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Open Thread: Thursday Night Menu

by Anne Laurie|  March 31, 201111:46 pm| 38 Comments

This post is in: Cooking, Open Threads

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From our Food Goddess, TaMara:

I have some good news and some bad news. Tonight marks our last Thursday Night Menu. That’s the bad news. The good news is I’ll still be food blogging and I’ll still occasionally post full menus. I have at least a dozen recipes in the queue that I want to try out, so there will still be cooking adventures to come. But I have a new project I must put my full attention to for a while and a lot of travel in the coming months, so something had to give and it was the full menus on Thursday.
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On the more good news side of things, I have a full year of menus (about 500+ recipes) formatted in a searchable database, if you’d like a copy, send me an email and I’ll send you a copy. So to summarize, the What’s 4 Dinner Solutions blog goes on, but Thursday Night Menus will morph into an occasional full menu here and there. Thanks to John Cole at Balloon-Juice for suggesting the Thursday Night Menu and hosting it and to Anne Laurie for posting it each Thursday. And to all of you for popping in for a look and for those who let me know how the menus turned out at your house. It’s been so much fun.
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And in some final good news, tomorrow is Opening Day! Rockies have a home opener while the Red Sox will be on the road. Tomorrow I’ll post the ultimate opening day menu. See you then…
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On the final board tonight:

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1. Skillet Lasagna
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2. Vegetable Sauté
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3. Italian Bread
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4. Sour Cream Coffee Cake with Pecans

Recipes and shopping list, as ever, at the link.

Note from Anne Laurie: TaMara, I’ll miss looking forward to your weekly menus, but I hope you’ll still drop by here often. Sometime soon (despite the wet snow falling outside right now) we’ll all be trading stories about our gardens and the local farmers markets!

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  1. 1.

    TaMara (BHF)

    March 31, 2011 at 11:57 pm

    Thanks Anne Laurie and thanks everyone for all the fun. Maybe we should have a weekly gardening open thread now that spring is here and gardening is a possibility. I don’t know about anyone else, but I could sure use the respite from all the bad news and focus on the hope a garden brings.

    And no worries, I’ll still be around for the snark….I mean after all 2012 is just around the corner and the crazies are starting to come out of the woodwork.

  2. 2.

    Martin

    April 1, 2011 at 12:12 am

    FTFY!

  3. 3.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    April 1, 2011 at 12:17 am

    There is no god.

  4. 4.

    MattR

    April 1, 2011 at 12:21 am

    @Just Some Fuckhead: Only Zuul.

  5. 5.

    MikeJ

    April 1, 2011 at 12:23 am

    @Martin: They sold out, and yet only half the seats were filled. What sort of baseball fans are those?

  6. 6.

    Svensker

    April 1, 2011 at 12:23 am

    Thanks, TaMara. Hope you don’t go too far away!

  7. 7.

    sfinny

    April 1, 2011 at 12:30 am

    Oops, I commented on the wrong thread. So as far as Tamara is concerned:

    Late to the conversation, but thank you to Tamara for her Thursday contributions. I’ve tried many and enjoyed them, although a few have been failures, my own fault.

  8. 8.

    Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)

    April 1, 2011 at 12:33 am

    I just applied for a job in Madison. We’ll see if I have any more luck there than I have here.

  9. 9.

    demz taters

    April 1, 2011 at 12:45 am

    I just got a word accepted into the Urban Dictionary!

    Troll view: Watching something just because its awfulness is so compelling. For people without any discernible talent, troll views are a valid and even desirable form of attention.

    Charlie Sheen may have gotten more than 2 million followers on Twitter but 90 percent of those are troll views.

  10. 10.

    EvolutionaryDesign

    April 1, 2011 at 12:50 am

    Thanks for the great recipes TaMara! I’ve been enjoying the Bacon/Squash Campanelle for almost a week!

  11. 11.

    asiangrrlMN

    April 1, 2011 at 1:17 am

    @Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN): Good luck!

    And, good luck to you, too, Tamara.

  12. 12.

    asiangrrlMN

    April 1, 2011 at 1:23 am

    @asiangrrlMN: Gah. Just missed editing window. TaMara. TaMara. Sorry!

  13. 13.

    General Stuck

    April 1, 2011 at 1:25 am

    @Martin:

    My Cincy Reds picked up where they left of last season today. Down 6 to 3 going into the ninth and pulled it out with a walk off three run homer. And yes. FTFY, and maybe the Cards, also too.

  14. 14.

    Anne Laurie

    April 1, 2011 at 1:31 am

    @TaMara (BHF):

    Maybe we should have a weekly gardening open thread now that spring is here and gardening is a possibility.

    Hmmm… I may have to take you up on that idea!

  15. 15.

    Yutsano

    April 1, 2011 at 1:40 am

    @TaMara (BHF): BHF: we done had some good cooking times here girl! I still have your e-mail and the occasional recipe will drop its way to you every now and again. I haz a sad, but all good things must end and all that.

    @Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN): Luck and stuff and all teh craziness that goes along with it. :)

  16. 16.

    Gozer

    April 1, 2011 at 1:41 am

    Go Phillies!

    ‘Tis the season of Riot Punch.

  17. 17.

    Suffern ACE

    April 1, 2011 at 2:02 am

    @General Stuck: Funny, my Brewers played like they did at the start of last year, too. Hit lots of home runs, closer blows the game. *sigh*

  18. 18.

    Mark S.

    April 1, 2011 at 2:03 am

    So, what’s Louis Gohmert been up to lately?

    But then when you find out we’re being sent to Libya to use our treasure and American lives there, maybe there’s intention to so deplete the military that we’re going to need that presidential reserve officer commissioned corps and non-commissioned corps that the president can call up on a moment’s notice involuntarily, according to the Obamacare bill.

    I hadn’t heard of this one before, but apparently ObamaCare allows the president to call in a private army of New Black Panthers to set up re-education camps and death panels.

  19. 19.

    Socratic_me

    April 1, 2011 at 2:03 am

    Okay, I feel like a moron, but how can I email Tamara? I have searched both here and at her site and I can’t find and email ln anywhere. Must. Have. Recipes. Dollop tasty.

    Edit: the above was supposed to say soooooo tasty, but the iPad decided it was fun fun correcting time. In the end, I think the iPad said it better, so I am just leaving it with comment.

  20. 20.

    Yutsano

    April 1, 2011 at 2:08 am

    @Socratic_me: Happy happy Autocorrect accident?

    (I feel like I should draw a Hello Kitty cartoon to go along with that. Or something.)

  21. 21.

    Suffern ACE

    April 1, 2011 at 2:22 am

    @Mark S.: Anything to change the topic from the petroleum industry interests in Libya. Can’t discuss those. Or the oddity that government controlled banks get a pass from asset freezes,

    http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-03-31/libya-owned-arab-banking-corp-drew-at-least-5-billion-from-fed-in-crisis.html

    Let’s just turn the page on that and back to our healthcare law. Does anyone actually pay attention to who they vote for?

  22. 22.

    MattR

    April 1, 2011 at 2:31 am

    @Mark S.: From that same TPM article.

    What it really does is make good on a plan first envisioned by Bush HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson in the wake of the September 11 attack to create a Ready Reserve Corps of several thousand public health professionals — nurses, doctors — that can be called up to treat people in the wake of an epidemic or a disaster like Hurricane Katrina.

  23. 23.

    Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)

    April 1, 2011 at 2:36 am

    @Suffern ACE: I’m not sure what you mean by “get a pass from asset freezes.” Arab Banking continues to operate, but they cannot conduct any transactions with Libya. That is the essence of the asset freeze. It means that the Libyan government can’t get access to the funds to support itself or its operations. It means that the money can’t be siphoned off and made to disappear. The money will be available to pay off any claims made against the Libyan government when all of this is over.

    What are you thinking that an asset freeze involves? In most cases, it doesn’t mean that all operations with a connection to the target government (or any other entity that is targeted) are shut down. It means that the entity is prevented from transferring those assets back to the owners.

    If a given asset is a bank *account*, that generally means that it has to stay right where it is, and that concept is pretty much correct. If it is an operational business entity, such as a bank or an airlines, it usually stays in operation. Doing otherwise would cause significant disruptions to any entity doing business with that operation. It would also mean that there is less money available to either a successor government of Libya or to any claimants against those assets.

  24. 24.

    Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)

    April 1, 2011 at 2:38 am

    @MattR: Oh, so it allows the president to call up a private militia that will drug its political enemies into a stupor. That’s so much better.

  25. 25.

    piratedan

    April 1, 2011 at 2:43 am

    for those that enjoy KO, here’s his FOK site with access to his Cornell University speech. Mostly anecdotal, middle bit is political and some Q&A at the end. He reiterates that he’ll be back on the air via Current TV later this spring.

    http://foknewschannel.com/

  26. 26.

    Parallel 5ths (Jewish Steel)

    April 1, 2011 at 2:47 am

    A few years back I was sitting at our local café with the new New Yorker which had just come in the mail. I almost spit out my cappuccino when I flipped to an article about Russian dissident journalist, Aleksei Venediktov. There was nothing particularly shocking about the article itself. What was shocking was that I was staring at a picture of myself from probably 10 years in the future.

    Future Jewish Steel.

  27. 27.

    MattR

    April 1, 2011 at 2:53 am

    @Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN): I thought the drugs made you vote Democratic.

  28. 28.

    Yutsano

    April 1, 2011 at 2:56 am

    @Parallel 5ths (Jewish Steel): Look at it this way: should you ever enter into a marriage contract, your affianced can’t claim ignorance after you show them this.

  29. 29.

    Parallel 5ths (Jewish Steel)

    April 1, 2011 at 3:04 am

    @Yutsano: I have another Aleksei pic up on fb. My gf is demanding I take it down because she is afraid that others will think she is dating an old schlump.

    Too late, my pretty. Too late.

  30. 30.

    Yutsano

    April 1, 2011 at 3:07 am

    @Parallel 5ths (Jewish Steel): A) anyone who knows the two of you will more than likely know better and possibly appreciate the humor

    B) the rest of the universe can kindly and in all ways immolate in massive flamage.

  31. 31.

    Parallel 5ths (Jewish Steel)

    April 1, 2011 at 3:53 am

    @Yutsano: C) Mr. Venediktov is, IMO, a handsome fellow!

    But there is an insight into my egotism. To tell the truth, when first clapped eyes on him I thought, Ha! What a handsome devil. No, wait. Why do I find him good looking? Oh, hang on; he looks like Dad. No, actually, he looks more like me. Oh dear, how embarrassing. Am I really so vain?

    And so on. My internal dialog.

  32. 32.

    Calouste

    April 1, 2011 at 5:05 am

    And so in the crappy news to start the day off with, the 20 km exclusion zone around Fukushima is going to be “long term”. As in, “find another job, another house and another school for your kids” long term. 70,000 people affected, and I assume that the 136,000 that live in the next 10 km radius are also looking to move away, but probably won’t get as much government assistance.

  33. 33.

    Barry

    April 1, 2011 at 6:52 am

    Thanks for the recipes, and again for the searchable database. I plan on using it quite a bit.

  34. 34.

    Bruce S

    April 1, 2011 at 8:31 am

    Just how dumb is Tim Pawlenty?

    http://titanicsailsatdawn.blogspot.com/2011/04/i-have-no-idea-if-tim-pawlenty-is.html

  35. 35.

    Paul in KY

    April 1, 2011 at 9:34 am

    Appreciated your posts. Bast of luck in your new endevour.

  36. 36.

    Paul in KY

    April 1, 2011 at 9:38 am

    @Parallel 5ths (Jewish Steel): You (and the Russian dude) sorta look like Bolshevik revolutionaries from c. 1912

  37. 37.

    TaMara (BHF)

    April 1, 2011 at 11:46 am

    Just to close out the thread…thanks everyone for the kind words. Recipes are on the way to anyone who requested. xo

  38. 38.

    Comrade Mary

    April 1, 2011 at 10:00 pm

    How did I miss this? Have fun IGNORING US, TaMara, #sniff# This is my sad face.

    But do try to sneak back for gardening, eh?

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