Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

There are some who say that there are too many strawmen arguments on this blog.

No one could have predicted…

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

Republicans don’t want a speaker to lead them; they want a hostage.

These days, even the boring Republicans are nuts.

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

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

Not so fun when the rabbit gets the gun, is it?

People really shouldn’t expect the government to help after they watched the GOP drown it in a bathtub.

Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

Do we throw up our hands or do we roll up our sleeves? (hint, door #2)

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

“Jesus paying for the sins of everyone is an insult to those who paid for their own sins.”

You don’t get rid of your umbrella while it’s still raining.

Bad people in a position to do bad things will do bad things because they are bad people. End of story.

This has so much WTF written all over it that it is hard to comprehend.

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

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

“Facilitate” is an active verb, not a weasel word.

Cancel the cowardly Times and Post and set up an equivalent monthly donation to ProPublica.

Every decision we make has lots of baggage with it, known or unknown.

rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius

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  1. 1.

    KrackenJack

    The Betty Crocker’s potato yeast rolls recipe is extremely good and versatile. One of the few recipes I have that doesn’t have additional notes.

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    Pete Mack

    Good looking bread!

    I mostly do Dutch oven “no knead” bread these days, or “little-knead” focaccia/pizza dough. The former has a nice big crumb and crunchy crust. The latter is rich with oil.

  3. 3.

    SiubhanDuinne

    Bread looks wonderful, John! I’d like a couple of thick warm slices with just fresh sweet butter, and for my third slice I’d also like some raspberry jam.

  6. 6.

    Mr. Bemused Senior

    I recommend a bread machine for making dough. Perhaps not quite as good as hand kneading but much more convenient.

  8. 8.

    dmsilev

    @Pete Mack: The no-knead recipes are great, though I guess we don’t know for sure that John has a Dutch oven or similar as part of his kitchen kit.

    (the ones from Lodge are well built, not too expensive, and can hold up to an oven at bread-baking temps without, say, the handle on the lid melting)

  15. 15.

    dmsilev

    This is my current go-to bread recipe: Pain de Campagne

    It needs a sourdough starter, but other than that, is very straightforward and the timing is great even for work-week baking. Prep dough in the morning, first rise during the day, shape in the evening and proof in fridge overnight. Preheat the oven on a timer so it’s hot when you wake up. Bread goes straight from fridge to oven, so less than an hour after rolling out of bed, fresh bread is ready for breakfast.

  21. 21.

    Chetan Murthy

    @dmsilev: I bought a 6qt Lodge enameled dutch oven during the pandemic, and over time it got crusted with gunk. I stopped baking for a couple of years, and when I started again this summer, I used 25% bleach soaked overnight to get the gunk off, and the next time I baked with it, bits of the enamel chipped off.  I wrote to Lodge (lifetime limited warranty) and they sent me a replacement!

    Nice!

    Also, I see that they have dutch ovens meant for baking — flat lid, so you can use ’em flipped over, etc.  I should have gotten one of those originally, I guess.

  23. 23.

    different-church-lady

    Soooooo… I’m just gonna adjudicate that this gives you privilege to slink off to bed sans articulation, should you so desire.

  28. 28.

    different-church-lady

    Since I know you’re gonna ask: today I was able to start eating soft solids. The mushy rice in canned chix and rice soup, bread absolutely soaked in broth, some smoked salmon, that sort of thing.

  39. 39.

    Redshift

    Yum! I was lucky enough to bring home a loaf of my mom’s bread over the weekend. She started baking bread when I was a teenager, and soon progressed to baking all our bread. I don’t eat a lot of bread these days, so when I do have it it’s nothing but the best (mom’s)!

  40. 40.

    Mousebumples

    @Omnes Omnibus: I think Batch is one of the better bakeries I’m aware of in Madison? Though Greenbush bakery has amazing sweets. (Not local, but I’m there periodically for work and my sister lives around there.)

  41. 41.

    NotMax

    Before succumbed to the allure of the super duper bread machine, discovered that ceramic-coated loaf pans are da bomb. Mayhaps will have to drag one or two out of the storage chest.

  47. 47.

    Anotherlurker

    Well, it finally happened.  COVID and I are now going head to head.  COVID is currently kicking my butt.

  51. 51.

    Mike in NC

    We just watched the final episode of “Fargo”, where the crazy killer goes gaga after being fed a fresh buttermilk biscuit.

  52. 52.

    mrmoshpotato

    Think I am going to work on dinner rolls and baguettes next.

    Henry Frankenstein: Look! It’s moving. It’s alive. It’s alive… It’s alive, it’s moving, it’s alive, it’s alive, it’s alive, it’s alive, IT’S ALIVE!

    Victor Moritz: Henry – In the name of God!

    Henry Frankenstein: Oh, in the name of God! Now I know what it feels like to be God!

    (Yes, from the movie.  Sue the writers.)

  53. 53.

    Yutsano

    I’ve been successfully moved to the rehab facility. Had an improvised dinner of string cheese, raspberry yogurt, Ritz chips, and vanilla pudding. My actual evaluation is in the morning then it’s go time.

  54. 54.

    The Kropenhagen Interpretation

    @Mr. Bemused Senior: I’m unfamiliar with these performers. Scrolled through seems hilarious.

    Not in for two hours at the moment. This will take me to a joyous sleep at some point.

  58. 58.

    mrmoshpotato

    @eclare: Oh, that could make a great grilled cheese.  Especially with thick cut slices (and of course a boatload of cheese).  Mmmmm

    Damn you, thin-cut store-bought sourdough.

  68. 68.

    Bupalos

    I don’t get it.

    That bread looks like an ass.

    Is that the joke? Why is there a lengthwise crack in a pan loaf like that? Am I the only one seeing this?

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    a thousand flouncing lurkers (was fidelio)

    @different-church-lady: If you’re able to get some, the chicken and rice soup from Chinese take-out places, allowed to sit overnight in the fridge and then reheated, produces a lot of soft rice, as it will absorb most of the broth as it sits.

  74. 74.

    Jackie

    @Yutsano: I’m so glad you sprung outta the hospital! How many days in rehab before you can recuperate at your parents? (Pass permitting)

  77. 77.

    The Kropenhagen Interpretation

    @Bupalos: Did they split along the top?

    Not all bread looks like an ass, but how much does any bread really have to change to look like an ass?

    I mean unless Wonder Bread is your preferred fare…

  78. 78.

    Bupalos

    @The Kropenhagen Interpretation: I mean, how much does a potato have to change to look like the virgin mary? Not much. And nonetheless none of those “looks like virgin mary” potatoes actually looks like the virgin mary. But this bread looks like an ass. AND NO OTHER BREAD LOOKS LIKE AN ASS.

  79. 79.

    The Kropenhagen Interpretation

    @Bupalos: Humans like seeing patterns. Some potatoes really do look like the virgim mary. That looks like a nicely tanned butt.  But why is that so?

    It’s normal to see a crack on bread, but the bread is puffy and the crack runs deep. Then if you look close inside, you’ll see where I stuck ny finger in.

  80. 80.

    Bupalos

     

    @The Kropenhagen Interpretation:

    Some potatoes really do look like the virgim mary.

    See everyone was going to think I was the crazy one until you said that. Tell us nore about these potatoes you see..

    But seriously. Bread gets slashed  down the middle sometimes….but it never looks like that.

  82. 82.

    Major Major Major Major

    Nice! I am absolutely horrible at yeast bread, except for rustic no-knead overnight type recipes. I’ve made some banger soda bread though, wrote about that here somewhere last spring…

    Husband has decided to try his hand at baking. Wish us luck!

  83. 83.

    The Kropenhagen Interpretation

    @Bupalos: but it never looks like that.

    Evidence to the contrary in the OP. You can’t seriously tell me that anyone would fail to correctly identify that as bread…before remarking it looks like an ass.

    And none of that is to denigrate the bread. That looks delicious, I’d eat that all night.

  84. 84.

    Anotherlurker

    @mrmoshpotato: I am honored that you addressed me as one of my favorite eating fish of all time.   # 1 has to be Tautog.  3, 4, 5, etc has to be Tilefish, Cod, Cusk, Tuna etc.

    Now that I live in the Bay Area, my favorite eating is dominated by various Rockfish and California Halibut.

    Meds are being delivered tomorrow.  I know that I generally heal pretty quickly so I’m optimistic of quick recovery.

  85. 85.

    Bupalos

    @The Kropenhagen Interpretation:  I know it’s bread like I know when someone balls up tinfoil into the shape of a unicorn it’s still tinfoil. BUT IT’S ALSO A UNICORN.

    And when someone does that it’s colloquially correct to say “tinfoil  balls never look like unicorns.” And saying so conveys critical meaning regarding artificial intentionality.

  89. 89.

    NotMax

    @twbrandt

    Product of one of my alma maters. While a student there he and astronomy department professor Peter van de Kamp collaborated on some short films which the latter would screen annually as part of an evening of short subjects.

  90. 90.

    NotMax

    Inspired enough to have ingredients for a challah loaf doin’ their thing in the super duper bread machine.

    For no good reason I don’t make eggy breads nearly often enough

  91. 91.

    The Kropenhagen Interpretation

    @NotMax: Inspired enough to have ingredients for a challah loaf

    No better bread has been conceived for french toast.

  95. 95.

    NotMax

    @Major Major Major Major

    Sometime early in the COVID times posted a recipe here for a no-knead no-rise bread using beer in place of yeast. As foolproof as baking bread in a loaf pan gets.

    Involved with time sensitive stuff so cannot interrupt to go looking for it right now. Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to go on a hunt.
    ;)

  97. 97.

    Anotherlurker

    @Ohio Mom: I did ask about it but one of my meds was contraindicated.  I’ll be starting on Lagaviro in the morning.

    I’m very lucky that that my oldest friend will pick it up and deliver it to me .

    One of the annoying things is that I have no appetite for anything right now. The wonderful turkey soup that my friend’s wife made is not doing anything for me, at the moment.  The only thing I have a craving for, right now, is Cozy Shack’s Rice Pudding and Chocolate Pudding.

    I think I’ll ask a another favor from my friend and see if he’ll stop by Safeway and pick me up a couple 2-3 containers of that shameless indulgence .

  108. 108.

    Splitting Image

    @twbrandt:

    OT: Peter Schickele, the genius behind P.D.Q. Bach, has died.

    Damn. He was 88, so it isn’t entirely unexpected, but still sad to hear it.

  112. 112.

    Matt McIrvin

    @Bupalos:

    Bread gets slashed  down the middle sometimes….but it never looks like that.

    On the contrary, it usually looks like that when I do it.

    I was actually planning to bake some bread for my office potluck today, but my daughter got sick and puked all over the place and I don’t think it’s a good idea for me to be making food for public consumption here under the circumstances. Quarantining myself at home.

  113. 113.

    Jeffg166

    I have been working on Danish pastry dough. Several attempts so far. The last effort is getting close.

    I decided to do this because what is now available in the supermarket is no longer acceptable. The quality of  everything seems to be declining more and faster.

  114. 114.

    Pete Mack

    @Chetan Murthy:

    You can also get uncoated ones and just steel-wool them clean when they get gunky. (They just need to be seasoned again.) They are suitable for campfires too, to impress a crowd.

  115. 115.

    Joelle

    @cain: I encouraged him to get artsy with the crust cuts and it fell on deaf ears.  Cole was all about making an ample loaf of Nicki Minaj butt crack bread.

  116. 116.

    WaterGirl

    @Joelle:

    Cole was all about making an ample loaf of Nicki Minaj butt crack bread.

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