Courtesy of our Food Goddess, TaMara:
I hope all of you survived the monster winter storm that hit the east coast. As I write this, we are predicted to get about 12 inches of snow today. It’s coming down pretty heavily right now and I’m not looking forward to my drive home. I will set this up to post automatically, just in case. See how much I love you? (Edit: Home safe and sound, roads are ugly)
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Keeping it simple tonight. If your house is like mine, you’re still suffering holiday goodie hangovers, so no dessert tonight, just fresh fruit. Lots of fresh vegetables in this one, too. Trying to help you get ready for those New Year’s resolutions.
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On the board tonight:
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1. Sausage Pasta
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2. Italian Green Bean Salad
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3. Bread Sticks
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4. Sliced Pears
Recipes and shopping list at the link.
MTiffany
Food Goddess left out one critical element: cold and snow calls for soup! This Cream of Leek & Parsnip soup comes pretty darned close to grandma’s.
freelancer
This ridiculous Tennessee game is delaying the Holiday bowl. I want to see my Huskers but Holy Cow, what a game!
Triassic Sands
I just glanced at the front page of the NYTimes and was greeted with this:
Winklevoss Twins’ Facebook Fight Rages On
Until five minutes ago I had never heard of the Winklevoss twins. I wish I had a time machine; I’d go back and not glance at the Times’ front page.
Jeebus, after reading the article, these two have jumped to the top of my list of people I hope I never meet or hear about ever again. I don’t care at all about Facebook (it interests me not at all). I don’t care how much it’s worth or how much Mark Zuckerberg is worth or whether or not he’s an ass or stole the idea for Facebook from the twins. But reading the article it’s difficult (for me, anyway) not to conclude that these guys are world-class creeps.
Short version: they sued Zuckerberg and settled for $20 million + $45 million in Facebook stock. Now, they want to repeal the deal to get more. Plus:
They lost and owe the lawyers $13 million. That would leave them with a mere $52 million to split between them. (It’s pretty easy to figure out what they think about the taxes they’ll have to pay on that sum.)
Whaddya want to bet they end up in court suing each other? Either that or one will kill the other in a dispute over who gets the last Pop Tart.
(Note: if there’s anything in the article that makes them more sympathetic, I didn’t read it — I couldn’t read any more after the bit about the lawyers.)
MizB
Also in Colorado. Work from home-made turkey soup today. Gotta love being able to cook & work at the same time. Perfect soup weather.
Boyle DePoole
I say we get the Winkevoss twins outfitted with a couple of shovels and get them to Queens now.
Anne, where is TaMara at that she’s expecting 12 inches tonight?
freelancer
@Triassic Sands:
Let’s have a toast for the douchebags,
Let’s have a toast for the assholes,
Let’s have a toast for the scumbags,
Every one of them that I know
Let’s have a toast for the jerkoffs
That’ll never take work off
Baby, I got a plan
Run away fast as you can
SiubhanDuinne
@TaMara: Glad you made it home safely. Happy New Year, and thanks for all the recipes! (Why does that sound like Douglas Adams?)
Mnemosyne
Sausage Pasta is one of my fallbacks, but I usually make it with a tri-pepper blend and onions.
I’m going to try and make this Chicago-Style Pizza for New Year’s dinner tomorrow night. G has to work — as usual — so it’s too much of a pain to go anywhere. We generally end up at home watching a New Year’s movie like The Apartment or CQ.
MTiffany
@Triassic Sands: Winklevoss twins? Didn’t you see the movie? They’re the ‘Winklevi.’
MTiffany
@SiubhanDuinne: Cadence and foot, methinks.
SiubhanDuinne
@MTiffany #8: Yes, and some of the same words in the same sequence.
Triassic Sands
@freelancer:
You’ll have to toast without me; I’m on life support. Too much assholery for my delicate system.
@MTiffany:
No, I didn’t see it. As I said, I’m really, really not interested in Facebook. Of course, it’s supposed to be a fine film, and there are always films whose excellence transcends their subject matter. Still, it’s not a film on my list of things to see on DVD.
When I think of how close I came to never hearing of the “Winkevil” (is that what you meant to type?), I remain amazed at the vagaries of life. There but for “Buttle” go you or I.
junebug
You all are weird. you get the one female to post the recipes from a S/D type. Remember that the recipe source is otherwise known as “bad horse’s filly.”
Nothing screams S/D like that.
Just sayin’
I wouldn’t cook that shit.
junebug
@MTiffany:
Holy crap you all approve of the captured person lifestyle?
Holy shit.
Warren Terra
There’s a mildly amusing New York Times story about how all the slime Lanny Davis touches is beginning to stain his reputation.
@Triassic Sands:
I don’t know if they’re terribly sympathetic, but it seems fairly hard to argue that Zuckerberg screwed them, when they hired him to code a social network and instead he set up one of his own. Whether ge owes them Facebook might be a stretch, but he owes them. What Zuckerberg did to screw his partner in Facebook (the guy who wrote the book Sorkin adapted) was even more clearly fraud and theft. Still, they signed the settlement, and that was the time to say no.
@junebug:Um, whut? Leaving aside the fact that there are two female front-pagers, not one, and that Anne Laurie posts most of the evening Open Threads, which happens to include a tradition of Thursday Evening Recipe Open Threads that predates her being a front pager, your weird reading of Bad Horse’s Filly’s pseudonym strikes me as revealing more of your obsessions than anything about BHF. Given how long BHF has been using the pseud, I always assumed it was a reference to that Joss Whedon/Doogie Howser musical comedy vehicle. Whence your interpretation, I shudder to think.
Yutsano
@Warren Terra: Three if you count ABL in there too. But calling BHF’s food shit? Yeah, low blow there.
Triassic Sands
@Warren Terra:
Do you mean “it seems fairly hard to argue that Zuckerberg didn’t screw them?”
I didn’t see the film and haven’t read anything about the founding of Facebook, but I’ve heard a lot of negative comments here and there about Zuckerberg, so I’m assuming he’s probably not a real nice guy.
My take from the little I read about the twins was that they went to court, came up with a settlement, signed, and then decided they wanted a better deal. They may have deserved a better detail (depending on the facts, which I don’t know), but once they signed, it seems too late to go back. And what’s up with suing their lawyers for “malpractice?” They got their clients $52 million. My idea of malpractice is a little different.
It sounds like the twins and Zuckerberg ought to be locked in a room together…nothing else, just that. Together forever.