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With TaMara’s move it seems like forever since we’ve had a recipe post. So I’ve broken out the emergency tiara, frilly apron, and matching oven mitts and we’re under way!

We’re keeping it light tonight because of the summer heat. First up is a broccoli quiche.

Quiche

And here’s the recipe:

 

1 9 inch pie crust

5 eggs

1 ½ cups 1 % milk

2 cups of shredded cheese (officially the recipe calls for Swiss, but I like to use the six cheese Mexican blend)

¾ tsp salt

¼ tsp cayenne red pepper

¼ tsp sugar

Broccoli cut into tiny florets

1/3 cup minced scallions

(This is a vegetarian quiche, but if you want to add ham or bacon or crab or shrimp just toss it on in)

Heat oven to 425 degrees, Prepare a nine inch pie crust. Grease a deep pie pan/quiche pan, place the pie crust in it, and crimp the crust.

Sprinkle cheese and broccoli and onion in pastry lined pan. First cover the bottom of the crust with a layer of cheese. Then cover that with the minced scallions. Then cover those with another layer of the shredded cheese. Cover this with the broccoli florets and then a final layer of the shredded cheese. If adding a meat or seafood product, put 1/2 of it with the scallions and 1/2 with the broccoli.

In a separate bowl beat the remaining ingredients together and pour over the quiche filling in the pie pan.

Bake for 15 minutes at 425 degrees. Reduce oven temp to 300 degrees. Bake for 30 min longer or until knife inserted 1 inch from edge comes out clean. Let stand 10 min before cutting.

Next up a cool, refreshing, and simple mixed melon and pineapple salad.

Fruit-Salad

This really doesn’t require much of a recipe. I balled out 1/4 of a watermelon and 1 cantaloupe. I then chunked up one fresh pineapple and mixed it all together. Then into the fridge to chill before serving. I wasn’t going for anything fancy here, but use whatever fruit combinations you like the most.

And for the dessert, something light(er) and summery: Lemon layer cake with lemon buttercream frosting.

Curd_Crumb_Coat Cake_Side Cake_Top

The first picture is of the cake crumb coated with lemon curd. An important note: I did not candy the lemon wedges; they are purely for decoration unless you’re channeling Stonewall Jackson and like sucking on lemon wedges. In which case, knock yourself out, enjoy your forced march up the Shenandoah Valley, and DUCK!!!!

This isn’t my recipe, nor one that I’ve been using for years and don’t remember where I got it. So I’m just going to link to where I got it from rather than post it. It is very, very easy to make. I did not, however, make the cream cheese lemon frosting that is at the link. Instead I just made a basic buttercream and added the zest and juice of one lemon and 1 teaspoon of lemon extract to make a lemon buttercream.

Enjoy and open thread!

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  4. 4.

    The Dangerman

    If you need a laugh:

    Cracked

    ETA: Hold on, that’s a June 24th sketch; I thought it was July 24th. I need new glasses.

  6. 6.

    burnspbesq

    If you’re diabetic, go easy on watermelon and pineapple, due to high glycemic index. Strawberries, blueberries, apples, and pears are lower-GI options.

    ETA: canteloupe is also relatively high-GI, but life without canteloupe is unimaginable.

  7. 7.

    Joel

    I’m ashamed to admit that I never realized that Berlin was completely enclosed by East Germany in the Cold War — I always thought it was more of a peninsular situation.

  9. 9.

    amk

    So Adam, does the trump-russian donors-manafort story has any legs at all for the msm? Or, will it be the same old iokiyar bs?

  10. 10.

    NotMax

    @Joel

    Thus the Berlin Airlift.

    Massive operation to keep West Berlin supplied until rail service was unencumbered again.

  11. 11.

    Anya

    Hey Adam, The Killing Joke is worse than the comic. It went where even the comic book didn’t go. I saw some scenes online and I was super creeped out.

  12. 12.

    WaterGirl

    @debbie: When it’s really hot, I tend to go for gazpacho, but the recipe you posted looks great. I’ll be trying that this week.

  13. 13.

    satby

    You’re all more ambitious than me in this heat, I make either a deli turkey sammich or a tall glass of chocolate milk for dinner. Everything else seems like too much effort.

  15. 15.

    WaterGirl

    It’s finally raining, so I won’t have to water in the morning. Yay! This heat has been getting to me, really not a fan of heat and humidity at all. That’s why I live in the midwest???

  18. 18.

    laura

    I got some ripe peaches at the farmers this morning and poached them in a syrup with a bit of vanilla and 1 oz of bourbon.
    I’m heading out to peal one and have it with Gelato and mint while watching inspector lewis.
    We had a very veggie spaghetti with fresh tomato mushroom zucchini eggplant a big bunch of basil parsley and bayleaf all tied up some ground round and a left over nubbin of parmesan rind. Salad was chopped fresh tomato cucumber red onion and homemade ranch.
    They’re be homemade pizza with the rest of the sauce come midweek.
    It’s going to be a long, hot week.

  19. 19.

    amygdala

    Frilly oven mitts?

    Everything looks delicious. One of my favorite fruit salad combinations is diced mango and fresh blueberries, with an orange squeezed over it. Or, if one is fortunate enough to have tree-ripened mangos, which can be very sweet, then some Meyer lemon squeezed over it instead.

  29. 29.

    Technocrat

    @rikyrah:

    So many crumbs. And now Greenwald is pushing the McCarthyite bullpucky.

    Can’t have anything to do with the fact that his bro is a guest of Vlad, can it?

  30. 30.

    Adam L Silverman

    @amk: I think its picking up legs. I’m in 100% agreement with Josh Marshall’s analysis, and he’s well respected, from what I understand. So that’s going to give it some push. I know it was asked about on some of the Sunday shows, and the Clinton campaign folks are tying the DNC hack to it as well. And Charlie Pierce was on it today and he’s now on some of the news panels, so that will help.

    All of that said, I’d take it a step further. Trump has held these views, though it is unclear how he came by them/became fixed on them, since (at least) the Reagan Administration:
    http://www.apnewsarchive.com/1987/Trump-U-S-Should-Stop-Paying-To-Defend-Countries-that-Can-Protect-Selves/id-05133dbe63ace98766527ec7d16ede08
    https://www.buzzfeed.com/ilanbenmeir/that-time-trump-spent-nearly-100000-on-an-ad-criticizing-us

    Given what I’ve seen reported about Putin and analysis of his intentions to run the 1970s era KGB manual to destabilize Western countries by supporting separatist and nationalist movements that are often inherently both isolationist and belligerent in terms of their foreign, defense, and security policies (despite those two things being inherently contradictory), in order to weaken those states, their alliance, their partnerships, and the supra-national institutions and organizations, like NATO and the EU, that they belong to, I think there is an additional dynamic at work here. On top of the financial ties to Russian money linked to people around Putin needed to finance Trump’s development projects, Trump’s ties to the Bratva, and surrounding himself with aids and advisors that have direct financial and employment ties to people working for Putin or that Putin is supporting, or as is with LTG (ret) Flynn Putin controlled media outlets that we know are controlled because of former employees detailing the editorial control that tracks back to Putin,

    Putin has someone, in Trump, that already was in general agreement with his strategy, policy, and the maskirovka he’s put in place throughout the EU to achieve his ends. I’m not stating or insinuating that Trump is an agent of Putin or even directly under his influence. Rather, Trump was already predisposed to these positions. I can’t prove it, but as Marshall discusses, there is a significant amount of circumstantial evidence that Putin is seeking to capitalize on it and has people within his own sphere of influence (Manafort, Page, Flynn – all of whom are within two links back to Putin if I was formalizing the relationships; as well as others like Lauria and Sater who are connected to the Bratva) in positions of influence and power around Trump and within his organization.

    If the news media, including the political reporters, doesn’t pound on this every day until it gets some answers, it will demonstrate beyond any doubt that it provides no actual positive for the US. And if the Clinton campaign and/or its surrogates aren’t pounding on this every day until something gives, then they are incompetent. I think the odds are good on the former demonstrating no actual positive value for the US. We’ll have to wait and see on the latter.

  33. 33.

    Eljai

    That quiche looks delicious! I made a broccoli frittata once that was very healthy, but the leftovers did not keep well because of the smell from the sulphur compounds in the broccoli. I have read that lemon juice or a bay leaf can counteract that problem.

  34. 34.

    Emma

    @amygdala: We have two mango trees and they have produced so much this year that we have supplied family and friends and froze enough for smoothies for about six months. Living in South Florida does have a few advantages. I’m a mango purist. Get from the tree, peel, eat, end up sucking on the seed until you’ve licked up all the juice. But mango-banana-orange juice batidos are great in the morning.

  35. 35.

    TaMara (HFG)

    Thanks Adam! I’m a sucker for anything lemon and that cake looks yummy!!! (and I just saw your email, too)

    I keep thinking I’ll find time to blog and remember sleep is not optional. Things should start to move into a regular schedule once I take my niece back home, the floors are finished and I’ve reorganized the closets. So, sometime in the fall.

    In other news, my brother and SIL are angels who helped me rid my overrun garden of some very invasive plantings and I’m beginning to see the light at the end of that tunnel, too.

  36. 36.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Anya: I saw that. I haven’t even made it through B V S yet. I bought the digital download, but haven’t had a chance to watch it and decided not to see it in the theaters. The initial Wonder Woman trailer looks, if I may use the word, wonderful!

    I’m a big fan of Bruce Timm. And I even understood in the context of the Batman the Animated Series as it turned into the New Batman Adventures (when it got put back into production when the Superman the Animated Series came on the scene) and then extended into Batman Beyond why he tied Batman and Batgirl/Bruce and Barbara romantically. Robin/Dick Grayson became completely (paralleling the comics) disillusioned with what Batman/Bruce was doing and the risks he was placing on Robin and Batgirl. So the relationship was the result of Dick leaving, which meant that Batgirl/Barbara Gordon was suddenly single, spending almost all her free time at night with Batman/Bruce, and it sorted of happened. When Timm and Dini brought Grayson back as Nightwing they teased that he and Barbara/Batgirl were back together, which has always how the comics have treated it. That Dick Grayson and Barbara Gordon always, ultimately, are supposed to be together. That’s how it was in the DC Animated Universe.

    I understand Timm’s wanting to flesh out The Killing Joke story as it was too short for a stand alone movie without doing so. So doing so makes sense. I’m not sure whether what was done is just lazy writing on Timm’s fault – falling back on something he already managed to pull off pretty well. Or something else is going on here.

  43. 43.

    amygdala

    @Emma: Niiiiice. No mangoes right off the tree here in California, alas. Gotta go visit relatives in Hawaii for that, which I haven’t done in quite awhile.

    I also like frozen mango chunks straight out of the freezer.

  47. 47.

    Adam L Silverman

    @burnspbesq: I would be very interested in just what GG’s connections are here, given Snowden, as well as to Snowden’s original hosts.

  48. 48.

    Emma

    @amygdala: Get ice cube trays and put mango puree in them. Add the cubes to fizzy water when you’re really overwhelmed by the heat. Or whenever you feel like it :D

  50. 50.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Major Major Major Major: When I was a post doc and teaching my religion and politics in the US seminar we covered, among other topics, the issue of abortion. I tried to play everything straight – the purpose is to get the students to all consider the issues and information from different angles regardless of their own beliefs, not to just tell them what I think. One of the things I would try to make clear is that yes, a fertilized human ovum as it developed gestationally, goes through a number of changes, but, if carried to term and born alive it is a human being. Its not like if you stop things at 18 weeks you’d get a starfish or a seahorse or something.

  52. 52.

    Mnemosyne

    @burnspbesq:

    I found it fascinating in the thread below that when I brought up the verified links between Wikileaks and Russia, the response was, How dare you accuse Glenn Greenwald of such things?!?

    Uh, I didn’t, but I find it fascinating that your mind would immediately leap there, pseudonymous poster. What do they call that on “Law and Order,” a “betraying utterance” or something like that?

  54. 54.

    Mnemosyne

    @Adam L Silverman:

    One of the things I would try to make clear is that yes, a fertilized human ovum as it developed gestationally, goes through a number of changes, but, if carried to term and born alive it is a human being. Its not like if you stop things at 18 weeks you’d get a starfish or a seahorse or something.

    Well, yes, but I guess my desired caveat is that there’s no guarantee that a fertilized human ovum will automatically develop into a normal and defect-free human being. There are quite a few environmental and genetic factors (including random coding errors) that can prevent that from happening, which the forced birtherrs sometimes like to pretend don’t exist.

  58. 58.

    burnspbesq

    @Mnemosyne:

    I’d call it a reasonable inference that Greenie is involved to some extent, given the long history of Snowden, Greenie, and Poitras acting in concert. It might ultimately turn out that Greenie had no role, but that seems the less likely of the two possibilities.

    Greenie’s acolytes are certainly quick to rise to nonexistent bait, aren’t they?

  59. 59.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Mnemosyne: I covered that too. And they had to read selections from the bioethical and science literature about the rates of spontaneous abortion (failure to implant and implantation failure within 96 hours) and miscarriage, the scientific argument that these are actually the body defending itself against potentially genetically flawed/damaged embryos or other issues related to women’s health. Things like that.

  60. 60.

    SectionH

    @amygdala: Ah… now I’m missing ripe papayas from the FM market in Hilo. We can get lots of wonderful local fruit, but never papayas.

    @Emma: TY, good idea. I love mangos, but they’re a PITA to deal with, and I always have a bunch of juice and pulpy mess on the cutting board afterwards which I too often just rinse off because I’m in a hurry.

  61. 61.

    Miss Bianca

    @Adam L Silverman: “emergency tiaras”? Sounds sort of like the situation at my gig last night…

    I’m looking at awesome food photos to distract me from the weird noises outside my bedroom door.

  63. 63.

    Miss Bianca

    @Emma: mmm…mango…I had a mango smoothie after my hike this afternoon. It was so cold I got throat burn, but it was just the thing after the heat, and my big old dog collapsing and needing to be hoisted into the car, which took some doing…

  64. 64.

    Miss Bianca

    @Adam L Silverman: I think it’s actually a pack rat – I just saw one scuttle away. If I find some turds on the stoop then I’ll consider my diagnosis confirmed…

  68. 68.

    Miss Bianca

    @Adam L Silverman: yup. Heard a sound like a burst of very distant machine-gun fire, or a short sharp shock of woodpecker rapping – rat tat tat tat tat!! – right under the stoop.

  69. 69.

    amk

    @Adam L Silverman:

    I think the odds are good on the former demonstrating no actual positive value for the US.

    That’s what I was afraid of. Clinton campaign can raise this almost traitorous side of the trump campaign, but if the worthless msm runs interference for them, it’s gonna stay below radar till the elections.

  71. 71.

    Miss Bianca

    @Mnemosyne: Well…damn. It’s *very* generous of you to spare me that lovely image of your imaginary future ex-husband, but…I’m feeling a little deprived now. Gotta go on the prowl for some gorgeous male body disrobing IRL soon, very soon!

  72. 72.

    Miss Bianca

    @Adam L Silverman: When suddenly, there came a rapping…

    At least I’m pretty sure it’s not a raven. The pallid bust of Pallas done been busted for some time.

  73. 73.

    Adam L Silverman

    @amk: WaPo has covered it. The Sunday shows covered it – including during an interview with Trump Jr by Tapper on CNN. This was followed up by one of Clinton’s people hammering the point about Russian Intel/Putin being behind the DNC hack and leak. Krugman did a column on it for the Times and the interview he gave during the RNC has some legs. We need to wait and see.

  74. 74.

    SectionH

    @Emma: I’m wondering why we don’t have local mango groves in San Diego County. Rainfall, humidity must be it. Enjoy yours!

  80. 80.

    Miss Bianca

    @Adam L Silverman: You know, I tried taking Pallas on hikes, but she just didn’t see the point. I got a lot of guff about “woods being the place that Pan hangs out” as well as assorted other lowlifes. Goddesses, sheesh, they’re so high maintenance.

  83. 83.

    Mnemosyne

    I need to scarper off to bed now, but what’s my best convention viewing channel tomorrow if I want to avoid jackass commentary? I’m assuming C-SPAN, but if that’s not the case, someone let me know.

  87. 87.

    Barb2

    @Joel:

    That’s why a massive airlift was organized by the west to supply West Berlin. Planes were filled with coal, delivered to Berlin. Return to base and load sacks of bread flour.

    My dad had a tiny piece of coaL from the airlift. Found while cleaning the air plane after the blockade was broken. The planes being loaded.

    Amazing what can happen when people work together.

    Stronger Together!

  88. 88.

    J R in WV

    Ok, here goes a sweet addition to lemon cake. There is a mix available in Krogers which makes a pretty nice Mayer lemon pound cake, with a lemony glaze. I add some fresh lemon juice (or lime if that’s what I have) and then pour a little of the cake batter into a big pie pan
    Then I put an 8 oz container of fresh raspberries sprinkled over that start of a cake, and then pour/spread, really, it’s pretty stiff, the rest of the batter over the berries, then bake it at the temp and time specified, even tho it’s much thinner than a pound cake.

    Let it cool, add the lemon glaze and let it set up. Wow is that a tart addition to the cake. And the red blobs of raspberry are really pretty too. I use a clear pyrex pie pan for the cake baking.

    Enjoy!

  89. 89.

    Barb2

    @Adam L Silverman:
    Thank you for this overview.

    We can help push the story. I already have GOTV email lists, personalized for the individuals. Trump Putin’s Puppet linked stories will go out along with cat videos.

    I’ll begin thus: You will not believe what I found while reading news headlines. Trump has borrowed millions from Russian sources. I kept following links. . . Blah blah.

    End with – please forward this information far and wide.

    I always pack the front of the email with news I know they are interested in. Updates on art projects, furkids updates. Then as an aside – the political news. My email friends have asked for links to stories not being reported. Then they have ammo when talking to Fox addicts. It is not a very big list, but it gets forwarded by friends to friends.

    Adapt these ideas and get out the Trump, Putin’s Puppet information.

    The book Trumped by O’Donnell covers that letter that Trump paid to have published as an ad. Now I understand the context of the ad.

    I’m going to contact my congress critter. He has at least four military bases in his district. “Why haven’t I read about Trump borrowing money from Russia in local newspapers?”

    What else can we do to force this story out there? This is serious. Why didn’t the GOP vet their candidate?

    This is a story that could get the attention of teabag-er relatives. I’ll send the email to the wife first. . . Focus on National security experts. They might vote Libertarian instead of Trump. The husband is part of a huge Veterans email list –
    And if he starts asking questions then the story will get more attention. The wording of my email is critical.

    I hope my brain storming helps someone out there to dream up more ways to get this story out there. Putin is sitting on Trump’s head!

    I am hopping mad. How dare a moral degenerate be allowed to get so close to the white house?

  90. 90.

    workworkwork

    I do crustless quiches every week or so. You make them ahead of time, put them in the fridge and then heat up a slice for a quick breakfast with a side of yogurt. Two quiches are four breakfasts for my wife and me.

    I’m a lazy cook, though, so I use frozen microwave steamer veggies as filling. (heat them up first)

    Some frozen vegetables are pre-seasoned so this, along with a dash of something from my spice cupboard, lets me change things up.

    The basic recipe is simple:
    – Egg Beaters
    – Skim milk
    – flour

    Then I add whatever cheese and veggies I have around. 375 degree oven for an hour and you’re good to go.

    When I get a good batch, I snap a pic and post it on my Facebook account.

  91. 91.

    No One You Know

    Made lemon confit yesterday, as I learn how to cook with the tagine. At first I thought I was eating time making a savory lemon marmalade, but as time went, it’s clearly its own thing. Looking forward to chicken with lemon and olives later in the week.

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