Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

“When somebody takes the time to draw up a playbook, they’re gonna use it.”

Cole, when it comes to calico cats, restraint is overrated.

Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.

People are complicated. Love is not.

We’ll be taking my thoughts and prayers to the ballot box.

Today’s gop: why go just far enough when too far is right there?

I see no possible difficulties whatsoever with this fool-proof plan.

When you’re a Republican, they let you do it.

This must be what justice looks like, not vengeful, just peaceful exuberance.

I’m starting to think Jesus may have made a mistake saving people with no questions asked.

A lot of Dems talk about what the media tells them to talk about. Not helpful.

Let us savor the impending downfall of lawless scoundrels who richly deserve the trouble barreling their way.

Oh FFS you might as well trust a 6-year-old with a flamethrower.

Biden: Oh no. We’ve upset Big Pharma again.

Fight them, without becoming them!

I conferred with the team and they all agree – still not tired of winning!

Please don’t feed the bears.

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

Everybody saw this coming.

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

Republicans are the party of chaos and catastrophe.

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

Authoritarian republicans are opposed to freedom for the rest of us.

Schmidt just says fuck it, opens a tea shop.

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A Late Evening Snack: Pear Tarte Tartin – In Pictures!

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I can’t take writing about the ongoing brouhahas tonight, so I though I’d share a bit of a late evening snack. I finally made the pear tarte tartin last night. Ingredients followed by pictures and instructions.

Ingredients:

2/3 cup of unsalted butter

1 cup of light brown sugar

1 tablespoon of lemon juice

2 lbs of cored, thinly sliced pears*

1 pie crust or puff pastry

Step 1: Preheat the oven to 425 Fahrenheit. Melt the butter, lemon juice, and sugar together on the stove top in an oven safe skillet**, simmering for five minutes until everything is combined. Stir while simmering, then set aside off the heat.

Step 2: Core and thinly slice 2 lbs of pears.

Step 3: Lay the pears out in the pan on top of the still warm caramel. See below:

pear tart 1

Step 4: Roll the pie crust or puff pastry out till it covers the skillet, lay it on top of the pears, and make a few slits for venting of steam. And yes, I went all Jack the Ripper on it…

 

pear tart 2

Step 5: Cook in the oven for 25 minutes or until the crust turns golden brown. Then remove and cool.

 

 

pear tart 3

Step 6: Turn out onto a plate.

 

pear tart 4

Step 7: Eat!!!!! You can eat it cold, room temperature, or warm.

* Traditionally this dish can also be done with apples, so if that’s your thing, just substitute 2 lbs of apples. I was also thinking that if you added rum to your caramel, you could use bananas and make a bananas foster tart tartin.

** My understanding is that traditionally one uses a cast iron skillet, though I’ve also seen references to a copper tarte tartin skillet. I used an oven safe non stick skillet.

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  2. 2.

    sharl

    I don’t know if you forgot to title your post, or decided to be edgy by not doing so, but I’m OK with it either way. Just thought I’d bring it to your attention in case it was an oversight.

    ETA: G&T done got there first…

  12. 12.

    Adam L Silverman

    @rikyrah: Its very easy to make. Took about 20 minutes or so to prep. By the way, the caramel recipe, with the addition of a teaspoon of vanilla, is what I use when I make caramel apple pie. In that case: grease a pie pan, roll the pie crust out to the right size and place into the pie pan. Peel, core, and slice thin between 1 and 2 lbs of apples – enough to fill the pie pan. Make the caramel and set aside. Take a second pie crust, cut into strips and lattice it across the top of the pie. Pour the caramel sauce over the lattice and let it drip into the pie. Bake at 425 for fifteen minutes, then reduce to 350 and bake until the crust is golden brown and the caramel is set across the lattice. Cool and serve.

  14. 14.

    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    Have you tried caster sugar and adding a ttch of brandy to the lemon juice in lieu of the brown sugar?

  21. 21.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Tommy: Please do. I only did pears because I made this for my Mom and she asked for pears. More specifically she, apparently, bought about a dozen pears, only ate six or seven, and the rest were starting to get over ripe and she asked if there was something I could do with them desert wise. So…

  24. 24.

    raven

    State Rep. John Bel Edwards, a relatively unknown Democrat from a rural Amite, will be the state’s next governor after toppling Republican U.S. Sen. David Vitter, R-La., in one of the biggest political upsets in the state’s history.

  25. 25.

    gf120581

    @raven: Vitter also is apparently not running for reelection to the Senate next year. So kudos, he and Jindal essentially are gone in one fell swoop.

  30. 30.

    Mary G

    Good to see a Democrat take a Southern governorship again. I credit the “Patriots not Prostitutes” commercial. That was something. Bobby Jindal’s performance may have soured Louisiana on the red party, too.

  32. 32.

    Adam L Silverman

    @JPL: The FBI already came out and said that they can’t substantiate the threat. WWE has already announced that their event will go on as scheduled.

  33. 33.

    lamh36

    If John Bel Edwards, does what Jindal did not, expands Medicaid, then his election is a win for a large number of Louisianians…regardless of his NRA rating or pro-life rating.

    So maybe Louisiana won’t be Kentucky!

    ‏kylewilsontharp 30m30 minutes ago Philadelphia, PA
    Big win for obamacare tonight too, Edwards expanding Medicaid for 250,000 Louisianians on day one in office

    KaiserFamFound 6m6 minutes ago
    Who could get coverage if #Louisiana expands #Medicaid?#Medicaidexpansion #lagov

  34. 34.

    Mike J

    I’ve made this! The main diff with the trad apple is pears give up a lot more water. Easy and delicious though.

  39. 39.

    debbie

    I’ve made a pear crisp with toasted hazelnuts and cardamom. The hardest part is getting a bunch of pears that are all the same degree of ripeness.

  40. 40.

    PurpleGirl

    For Doc Martin fans: check if your local PBS station will be playing Season 6 on Thanksgiving afternoon. I was watching some British detective shows this evening and heard the commercial about Doc Martin being on Thanksgiving afternoon. In the NYC/Long Island area it will be on WLIW.

  43. 43.

    Mike J

    @debbie: We’re late in the season, but I like to go down to the fruit loop (Hood River et al) in Oregon end of August or so and get more pears than I can eat.

  49. 49.

    Steeplejack

    @redshirt:

    I was just getting caught up on Agents of SHIELD last night. Seems to be going in a good direction. The end of last season was getting to be a soap opera. Still not sure they’ve pulled it out of the crash trajectory, but I keep watching.

  52. 52.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Satby: I’ve watched pies being made lots of times. Not something I feel confident about doing myself, but I seen it done by some of the best.

  54. 54.

    Satby

    The snow ended here about an hour ago, around 5-6 inches total. Not bad for my two young ladies’ first snow ever.
    Snowball fights, a foot tall snowman, and a million pictures were taken: great day for all.

  58. 58.

    Satby

    @Omnes Omnibus: I can manage a one crust pie like a quiche, but not very adept at two crust ones, which are most fruit pies. But the above looks very much like something I could handle. Plus carmel! Num!

  59. 59.

    redshirt

    @Satby: Where are you getting snow? I am counting my blessings that I haven’t gotten any snow yet here in the mountains of western Maine. At this time last year Winter was already well and truly on.

  61. 61.

    Adam L Silverman

    @redshirt: I did. 6’6, green, muscle chick wearing a ripped up blouse? What could possibly be wrong with that…

    I have some oldies. I’ve got an Uncanny X-Men #10, the original Shazam/Captain Marvel number 5. First printing Dark Knight Returns. I’m a big Justice Society fan. I stopped reading the Marvel stuff back in the 90s. At the point that I had to try to keep up with over 10 X-Men/mutant titles, I simply gave up. These days I basically just get the omnibus editions of story arcs. I wait till they package them together and read them all the way through.

  63. 63.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Satby: Add the lemon juice to the butter and sugar. I’ll go fix it. I had to make six attempts, with the site going up and down, to just get the post in. We just have to make the best of it till Tommy and Alain get finished.

  66. 66.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Omnes Omnibus: Just follow the recipe and you’ll be fine. Its not difficult, you just have to follow the steps. Cooking is like jazz, you can riff a recipe like you would the music in a number of different ways. Baking is like bomb making: follow the recipe unless you want a traumatic result! I’ll post my chocolate pecan pie recipe on Monday or Tuesday in advance of Thanksgiving.

  67. 67.

    redshirt

    @Adam L Silverman: Kudos.

    I had an amazing collection of late 70’s through mid 80’s Marvel comics (Marvel only, fuck DC), but at the age of 13, having thoroughly consulted the buyer guides I figured I could get rich. So I invited the flea market comic book guy to peruse my collection. He came to my house and without my parents present (why?!?!) he proceeded to take the best 100 or so comics out and offer me $300 cash for them – he waved the cash. Now, I almost fainted because that was the most money I’d ever seen or had possible access too. But at the same time I knew the buyer guides said those same issues were worth closer to $2000. I said as much, and he told me No, that’s dealer prices. You’re not a dealer, are you? Nope. OK. Transaction complete.

    So I got robbed, but lived pretty high for a while with my $300. A few weeks later our crazy cat decided to use my comic book collection box as a urinal, ruining all the rest. They still smell like cat piss some 30 years later.

    Excelsior!

  68. 68.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Satby: Two crusts are easy. For a solid top just roll the top crust out a little larger than the top of the pie. Lay it on top of the pie, then crimp the top crust to the bottom crust around the top edge of the pie pan. Then pinch a little hole in the center and make three or four slits about an inch or so from the center towards the edge. Finally, scramble an egg yolk and brush it onto the crust. If you really want to get fancy you can then sprinkle cinnamon sugar on top of the egg wash.

    For a lattice pie just roll the top crust out slightly larger than the top of the pie. Using a pizza cutter, slice 1/2 inch (or if you prefer 1/4 inch or 1/3 inch) strips of the dough for the top crust. Take the largest strip and lay it on top of the pie, then cross it with the next largest strip. Repeat going North-South and East-West with the remaining strips. Then crimp the ends of the strips to the bottom dough/crust along the edge of the pie. Brush the strips with the egg yolk wash. And bake as directed.

  70. 70.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Adam L Silverman: Two things. One, in the kitchen, I am a natural jazzman. I have to improvise. Two, one of my grandmothers was the best non-pro baker I have ever seen. I know I will never come near what she could do. I don’t want to let the side down, so I don’t play.

  71. 71.

    Adam L Silverman

    @redshirt: Ouch and ugh! I’ve got mine in storage. I’ve been schlepping them around the country for decades. Another year or so and I’ll probably offer them to my nephews contingent on them taking care of them and not getting rid of them. So if they get tired of them they come back to me. I’ve got all the Legion of Superheroes – loved those stories.

  72. 72.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Omnes Omnibus: My Dad’s mom was like that too. She’d come and visit from Denver and bring boxes full of baked goods with her on the plane. This was back in the 70s when you could still do such things. I like to thing I’ve done her proud.

  74. 74.

    Mike J

    @Amir Khalid: I was under the impression that all I had to do was name a random fact about Malaysia and I automatically won. Like the fact that Malaysia is ranked 19th in the world for the quality of its roads.

    Check and mate, you anti-Bernie bastard.

  79. 79.

    ruemara

    I lost my Dazzler collection and all my X-men in the great demon purging of 198(?). I had to rip them up to reject the devil and do nearly 4 weeks of demon chasing counseling at church. I can’t tell if that’s better or worse than letting them be peed on by a cat. At least mine were lost due to (mom’s) religious fervour.

  89. 89.

    redshirt

    @Omnes Omnibus: Too bad. It was heady myth – and you’re seeing it play out in movies for the last 15 years. It’s redefined cinema. It’s brought these comic heroes into the light of the general population – Iron Man was always cool but a rather low first tier/high second tier character. But then the movies and Boom! Big new hero.

    Look to kid’s costumes as to what the current popular mythology truly is. Right now it’s Frozen and Batman and Captain America and the rest of the comic book characters. Our new gods. Our new stories, like Jason and the Argonauts of old.

  91. 91.

    ruemara

    @redshirt: have to agree. I’ve always loved Dazzler. Plus she could skate!

    Loved the Dark Phoenix saga, but for a moral plotline, God Loves Man Kills, struck me through the heart.

  94. 94.

    Thoughtful Today

    lol

    Amir: “Oh my god, the entire Juicitariat is turning into Thoughtful Today.”

    Huckabee just can’t help himself.

    Do you seriously not realize that’s just asking for … a debate?

  96. 96.

    Thoughtful Today

    redshirt says: “Have you considered Bernie as your personal Savior?”

    Ah, the Good Old Days of … 2008, when Hillary supporters kept sneering at Obama supporters in exactly the same way.

  101. 101.

    Brachiator

    @Steeplejack:

    Did you catch Jamaica Inn Friday morning?

    Sadly, no. Friday was a busy work day for me. I was going to rent it from Amazon, but then saw that I could download Hitchcock’s “Secret Agent” for free as part of my Prime membership. Then I see that the new episodes of “The Man in the High Castle” is available for binge streaming. So, now I have a lost of stuff cued up, and a small window in which to watch them.

    But “Jamaica Inn” is still on the list!

  102. 102.

    opiejeanne

    @Omnes Omnibus: I asked my mother for her recipe for apple pie and she just laughed at me. She said there was no recipe for pies, so I learned to make pies from a cookbook, and it wasn’t bad at all, for a beginner. I dropped Crisco from my crust recipe and substituted butter, and it produced a much better product.
    Then I got a Cuisinart and it came with a little pamphlet of recipes, including Pate Brisee. That’s a lovely pie crust and easy to work with. I let it rest in the fridge sometimes if I think the gluten has been a bit overworked, then I roll it out. I make really good apple pies and berry pies.
    I do understand having a relative who was the grand champion of bakers: Mom made the best cherry pie and she died in 2003 but she had stopped baking several years before because of her dementia; I thought I’d never have cherry pie again; no one else’s was as good, and I didn’t even want to try. Three years ago we planted some cherry trees and one of them is a Montmorency; we only planted it as a pollinator for the sweet cherries but it is a very generous tree. I made my first cherry pie last year and it was as good as Mom’s.

  104. 104.

    Pete Downunder

    Tarte Tatin was invented, allegedly by accident, by sisters Stéphanie and Caroline Tatin in France in the 1880s. Still good today.

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