Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Glad to see john eastman going through some things.

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

Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.

The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.

One of our two political parties is a cult whose leader admires Vladimir Putin.

Well, whatever it is, it’s better than being a Republican.

Live so that if you miss a day of work people aren’t hoping you’re dead.

The arc of the moral universe doesn’t bend itself. it’s up to us.

At some point, the ability to learn is a factor of character, not IQ.

The US Supreme Court is on the ballot in november.

You’re just a puppy masquerading as an old coot.

There is no right way to do the wrong thing.

The new republican ‘Pastor’ of the House is an odious authoritarian little creep.

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

Republicans don’t lie to be believed, they lie to be repeated.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

Republicans would impeach Biden if he bit into a whole Kit Kat rather than breaking the sections apart.

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

In after Baud. Damn.

This isn’t Democrats spending madly. This is government catching up.

When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?

… gradually, and then suddenly.

Republicans: “Abortion is murder but you can take a bus to get one.” Easy peasy.

FFS people, this was a good thing. take the win.

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Friday Recipe Exchange: Soups On

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Well it’s been a whirlwind of activity here and I feel like I’ve made a lot of progress with the house and garden. Lots of cooking going on for friends and family because I love working in my new kitchen. It hasn’t left a lot of time for blogging. But dinner is in the slow-cooker and I have a moment before it’s time to walk Bixby, so tonight there is a recipe exchange. From the food blog:

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JeffreyW and I once again had a mind-meld moment and both made a batch of Beef and Barley Soup this week. His yummy photo is pictured above.  My recipe is here and JeffreyW’s recipe is here, accompanied by great photos.

Chuck roasts were on sale this week, so I stocked up. I love a good pot roast and have a few recipe variations. I have a recipe for a Tangy Pot Roast here.  For a more traditional take on a yummy Slow-Cooker Pot Roast  including a full menu and recipes, click here. My new favorite ingredient is a dash of good whisky to deepen the flavors.  One of the roasts will be cut up and frozen for soup or stew.

The garden is still producing an abundance of ripe tomatoes, so I made a batch of Tomato-Spinach Soup, recipe here. For a vegetarian version, just omit ground beef. I make it both ways depending on my mood. Serve with grilled cheese sandwich on Easy Slow Rise Crusty Bread, pictured below and recipe here.

bread-and-jam

Another batch of tomatoes, along with zucchini, green peppers and eggplant (all garden fresh) went into a fresh dinner for guests this week, Garden Fresh Pasta, recipe here.

What’s on the menu tonight? Any fun plans for this first weekend of October?

Turkey Bean Soup1

Tonight’s featured recipe is what we’re having as part of a get-together tomorrow night. It’s simple, hearty soup that we can put together earlier in the day for a quick dinner. Then we’ll be heading out to the local historical farm for Wildlife Night. There will be owls.

Cranberry beans are usually easy to find, but if not, substitute cannellini white kidney beans – you can use dry or canned.

Turkey Bean Soup

  • 1 lb smoked turkey sausage, diced (or ground turkey, browned)
  • 1 lb dried cranberry beans (soaked overnight, drained)cranberry-beans-close-up
  • 8 cups of water (or 6 cups water, 2 cups chicken broth)
  • 1/2 small onion, diced
  • 2 bay leaves
  • 2 stalks celery, diced
  • 1 tsp dried Oregano
  • 1 tsp Chili powder
  • 1 tsp Cumin
  • Salt and pepper to taste

Slow-cooker

Add all ingredients to the slow-cooker and cook for 6 to 8 hours on low. Serve with fresh hot bread and salad for a complete dinner.

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That’s it for this week. I’m heading out to buy paint…starting on the living room this weekend. Have a great weekend – TaMara

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  1. 1.

    Corner Stone

    What’s on the menu tonight?

    I am making Vietnamese style Shaking Beef tonight. Inspired by the HRC Shimmy.

  3. 3.

    karen marie

    I’m having leftovers from last night. The end of the onion tart from Trader Joe’s and a big bowl of home-made tomato soup. So good! While the reality of the tart’s appearance is nothing like the picture on the box, it’s a reasonably tasty and fast accompaniment to a nice bowl of soup.

  5. 5.

    Hal

    I ordered a steak and cheese sub. Same place I ordered last time but last time I made the mistake of saying yes to oil and mayo and they put fucking miracle whip on the sub. Complete ruined an otherwise good sub. Miracle whip is disgusting and over powers the flavors of everything it touches.

  6. 6.

    Carlo Graziani

    Those cranberry beans look like what Tuscan’s call “Borlotti”. The Tuscan basic bean/vegetable soup technique is good if you have some reason to vegetarianize a soup, leaving out the broth. What they do is, after soaking the beans, cook them separately in plenty of water. Then, don’t discard the water. Instead, take out 2/3 of the beans and puree them in the food processor with a little cooking water to help them puree. Then add the pureed beans, the intact beans, and the bean water to whatever soup base (typically a kale-based minestrone-type thing) you happen to be making. The pureed beans give the resulting soup huge body and flavor, and make broth superfluous. I do this when my benighted vegetarian friends come to dinner.

  7. 7.

    Mnemosyne

    I need to walk up to Ladies & Gents Night Out to buy a Tiny Yarnover Truck kit from the Yarnover Truck, so I’ll probably see if any food trucks strike my fancy.

    And if any of that makes any sense to you, you probably live here in the San Fernando Valley. Hi, neighbor!

  9. 9.

    geg6

    I want butternut squash soup. Or leek soup. With some sort of decadent grilled cheese. It’s chilled off a little this week and it’s been rainy and feels like fall. Plus there is currently no heat my building at work, so I’ve been chilled the last two days. Soup sounds fantastic.

  10. 10.

    Pogonip

    I have no recipes but would like to state that Target’s dark chocolate Halloween Kit Kats are great! We’re going to buy several bags to freeze.

  14. 14.

    Princess

    Rosh Hashanah on Sunday so brisket, potato kugel, baklava, and apple challah are in my future. Tonight Ialso started a roasted hazelnut and prune sourdough bread to take to friends.

  15. 15.

    Poopyman

    @Mnemosyne: I don’t, but I was watching Food Truck Wars, or whatever it’s called, while on the plane, so I’m now officially jealous.

    (Although I was already pretty jealous after seeing “Chef”.)

  16. 16.

    NotMax

    Secret to old-fashioned, long time on the stove beef and barley soup is to use meat still on the bone. Alternatively, a stewing meat* or similar plus adding in what can be found at a good market labeled as soup bones (which the neighborhood butcher used to give away for nothing) to the pot. They’re usually sold already chopped into manageable sizes.

    Thickens it nicely, and one has the yummy bones to suck marrow from as well.

    *NOT the packages labeled ‘Stew Meat’ in the meat display. No way to tell from what cut those descend, could be anything and everything in the same package.

  20. 20.

    Kay Eye

    Mmmm, need to scratch through my recipe clippings and find that good butternut squash, corn, and chicken chowder I made last year. We are enjoying a cool spell ( lower than 90 every day this week except one) so it’s time for soup. I should be able to adapt it to a crock pot.
    Makes me want to shimmy.

  21. 21.

    SiubhanDuinne, liberal mob enforcer bitch

    @Pogonip:

    I just bought a bag of Dark Chocolate Sea Salt Cashews, which I plan to test out with a glass of red wine, just as soon as I finish my shaved pork on a pretzel roll sandwich.

  22. 22.

    p.a.

    @Corner Stone: had bo bun hue for lunch, it only comes in xl at the local Pho-house, so I just had a little nosh the rest of the day.@geg6: I use acorn squash in veggie broth with some finely sliced rehydrated guajillo pepper for extra color. this time of year local unpasteurized apple cider and a dash of calvados too.

  23. 23.

    Shana

    @Princess: Damned close to my menu for sunday night: brisket, potato kugel, roasted carrots with tahini mint and pistachios, apple cake with caramel sauce in my star of david bundt pan.

    Tonight we had rotisserie chicken with fresh green beans, roasted potatoes and pear crisp for dessert. Older daughter came for dinner. She and hubby talked working in a law firm and trying to also have a life. So nice to have her back in town.

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    satby

    I love fall, love the excuse to make soup, and love just about everything with pumpkin in it. So Pumpkin Curry soup is going to be on the menu this weekend. Works with butternut squash or golden Hubbard’s squash too.
    I mix it up with yellow curry and coconut cream sometimes for a milder and richer flavor. And always use fresh, not canned pumpkin. Love the stuff.

  30. 30.

    satby

    And for the rest of the puree from the cooked pumpkin, everyone loves pumpkin-praline cheesecake. *
    Except the one neighbor who was allergic to nuts.

    *if substituting fresh pumpkin for canned pumpkin pie mix, you need to add the additional spices that would go into pumpkin pie.

  33. 33.

    satby

    @raven: yeah, it’s a love it or hate it thing. I never liked it myself until I started using fresh pumpkin I cooked and pureed myself instead of the canned stuff.

  34. 34.

    Lizzy L

    Black bean soup with cilantro and sour cream tonight. Maybe roasted carrots. Biscuits, yeah. (Not homemade, alas.)

  35. 35.

    raven

    @Pogonip: @Pogonip: Try this.

    I know she’s a tracker, any scarlet would back her
    They say she’s a chooser, but I just can’t refuse her
    She was just there, but then she can’t be here no more
    And as my mind unweaves, I feel the freeze down in my knees
    But just before she leaves, she receives

  38. 38.

    MomSense

    Grilled cheese and tomato tonight. It was a long week and I’m pooped. Got a dog asleep on my feet and watching Luke Cage.

  39. 39.

    geg6

    @raven:

    I love pumpkin. Almost anything pumpkin, though I make exceptions for pumpkin beer and coffee. Totally heresy, those two. I think it’s that my birthday is on or around Thanksgiving, also my favorite holiday. This year, my birthday is on Thanksgiving. It’s special when that happens.

  40. 40.

    Shana

    @Pogonip: My recollection from when we bought one, was that it’s better to get one that opens on top as opposed to one that looks like a fridge. They’re supposed to be better from an energy efficiency standpoint and are less likely to accidently open.

  42. 42.

    SiubhanDuinne, liberal mob enforcer bitch

    @raven:

    I like the flavour of pumpkin, but hate the hype. Anyhow, it’s an abomination much before October 15th. I have relatives who jump on the PSL bandwagon around August 4th, and if I didn’t want to keep peace in the family, I’d jump all over them.

  43. 43.

    p.a.

    @geg6: Don’t drink pumpkin beer lager-cold. cool or less brings out the flavor, otherwise it’s just weak ale. ignore this advice if your dislike is more philosophic than gustatory.

  57. 57.

    CaseyL

    @Baud: Tried Ben & Jerry’s once. It’s OK, don’t quite get the hype; I guess it’s more of a culture thing than a flavor & texture thing. I rarely eat ice cream and when I do, I want it to be Haagen Dazs.

  58. 58.

    Prescott Cactus

    @Pogonip: Currently have a Kenmore chest freezer, mid size (2 clowns well folded), no auto defrost. Must shut it off twice a year and empty out and use a hair dryer for a couple minutes. Total job time is 45 minutes.

    Never a problem.

    ETA: Best when operating full. Ice tea jugs filled with water are added to keep it full and running compressor less.

  59. 59.

    ruemara

    What’s on the menu? I was going to go out and grab a burger and try to go out and enjoy something. But a friend called and said she had an emergency and needed my computer. So I ran home from the gym and proceeded to wait an hour for her until I texted her and she said she’d changed her mind. I had a slice of paleo bread with bacon jam and my drive to find some sort of human interaction is done. I have no idea what I’m going to eat or if I’m going to eat. No appetite.

  60. 60.

    tsquared2001

    I wish I knew how to cook. I am the Smoke Goddess when it comes to b-b-que and make a mean baked potato but otherwise, I am clueless.

    When I was a poor student in England, I expected regular rice to work like Minute Rice so I put one cup of water for every cup of rice into the pan like you do.

    No accident that the other ladies on the floor took me under their wing for at least Sunday dinner. Ate a lot of fish and chips from the shady dealer just off campus.

  62. 62.

    Jeffro

    My crock-pot shredded pork tacos were a hit tonight…I’ll have to put that into the recipe gizmo here sometime soon.

    (could probably do about the exact same recipe with chicken thighs next time)

    Happy weekend, all – off to see JMU whup UD tomorrow for Family Day!

  63. 63.

    Mnemosyne

    @Major Major Major Major:

    Thanks! I have to finish packing and then head off to bed sometime in the next half hour. Have I mentioned yet that I have to get up at FOUR O’FUCKING A M tomorrow morning? Check-in for the bus starts at 5:00 am and it’s about half an hour away. Plus I want to make sure I get a good seat.

  64. 64.

    NotMax

    First world problems.

    Post office always leaves my packages on the front porch. Yesterday, it turns out, they left one I was expecting down the hill, inside my landlady’s carport which is attached to her garage. Just now found it, way out of sight.

    Her address and mine are not identical.

  65. 65.

    NotMax

    @Mnemosyne

    Las Vegas, right?

    Dunno if you saw it downthread, but there’s a Carnegie Deli at the Mirage.

    Bring the leftovers home to G (and score mucho brownie points).

  66. 66.

    Mnemosyne

    @NotMax:

    Yes, I saw! I’m kind of stuck at the Circus Circus, so I’m not sure if I’m going to get to the rest of the Strip, partly because I’m not sure about wandering around by myself at night in Vegas (though it should be pretty safe if only because of the crowds) and partly because I may be insanely tired after 6 hours of voter registration.

  68. 68.

    laura

    I had a really satisfying Chicken Tortilla Soup in the Marina District after day 1 of Hardly, Strictly Bluegrass. Mavis Staples, Boz Scaggs, Shawn Colvin & all of it free and soul restoring. Steve Earle, Rebirth Brass Band and the amazing Moon Hooch! The Giants are crushing the Dodgers, I am officially in heaven.

  69. 69.

    workworkwork

    I’m currently in the hospital due to low platelet count so I’m unable to cook.
    However, the room service menu is surprisingly good. They have me on the diabetic plan (75g/meal) and there are some very good selections, including some tasty soups and salads.

    The rib-eye (0g) is particularly good and you just add some steamed veggies (so far nicely al dente), some cottage cheese, some soup (the chicken noodle is my favorite so far), a sugar-free jello and you’ve got a nice meal.

    Still would like to get out of here and go back to cooking my own meals, though. I guess I’ll treat it like a bit of a break.

  70. 70.

    JR in WV

    @workworkwork:

    When Mrs J was in for a long count, she was particularly well tended to, they would save her fresh strawberries and an extra fruit plate. She said it was varied enough that she never got bored over her 59-day stay. Everything was done professionally, as opposed to cheaply.

    As opposed to the place where we get joint surgery done. Thank god it’s usually a one night stay, and that there are good restaurants close by for takeout. They serve your worst nightmare of hospital food. So enjoy your break, since the food is good. Given the price, it should be at least 2 stars Michelin style rankings.

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