Bloody hell. I can't find a YouTube for the version of "Secret Agent Man" in Spanish from the Repo Man soundtrack. We're going to have to make do with this incredibly campy Myriam Hernandez song of the same name.
And what, you may ask, has me feeling so very, uh, festive?
It's Pachacutec's birthday. He's 629 today. (And holding.)
So, yo, shorty! It's your birfday! We're gonna party like it's your birfday, drink Bacardi like it's your birfday! Heeeeeeey, yeah!!
I raise my glass to you, oh fierce and sharp-tongued Inca Prince. You don't look a day over 400.
Everybody please line up in the comments to pinch his proud Peruvian cheeks, fuss over him, lavish him with excessive praise, and generally make him as uncomfortable as possible. Shall we? Oh, do let's!
Happy happy birthday, Pach. When I'm old and decrepit, I hope I carry it even half as well as you do. You look like a million lire!!
Okay, no, seriously folks. I love me some Pachacutec. You have no idea how many times this kind and patient man has talked me down off the ledge. Of all the elite operatives here at the Bureau of the F.D.L., I think that Pach deserves the most in hazardous duty pay. He is the one who has to look at my posts before they go up and say, "Uh, TRex, confessing your desire to rip someone's arms off and beat them to death with them, um, how is that contributing to the discourse, again? You maybe want to dial it down a notch?"
"But, Paaaaaaaach!" I wail, "You never let me have any fun!"
"Young man!" he says, "Don't make me have to pull over this blog!"
Here's a confession. Sometimes I throw stuff in there just because I know he's going to make me take it out. I'm bratty like that. How far can I push it…before…?
SWAT!! Down comes the Incan Hammer.
Thank you, Pach, for everything you do. It wouldn't be home without you.
Hooray for Pach! Hooray for birthdays!
There are 40 SHOPPING DAYS LEFT UNTIL MINE, gang!
But who's counting?
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ZED
My birthday is the day after Halloween, and I hate getting orange birthday presents or anything shaped like a pumpkin.
TRex…The General got a call from your new ‘girlfriend’:
http://patriotboy.blogspot.com…..utiny.html
Hiya TRex!
and happy birthday, Pach!
TREX!
I see they found your great grandfather, seems he had a taste for lawyers.
Dinosaurus
Happy Birthday Pach!
Delbert!
Happy Happy Birthday!
Happy birthday, Pach!
You don’t look a day over…well, let’s not talk about that. Seriously, I loved your liveblogging at the Libby trial, and you add so much to the Lake.
I hope this is the best year so far.
-S
I share a birthday with Babs Bush, Joan Rivers, Nancy Sinatra, Boz Scaggs and Sonia Braga. And I have no idea what any of it means.
Thanks, gang. It’s been a very enjoyable birthday. I always especially appreciate. . . not being dead!
Happy Birthday Pach, and many, many, more!!
A wish to taste Mommybrain’s chocolate amazing recipe cake to you from the downstairs thread :}, and a shot of Cuervo if you so partake!
Oh, and Happy Happy Happy there Pach, however old (or young at heart) that you may be.
Snarkassandra @
2
So are you a saint on All Saints Day?
dakine01 @ 10
That’s quite a diverse group!
Hippo birdies two ewes, Pach!
TRex, I’m thinking “Secret Agent Man” in Spanish might be a tad offensive to a Incan. Kind of like “Super Chicken” might offend a TRex.
;)
Happy Birthday, Pach!
Happy Pachy Birthday Pach!
Pachacutec @ 11
Yes, we are all very happy that you could see the sunrise and sunset today!
OK, down to brass tacks. What did you think of Gonzo sweating yesterday? I thought he was going to run screaming from the room.
dakine01 @ 13
Yeah. One day a year. But only if I get good presents.
LS @
12
OT, did you see the discussion with Gnome de Plume from a few nights ago? There’s a move afoot for the “local” fire pups to possibly do the Gospel Brunch with a Texas Twist at Gruene Hall in July. Second Sunday each month except for January. Brunch catered by the Grist Mill, tickets (I think) $10. Further details down the road.
There are 40 SHOPPING DAYS LEFT UNTIL MINE, gang!
But who’s counting?
I’m not!
Happy Birthday Pach
I second on the thanks for the live blogging, incredible job.
TRex what do you want for your birthday in 40 days?
BUTTERCHEEKS!!!
Happy Birthday, Pach.
And Trex I have to say that your brattiness sounds like you’re looking for more than just getting your blog pulled over.
Not that ther’s anything wrong with that. ;o)
Churchill died on my birthday and is the saint day for the patron saint of writers. That means something. Doesn’t it?
LoudounLib @
15
Kinda shows just how ludicrous the sun sign by itself is.
dakine01 @ 21
Sounds sweet to me. I was just there on Saturday night!! Mmmm Grist Mill.
Oh my lordy…TRex is nearing forty…)
Happy Birthday, oh Grand Inca!!
Happy birthday, Pach!
Been working overtime hours this week, and have to go in tomorrow at 8 in the freaking morning, so I’m not doing too much blogging. But there are a few new posts at the Independent Bloggers’ Alliance–mostly by my fellow bloggers.
And check out this cat with thumbs. (I love it–the caption reads: I have evolved thumbs. Your days are numbered.)
We shall overcome. For some reason, this inane post got me thinking about Civil Rights day low these 47 years ago. Christ! We get old, and we don’t think we’re old.
Evening, all. Happy B’day Pach.
Happy Birthday Pach! You and the FDL crew do some amazing work here. It’s interesting watching the Blogosphere grow into The New Citizen Journalist and I honestly do believe when history looks back on this, you folks at Firedog Lake will definatly feature as “The Best Of…”
Thanks for being here…
Feliz cumpleanos, Pach, y muchos mas a venir.
Just had some Kahlua in a decaf espresso in your honor.
edit: ugh, I just hate that WordPress doesn’t like cedillas and other accent marks.
I only got to see Gonzo in the morning before wrapping all my brain into a half day of client work into the evening.
I actually saw what I expected. I frankly did not see a man any different from what I saw during the confirmation hearings. It’s just that there’s a fact record there, and more than that, the political will to pursue it.
There was a fact record in 2005, too, but no one pursued it, save perhaps Feingold. But times have changed, we’re in the majority, Schumer can read the polls (finally), and now everyone else is catching up.
As for his manifest corruption and whether he stays, I’ve never understood how people pretended he was anything else but a bag man in the first place, so I’ll feel more surprised, in a way, if the plug does get pulled on him.
Ancient warrior, happiest of birthdays. Have a bit of carrot cake…’ere.
How about this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBCRzgk9WMk
Not from Repo Man, but sounds like the Plugz to me.
Eureka Springs @ 29
Forty (and fifty) are long in the rear view mirror for this ol’ boy.
Happy Birthday Pach!
Many hundreds more.
Snarkassandra @
2
No carrot cake for you!
Happy Birthday, Pach
…and many more…
Mutant Poodle @ 39
CHOCOLATE cake please! Chocolate icing.
Lifting a virtual pisco sour, Pach, to your undeadness. Long may you live and reign.
EPU’d from last thread – Hey Cassie got her first? zed tonight and I got my first EPU.
Eureka Springs @ 154
Helen, I sure enjoyed your comments in the live gonzo threads…thank you
You are very welcome. In fact it was a blast – AND I was at work the whole time!! SHHHH
Snarkassandra @ 24
A black Nokia 7373 phone.
This pair of Kenneth Cole shoes.
That’s all I can think of right now.
Snarkassandra @
1
Cassie got a ZED!
Now, that makes her a real FDL girl, one of the elite! *g*
Go, Cassie! Tamer of the Balrog!
Bob in HI
PS- I’ve got a niece who’s a senior in H.S.
–I’ll send her over to your blog if you’ll send us the addy again.
PPS- Happy Birthday, Pach!!! Thanks for all you do for FDL, including keeping Mr. Emptywheels happy. . . .
Snarkassandra @ 42
Yes! A fellow member of the cult!
Snarkassandra @ 2
So, that pretty much nixes our plan to give you Tim Russert’s head on a platter.
TRex @ 45
Oooohhh, very nice choices there!
(In honor of Cassie’s birthday, puts on his best Transylvanian accent)
Good eeeeevening.
Snarkassandra @ 42
To which I’d add, since the food thread is immortal, that the Morton’s Chocolate Molten Lava cakes are not that hard to make and mucho tasty…
I like yellow cake with chocolate frosting. Rawr.
Also for my birthday, I would like:
Articles of Impeachment.
A new boyfriend, maybe.
EvilDrPuma @
48
EDP. that’d be like gettin’ a stocking full of coal at christmas
The (Evil) Doctor is in the house. Good evening, sir.
Bob Schacht @ 45
This is 8 of us.
This is mine.
Sometimes they have the same stuff. :)
Ask your niece if she wants to guest blog sometimes.
EvilDrPuma @ 48
GASTMUMC. (Getting a sponge to mop up my coffee.)
The new Tori Amos record.
Uh…
dakine01 @ 53
Well, especially since she wouldn’t want it anyway.
I don’t know what one gets for a centuries-old Incan warrior, other than donations to the Blue America 2008 candidate of your choice.
TRex, does Banana Republic carry sizes for 60 ft. dinosaurs, or do you have to go to the Big and Tall Man’s Store? (In case anyone wanted to give you a birthday present)
Happy Birthday, Pach!
Old age sucks, but it’s better than the alternative…
DrDick @ 54
Thank you, thank you. And a very happy birthday to the Inca scourge of the right-wing toobz.
TRex @ 52
Also a winner.
Here is the philosophical question: does the “cake” in the cake have intrinsic value, or is it merely a frosting delivery system?
TRex @
57
TRex, gotta tell ya as an old man who worked in a gentlemens store back in HS and college, it is very hard to go wrong with a good pair of well made shoes from GH Bass. If properly cared for, they will last decades and go out of and come back into style.
Evening, everybody. Happy Birthday, Pach.
Happy B’Day Pach!! And MANY more.
I’ll be in D.C. next week. Would love to buy you a drink if you’re amenable.
neurophius @ 60
They have some things in my size. The trouble is my tail.
Sigh.
Peterr @ 59
Leahy and his zoo crew tried hard to sacrifice Gonzales’ career to the mountain gods yesterday, but that still needs a bit of work.
elbows dakine to say that the Nats just took the lead, heading to the bottom of the 14th
delurking to say Happy Happy Birthday Pach.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY. PACH!
Which tradition do you follow?
Are your giving or receiving gifts on your BD?
How about some of both?
I wish you a wonderful day and many, many wonderful years filled with friends, love, riches, and satisfying work.
I wish for us many more of your insightful postings and sound opinions.
Many blessings!
neurophius @ 60
Perhaps a certificate for a manicure/pedicure? Must have the claws stylishly appointed…
Happy Birthday, Pach! Hard to believe it’s only been a little over a year since we first “met” here.
Cassie,
How are you doing? A zed? You’ve hit the big time. Fun times.
(I got the first zed on the first Abu post yesterday and felt supercharged to watch the bagman make a total fool of himself, which he did.)
Mutant Poodle @ 63
Oh the cake has the intrinsic value as well as the icing. I mean as Bill Cosby said, it had the egg, the milk, the wheat and flour; all those good nutrious food stuffs.
Mutant Poodle @ 63
I think a delivery system. I always wanted to get as much frosting as possible.
TRex says
I make that often… it is always called “Cake eRiposte” in mi casa….)
Renee in Ohio @ 30
I have a pix of a cat with helmet, who wants to join the thumbed cat’s army. Where should I send it?
Bob in HI
EvilDrPuma @ 68
I asked if litigatormom was going to break out a goat (that having worked so well on the eve of the Libby verdict), but she said she was saving her next one for a more special occasion. Got to conserve the herd and all.
Besides, I think Gonzo is probably best roasted and smoked over a long, slow fire. If you rush it, you just spoil the flavor.
Mutant Poodle @ 62
I hope it is not yellow cake from Niger.
John Dean has a new article up today:
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’s “Reconfirmation Hearings”: Why, In the End, They Will Change Nothing
http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dean/20070420.html
AZ Matt @ 76
Then here’s a tip, as I am like-minded on this critical issue: slice the layers in half horizontally. More frosty goodness that way…
triciawrites @ 70
Welcome.
RevDeb @ 73
I am doing great! I made a new friend at school named Jessica and she goes to the same church you were telling me about. :)
AZ Matt @ 76
Kinda like a cracker. All the cracker does is hold up the cheese.
OT — did you folks catch the last post at TPM tonight about Sid Blumenthal at Salon on Wolfie?
Cheese-on-rice, these people are in a full-on meltdown, every single chicken coming home to roost at the same time and crashing in a heap when the roost catastrophically fails.
I think we’ve given them all far too much credit for being intelligent or rational at any time in the last 6-plus years. This business about Wolfowitz makes it clear he is an utter and complete moron; I don’t know how he manages to put the business end of the comb in his mouth without assistance.
LoudounLib @
69
turns out, the reds tied the phillies in the 9th and won in the 10th. Final 2-1. Which after the bullpen blew 3 and five run leads the last two nights, was sorely needed.
Snarkassandra @ 80
All yellowcake is from Niger. All weaopns are massively destructive.
Will Wolfowitz go before Gonzo does?
PACH! You gotta keep TRex on a short leash. He’s potentially dangerous!!
Hard to round up these extinct types, I’m sure.
Happiest of birthdays to you.
Pachacutec @ 35
I actually don’t want the plug to be pulled on him; it’s not as if he’s going to be replaced with anyone good. Let him twist in the wind and tug the rest of BushCo and the GOP with him.
Snarkassandra @ 84
Good for you! hope it works out for you. I think it just might. It’s always good to find friends who are on the same wavelength.
“So, that pretty much nixes our plan to give you Tim Russert’s head on a platter.
EDP. that’d be like gettin’ a stocking full of coal at christmas.”
At least coal can be useful.
WHAAAAT??!!
No, no, no, you’ve got this all wrong. The cake is the whole point. The frosting is the luxe of it.
Man, I worked at this frou-frou bakery and I used to get so frustrated because their cakes were so dry and flavorless. The damn things cost $50 and tasted like the inside of a freezer.
I was all, like, “You can dump as much ganache as you want on that shitty cake, honey, it’s still going to taste like a styrofoam cooler.”
Cake should be moist but not damp, springy to the touch, and should tear rather than crumble. A delicious cake wears the frosting rather than the other way around.
triciawrites – Is a commenter in denial *s*.. once delurked always delurked…. good to see you triciaw…)
dakine01 @ 87
Excellent! And this just in – Nats win, Nats win. Another extra-innings extravaganza. I tell ya, the Nats are starting to cut in on my beauty sleep!
Dru @ 93
Carbon footprints of the two are equal.
Bob in HI, the thumbcat picture is from this web site. There is a “how to submit pictures” link in the right sidebar.
Good night, everybody.
Rayne @ 86
Didja see Jon Stewart’s comment? Something like. “This guy started a war and is apologizing for giving his girlfriend a job. That’s like the Manson family saying to the Tates and LoBiancas ‘Oh sorry for messing up the carpet.’”
dakine01 @
10
Let’s have a moment of silence for dakine.
TRex @ 94
The dino knows whereof he speaks. Or somethin’ li’e dat.
jinny @ 81
A-yep. My only quibble is that Ed Meese, who by implication JWD rates high, was nearly as bad as AGAG.
Loo Hoo @ 100
Sonia Braga’s OK…
(oops, hit publish too soon and forgot the most important part of the post)
Happy Birthday to our resident Earth-shaker!
Eureka Springs @ 77
Let’s get married.
I can fry chicken.
TRex @
52
yellow cake – if ya can find any hehe
(happy b’day patch)
Loo Hoo @ 100
Thank you. I always have to just grit my teeth on the first two.
LoudounLib @ 89
We need a horse-race announcer to call this one…
(arrives from epuland…)
Happy Birthday, Pach!
Congrats, Cassie.
Welcome, triciawrites.
EvilDrPuma @ 107
Maybe it will be a tie.
Elliott @ 5
Nonsense! Since aeons immemorial, it has always been a trusim that the ever-popular Trex never “jumps the shark.” :)
AZ Matt @
22
Fer god’s sake. What the hell do you want this year. I can’t afford it.
Mutant Poodle @ 82
Oh, and be sure to buy TWO cans of that whipped-type frosting, maybe even THREE. That whipped-type frosting is da’ bomb, but a can (tub?) doesn’t do a decent job of frosting a cake. Really need a tub for in-between the layers and another one for the exterior. Maybe even a tub of regular frosting to put on in a thin crumb coat first, then the whipped-type final coat.
My nine-year-old would tell you, too, that cake is only a frosting-delivery system. Frosting always eaten, some amount of cake always left behind. My thirteen-year-old daughter would tell you the cake is the entire deal, screw the frosting. At least I have an evenly matched set; just wish they wouldn’t hoover up an entire 13×9 sheet cake in a day.
Loo Hoo @ 100
I have the same birthday as Albert Einstein, and GoodMrsPuma says I have his hair in the mornings, too.
Pach, happy birthday!
Thanks for all the hard work, all the best to you.
Pach, I wish you the very best. Happy birthday.
Happy Birthday Pach!
TRex @ 94
Not to argue with history’s most feared carnivore, but while I don’t advocate dry, lifeless cake, assuming the cake and frosting are both transcendental, if I had to choose one, it would be the frosting.
[Hiding under chair.]
Rayne @ 112
Sounds good to me. Can I come over?
Gotta run, working tomorrow :-( good night all, and have fun!
TRex @ 105 says:
So can I which is probably why I haven’t married. My folks taught me to do all the cooking and cleaning type stuff that most men need a woman to do. Sometimes it can be a drag to be self-sufficient. Hell, I can even shop for clothes that are color coordinated and every thing.
TRex @ 94
Hey-start a pool. “Which Bush administration tool is going to resign/be fired/be indicted next?”
This could be a growth industry.
It isn’t birthday cake without ice cream.
Deb, I’ll be out of town til late Wednesday, but I may be at Arlington Drinking Liberally Thursday night. Then I have a speaking engagement her in town Friday. Busy week.
Redshift: indeed!
Oh, and I’m the recipient of gifts on this birthday. Very generous family.
SnarKassandra @ 119
Party at Rayne’s house! Bring the insulin!
EvilDrPuma @ 114
I share mine with the groundhog.
Mutant Poodle @ 103
Yeah! (drooling at the thought)
Gen. JC Christian, patriot @ 117
General, SUH!!
*snaps salute*
rayne — where do you live?
Hey Pach, that was a sharp suit you were wearing in DC last month. Nice. Happy Birthday!
CatelynK @ 43
Hear, hear!
General in the bakery!
Attenshun!
Cake, sir?
Best cake ever from JaCiva in Portland OR. They did our wedding cake—banana cake with dark chocolate rum filling and poured chocolate ganache on top, poured over a chocolate swiss (like a butter cream but better). I can still taste it 13 years later.
EvilDrPuma @ 114
What’s hair?
OK – fess-up time – who’s eaten the frosting and left the cake on the plate, or worse, just eaten the frosting out of the can and not even bothered with the cake? I will go first: ME.
Happy Birthday, Pach! Thanks for what you do at FDL! You rule.
The article that Rayne refered to by Sid contains this interesting section. It is something that should have set off alarms throughout the intelligence community:
Happy birthday to Pach,
Glad he’s not in Iraq.
(Sorry, it’s the best rhyme I can think of right now)
And hugs to TRex, who is a monster for being able to do these Late Nite Posts every night for us!
Happy Birthday Pach! Today’s my hubby’s BDay, too :-)
Boithday greetings, Pachacutec!
marksb @ 131
Courthouse drag.
Pachacutec @ 125
Perx up ears, living not 20ish miles from there…??? :)
TRex @ 105
In your case, that’s practically cannibalism.
Helen @ 136
How about this: who hasn’t?
TRex @ 94
When Mrs. Peterr and I got engaged and were making all the appropriate plans, she was at a friend’s birthday party with a marvelous cake. She got the name of the baker from the host, and told me all about it. I started to laugh, and she asked what was so funny. “He hit on me last week at a gay rights event,” I told her, “and when I told him I was getting married soon, he was both disappointed I was “taken” and happy for the two of us.”
We laughed, and she called him up to see what he could do for a wedding cake. Lots of laughs, all the way around, and a great cake for our wedding.
Rayne @ 86
i find it interesting how everyone interviewed or reporting this story in the msm keeps referring to her as his “girlfriend” (even judy woodruff!) the guy IS married. (not that i care but so much for their family values huh?
TRex @
105
Hell, TRex, you ARE chicken. So this research says…
TRex @ 129
BUMP!
Lou Costello @ 3
I was talking about ‘
ACEASS of Spades’!Pachacutec @ 125
I leave Thursday afternoon. Catch you at YKos if not before. Be glad to buy you one there, a belated birthday . . .
Helen @ 136
Me.
But I’m in recovery.
Now I eat homemade frosting out of the bowl.
Mutant Poodle @ 144
Sometimes. Sometimes. Not often. We go after the frosting straight from the can. Shhhhhh!!!!!
Helen @ 136
For me, I’ve eaten the cake and left the frosting. Especially if the frosting is way rich. I think it’s part of getting older as I would never have done so when I was a kid.
Helen @ 136
Canned frosting is excrement.
I have two frostings, well, two chocolate frostings. One where you heat the butter and stir in the cocoa and the other (my favorite) is where you let the butter get to room temperature and start whippin’! The melted butter frosting has a fudgier, kind of candy-store taste, whereas the whipped butter is lighter and fluffier. Both are incredible spread on a yellow cake.
Educated Plaintiff @ 146
He is married to somebody else?????
Pach, a very happy birthday to you.
kirk murphy @ 151
Oh well, that’s much better.
Mutant Poodle @ 145
Out of a CAN!?!?
Canned frosting is the polyester of the culinary world.
SnarKassandra @ 152
Cutting out the middleman – how economically efficient!
EvilDrPuma @ 144
In your case, that’s practically cannibalism.
Not really, quite…. but would you put your great-great-mega-multi-great descendant into a frying pan? Not so much.
The mind quails at the thought…
Happy Birthday PACH!
I happen to be a late summer girl. I share my birthday with Mother Theresa, Macauley Culkin(WTF?), and Branford Marsailis.
I think my birthday is proof that all virgos are strange creatures.
Cake? Should be chocolate with chocolate frosting. *evil grin* Nothing like Deathy By Chocolate. (yes i have a sweet tooth from hell!)
AZ Matt @ 138
Jeebuz! I lost clearances for being too honest and yet cr*p like this goes on.
TRex @
52
What about poor Juan Carlos that you scooped up? Doesn’t he count for anything?
Mutant Poodle @ 63
Frosting delivery system (unless it’s carrot or rum cake).
OT: Hmmmm….I’ve been half listening to the Extraordinary rendition hearing. It is making my head hurt. So far, I’m hearing a bunch of crap that basically is looking for common language to rationalize or legitimize the renditions. It is making me sick. Everything from several references to Eichmann to who knows what. Seems they want to find common language to address the issue – some cite the prosecution of the mafia. Rohrerbacher is horrifying to me. Also, just imagine hearing “Roooollss of Loughhhh” repeated with British accents every 10 seconds….I don’t like what I’m hearing, but maybe this will change. I hope someone with a good mind is or will watch this.
Helen @ 157
Much more caloric, I fear :{
(and when I was in my “can” phase I enjoyed it every bit as much as I do the homemade…
I think I have to call my sponsor)
Is carrot cake really cake anyways?
I don’t post much, but I love lurking here!
Pach: So many gifts you give to us all, and in return you get hundreds of well wishes for a Happy Birthday! Can you feel the love? ;)
SnarKassandra @ 155
Separated but still married to his wife.
Peterr @ 158
Yeah – TRex said kinda the same thing. I did not (could not) contribute to the last thread because I never ever ever cook. For dinner tonight I had a bagel with chicken salad all bought at the bagel store.
SnarKassandra @ 167
Yes. The best!
I have a recipe for buttercream icing that would even make a styrofoam cake taste good.
But it’s better on chocolate cake.
Or even on sugar cookies.
Memorial Day 2006:
To paraphrase Rob Reiner’s mom in When Harry Met Sally, “I’ll have what he’s having.”
(raising glass)
To Pach!
SusanD @ 172
Weeellll, what is it?
Must share cookie advice:
Take Toll House Chocolate Chip recipe.
Double the vanilla.
Instead of chips, chop equivalent weight of high quality semi-sweet or bittersweet chocolate (think Ghirardelli or Scharffenberger) into medium chunks and mix in batter.
Cook as before.
Enjoy gooey chocolate chunk cookie greatness.
SnarKassandra @ 130
Mutant Poodle — I think I have oral meds for diabetes here, spouse is on them. But you’ll have to bring your own injectables.
Snarkassie — middle Michigan, about 2 hours north of Detroit. Lovely evening hear, great night to stargaze on the deck. 9-year-old put on some jazz this evening for wind-down.
Our favorite cakes here:
the boy: Funfetti or chocolate; anything else is frosting delivery system
the girl: chocolate or fudge or something chocolate, with chocolate or fudge frosting or filling, with frozen whipped topping (still frozen)
the spouse: angel food with seven-minute frosting, or chocolate-chocolate
me: Carnival cake (rich, dense vanilla cake laced with chopped chocolate bits and a nut nougat filling) or lemon poppyseed with a lemon glaze.
S.O.S. from MA @ 143
Perx up ears, living not 20ish miles from there…??? :)
Different Arlington. VA.
SusanD @ 172
Hi Susan-how hard would it be to talk you into posting it?
Best Wishes for exceptional day with family and friends, Pach….
All of you that run this blog make the lake the best….
Thank you so much!….
Thanks! I’ll send her the info. Her name is Jean, and she’s “shopping” for a university to go to next year.
I went to your website, and found out that you play basketball! Love it! What position? I like following Women’s college BB and the WNBA. The San Antonio Silver Stars looks like they’ll have an interesting team this year.
Thanks again,
Bob in HI
DrDick @ 171
I vote “no,” because it is neither angel food nor chocolate.
TRex and any other FDL blogges.
How do you think of something to write about every single day?
How do you get other bloggers to write more than 2 posts a week?
It seems like everyone on our blog wants to write on the weekends and it is hard to get articles during the week. But now it is 11pm on Friday and we have not had a new article in 24 hours. :( Advice?
Only if our cats get along and if we can use at least an entire spare bedroom as a walk in shoe closet.
AZ Matt @ 169
Well, I’m sure she’s enjoying all this.
Helen @ 170 says:
Now Helen (he says patronizingly), if you can read and be somewhat patient, you should be able to cook. Joy of Cooking is a great intro cookbook that explains things fairly well. Then it’s just a matter of experimenting to your taste.
If I din’t know how to cook, I would have starved to death years ago as I don’t eat pizza and detest most fast foods (besides, they’re too damn expensive).
Eureka Springs @ 182
Ooooh! Shoes !!!!!!
Totally Off Topic
(I know it sounds real dumb but do give it a try)
World`s Largest Trivia Contest & tons of great music all weekend from Stevens Point Wisconsin – stream it
Happy Day to The Secret Agent Man !
“When you give food to the poor, they call you a saint. When you ask why the poor have no food, they call you a communist. ” – Archbishop Helder Camara
Rayne @ 86
Heh, heh, heh. MoFo.
Cassie, I can answer all these questions, but my 19yr old kitteh just had an accident in the kitchen. Hold that thought.
Buttercream frosting:
2 sticks butter, room temperature
1/2 c. milk
1/2 tsp. salt
2 tsp. vanilla
2 lbs. confectioner’s sugar
Cream butter, mix in sugar and milk alternately. The longer you mix this, the better it gets. Cover with a damp towel to prevent drying. Can store in refrigerator in airtight container for two weeks.
Delicious, but you’ll need to buy a bigger belt.
SnarKassandra @ 155
I know what you mean. It’s hard to believe Wolfowitz could attract even one woman.
Y’all are killing me.
I’m on Atkins.
Most of the time I can stand it. But y’all are killing me here.
*sob*
EvilDrPuma @ 191
Maybe they are both blind or masochists.
Mutant Poodle @ 184
She has to be just LOVING it!! She should get divorced now while he still has cash, before his defense lawyers take it all.
Mutant Poodle @ 184
I’d bet she’s got a few tales to tell should she be inclined.
dakine01 @ 185
Now Helen (he says patronizingly), if you can read and be somewhat patient, you should be able to cook. Joy of Cooking is a great intro cookbook that explains things fairly well. Then it’s just a matter of experimenting to your taste.
If I din’t know how to cook, I would have starved to death years ago as I don’t eat pizza and detest most fast foods (besides, they’re too damn expensive).
I was reading you in the last thread and I thought – DAYM if that boy cooked for me I’d weigh 200 pounds – but would enjoy putting on every single one of those pounds.
Oh and “patient” is the thing. Nope, not, nyet. But the bright side is…I can read!!
DrDick @ 193
Maybe it’s just our blind spot…we assume “woman” goes together with “self-respect.”
EvilDrPuma @ 191
It is his personal grooming habits!!
SusanD, that recipe is proof of the existence of evil.
SnarKassandra @ 182
Some posts are on the issue of the minute, while others can be written for more general use. This post, for instance, could have been written a while ago and saved for just this occasion. So could the “Republican dictionary” you put up at YouThinkLeft. There’s no harm in a post that’s not “up-to-the-minute,” but you have to write it a bit differently.
To encourage more weekday posts, try this: no one gets a weekend post slot without providing a post during the week.
AZ Matt @ 198
Especially the comb sucking.
Alicia @ 192
So let’s talk BBQ . . . is the meat just a delivery system for the sauce?
AZ Matt @ 198
Well, so much for MY appetite.
Sorry about the ziggyness.
happy birthday, Pach
He is married to somebody else?????
Paul Wolfowitz – Spouse – Clare Selgin Wolfowitz
Peterr @ 202
No – the better the meat, the less sauce; strong sauce is a cover up for bad meat.
Peterr @ 202
Hoss, if you do it right and slow smoke the pork over a hardwood fire, you don’t need no stinkin’ sauce.
Helen @ 196
I was reading you in the last thread and I thought – DAYM if that boy cooked for me I’d weigh 200 pounds – but would enjoy putting on every single one of those pounds.
Oh and “patient” is the thing. Nope, not, nyet. But the bright side is…I can read!!
Helen, you would not weigh 200 pounds. Portion control and all that. I make a pot roast, I have one serving then break the rest up into tupperware for the freezer. Homemade TV dinners. I make a pot of chili or beef stew, same thing. Same with spaghetti sauce (I start with a jar of Newman’s own then embellish). A lot of times at night, a pan broil/grill/broil a small steak, nuke a small potato and fruit salad or lettuce. I’ve learned to cut down recipes to manageable sizes. Trust me.
Oh and the being patient is because a lot of folks turn the heat up to high thinking it will cook faster. Nope.
DrDick@201
Especially the comb sucking.
Oh no..please. I am begging you not to start with the comb sucking.
MP, DrDick,
Amen!
Although a good sauce, like a good wine, can enhance the meat tremendously.
Thanks, SusanD, will try it out…wonder if I can squeeze in a 1/3 cup cocoa and a pinch of salt?
Loo Hoo — isn’t that Blumenthal article on Wolfie amazing? I really cannot tell if the man knows he’s keeping time with a foreign operative, or if he’s being used by a foreign operative; any way you slice it, he’s still so gawddamned stupid for thinking nobody would notice.
I think that’s the hardest part to stomache out of this entire debacle that is this administration: they are f*cking stupid *sswipes. They define the word “stupid,” their group picture next to the entry in the dictionary. STUPID.
And yet enough Americans voted for these idiots that they could steal the few votes they needed to win. What kind of stupid does that make this country?
Every intelligence agency in the world must be laughing their *sses off at us; the White House gives them everything by email to RNC. Gawddamnitall, how f*cking insanely stupid!!! We’re literally run by chimps!!
Peterr @ 202
oooooooohhh BBQ! I was in Kansas City on MLK day and had Gates BBQ.
The sauce and the meat are one. If it’s properly cooked.
jen: it is a bit overwhelming.
no comb sucking on my birfday.
Happy Birthday Pach.
210 comments at 12:07 eastern. Gotta love it.
But, I agree – the meat’s the thing. Good enough meat don’t need sauce.
But there’s nothing wrong with good sauce.
Rayne @ 113
Rayne, you know I love you. But this comment makes me want to hurl!
Peterr @ 210
When I make most any recipe that calls for water like for a pot of chili or stew or spaghetti sauce, I substitute beer.
“That’s intense!”
“Life is always intense for a Repo Man.”
(one of my favorite flicks)
Happy Pach-Day!
And I’m so happy; I got Nancy Pelosi to say “Hi Connecticut Bob!” to my video camera tonight! It’ll be online late tomorrow, I think.
Alicia @ 211
As a former KC resident, let me say that Gates is OK, but for *really* good BBQ, try Smokestack BBQ at 8920 Wornall the next time you’re there.
dakine01 @ 217
dakine! Me too!
Alicia @ 192
Alicia, it’s time to break out the big guns.
Go to the store, buy a pint of whipping cream, good quality cocoa, and a box of Splenda.
Chill a bowl while you’re out, one big enough to whip the cream in when you get back. When you get back, pour the cream into the bowl, use a whisk and beat the snot out of the cream using as much upper arm and shoulder muscles as you can, until the cream is whipped into not-quite stiff peaks. Add 2 tablespoons of the cocoa, one tablespoon at a time, mixing in lightly as you do so. Then add a teeny pinch of salt, and a teaspoon of the Splenda. Finish whipping until firm peaks. Taste, then adjust sweetening to taste. Chill if you can wait that long.
Atkins-safe chocolate mousse. Mmm-mmm.
Also works on cake. ;-)
dakine01 @ 217
My kind of cooking.
dakine01 @ 217
Good idea. Around here, what we call “water” for brevity’s sake is actually a compound containing equal proportions of all chemical elements. The only reason it doesn’t kill you instantly is that it contains its own antidote.
Connecticut Bob @ 218
I have a cousin who’s a repo man and his sons work with him sometimes. They had never seen the movice ’til I took it over to them one night. Good times.
Happy Birthday Pach!
And in your honor…a tour of the old ‘HOOD’
THX for all your wonderful work. ~ PEACE!
Congrats Connecticut Bob!
dakine01 @ 217
I just drink beer directly out of the can. Oh my, I am back to the can.
Alicia @ 216
So true, one time a friend smoked some chicken for hours, and when I tasted it I asked him what the incredible spice was, and he said, nada, nothing, it was truly amazing. Smoke it long, low, and slow.
EvilDrPuma @ 223
One of the advantages of living here in the mountains. We actually do have good, clean drinking water. Not everywhere in the state, however. Too many places had their water ruined by mining wastes (Butte and Helena come to mind).
EvilDrPuma @ 223
For spagheti, I like a heavy meat sauce. I try to start with a jar of Newman’s Own Sock-a-rooni. I brown a pond of ground sirloin, drain throw into the pan with the jar of sauce, a can/bottle of beer then cook it low and slow for about 3-4 hours until it is the heavy sauce rather than just meat added to the sauce.
dakine01 @ 225
I’ll bet there were some familiar moments for them when they saw the movie!
Here is the philosophical question: does the “cake” in the cake have intrinsic value, or is it merely a frosting delivery system?
Isn’t that somewhat age-dependent?
Up to age 12 or 13, there is no question that cake is the frosting delivery-system, and cake gets passed to the dog under the table.
Then, slowly, sophistication sets in (or some measure of pretense of it) and cake is discovered in its own right.
Finally, a multitude of cake delightys are discovered, and frosting can even become optional. Think Baba au Rum. Well, sometimes frosting is optional. Mostly not.
Connecticut Bob @ 231
OH yeah!
RonD @ 199
agreed..and I will have to try it immediately.
More greatest hits from Pach . . . with a shout-out to teens!
dakine01 @ 230
A pond of ground sirloin…are we channeling Gordon Brown tonight? Is that a “strong and stable pond?”
Sorry.
dakine01@185
My problem with cooking is not that I can cook, but that I never do dishes…I sleep days and work nights, and the family doesn’t want me doing dishes while they’re trying to sleep. I know the stove is under there somewhere, but I’m hungry now! This is why I don’t ever cook anymore.
Peterr @ 220
Better than Gates? I’ll check it out, Peterr. Thanks for the tip.
Rayne @ 211
gotta luv this place – where else can we get recipies w/ blumenthal?
LS @
165
Where is that hearing? Darn! Missed it!
Bob in HI
Lou Costello: cool links. Nice present. Thanks!
Rayne @ 222
Oh Rayne, you angel!!!
I may have to go to the 24-hour Ralphs and make it tonight.
EvilDrPuma @ 236
With a full jar of the Newman’s Own, 3/4 pound to pound of 90/10 ground beef browned and drained with the beer is not too much. As I said earlier I like the heavy meat sauce and when it has cooked for a few hours, it is all incorporated and quite tasty over the spaghetti.
SusanD @
190
I used to do a bit of decorating cakes and that is an excellent recipe….
But if you like whip cream and you like it lite and has excellent staying power (meaning it’s not going to fall apart that easy when it’s out of the refrig) try Frostin’ Pride.
It’s a non-dairy ready to whip icing (keep refrigerated) and filling…
Also a 1/3 cup is about 130 calories (not bad for a little sin)….
AZ Matt @
22
A big honkin’ gift certificate from Fahrney’s should do the trick, one supposes.
dakine01 @ 230
Man, starting with canned sauce is silly. It is really easy to make a good red sauce. Marinara only takes a half hour to cook from scratch. Even with a more robust red sauce, all you need is some canned tomatos, onion, garlic, basil, oregano, thyme, a bit of red wine, and some time. I cook up a big batch on the weekend and freeze most of it. Thaw it and mix in the lightly browned meat of you choice (chicken, shrimp, ground beef, Italian sausage) and you have a different meal every time.
Loo Hoo @ 217Rayne, you know I love you. But this comment makes me want to hurl!
Hey, I’m a mom. I won’t spend a lot of time making homemade frosting for two little eating machines, and especially not for school events.
If it’s cake for a special occasion, I’ll go all out and make homemade. (Tomorrow’s dinner will be country ribs, garlic mashed potatoes, romaine salad with tangerine vinaigrette, steamed brussel sprouts and homemade flatbread, for example, with homemade shortbread topped with fresh strawberries.) I’m actually a pretty decent cook — but there are times when a tub or two of frosting is the best and most appropriate response.
Three words, Pach:
Karaoke.
Celine Dion.
Shadowstalker @ 237
Well, I’m unemployed and sharing a house with a couple of wing-nutters but they leave me alone for the most part in the kitchen. Especially since they go drinking and playing cards after work and I don’t drink very often any more.
dakine01 @ 121
So can I which is probably why I haven’t married. My folks taught me to do all the cooking and cleaning type stuff that most men need a woman to do. Sometimes it can be a drag to be self-sufficient. Hell, I can even shop for clothes that are color coordinated and every thing.
See you at YK2.
night night all
see ya tomorrow!
Any recipe that includes “…2lbs. sugar” means business.
Rayne @ 247
Hey, I’m a mom. I won’t spend a lot of time making homemade frosting for two little eating machines, and especially not for school events.
If it’s cake for a special occasion, I’ll go all out and make homemade. (Tomorrow’s dinner will be country ribs, garlic mashed potatoes, romaine salad with tangerine vinaigrette, steamed brussel sprouts and homemade flatbread, for example, with homemade shortbread topped with fresh strawberries.) I’m actually a pretty decent cook — but there are times when a tub or two of frosting is the best and most appropriate response.
If you want to know about some excellent whip cream frosting read my #244—
SnarKassandra @ 250
Night Cassie.
I knew an Italian woman years ago who cooked for a bunch of people who lived in her house and also who worked for her. Every Sunday, she spent hours making her “sauce”. It consisted of chicken, pork, and beef, and all the fresh Italian herbs and Italian canned tomato…absolutely to die for sauce…she cooked it for hours. The thing she served it with that drove everybody crazy was a bunch of long, Italian peppers (hot) and cut in half, that had anchovies laid in the grooves and sprinkled with olive oil and baked. OMG
This woman never ate anything other than those 2 things all her life. Nothing. She was in very good shape. Just an observation.
‘Night, Cassie.
SnarKassandra @ 250
Night Cassie!
More Pach goodness: Potty-Mouthed Liberals
SnarKassandra, you might want to check with Aunt Betty before clicking the link.
;)
Bob Schacht @ 240
C-SPAN 2 now
Rayne @ 222
Mmm-hmmmm. Nothing like homemade frosting!
Splenda is wonderful — it tastes the closest to sugar of all the non-caloric sweeteners.
Rayne @ 247
My kids love a mix cake with cream cheese tub frosting. They’d rather have that than the fanciest bakery-shop cake.
My sister-in-law does the family b-day cake. She takes a mix box of yellow cake, adds pudding mix and 2 extra sticks of butter. Add chocolate frosting. It is the family tradition and sickeningly good.
Alicia @ 242
Been there, done that, lost 10 pounds in 2 weeks eating that mousse every other night.
But I had to quit the diet; my staff told me I was ornery-mean during the day. [sigh]
Found a close approximation to the recipe on line, the proportions are pretty close, although I don’t remember using that much Splenda. Sweeten to taste, I think. And the pinch of salt is to cut the bitterness of the cocoa.
TRex @ 154
Who’s got the butterscotch recipe for the spice cake? Homemade, no freaking cans.
Peterr, one of my personal favorite, most satisfying rants was my “there is no war on terror post,” though maybe it was so much fun because the wingers went totally fucking nuts.
Forgot about the potty mouthed liberals one. I’m sure this is bad form, but it still makes me laugh, that youtube.
Night, Cassie!
SnarKassandra @ 251
Hey – have a great weekend!
Pach on Fitz:
Fitz!
Pach!!
Pachacutec @ 264
can you post the link, Pach?
Helen 136, Me two.
Way to go Pach!
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night cassie!
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All this frosting talk – does anybody like less frosting? A well made cake has its own glory without smearing it with a pound of sugar…
no?
Alicia @ 269
259 above.
Pachacutec @ 263
I agree. I love Memorial Day, and your post was great — both for the post itself, and the wingnuts it brought out.
Here you go, Alicia.
Peterr @ 258
That is way too funny…and I’m talking about the comments:
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Phoenix Woman @ 261
And apparently it’s the “safest” (chemical-wise) It’s a derivitive of sugar.
newtonusr, last cake i made, i kept naked. was just a plain white cake but it didn’t need anything additional.
Actually, I misremembered — my aunt’s bakery specialized not in buttercreme frosting (though they would do it), but CREAM CHEESE FROSTING.
Mmmmmmmmm!
Pachacutec @
265
I think I most have missed it the first time. I clicked on the link Peterr posted and was already to add a few choice words. Then I’m going further and further down, wondering how may people managed to beat me to it tonight. Then finally realized it was from March and had my Emily Latella moment.
EvilDrPuma @ 191
Gag me.
You can clean that last one up if ya gotta.
newtonusr @ 271
heresy,
except for the naked shortbread I ate yesterday
and the one I may eat tonight.
SnarKassandra @
182
I drink two big cups of coffee and stare hard into the information stream. Our situation is somewhat unique in that we’re on a schedule. Everyone knows their time of day and (most of the time) that’s enough to shake something loose for me. I know that people are waiting on me, so that spurs me to action.
Honey, if they don’t want it, don’t force them. They have to sink or swim on their own merits. When you begin to gain readers and they see comments piling up on your threads and not theirs, they’ll start to understand that erratic posting leads to erratic results.
As Dorothy Parker once said when asked to use “horticulture” in a sentence, “You can lead a whore to culture, but you can’t make her think.”
Blog traffic naturally dips on the weekend, so you should warn people that they will get more exposure posting during the week. Ultimately, you want to build a community, but part of that is aggressively pursuing that community, finding a voice that resonates with people and hammering away every day until someone notices you and scoops you up (like me!) or your empire grows and gathers momentum and you become Teen Kos.
Does that answer your questions, sweet girl?
Update: Rohrarbacher said they are going to have the person who actually “developed” the “rendition program”.
(D) Jerrold Nadler now up says there will be other hearings from a completely different perspective.
Yay.
In re: spaghetti sauce – instead of ground beef, try taking the casings off a couple of really good Italian sausages and frying and crumbling it up just like you would the ground beef in whatever red pasta sauce you usually make. Don’t cook too long. Add lots of fresh flat-leaf parsley and some roasted red peppers and maybe a few sliced olives towards the end of the cooking.
Folks, the eyes are drooping. Brain is going into cerebral shutdown. Cy’all on the morrow. Later.
G’nite, dakine.
Lovely to party with the ancient Peruvian birfday boy and all you FirePups, but I gotta’ hit the hay. Trip to the greenhouse early in the morning and it’s already after midnight here.
Hope it was a great day, Pach. Niters, Pups!
(TRex: maybe you should post on Craigslist for a new therapodian boyfriend with a tagline: Tastes like chicken! Heh. Buttercheeks, indeed.)
Fern @ 283
Yeah, that is one of my favorites, but I like some sliced mushrooms in it. When they are in season here, I use chantrelles or even morels.
Got to go, Pach, but best wishes on the birthday. You are one of the reasons this place is so strong — thanks for caring enough about this FDL community and this nation for offering your commentary!
G’nite, all!
Happy B-day, Pach!
Happy Birthday Bach. Are we making you a birthday dinner in here?
Aw, Happy B’day, Pach! 629 years never looked better! (or is it 630 now… I can’t keep these things straight…)
It’s my cousin’s birthday too. I always had to be careful about celebrating hers, though. When we were old enough to honor the day in a more, ahem, adult way, she would invariably get blitzed enough to say, “I haf a rillly har’ time en–enjov–enjoy–aw, fuck–My bir’day sucks ’cause it’s Hitler’s bir’day, too.” And then she’d go to the bathroom and puke for a while.
This was the same cousin who carried a measuring tape on her keychain, to, uh, measure the worth of a man. Awful woman, we’d be talking to guys. she’d show me the keybob in a way where no one else could see and pull the tape in and out with the most devilish grin on her face, while I’m trying not to LMFAO.
Rayne @ 262
It’s the only diet that doesn’t make me cranky – and it eliminates those aggravating food cravings – you know, when you want something real bad, but you don’t know what it is…
DrDick @ 288
True about the mushrooms – I forgot them – but I don’t really like ’shrooms in the same dish as peppers – it’s one or the other in this sauce.
Texas Betsy @ 292
Its BACH’s birthday too? *wink
Lou Costello @ 296
I meant PACH of course!
Suzanne @ 277
The Goddess – I knew it!
A cake that can run naked, head held high, is made with skill.
OT hey, newtonusr Didja see the Sharks??? Great game!
Back to the subject–I sued to make a stegasaurus cake for my boys’ birthday. I’ll try to find a picture of one before it was torn apart.
hippo birdy, Pach.
Wish we read more of you hereabouts; didn’t know you’d been promoted to edit the young’un. Guess that’s about full-time as it gets around here. Does duty like that come with hazard pay?
Anyway, hope you had a wonderful day, many happy returns!
dakine01 @ 286
Night, night – cook for me in your dreams
Not sure if I am welcome to stay, but I prefer baking brownies (naked) or cookies rather than cake.
ooooh, got the 300!
It’s time for me to go to work – I gotta go sing something – have a good night, all!
Texas Betsy @ 300
You are always welcome to stay. I have to admit that while I am a pretty good cook, I do not normally bake at all.
Helen @ 276
That recipe looks yummy.
As for splenda …
maybe not so yummy.
Kinda scary.
I’m sharing the above info so other people can make the most informed choices based on their values.
I’m sure not trying to criticize anyone’s choices about losing weight….
but I try to avoid sucralose for the reasons described above.
Suzanne @ 124
This was a rule I only learned after I married. When I was a child, this. Was. Never. Done.
At first I felt quite naughty, then I realized I was just following a new rule.
Thanks for mentioning Repo Man. Never gets enough play. Plate’o’shrimp.
And for the record, I was just listening to Yma Sumac. Or Amy Camus. Whatever.
The world cares about our personal trivialia. Really.
All this frosting talk – does anybody like less frosting? A well made cake has its own glory without smearing it with a pound of sugar…
no?
I do, especially when I make a hazelnut cake (half flour, half ground hazelnuts), flavored with rum. I usually fill it with a thin layer of raspberry jam and, then, pour melted chocolate chips over it, instead of frosting.
RonD @ 220
If you’re gonna talk about beer recipes, let’s move on to CARNE ASADA. Buy a shoulder or rump roast and ask the meat guy to slice it into thin pieces. Salt and pepper the bebejabbers out of it. Put it into a large bowl, and pour a Corona over all of the meat for a couple of hours. BBQ.
Once again, Happy Birthday Pach, and much thanks to you and TRex and CHS and Jane for all you do. See you guys soon.
Fern @ 285
Yeah, that’s what I use, too.
A big key to good spaghetti sauce is putting the right ingredients in at the right time. I usually put oregano in about an hour before serving. It gets bitter otherwise.
One of the tricks I learned from my Italian aunt. She also put a bit of anchovy in her sauce (a filet per quart of sauce, deboned and soaked in water for a bit). It adds an incredible flavor like no other. When I’m in a hurry, I can use the paste, but the real anchovies work better.
Happy Birthday Pach! Let me be the first in my family to apologize for my ancestor who was one of Pizzaro’s captains. I’m as proud of him as I would be if I were related to the Bush family. On the positive side, you’ve outlived them all!
Happy birthday Pach. My grandpapa was born on April 20, also, but in 1887, so he was much younger than you.
LJ/Aquaria @ 309
Mmmmm. That sounds good. I’ll have to try it next time I make some sauce.
Let’s be kind to the margins :)
Kirk@306
Oh Gawd Kirk – you’re killin’ me. You know, somthimes ignorance (mine) is bliss!!
Loo Hoo 309,
I’m trying that one!!
DrDick @ 314
For faster cooking, or to keep someone anti-anchovy from getting a big bite of it, chop up the anchovy. How fine you want it done is up to you. :)
My, my. Such a distinguished crew tonight. Conquistador captains and Inca emperors. I feel kind of out of place as all my ancestors are horse thieves and riverboat whores.
Kalliope @ 308
Oh please give me that recipe. I love Frangelica and I once had hazelnut cake in a restaurant and it was the best cake EVA.
mutzali @ 299
Stegasaurus cake – haven’t had the pleasure.
Sharks play their best game in the series, win, advance… I was out unexpectedly this afternoon/evening and missed it. How was their PP/PK?
Oh, how I wish ESPN still had NHL. Remember those days? Come home after very long day, say midnight, plunk down on sofa, crack open Negro Modelo and hit the Deuce? Playoff Hockey replay! Some friend prolly recorded it.
DrDick @ 319
We don’t brag about ancestors in this house. Family is what you make it.
LJ/Aquaria @ 316
Loo Hoo @ 309
Don’t forget the lime and garlic. Some onions, too. I’m at the point these days that if my food doesn’t have lime in something, I think something’s wrong. One of the side effects of living in South TX, I guess.
Pachacutec @
11
LOL!
Kalliope @ 309
That’s just a sin! – care to share the recipe?
So, I just got on, read the post, but not the comments yet. What I wanna know is: TRex? Do ya have a “safe word”? Should ya get one? I never met a theropod who liked to be spanked!
LJ/Aquaria @ 322
Some chopped serranos are also a must and marinating over night is even better.
Gnite, gang. My sarcophagus beckons.
I thought Splenda was the answer to all my sugar needs until I made meringues with it. NASTY. Ugly looking little flat blobs that tasted like salt.
Pachacutec @ 329
Good night birthday boy.
Night, Pach. Sleep well. Enjoy the reat of your birhtday and may you have a few hundred more.
Pachacutec @ 329
Good night – Happy Birfday!! I’m glad you’re not…dead too.
Texas Betsy @ 331
Good night, happy birthday!
My ancestors were the ones who met y’all at the boat. Some we should have turned back, but the Lakers here, their ancestors are worth it!
newtonusr @ 319
PP was bad, except Marleau scored the tying goal after Nichol took a game misconduct major when he speared Ehrhoff right in front of the ref. PK only let one in. I hope your friends taped it.
Calling it a night. Slept through last night, which was wonderful. Hoping for a repeat.
Texas Betsy @ 335
Night Betsy! Sleep long and sound.
DrDick @ 328
I thought some kind of good peppers was what was meant by “salt and pepper” in the original! Damn, I have been living here too long!
If we’re gonna talk cake, my favorite, ever, is Tres Leches. I tried lots of recipes before I found this one in Texas Monthly. I’ve tried a few others, but I keep coming back to this one, since it always turned out the best. For me, anyway.
From IHT:
Ex-chief at Qwest found guilty of insider trading
No one told be about a Birfday Party. Dang……what did I miss. Do I start at Cassie’s zed or do I catch up now……Tell me what to do please and Sweet Pach… Happy Birthday!
lolo
ps. Bill Maher sucked and here is a song for Pach.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=v2m…..mp;search=
I think TRex and Co. play more to their audience than they do to fair play.
AZ Matt @ 338
That actually rather warms the cockles of my heart as those SOBs are my phone company and they have the worst customer service since they broke up Ma Bell.
Helen @ 320
My recipe is in grams; is that Ok?
If not, I will try to convert it to cups and send it to you privately, if you can give me an addy.
4 eggs
vanilla extract
a generous glass of rum
Everything is 250g:
sugar
flour
ground hazelnuts
butter, melted
devide 4 eggs
whip up a meringue with 1/3 of the sugar
beat the yolks with 2/3 of the sugar til very fluffy
alternately add flour and hazelnuts
moisten with rum, vanilla, melted butter
the dough is very dry, just moisten with a little more rum ;>)
bake in spring form 350 degrees — 40 to 50 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean
when cool, cut into 2 layers
fill with raspberry jam
poor melted chocolate morsels over it
ENJOY !
G’nite Pach -
Happy Birthday.
Recipes?? y’all are talkin’ recipes?? Got us a little case of outrage fatigue, don’t we? Not complaining here, n’uh! But do you realize how many pages I’m going to have to print out to get them all? I think you guys just made a cook book. Now THERE’S a fundraising idea for ya! Call it “Food for Blog”, and leave all the other commentary in. Get Christy to illustrate it with some of her “Pull Up a Chair” photos. Make a million bucks, and buy our OWN gd congresscritter!
TRex @ 282
To which I’d add my favorite quote on writing, from Gene Fowler: It’s easy – just stare at the paper until drops of blood ooze from your forehead.
Lots of fun quotes about writing here. Including, from Auden, “Sincerity is technique” – the gift of FDL.
Happy birthday, Pach
Kalliope @ 344
That sounds great!
How many grams of chocolate is needed for the frosting? I don’t use the morsels, preferring to buy a kind of chocolate I like and smashing that up instead.
629 belated kisses upon your cute cheeks Pach. May you live to be ten thousand!
Kalliope @ 306
Don’t forget putting oatmeal in the blender to use as a substitute for flour.
I have only one recipe that’s really mine, and that’s for an Alfredo sauce. It is not healthy, in any way, shape or form. It’s easy though. Anyone want it?
There’s Late Late Nite if anyone wants some.
Kalliope, that sounds absolutely wonderful. I’m diabetic, but once every couple of months I treat myself to something great. Since my birthday comes a few days before TRex’s, I know what I’m making this year! None of my family really likes cake (they’re more pie people) but I think they’ll polish this off.
LJ/Aquaria @ 349
1 package of Nestle’s chips (12 oz. I think)
many of my very old recipes do not call for
baking poweder, but I think I usually add 1 TBLSP baking powder when I sift the four for the hazelnut cake.
Loo Hoo @ 351
That sounds like a good idea — very healthful.
Thanks
Happy Bithday Pach,
Thanks for all you do; thanks as well to FDL. Cartographic birthday present at
http://rinzewind.org/wp-conten…..12fa_b.jpg
OT, IANAL, but it seems I have heard very little mention of the consequences of lying under oath to Congress. What can the committee do? Can they request a special independent prosecutor?
Cheers!
Kalliope@345 – when I first saw grams I though; OH DAMN. But when I saw RUM I thought OH COOL.
Thank you
mutzali @ 354
I am sure they will like it.
It is our standard Birthday Cake — per everyone’s request. Sometimes, I have to make our other mostest, bestest cake:
14 Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting
not so good for a diabetic, I am afraid; you just need to treat yourself to some other of life’s delights ;>)
Pretty easy to convert from grams these days, although I sent away for a metric measuring set. Somehow, converted recipes don’t turn out quite the same.
conniptionfit @ 346
Oh – this is the second thread where we have talked about food. I resisted the last thread -but I just could not hold out on this one.
Happy Birthday Pach! Sweet Dreams…..
OH, Gawd. Big bullets here now.
Helen @ 361
Well, it’s Pach’s Birthday; so cake talk seems natural — also a very enjoyable sequel to Alberto’s cake walk (NOT).
Good night.
G’nite Kalliope
whats wrong with Hasselhoff’s version?
AZ Matt @ 338
Interesting, the only company that refused to give the govt all records on us.
Loo Hoo @
368
Are you saying …? I heard that he had dumped a hundred million dollars worth of Quest stock during the time in question. But, these days especially, I’m on the lookout for political hit jobs. (And I’m still wondering about the young-girl charges against Scott Ritter.)
AndyG @
358
According to looseheadprop, if (and only if) the lie is material to the case is a lie under oath purgery.
But, I’ve recently discovered that high crimes and misdemeanors include “maladministration in high office,” which per the Wikipedia can include:
And, if you can’t bag him for one of those, give it up!
TRex @
154
Excuse me, loves, but you cannot get the best of frostings with out cooking. Check “Joy of Cooking” as an example.
AZ Matt @
341
Course they’d prosecute this one. Remember, this was the one company that refused to turn over their records for the govt to spy on.
marshen @
343
WTF?
conniptionfit @
347
You are clever!
Wigwam @ 369
What are you talking about?
LooHoo, he’s a drive-by *sshole. Please don’t feed the trolls.
joyeux anniversaire, Pach!
HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BABY.
Happy Birthday, Pach.
I am so rewarded and so enjoy all the knowledge I am able to bask in and soak up here at the Lake. Thank you one and all!
Happy birthday Pach!
Love and cookies,
————egregious
Loo Hoo @
373
so what? besides the syntactical awkwardness, nobody ’round here claims to be balanced and non-partisan.
Happy, happy birthday, Pach. I can’t imagine the dangers involved in wrangling a theropod… Glad you’ve been able to dodge that tail. And thanks for leaving in all the yummy snark that you do. All the best.
Many Happy Returns, Pach!
Oh, Jeez, and all this time, I thought it was TRex editing Pach!
Happy Birthday, Supreme Ruler.
RevDeb @ 177
Perx up ears, living not 20ish miles from there…??? :)
Different Arlington. VA.
:( Tnx RevDeb
Scarecrow @
384
My job in life is to help other people be successful. Sounds corny, I know, but it’s what I do: identify and support talent, and work to create the environment that sustains this. I enjoy the hell out of it, and TRex makes me laugh and laugh, and I get to read the stuff before’ y’all do. Hah!
He is a brat, though. . . heh.
Pach, hoping there is an NL pennant for you this year. Happy B’day.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0GzgW8b2tE
“The Jewish Plays Hombre Secreto from Repo Man”
A lo-fi add-on to your B-Day part-ee!!
“Do you kids want to get out and practice your penmanship?”
I actually thought it was quite a beautiful song, even if the performance was a bit theatrical.