Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

The rest of the comments were smacking Boebert like she was a piñata.

This year has been the longest three days of putin’s life.

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

I would try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

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

This is dead girl, live boy, a goat, two wetsuits and a dildo territory.  oh, and pink furry handcuffs.

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

I like political parties that aren’t owned by foreign adversaries.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

“I was told there would be no fact checking.”

Let’s bury these fuckers at the polls 2 years from now.

If you thought you’d already seen people saying the stupidest things possible on the internet, prepare yourselves.

People are weird.

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

I desperately hope that, yet again, i am wrong.

The real work of an opposition party is to hold the people in power accountable.

No Kings: Americans standing in the way of bad history saying “Oh, Fuck No!”

Since we are repeating ourselves, let me just say fuck that.

I swear, each month of 2025 will have its own history degree.

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

They want us to be overwhelmed and exhausted. Focus. Resist. Oppose.

He wakes up lying, and he lies all day.

“In this country American means white. everybody else has to hyphenate.”

Democracy cannot function without a free press.

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Friday Recipe Exchange: Spring Whiplash

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This was my favorite photo from JeffreyW this week. That’s Homer (remember him?) doing his best Egyptian statue imitation.

We are having a week of weather whiplash, so the recipes this week reflect that. Some for those 75 degree days and some for the upcoming wet and wild weekend. Friday recipes from the blog:

Two soups make the cut tonight.

Chicken Alfredo Tortellini Soup (recipe here), easy to put together and pair with a nice Antipasto Salad (recipe here) for a quick dinner or great for a lunch treat.

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French Onion Soup popped up on my radar several times over the past few weeks. So now I want some. It’s almost sweet onion time (Vidalia, April-May, followed by Walla Walla Sweets – June) and I think they make the best onion soups. JeffreyW’s mouth-watering photo above is only the beginning – entire slideshow and recipe are here.

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Turkey Cutlets and Lace Cookies were on the dinner menu this week. Full menu, recipes and shopping list are here.

What’s on your menu for the weekend? Cooking for summer, spring or winter in your area?

BLT Salad

Tonight’s featured recipe has been one of my favorite salads lately. Especially when the temps were close to 80 degrees.

Confession. I hate avocados. And guacamole leaves me cold. My friends love going to Mexican restaurants with me, I get my guacamole and sour cream on the side, then pass them on to my table-mates. But the avocado dressing for this salad, I can’t get enough. Go figure.

BLT Salad with Avocado Buttermilk Dressing
This recipe serves 2

Salad

  • 4 strips thick cut bacon (or substitute turkey bacon)
  • 2 hearts of Romaine lettuce, shredded
  • 4 to 6 cherry tomatoes, halved
  • 1 avocado, peeled and cubed*
  • cilantro leaves for garnish (optional)

Dressing

  • 1 avocado
  • buttermilk or ranch dressing**
  • limejuice
  • salt & pepper to taste

skillet, bowl, serving bowls

Dressing: halve avocado, remove pit and scoop flesh into bowl, add an equal amount of buttermilk dressing, limejuice to taste (I used about 1 tsp) and mix until smooth. Salt and pepper to taste. Set aside

Add bacon to skillet and cook on medium heat until crisp. Remove to paper towel to cool and drain. Slice into 1/2 inch pieces.

While the bacon is cooking, prep the salad fixings. Toss with cooled bacon pieces. Add to serving bowls, top with dressing and garnish with cilantro leaves.

*the easiest way to cube an avocado is to halve it, remove the pit and then score it into cubes. Run a sharp knife around the edge of the avocado, then turn the skin inside out and the cubes pop out.

**If you don’t like buttermilk or ranch dressing, you can substitute sour cream and 1 tsp crushed garlic for the dressing.

That’s it for this week. Have a great weekend…I’ll let you know if it’s two feet of snow or just rain for us – TaMara

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    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    It must be in the warm end of the whiplash given Homer’s pose.

    Thank you for all the recipes you post! BLT salad looks amazing. I kinda like Pioneer Woman’s ranch dressing recipe.
    Thanks for the avocado cubing tip – where wer you 10 years ago when I had to figure it out? I just use a melon scoop and have avocado rounds if I’m having a “droppy day” where the my fingtertip sensory quality makes using knives too much of an adventure.

    Bixby is well, and sedate as usual, I hope. LOL.

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    NotMax

    Red wine in onion soup? Quelle horreur.

    Dry sherry or bust.

    Spoiled because we get the very, very slightly sweet Maui onions year ’round. Primo ingredient for onion soup.

    @Baud

    Home Food Goddess?

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    TaMara (HFG)

    @NotMax: So close…Honorary Food Goddess because that’s what Anne Laurie used to call me when she posted the recipes. BHF was a long time ago and another lifetime, so time to let it go. ;-)

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    Punchy

    I have a keg in my car for the first time since college. A LONG time ago. I feel much less excited about this than I would have the last time it happened…

    Oldness sucks

  17. 17.

    Morzer

    Homer (remember him?) doing his best Egyptian statue imitation

    Dagnabbit, even the cats are guilty of cultural appropriation these days. Trans-species cultural appropriation too!

    I blame Oberniebama.

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    Adam L Silverman

    @debbie: I’ve got to get through a project I’m working on, and then I have a day trip for someone’s retirement on Tuesday, but I’ll hook you up towards the end of the week.

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