Dinner:
It would have looked better, but I had a scotch (or maybe two) and got a little lazy with the basil chiffonade and almost lost a damned finger, so it kind of looks like a clump of cow cud on top of the linguini because that was the best I could do with three paper towels wrapped around my finger. The sauce was good- cooked down tomatoes from the garden and some onions and garlic and a can of fire roasted tomatoes, added some heavy cream near the end. Veal was ok but under seasoned. The salad was good, but not picture worthy.
ALSO TOO, CHECK OUT THEM FORMICA COUNTERS. REAL AMERICAN HERE!
*** Update ***
Now with more Lily:
I love that dog.
TBogg
Ummmm. Veal. Baby cows. My wife hates that I like it but I point out “The cuter the face, the better they taste.”
Seriously, how can you argue with that?
gogol's wife
Sorry, now that there’s an open thread I’m going to repost this comment from below, because I know there are some pre-Code fans out there: Pre-Code movie with Bette Davis and Humphrey Bogart and Joan Blondell and Edward Arnold tonight on TCM, 9:45 PM Eastern. If I’m going to have to live in the 1930s, I’m going to live in the 1930s when they had good movies.
lamh34
wait, I thought you were bleeding. I don’t see no blood on that plate???
Methinks you ain’t as accident-prone as you seem Mr Cole!
Lurker
For those interested, the Perseid meteor shower peaks this Friday night/Saturday morning.
Omnes Omnibus
@TBogg: Who has eaten kitten?
jl
“It would have looked better, but I had a scotch (or maybe two)”
When is that going up as one of the rotating blog titles?
But, the pizza looks pretty good. No need for apologies.
Look at the bright side. If it ain’t good enough for Tunch or Rosie, Cole gets some.
Edit: that IS a pizza, right?
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@jl: What pizza?
eta It’s a couple of slabs of veal next to some pasta.
riptyde
All that work to make a nice sauce, and then you just spooned it on top of the pasta rather than tossing the strained pasta into the sauce and mixing them before serving? For shame.
robertdsc-PowerBook
Is that white stuff Tunch’s fur?
jl
@Raven (formerly stuckinred):
Oh, OK. Sorry. I should have clicked on the pic and made sure what it was. Thought it was a botched pizza.
Whatever it is, it looks pretty darn good, Cole
lamh34
Alright guys, I know some of ya’ll are movie buffs, and I’m trying to find this movie, but I can’t remember the damn title. I believe it includes Ellen Burstyn (or someone who looks just like her???). I think it’s a British film. The basics of the plot: this woman who like this chief researcher or doctor or something some how or another meets her younger teenage self who sees the staid, boring life that the older her has and she wants to change it so that she doesn’t become a lonely ole woman in her old age (I think the ole lady is played by Burstyn or someone like her). I know I watched it on TV, but I can’t figure out if its was a made for tv movie or not. I tried looking up Ellen Burystyn on IMDB, but none of her films listed are the ones I’m looking for.
So any ideas….please help me out, It’s driving me crazy.
birthmarker
How does one access the twitter feed of JC or any other party? (Yeah, I’m old.)
cmorenc
Can’t help but notice that nearly ALL of John’s blog posts lately prominently mention his doing a substantial amount of drinking. I’m not knocking a glass of wine, a beer or touch of whiskey now and then or among friends, but I cannot help notice that John’s posts didn’t used to mention drinking or getting a bit soused nearly so often.
Linkmeister
Er, I see no picture at all at all. I’m using Firefox 5 with Adblock Plus.
John Cole
@cmorenc: It’s been a long two weeks. I’d elaborate more, but I don’t want to.
Omnes Omnibus
@cmorenc: Summer. School is not in session.
ETA: It might just have been a long couple of weeks.
srv
Could we do a Kickstarter or Kiva thing for John to add Granite countertops? It’s the least the community could do generate a new controversy.
MikeBoyScout
Must read on the riots in London:
Penny Red – Panic on the streets of London.
PeakVT
25 minutes until polls close in WI. I hope something good happens.
Comrade PhysioProf
I’m not seeing any picture of the food.
Maude
@Linkmeister:
I can’t see a pix either.
handy
@birthmarker: just Google johngcole it’s one of the top links.
jl
Veal Parmesan Pizza
http://www.netplaces.com/pizza/hearty-meat-pizzas/veal-parmesan-pizza.htm
Could have been a pizza.
jeffreyw
Pizza night
Reality Check
I’m ready for the polls to close in WI.
Beer is ready…*crack*
so, who will “steal” the election tonight when Democrats and their union thugs get their butts kicked? Diebold? Karl Rove? Dick Cheney? Batman? The Five Jew Bankers? Disaster Kapitalizts?
birthmarker
@handy: Thanks!
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@lamh34: Lousie Fletcher?
Arundel
Hey, I like-a your Formica! Our counters are original to the house (built 1960), white with gold glitter, and after our 30 years here, those fuckers are invulnerable, unscuffed, still look great. I enjoy their retro Mad Men glamour I guess, and they really don’t make ’em like they used to.
USA! ;)
Comrade PhysioProf
Never mind. It was my adblocker.
A couple thoughts on the food:
(1) Dude, dredge and bread the motherfucken veal, like this:
http://freethoughtblogs.com/physioprof/2011/05/14/veal-milanese-with-risotto-milanese/
(2) You should stop the pasta about one minute before it’s done, and then finish it in the pan with your sauce, adding some of the pasta water to bind and thicken it. You wouldn’t believe how much better it is that way, for de minimus fucken effort!
Cat Lady
@Comrade PhysioProf: @Maude:
You’re not missing much – it looks like someone’s scalp next to a pile of barf, with a sad green garnish on top.
Just in case there isn’t enough shit to freak you out right here on Earth right now, there’s this.
WaterGirl
how do i get the mobile site from my ipad? it always takes me to the regular site, and I can’t find the link that shows up when viewing the regular site on a regular laptop.
JPL
A while back went out to eat with my sons and their SO’s and they had veal on the menu. I haven’t had veal in decades but do love it so asked where the veal was from and how the babies were treated… long story short it didn’t work out well.
Maude
@Cat Lady:
I now see it and I would be glad to eat it. You should see some of the stuff I cook.
JPL
btw..I’m not criticizing John’s dinner but if it is veal..where are the vegies and if it isn’t what is it and where are the vegies? We know his mom reads the blog so I’m sure she will be talking to him also.
Reality Check
Democrats pick up only one seat. Two MAX and that’s extremely unlikely.
GOP wins again. Democrats cry “foul”, threaten to move to Canada.
Jenny
I was just contacted by Jesus, he was weeping (he does that alot), and he asked me, “why does Romney reject me?”
That’s a good question. Why does Romney reject Jesus as his Savior?
Lolis
@Reality Check:
Okay, that was just trying too hard. Your heart doesn’t seem to be in it.
HRA
@Cat Lady:
My hearty laugh with tears streaming for the day at your description of what’s on the plate. Thank you, it was much needed.
At first I thought it was part of a leather wine skin.
WaterGirl
Speaking of moms, Reality Check’s mom must be very proud.
JPL
You can buy granite on sale for the same price as formica..so John is the new snob for not recognizing that fact..
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@Lolis: Just ignore it.
cathyx
I love meat of any kind. In fact, I prefer it over any kind of food. But I can not stomach veal. Ugh.
Paddy
jeffreyw :
Your food always looks wonderful, it’s killing me!! I’ve had to drastically reduce my salt intake and I’m foundering big time, even with a top selling low/no salt cookbook. Thought I could try a burrito from one of our favorite places, but no. My tastebuds have changed and it tasted like salty meat wrapped in salt. Sigh.
JPL
@Jenny: only counts if you’re born again.. last time someone asked me, I explained that my mom had a difficult time the first time and wouldn’t want to repeat it…they hung up on me hallelujah
arguingwithsignposts
Shorter Reality Chunk: Loooooook at Meeeeeeeee!
Maude
@JPL:
40
Granite weighs more than formica.
Shinobi
I feel like this conversation about Romney’s religion has been seriously lacking in songs from Book of Mormon.
Southern Beale
I made my version of a chicken piperade, it wasn’t a real piperade because I just used yellow and red peppers cuz the husband hates green peppers, but it was well seasoned and I used fresh cherry tomatoes and it was actually really fucking awesome. And now that I mention it, I’m most proud of the fact that I cooked this dish by going through the fridge and freezer and seeing what I had on hand and I didn’t consult a recipe, I kinda just made it up and it was GREAT.
Also, the pinot noir really made the dish. :-)
jeffreyw
@Paddy: Normal amount of salt on the pizza, and in the sauce and toppings. Tasted good. The Lebanon bologna was almost too garlicy!
gbear
Given that this is an open thread, I just wanted to say that perhaps London wouldn’t be rioting if Susan Boyle hadn’t dreamed a dream. Just sayin’.
Arundel
The very thoughtful blogger Lance Mannion on Sully’s proclamation of virtue for not having a credit card, being a “fiscal conservative” and all:
“ I haven’t had a credit card for years, because I actually live like a fiscal conservative.
We’re sure you do, Andrew. But you know what else you live like?
A man with a six-figure income and no children.
Getting a little tired of being told by the well-to-do strolling down Park Avenue that the rest of us hoi polloi need to share in some more sacrifice and tighten our belts another notch.
Sullivan also thinks we need to raise the age of retirement. Again not advice we want to hear from someone who can go on vacation for weeks at a time seemingly whenever he wants and who has a job he can do and do well until he’s 90, if his health allows.
One of the things that drives us nuts about Sullivan is that it’s all so personal with him. I don’t mean he thinks it’s all about him. I mean that sometimes—a lot of times—he doesn’t seem able to imagine that not everybody in the United States is a gay ex-pat Brit living in Washington, D.C. whose big disappointment in life recently was being turned down for a mortgage on a second home.
Yeah. Sullivan didn’t get to buy a summer house in Provincetown. The heart bleeds.”
Lance continues, to make an interesting point about the advantages the liberal/progressive blogosphere once had; that conservative bloggers are often terrible writers, and uninterested in culture, except as propaganda. Whereas on the liberal side, there were the wonks, the serious policy analysts, but also a great deal of well-written cultural commentary, besides politics. That could have been persuasive for the progressive side: “Come for the movie reviews, stay for the bar graphs”! But things went differently, and he acknowledges Sully as unusual for his side, being a “personal” blogger. Anyway, a good read.
http://lancemannion.typepad.com/lance_mannion/2011/08/the-mannionville-daily-gazettes-favorite-blog-of-the-day.html
Little Boots
ya know what, we need a victory. not a moral victory. not a symbolic victory. a real honest to jeebus victory.
on Wisconsin!
Kathleen
Your meal looks great. Everything I cook looks like something Tunch would throw up. Really. I’m that bad. Whenever commercials wax rhapsodic about meals “just like Grandma made”, I know my grandkids will be talking about carry out “Meemaw” brought from White Castle.
lamh34
@Raven (formerly stuckinred):
She does look like Burnsyn, but damn I dont’ see the movie I’m looking for.
Shoot, I wich I could remember the damn name..lol
JPL
@Raven (formerly stuckinred): fyi..it was you who mentioned the book..Friday Night Lights..right? I am really enjoying it since I lived in Texas in the early eighties. My friend and neighbor was raised in Midland and although she met her hubby at Tech, his dad was a big A and M booster.. In fact he got banned, he was that big of a fan.
The difference between the book and the tv show, imo, is not so much portraying the down side, because they did, but glamorizing the up side. It’s a good read.
Comrade PhysioProf
jeffrey, your pizza looks great! Awesome golden crust!
Little Boots
didn’t Sully lose a house because he wouldn’t pay his back taxes. I know paultards think that’s the most noble thing you can do, but Sully, I think he likes to pose as better than that.
Cat Lady
@HRA:
My work here is done.
Little Boots
and incidentally, I put it best once before: Sully takes “the personal is the political” far too seriously.
Reality Check
@Little Boots:
Good luck with that. Union thugs are on the way out tonight.
JPL
@Maude: so does that make him more of a snob? I just refinished my kitchen and the only thing I could not do is the granite. I went to a local place and looked at discontinued pieces and they were cheaper installed than nice formica.
JGabriel
@Reality Check:
Just like 2008!
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Southern Beale
Also, since it’s an open thread, let me just say: I am despairing of liberals right now. I got into over at AlterNet on a thread about Freegans, they were all like “ewww it’s gross! Dumpster diving is just for those icky homeless people!” and they absolutely slammed me when I told them that some perfectly normal working people dumpster dive as a way of not participating in a corrupt capitalistic system. And they were all over my ass about it.
I just never thought I’d get into a flamewar over at fucking AlterNet … If I’m too liberal for AlterNet then people, we are dooomed….
JGabriel
It’s after 9pm. Shouldn’t we be getting a WI Election Returns Thread?
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TooManyJens
@JGabriel: I’m planning to wear out my refresh keys here and here.
jeff
I got granite counter-tops and hard-wood floors in my new apt (for less than I was paying at old), and they make clean-up SO. Much. Easier!!! I don’t ever want to go back!
JPL
@Southern Beale: really?…
Part of me wants to say they are not dumpster diving in the right place but the other part is like wtf..
BTW..I don’t dumpster dive but certainly understand those that do.
jwb
@Little Boots: What’s the mood like tonight? Got my fingers crossed!
quannlace
Snort! You are one tiresome broken-record of an idiot, aren’t you?
**************************
From your post I can’t tell if you’re looking for low-salt tips, or lamenting that your new regimen has make your previous favorite foods taste too salty.
If the former, fresh lemon juice does an amazing job of giving your taste buds a similar tingle like salt.
Reality Check
@quannlace:
Who is going to “steal” the election tonight, quannlace? Better start thinking now.
Maybe Bush will do it using a remote control from Dallas.
PeakVT
Breaking!! Cowles ahead of Nusbaum 94%-6%!!
The catch is that there’s only one precinct in the whole damn state that has reported in so far.
SiubhanDuinne
@Lurker: Loves me some Perseids. Thanks for the reminder. If the temperature is anything under 90 degrees F, and it’s not raining, i’ll be watching!
jl
thanks for the cute Lily pic.
But she does not look her usual happy… didn’t get any veal, did she?
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@JPL: Yes, and my major problem was with the film, I’m not interested in the soaper. Like I said, the people in Odessa would have lynched the author if they could have because he was truthful about what a pit Mojo was. For Billy Bob Thorton to turn into a feel-good happy ending story was beyond the pale.
SiubhanDuinne
@Omnes Omnibus:
Who hasn’t?
timb
CNN is reporting that Reid’s choices for the super committee are Baucus, Murray, and Kerry, which means Harry Reid just fucked lefties everywhere and once again nodded to his plutocrat backers.
Max will vote with the Republicans on no revenue and once again America will be screwed. Thanks Harry
SiubhanDuinne
@SiubhanDuinne:
FYWP. “Who has eaten kitten?” was supposed to be block quoted. But NOOOOOO. FYWP, I say. And again WP:FY.
Roger Moore
@Reality Check:
I’m thinking it’s going to be the Union Thugs, Welfare Queens, and Illegal Immigrants, but YMMV.
Omnes Omnibus
@SiubhanDuinne: Moi.
JPL
@JPL: Where I volunteer we get day old bread and if that is not gone by the end of the day, it’s tossed. That bread will last for days.
In order to get a loaf of bread you do not have to register but most don’t know that. For some dumpster diving is not as embarrassing.
PurpleGirl
A Lily pix…. (smile). Thanks JC.
Roger Moore
@Omnes Omnibus:
What else are you going to do with one once you’re done with the skull fucking?
jeffreyw
@Comrade PhysioProf: Thanks! Just made some crusts today and cut two from the crop, the rest went to the big freezer for a quick pizza later some time.
JGabriel
TooManyJens:
Thanks! I’ll be joining you.
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gelfling545
I’m really sorry but that food just looks nasty. IMO it calls for more that 2 glasses of scotch before it can be considered edible.
Keith G
@arguingwithsignposts: I am soooo freekin happy. Finally the Chrome Pie Filter (set to disemvowel) is working.
Reality Check is saying:
s, wh wll “stl” th lctn tnght whn Dmcrts nd thr nn thgs gt thr btts kckd? Dbld? Krl Rv? Dck Chny? Btmn? Th Fv Jw Bnkrs? Dsstr Kptlzts?
JPL
@Raven (formerly stuckinred): I didn’t see the movie but I can imagine. What I’m finding interesting is the players are the same but they glamorized the coach and invented a family for the tv show.
Maude
@JPL:
Weight is a factor in some houses. Same with tile and other heavy stuff.
As for snobbery, well your guess is as good as mine.
How did the kitchen turn out?
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@JPL: What was the kids name that blew his knee, “Boobie”. Just threw him on the scrap heap.
SiubhanDuinne
@JPL: If you want his mom to read it, you need to say “Where the fuck are the veggies?”
Otherwise she’ll just give it a passing glance and move on to the next post.
Suffern ace
Any thoughts on Murray, Kerry and Baucus as the dem senators on the super congress?
Reality Check
You guys are getting your butts kicked in all but one district so far.
Democrats=Party of Losing.
The Worst Person In the World
So Cole is on another bender, eh?
During this one we get to see a disheveled plate of something edible with a piece of finger in it, followed by a picture of his dog accompanied by a sloshily sentimental caption.
The long, sad trek to alcoholic ruin continues…
Southern Beale
I guess I’m confused. I don’t see a picture of food on this post. I see a picture of a dog on a bed.
Please tell me the dog is not dinner.
WaterGirl
thread for the wisconsin recall, please.
JPL
@Maude: My goodness.. I love my kitchen.. pictures don’t do it justice because it didn’t look bad but taking 3/4’s of the cabinets to the dump in my honda and being charged 25 dollars shows you the quality.
My motto is what can I do on the cheap and that doesn’t always work because I still don’t have a backsplash…but I’m proud at the amount I spent and the results.
When I redid my master bathroom, a neighbor heard what I spent and said I hate you..Best compliment ever..
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@The Worst Person In the World: Don’t you know that booze is funny?
Reality Check
@The Worst Person In the World:
I think peach would have to be my favorite. But thumbs up for mentioning mincemeat!
SiubhanDuinne
@Omnes Omnibus:
Well YEAH, but I mean besides you?
gnomedad
I appreciate your efforts to entertain us, but nothing will top naked mopping. Please stop trying before you hurt yourself again.
Jenny
@Roger Moore: You forgot the flag burners, the gays, and the moooslims.
Keith G
@Jenny:
Maybe because Jesus is someone else’s imaginary friend.
Comrade Mary
So this is the official “How to tell a dog from a schnitzel” thread? (Precedent.)
(Me, I just put in my damn contacts — lightly adjusted for computer reading distance — instead of the glasses that correct distance perfectly and render everything on screen as textureless fields.)
(And yes, I know it’s scallopini — NOW THAT I CAN SEE THE SCREEN — but “schnitzel” is the funnier word. It’s a comedy rule.)
JPL
@Maude: I’m on a slab so weight wasn’t a problem but if I can brag some..I still have bruises from all my hard work. The bruises might not get me many dates at my age but it’s their loss not mine.
Jules
@Arundel:
I envy you with your fantastic 60’s counter tops.
I hate granite ones.
Soapstone is nice and also stainless steel.
I once went on a private estate buy at a house that had cream counter tops (50’s kitchen had never been fucked with) with a pink and tan boomerang pattern. I wanted to break in when everyone was gone and pull them out for my very own.
Jenny
In the Wisconsin recall, Rodgers is drubbing Favre.
WaterGirl
@Jules: i used to have the pink and tan boomerang in a rental house.
gbear
Umm, I want to apologize for my really stupid comment earlier in this thread. I’ve been watching videos of the riots in London since I wrote it. What’s happening in England is horrid on every level.
Maude
@JPL:
Any idiot that doesn’t understand that those bruises are a sign of a DYI and that is a valuable quality, deserves to be stuck in a room with tea partiers for ten hours.
A slab is good.
General Stuck
Your daily Hummingbird pic
WaterGirl
is anybody here from wisconsin that knows percents? there is a good AP link that shows the results by precinct, but I don’t know the state so i can’t interpret any of the results.
JPL
So..the WI ..returns look really bad.. This is good news because
WaterGirl
@General Stuck:nice photo, as usual! still really like the one that showed the spindly legs.
Reality Check
@JPL:
Get ready for the pity party now.
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@JPL: The polls haven’t even closed yet.
Southern Beale
@JPL:
THANK YOU.
They were absolutely brutal! Damn .. damn … phony liberals!!!
Elizabelle
@Suffern ace:
Thinking on your question.
Baucus is a deplorable choice.
Not a surprising one, but a terrible one.
I think it would make a lot of sense to add credible retired senators to the commission, maybe as discussants.
Thinking Byron Dorgan would be a straight shooter.
Would be great to hear from Howard Baker or Nancy Kassebaum Baker or Bob Dole or another reality-based Republican.
Maude
@Raven (formerly stuckinred):
OT, I was on the bus with a friend, USN Ret. that lost some friends in Afghanistan. He’s going to two funerals.
He said it was the most they had lost since WWII.
I was ready to weep and almost did, but I would have been weeping for hours. I can weep at home.
WaterGirl
@Raven (formerly stuckinred): i think the polls closed an hour ago.
pat
I voted at 9:00 AM and stood in line with many fat old folks, probably fox news addicts. Every one of them on social security, not talking much, but when there was a snippet of conversation the words “check book” or “debt” probably came up. Not a good sign.
We have a good friend and neighbor who watches fox exclusively, and persists in sending me forwarded emails about Obama as a socialist marxist islamist, you get the picture. These people live in another world, and it has nothing to do with what we view as reality.
I’m about to think they deserve the life the republicans will be handing them, but they are so stupid they will no doubt be told by fox that it’s all the democrats’ fault, and they will believe it.
You can’t win against a massive lying machine, and that’s what fox has created in the last few years.
karen marie
@Cat Lady: +1
Neutron Flux
@Reality Check: You pied one of your own there Homer. But, then, you don’t really know how to install it, do you?
someGuyInAustin
What kind of Scotch?