I believe you have that backwards. It should read: “Let’s go Bolts!”
3.
Corner Stone
Making King Ranch Chicken tomorrow to celebrate our Mother’s Day event. Life got in the way.
4.
Corner Stone
Does anyone else wonder what kind of mindfuck parents of those Chopped Junior kids did on their children to get them to this point? How horrible.
5.
geg6
Wings and beer and Pens.
Aaaaaaaand fuuuuuuuuuck! Letang is out.
6.
Adam L Silverman
@Corner Stone: I need a bit more information. What is a “Chopped Junior kid”?
7.
Corner Stone
@Adam L Silverman: On Food Network they have Chopped. That’s different adults, usually pro chefs, competing. You know the format, right?
Chopped Junior has kids as young as 8 or 9, but usually 11-13, competing in the same three meal format. Appetizer, entree, dessert.
It’s pretty intense and the kids are usually full on shit talkers. Telling the camera about how they were cooking at 3 years old and they are going to win it all.
8.
Adam L Silverman
@Corner Stone: Okay. Never seen either show, but I understand the format. So basically we’ve got the cooking version of beauty pageant/pro pee wee sport kids. And I’m sure similar parents too.
9.
LAO
That was some penalty kill.
10.
Adam L Silverman
@LAO: Yes, yes it was! Considering a broken stick for one of the penalty killers, they done good!
@Steeplejack (phone): If Food Network is going to insist on making every show a competition, I wish the show was about making the best food, not the best use of gummy bears and marmite in a pastry. Fewer stunts, more food.
15.
Adam L Silverman
@LAO: @Tinare: I’m spitballing here based on movement, and having these things happen to me playing in goal (in soccer), but he either tore a cruciate ligament or he tore a hamstring.
@Richard Mayhew: given the movement in response, more likely mediate. That’s what I did.
ETA: I was playing in goal (soccer) as a favor to a friend for the grad student/post doc team of foreign students at UF in the grad student/post-doc intramural league. They needed a goalie. I was moving almost the exact same way: going from right side of the goal towards the left. As I planted my left foot to begin the pivot, I felt something pop as I caught the ball, and then went down and stayed down. That was the last time I ever played soccer. Which was the first time I hadn’t played it since I was five.
@Corner Stone: Lots of them are from Manhattan. That there is your answer. Says me; a NYer.
23.
Schlemazel Khan
@Corner Stone:
all “reality” shows screw with people’s minds, it becomes particularly abusive when it is kids. The producers should all be shot and the viewers sent to reeducation camps, sorry
24.
LAO
I don’t even care who wins. I just “yell” goal, whenever a team scores. It’s pretty ridiculous.
Have you ever watched the Gordon Rsmsey one with kids? Master Chef Junior? Those kids are amazing! And they’re from all over the US. Not all of them are stockbrokers’ kids. They make me ashamed of my own cooking skills and I think I’m a pretty damn good cook.
@Gin & Tonic: Yes. One of Mr IOL’s coworkers and his sons used to be on that show regularly. The sons are now grown up and are designing robotic prostheses for hands.
@Corner Stone: Long time no see. How have you been?
44.
Adam L Silverman
@Omnes Omnibus: Its a line from the V for Vendetta movie that always stuck with me. They main female character is threatened with being taken out behind the chemical sheds and shot if she doesn’t cooperate with the secret police. I recommend the movie over the graphic novel. Largely because there are several sections were Alan Moore’s serious drug intake was seriously impacting his writing.
45.
Omnes Omnibus
@Adam L Silverman: Aha. I saw the movie, of course, but it isn’t something that stuck with me. I am not a big fan of Fawkes (trivia note: Fawkes’ signature frequently used Guido rather than Guy) and that prejudice, I think, affected my view of the movie. Never read the graphic novel.
@Adam L Silverman: When are you going to put up the gyro recipe? I bought TJ’s new gyro, it was disappointing. I has a sad. Now I have to make a trip to the Halal cart in the next town, sometime during the week..
47.
Adam L Silverman
@Omnes Omnibus: I thought they did a great job with the movie. They caught the essence of the graphic novel, updated it to make it relevant for the mid 00s, and avoided the drug induced wackiness that tended to creep into some of Moore’s work if he was really hitting the stuff.
48.
Omnes Omnibus
@Adam L Silverman: I won’t say that the movie wasn’t well done. I just didn’t take to it.
49.
Adam L Silverman
@schrodinger’s cat: Sorry, had a project and official travel for work that took my through late WED night. Let me see if I can find the thing this weekend.
50.
Adam L Silverman
@Omnes Omnibus: From what you’ve related about your lack of relationship to the source material for a lot of these things, that doesn’t surprise me.
I think there were several timely bits in the movie, that as fiction, speak to larger issues we’re dealing with as a state and society. The whole “there is something wrong with our country” speech is, I think, the best and most important of them.
51.
Omnes Omnibus
@Adam L Silverman: The “there is something wrong with our country” speech was well said given the time frame. OTOH, there is a reason I supported Clinton over Sanders. I don’t want to blow up our institutions; I think we need to reform many of them. But I think they are capable of reformation.
I was at the library to meet with my writing group and happened to see New York Magazine. It had a long piece about Trump by Andrew Sullivan. When did he unretire? What a pretentious ass he is.
55.
Adam L Silverman
@schrodinger’s cat: You want the beef, chicken, lamb, and/or turkey recipes for the marinade?
There is even a pork variant developed by a Lebanese family that moved to Mexico. They brought the upright rotisserie method (al pastor) with them from Lebanon, adapted it for Mexican cuisine, and opened a restaurant appropriately named Al Pastor.
The key to this type of grilling is to slice the meat, pregrilling, thinly, then marinade it, then layer it on the spit from bottom to top. And then rotisserie grilling the upright spitted meat.
56.
Villago Delenda Est
@Omnes Omnibus: They’ve been reformed before to benefit many more. Then 1980 happened, and we regressed badly.
Meat
2 lbs of fatty beef cuts (roast cut/steak cuts/butter steak…)
Marinade Ingredients
5 cloves of garlic
½ cup of freshly squeezed lemon juice
¼ cup of apple cider vinegar
¼ cup of olive oil
1 teaspoon cloves
1 teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon cumin
½ teaspoon caraway
½ teaspoon cardamon
½ teaspoon of oregano or thyme
½ teaspoon cinnamon
½ teaspoon nutmeg
½ teaspoon crushed peppercorn
¼ teaspoon of cayenne pepper
¼ teaspoon ground ginger
Tahini Sauce Ingredients
2 teaspoons of Tahini paste
1 cup of freshly squeezed Lemon Juice
3 gloves of garlic, crushed
a dash of Salt
Sandwich Ingredients
½ cup of finely cut Italian parsley
Grilled tomatoes
French fries
Pita bread
Instructions
Shawarma Marinade
Mix the spices along with the lemon juice and apple cider vinegar in a blender for a couple of minutes. Don’t mix in the olive oil yet.
Cut the beef into chunks of 4 inches long by no more than ⅔ inch in thickness.
In a bowl, rub the meat with the marinade, sprinkle a bit of olive oil then rub again, cover and let marinate overnight in the fridge.
Grilling Shawarma Method 1: Panini Grill
Lay the marinated shawarma chunks on a panini or George Foreman grill and cook for 10-15 minutes on medium-high heat.
Once cooked, shred the meat on a cutting board and serve hot.
Grilling Shawarma Method 2: Oven Roasting
Lay the shawarma chunks in a Pyrex tray with a bit of marinade, cover the trap tightly with aluminum foil, then gently bake at 270-300F for 2 hours.
Once cooked, shred the meat on a cutting board and serve hot. This roasting method will make the meat very tender and juicy and will almost fall apart.
Preparing the Tahini Sauce
In a small bowl, whisk the the Tahini paste, crushed garlic, lemon juice and salt until you turn the paste into a sauce.
Serving the Shawarma
Place about 4-6 ounces (to taste) of shredded shawarma in a pita bread along the diameter, sprinkle some Tahini sauce, add freshly grilled tomatoes, french fries, a garnish of Italian parsley.
Roll and enjoy
@schrodinger’s cat: this recipe calls for fatty cuts, but that’s not too helpful. I’d go with fattier steak cuts, but if you’ve got a good butcher near you, if you explain what you’re looking to do, they should be able to help. I would not go with chuck type cuts or brisket, even though they’re fatty cuts. I’d also avoid flank or hanger or skirt steaks because they’re not fatty enough. The cut is going to be wrong. I’d think strip or ribeye with good marbling and good fat around the outside of the steak. Don’t trim the fat off! You’ll want it to help marinade the meat as you’re grilling/roasting it.
@PaulWartenberg2016: The good news is that Cooper, in his post game press conference, announced that there is no structural damage to Bishop. Given how injuries are purposefully misdescribed, there is no way to know whether he’s telling the truth, but its a good sign.
Corner Stone
“I AM A WARRIOR FOR THE BABBIES!!”
Adam L Silverman
I believe you have that backwards. It should read: “Let’s go Bolts!”
Corner Stone
Making King Ranch Chicken tomorrow to celebrate our Mother’s Day event. Life got in the way.
Corner Stone
Does anyone else wonder what kind of mindfuck parents of those Chopped Junior kids did on their children to get them to this point? How horrible.
geg6
Wings and beer and Pens.
Aaaaaaaand fuuuuuuuuuck! Letang is out.
Adam L Silverman
@Corner Stone: I need a bit more information. What is a “Chopped Junior kid”?
Corner Stone
@Adam L Silverman: On Food Network they have Chopped. That’s different adults, usually pro chefs, competing. You know the format, right?
Chopped Junior has kids as young as 8 or 9, but usually 11-13, competing in the same three meal format. Appetizer, entree, dessert.
It’s pretty intense and the kids are usually full on shit talkers. Telling the camera about how they were cooking at 3 years old and they are going to win it all.
Adam L Silverman
@Corner Stone: Okay. Never seen either show, but I understand the format. So basically we’ve got the cooking version of beauty pageant/pro pee wee sport kids. And I’m sure similar parents too.
LAO
That was some penalty kill.
Adam L Silverman
@LAO: Yes, yes it was! Considering a broken stick for one of the penalty killers, they done good!
Steeplejack (phone)
@Corner Stone:
Can’t watch the show. Just the promos give me the creeps.
LAO
@Adam L Silverman: that’s not good. ?
Tinare
Ouch. Bishop. Feel bad for him. Hope he’s okay.
Mike J
@Steeplejack (phone): If Food Network is going to insist on making every show a competition, I wish the show was about making the best food, not the best use of gummy bears and marmite in a pastry. Fewer stunts, more food.
Adam L Silverman
@LAO: @Tinare: I’m spitballing here based on movement, and having these things happen to me playing in goal (in soccer), but he either tore a cruciate ligament or he tore a hamstring.
LAO
@efgoldman: it was fun!
Richard Mayhew
That looked like an acl to me
Tinare
I immediately thought ACL.
Adam L Silverman
@Richard Mayhew: given the movement in response, more likely mediate. That’s what I did.
ETA: I was playing in goal (soccer) as a favor to a friend for the grad student/post doc team of foreign students at UF in the grad student/post-doc intramural league. They needed a goalie. I was moving almost the exact same way: going from right side of the goal towards the left. As I planted my left foot to begin the pivot, I felt something pop as I caught the ball, and then went down and stayed down. That was the last time I ever played soccer. Which was the first time I hadn’t played it since I was five.
LAO
Goal!
Adam L Silverman
@LAO: Ayep!
Helen
@Corner Stone: Lots of them are from Manhattan. That there is your answer. Says me; a NYer.
Schlemazel Khan
@Corner Stone:
all “reality” shows screw with people’s minds, it becomes particularly abusive when it is kids. The producers should all be shot and the viewers sent to reeducation camps, sorry
LAO
I don’t even care who wins. I just “yell” goal, whenever a team scores. It’s pretty ridiculous.
geg6
@Helen:
Have you ever watched the Gordon Rsmsey one with kids? Master Chef Junior? Those kids are amazing! And they’re from all over the US. Not all of them are stockbrokers’ kids. They make me ashamed of my own cooking skills and I think I’m a pretty damn good cook.
Betty Cracker
Let’s go Bolts!
Iowa Old Lady
In terms of sports, Mr IOL is watching Battle Bots, which is sort of like hockey.
geg6
@Schlemazel Khan:
I do not agree. There are great reality tv shows. And a coking competition is hardly going to damage anyone’s psyche.
Villago Delenda Est
Meh, who cares. Mariners are in first place. Life is good.
Tinare
Crap.
LAO
Lol. It won’t let me post Goal! Because it’s perceived to be a duplicate comment. I find that funny.
Helen
@geg6: Haven’t seen it. But really, anyone (except Rachael Ray) makes me ashamed of my cooking skills. It’s not that I can’t cook. I do not cook.
Gin & Tonic
@Iowa Old Lady: Didn’t there used to be a version of that show about 15 years ago?
Pogonip
I’d like views on the basketball season, most of which I missed due to one family medical crisis after another.
LAO
@Helen: I like to say that I’m indifferent to cooking.
geg6
@Helen:
I love to cook! I can’t wait until I retire and can cook elaborate meals more often! It’s my therapy. That and ironing.
Iowa Old Lady
@Gin & Tonic: Yes. One of Mr IOL’s coworkers and his sons used to be on that show regularly. The sons are now grown up and are designing robotic prostheses for hands.
Prescott Cactus
@geg6:
You’ve had my wife’s grilled cheese.
Adam L Silverman
@LAO: Do you have a part time job calling South American soccer games?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UioCvLN-370
LAO
@Adam L Silverman: it’s my dream.
Adam L Silverman
I don’t know who came up with these World Cup of Hockey advertisements, but that person needs to be taken out back behind the chemical sheds and shot!
Omnes Omnibus
@Adam L Silverman: Any reason that it is the chemical sheds in particular? Body disposal?
schrodinger's cat
@Corner Stone: Long time no see. How have you been?
Adam L Silverman
@Omnes Omnibus: Its a line from the V for Vendetta movie that always stuck with me. They main female character is threatened with being taken out behind the chemical sheds and shot if she doesn’t cooperate with the secret police. I recommend the movie over the graphic novel. Largely because there are several sections were Alan Moore’s serious drug intake was seriously impacting his writing.
Omnes Omnibus
@Adam L Silverman: Aha. I saw the movie, of course, but it isn’t something that stuck with me. I am not a big fan of Fawkes (trivia note: Fawkes’ signature frequently used Guido rather than Guy) and that prejudice, I think, affected my view of the movie. Never read the graphic novel.
schrodinger's cat
@Adam L Silverman: When are you going to put up the gyro recipe? I bought TJ’s new gyro, it was disappointing. I has a sad. Now I have to make a trip to the Halal cart in the next town, sometime during the week..
Adam L Silverman
@Omnes Omnibus: I thought they did a great job with the movie. They caught the essence of the graphic novel, updated it to make it relevant for the mid 00s, and avoided the drug induced wackiness that tended to creep into some of Moore’s work if he was really hitting the stuff.
Omnes Omnibus
@Adam L Silverman: I won’t say that the movie wasn’t well done. I just didn’t take to it.
Adam L Silverman
@schrodinger’s cat: Sorry, had a project and official travel for work that took my through late WED night. Let me see if I can find the thing this weekend.
Adam L Silverman
@Omnes Omnibus: From what you’ve related about your lack of relationship to the source material for a lot of these things, that doesn’t surprise me.
I think there were several timely bits in the movie, that as fiction, speak to larger issues we’re dealing with as a state and society. The whole “there is something wrong with our country” speech is, I think, the best and most important of them.
Omnes Omnibus
@Adam L Silverman: The “there is something wrong with our country” speech was well said given the time frame. OTOH, there is a reason I supported Clinton over Sanders. I don’t want to blow up our institutions; I think we need to reform many of them. But I think they are capable of reformation.
schrodinger's cat
@Adam L Silverman: No problem, just do it when you find the time. I loves me gyros and lavash bread.
Adam L Silverman
@Omnes Omnibus: I don’t disagree with you at all.
schrodinger's cat
I was at the library to meet with my writing group and happened to see New York Magazine. It had a long piece about Trump by Andrew Sullivan. When did he unretire? What a pretentious ass he is.
Adam L Silverman
@schrodinger’s cat: You want the beef, chicken, lamb, and/or turkey recipes for the marinade?
There is even a pork variant developed by a Lebanese family that moved to Mexico. They brought the upright rotisserie method (al pastor) with them from Lebanon, adapted it for Mexican cuisine, and opened a restaurant appropriately named Al Pastor.
The key to this type of grilling is to slice the meat, pregrilling, thinly, then marinade it, then layer it on the spit from bottom to top. And then rotisserie grilling the upright spitted meat.
Villago Delenda Est
@Omnes Omnibus: They’ve been reformed before to benefit many more. Then 1980 happened, and we regressed badly.
Omnes Omnibus
@schrodinger’s cat:
Always has been. I never understood the fondness that many of my fellow liberals had for him. He is a Thatcherite who happens to be gay.
Adam L Silverman
@schrodinger’s cat: About three weeks ago and that’s his reemergence article.
Omnes Omnibus
@Villago Delenda Est: No shit. Doesn’t mean that we can’t fix our system.
schrodinger's cat
@Adam L Silverman: Beef and may be chicken.
Adam L Silverman
@schrodinger’s cat: Here’s the beef one:
http://www.mamaslebanesekitche…..ExfCQ.dpbs
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PaulWartenberg2016
@Adam L Silverman:
GO BOLTS.
The Rays need better pitching again. :(
schrodinger's cat
@Adam L Silverman: Thanks so much. What kind of steak. I like beef but since I didn’t grow up eating it, its still a bit of mystery.
Adam L Silverman
@PaulWartenberg2016: Yep and yep.
Adam L Silverman
@schrodinger’s cat: this recipe calls for fatty cuts, but that’s not too helpful. I’d go with fattier steak cuts, but if you’ve got a good butcher near you, if you explain what you’re looking to do, they should be able to help. I would not go with chuck type cuts or brisket, even though they’re fatty cuts. I’d also avoid flank or hanger or skirt steaks because they’re not fatty enough. The cut is going to be wrong. I’d think strip or ribeye with good marbling and good fat around the outside of the steak. Don’t trim the fat off! You’ll want it to help marinade the meat as you’re grilling/roasting it.
Adam L Silverman
@efgoldman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJU-cKMmuvk
Adam L Silverman
@PaulWartenberg2016: The good news is that Cooper, in his post game press conference, announced that there is no structural damage to Bishop. Given how injuries are purposefully misdescribed, there is no way to know whether he’s telling the truth, but its a good sign.
Prescott Cactus
@efgoldman: you have to swing at them.
schrodinger's cat
@Adam L Silverman: Thanks, that’s helpful.