Comments on: Pull Up A Chair…

By: laura strand

laura strand — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 00:46:04 +0000

Me, I have a beef bourginion in the oven. What I’m enjoying these days is an acorm squash, halved, brushed with maple syrup, filled with cranberries,and topped with a pat of butter - heaven on a plate.
For Sunday supper - get yourself a pork butt (on the bone!). Salt, pepper, rosemary, thyme, bayleaf. Place in a good roaster in a 225 degree farenheit oven late on Saturday night. Come Sunday morning, your house will have a delicious aroma of roast that will be noted by all who are near. In the morning,take the roast out of the oven, but let sit in its juices for a good portin of the day. I like to take some of the fat in the pan and use it to dub some potatos and then put back in with the roast and re-heat at 350 degrees until the potatos are done. Local, seasonal veggies prepared the way you like ‘em on the side, gravy, meat falling off the bone. Stck a fork in me, I’m done.
I really like to have this meal in the early afternoon and think about dessert - after,

Love to ALL! laura

By: John from Taos

John from Taos — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 20:25:26 +0000

What’s rain?

By: Quebecois

Quebecois — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 18:20:31 +0000

GSD @ 106

Quebecois @ 101

Good morning,

Found an old Purity flour cookbook, dating from the forties. Made date squares that taste exactly like my mom’s. A tear in every bite, it’s that good.

Beauty of a morning in Montreal, going to see my best friend’s son run after a ball and get tackled. Hope i won’t slip on the ice.

Bienvenue from NH.

-GSD

I just bought some gorton at a small store in Nashua this week.

It sher was tasty.

Thanks for the nice welcome GSD. Been lurking since FDL started live blogging Scooter’s trial. Mostly Lurk.

Love driving through NH on my way to Boston.

Would you tell me what gorton is, my “francophonyness” sometimes makes me ignorant!

By: ccmask

ccmask — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 18:19:07 +0000

clymela @ 180

I imagine this may sound sappy to some but I so look forward to the cooking/political part of this site. Slow cooking is part of the way we prepare to take back our country.
Right now I am sick and cooking some chicken soup that takes some time but really cooks itself once the ingredients are gathered up
I just want to say to those in the early stages of mastering the craft: I have created some real monsters in my day so don’t give up go ever forward just as we are doing with our country.

Hope the soup makes you feel better clymela. The best thing to put in chicken soup IMO is pastina. That’s the tiny tiny star pasta.

By: clymela

clymela — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 18:17:23 +0000

I imagine this may sound sappy to some but I so look forward to the cooking/political part of this site. Slow cooking is part of the way we prepare to take back our country.
Right now I am sick and cooking some chicken soup that takes some time but really cooks itself once the ingredients are gathered up
I just want to say to those in the early stages of mastering the craft: I have created some real monsters in my day so don’t give up go ever forward just as we are doing with our country.

By: ccmask

ccmask — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 17:27:10 +0000

A little late to the party but I just had to add this recipe. My mother works at a charity thrift store in Boca Raton and she happened to meet one of Donald Trumps Palm Beach chefs. Anyway, she asked him what the Donald liked the best and the chef said my Miralago Trump Loaf. Anyway, she wrote down the recipe and gave it to me last week. I made it and it was outrageous. Me & my son absolutely loved it.

Here it is

Maralago trump loaf

One medium white onion, finely diced.
Four stalks of celery, finely diced.
3 lbs. chop meat
2 tbs. worcestershire sauce
3/4 cup ketchup
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 1/2 cups of white bread, diced.
Salt & white pepper.

Saute onion and celery in a little oil until soft. let cool in a small dish.

Saute ketchup and brown sugar in a small pan. as soon as it starts to bubble, remove from heat. put in a small dish and let it cool.

Put meat in a big bowl. add bread, salt and white pepper to taste, and worcestershire sauce. mix well. add in the sauteed celery and onion mixture. form the meat into the shape of a loaf (or put it in a large loaf pan) and place in a baking pan. use pam on the bottom of the pan (if you don’t have pam, put a little oil on a paper towel and wipe the bottom of the pan.)

Bake at 350 degrees for 50 minutes. take the loaf out of the oven and drain well. spread sugar/ketchup mixture on top of loaf and bake for an additional 15 minutes.

Enjoy!

By: Adie

Adie — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 16:33:56 +0000

Good Late Morning Pups,

scory @ 5

You really haven’t blogged until you’ve written a post while wearing a tiara and a feather boa. It’s “extreme blogging,” and don’t let anyone tell you differently.

Good morning, all. And please hand me a towel to clean up the coffee on my monitor.

When will Peanut enter her paparazzi phase, oh please oh please?! Darn it. You’re both cute. She’s a fortunate little kidlet indeed. It’s impossible to avoid picturing you guys multi-tasking together, boas just so, pinkies in the air sipping & gossiping. That memory will be with you forever, and with us thanks to you. Good antidote for mental dregs from the previous week.

Now, to go get some apples!

Some of our favorite memories are simply of taking the fall trek to the local orchard. They’re now pick-your-own, but they’ve survived decades in the same place, providing beautiful apples and pies and applebutter and locally-produced jams, jellies, honey. Whenever our 30-somethings are around home in the fall they still enjoy going with us.

Some mysterious force lets them pick whatever they want, then pays the tab and hides the “secret” goodies for later. They always pretend to be surprised, and maybe they are, since their own lives are so harried and rushed, their memories for detail aren’t much better than ours.

By: egregious

egregious — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 16:32:09 +0000

New thread from PW:

Come Saturday Morning: She Can’t Really Be This Stupid, Can She?

By: TexBetsy

TexBetsy — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 16:31:44 +0000

PW’s upstairs. The zed’s been won. :)

By: RockPaperScizzors

RockPaperScizzors — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 16:29:34 +0000

7 Countries Considering Abandoning the US Dollar (and what it means)
By Jessica Hupp
It’s no secret that the dollar is on a downward spiral. Its value is dropping, and the Fed isn’t doing a whole lot to change that. As a result, a number of countries are considering a shift away from the dollar to preserve their assets. These are seven of the countries currently considering a move from the dollar, and how they’ll have an effect on its value and the US economy.
Saudi Arabia: The Telegraph reports that for the first time, Saudi Arabia has refused to cut interest rates along with the US Federal Reserve. This is seen as a signal that a break from the dollar currency peg is imminent.
http://www.currencytrading.net.....-it-means/

Time for Georgie to get down on his hands and knees and beg and plead with the Saudi’s. If the oil currency converts to Euros, well the Bushies better head for Paraquay. Americans luv their SUV’s and if they have to pay double at the pump due to the Euro becoming the petro-dollar all hell will break loose. I may sound like a heretic, but President Clinton got us into this mess by signing the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933, NAFTA, and the China Trade Agreement. Party boy Bush and Congress made the mistake having a War on our credit card and indebted to foreign countries, decreasing taxes for the elite 1%, and not a pay as you go War and increasing taxes.