I’m starting to feel a little better- the cold portion of whatever this was is abating and the aches and pains are subsiding and it now just sinus headache. So I got that going for me.
We have lots going on this weekend, to include painting the living room, so I made a big batch of my version of tuscan bean soup and some guac and pico de gallo so that we don’t have to worry about food while we’re working. It’s also bulk trash pickup next week in our zone of Tempe so I am going to be hauling a bunch of stuff she had wanted to get rid of but couldn’t because she is wee. And because you ask me every time and I forget, here is the way I made the tuscan bean soup this time:
In big pot (I just use a dutch oven), brown four italian sausages (mild) that you have cut into 3/4″ coins. When browned, tong out all the meat into a separate bowl.
Deglaze with white wine. Add a diced sweet onion, two minced shallots, a couple stalks of diced celery, couple cloves of minced garlic, 3-4 carrots cut into 1/2″ coins. Push that around the pot with the wine as lube and soak up all the brown stuff.
Add some herbs de provence or italian seasoning and some bay leaves. Throw in a knob of butter. Add some grated pepper. Add a squirt of tomato paste. When you got the veg where you want it, add a quart of vegetable stock, a couple cans of cannellini beans (drained and washed), a can or two of diced tomatoes, and a cup of heavy whipping cream. Throw in a parm rind. I had some fresh thyme I let dry out on the windowsill so I put a little of that in, too.
Let it cook on super low for a couple hours. Don’t forget to throw in a parm rind. Salt and Pepper to taste. It’s a super hearty “meal” soup that is relatively inexpensive, and most of the ingredients are already in a kitchen where a lot of scratch cooking is done. So yer gonna have the mirepoix, the beans and most everything on hand (canned beans are something you should always have a couple of every variety to use when you need and you can always replace them super easy because they go on sale ALL THE TIME so just pick em up then). Basically the sausage and the whipping cream are items you’ll have to pick up. Fresh spinach goes well with it, too.
And yes, the recipe changes slightly every time because it is based on what I have on hand. At any rate, the color Joelle has chosen for her living room is Chartreuse:
I bought a test pint and put some patches up on the wall, the boss ok’d it, and that’s what we are rolling with. Not sure what to do with the trim.
Sposed to be a big rain storm tonight. I plan to sleep right on through it.
Gin & Tonic
Reminds me of the time a bunch of friends and I went winter hiking/ice climbing and afterward ended up in a bar where we proceeded to go through their stock of Chartreuse. Bad, bad morning the next day. That stuff isn’t good for you.
lowtechcyclist
Now I know what color ‘chartreuse’ is.
ETA: I’ve known since childhood that it was the name of a color, just had no idea what color.
Scout211
Paint color names are so random. They never look like the name seems like they should. Joelle’s paint color looks very nice and muted. Perfect for a living room. But when I think of the color chartreuse, I think of this.
Feel better, Cole.
NotMax
Especially if you’re not feeling 100 per cent up to snuff, provide adequate ventilation by flinging open windows and doors Those fumes can be a bee-yotch.
cckids
John, your soup sounds excellent. I make a very similar one, without the cream, but with the addition of a couple tablespoons of anchovy paste. It adds something to the depth of taste & is fabulous.
zhena gogolia
Wow, “mirepoix,” I’m impressed.
SteveinPHX
Sounds like a recipe worth trying (flexible) and shud turn out real nourishing. Going to copy & paste those directions and give it a try one day. Does not sound way different from some Italian recipes I have tried over the years.
Have fun.
Gin & Tonic
@NotMax: I dunno, I think the smell of Tuscan bean soup is pretty nice.
laura
The parm cheese rind cannot be overstated. Also, maggi seasoning.
We tried scads of paint and ended up with “country rubble.” All other browns were So Pink- no Bueno. Now, to hang stuff back in the walks in a cohesive and coherent assemblage….one day.
Salty Sam .
Cole, I agree with you 100%. However, Salty Spouse has a “thing” about beans- won’t eat ‘em. She SAYS they don’t agree with her, but when I ask for details… crickets.
I don’t know what her problem is, but this is my lot in life.
Jackie
What is a knob of butter?
geg6
Trim should be a soft off-white. Green is my favorite color, so I approve.
NotMax
@zhena gogolia
To expand on what we were briefly chatting about the other day, even though it’s mostly a mental fudge I can more readily justify that extra 3 bucks a month since the free-to-add person on my Prime account is given over to Mom. So rather than a dime a day I prefer to think of it as a nickel a day for each of us.
Same mental gymnastics in play for the cost of the annual Prime membership.
;)
geg6
@Salty Sam .:
I love beans but I, too, can get some intestinal distress when I eat too many. But since I love them, I still eat ‘em. If I take a double dose of GasX, it’s somewhat better but not completely resolved.
Almost Retired
Yup there’s a big rain storm coming your way. Already passed thru here (LA). Super useful handy person that I am, I overcame my fear of heights and nailed a tarp on the roof of the family room over a long-standing leak over the couch. Success! I diverted the leak to the rest of the family room.
eversor
I took a stand for Christianity! My niece had an issue with a male friend at school. And I explained to her as we are not anti Christian bigots there is a gender order. Look to your bible, look to Jesus. There is no, NO. No means yes, yes means anal. This is the Jesus ordained gendered order and you must submit. Because Christianity!
Feels good. For the first time in my life I have not defended a rape victim. But then again, I am now pro Christian. Women don’t get a vote in Christianity. So rape is a OK!
Bring on more rapes!
Gin & Tonic
@geg6: Beans, beans, the magical fruit; the more you eat, the more you toot.
Jay
Here, there was an ad campaign by Sherwin Williams, the paint store, to have customers give “man names” to already named paint colours. So “pumpkin spice” became “Boston Bruins Orange”. “Summer Teal” became “Corvette Baby Blue”.
It was a cute campaign.
Alison Rose
I am 1000% serious that I think a wellness check needs to be made, and I ain’t talking about John and Joelle.
Scout211
@Alison Rose: All I see is pastries and candy. I finally decided ignoring wasn’t effective for me. I had to order the pastries.
Jay
Oh, by the way, don’t feed the troll.
Not even a bean soup/stew.
The Thin Black Duke
@Alison Rose: Yes. It’s not funny. This person needs help before something bad happens.
Jay
@Alison Rose:
Nope. Just looking for attention.
zhena gogolia
@NotMax: I’m on the verge of getting it. The ads haven’t bothered me too much yet (unlike the Freevee ones). But I think it’s probably well worth it to get rid of them.
Alison Rose
@Jay: At a certain point, “looking for attention” is a sign that something is seriously wrong. Look at the comment. Look at the topic of the post. What attention would this garner other than a few people saying “shut up asshole”? This person is losing their fucking mind and is not operating within reality.
satby
Talking about him counts as a success for him too.
Yutsano
I’m sorry, but being pro-rape is beyond the pale. Someone should be getting a long-deserved time out.
Alison Rose
@Yutsano: It will apparently never happen.
frosty
@Gin & Tonic: I remember that as the “musical” fruit, which makes “toot” a little funnier.
NotMax
@Yutsano
You back home and feeling more healthy?
Josie
@Alison Rose:
You are probably correct that help is needed, but the truth is that we are not equipped to provide it. You are talking about a nym on a blog. We don’t know identity or location, so there is nothing we can do except apply the pie filter and hope for the best. It sounds heartless but what else can one do?
Jay
@Alison Rose:
The worst thing that can happen to a Troll, is to lose engagement.
On platforms where they have had engagement, once it is clear they are a troll, they amp up their attempts to troll, by going more, (The Troll crossed that weeks ago) and more extreme to try to provoke a response.
When that fails, they change their nym and try to start over, keeping their trolling light, but with the same style and often the same subject matter.
Don’t feed the Troll.
p.a.
Any bass fisherman can tell you that is not really chartreuse, and thank dog it isn’t.
ETA: comment 3, yes.
trollhattan
My graphics card and/or monitor must be in a big fight with the browser, because the Chartreuse I’m seeing is a ringer for Dijon mustard.
In the Subaru, in a field.
That is all.
Jackie
@Jackie: Looked it up: Apparently a knob of butter is 2 Tbsp more or less. Also described as walnut sized.
eclare
@Gin & Tonic:
Beans Beans good for the heart, the more you eat the more you …
Ohio Mom
@Scout211: I’d call that fluorescent yellow.
The paint color Joelle chose is a bit grayer and a little more pastel but it’s closer to what I think of when someone says chartreuse.
But then again, I tried googling images of chartreuse and judging by the results, there is no agreed upon chartreuse.
I understand that painting trim the same color as the wall (but in a glossier paint) is “on trend” as they say. Don’t think you could go wrong with a soft white though.
ETA: I think Joelle’s choice is very sophisticated.
trollhattan
@Jackie: I know what a knob is in Brit slang and butter is optional.
Jay
@p.a.:
Or a flytier.
SteveinPHX
@Alison Rose: That was certainly an “unhinged” comment. In my work environment that would merit some kind of referral, but I don’t see how that happens here.
Lyrebird
@geg6: Beanzyme. If you are okay with Amazon, you can have them super quick. Like Beano but without other irritating ingredients.
@frosty: @Gin & Tonic:
Yeah I thought the musical/toot version was British. G&T, don’t you live in New England?
Beans, beans, they’re good for yer haht,
The more you eat, the more you faht,
The more you faht, the better you feel,
So eat some beans with every meal!
@eclare:
Rightio. Elementary school, those were the days…
TiredOfItAll
So I’m just a lurker here, and don’t want to start or get involved in anything (nor, as a mere lurker, do I feel I have the right to), but which of the above posts is not like the others? Why is this person here? When people tell you who they are, believe them. Then, do something about it. Also, I agree that soft-white for the trim is the way to go.
HumboldtBlue
@Jackie:
A skosh.
Alison Rose
@Josie: The FPers have his email and the ability to ban him.
It’s all well and good to say “just pie him/ignore him”. Unless every single commenter agrees to do that 100% of the time, it’s not enough. I’ve had him pied for a long time. I toggled this one off to see if he actually made his once-monthly non-insane comment, and lo and behold, he did not. Big shock. Telling the rest of us “ignore him” rather than doing anything to remove him is aggravating. Shades of my teachers telling me to ignore boys being abjectly cruel to me rather than punishing them for their behavior, because that would be too hard.
I am at a loss to come up with what he would have to say to have anything done about it. Other people have been banned for saying far less egregious things. I don’t know why this one person is allowed to keep getting worse and worse and worse. It is not the rest of us noticing him that ruins threads. It is his continued permitted presence in the threads that does so.
Jay
@Ohio Mom:
for about 30 years now, we have gone with a blocky base trim, painted the same colour and sheen as the walls, with the door trim and door painted white.
Jackie
@Alison Rose: The post is gone. John must have seen it?
TiredOfItAll
And further, can someone explain to me (like I’m a 5 year old), what a pie filter is and — if it means I won’t see those posts — how I implement it? Muchas gracias.
satby
@Alison Rose: Enough, look above, he’s gone.
@Jackie, yes
Ohio Mom
@Alison Rose: The comment is gone now.
HumboldtBlue
@Alison Rose:
It appears the post has been removed.
Scout211
@geg6: @Ohio Mom: @TiredOfItAll:
Add my vote for soft white or soft off-white, even creamy white.
Now Joelle and John only have to choose a white paint color from the 1,346 different white paint colors available in the paint department. Easy peasy.
Lyrebird
@TiredOfItAll: I missed it too until WG explained the other day. The pie filter is now found right above the first comment, right above the number of comments in a blue circle.
I have voted in favor of having the word “pie” there as well as the charming graphic.
Anyhow, you click on it, you enter the nym of someone whose comments you do not want to see, and they turn into emojis or “I like pie” or something.
CaseyL
That soup sounds absolutely yum. I think tomato-based soups are the only “liquidy” ones Iike; all my other faves are hearty chunky things.
Open thread, so here’s something completely different: As some of you may know, because I’ve commented about it a few times, I have changed my mind about extraterrestrial life. I used to think it was probably everywhere, from single-celled all the way up to sentient/sapient species. But now I’m not so sure, because the more I learn about Earth, the more anomalous the planet’s history seems to be.
Case in point: the Giant Impact Hypothesis, where a protoplanet (called Theia) is believed to have collided with Earth about 4.5 billion years ago, and our Moon is composed of the debris that splashed outward. There are two enormous “blobs” in Earth – at the boundary between the mantle and the core – that scientists think are massive pieces of Theia that got stuck within the Earth.
(SciShow just posted a video about this, the “Zombie Planet at the center of the Earth.”)
Among the things Theia did to/for Earth: gave it a moon, and therefore tides; tilted its axis and thus gave it seasons; changed its mantle/core to enable giant magma plumes; created a planetary electromagnetic field much stronger than it “should” be for the planet’s size; and… maybe… kicked off plate tectonics. Without plate tectonics, materials from the surface can’t be recombined in the mantle and pushed out again, and without that the atmosphere and the oceans can’t maintain their chemical and gas balances (or so goes current thinking).
So far as I know, astronomers have not found any other planets with tectonic plate activity. There are volcanoes, sure, even within our solar system – but what they spew is lost to space or falls back down onto the surface, it doesn’t get sucked back down into the mantle/core to be transformed by the extreme pressure and temperatures there, and then cast back up onto the surface.
So many random things have to have happened in a very specific way for Earth to be a life-bearing world in the first place – and to stay that way.
Anyway, that’s what I’m pondering tonight :D
satby
@Ohio Mom: It’s a good color choice and greens are trending this year. That almost counts as a neutral base, goes with just about everything.
Josie
@Alison Rose: Ah. I misunderstood. I though you felt we should do something to help him, which is impossible. I agree that he should be banned, but evidently John doesn’t feel it is warranted. I also don’t think a temporary timeout would change the direction of things. Hopefully, at some point, John will change his mind.
ETA: Ask and you shall receive.
Ohio Mom
@TiredOfItAll: At the top of the comment thread there is a picture of a cherry pie. If you click it, you will see a list of commentators and if you choose one, a picture of a pie or pastry will appear on your screen instead of that person’s comments.
It’s marvel of modern technology that you are able to block people you’d rather not hear from, and the pastry drawings are so cute.
But I just scroll past comments from the occasional person I’m not enamored with.
You can always unblock whoever you’ve blocked, if you want to give this feature a whirl.
Barbara
Chartreuse is supposed to be somewhere between yellow and green but it seems to generate a lot of interpretation. If you like the color it doesn’t matter what it’s called.
satby
@Scout211: the Sherwin-Williams site shows it in several rooms, all with warm white trim. And in the kitchen with a pale blue cabinet color that I’m still deciding if I like.
Edit: the cabinets that look blue may just be reflecting blue from behind the camera, they’re white too.
Scout211
@satby: The living room looks very nice in that pic.
I guess colors differ with different monitors but the kitchen cabinets are white on my iPad screen.
ETA: just read your ETA. Yeah. White cabinets with some weird shading in the pic.
Jackie
@Lyrebird: The only person I’ve pied is who’s being discussed and that was a looong time ago. Where is the pie choices located on a mobile device? I don’t remember and that’s where I pied him from lol
Ohio Mom
@CaseyL: Wow, I did not know about Thela. So interesting about how the collusion changed earth’s geology and structure. This planet of ours is a wild and weird place.
I don’t spend much time thinking about life elsewhere in the cosmos. I just assume the distances involved makes that question moot.
Steeplejack
@NotMax:
Which service are you talking about?
Jackie
@satby: In my world, shades and hues of green are always trendy even when they’re not for others!
Scout211
Same place. Above the first comment. But we get rotating random pastries and candy. Not specific choices.
piratedan
speaking as a resident of the Southwest, I would offer the brand SunVista as being the bean of choice in case you are doing chili or just a straight up batch of pintos with peppered bacon and white onion (green onion cane be subbed in if preferred).
they are awesome.
Jackie
@Steeplejack: Amazon Prime.
dexwood
Too hard to link from my phone, but Louis Jordan’s You Dyed Your Hair Chartreuse came to mind.
Jackie
@Scout211: Thanks. I’ll have to remember to look next new post.
ETA: Oh! The picture of cherry pie with FILTER under it! Doh 🙄
laura
@geg6: I’m crushing on this color so hard- and deep cream is the compliment. I’d use it for the front door when the opportunity presents. The current Sunset magazine features a lush Adobe and this is used to great effect in the cool interior: https://www.farrow-ball.com/paint/bancha
TiredOfItAll
@Ohio Mom: @Lyrebird: Thank you!!!
Salty Sam .
I enjoyed your discourse as to how you came to this new realization. I had the same revelation on a hit of Orange Sunshine acid on a frosty winter night in 1970. I still believe it, as far as my radical agnosticism will allow.
cain
This maybe the first time I have seen a recipe use the word ‘lube’ 😜
CaseyL
@Salty Sam .: I’m afraid I’m not much of a one for mystic revelations. Did a lot of acid back in the day, and never had a spiritual experience from it.
And that color may call itself “Chartreuse,” but the color I think of is a lot more electric and green. However, your Chartreuse is definitely a better color for inside a house! It’s not too far off what I painted the “big wall” in my living room – though mine has even less green. More of a “golden sand.”
Miki
@frosty: Me, too. And the version I learned the last two lines are:
The more you toot, the better you feel
So let’s eat beans for every meal.
Salty Sam .
Nothing mystical or spiritual about it- just had the “feeling” (looking up into a crystal clear winter night full of bright stars) of “we are alone here in this universe”.
I know mathematicians can calculate the probability of life elsewhere. I’m open to that. Just sayin’, my big 1970 revelation matches up with what you posted above.
zhena gogolia
@cain: Me too!
Another Scott
Cheers,
Scott.
different-church-lady
@Gin & Tonic: That stuff is amazing for you.
As long as you don’t have more than an ounce of it a night.
kalakal
In my mind Chartreuse is the same colour as Cointreau. That and a white car in live oak pollen season.
It’s a bit variable to put it mildly
different-church-lady
1) It’s absolutely killing me I can’t figure out who you’re all talking about.
2) Maybe it’s the screen on my phone, but that sample looks nothing like Chartreuse to me.
different-church-lady
@kalakal: Cointreau is clear.
kalakal
@different-church-lady: Sorry I meant when viewed in the bottle
scav
To further comperlicate things, actual Chartreuse comes in both green and yellow, so the confusion is earned. The green is more common on the shelves, at least where I lurk (for days when I am lucky enough to afford any), so maybe that mirrors peoples’ color expectations. The yellow does seem basically paint-chippy.
eversor
I donated to TRUMP!!!! tonight. To give us the most Christian fucking government we can get. Also I used the college fund for nieces to do it. I’ve read the bible and the concept of women being educated is so against Christs own teachings I just want that gone.
No school for the niece, more money for Trump. And that right there is more Christian than anyone here who thinks women should have a say in anything (Christ said they can’t, and as I’m not an anti Christian bigot no women get a say in anything again ever).
PJ
@different-church-lady: I think of Chartreuse as green, because that’s what you normally see in liquor stores and bars: https://www.chartreuse.fr/en/produit/green-chartreuse/
But there is also a yellow Chartreuse, which seems to be pretty rare in the US: https://www.chartreuse.fr/en/produit/yellow-chartreuse/
which color seems to be referenced by that paint swatch.
Green Chartreuse is fairly bitter and I only use it as a mixer, but it looks like the Yellow Chartreuse is sweeter.
karen marie
@PJ: I might have to go get some to try!
Chacal Charles Calthrop
@cckids: if you don’t have anchovies, fish sauce will do the same trick.
In terms of paint I once had a painter who told me that you can get every color in Benjamin Moore and that was the best paint. I liked a warm off-white call Riviera Sunlight or something and gave the painter a paint swatch and said, “show me.” He showed me that what I had picked out exactly matched Benjamin Moore’s “mayonnaise.”
But who wants to paint their walls with mayonnaise? Yet it was the perfect warm white.
Chacal Charles Calthrop
@PJ: the stuff was originally made by a monastic order, right? One version was for the monks themselves and then the really powerful one was sold “for medicinal purposes.”
But I forget which was which.
HumboldtBlue
When I was a kid I thought Chartreuse was a sexy French woman and the lyrics to Big Ol’ Jet Airliner when sung, were “Chico, Chet and Elijah.”
Gvg
@different-church-lady: pretty sure it’s someone who hates Christianity and decided to vote Republican recently in a deranged reasoning…something would cause something …
lately posting a lot and causing complaints and comments. Comment is gone but I think I recognize the reaction. Must be getting worse. I also pied them long ago.
They are about at the speaking in tongues stage.
wjca
“Puke green” would be a reasonable gloss.
Odie Hugh Manatee
As has been said, vent well while painting and the paint is drying! Nice color but I have seen apartments with nicotine-stained walls that color… ;)
Definitely OT for this place: Picked up a new car part of from the local machinist and noted a problem that I’m pretty sure is not of his making. I had him install a pair of new bearing races into a new CNC machined part. One race installed correctly and I can’t slip a .0015″ (real thin!) gauge anywhere behind it. The other race is fully seated around 2/3rds of the circumference (.0015″ doesn’t fit behind) but for the other 1/3rd I can slip a .005″ gauge behind that area and a .006″ in the middle of that area. The difference the two areas is abrupt, going immediately from .0015″ not fitting to .005″ fitting with no tapering between.
This suggests that the bearing race is not cocked in the hole it was pressed in to but rather the ‘shelf’ that the bearing race rests against had a partial CNC cut that was not completed. I’ll see what the machinist says tomorrow. The place I bought the part from has a real good reputation so I’m not worried about that. The machinist has been doing my work for over 30 years and I have never had a problem with any of his work.
That and his wife and him are real good friends of ours. I’m glad that I’m not in a hurry with this. Just as long as it’s done for summer driving!
Ivan X
@Gin & Tonic: Disagree. That stuff is the best for you. I try to never be without a bottle, but they are harder to find. One pour is enough, though. Strong shit.
2liberal
i’m just going to stop reading red sox twitter. it’s too depressing.
Ksmiami
@CaseyL: Earths internal heat engine is so rare and yet so critical for life. And yet I’m sure given the size of the ever expanding universe there has been life somewhere else… it’s just the great filter prevents us from ever knowing and vice versa.
RSA
What an excellent recipe, in part because Cole emphasizes the judgment that goes into cooking: “some herbs de provence or italian seasoning,” “a knob of butter,” “a squirt of tomato paste.” Some beginner cooks might want precise measurements, but what’s conveyed here that this is a robust recipe. It will turn out fine if your choices or preferences are different. And beginners can learn from the experience!
OzarkHillbilly
So that’s what Chartreuse is. I always wondered. Thanx for the recipe, sounds really good (I love bean soups, my wife doesn’t, more for me) gonna have to give a try.
DaBunny42
So wait, what happens with the browned sausages after they get tonged out into a separate bowl. Do they eventually get added back to the soup?
O. Felix Culpa
@satby: At first I was hating that color (from the chip John posted), but the LR photo changed my mind. I like it with the soft white trim and accompanying tasteful furnishings. :-)