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Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?

If ‘weird’ was the finish line, they ran through the tape and kept running.

The way to stop violence is to stop manufacturing the hatred that fuels it.

We’ve had enough carrots to last a lifetime. break out the sticks.

rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius

President Musk and Trump are both poorly raised, coddled 8 year old boys.

How stupid are these people?

I did not have this on my fuck 2025 bingo card.

Do we throw up our hands or do we roll up our sleeves? (hint, door #2)

… gradually, and then suddenly.

My right to basic bodily autonomy is not on the table. that’s the new deal.

Incompetence, fear, or corruption? why not all three?

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

He really is that stupid.

It’s a good piece. click on over. but then come back!!

Let there be snark.

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

Fundamental belief of white supremacy: white people are presumed innocent, minorities are presumed guilty.

When I was faster i was always behind.

“Facilitate” is an active verb, not a weasel word.

Republicans: The threats are dire, but my tickets are non-refundable!

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Open Thread: Thursday Night Recipe Exchange

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Got an email from TaMara, life got ahead of her and there’s no official Thursday Night Recipe Exchange this week. So — entirely on my own authority — y’all get a picture of her awesome Raspberry Lemon Cake, and a hint that next week’s exchange should involve “cold soups or cold salads”.

As a bonus, here’s Charles Mudede at Seattle’s Stranger mocking Heartland cuisine:

Despite all of these buffalos all over the fucking place, I failed to find one joint in this part of America (coded as rural) that didn’t prepare its meat as if it were going to be served to dogs. With rural (coded) Americans, it’s not about food, but feed. We do not eat like this in cities; we do not treat our tongues like the soles of our shoes…

No wonder God is so popular in these parts. Folks have to hold hands around the dinner table and pray they make it through yet another miserable, vapid, horribly prepared meal. Amen.

What’s for dinner at your place tonight?

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  1. 1.

    Yutsano

    Copper River salmon and scalloped potatoes. Unless I get sprung for sushi. Either is acceptable.

  3. 3.

    jl

    Did this post just diss the famous and beloved Heartland Institute Feedstock and Continuous Extrusion Process Cook Book?

  4. 4.

    jo6pac

    Pork roast in bells, shurmans, unions, salas over rice that will have green unions and garlic in the water. I was wondering could you send a little of this my way I forgot desert?

  5. 5.

    Suffern ACE

    Welll since I’m following doctors orders and on a low sodium diet for eternity, or else, what’s on the menu is blah. Although I do have 200 mg left in my daily allotment.

  6. 6.

    Violet

    Not sure what I’m having for dinner. Might just eat up some leftovers out of the fridge. Or might go get a burger.

  7. 7.

    lamh35

    I sure could go for some chocolate cheese cake.

    BTW, I just finished watching “The Rock” with Nicolas Cage and Sean Connery. Haven’t seen this movie in a LONG time!

    youtube.com/watch?v=vapdvjBcQzs

    Why am I watching and just wondering who is this white guy playing the President?

  11. 11.

    Lojasmo

    Ale so far. I imagine I have free range chicken or grass-fed beef in my future.

    ETA +2, and the content of dinner TBD by Mrs lojasmo. Kid is out to dinner with little friends.

  13. 13.

    the Conster

    I have given up meat, salt, sugar, dairy and wheat and have never felt better, in addition to losing weight. Fruits, vegetables and legumes are my friends, plus eggs and a little bit of fish. It’s amazing how many delicious things you can do with vegetables, and how much less hungry I am in general.

  15. 15.

    NotMax

    Finished re-watching the 3 short seasons of Misfits.

    If you’ve never seen this very. very British series and might seek it out, fair warning that it is one of those which people either really like or really loathe.

    Think X-men.

    If made by David Lynch and Patrick McGoohan.

  16. 16.

    TaMara (BHF)

    Sorry about that guys. Ah, not my prettiest cake, but it was a birthday request, extra raspberries. I’m sure there were no calories in it at all.

    Next week I’ll do better. I’m leaning toward cold soups.

    On the career front, my giving notice at my job seems to have opened up a flood-gate of offers/opportunities. If I’d known I would have done it ages ago.

    Have a good night everyone. Share good recipes.

  18. 18.

    J.W. Hamner

    I made a Colombian chicken stew in the pressure cooker. Recipe from Serious Eats. Really easy, quick, and tasty… used only bone in chicken thighs and they came out so tender you could eat the whole meal with a spoon… though I think if I make it again I’d go with canned peeled tomatoes instead of fresh. I’d rather not have the indigestible skins floating around and there is no way in hell I’m peeling tomatoes for a 5 ingredient stew.

  21. 21.

    Yutsano

    @MikeJ: Crackberry. But I’m seriously considering dumping it since I’ve decided AT & T is a ripoff.

  22. 22.

    Stuck in the Funhouse

    I just crock potted some lima beans of the large variety, and the suckers are big as silver dollars. You could about play frisbee with one.

  23. 23.

    Roger Moore

    @Suffern ACE:

    Welll since I’m following doctors orders and on a low sodium diet for eternity, or else, what’s on the menu is blah.

    So you’re allowed to have the freshly ground blah people, but not the salt?

  25. 25.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @lamh35:

    who is this white guy playing the President?

    I think you must be referring to the late, great John Spencer. He was Tommy Mullaney in L.A. Law, and Leo McGarry in The West Wing. He died very suddenly midway through the last WW season in an uncanny parallel to the existing storyline. Fascinating guy who played complex, nuanced characters. I still miss him.

  26. 26.

    Bob Munck

    I’ve had GREAT buffalo-burgers at a little place in Custer, SD. Maybe it’s the influence of the slickers from the nearby metropolis, Rapid City.

  29. 29.

    Mnemosyne

    No wonder God is so popular in these parts. Folks have to hold hands around the dinner table and pray they make it through yet another miserable, vapid, horribly prepared meal. Amen.

    For some reason, that made me think of Babette’s Feast, a movie every food lover should see.

  33. 33.

    Mnemosyne

    @lamh35:

    I loved FLOTUS’s “mommy” moment — “Now go pick your violin up before somebody steps on it.”

  34. 34.

    Ash Can

    Sounds like Charles Mudede just had himself a proper Wisconsin supper club panfish fry and prime rib dinner and wants to keep the secret all to himself. :)

  37. 37.

    lacp

    Lean textured beef, burnt to perfection over charcoal to give it that extra soupcon of carcinogens, then jammed into a depleted-nutrient grain bun topped with generic seeds. Covered,naturellement, with wilted lettuce, questionable onions, and petroleum-based special sauce. It is to die for.

  39. 39.

    Citizen_X

    With rural (coded) Americans, it’s not about food, but feed.

    This guy sounds like a major asshole. He was too lazy to find a decent restaurant, and so has to launch a bigoted attack on, well, everyone for hundreds (thousands?) of miles? And “rural (coded) Americans?” Who the fuck talks like that? I have no idea what that means, and really couldn’t give a shit. I hope he gets kicked in the nuts.

  40. 40.

    Grondo

    Sorry to say this, but as delicious as the cake recipe sounds and as I’m sure the finished product was to eat, the pic is an unfortunate example of why food photography is such a specialty.

  41. 41.

    Grondo

    Oh, and I’m unpleasantly surprised to see that anyone is still giving precious typing space to Charles Mudede after all these years. The guy has been a total dipshit since I lived in Seattle in the early 90s.

  42. 42.

    Svensker

    Broiled za’atar chicken, hummus with veggie dippers, tzatziki, Greek salad. Just to balance out the lo-carb dinner, Magic Bars for dessert!

    Magic Bars — graham crackers, butter, walnuts, choc chips, coconut, condensed sweetened milk. Heh.

  43. 43.

    lacp

    @Citizen_X: Yeah, I have no idea where he’s talking about. I’ve eaten a lot in rural Pennsylvania (don’t know whether it’s ‘coded’ or not) and had great food. Or else my sense of taste has gone completely to shit.

  44. 44.

    ruemara

    @Suffern ACE: It doesn’t have to be blah. Add a repertoire of vinegars, up the spices and kelp powder adds some nice flavour.

    I just made food for the ex since we’re sharing grocery costs. Jalapeno Chicken Sausage with Roasted Pepper Pizza, Garbanzo Bean Spread, Eggplant and Roasted Red Pepper Tapenade, Skinless Buffalo Chicken Legs. The chicken legs were pretty durned good.

  45. 45.

    Jay S

    Is any one else experiencing network weirdness tonight? I’ve got a number of sites that don’t load. Including ads from here, not that I miss the ads, but it slows everything down.

  46. 46.

    Turgidson

    My dinner was REALLY…lame. But it tasted good.

    After getting home from work at 9:30pm and wanting something NOW, I scrambled some eggs, grated some cheddar cheese on them as they cooked, and then drizzled a bit of Frank’s Red Hot on them. Excellent combination, actually.

    I had a salad for lunch, so that is my rationalization for the lack of vegetables.

  47. 47.

    kimp

    jeez… I live in the bootheel of Missouri, read your blog a couple of times a day, and didn’t get where anyone was food-snobbish. I cooked 3 rare steaks for my husband , daughter and myself, with fried potatos, onions and peppers, and a salad with our first of the season tomatoes.
    What cavemen we are. Sorry to offend.

  48. 48.

    kimp

    jeez… I live in the bootheel of Missouri, read your blog a couple of times a day, and didn’t get where anyone was food-snobbish. I cooked 3 rare steaks for my husband , daughter and myself, with fried potatos, onions and peppers, and a salad with our first of the season tomatoes.
    What cavemen we are. Sorry to offend.

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