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Open Thread: Thursday Night Menu

by Anne Laurie|  August 20, 201012:52 am| 30 Comments

This post is in: Cooking, Garden Chats, Open Threads

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Courtesy of TaMara (ex BHF):

One thing about peach week is that I’m about over recipe testing anything sweet. So tonight’s menu features some tangy chicken. Like Garlic, Garlic Chicken, this one could be called Lemon, Lemon Chicken, for it’s an intense lemon chicken.
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There is an interesting thing going on here in Colorado, I don’t know if anyone else is experiencing it, but our vegetable crops are very late this year. I spent some time at a couple of farm stands this past week. All were surprisingly sparse in produce. I talked with the owners and it seems this year everything is late to harvest. I thought it was just me. Most summers, by now, I’m up to my armpits in tomatoes. This year, while my plants are full, the tomatoes are still green and not yet full-sized. No one really had a good explanation. The summer as been fairly typical, maybe a few more afternoon showers, but normal temps.
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Even the patty pan squash I use in tonight’s menu was scarce and selection limited. Just a bit of a mystery here in the shadow of the Rocky Mountains.
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On the board tonight:
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1. Zesty Lemon Chicken
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2. Patty Pan Squash
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3. Fresh Bread
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4. Mixed Berries and Whipped Cream

Recipes and shopping list at the link.

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From Anne Laurie: Here in New England, all the greenery has been running a good two weeks or more ahead of the normal schedule — but there’s been some real oddities in the distribution curve. We had an early, very wet, warm spring followed by almost no rain for the last two months. Plants that flourished in April have suffered through July & August, but that wouldn’t explain why my hand-watered, planter-grown full-sized tomatoes started setting fruit and ripening a good two weeks earlier than the cherry tomatoes when usually it’s the other way around…

Also, would anyone have any ideas as to why our morning glories won’t flower? This year’s transplants have grown explosively and leafed out lushly, but we haven’t gotten so much as one single flower all summer! We bought them from the same local nursery as in past years, planted them in approximately the same spots, and I’ve been watering them consistently. It’s driving me nuts that they look so healthy & productive and yet stubbornly refuse to blossom!

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  1. 1.

    Cat Lady

    August 20, 2010 at 12:58 am

    Here in New England everything is heat stressed. I can’t recall seeing it this bad, and watching the weather maps hoping that it rains. My morning glories only started blooming, scarcely, within the last 2 weeks – way behind schedule. If the winter is dry and cold, lots of plants and trees aren’t going to make it.

  2. 2.

    Omnes Omnibus

    August 20, 2010 at 1:00 am

    Looks good, but not Spanish.

  3. 3.

    Yutsano

    August 20, 2010 at 1:06 am

    It’s one step up from pollo frito, which is essentially Italian fried chicken. One point of caution: I wouldn’t soak the chicken in the lemon juice more than eight hours. If it sits too long it will “cook” similar to a ceviche style, but it will be basically inedible because it will be too tough. Otherwise NOM NOM NOM!!

    Oh and my parents garden is also very late, but they finally are getting some maters. My step-grandmother brought over a ton of them, so they’re not lacking in any capacity for them.

    Oh and my apologies BHF: the move and ancillary details surrounding that are basically keeping me out of the kitchen right now, so I didn’t get that peach recipe I wanted to come up for you.

  4. 4.

    DougJ

    August 20, 2010 at 1:27 am

    I don’t know if anyone else is experiencing it, but our vegetable crops are very late this year.

    FYI, it’s because Al Gore is fat.

  5. 5.

    Maddie

    August 20, 2010 at 1:44 am

    Here in Northern California, we really didn’t have a summer. And, looking at the dead leaves on the ground, fall is already on its way.

    This is the coldest summer I can remember.

    Strange days.

  6. 6.

    MikeJ

    August 20, 2010 at 2:01 am

    You know how every city has a touristy resturant where you have to go once to see the place but the food isn’t very good? I took my mom there in Seattle tonight, but I wish to clarify, the spinning restaurant atop the Space Needle is actually worth eating at. I had dungeness crab cakes on a bed of apple and onion slaw and seared tuna. Soooo good.

    Before I went to Zig-Zag and had an Alaska cocktail (like a martini, but with orange bitters instead of the standard kind and a splash of chartreuse). Had Chateau Ste. Michelle Horse Heaven hills sauv blanc with dinner. Home now, just pressed a pot o’ coffee.

  7. 7.

    Yutsano

    August 20, 2010 at 2:07 am

    @MikeJ: You have revealed too much. We shall have to take measures now to ensure such leaks do not occur in the future. Nothing personal of course.

  8. 8.

    Joey Maloney

    August 20, 2010 at 2:23 am

    My latest triumph of “oops, this stuff has to get used tonight!” is candied ginger vegetable curry.

  9. 9.

    El Cid

    August 20, 2010 at 2:27 am

    You see, you might think that Fox News having almost no coverage of the withdrawal of US combat forces from Iraq would be seen as curious, questionable, quite negative.

    NEW YORK – Nowhere was the difference between the cable news networks on starker display than in prime-time coverage on the night the last American combat brigade left Iraq following a war that started seven years and five months ago.
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    MSNBC devoted its entire prime-time footprint to the story, with Richard Engel riding with the troops in a specially equipped vehicle and host Rachel Maddow based in Baghdad. Keith Olbermann anchored the coverage from a New York studio.
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    Fox News Channel devoted just under 10 minutes to the story, much of it during Shepard Smith’s 7 p.m. newscast. The network spent 45 minutes discussing the potential construction of an Islamic cultural center near ground zero, while that story wasn’t mentioned on MSNBC at all. CNN, meanwhile, spent an hour on each story.

    Not quite. Apparently the main inquiry should be on why MSNBC covered the movement of US troops out of Iraq too much.

    The Iraq story was important, one that had been given short shrift in the media in recent years, said Tim Graham, director of media analysis for the conservative Media Research Center. But with MSNBC’s left-of-center opinion lineup, politics has to be considered part of the equation, he said.
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    “I would certainly think politics are involved in their ‘flooding the zone’ to suggest that ‘Lookie here, the Obama people doing what they said they were going to do,'” he said.

    You see, these days, commie Democrat librul TV news networks now show how much they hate America by accompanying US troops in a small, tiny echo of the gigantic extent of direct onsite coverage of the US troops going in.

    Flooding Mesopotamia with cameras and anchors is fantastically patriotic as a right wing President sends forces to invade a country, and subtly divisive when a Democratic President begins withdrawing combat forces.

    Fuck. This is ripe.

    Shit, you had a ton more in person coverage of the fucking “SURGE”.

  10. 10.

    suzanne

    August 20, 2010 at 2:33 am

    This pregnancy is absolutely handing me my ass. I have no idea how I’m going to make it until December.

    I want a martini.

  11. 11.

    Mike Kay

    August 20, 2010 at 2:39 am

    GOP are genetically stoopid.

    As a Red Sox fan I spent part the day reading reaction to the indictment of former Sox legend Roger Clemens.

    A number of posters think the indictment is Democratic conspiracy. Ugh.

    I actually spent time reminding people of all the people indicted for perjury during Bush’s term (Barry Bonds, Marion Jones, Little Kim, Martha Stewart, BALCO, etc.), and how Bush was president in 2008 when his justice department began the Clemons probe.

    What is it about the right wing mind that sees black helicopters in their rear view mirrors?

  12. 12.

    Dead Ernest

    August 20, 2010 at 2:47 am

    Anne;

    but that wouldn’t explain why my hand-watered, planter-grown full-sized tomatoes started setting fruit and ripening a good two weeks earlier than the cherry tomatoes when usually it’s the other way around…

    Too much Tomestrogen in the water?

    The Morning Glories won’t flower? – worrisome. A sign? Happily waiting for a long Indian Summer… Sadly, end of days, or stamens? Too much antidepressant in the water?

  13. 13.

    eco2geek

    August 20, 2010 at 2:53 am

    @MikeJ: The last time I was at the Space Needle’s restaurant, I can’t remember what I ate, but it was a gorgeous sunny summer day and there was a floatplane to watch practicing takeoffs and landings on Lake Washington.

    (Not that there are many sunny days in Seattle, mind you. 99% of the time, it’s cold, gray, and rainy. Just in case you were, you know, thinking of moving there or something. Wouldn’t want you to be disappointed.)

  14. 14.

    Yutsano

    August 20, 2010 at 2:57 am

    @eco2geek: I’ve only eaten there once. I had a fantastic salmon chowder that I can still recall the taste of to this day it was that phenomenal. I’m hoping I get to replicate the experience again soon.

    (Not that there are many sunny days in Seattle, mind you. 99% of the time, it’s cold, gray, and rainy. Just in case you were, you know, thinking of moving there or something. Wouldn’t want you to be disappointed.)

    And I haz to drive there tomorrow. I haz a sad. ;)

  15. 15.

    Mike Kay

    August 20, 2010 at 3:01 am

    @El Cid: give’m a break,

    it’s not like landing on a banner laded aircraft carrier in a flight suit in prime time.

    At least there were some really nice photos in my morning paper.

    http://webmedia.newseum.org/newseum-multimedia/dfp/jpg19/lg/TX_HC.jpg

  16. 16.

    MikeJ

    August 20, 2010 at 3:02 am

    @eco2geek: I’m already well aware of what a hideous hell hole we live in.

  17. 17.

    asdf

    August 20, 2010 at 3:03 am

    Thank you MikeJ for the review. I made a note of your sauv blanc recommendation, will give it a try. Looking for a good one.

  18. 18.

    Something Fabulous

    August 20, 2010 at 3:15 am

    @Mike Kay: OMG! Mike Kay=Matoko_Chan!? I always *thought* that “I’m just a young chick” voice was an act! [removes tin foil hat, stores away lovingly til next thunderstorm]
    (Edited for increased emphasis on conspiracy)

  19. 19.

    Mike Kay

    August 20, 2010 at 3:35 am

    @Something Fabulous:

    Matoko Chan is actually cutie.

    http://www.flickriver.com/photos/jimoconnell/tags/japanese/

    scroll down to the middle.

  20. 20.

    eco2geek

    August 20, 2010 at 3:36 am

    @MikeJ: I wasn’t telling you, that was for the tourists.

    (One must observe omertà about this place.)

  21. 21.

    burnspbesq

    August 20, 2010 at 3:43 am

    @Mike Kay:

    A delicious detail: the Clemens case is assigned to Judge Walton. Yup, the same Judge Walton who presided over the Scooter Libby case.

  22. 22.

    Anne Laurie

    August 20, 2010 at 3:47 am

    @Something Fabulous: I think of our Matoko-Chan as Oguie from Genshiken 2. This gives me more patience; I was a lumpy version of Kasakabe at a Midwestern Moo U some thirty-five years ago, and most of my fellows there matured into quite reasonable people.

  23. 23.

    burnspbesq

    August 20, 2010 at 3:51 am

    The Economist cracks me up.

    So I download the new issue tonight, and one of the teasers on the cover is “A Republican to beat Obana.”

    Turn to the table of contents, and learn that the article in question is about Mitch Daniels.

  24. 24.

    asiangrrlMN

    August 20, 2010 at 3:53 am

    @Yutsano: I’ve eaten there once, too. It was horrible. Horrible I tell you! (There. Can you not kill me, please?).

  25. 25.

    YellowJournalism

    August 20, 2010 at 4:11 am

    @suzanne: Just wait until after December. You’ll be wanting more than a martini. Try a tranquilizer. I hear they help with depression, too!

  26. 26.

    Mike Kay

    August 20, 2010 at 4:17 am

    @burnspbesq: the country will never elect someone with hair plugs.

    Plus…… wait for it…… Daniels is of Arab descent.

    The party of hate will nominate a polygamist/cultist or an illiterate Showgirl before an Arab.

    ps Hillary ’08 is inevitable.

  27. 27.

    Mike Kay

    August 20, 2010 at 4:20 am

    @YellowJournalism: Tom Cruise recommends vitamins and exercise.

  28. 28.

    Mike Kay

    August 20, 2010 at 4:48 am

    @Something Fabulous: you’re right. I apologize. I just read a lefty populist blog spinning HCR conspiracy theories. I forgot how much neo huey long populists (as opposed to plain liberals) dislike Obama.

  29. 29.

    Svensker

    August 20, 2010 at 8:38 am

    Also, would anyone have any ideas as to why our morning glories won’t flower? This year’s transplants have grown explosively and leafed out lushly, but we haven’t gotten so much as one single flower all summer!

    That’s probably the problem, right there. Morning glories actually like a bit of stress to flower, if their leaves are lush they’re putting all their energy into leaves and not flowers. No fertilizer for them!

  30. 30.

    Svensker

    August 20, 2010 at 8:39 am

    @suzanne:

    Sorry to hear that. Wassa problem?

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