Displaying 991 To 1,020 Of 1,300 Comments Don’t knock Rice-a-roni. There is nothing wrong with some convenience. I cook the stuff all the time. Appreciate that one of the reasons that it tastes do good is that it is loaded with salt. You do not HAVE to put the whole flavor packet in there. And I often substitute some stock, low salt of course, for some of the water. Shallots are wonderful things. Dice up one or two and saute in butter, then bung in the rice a roni. Add sausage and peas for a complete meal in one pot. There is nothing wrong with using the convenience foods, if you use a little flair. Be assured that I do not slave away in the kitchen EVERY night! » Posted By KevenSeven On November 13, 2009 @ 5:18 pm No need for bread. This is a heavy meal. A salad and a nice white wine. Some fruit perhaps. No need for starch. » Posted By KevenSeven On November 13, 2009 @ 9:44 am OK, Friday, Saturday, all good. Right now I am working on a cassoulet out of Julia Child. This is not a trivial effort. It will take days. We are talking baked beans (not from the damned can) with all sorts of meats. I came across a promotion at the grocery featuring a full pork shoulder (12lbs) for 88 cents per pound. I am not going to miss a thing like that! The butcher was willing to cut the bones for me so that I was able to break it into four portions. I defrosted one a few days back and applied a dry rub of salt, pepper and herbs. That has been sitting in the fridge for a few days and I have just browned the meat (in four parts) and am simmering it in chicken stock for several hours. My wife will need to turn it off and bung it into the fridge as I will be at work. And I am soaking two pounds of dried white beans. I could cook those tonight or tomorrow morning. One tip. No salt for beans while cooking. There will be plenty of salt on the other ingredients, and if the cassoulet needs more salt at the end, that is the time. Otherwise the beans tend to split. Boil them gently and simmer very gently. I have some scraps of Duck Confit in the freezer, but it has been in there a long time. I may as well defrost it and if it is OK, it can go in as well. Otherwise, I’ll bung it into the trash. And I will include the better part of a pound of Polish Kielbassa. As per Julia. More as it develops. This is like ambrosia when it is on your plate. » Posted By KevenSeven On November 13, 2009 @ 9:22 am Well, that is fine and all and you are welcome, but I will stop participating in recipe swap if the site devolves into chatting about kitties and sex positions. I came here to talk politics and policy, but man does not live by bread alone! » Posted By KevenSeven On November 13, 2009 @ 9:10 am Ah! Struck a nerve! Cool! I’ll try to have a few recipes to share this evening after work. Is this topic strongest on Fridays or Sundays? I thought Sundays because that seems the classic day to cook an extensive meal if one is limited on how often one is cooking. » Posted By KevenSeven On November 13, 2009 @ 8:11 am I do love a good curry! I have no clue as how to cook Eastern food. Italian? Oh yeah! French? Coming up to speed. » Posted By KevenSeven On November 12, 2009 @ 11:59 pm No, either AdLib or Quark found that. » Posted By KevenSeven On November 12, 2009 @ 11:39 pm Ah, that is nothing. Grilling. Duck Confit? That would be something. I’ll be whipping up some cassolette (sp) soon. Now that, that is food! » Posted By KevenSeven On November 12, 2009 @ 11:38 pm Dammit. I tried to add an image! » Posted By KevenSeven On November 12, 2009 @ 8:38 pm Fuck those assholes. Hard. » Posted By KevenSeven On November 12, 2009 @ 10:25 pm Yes, I hit the wrong reply button. » Posted By KevenSeven On November 11, 2009 @ 10:04 pm It is stadium seating. With a jumbotron overhead. Not to worry. And I am slippery as an eel when I am slippery as an eel. » Posted By KevenSeven On November 11, 2009 @ 6:28 pm Personal responsibility: The moral argument against compassion Delighted that you are here. Now please pass the word back at huff. » Posted By KevenSeven On November 16, 2009 @ 1:36 pm BC! You’re here! About bloody time? How many more times did you expect for me to invite you???? » Posted By KevenSeven On November 16, 2009 @ 1:00 pm TO ALL MEMBERS: NEW PLANET FEATURES!!! AdLib, thank you for your generous re-introduction of the seminar concept. I wish to repeat my enthusiasm for this feature. I feel that if we get it swinging that we could run at least two simultaneously. Certainly there are many topics of interest to the members and that are amenable to this sort of treatment. If you have a topic that you would have us discuss, whether you want to monitor it or not, just get my attention and we can consider it. » Posted By KevenSeven On November 11, 2009 @ 10:50 pm Like you could not catch Springsteen another time! I’ve met the Boss. Worked on the music video 57 Channels. And I was tending bar in a nightclub thirty years ago when he came in to see a friend of his play. He is a REALLY nice guy. » Posted By KevenSeven On November 11, 2009 @ 10:37 pm Much of it. I had other things going on. » Posted By KevenSeven On November 10, 2009 @ 6:42 pm Thanks for this. I too can endorse this series. » Posted By KevenSeven On November 10, 2009 @ 9:44 am I really liked the numbered comments. Did that EVER make it easy to string a debate together. » Posted By KevenSeven On November 10, 2009 @ 9:47 am Yes. He was there when I started posting. Wadda asshole. » Posted By KevenSeven On November 9, 2009 @ 11:31 pm No kidding. And that asshole bitter betty is having a fine old time. If there was one troll to despise, it would be he. » Posted By KevenSeven On November 9, 2009 @ 10:58 pm I keep telling myself that Obama is looking for a way out. And I have decided that H could care less about the truth. » Posted By KevenSeven On November 9, 2009 @ 10:29 pm Will Abortion Debate be Democrats Civil War? What of Babs Boxer’s assertion that there is no way that 60 votes will be collected to amend the Senate bill to include an abortion ban? » Posted By KevenSeven On November 10, 2009 @ 6:50 pm Forgive them, they knew not what they did. » Posted By KevenSeven On November 12, 2009 @ 12:11 am HuffNo Friday, third time is the charm Welcome! Now, write something! » Posted By KevenSeven On November 9, 2009 @ 4:34 pm I never said that Huff should not be a topic of conversation. Try reading a little closer. I’m urging that it not be the primary topic of conversation. I want this blog to be other than the anti-Huff blog. » Posted By KevenSeven On November 9, 2009 @ 11:17 am Don’t call them teabaggers. That is insulting. Probably because it illustrates the fact that they are bitching about no taxation without representation at the town hall meeting of elected representatives. Either that or because there were no fucking teabags in Boston in 1773. There were no teabags anywhere for another 130 years. » Posted By KevenSeven On November 8, 2009 @ 10:32 pm S’all good. Now. What are we going to do about drawing more people to HuffNo Friday? » Posted By KevenSeven On November 8, 2009 @ 10:22 pm Just sayin’ growing means getting over it. Oh, I’ll bitch and piss about Huff along with everyone else. I’m just looking forward to the day when it is the minority topic here. » Posted By KevenSeven On November 8, 2009 @ 9:30 pm Just sayin’ that we must have topics more stimulating than the depredations of Huff. » Posted By KevenSeven On November 8, 2009 @ 8:55 pmComments Posted By KevenSeven
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