “for a woman” part. See how it goes.

    Oh, and don’t get hit in the face by a foul ball. That’s not cool.

  54. 54.

    debit

    @Yutsano: Oh, nice tip, thank you! For this recipe I generally poach during the summer rather than use the oven, but I may make an exception this time.

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