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Open Thread: Thursday Night Menu

by Anne Laurie|  February 24, 201110:37 pm| 11 Comments

This post is in: Cooking, Open Threads

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From our Food Goddess, TaMara:

Have been under the weather with a pesky cold all week. Too much travel, not enough rest and exercise. Lots of homemade soups, though, so there is an upside. Tonight is about recipes that have a bit more flair to them, but are still simple to prepare. If you’re not a fan of fish, you can easily substitute boneless chicken breasts: pound them flat and increase cooking time. Find a really nice whole grain bread and maybe some honey butter for the spread to compliment the fish, with broccoli and shortbread rounding out the meal.
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On the board tonight:
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1. Crispy Pecan Fish
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2. Hearty Bread
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3. Broccoli w/Garlic Wine Sauce
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4. Shortbread

Recipes and shopping list at the link.

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  1. 1.

    andy

    February 24, 2011 at 11:10 pm

    Is it possible to post something off topic even on an open thread?

    Oh well. I noticed on my news machine that Charlie Sheen made CBS cancel Two and a Half Men because he was spouting off- on the Alex Jones radio show of all places.

    Nobody can hit bottom like Charlie Sheen- WOLVERINES!!!!!

  2. 2.

    4jkb4ia

    February 24, 2011 at 11:14 pm

    Nice recovery from the St. John’s game for Pitt….

    In other news, Wainwright is out for the season, i.e. the season is over and it’s not even March yet.

  3. 3.

    MikeJ

    February 24, 2011 at 11:17 pm

    @andy:

    Charlie Sheen made CBS cancel Two and a Half Men

    Don’t ever tell me he’s never done anything worthwhile.

  4. 4.

    gbear

    February 24, 2011 at 11:20 pm

    Fox Lies!!

    It was an incendiary allegation — and a mystery of great intrigue in the media world: After the publishing powerhouse Judith Regan was fired by HarperCollins in 2006, she claimed that a senior executive at its parent company, News Corporation, had encouraged her to lie two years earlier to federal investigators who were vetting Bernard B. Kerik for the job of homeland security secretary.
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    Ms. Regan had once been involved in an affair with Mr. Kerik, the former New York City police commissioner whose mentor and supporter, former Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, was in the nascent stages of a presidential campaign. The News Corporation executive, whom she did not name, wanted to protect Mr. Giuliani and conceal the affair, she said.
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    Now, court documents filed in a lawsuit make clear whom Ms. Regan was accusing of urging her to lie: Roger E. Ailes, the powerful chairman of Fox News and a longtime friend of Mr. Giuliani. What is more, the documents say that Ms. Regan taped the telephone call from Mr. Ailes in which Mr. Ailes discussed her relationship with Mr. Kerik…
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    Depending on the specifics, the taped conversation could possibly rise to the level of conspiring to lie to federal officials, a federal crime, but prosecutors rarely pursue such cases, said Daniel C. Richman, a Columbia University law professor and a former federal prosecutor.

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    Ailuridae

    February 24, 2011 at 11:28 pm

    @4jkb4ia:

    A PITT college basketball and St Louis Cardinals fan? Umm, how?

  6. 6.

    Suffern ACE

    February 24, 2011 at 11:31 pm

    bloomberg.com/news/2011-02-24/u-s-house-republicans-move-to-end-foreclosure-aid-programs.html

    Sheepishly, he asks on the open thread, is there any reason to stand in the way of defunding HAMP? And why wasn’t HAMP defunding part of that 61 billion cut? Just asking. Not that the Republicans are planning to replace it with something more effective at helping troubled borrowers…

  7. 7.

    Ailuridae

    February 24, 2011 at 11:35 pm

    @Suffern ACE:

    Words I never thought I would type … “Spencer Bachus is right”. HAMP is nothing short of a disaster.

  8. 8.

    Jack Bauer

    February 24, 2011 at 11:36 pm

    Brought to you by GOP TV: If white america told the truth for one day it’s world would fall apart

    This blog’s realization that many D Senators are not on the side of the working man is respectable. Euro lefties have been point this out.. for a while (see link above). Nevertheless I feel my spine stiffening… Do you think America has the appetite for a general strike? How about a White Riot? I know the whole house of cards only fell down a couple of years ago and Obama has mitigated some of it, but the pain is still coming, what’s going to happen?

  9. 9.

    4jkb4ia

    February 24, 2011 at 11:51 pm

    @Ailuridae:

    My mom is a Pitt alum. We ended up in St. Louis because of my dad.

  10. 10.

    Ed Marshall

    February 25, 2011 at 12:19 am

    I’m taking my moocher ass to the Lyric Opera in Chicago tomorrow to see Lohengrin with a college student ticket for $20 and taking my horrible, wasteful student grant money and buying a dinner consisting of:

    Mixed Mushroom Charlotte with Currant Glaze
    Roasted Duck Ravioli on diced butternut squash
    Salmon, Whitefish and Spinach Roulade with shrimp sauce on a duchess potato ring
    and Chocolate Pot de Crème topped with chocolate whipped cream

    I’ll live on peanut butter for another couple weeks as penance if no one tells Glenn Beck.

  11. 11.

    gwangung

    February 25, 2011 at 12:35 am

    For Seattle denizens, a review of a play from a theatre where I’m on the board.

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