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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?
Yutsano
Copper River salmon and scalloped potatoes. Unless I get sprung for sushi. Either is acceptable.
rikyrah
Lemon Cake…sigh…
I’d eat Lemon Cake pretty much everyday.
jl
Did this post just diss the famous and beloved Heartland Institute Feedstock and Continuous Extrusion Process Cook Book?
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?
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.
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.
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!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vapdvjBcQzs
Why am I watching and just wondering who is this white guy playing the President?
Maude
@Violet:
Go get the burger.
jeffreyw
Bacon cheeseburger stuffed with onion jam on a home made roll with shoestring fries.
Suffern ACE
@jeffreyw: Well I could have a tenth of a bite of that.
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.
jl
@jeffreyw: Violet may be over in a minute for that burger. Hope you keep it safe.
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.
Spaghetti Lee
Couple of shoe soles, why do you ask?
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.
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.
lamh35
Cute video. 6 year old girl plays violin for FLOTUS today:
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7410972n&tag=contentBody;housing
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.
MikeJ
@Yutsano: Do you have an android? I need a beta tester who buys liquor in Washington.
burnspbesq
Some sort of Korean beef, but I’d rather be feasting on the livers of racist Polish football fans.
http://espnfc.com/us/en/news/1089999/dutch-players-hear-racist-chants.html
Sigh.
Yutsano
@MikeJ: Crackberry. But I’m seriously considering dumping it since I’ve decided AT & T is a ripoff.
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.
Roger Moore
@Suffern ACE:
So you’re allowed to have the freshly ground blah people, but not the salt?
Roger Moore
@MikeJ:
Do you need one in California? Pretty please?
SiubhanDuinne
@lamh35:
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.
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.
Jay S
Am I posting?
Mnemosyne
@Suffern ACE:
Chile powder is your friend. Try Alton Brown’s.
Mnemosyne
For some reason, that made me think of Babette’s Feast, a movie every food lover should see.
David Koch
@lamh35: just words…
Jay S
@MikeJ: Will a wifi only Android do?
burnspbesq
@SiubhanDuinne:
John Spencer was quietly brilliant in “Presumed Innocent.”
Mnemosyne
@lamh35:
I loved FLOTUS’s “mommy” moment — “Now go pick your violin up before somebody steps on it.”
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. :)
BB
Holy shit, Tom Friedman’s bio on his own website gives his golf handicap. Does DougJ know this?
http://www.thomaslfriedman.com/about-the-author
beltane
@BB: I’d round it up to a 7. Not so hot considering he fancied himself pro material.
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.
HelpThe99ers
@NotMax: and quite like Heroes – ordinary people finding themselves with new abilities.
Citizen_X
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Patty
God dang! That looks disgusting. Like a dirty Kotex meet-up or something.