Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.

When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

“Squeaker” McCarthy

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius

Presidents are not kings, and Plaintiff is not President.

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

People are complicated. Love is not.

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.

The poor and middle-class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the wealthy pay politicians.

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

If you’re pissed about Biden’s speech, he was talking about you.

Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.

Nothing worth doing is easy.

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

Balloon Juice has never been a refuge for the linguistically delicate.

Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.

Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

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Sunday Recipe Exchange: This One’s Hot, Hot, Hot

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Somehow,  I made an extremely spicy Green Chile. The peppers were marked as hot, so I should have suspected because normally they just assume you know green chiles are on the hot side. These were on the super-hot side.

A jackal sent me this recipe when I was asking for recommendations (and I only have her real name, so I’ll leave off the identification, if she’s around tonight, she can wave). It’s simple and turned out great. The only substitution I made was beef for pork. I’m not a big pork fan. Bacon, sausage and pepperoni are about it.

I used a boneless blade steak, which worked perfectly. I kinda wished I would have popped it on the grill when I roasted the chiles.

Green Chile

  • 2 lbs cubed pork shoulder
  • 1 tbsp minced garlic
  • 1/4 tsp pepper
  • 3 tbsp flour
  • 2 cups diced fresh tomatoes (or canned)
  • 1 can chicken broth
  • 1 cup water
  • 2 1/2 cups diced, roasted green chiles, skinned (seeded if desired)*
  • 2 cups diced onion (I used 1 cup, 2 seemed overwhelming)
  • salt and pepper to taste

Brown the pork, add garlic and cook for 1 minute. Add flour, stir and cook for 2 more minutes. Add all remaining ingredients and mix together well.

Slowcooker times: Cook for 2-3 hours on low

Instant Pot/Multipot times: Cook on meat setting (or high) for 1 hour, depressurize. Meat should shred easily, if not seal and cook another 15 minutes.

*If you want to roast your own chiles, instructions are here.

Sunday Recipe Exchange: This One's Hot, Hot, Hot

There are lots of ways to use Green Chile, but I like to just dish some up and eat it with fresh tortillas. Recipe for making your own tortillas is here.

It’s been a busy day here, what with the Chameleon rescue and all, so I’ll check back in if I haven’t fallen asleep.

OT: a friend of mine, who is Japanese, just turned me onto this Netflix show Duty/Shame. It’s a British-Japanese hybrid from the BBC and the visuals (as well as the leads) are stunning. Story is pretty good, too.

What’s on your menu tonight?

 

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  3. 3.

    Kent

    Anyone have any good ideas for using up a bunch of goat cheese?

    My daughter bought a bunch of goat cheese at Costco for a recipe she didn’t end up making and now it is sitting in my fridge.  I gotta put it to use somehow.

  4. 4.

    Yutsano

    Obligatory.

    Are those Hatch chiles by chance? They were in my store but I’m still at my parents and Mom doesn’t do heat. How she stayed married to my hot-loving father is a big mystery.

    EDIT: @mrmoshpotato:  I have the original video. I win.

  6. 6.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    I’ve had dinner at Sighthound Hall, getting ready to shove off for home. Salmon with pecan crust, corn salad, artichoke hearts with mozzarella. Lemon bars for dessert. Very good.

  9. 9.

    Sure Lurkalot

    I should be honored having this recipe which I sent TaMara posted…but I got it from the Denver Post many moons ago.  The only change I make is to brown the onions (however much seems right) before adding them to the mix. Big thank you to TaMara for converting to InstantPot cooking.  I didn’t have one when I sent this recipe on, but I have one now and I will try that method next time!

  14. 14.

    schrodingers_cat

    I made chicken curry with bone-in chicken thighs, oven roasted cauliflower with cumin seeds, chili and turmeric and roasted baby potatoes served it with cold beer.

  15. 15.

    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    We had a family graduation celebration for our youngest daughter, as she just got a Masters Degree. Just us, the girls and partners.

    I smoked 4 racks of babybacks and about an 8 pound pork shoulder using about a 6 to 1 ratio of applewood to mesquite, a commercial dry rub that doesn’t contain sugar (used brown mustard to bind), and a spray bottle of 4 parts apple cider, 4 parts bourbon and 2 parts apple cider vinegar.

    It was a long smoke, about 7 hours – pork butt was on the lower placement, so it got treated to the rib fat. Generally speaking, the temp seemed to hover around 220. The final two hours fell off quick, as I had timed it for us to tour a brandy distillery in the city.

    Sides were simple – I’d prepared a quick pickle made from red onion, pepper flakes, cider vinegar, white vinegar and some salt. Potato salad, and a lemon-based tart slaw (along with dill pickles and bread and butter chips) rounded it out. Sweet Hawaiian buns for the pork, and two sauces – one sweet, one spicy.

    Beer, white claw and wine were there in abundance.

    I was told that I peaked as a grill master with that meal – nobody had ever had BBQ that good before.

  20. 20.

    Wag

    Tonight for dinner I grilled steaks. Before throwing them on the grill, I rub them down with a spice mixture from the Savory Spice Shop, using their Cuban spice rub, mixed 50-50 with their New Mexico medium chili powder. Grill the steaks, and serve them slice thinly with tortillas, rice, guacamole, and homemade tomatillo salsa it was delicious

  22. 22.

    Raven

    @WaterGirl: It’s been fun, I’ve documented the happy/sad nature of it so no sense in dredging that up again. We were very lucky to be able to come here for a week for basically a cleaning fee.

  23. 23.

    Wag

    The green chili recipe looks like the classic green chili recipe I got from a friend’s mom when I was in junior high. I still make it, now in my instapot. The only difference is that I make a well browned roux that I stir into the chili at the end.

  24. 24.

    WaterGirl

    @Wag: It would never have occurred to me to season steaks with chili powder or a cuban spice rub.  I will have to give that some thought.t

    I found two things in my freezer, wrapped in foil, so I couldn’t tell what they were.  I pulled them both out and put them in the fridge.  I imagine they will thaw by tomorrow so I can unwrap them.

  25. 25.

    WaterGirl

    @Raven: Yeah, I almost added that I hope you will be able to go back one more time in the fall, but figured I wouldn’t bring that up in case you were studiously avoiding thinking about that, because you just won’t know until you know.

    It’s such a lovely place – every time you are headed there and post pictures I am green with envy.  In a good way, of course.

  29. 29.

    Gin & Tonic

    We had been to the Asian market yesterday, and my son is back home for now, so today he did basically a shrimp boil. Head-on shrimp, new potatoes, shallots and corn from the farmer’s market in a big pot with a bunch of Red Lobster brand seasoning (don’t laugh, we actually like it better than Old Bay.) Also razor clams, sauteed in white wine, some more shallots, and tomatoes and basil from the garden. Sitting on the deck close to sundown, eating with your hands, who can beat it?

  35. 35.

    WaterGirl

    @Wag: I do have some nice “medium hot” chili powder from Penzey’s.  It’s made from the following, so it has a complex flavor.

    Ancho chili pepper, cayenne red pepper, paprika, cumin, garlic and Mexican oregano.

  36. 36.

    rikyrah

    @WaterGirl:

     

    I found two things in my freezer, wrapped in foil, so I couldn’t tell what they were.  I pulled them both out and put them in the fridge.  I imagine they will thaw by tomorrow so I can unwrap them.

    Hopefully, it’s something you want to eat :)

  37. 37.

    WaterGirl

    @MomSense: Have you tried adding grilled zucchini to that sandwich?  It’s heavenly.  (zucchini grilled with lots of pepper & some garlic salt)

    I just “grill” it with a bit of olive oil in a frying pan on the stove.

    edit: I have eaten that 3 times this week.  Homemade bread, zucchini from the garden, tomato from the garden.  Cheese from the store. :-(  Still, it’s always a thrill to eat something that is mostly home grown and homemade (bread).

  41. 41.

    WaterGirl

    @mrmoshpotato: I know it can’t be too old because my fridge died early in quarantine and I got a new one, so everything in my freezer is from March or later.

    One package was pretty tiny, so I’m hoping that was steak that I just couldn’t finish after a small number of days, so I popped it in the freezer.

    The other is the size and shape of an italian beef sandwich, but I don’t have any of that in my freezer, so for the life of me I cannot figure out what that is.

    I’m just hoping that my first words after unwrapping it aren’t “well, fuck”.

    edit:  the excitement, it burns.

  43. 43.

    Gaffa

    Today I ran by socially-distant RPG campaign on Discord, took a nap, fixed some bagels and coffee for dinner, then popped popcorn to get Episode 2 of Lovecraft Country on HBO. I haven’t read the book, but the production, direction, and acting on that series is exceptional even for HBO. And…tonight was quite a series of unexpected events, I’ll say.

  44. 44.

    Delk

    Sous vide Italian sausages with fresh pasta. 150 degrees for an hour and a half. Hubby made a happy plate.

  46. 46.

    geg6

    OT, but the first rat is jumping ship: Kellyanne Conway, who so resembles one, so it is right and proper.

  51. 51.

    Jeffro

    @geg6: was just gonna say!

    also the RNC decided it doesn’t need a platform: “ Whatever you want is fine with us, trumpov!”  Not kidding

    I think this is the point where the titanic is at a 45° angle and the lights all go out

  53. 53.

    geg6

    @Jeffro:

    I’m not quite that confident, but I am cautiously optimistic.  I think our team hit homeruns all over the place last week.  But I have no trust in my instincts after 2016.  Just putting my head down and doing what I can.

  57. 57.

    Calouste

    @Jeffro: If you ever need to make the argument, for example with someone who’s thinking about ticket splitting, you can point to this to say that any vote for a Republican is a vote for the shitgibbon.

  58. 58.

    Benw

    Today I taught my daughter that if the shorebreak’s coming at you, you can’t back up so you’re on your heels as the wave explodes in your face: then you’re going to get rolled. You’ve got to trust you can make it and charge the wave and dive through it just as it looms over you. Now she’s a badass in the surf.

  61. 61.

    Keith P.

    @TaMara (HFG): That was my speculation as well. I read the emancipation tweet this afternoon and thought “Holy crap, that house must be nuclear right right now.”

    Things had quieted down since that video the daughter posted where she was interrogated her mother, who was trying to be somewhat pleasant since she was being livestreamed until she took away her phone mid-stream.  Then George Conway got involved when someone tried to interview the daughter about it.  Just a real tough family situation that got made public.  I honestly feel for the Conway family and think they all made the right decision by everyone laying down their weapons.

  62. 62.

    Calouste

    @Yutsano: Interesting tidbit when I clicked through a bit on that poll: that firm also polled approval for governors’ handling of COVID, and the Democrats are about 50-30, where the Republicans (including AZ) are about 30-50. This is going to affect the Senate and Presidential races.

  64. 64.

    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    @Jeffro: What I heard is that they just copied and pasted the 2016 platform, which includes this gem:

    The current Administration has exceeded its constitutional authority, brazenly and flagrantly violated the separation of powers, sought to divide America into groups and turn citizen against citizen. The President has refused to defend or enforce laws he does not like, used executive orders to enact national policies in areas constitutionally reserved solely to Congress, made unconstitutional “recess” appointments to Senate-confirmed positions, directed regulatory agencies to overstep their statutory authority, and failed to consult Congress regarding military action overseas. He has changed what John Adams called “a government of laws and not of men” into just the opposite.

  65. 65.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Jackie:

    Looks like both parents are doing the right thing. This is probably the only positive thing I’ll ever say about Kellyanne. 

    Turning themselves into Biden’s DOJ would be the right thing.  I wonder if both of those shitstains will try to flee the country.

  66. 66.

    Dan B

    @WaterGirl: Back in my yoot I was in a military counseling service.  Our collective house did lots of dumpster diving which rewarded us with dozens of label less cans.  We had a mystery can dinner.  We opened dozens of cans of green beans.  We bought pizza.

    Best of luck with your freezer mysteries.

  67. 67.

    MoCA Ace

    Love the roasted peppers.  this year I finally solved my neglected flower bed problem by digging out all of the perennials and planting peppers… 42 plants in all!  A mix of bells, chili. serrano, pablano, cayenne, and Thai peppers.  With the additional care afforded by the pandemic lockdown the harvest will be epic.  I look forward to roasting and freezing peppers for winter chili and smoking a lot of the hot peppers for some homemade chipolate seasoning.

    This morning my grandsons stopped by for a visit and were grazing in the garden (the 3-year old is a born vegetarian and eats spinach fresh from the garden) when they both decided the chili’s looked too good to pass up! My wife met us on the front porch with a gallon of milk for the boys to chug to cool their burning tongues.  Both of them handled it like champs with not a tear shed.  Wish I was quicker with the phone… would have made a great video.

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