Emergency Backup <strike>Food</strike> <i>Overnight</i> Thread

Emergency Backup Food Overnight Thread – August 22,2024

Greetings late night snackers!

As you would expect of Ace, a point that he always stresses to the co-bloggers during our ESG-DEI training sessions is to Reduce / Re-Use / Recycle. In that spirit, the resources that went in to this post – resources that might otherwise have gone to waste - are now being repurposed.

A few weeks ago, when Mr. CBD was on his fish and chips tour of England, he asked me to cover for him on the food thread one Sunday. By chance, that Sunday was the day that the coup against Joe Biden was announced, and blog programming necessarily changed for the rest of the day.

Well, tonight Weird Dave is needing backup (don’t worry, he’s fine) so I pulled this moldy food thread out from the back of the refrigerator and we’ll just make it work for tonight’s Overnight Thread. Waste not, want not! (And if you do not want this, feel free to let the comments go wherever the spirits lead you.)

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Favorite Pans & Kitchen Utensils

Do you find that amidst all of your pots, pans, and kitchen gadgets, there are a few that get a disproportionate amount of use? There are cabinets full of pans, baking dishes, saucepans, cookie sheets, utensils, etc in my house, most of which get some use, albeit infrequently. But then there is my 8.5-inch Circulon skillet, which I ought to just leave on the stove-top since it is used so often, especially for eggs, grilled cheese sandwiches, and whatever piece of meat I want to pan fry. It just replaced a 20-year old equivalent that I finally wore out.

Another heavily-used item of mine is this baked potato holder, which bakes four potatoes quickly and ensures that they are cooked thoroughly on the inside. I just put a little oil and kosher salt on the spuds (no foil), then skewer them and slap this in the oven at 400 degrees.

My wife’s most-used tool is this contraption that slices, pits, and scoops avocados.

One tool that I’m glad to rarely use anymore is a cheese grater. Pre-shredded cheese was not a thing when I was a child, or at least not in our household, so cheese grating was a necessary chore for taco night. That thing could do some damage to your knuckles once the block of cheese was getting small.

What are your most heavily used pans and gadgets?

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Za-talian-aki Marinade

In the suburban, heartland home that I grew up in, Italian salad dressing was the all-purpose marinade, but eventually we expanded to include exotic sauces such as teriyaki and soy. (Grilling teriyaki marinated flank steak was almost like taking a trip to the Orient!) Anyhow, Italian dressing and teriyaki sauce are still staples for me, but I recently created something new and delicious with those component ingredients.

There are a couple of restaurants my wife and I enjoy dining at that have za’atar seasoned dishes, which I really like, so I bought some za’atar seasoning. One afternoon I decided to marinate a chicken breast, so I splashed together equal amounts of Italian dressing and teriyaki sauce, then I sprinkled in some za’atar and threw the meat into it. To cook the chicken breast, I pulled out my favorite skillet and cooked the chicken until it was caramelized on both sides, and the remaining marinade had cooked down into a thick sauce. It was really, really good. In fact, it was so good I did it again today. That is the header photo.

Any za’atar fans out there?

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Burnt Coffee and Strong Coffee are not Synonymous

I love coffee, be it dark roast, medium roast, black, with cream and sugar, chicory, with steamed milk, iced, whatever. The only coffee I actively dislike is coffee that has sat on a burner and acquired that nasty, overcooked, rancid taste.

That said, can we please stop equating dark roast coffee with strong coffee? My favorite is fresh ground, medium roast, arabica coffee, brewed strong and served black. Because restaurant / coffee shop coffee has historically been weakly brewed, medium-roast, robusta coffee, it is understandable that people associate medium-roast coffee with flavorlessness. It doesn’t have to be that way.

My wake-up coffee is Dunkin whole bean coffee, ground fresh at home, and brewed strong. It is delicious, with a great depth of flavor that is absent in dark roasts. (But I don’t bother buying a cup of coffee when I’m at Dunkin because they don’t brew it strong enough for me.)

Starbucks hasn’t helped the situation with their “Blonde” roast. Apparently reacting to people like me who prefer a good cup of non-burnt coffee, Starbucks came up with this “light roast” which is absolutely devoid of flavor. Maxwell House coffee brewed weakly and served from an urn in a church foyer has more flavor than Starbucks Blonde.

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Seasonal Foods & a Defense of Pumpkin Spiced Everything

We’re just a few weeks away from the pumpkin spice-ification of everything. Much mockery will ensue, but not from me. I welcome it because seasonal foods help make the change of seasons special, with something different to look forward to.

Chili, stews, and pot roasts are a treat to look forward to in winter. Strawberries from my backyard are a special treat that only occur in spring. Roast turkey with gravy would be delicious any time of year, but eating it only during the holiday season makes it extra special, and worth the work of the big meal. Right now, my wife and I are eating a lot of fresh watermelon and peaches, something we only do in summer.

Sadly, I’m not eating a lot of homegrown tomatoes this summer. Something got to my tomato crop this year, and despite having a variety of “disease resistant” plants, they apparently weren’t disease-resistant enough.

Anyhow, I may not drink pumpkin-spiced lattes, but pumpkin loaf and pumpkin bundt cakes are something I always enjoy in fall.

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It’s Almost Apple Time

I love apples so much that I eat them year-round, almost daily. That said, the arrival of new-crop apples in August is as exciting to me as the arrival of pumpkin spice lattes is for Ugg-wearing women. The first apples from the mountains of North Georgia start to get harvested in early to mid-August, and they are delicious. I may have to make the short trip down there and load up.

I’ve got a decent little crop of homegrown (Gala) apples coming along too, although they generally aren’t ready for picking until September.

I’ll be enjoying all the local Georgia and Tennessee apples in early Fall, and then the new-crop apples from Michigan and New York start arriving as the holidays draw near.

For the off-season months, especially summer, any apples in the grocery store are old and have been kept in storage for months. The newish Cosmic Crisp apple is the best I’ve found for retaining its crispness and flavor into the summer months.

Does anyone actually prefer Red Delicious apples to other varietals? I didn’t even know that I liked apples until I got older, because the Red Delicious apples of my childhood were so devoid of sweetness and flavor.

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Potato America vs Rice America vs Pasta America

Both sides of my family are prairie / midwestern folks of northern European ancestry. They are potato people. I am pretty sure I never saw rice served at any meal prepared by either set of grandparents. Casseroles of my youth were more likely to have crackers or potato chips in them than they were to contain rice.

Fortunately, I grew up in Central Texas, where “Potato America” converged with “Rice America.” Plate #1 at any Mexican restaurant had Spanish rice and refried beans. Along the Gulf Coast of Texas are several major rice growing counties, and Texas snobbery naturally made people proud to cook with Texas-grown rice. The Cajun influence with its rice-based cuisine stretches from Louisiana west to Houston, and the influx of Vietnamese immigrants along the Gulf Coast brought more rice dishes. I love it all. I may not have been born a “Rice American,” but I became one.

I can picture a line drawn through Texas and the American South dividing Rice America and Potato America. But there is also “Pasta America” in the Northeast of the country. I was surprised the first time I encountered orzo, bemused that chefs were cooking with “rice” made out of pasta rather than rice made out of, well, rice.

Anyhow, it’s all delicious – potatoes, rice, and pasta.

Which type of starch-American are you?

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Throckmorton’s First Law of Live Music: “If There’s an Upright Bass in the Band, It’s Probably Going to be Good”

Let’s close out with the late, great Guy Clark performing the late, great John Denver’s “Homegrown Tomatoes”

Ain't nothin' in the world that I like better
Than bacon and lettuce and homegrown tomatoes,
Up in the mornin', out in the garden
Get you a ripe one, don't get a hard one
Plant 'em in the spring, eat 'em in the summer
All winter without ‘em is a culinary bummer,
I forget all about the sweatin' and the diggin'
Every time I go out and pick me a big'un
Homegrown tomatoes, homegrown tomatoes
What would life be without homegrown tomatoes?
There’s only two things that money can't buy
And that's true love and homegrown tomatoes

[buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at 10:00 PM

Comments

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1 Yay, National Pecan Torte Day ONT!

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at August 22, 2024 10:00 PM (dZVON)

2 1st

Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at August 22, 2024 10:01 PM (FC3uE)

3 drat

Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at August 22, 2024 10:01 PM (FC3uE)

4 Yum!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at August 22, 2024 10:02 PM (rOtXe)

5 Arf!

Posted by: Sandy at August 22, 2024 10:03 PM (WBQfF)

6 If I'd had my act together, I could have made some chili this week; we've had the perfect weather for it, and that may not happen again for a few weeks. Oh well; plenty of apples on hand, at least.

Posted by: Dr. T at August 22, 2024 10:03 PM (lHPJf)

7 Yay, National Pecan Torte Day ONT!
Posted by: Blanco Basura

And the ONT is a food thread? I smell a conspiracy!

Posted by: mikeski at August 22, 2024 10:05 PM (DgGvY)

8 (And if you do not want this, feel free to let the comments go wherever the spirits lead you.)
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Going off topic on a weekend thread feels really rebellious, even if it is Thursday.

Longbows.

Boobs.

Posted by: Methos at August 22, 2024 10:06 PM (Dnobf)

9 Have you ever tried roasting your own coffee? It is surprisingly easy and inexpensive. You can of course spend a fortune on roasting equipment but you don’t have to. In no time you can learn to get an excellent coffee for a fraction of the cost.

Posted by: Eric at August 22, 2024 10:07 PM (a2F+C)

10 We’re just a few weeks away from the pumpkin spice-ification of everything.

Weeks? Starbucks at a local Target had it already.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 22, 2024 10:07 PM (0eaVi)

11 Thanks for the ONT.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 22, 2024 10:07 PM (y31cs)

12 All right! Thursday Night ONT. Time for another insightful, stimulating, informative WeirdDave po....

waaaaaait a minnit!...

It's a food thread?

Uh, okay... Just finished a fine supper of salmon and salad. Um...

Howdy, anyway, y'all. Annnd... [checks again] Mr. Bucky.

Posted by: mindful webworker - saddlely mistooken at August 22, 2024 10:07 PM (giB7m)

13 Good evening good people. I've been trying to eat more fruits and veggies purchased from the local guys and gals. There are a ton of them and I'm certain it is the only source of income for a few. Fresh corn is all over the place right now.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 22, 2024 10:08 PM (mC3iL)

14 Pumpkin spice? Why does every corporation and person call the flavor that? I thought it was pumpkin PIE spice.

Posted by: Gref at August 22, 2024 10:10 PM (aBgBM)

15 Good evening good people.
Posted by: Tonypete at August 22, 2024 10:08 PM (mC3iL)

Sigh.

Why do you keep leaving me out?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 22, 2024 10:10 PM (0eaVi)

16 Hello Friends! A Food Thread - The ONT provides!

I made chicken and rice for our dinner yesterday. I was trying to copy an old favorite - Chicken Delight - that Hunt's used to make. I used fresh baby carrots, and the results were close, but not exactly what I remembered.

I'll keep trying.

Posted by: ALH at August 22, 2024 10:10 PM (xJEPL)

17 Buck don't give a fuck.

Posted by: chango butt at August 22, 2024 10:10 PM (HUKUP)

18 If you want the best coffee roast your own. It's as easy as making popcorn on the stove. In fact, you can use a stovetop popper to do it, but it *will* be smoky and a bit messy. SweetMarias.com will fix you up with green beans and everything you need, including advice and instructions. Lots of coffee roasters to chose from.
Heat gun / dog bowl is what I recommend for testing. Get a heat gun and a metal dog bowl (take off any rubber ring). Add a long spoon, pot holders, and a couple of large bowls. Go outside, add the green coffee beans you can get at most local shops. Start the heat gun and play it over the beans. Stir and heat as they roast. They'll go green -> yellow -> light tan -> light brown -> darker brown. There will be smoke and chaff. Keep stirring and watch the heat - you don't want to scorch them. They'll hit First Crack - it sounds a lot like popcorn. As that dies down, set down the heat gun and dump the beans into one large bowl. Pour them back and forth between the bowls until they're cool. That's it - you have roasted coffee! Take a bean and smell it - it will smell like your thumb. The coffee's flavor will develop over the next few days.

Posted by: KCSteve at August 22, 2024 10:10 PM (bxAlI)

19 Good evening morons and thanks buck for filling in

We found that avocado tool in our Sonoma house and it is very useful! We are getting one for sure.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 22, 2024 10:10 PM (RIvkX)

20 Before this thread commences I believe that it is just and proper that we take a moment to acknowledge that these pixels were stolen from indigenous Native Americans.

*bows head*

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 22, 2024 10:10 PM (WBQfF)

21 I'm not watching the donkey show.
Going to read some space opera on RoyalRoad instead:
royalroad.com/fiction/89766/darkworld-earth

Posted by: gKWVE at August 22, 2024 10:11 PM (gKWVE)

22 Someone should lower the flame under those chicken breasts.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 22, 2024 10:11 PM (RIvkX)

23 "One tool that I’m glad to rarely use anymore is a cheese grater. Pre-shredded cheese was not a thing when I was a child, or at least not in our household, so cheese grating was a necessary chore for taco night. That thing could do some damage to your knuckles once the block of cheese was getting small."

Donald Trump will EO an end to the sale of grated cheese. He will make America grate again.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 22, 2024 10:11 PM (m0ILq)

24 Going off topic on a weekend thread feels really rebellious, even if it is Thursday.

Longbows.

Boobs.
Posted by: Methos at August 22, 2024 10:06 PM (Dnobf)

Shelves!

Posted by: Dr. T at August 22, 2024 10:11 PM (lHPJf)

25 Chicken Delight or maybe it was Chicken Tonight. It was a cream sauce in a jar that had carrots in it.

Posted by: ALH at August 22, 2024 10:11 PM (xJEPL)

26 Continuing on coffee roasting:
Store your fresh roasted coffee in something that lets air out. I use a mason jar with the lid on loose. It gives off CO2 for 3-7 days.
Now, the flavors will develop but it's usually pretty darn good still warm from the roaster - grind some up and make a cup / pot!

Posted by: KCSteve at August 22, 2024 10:11 PM (bxAlI)

27 Some stores are already pimping Halloween

Posted by: Don Black at August 22, 2024 10:12 PM (/7KEl)

28 Before this thread commences I believe that it is just and proper that we take a moment to acknowledge that these pixels were stolen from indigenous Native Americans.
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They won't miss them.

It's the other Indians that care about their dots.

Posted by: Methos at August 22, 2024 10:12 PM (Dnobf)

29 Anyhow, it’s all delicious – potatoes, rice, and pasta.

Which type of starch-American are you?

My wife is a potato-American, but I am a triple threat. I'll eat bread infrequently, but only during the holidays, in the form of dinner rolls. We aren't savages, after all.

The less said of sweet potatoes, the better.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 22, 2024 10:12 PM (xCA6C)

30 20 Before this thread commences I believe that it is just and proper that we take a moment to acknowledge that these pixels were stolen from indigenous Native Americans.

*bows head*

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 22, 2024 10:10 PM (WBQfF)

(tear running down cheek)

Posted by: Iron Eyes Cody at August 22, 2024 10:12 PM (i0F8b)

31 I much prefer rice to potatoes, and I try to stay clear of pasta - lest it become an addiction.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 22, 2024 10:12 PM (S6gqv)

32 The less said of sweet potatoes, the better.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 22, 2024 10:12 PM (xCA6C)

Amen. Potatoes were not meant to be orange. Those are YAMS.

Posted by: ALH at August 22, 2024 10:13 PM (xJEPL)

33 Chicken Delight or maybe it was Chicken Tonight. It was a cream sauce in a jar that had carrots in it.
Posted by: ALH at August 22, 2024 10:11 PM (xJEPL)

Chicken Delight was a take out place.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 22, 2024 10:13 PM (0eaVi)

34 We had chicken curry tonight with Mrs. F.'s homemade peach chutney.

Teh awesome.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 22, 2024 10:13 PM (RIvkX)

35 Some stores are already pimping Halloween
Posted by: Don Black at August 22, 2024 10:12 PM (/7KEl)

Lowe's has all the decor up. Walmart has the candy out.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 22, 2024 10:14 PM (0eaVi)

36 Some stores are already pimping Halloween
Posted by: Don Black at August 22, 2024 10:12 PM (/7KEl)

Some guy in town already has a skeleton sitting on his front porch.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 22, 2024 10:14 PM (m0ILq)

37 I was going to comment on the fact that through asymmetrical warfare doctrine... the CHICOM's have already invaded terra firma ahead of the 2024 elections, but...let's cast our eyes on the closing night of the DNC instead.

Weak Meme's will abound I'm sure.

Posted by: Nightwatch at August 22, 2024 10:14 PM (TDvv2)

38 People ask me if I'm watching the dem convention.
WTF would I do that?
They want to murder people like me and destroy America.
I know who I'm voting for and if I have to drag myself there by the lips on my face to do it, I will.

Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at August 22, 2024 10:15 PM (elaR+)

39 I love apples so much that I eat them year-round, almost daily.

Try as you will, you won't keep me away.

Posted by: Dr. Acula at August 22, 2024 10:15 PM (RAGSq)

40 27 Some stores are already pimping Halloween
Posted by: Don Black at August 22, 2024 10:12 PM (/7KEl)

Vintage Halloween sells really well at the Antique Store I have a booth in.

The past couple of years I have been downsizing my seasonal decor. I don't have the same energy I had a few years ago when I began collecting that stuff.

Posted by: ALH at August 22, 2024 10:15 PM (xJEPL)

41 The less said of sweet potatoes, the better.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 22, 2024 10:12 PM (xCA6C)

Excuse me?! Sweet potatoes are great! Especially as fries, or by themselves, with some butter and cinnamon, or really just about any way. You can take your sweet-potato hate back to Afghanistan, you anti-American bastard.

Posted by: Dr. T at August 22, 2024 10:16 PM (lHPJf)

42 My most heavily used kitchen gadget? Mr. Coffee. I get a headache if I don't have coffee by 10:30 AM.
Other necessary gadgets include a good garlic press, a doohicky for juicing lemons and limes, and a tool for zesting lemons and limes.

Posted by: nerdygirl at August 22, 2024 10:16 PM (0Htd1)

43 Some guy in town already has a skeleton sitting on his front porch.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 22, 2024 10:14 PM (m0ILq)

Clever way to dispose of the body!

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 22, 2024 10:16 PM (0eaVi)

44 Some guy in town already has a skeleton sitting on his front porch.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 22, 2024 10:14 PM (m0ILq)

Sooner or later he's going to wonder why his wife ain't called in a bit.

Posted by: gKWVE at August 22, 2024 10:17 PM (gKWVE)

45 My most heavily used kitchen appliance is either the crockpot or the can opener. Don't judge me.

Posted by: ALH at August 22, 2024 10:18 PM (xJEPL)

46 I'm just a spud boy. Not looking for a real tomato.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 22, 2024 10:18 PM (63Dwl)

47 if I have to drag myself there by the lips on my face to do it, I will.
Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at August 22, 2024 10:15 PM (elaR+)

The respetto, it is due.

Posted by: Paolo at August 22, 2024 10:18 PM (gKWVE)

48 25 Chicken Delight or maybe it was Chicken Tonight. It was a cream sauce in a jar that had carrots in it.
Posted by: ALH at August 22, 2024 10:11 PM (xJEPL)

You must be thinking of Chili Delight!

Posted by: haffhowershower at August 22, 2024 10:19 PM (NMT5x)

49 Best rendition of best Guy Clarke ever. My opinion but it's 100% correct.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWsx3Vj30ro

Posted by: Pendejo at August 22, 2024 10:19 PM (YYkPE)

50 Potatoes are great no matter how you fix them. Mashed, fried, baked, I love them all.

Posted by: ALH at August 22, 2024 10:19 PM (xJEPL)

51 I had an Eyetalian dad (pasta) and a Southern mom (rice) and grew up in the Upper Midwest (taters) so we were Big Tent with regard to starches.

Well now I want chicken curry.

Posted by: All Hail Eris at August 22, 2024 10:19 PM (kpS4V)

52 People ask me if I'm watching the dem convention.
WTF would I do that?
They want to murder people like me and destroy America.
I know who I'm voting for and if I have to drag myself there by the lips on my face to do it, I will.
Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at August 22, 2024 10:15 PM (elaR+)

You could have told them you might watch in the hopes of a nerve-gas attack.

Posted by: Dr. T at August 22, 2024 10:19 PM (lHPJf)

53 Well, dang. Tried to log in to Bitly, but it's been so long they want to email me a new password. Which means hauling my rear over to where the desktop is. Hassle.

So, I'll "shorten" the URLs with line-feeds, which I hope won't blow anybody's little margins.
___________

Don't disrespect your mother, kid.
😢
https://x.com/bornagain33333/
status/1825656145194959080

Posted by: mindful webworker - saddlely mistooken at August 22, 2024 10:19 PM (giB7m)

54 IMO Starbucks created the blonde coffee to capture DD coffee drinkers.

Posted by: Dark Force Thirsting For Power at August 22, 2024 10:19 PM (vTTFR)

55 Potatoes fried in bacon grease with onions topped with extra sharp cheddar.

Posted by: davidt at August 22, 2024 10:20 PM (i0F8b)

56 To be on-topic, dinner tonight was a bacon cheeseburger. And a beer. So the starch was just the hamburger bun.

I'm definitely potato-American by birth. The upper Midwest uses a lot of pasta, too, but in "hotdish" that would make any Italian wince.

I eat more rice than taters or pasta now, though. Asian and Cajun foods have something that those Midwestern staples don't have. I think it's called "flavor."

Posted by: mikeski at August 22, 2024 10:20 PM (DgGvY)

57 When I was little the yentas called pasta "luction."

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 22, 2024 10:21 PM (RIvkX)

58 Some guy in town already has a skeleton sitting on his front porch.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 22, 2024 10:14 PM (m0ILq)

Sooner or later he's going to wonder why his wife ain't called in a bit.
Posted by: gKWVE

Or his wife will wonder why her boyfriend has stopped answering her calls and texts.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 22, 2024 10:21 PM (VNX3d)

59
Potatoes are great no matter how you fix them. Mashed, fried, baked, I love them all.
Posted by: ALH

Might as well face it, you're addicted to spuds.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 22, 2024 10:21 PM (63Dwl)

60 I spent most of my life thinking I didn’t care for sweet potatoes because they’re always being candied or cinnamoned or otherwise sweetened. Finally, in my fifties, I was served sweet potato fries seasoned only with salt and pepper. Delicious! But most any place that serves sweet potato fries puts cinnamon and sugar on them, so I’ve kind of given up again.

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at August 22, 2024 10:21 PM (d9Cw3)

61 50 Potatoes are great no matter how you fix them. Mashed, fried, baked, I love them all.
Posted by: ALH at August 22, 2024 10:19 PM (xJEPL)

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One more thing we can all thank the Incas for.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 22, 2024 10:21 PM (WBQfF)

62 I buy the "store brand" brown rice made in U.S.A. and it tastes really good, a fine flavor. I might have to bust out a bag of Jasmine or whatever that Thai stuff is. I find white or polished rice tends to get mushy if cooked too long, the photo is cromulent as chicken breasts are on the menu. But it's better than the "instant" rice, that just doesn't do chicken and rice justice. Sriracha works pretty well as an all purpose in this dish. Crock pot breasts turn out perfect, especially for shredding. Sear 'em, throw in with a stick of butter is awfully tasty.

I like using apple cider vinegar and cane sugar to make a kind of glaze (esp. on fried chicken fingers) it tastes a lot like pineapple when it carmelizes maybe, it pops pretty good, it's tasty over rice w/ Kikkoman, of course.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 22, 2024 10:21 PM (aeylG)

63 41 The less said of sweet potatoes, the better.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 22, 2024 10:12 PM (xCA6C)

Excuse me?! Sweet potatoes are great! Especially as fries, or by themselves, with some butter and cinnamon, or really just about any way. You can take your sweet-potato hate back to Afghanistan, you anti-American bastard.
Posted by: Dr. T at August 22, 2024 10:16 PM (lHPJf)

My dear departed mother in law swore that when she was a child in the 30's, the most widely known sweet potato tasted like candy, and everyone loved them. Then she said there was some blight or fungus that wiped out that variety, and although other varieties were substituted, none of them ever tasted as good as those had.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 22, 2024 10:22 PM (S6gqv)

64 Pumpkin Spice is nasty and evil and part of what we need to fight each day. Cowering to these forces will only bring subjugation and pain. Not to mention the early death.

Posted by: Ban the Spice! at August 22, 2024 10:22 PM (CV8a5)

65 Ya all think I'm just kidding?

The CHICOMS came ashore in 2019 with COVID and don't you forget that.

Posted by: Nightwatch at August 22, 2024 10:22 PM (TDvv2)

66 50 Potatoes are great no matter how you fix them. Mashed, fried, baked, I love them all.
Posted by: ALH at August 22, 2024 10:19 PM (xJEPL)

___________________

For a second there I was getting Forest Gump vibes.

Posted by: Orson at August 22, 2024 10:22 PM (dIske)

67 Two small kitchen appliances that I swear by, but don't use that often because of the type of cooking I do, are a Cuisinart Convection Breadmaker, and a good old fashioned Cuisinart food processor. Their small appliances are better quality than most.

Posted by: nerdygirl at August 22, 2024 10:22 PM (0Htd1)

68 PO-TAY-TOES Boil 'em, mash 'em, stick 'em in a stew.

Posted by: haffhowershower at August 22, 2024 10:23 PM (NMT5x)

69 TOne more thing we can all thank the Incas for.

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THANK YOU, INCAS !!

Posted by: runner at August 22, 2024 10:23 PM (V13WU)

70 66 50 Potatoes are great no matter how you fix them. Mashed, fried, baked, I love them all.
Posted by: ALH at August 22, 2024 10:19 PM (xJEPL)

___________________

For a second there I was getting Forest Gump vibes.
Posted by: Orson at August 22, 2024 10:22 PM (dIske)

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That's about it.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 22, 2024 10:23 PM (WBQfF)

71 Gotta say it.
Mrs.D,.for.all the aggregation she can create, makes a bitchin apple pie.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 22, 2024 10:24 PM (W/lyH)

72 Pumpkin Spice is nasty and evil and part of what we need to fight each day. Cowering to these forces will only bring subjugation and pain. Not to mention the early death.
Posted by: Ban the Spice! at August 22, 2024 10:22 PM (CV8a5)

Less than two weeks to September, man. The spice must flow.

Posted by: Dr. T at August 22, 2024 10:24 PM (lHPJf)

73 For a second there I was getting Forest Gump vibes.
Posted by: Orson at August 22, 2024 10:22 PM (dIske)

I forgot to mention hashbrowns and scalloped potatoes.

Posted by: ALH at August 22, 2024 10:25 PM (xJEPL)

74 Mrs.D,.for.all the aggregation she can create, makes a bitchin apple pie.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 22, 2024 10:24 PM (W/lyH)

So does Mrs. Smith.

Posted by: ALH at August 22, 2024 10:25 PM (xJEPL)

75 I don't eat potatoes too often, but I like twice baked potatoes with shredded cheese, sour cream, and chives mixed in, and I've gotten pretty good at making that.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 22, 2024 10:25 PM (S6gqv)

76 Young screaming metalhead 0:23
https://x.com/_ROB_29/
status/182597250997355751

Posted by: mindful webworker - sand witches at August 22, 2024 10:25 PM (giB7m)

77
THANK YOU, INCAS !!

Did a vehicle come from somewhere out there just to land in the Andes?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 22, 2024 10:26 PM (63Dwl)

78 Some stores are already pimping Halloween
Posted by: Don Black at August 22, 2024 10:12 PM (/7KEl)

Ha. Three weeks ago I spotted a seven foot tall animatronic werewolf for sale in Costco.

At least I hope it was an animatronic one. If it was a real werewolf, it will probably get in a fight with the chupacabras that are starting to infest the neighborhood.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 22, 2024 10:26 PM (6cZhR)

79 Tater tots are sort of hit or miss, but a good "tater tot casserole" is pretty good comfort food.

Another thing I like to do with chicken and rice, or mac and cheese, or anything really is a top layer of crunchy garlicy goodness. Take a cup or two of dried bread crumbs and season with your favorite spices, and then pour in a 1/4 or so of butter or bacon grease. Top the dish with the mixture at the end of the cooking and broil for a few minutes carefully to get a nice browning going on.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 22, 2024 10:26 PM (aeylG)

80 Some stores are already pimping Halloween
Posted by: Don Black

My Kroger's has had their Halloween candy display up for several weeks now.

Posted by: Tuna at August 22, 2024 10:27 PM (oaGWv)

81 The Kamala video is on!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 22, 2024 10:27 PM (RIvkX)

82 For a second there I was getting Forest Gump vibes.
Posted by: Orson at August 22, 2024 10:22 PM (dIske)

I forgot to mention hashbrowns and scalloped potatoes.
Posted by: ALH

And tater tots!

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 22, 2024 10:27 PM (VNX3d)

83 My wife has one of those avocado contraptions. Don't get it, much easier to me to just use a sharp knife.

Posted by: Nigel West Dickens at August 22, 2024 10:27 PM (Y8lzz)

84 Posted by: Tom Servo at August 22, 2024 10:25 PM (S6gqv)

My Aunt Mary always made twice baked potatoes for Thanksgiving. She was a great cook. Her Swiss Steak was wonderful, too.

She also made eclairs from scratch and homemade ice cream for dessert.

Posted by: ALH at August 22, 2024 10:28 PM (xJEPL)

85 The Kamala video is on!
Posted by: San Franpsycho

I might watch it if she's channeling that Australian breakdancer chick. That might be fun.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 22, 2024 10:28 PM (VNX3d)

86 Twice baked are fantastic, and all their variations. They freeze really well, if sealed up. So make a metric crapton ahead of time is really the best way. I almost never do this, but it's still a thought.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 22, 2024 10:28 PM (aeylG)

87 So I had some retail therapy tonight. Friend had a party at Kendra Scott jewelry store where we got 15%off every purchase. I only got 2 pairs of earrings.

Posted by: lin-duh at August 22, 2024 10:30 PM (PZo5T)

88 81 The Kamala video is on!
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 22, 2024 10:27 PM (RIvkX)

Is it the one where she's in a French maid outfit? I'm glad I filmed that one

Posted by: Willie! at August 22, 2024 10:30 PM (gKWVE)

89 Is this the Better Homes and Gardens thread?

Posted by: That guy who always asks... at August 22, 2024 10:30 PM (mH6SG)

90
My Kroger's has had their Halloween candy display up for several weeks now.
Posted by: Tuna

Some have had that stuff up for a month.
Some schools here start back up at the end of July.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 22, 2024 10:30 PM (63Dwl)

91 72 Pumpkin Spice is nasty and evil and part of what we need to fight each day. Cowering to these forces will only bring subjugation and pain. Not to mention the early death.
Posted by: Ban the Spice! at August 22, 2024 10:22 PM (CV8a5)

Less than two weeks to September, man. The spice must flow.
Posted by: Dr. T at August 22, 2024 10:24 PM (lHPJf)

____________________________________

50 years from now it will all come out to the public. The whole pumpkin spice thing was a CIA plot to remove testosterone from the populous. Each pumpkin spice latte, every pumpkin spice cookie, the very scent of it in air fresheners....is laced with Antiandrogens. The CIA named the project, "TDSWTAABLB" (These Dumb Shits Will try Anything and Become Lady Boys". Bank on it.

Posted by: Orson at August 22, 2024 10:30 PM (dIske)

92 I favored a cold-whipped mixture of Velveeta, Butter, and Sour Cream for taters. Then incorporate some medium chopped onion. I suppose the mixture gets better with setting cold overnight but I could never wait that long.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 22, 2024 10:30 PM (aeylG)

93 How many times can you bake the same potato?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 22, 2024 10:30 PM (63Dwl)

94 All the Halloween candy goes on sale for half price on Nov 1.

Posted by: ALH at August 22, 2024 10:30 PM (xJEPL)

95 That avocado tool is one of the few single-use items I allow in the kitchen — it is great.

Posted by: sharksauce at August 22, 2024 10:31 PM (y7wyF)

96 Someone posted this last night, but it's damn well worth another listen.

https://tinyurl.com/58x5w2ka

Posted by: Archimedes at August 22, 2024 10:31 PM (xCA6C)

97 Ahem. Guy Clark wrote Homegrown Tomatoes. And a whole lot of other great songs besides that one. Like this one, which is my favorite, today anyway.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOmoBy7ajmI

Posted by: huerfano at August 22, 2024 10:31 PM (VGOMa)

98 Burden of the past
Passage of time
Ukraine is a small country
BINGO!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 22, 2024 10:32 PM (RIvkX)

99 The significance of the passage of time is significant all on it's own. Marking the significance of time by the start of pumpkin spice season is for losers and chumps.

Posted by: The Veep at August 22, 2024 10:32 PM (CV8a5)

100 Her stepdaughter is hideous

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 22, 2024 10:33 PM (RIvkX)

101 Thank you the fvck up everyone!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 22, 2024 10:33 PM (RIvkX)

102 I'm the only person in the family who likes pumpkin pie since my father-in-law passed away.

Posted by: ALH at August 22, 2024 10:34 PM (xJEPL)

103 Evenin’, All. Weird Dave is off to climb Everest again?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 22, 2024 10:34 PM (v6JzV)

104 Fresh corn is all over the place right now.
Posted by: Tonypete at August 22, 2024 10:08

Yes, here in N IL I've been enjoying one of the best foods ever. Used to pick it, bring it home, husk it and eat it within a couple of hours of being picked.

Sad thing is I can eat 2 ears max. When I was younger I could easily polish off 6.

Posted by: Farmer, with my own historical take at August 22, 2024 10:34 PM (55Qr6)

105 Say it Kamala! Say it Kamala!

'I'm speaking now!"

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 22, 2024 10:34 PM (RIvkX)

106 Were the ratings for the Republican convention higher than for the Democrats convention?

Posted by: ALH at August 22, 2024 10:35 PM (xJEPL)

107 It might not be so bad if pumpkin spice mania was tied to a specific week, month, or holiday. It runs from August 25 until a few days before Christmas. It's excessive, creepy, and out of control. First party platform to include a PS Ban will sweep into power.

Posted by: The Voice of Reason at August 22, 2024 10:35 PM (CV8a5)

108 Local market once again has 25 pound sacks of onions for $10. I predict lots of onion and beef soup in my future.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 22, 2024 10:35 PM (6cZhR)

109 you OK ? San F ?

Posted by: chango butt at August 22, 2024 10:35 PM (HUKUP)

110 Some stores are already pimping Halloween

My Lowe's- a hardware store!- began their display at the very end of July.

Posted by: t-bird at August 22, 2024 10:35 PM (5IEcl)

111 Meet the fed-up Chicago dad who told DNC protesters to ‘get the f–k off my grass’ in viral encounter

Posted by: Don Black at August 22, 2024 10:36 PM (/7KEl)

112 A baked potato is a pretty handy thing, really. Stick it in your pocket, and slice it and fry it out on the trail. Or turn it into mashed potatoes, with milk and butter.

These mashed taters in turn, can be pressed into patties and fried again for breakfast! This will not hurt them. This is how potato chips were discovered eventually.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 22, 2024 10:36 PM (aeylG)

113 Yikes! Did I miss anything?

Posted by: COMountainMarie at August 22, 2024 10:37 PM (tRAXV)

114 Have a fine evening,

I have to set traps for a RAT invader in my attic tonight.

I'm going with TOM CAT's on a trip wire.

Tomorrow...Ben Ben my youngest will post up at O-Dark -30 with the 25 cal. air rifle when said vermin tries to make access from the roof line.

We will win.

Posted by: Nightwatch at August 22, 2024 10:37 PM (TDvv2)

115 When do the cartels start trafficking pumpkin spice fentanyl?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 22, 2024 10:37 PM (v6JzV)

116 108 Local market once again has 25 pound sacks of onions for $10. I predict lots of onion and beef soup in my future.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 22, 2024 10:35 PM (6cZhR)

And the proper fashion accessory.

Posted by: davidt at August 22, 2024 10:37 PM (i0F8b)

117 Some stores are already pimping Halloween
Posted by: Don Black

My Kroger's has had their Halloween candy display up for several weeks now.
Posted by: Tuna at August 22, 2024 10:27 PM (oaGWv)

I saw Halloween Oreos for sale a week or two ago.

On the one hand, I love Halloween Oreos. On the other hand, it's way too early for them to be on sale. On the other other hand, I really love Halloween Oreos.

Posted by: Dr. T at August 22, 2024 10:37 PM (lHPJf)

118 " A baked potato is a pretty handy thing, really. Stick it in your pocket ...."

Wait. I formally request this be redacted and stricken from the record.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 22, 2024 10:40 PM (aeylG)

119 Hey, Don Black. Thanks for the pic of Tina Louise that you posted on an earlier thread. Yummy.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 22, 2024 10:40 PM (v6JzV)

120 50 years from now it will all come out to the public. The whole pumpkin spice thing was a CIA plot to remove testosterone from the populous. Each pumpkin spice latte, every pumpkin spice cookie, the very scent of it in air fresheners....is laced with Antiandrogens. The CIA named the project, "TDSWTAABLB" (These Dumb Shits Will try Anything and Become Lady Boys". Bank on it.
Posted by: Orson

Preach it! This man knows the score! The other Bill Gates Food Plot to avoid is the so-called "gingerbread" that comes in a box at Christmas time. Don't sniff it for any reason. And that white icing. Stay away.

Posted by: Sanity Clause at August 22, 2024 10:40 PM (CV8a5)

121 And the proper fashion accessory.
Posted by: davidt at August 22, 2024 10:37 PM (i0F8b)

Since FDR is long dead, I can wear both a red onion and a yellow onion on my belt.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 22, 2024 10:42 PM (6cZhR)

122 Catch a falling spud and put it in your pocket. Never let it fade away.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 22, 2024 10:43 PM (63Dwl)

123 my pleasure

Posted by: Don Black at August 22, 2024 10:43 PM (/7KEl)

124 gosh, an emergency ONT is required on weirddave's watch
who could have predicted
guy has to write 2 threads a week
"but muh 'puter!"

Posted by: so gay at August 22, 2024 10:43 PM (XgKR7)

125 And the avocado industry could do better also. Always the same toy inside. A little wooden ball. Boring. Spice it up, Batman figurine, Wad of gum, something new, please.

Posted by: Moderne Farmer at August 22, 2024 10:43 PM (CV8a5)

126 Halloween? Used to be such a great holiday when I was a youngster ... back in the middle of the last century.

There are two recipes for candy corn. One is the standard you'll find on the shelf, Brach or whatever. The other is made with better sweeteners. The grocery store USED to have candies you could bag your own, and there was the better candy corn. But that went away with covidmania. Haven't had candy corn since.

Well, yeah, it's still candy corn, but the one kind was the lesser of two weevils.

Posted by: mindful webworker - kandy korn was her stripper name at August 22, 2024 10:44 PM (giB7m)

127 Pennsylvania German mother - pies, potatoes, sausages, scrapple, cabbage, green beans, apples and noodles. Beer.

Italian Dad - Homemade bread, pasta, pizzas, meatballs, braciola, seafood, figs, tomatoes, polenta and zucchinis. Wine.

Man! Did we eat. Peasant food but we knew no different and were happy with it.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 22, 2024 10:44 PM (mC3iL)

128 I didn't watch that idiot democrat shitshow, of course, but I just read that they only pretended Beyonce was coming, to get people to watch, and then pulled the rug out. Can anyone confirm that even that was just another pathetic psy-op?

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 22, 2024 10:45 PM (S6gqv)

129 Posted by: so gay at August 22, 2024 10:43 PM (XgKR7)

What an apt title.

Posted by: Dr. T at August 22, 2024 10:45 PM (lHPJf)

130 Onions are awesome. I've two humongous softball size white onions. Never had much luck storing them though around here I think they are a year old already, and 25 pound bag wouldn't last long enough. I suppose I should be de-hydrating them before they spoil. Maybe a couple months at best before they start to get soft or sprout. I've tried storing everywhere dark and cool, basement, aeration etc.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 22, 2024 10:45 PM (aeylG)

131 *doors open*
Sorry I should have been ranting upstairs.
*doors closed*

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 22, 2024 10:46 PM (RIvkX)

132 When I was a kid, we never had potatoes; it was always rice. To my younger self, mashed potatoes were a special holiday treat. I grew up in South Jersey.

I married a good Nebraska boy who was totally appalled by rice. He was strictly potatoes. He eventually learned to eat, even enjoy rice. But it was rough those first few years.

And to this day, he will not touch a sliver of lamb. He ate it a couple of times early on, but then decided never again. The funny thing is, my kids love lamb even though they never ate it growing up.

(Oh, and he loathes fish. I grew up about an hour from the Atlantic.)

Posted by: Livia Drusilla at August 22, 2024 10:46 PM (NcHb9)

133 NOOD KOMMULA

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 22, 2024 10:47 PM (WBQfF)

134 We have a bunch of kitchen stuff, some inherited, and most of it doesn't see daylight. Ninety percent of stove top cooking is in an 8 inch Lodge and a 12 inch lodge. That 12 inch skillet was supposedly bought by my G-G-grandmother around the turn of the century. We got a Kitchen-aid mixer as a wedding present 40 years ago and inherited my in-laws made in the 1950s when it got too heavy for my MIL to heft easily. (Reviews say the newer ones aren't as robust as these old ones.) As you can see, we aren't into fashionable new gadgets.

One item has become a new favorite: a Danish dough whisk. It does a good and fast job when making biscuit dough. Made some banana quick bread today. The dough whisk handled all the mixing chores from creaming the sugar and butter, adding the liquids and stirring in the flour and other dry ingredients. Five minutes from start to ready for the bread pans. (The bread pans are also Lodge cast iron.)

Posted by: JTB at August 22, 2024 10:47 PM (zudum)

135 Who was the DNC celebrity? (Last post said one of Beyonce, Taylor Swift or Dubya).

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at August 22, 2024 10:47 PM (d8zPm)

136 21 I'm not watching the donkey show.
....
Posted by: gKWVE

Oh, lord, they're not doing that at the dem convention, are they? I mean I know they're pervy pigs, but, yuch.

Posted by: nerdygirl at August 22, 2024 10:49 PM (0Htd1)

137 now there's an undernood

Posted by: Don Black at August 22, 2024 10:49 PM (/7KEl)

138 Evening.

So who was the special guest at the communist party convention?

Posted by: Robert at August 22, 2024 10:49 PM (JULjj)

139 If you want to know what tripe she is spewing without listening to her speak, go to utoob, find a stream of the DNC, start it and turn on CC - Closed Captioning, then mute the sound

Posted by: Gref at August 22, 2024 10:49 PM (aBgBM)

140 Pumpkin Spice Pop Tarts are pretty good(yes they are a thing)

Posted by: steevy at August 22, 2024 10:50 PM (HJ9BW)

141 I bet Kamala likes potatoes.

Once they're distilled.

Posted by: Dr. T at August 22, 2024 10:51 PM (lHPJf)

142 Pumpkin spice?

Is White Girl Season nearly upon us?

Posted by: Robert at August 22, 2024 10:51 PM (JULjj)

143 Buck,
Thanks for this thread. Talking about kitchen stuff beats the hell out of dealing with the Chicago shit show.

Posted by: JTB at August 22, 2024 10:53 PM (zudum)

144 I slice, vacuum seal, and freeze onions. They are slimy when thawed, so you wouldn't want to eat them raw, but are fine if cooked.
My garage is dark and cool enough in late fall and winter to let me store a bag out there.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 22, 2024 10:53 PM (6cZhR)

145 Talking about kitchen stuff beats the hell out of dealing with the Chicago shit show.

And the Bears haven't even played a regular season game yet...

Posted by: steevy at August 22, 2024 10:54 PM (HJ9BW)

146 Kamala undernood?

Not even Willie Brown wants to see that.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 22, 2024 10:54 PM (v6JzV)

147 Excuse me?! Sweet potatoes are great! Especially as fries, or by themselves, with some butter and cinnamon, or really just about any way. You can take your sweet-potato hate back to Afghanistan, you anti-American bastard.
Posted by: Dr. T

Mash up cooked sweet potatoes with butter, brown sugar, and some rum. Now that you mention it, a little cinnamon won't hurt.

Posted by: nerdygirl at August 22, 2024 10:54 PM (0Htd1)

148 I think I will stay in this thread.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 22, 2024 10:55 PM (m0ILq)

149 >>>That said, can we please stop equating dark roast coffee with strong coffee?

I've recently discovered 28 Roasts Later from Indies Coffee. Marine owned out of Texas. I never knew a dark roast shouldn't taste bitter before this. I was a medium roast drinker until trying this. Now I buy it buy the 5 lb. bags, and it is roasted fresh before it ships. Decent value, too.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 22, 2024 10:55 PM (i24o9)

150 For pasta we had to grate parmigiano. The grater person was always asked to whistle while grating in order to prove that no biting off chunks of cheese was taking place and also whistling made it difficult to sneak in the odd bite. Once the cheese got too thin to grate, the crusts were either 'toasted/roasted' in an oven or dumped in the soup pot. Either way there were usually amicable fights over them. Yum.

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, la Cospirazione e profonda #96 at August 22, 2024 10:55 PM (qfLjt)

151 Some stores are already pimping Halloween
Posted by: Don Black

The earlier they push a holiday, the shittier the economy.

Posted by: Some Rat at August 22, 2024 10:56 PM (vJiyU)

152 I'd rather have a bottle in front of me, than need a frontal lobotomy...

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 22, 2024 10:56 PM (6cZhR)

153 Shooting News Weekly: District Court Tosses Machine Gun Possession Charge, Rules They’re ‘Bearable Arms’

https://tinyurl.com/3r6znbpc

Posted by: Robert at August 22, 2024 10:57 PM (JULjj)

154 >So who was the special guest at the communist party convention?
---

nobody, so far

Posted by: Don Black at August 22, 2024 10:58 PM (/7KEl)

155 Some stores are already pimping Halloween
Posted by: Don Black

The earlier they push a holiday, the shittier the economy.
Posted by: Some Rat

It's still legal to pimp out holidays?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 22, 2024 10:58 PM (VNX3d)

156 141 I bet Kamala likes potatoes.

Once they're distilled.

Posted by: Dr. T at August 22, 2024 10:51 PM (lHPJf)

Meh. Too Russian. It'll be sugar cane.

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at August 22, 2024 10:58 PM (d8zPm)

157 For pasta we had to grate parmigiano.
Posted by: Ciampino

Remember when visiting friends for dinner and they served that garbage 'cheese' in the green container. Tasted like sawdust.

Poor Americans - they didn't even know what was good.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 22, 2024 10:58 PM (mC3iL)

158 45 My most heavily used kitchen appliance is either the crockpot or the can opener. Don't judge me.
Posted by: ALH

I have 3 crockpots and use them all for big holiday dinners. They are great for either cooking, or keeping side dishes hot.

Posted by: nerdygirl at August 22, 2024 10:58 PM (0Htd1)

159 I can't eat much candy anymore

nougat and a dental appliance does not work

Posted by: Don Black at August 22, 2024 10:59 PM (/7KEl)

160 Ackshullllly, real pumpkin is a fertility food, particularly the seeds. Zinc and some of those rare xenoandrogens.

The spice mix is probably no good though.

Posted by: leoncaruthers at August 22, 2024 11:00 PM (UfRqq)

161 Less than two weeks to September, man.

Oyez. Decorative Gourd Season. https://tinyurl.com/2ctpnbyb

FIRST.

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at August 22, 2024 11:00 PM (zdLoL)

162 Tongs. We have six of them in our kitchen, and they're indispensable.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 22, 2024 11:01 PM (fxagm)

163 I have 3 crockpots and use them all for big holiday dinners. They are great for either cooking, or keeping side dishes hot.
Posted by: nerdygirl at August 22, 2024 10:58 PM (0Htd1)

You are one smart cookie.

Posted by: ALH at August 22, 2024 11:02 PM (xJEPL)

164 My microwave bakes potatoes very well. A (very) large spud identifies as being two spuds and needs to be dialed up as such. That's the only intervention needed. I never prick it. I used to wrap it in wet paper towel and cook it like that, thinking that if it explodes then it will be contained, but that has never happened.

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, la Cospirazione e profonda #97 at August 22, 2024 11:02 PM (qfLjt)

165 Evenin'

Lots of tedious work tonight at large five-sided building in Arlington. Q&C!! Yay.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 22, 2024 11:02 PM (wh7vU)

166 I don't use kitchen appliances much. Mostly I use sauce pans and cast iron skillets. Sometimes the crock pot for chili.

I almost never use the microwave.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at August 22, 2024 11:03 PM (Ad8y9)

167 Anyhow, it’s all delicious – potatoes, rice, and pasta.

Which type of starch-American are you?
-----

Yes

Posted by: javems at August 22, 2024 11:03 PM (8I4hW)

168 162 Tongs. We have six of them in our kitchen, and they're indispensable.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 22, 2024 11:01 PM (fxagm)

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So you kept the entire family together. That's so nice.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 22, 2024 11:04 PM (WBQfF)

169 157 For pasta we had to grate parmigiano.
Posted by: Ciampino

Remember when visiting friends for dinner and they served that garbage 'cheese' in the green container. Tasted like sawdust.

Poor Americans - they didn't even know what was good.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 22, 2024 10:58 PM (mC3iL)
----
..... and it actually contains sawdust, supposedly to absorb moisture. It's on the label.

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, la Cospirazione e profonda #97 at August 22, 2024 11:04 PM (qfLjt)

170 Sometimes the crock pot for chili.

Mmmm, carrots.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at August 22, 2024 11:04 PM (Kk+82)

171 Made a pot roast a couple nights ago. Scampywife got home tonight and took a hunk that was big enough that I thought, dang...one less lunch. Thanks for the ONT, MusHum.

Posted by: scampydog at August 22, 2024 11:05 PM (41CYW)

172 Anyhow, it’s all delicious – potatoes, rice, and pasta.

Which type of starch-American are you?
-----

Related question is: Which alcohol source are you; potato, rice, grain, honey, fruit, or something else?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 22, 2024 11:05 PM (VNX3d)

173 167 Anyhow, it’s all delicious – potatoes, rice, and pasta.

Which type of starch-American are you?
-----

Yes

Posted by: javems at August 22, 2024 11:03 PM (8I4hW)
----
YES!

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, la Cospirazione e profonda #98 at August 22, 2024 11:06 PM (qfLjt)

174 I do have some good knives. My favorite being a filet knife with a nice wooden handle. Would be a very effective home defense tool.
You know,since I lost so much in that one boating accident.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at August 22, 2024 11:06 PM (Ad8y9)

175 Well Buck, you have poked the lunatic who dwells in my morning kitchen!

The problem with medium roast coffee is that they usually roast it too light, and the acidity overwhelms the flavor. But a good roaster can do marvelous things with a medium roast!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 22, 2024 11:06 PM (d9fT1)

176 Related question is: Which alcohol source are you; potato, rice, grain, honey, fruit, or something else?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf

Prestone.

Posted by: Some Rat at August 22, 2024 11:07 PM (vJiyU)

177 some of those rare xenoandrogens.

Prometheus?

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at August 22, 2024 11:07 PM (Kk+82)

178 Do you find that amidst all of your pots, pans, and kitchen gadgets, there are a few that get a disproportionate amount of use?
---------------
I'm territorial about a certain spatula. And one of the knives.

Posted by: scampydog at August 22, 2024 11:08 PM (41CYW)

179 91 72 Pumpkin Spice is nasty and evil and part of what we need to fight each day. Cowering to these forces will only bring subjugation and pain. Not to mention the early death.
Posted by: Ban the Spice! at August 22, 2024 10:22 PM (CV8a5)

Less than two weeks to September, man. The spice must flow.
Posted by: Dr. T at August 22, 2024 10:24 PM (lHPJf)

The spice...Orange.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 22, 2024 11:08 PM (fxagm)

180 Carnivore diet is the bomb. Yum. Easy. Feel great.

Posted by: Carnie at August 22, 2024 11:08 PM (L9cIR)

181 Stepped out to see what folks had to comment in the Harris speech thread. Snoozefest.

I guess they really did nominated Kamelot Harras after all.

Just wondering, if "something" should happen to her before the election, does that mean General Tim Waltz becomes the candidate?

I am so disappointed in the lame, tame protesters. The Wild Ones of 1968 look on and laugh.

Posted by: mindful webworker - vote early, vote often at August 22, 2024 11:08 PM (giB7m)

182 Rice, potatoes, pasta, it is all good. I made one of my favorite rice casseroles for dinner tonight. Spinach, feta, salmon, garlic, onion, jalapeño, celery, dill.

After the rice, spinach, feta, and dill it’s pretty much whatever meat and vegetables are left in the fridge.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 22, 2024 11:08 PM (EXyHK)

183 Poor Americans - they didn't even know what was good.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 22, 2024 10:58 PM (mC3iL)

We are getting better.

My favorite Parmesan shape is shaved. That's what we put on our Arugula salads.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 22, 2024 11:09 PM (d9fT1)

184 Tongs. We have six of them in our kitchen, and they're indispensable.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 22, 2024 11:01 PM (fxagm)

Can't go wrong with this one:

https://youtu.be/9rL6ozXjGO0

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 22, 2024 11:09 PM (m0ILq)

185 And LO!

There were noods, and noods upon noods, and undernoods...

Posted by: Miklos sees lotsa begatting goin' on at August 22, 2024 11:09 PM (lSyD7)

186
You guys are like my personal reddit!

Quick question:

Bleach Alternative, yay or nay?

I like using a little bleach with every load, but Holy Shit it tears up my clothes to smithereens. (Yes, I use too much, I know.)

Posted by: Soothsayer at August 22, 2024 11:09 PM (PViBW)

187 So glad you are here talking utensils and good coffee, instead of vocal fry!!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 22, 2024 11:09 PM (4foKp)

188 French potato gratin, Vietnamese combination fried rice, Italian spaghetti carbonara. Foods of the gods.

Posted by: javems at August 22, 2024 11:10 PM (8I4hW)

189 185 And LO!

There were noods, and noods upon noods, and undernoods...
Posted by: Miklos sees lotsa begatting goin' on at August 22, 2024 11:09 PM (lSyD7)

It's like winning the lottery!

Posted by: ALH at August 22, 2024 11:10 PM (xJEPL)

190 Most used kitchen tool: 2 - the electric griddle we’ve had for 28 years (tortillas and grilled cheese) and the insulated cloth tortilla oven (we call it “The Tortilla Pussy”

to keep those tortillas we just warmed up on the 28 year old electric griddle. Tex Mex is daily here.

Posted by: steve at August 22, 2024 11:11 PM (pvt7/)

191 The spice...Orange.
Posted by: Darrell Harris

OrangeMan Pumpkin spice everything for the lady vote?

Posted by: Miklosian Anti-marketing SA de CV at August 22, 2024 11:11 PM (lSyD7)

192 fruit, or something else?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 22, 2024 11:05 PM (VNX3d)

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Barley is the basic ingredient of Irish whiskey and Scotch whisky.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 22, 2024 11:12 PM (WBQfF)

193
The pumpkin spice bullshit is already at the supermarket now.

Posted by: Soothsayer at August 22, 2024 11:12 PM (PViBW)

194 I almost never use the microwave.
Posted by: Pug Mahon

Two uses in my house - warm up old coffee (yes, really) and corn on the cob. Two minutes per ear with the husk on. When finished, cut off stem end and squeeze out the ear. It comes out clean of all the silk. Add too much butter, S & P and eat.

Yum.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 22, 2024 11:13 PM (mC3iL)

195 Barley is the basic ingredient of Irish whiskey and Scotch whisky.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 22, 2024 11:12 PM (WBQfF)

The Scots tried, but were unable to ferment turnips.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 22, 2024 11:14 PM (m0ILq)

196 I just checked.

"Pumpkin" was NOT one of the Spice Girls.

Posted by: Miklos verifies some allegations at August 22, 2024 11:14 PM (lSyD7)

197
You mic cobbed corn??

That's beyond sacrilege.

Posted by: Soothsayer at August 22, 2024 11:14 PM (PViBW)

198 Favorite kitchen gadget that I use every time I’m in the kitchen is Oxo silicone cookie spatula. It’s a small spatula with exactly the right balance of flexibility and rigidity. Perfect for handling delicate things like eggs and robust enough for heavy jobs like browning meat. Impervious to lots of heat and immaculate through hundreds of cleanings in the dishwasher. A pair of them is ~$20 on Amazon.

Posted by: Mongerel at August 22, 2024 11:15 PM (hisHH)

199 You mic cobbed corn??

That's beyond sacrilege.
Posted by: Soothsayer

Damn straight! Try it one time. If you don't love it you can return to your heathen ways.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 22, 2024 11:15 PM (mC3iL)

200 "Pumpkin" was NOT one of the Spice Girls.
Posted by: Miklos verifies some allegations at August 22, 2024 11:14 PM (lSyD7)

They are holding that name in reserve in case Lizzo decides to join the band.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 22, 2024 11:15 PM (m0ILq)

201 Speech is over and I am dumber.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 22, 2024 11:16 PM (RIvkX)

202 "Pumpkin" was NOT one of the Spice Girls.
Posted by: Miklos verifies some allegations at August 22, 2024 11:14 PM (lSyD7)

That was Tank Abrams in her teens.

Posted by: ALH at August 22, 2024 11:16 PM (xJEPL)

203 Speech is over and I am dumber.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 22, 2024 11:16 PM (RIvkX)

Did you run your ship aground?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 22, 2024 11:16 PM (m0ILq)

204 I also grew up mostly with Red Delicious apples. I don't think they are "devoid of sweetness and flavor", but there are better choices available in the modern grocery store, at least until the kommies take over.

Posted by: BillyD at August 22, 2024 11:17 PM (Yt3ED)

205 My microwave bakes potatoes very well.
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I disagree with this, at some point fire (or a reasonable approximation e.g. oven) must interface with the tatery goodness. This baking drives off moisture. They smell done, and they are just sort of par-boiled/steamed inherent to the microwave process. They aren't bad, but if I'm going to nuke my pancreas with a potato they need to taste right.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 22, 2024 11:17 PM (aeylG)

206 I have 3 crockpots and use them all

I bought my first crockpot in the nineties. Loved using it but hated cleaning it. Twenty years later I discovered that before the nineties and after the nineties crockpots came with removable crocks! They can soak in the sink! They can go into the dishwasher!

What was Rival thinking in the nineties?

I have since replaced that one with a bunch of vintage ones of various sizes including multiple of the size I use most. I never use more than one at a time but I am prepared if the crazy years return.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 22, 2024 11:17 PM (EXyHK)

207 wusthof knives and french roast, espresso grind

Posted by: cherries are the best at August 22, 2024 11:18 PM (2vCd0)

208 Which type of starch-American are you?
I'm an "any of them if there's a sauce or gravy on it" kinda guy. (Don't forget using corn bread in place of rice when doing red beans with sausage.)

Posted by: GWB at August 22, 2024 11:18 PM (CrXxA)

209 First homecooked meal since last week was BBQ chicken thighs. Cider vinegar to wet the chicken, then salt, adobo, and paprika. Cooked over low coals and hickory pellets for about two hours, turning every 10-12 minutes. Potato was the side. And baked beans. I like potatoes with hearty dishes like steak and BBQ. Rice is for gumbos and fish. I like to throw in some wild rice to flavor my ordinarily bland white rice. Adds a nutty, smoky undertone to the side...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 22, 2024 11:18 PM (t7Bqe)

210 I disagree with this, at some point fire (or a reasonable approximation e.g. oven) must interface with the tatery goodness. This baking drives off moisture. They smell done, and they are just sort of par-boiled/steamed inherent to the microwave process. They aren't bad, but if I'm going to nuke my pancreas with a potato they need to taste right.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 22, 2024 11:17 PM (aeylG)

I have baked 'taters when I grill a steak. Five minutes in the nuker to heat them through, and then they go on the upper rack of the grill at the same time the steak goes on, and flipped when the steak gets flipped. Works out just fine.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 22, 2024 11:19 PM (m0ILq)

211 201 Speech is over and I am dumber.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 22, 2024 11:16 PM (RIvkX)

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Does America have a shining future ahead of her?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 22, 2024 11:19 PM (WBQfF)

212 When our microwave died after years of service we decided not to replace it. Instead we got a good size toaster oven. It's an older model that still uses mechanical dial settings, not circuit boards. I don't care about 5 minute baked potatoes or winter squash,. And it does a great job baking frozen biscuits I've made ahead of time. It works so well we got an identical backup one when it was on sale. The cost of both was less than a decent microwave.

When I reheat coffee it is less trouble to use a small steel pot on the stove, faster and more controllable.

Posted by: JTB at August 22, 2024 11:19 PM (zudum)

213 This is one reason I rarely order baked potatoes in a restaurant. Maybe if they have them pre-nuked and then finish them off in a conventional. It still won't be right. A proper Idaho spud is a large critter and 2 hours with a 400 degree oven might not be overkill. I think it is important to give these spuds the proper treatment. A microwave oven is simply nothing more than a tongue-burning rubber food generator

Posted by: Common Tater at August 22, 2024 11:20 PM (aeylG)

214 Reynolds makes liners for your crockpot. Makes cleanup a breeze.

Posted by: ALH at August 22, 2024 11:20 PM (xJEPL)

215 I sliced up pears today to dry them in the fruit dryer. This time of year it running most of the time.
I have found the better way to slice up a lot of fruits like pears and apples is to slice off thin slices off the whole fruit until you hit the outer part of the core, then flop it over onto the flat spot, and keep slicing It is quick, easy and has about as much waste and fuss as cutting the fruit in half or quarters, coring it, and cutting on from there.

I don't have a most used tool, unless you count the coffee grinders. One is cast iron and will do a pint of beans at a time, the other is a more traditional type with a drawer, and will only do a cup or so.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 22, 2024 11:20 PM (D7oie)

216 I also grew up mostly with Red Delicious apples. I don't think they are "devoid of sweetness and flavor", but there are better choices available in the modern grocery store, at least until the kommies take over.
Posted by: BillyD at August 22, 2024 11:17 PM (Yt3ED)

You can hear Bernie now. "Why do people need 30 different kinds of apples?"

Posted by: Robert at August 22, 2024 11:20 PM (hEJ9n)

217 My microwave bakes potatoes very well.
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For a potato breakfast skillet I alway chop n nuke, then finish in the pan with the assortment of other yummies.

Posted by: scampydog at August 22, 2024 11:20 PM (41CYW)

218 We have a Tupperware container from the '70s that's shaped like a ham. It holds a whole ham. Garlic press is also a well-used kitchen accessory.

Posted by: Dirac_Delta at August 22, 2024 11:20 PM (JSF6W)

219 Potatoes are to be baked in the oven for 2 hours at 400 degrees. This is the best way to fix them. Potatoes from the microwave are awful.

Posted by: ALH at August 22, 2024 11:22 PM (xJEPL)

220 Most used item in kitchen? Probably a digital thermometer. ThermoWorks

Posted by: javems at August 22, 2024 11:22 PM (8I4hW)

221 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aLnZ1NQm2uk

I'm guessing I posted this uncorrectly (hic) elsewhere...
Anywayzzz?...
For Buck.....

Posted by: COMountainMarie at August 22, 2024 11:22 PM (tRAXV)

222 214 Reynolds makes liners for your crockpot. Makes cleanup a breeze.
Posted by: ALH at August 22, 2024 11:20 PM (xJEPL)

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Is this what America has come to? A nation that won't wash its own crockpot?

Franklin was right.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 22, 2024 11:22 PM (WBQfF)

223 This baking drives off moisture.

Aluminum foil is required for roasting potatoes by baking.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 22, 2024 11:23 PM (EXyHK)

224 For a potato breakfast skillet I alway chop n nuke, then finish in the pan with the assortment of other yummies.
Posted by: scampydog at August 22, 2024 11:20 PM (41CYW)

I used to do this, but then I learned how to parboil potatoes. Major improvement in taste and takes approximately the same amount of time as microwaving.

Posted by: ALH at August 22, 2024 11:23 PM (xJEPL)

225 We have a Tupperware container from the '70s that's shaped like a ham. It holds a whole ham. Garlic press is also a well-used kitchen accessory.
Posted by: Dirac_Delta at August 22, 2024 11:20 PM (JSF6W)

So that's what happened to my hip waders!

Posted by: Porky Pig at August 22, 2024 11:24 PM (m0ILq)

226 I think in honor of the historic speech today, Thursdays will be named Puncha Kommie Day

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at August 22, 2024 11:24 PM (Ydd86)

227 Reynolds makes liners for your crockpot. Makes cleanup a breeze.
Posted by: ALH at August 22, 2024 11:20 PM (xJEPL)

Is this what America has come to? A nation that won't wash its own crockpot?

Franklin was right.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 22, 2024 11:22 PM (WBQfF)

Give me Crock Pot liners or give me death!

Posted by: Robert at August 22, 2024 11:24 PM (hEJ9n)

228 Two Blue Origin rockets blew up yesterday or today. Does anyone wonder if we actually went to the Moon in late 60s-early 70s? I mean, we are idiots today compared to Americans of 60 - 70 years ago, but still.

Posted by: BarcelonaCarmen at August 22, 2024 11:24 PM (3TH2o)

229 41
Excuse me?! Sweet potatoes are great! Especially as fries, or by themselves, with some butter and cinnamon, or really just about any way.

Posted by: Dr. T at August 22, 2024 10:16 PM (lHPJf)

I like the idea of sweet potato fries, but I'm always disappointed every time I try them, so I've given up on them. Otherwise, I like sweet potatoes as a conveyance for butter and spices.

Posted by: BillyD at August 22, 2024 11:25 PM (Yt3ED)

230 Give me Crock Pot liners or give me death!
Posted by: Robert at August 22, 2024 11:24 PM (hEJ9n)

Patrick Henry would be proud.

Posted by: ALH at August 22, 2024 11:25 PM (xJEPL)

231 My wife is Korean, and no meal without rice or noodles is a proper meal. Except breakfast, she will either eat potatoes or a bagel
I am agnostic about starches, though I prefer potatoes some times. I also like fried plantains, and if I could find a ready source of cassava I would get that too. (My one culinary vice that I will admit to is the fried "yuca" at the Salvadoran restaurant, but they can make cassava, and I can't)

Home grown taters are far better than the ones you buy in the store, by the way.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 22, 2024 11:25 PM (D7oie)

232 I've learned an easy way or field expedient way to make a decent cup of "cowboy coffee" is to add a measure of cold water and coffee to a cup (about 2 Tblsp or so of medium grind) and nuke for 1:30 seconds, and watch carefully towards the end just enough boil to cause the slag to drop a bit, a splash of ice water here will help settle the grounds further. Yes, there will be grounds in the bottom.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 22, 2024 11:26 PM (aeylG)

233 Cheese/potato grater/knuckle shaver. About once a year I'll do a large pan ofthick, homemade hashbrowns.

Posted by: scampydog at August 22, 2024 11:26 PM (41CYW)

234 Xenoandrogens are the... "opposite" is the wrong word, but you know how soy and other processed shit raises estrogen levels or delivers straight up estrogen analogues? Xenoandrogens do the same but for T, or they inhibit the aromatization of T into progesterone. Pumpkin seeds are on that list.

Posted by: leoncaruthers at August 22, 2024 11:27 PM (UfRqq)

235 I bought my first crockpot in the nineties. Loved using it but hated cleaning it. Twenty years later I discovered that before the nineties and after the nineties crockpots came with removable crocks! They can soak in the sink! They can go into the dishwasher!

What was Rival thinking in the nineties?

I have since replaced that one with a bunch of vintage ones of various sizes including multiple of the size I use most. I never use more than one at a time but I am prepared if the crazy years return.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 22, 2024 11:17 PM (EXyHK)

Here's how you clean your Rival crockpot:
1. Fill about half way with water and a few squirts of dish detergent
2. Cover.
3. Turn crock pot on low for about 30 minutes
4. Turn off and let stand another 20-30 minutes
5. Empty contents into your dishpan
6. Sponge out and rinse the crock pot and its cover
7. Let dry on a rack
8. Wash the rest of your dishes with the recovered soapy water
9. If you've made it this far, reward yourself with beer

Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 22, 2024 11:28 PM (t7Bqe)

236 228 Two Blue Origin rockets blew up yesterday or today.

Jeff Bezos is Elon Musk's bitch.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 22, 2024 11:28 PM (S6gqv)

237 Sweet potato fries are only good if you make your own, IME. Sweet potato hashbrowns or corned beef hash is amazing and you can't buy it anywhere.

Posted by: leoncaruthers at August 22, 2024 11:29 PM (UfRqq)

238 I mean, we are idiots today compared to Americans of 60 - 70 years ago, but still.

You talk like rockets blowing up is somehow related to success or failure. You said nothing about whether the engineering team met their diversity goals, or whether everyone involved was allowed to feel fulfilled.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 22, 2024 11:29 PM (EXyHK)

239 88 81 The Kamala video is on!
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 22, 2024 10:27 PM (RIvkX)

Is it the one where she's in a French maid outfit? I'm glad I filmed that one

Posted by: Willie! at August 22, 2024 10:30 PM (gKWVE)

YIKES! Thanks for the nightmare!

Posted by: BillyD at August 22, 2024 11:29 PM (Yt3ED)

240 Two minutes per ear with the husk on. When finished, cut off stem end and squeeze out the ear. It comes out clean of all the silk. Add too much butter, S & P and eat.

Yum.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 22, 2024 11:13 PM (mC3iL)

Sicker than, well best not say. Roasted if I'm cutting kernels off of the cob.

Posted by: javems at August 22, 2024 11:29 PM (8I4hW)

241 Home grown taters are far better than the ones you buy in the store, by the way.
Posted by: Kindltot
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So true. Completely different - better flavor profile. Scampywife just pulled 'em out of the garden on Sunday. So dang good.

Posted by: scampydog at August 22, 2024 11:29 PM (41CYW)

242 Some people say the recent several years of crockpot manufacture are much too hot even on "Low" to settle something in the morning and have it ready upon return in the evening. That was kind of the draw or selling point initially. 6 to 8 hours is definitely too long for chicken breasts. I've an old (Gold Harvest) one I found in my parents attic that works great, from whom I appropriated it. Another newer one seems to work OK, but chicken breasts are 2 to 3 hours at most, and they are fork tender.

For large or full crockpot, I turn it to "HI" regardless for 1 hour to get up to temp, and then turn to "LOW" for the duration. I think this is more close to design center temperature wise for a given cooking time.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 22, 2024 11:30 PM (aeylG)

243 Cosmic and Honey Crisp apples are excellent. Asian pears are the best, but they are expensive.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 22, 2024 11:30 PM (lhenN)

244 213
A microwave oven is simply nothing more than a tongue-burning rubber food generator

Posted by: Common Tater at August 22, 2024 11:20 PM (aeylG)
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Troglodytes!

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, le patate sono cotte #99 at August 22, 2024 11:30 PM (qfLjt)

245 Two Blue Origin rockets blew up yesterday or today.

They were supposed to be delivered by 9 PM today

Posted by: Miklos wonders why he even pays for Prime at August 22, 2024 11:31 PM (lSyD7)

246 Red Delicious are no good.

The peel is too thick, the fruit too mealy.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 22, 2024 11:31 PM (RIvkX)

247
Wife shut off the TV and came upstairs. Now I can stop lying on this bed and go lie on the sofa.

It's all about the variety.
Posted by: Weak Geek

Funny how married people avoid each other.

Posted by: Soothsayer at August 22, 2024 11:31 PM (PViBW)

248 Here's how you clean your Rival crockpot:

Send this to the person who gave me a dollar for the nonremovable version at the neighborhood yard sale. Mine now all go in the dishwasher.

But I ran the dishwasher today so I will have the beer. Thanks!

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 22, 2024 11:33 PM (EXyHK)

249 Cosmic Crisp are the new go to. The sautee nicely in time to go top of the oatmeal when it is done/

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 22, 2024 11:33 PM (RIvkX)

250 You talk like rockets blowing up is somehow related to success or failure. You said nothing about whether the engineering team met their diversity goals, or whether everyone involved was allowed to feel fulfilled.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair

THE GUYS GET SHIRTS

Posted by: the Paul Anka Engineering Team at August 22, 2024 11:33 PM (lSyD7)

251 Most used tool? I worked in restaurants for about twenty years. I got so frustrated by home egg slicers and spatulas that gave up the ghost almost immediately, so I hustled out to the restaurant supply company and bought an industrial strength egg slicer and spatula. Thirty years later,both are still going strong. But I have to say its my spatula. It's wide, kind of short, and has a rose wood handle. Ain't nothing it can't do.

Posted by: Livia Drusilla at August 22, 2024 11:33 PM (NcHb9)

252 Funny how married people avoid each other.
Posted by: Soothsayer at August 22, 2024 11:31 PM (PViBW)

Not me & my old man. We're always together and we love that.

Posted by: ALH at August 22, 2024 11:34 PM (xJEPL)

253 Backup food ONT?????

Well, Mrs. BD and I went out for dinner last night. Had a rich-smoked chunk of asado on the ribs in a meat and home-made BBQ sauce gravy, which the accompanying grilled veggies sopped up to leave the plate clean when returned to the kitchen.

Jets in the air here for about the last 1.5 hours. Time to start the day! l8r.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 22, 2024 11:34 PM (YfmhQ)

254 You mic cobbed corn??

That's beyond sacrilege.
Posted by: Soothsayer
Oh, I do it all the time, except I husk it and wrap it in parchment paper, or wax paper.

Posted by: nerdygirl at August 22, 2024 11:34 PM (0Htd1)

255 Red Delicious are no good.

The peel is too thick, the fruit too mealy.
Posted by: San Franpsycho
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I agree, too thick of a peel is no good. Pretty sure one of the nearby meat market uses inner tube casings for venison dogs/brats. Good venison meatloaf, however.

Posted by: scampydog at August 22, 2024 11:34 PM (41CYW)

256
When I was a kid, one of 8 kids, we had a lot of TV's in the house.

One night dad was in a mood, so he was yelling:

"How many fucking TV's!?"

"We have 5 fucking TV's on in this house. And we're all watching TV alone!"

Posted by: Soothsayer at August 22, 2024 11:35 PM (PViBW)

257 What is Za’ Atar? The chicken looks delicious but never heard of this acccompaniment.

Posted by: RM at August 22, 2024 11:36 PM (WXucK)

258 Red D are a sauce apple or a horse treat. Useless for eating raw by people.

Posted by: leoncaruthers at August 22, 2024 11:37 PM (UfRqq)

259 Two Blue Origin rockets blew up yesterday or today.

They were supposed to be delivered by 9 PM today
Posted by: Miklos wonders why he even pays for Prime

The Amazon EV trucks blew up in the accident, causing both rockets to be turned into cinders. unfortunately, the Prime packages in both rockets were lost.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 22, 2024 11:37 PM (VNX3d)

260 Two Blue Origin rockets blew up yesterday or today.

Posted by: BarcelonaCarmen at August 22, 2024 11:24 PM (3TH2o)
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"Would you like to refund or replace your order, Mr. Bezos?"

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 22, 2024 11:37 PM (YfmhQ)

261 I tried to find a quick, easy least pain in the ass way to make hashbrowns from scratch. I don't think there is. They are properly rinsed thoroughly after shredding, and conversely need to be as dry as possible to make a good crispy hashbrown. Finally, the commercial taters have chemicals to keep them from oxidizing. They will turn brown to black fairly quickly upon exposure to air.

I learned to favor "Ho-Jo" frieds (baked really) for home tater jones remedy by slicing them into 8ths or whatever, and then rinsing thoroughly. Pat dry, toss in a ziplock or bowl and coat thoroughly with good Olive oil and a crapload of your favorite spices and salt. Coat thoroughly.

Bake in a cast iron pan. Sprinkle with parmesan well and after turning. These are Magnifique!

Posted by: Common Tater at August 22, 2024 11:38 PM (aeylG)

262 In Africa we could buy Ugandan coffee (in Uganda LOL) still green. My Mom would roast it in the oven. In Durban there was a coffee shop and they sold green coffee beans as well as all the roasts, so again my Mom would do her own. It made for great espresso but did stink up the house. However that smoke sampled at a distance, enticed one to go and drink some coffee. A heavenly smell.

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, le patate sono cotte #01 at August 22, 2024 11:38 PM (qfLjt)

263 I always found Red Delicious to be too thick-skinned

Gala or Honeycrisp preferred

Posted by: Don Black at August 22, 2024 11:38 PM (/7KEl)

264 Funny how married people avoid each other.
Posted by: Soothsayer at August 22, 2024 11:31 PM (PViBW)
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*sullen silence*

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 22, 2024 11:38 PM (RIvkX)

265 What is Za’ Atar? The chicken looks delicious but never heard of this acccompaniment.
Posted by: RM at August 22, 2024 11:36 PM (WXucK)
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Biblical hyssop. We have some growing here.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 22, 2024 11:38 PM (YfmhQ)

266 We have 5 fucking TV's on in this house. And we're all watching TV alone!

If we had had five tvs on, at least three of them would have had to have been on the same channel as another one.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 22, 2024 11:39 PM (EXyHK)

267 260 Two Blue Origin rockets blew up yesterday or today.

Posted by: BarcelonaCarmen at August 22, 2024 11:24 PM (3TH2o)

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The important thing is, Bezos' superyacht is still floating.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 22, 2024 11:39 PM (WBQfF)

268 Za'atar is awesome. I use quite a bit of it. My daughter brought a bag of it for me from her last visit to her buddies in Israel. (We lived there for 27 years.) Za'atar is great on eggs, in dressings, on meat, as well as on humous, tehina, and shwarma.

Posted by: Redwine at August 22, 2024 11:39 PM (joAAx)

269 Fresh corn is all over the place right now.
Posted by: Tonypete
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Corn boil and pork chop feed.

Posted by: Solves nearly every problem at August 22, 2024 11:39 PM (41CYW)

270 What is Za’ Atar? The chicken looks delicious but never heard of this acccompaniment.
Posted by: RM at August 22, 2024 11:36 PM (WXucK)
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It's a middle eastern spice mix. Mrs. F. puts it on her pita.
/phrasing

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 22, 2024 11:40 PM (RIvkX)

271 255 Red Delicious are no good.

The peel is too thick, the fruit too mealy.
Posted by: San Franpsycho
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I agree, too thick of a peel is no good. Pretty sure one of the nearby meat market uses inner tube casings for venison dogs/brats. Good venison meatloaf, however.
Posted by: scampydog at August 22, 2024 11:34 PM (41CYW)

_______________________

I worked in a orchard when I was young...picking apples, peaches etc. I got to try about 10 different types of apples...and Winesap was always my favorite. It stood out to me. Crisp, sweet, a little tart....pretty resielent.

Posted by: Orson at August 22, 2024 11:41 PM (dIske)

272 204 I also grew up mostly with Red Delicious apples. I don't think they are "devoid of sweetness and flavor", but there are better choices available in the modern grocery store, at least until the kommies take over.
Posted by: BillyD

I grew up on a small fruit farm. The varieties of apples today are much better than what used to be grown. But there are so many that it is hard to keep track of which are the best. A store near me has a couple rows of bushel baskets of apples that you can buy by the pound. I never counted, but I'll bet that there are at least twenty different varieties.

Posted by: nerdygirl at August 22, 2024 11:41 PM (0Htd1)

273 Posted by: Common Tater at August 22, 2024 11:38 PM (aeylG)

My hashbrown go to now is dehydrated Idahoan. Quick and easy, little mess, hard to beat making them fresh.

Otherwise, I am making 1/4" dice homefries, maybe with onions and peppers.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 22, 2024 11:41 PM (i24o9)

274 Oh, so an emergency ONT, food and gardening thread!

Might want to consider thinning a couple of those Gala apples, Buck. Make a green apple pie. And use those ripe Galas soon. They're not a storage apple.

Do you know which disease your tomatoes got? Maybe you will have to choose for a specific disease resistance. Or rotate locations.

Posted by: KT at August 22, 2024 11:41 PM (xekrU)

275 So im guessing Beyonce got her deployment orders and decided to run before being sent in to the DNC warzone

Posted by: Rbastid at August 22, 2024 11:41 PM (/PNoj)

276
If we had had five tvs on, at least three of them would have had to have been on the same channel as another one.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair

Yeah. That's what pissed him off: we were all watching the same channel, separately.

Posted by: Soothsayer at August 22, 2024 11:41 PM (PViBW)

277 OK.
I guess I should go now...
See y'all Sarurday..
Everyday Hordes be the best....
I'm hungry anyway...

Posted by: COMountainMarie at August 22, 2024 11:42 PM (tRAXV)

278 Instant coffee from the C-ration box, mixed with lukewarm water and drunk from an aluminum canteen cup. Good times. Good times.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 22, 2024 11:42 PM (6cZhR)

279
Jesus Christ on a pogo stick. I just thought of something:

We haven't even got to the fake 'harris-with-the-troops" photo-ops farce, yet.

Posted by: Soothsayer at August 22, 2024 11:43 PM (PViBW)

280 258 Red D are a sauce apple or a horse treat. Useless for eating raw by people.

Posted by: leoncaruthers at August 22, 2024 11:37 PM (UfRqq)

I've had a few good Red Delicious apples. Wonderful. But most you find in stores are mealy. There must be a prime time for Red Delicious apples that is one, maybe two days long.

Posted by: Gref at August 22, 2024 11:43 PM (aBgBM)

281 205 My microwave bakes potatoes very well.
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I disagree with this, at some point fire (or a reasonable approximation e.g. oven) must interface with the tatery goodness. This baking drives off moisture. They smell done, and they are just sort of par-boiled/steamed inherent to the microwave process. They aren't bad, but if I'm going to nuke my pancreas with a potato they need to taste right.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 22, 2024 11:17 PM (aeylG)

Agree. I start them off in the microwave, then finish in the oven. Basically, nuke them for half the recommended microwave time, then bake in the regular oven for half the recommended oven baking time. The microwave gets them started and the oven dries them out a bit. If you start the oven when you start the microwave, it's up to temperature when you're ready to transfer the taters.

Posted by: BillyD at August 22, 2024 11:43 PM (Yt3ED)

282 I do pleasantly remember Friday nights when we’d all watch the one tv, with a big bowl of popcorn my dad had made in an Aladdin spin-the-top popcorn popper. Seven of us in a small room on two sofas in front of a “huge” 15 inch console television.

I don’t even remember what we watched but it was a great time.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 22, 2024 11:43 PM (EXyHK)

283 Buck, any idea what is up with Tony Heller? He has not updated his “real climate science” website in a month.

Posted by: Mark in SC at August 22, 2024 11:44 PM (dC8xf)

284 Instant coffee from the C-ration box, mixed with lukewarm water and drunk from an aluminum canteen cup. Good times. Good times.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 22, 2024 11:42 PM (6cZhR)
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General Foods International Coffee Cafe Vienna mixed with warm tap water from the basement bathroom.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 22, 2024 11:44 PM (RIvkX)

285 Kids liked apples. One liked green other red delicious. Always peeled the red. The green never.

Posted by: scampydog at August 22, 2024 11:45 PM (41CYW)

286
Do they still make Jiffy Pop?

Posted by: Soothsayer at August 22, 2024 11:45 PM (PViBW)

287 Posted by: Mark in SC at August 22, 2024 11:44 PM (dC8xf)

Follow his Twitter. He's had some health issues, and he's appeared to be coming out of it.

I can't check or link; I'm timed out.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 22, 2024 11:46 PM (i24o9)

288 Yep, I roast coffee in a cast iron pan. The fumes are enough where, you inhale some probably don't need to drink any coffee after that. Use a wooden spoon and keep stirring. Easy peasey.

I've been meaning to make a hand crank or rotisserie coffee roaster for a Coleman stove, something like that. Should be easy and work slick.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 22, 2024 11:46 PM (aeylG)

289
Popcorn never needed the "gourmet" shit.

When we were kids we had chips, one flavor: plain. And popcorn.

Posted by: Soothsayer at August 22, 2024 11:46 PM (PViBW)

290 I've been meaning to make a hand crank or rotisserie coffee roaster for a Coleman stove, something like that. Should be easy and work slick.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 22, 2024 11:46 PM (aeylG)

Check out the Whirly Pop. Makes good popcorn, too.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 22, 2024 11:47 PM (i24o9)

291 251 Most used tool? I worked in restaurants for about twenty years. I got so frustrated by home egg slicers and spatulas that gave up the ghost almost immediately, so I hustled out to the restaurant supply company and bought an industrial strength egg slicer and spatula. Thirty years later,both are still going strong. But I have to say its my spatula. It's wide, kind of short, and has a rose wood handle. Ain't nothing it can't do.
Posted by: Livia Drusilla at August 22, 2024 11:33 PM (NcHb9)

Can it core a apple?

Posted by: Chef of the Future at August 22, 2024 11:47 PM (t7Bqe)

292 Crush a few coffee beans with your teeth, spit them into a muddy hoofprint, and drink up.

Posted by: A Texas Waddie at August 22, 2024 11:48 PM (6cZhR)

293 More like By-off-ce, amiright?

Posted by: Sifty at August 22, 2024 11:48 PM (quvFX)

294 Do they still make Jiffy Pop?
Posted by: Soothsayer

Oui, Monsieur

Posted by: Fritz Feld at August 22, 2024 11:48 PM (lSyD7)

295 About Red Delicious apples: The original strain has speckles and is actually delicious, though probably not great for cooking. The strains most widely marketed were bred for appearance - uniform deep red color - and are not all that tasty.

Posted by: KT at August 22, 2024 11:49 PM (xekrU)

296 I've been meaning to make a hand crank or rotisserie coffee roaster for a Coleman stove, something like that. Should be easy and work slick.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 22, 2024 11:46 PM (aeylG)

Check out the Whirly Pop. Makes good popcorn, too.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation

Need Flavacol for the Movie Theater Experience.

Posted by: Miklos speaks of what he knows at August 22, 2024 11:50 PM (lSyD7)

297 Best coffee is black AA meeting coffee in a styrofoam cup with a little bit of cigarette ash in it.

Posted by: Sifty at August 22, 2024 11:50 PM (quvFX)

298 Ah, a sane and pleasant topic. Sounds like a better place to be than the DNC thread. Thanks for stepping in, Buck!

:::pours tea:::
:::settles down in corner:::

Posted by: Barkingmad59, wandering lurkette at August 22, 2024 11:50 PM (t8L50)

299 I worked in restaurants for about twenty years. I got so frustrated by home egg slicers and spatulas that gave up the ghost almost immediately, so I hustled out to the restaurant supply company
Posted by: Livia Drusilla
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When I sold my restaurants several favorite kitchen tools were excluded from the inventory list and are still in use at home.

Posted by: scampydog at August 22, 2024 11:51 PM (41CYW)

300 A good Idaho spud, will look "sparkly" when it is first opened after baking. It's kind a dry heat, if that makes sense. This cannot be achieved in a microwave, for one reason it is "steam heat" versus convection oven, or campfire coals. I am partial to dutch oven cooking. Even at home, incidentally. Cast iron heat retention makes it best for certain browning and just plain gives good results for almost everything. Always the best omelets and egg dishes and things like that.

I'll experiment with Instant Rice and the microwave, maybe get it semi-edible, and then incorporate it to finish off with the chicken breasts that are in the crockpot.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 22, 2024 11:51 PM (aeylG)

301 Need Flavacol for the Movie Theater Experience.

Posted by: Miklos speaks of what he knows at August 22, 2024 11:50 PM (lSyD7)

Got that and the faux butter flavor coconut oil. It is perfectly movie theateresque.

Now I am going to make popcorn.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 22, 2024 11:51 PM (i24o9)

302 Ain't nothing it can't do.
Posted by: Livia Drusilla at August 22, 2024 11:33 PM (NcHb9)

Can it core a apple?
Posted by: Chef of the Future

It'll core your apple, get over here

Posted by: Moe Howard at August 22, 2024 11:51 PM (lSyD7)

303 Saw a YT short about zoosk having to stop feeding fruit to their animals because modern domesticated ones are just too high in sugar. Checked with a search and it looks to be a real thing. I'm certain modern grapefruit are almost as sweet as oranges were 40 years ago, but I've got no way to prove it.

Posted by: leoncaruthers at August 22, 2024 11:51 PM (UfRqq)

304 If you like to make a stew in your crock-pot with potatoes in it, try this one weird trick: cut the potatoes and roast them first, preferably tossed with a little oil and maybe some paprika. You need only roast them a little, just enough to make a "skin", though a bit of crisp is also nice. But the crock-pot will cook them through, so you don't need to roast the potatoes all the way.

This "skin" keeps the potatoes from flubbering out in the broth. I like potatoes in stew, but I don't like flubbered-up broth.

Posted by: Tom Perry at August 22, 2024 11:52 PM (MX0bI)

305 Zoos, you stupid cucumber.

Posted by: leoncaruthers at August 22, 2024 11:52 PM (UfRqq)

306 289
Popcorn never needed the "gourmet" shit.

When we were kids we had chips, one flavor: plain. And popcorn.

Posted by: Soothsayer at August 22, 2024 11:46 PM (PViBW)

When I was growing up popcorn was always made in an electric skillet or a skillet on the stove. Pour in vegetable oil to thinly cover the bottom of the skillet. Add popcorn to cover the bottom of the skillet one kernel deep. Cover, turn on high heat, and shake back and forth until popping nearly stops. Uncover, pour into a bowl, add salt, shake a few times, and eat it. Yum!

Posted by: Gref at August 22, 2024 11:52 PM (aBgBM)

307 About Red Delicious apples: The original strain has speckles and is actually delicious, though probably not great for cooking. The strains most widely marketed were bred for appearance - uniform deep red color - and are not all that tasty.
Posted by: KT at August 22, 2024 11:49 PM (xekrU)
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Yes the peel had to be removed to be edible.

Now, the peels are no bother.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 22, 2024 11:53 PM (RIvkX)

308 241 Home grown taters are far better than the ones you buy in the store, by the way.
Posted by: Kindltot

Especially if you want "new potatoes".

Posted by: nerdygirl at August 22, 2024 11:53 PM (0Htd1)

309 A good Idaho spud, will look "sparkly" when it is first opened after baking. It's kind a dry heat, if that makes sense. This cannot be achieved in a microwave, for one reason it is "steam heat" versus convection oven, or campfire coals. I am partial to dutch oven cooking. Even at home, incidentally.

There was a certain Werner vibe in that.

Posted by: Miklos is Aspergishly detail oriented at August 22, 2024 11:54 PM (lSyD7)

310 Is there an EV thread tomorrow?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 22, 2024 11:54 PM (63Dwl)

311

@TheBabylonBee
Jennifer Lopez Now Just One Away On Her Divorce Punch Card From Getting A Free Husband https://buff.ly/3T0VyCm

Posted by: Don Black at August 22, 2024 11:54 PM (/7KEl)

312 241 Home grown taters are far better than the ones you buy in the store, by the way.
Posted by: Kindltot
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So true. Completely different - better flavor profile. Scampywife just pulled 'em out of the garden on Sunday. So dang good.

Posted by: scampydog at August 22, 2024 11:29 PM (41CYW)

I wonder if that's because homegrown are fresher, or because you grow different varieties than what are grown commercially. Kind of like the difference between homegrown tomatoes and store-bought industrial tomatoes.

Posted by: BillyD at August 22, 2024 11:54 PM (Yt3ED)

313 Ooh, evil naughty zoosk.

Posted by: gKWVE at August 22, 2024 11:54 PM (gKWVE)

314 "Flavocol", yes but you can substitute Coconut oil to make the corn - and either leave out the butter if maybe trying to at least watch some calories. The butter takes it to the next level though, gotta admit. Coffee grinders make "popcorn" salt, by turning table salt into a fine talcum like powder. This is great on popcorn, a little goes a long way.

Dairy butter poured over coconut oil-popped corn tastes better than the Movie corn. Honest Injun. I might make some of that too, ya bastards. I mean as long as I'm up. LOL.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 22, 2024 11:55 PM (aeylG)

315 I would be entirely swallowed by the peril of Castle Anthrax, never to be seen again.

Posted by: leoncaruthers at August 22, 2024 11:56 PM (UfRqq)

316 That 12 inch skillet was supposedly bought by my G-G-grandmother around the turn of the century.

Very cool JTB. One of my favorite heirlooms is a big old axe. It supposedly belonged to my G-G-grandfather who was a carpenter known for building barns in Green Co., WI area.

In the 1980s his grandaughter, my Grandma, used to drive around with it under her seat for self-defense.

Posted by: Farmer, with my own historical take at August 22, 2024 11:56 PM (55Qr6)

317
Especially if you want "new potatoes".
Posted by: nerdygirl

If Eastern Washington secedes from Seattle, "New Potato" would be a good state name, and good marketing.

Posted by: Miklos has even more Ideas at August 22, 2024 11:56 PM (lSyD7)

318 Did I do a Rip Van Winkle and sleep until I woke up during the Sunday food thread?

Posted by: Vic at August 22, 2024 11:57 PM (OFe7r)

319 Dairy butter poured over coconut oil-popped corn tastes better than the Movie corn. Honest Injun. I might make some of that too, ya bastards. I mean as long as I'm up. LOL.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 22, 2024 11:55 PM (aeylG)

Wife will do melted butter over air popped popcorn with plain salt. Buttery delicious.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 22, 2024 11:57 PM (i24o9)

320 So, after nearly a month of delays and screw-ups, my air conditioning was finally fixed today. Sort of. I got home to my wife telling me that it wasn't working again. I checked around and found that the COMPLETE FUCKTARDS had pulled a safety connection (like a fuse) and didn't plug it back in when they left. I'm no HVAC technician, but I can recognize when a puzzle is missing a piece. I've been too busy at work this past week to deal with this, but very soon I'm going nuclear on a few people, up to and including litigation if necessary.

Posted by: PabloD at August 22, 2024 11:58 PM (6qeq8)

321 242 Some people say the recent several years of crockpot manufacture are much too hot even on "Low" to settle something in the morning and have it ready upon return in the evening. That was kind of the draw or selling point initially. 6 to 8 hours is definitely too long for chicken breasts. I've an old (Gold Harvest) one I found in my parents attic that works great, from whom I appropriated it. Another newer one seems to work OK, but chicken breasts are 2 to 3 hours at most, and they are fork tender.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 22, 2024 11:30 PM (aeylG)

I wonder if the Safety Nazis decided that the "Low" setting on older versions didn't keep food hot enough to prevent bacterial growth, and forced the manufacturers to increase the temperature. "For your own good", you know.

Posted by: BillyD at August 22, 2024 11:58 PM (Yt3ED)

322 Some people may not realize that Granny Smith apples may be picked either green or ripe and still look pretty green. They may lack flavor when picked green (immature). It is a very late apple.

Posted by: KT at August 22, 2024 11:58 PM (xekrU)

323 314.... yep, this is the way. Coconut oil for the cook. Topped with melted butter and tossed with alternating Flavocol and fine salt.

Posted by: scampydog at August 22, 2024 11:58 PM (41CYW)

324 When I was growing up popcorn was always made in an electric skillet…

Hah. I’m testing the limits of my electric skillet and one of the “recipes” was for making popcorn. I was a bit surprised it actually worked. Although shaking an electric skillet is actual work compared to shaking a pot on a stove.

One of the interesting instructions was to not put the lid on until the first kernel popped.

Ten minute rule applies.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 22, 2024 11:59 PM (EXyHK)

325 I don't eat a whole lot any longer, though Popcorn is good (fiber) and healthy. What I found, corn oil and canola and Crisco have the opposite effect intended with consuming fiber. It locks up my gut. This took me a long time to figure out. Bacon grease is excellent for popping corn. But Coconut oil is the stuff, in my considered opinion. Both for taste and gut motility, and also for the same reason Movie theaters use it - shelf life. You can cook up corn and it is still edible a day or two later. Light and crispy.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 22, 2024 11:59 PM (aeylG)

326 Costco brand microwave popcorn. Pop the corn. Open bag and shake in some Tony C. Cajun seasoning. Close bag and shake. Dump into a bowl.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 23, 2024 12:00 AM (6cZhR)

327 Now I am going to make popcorn.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 22, 2024 11:51 PM (i24o9)

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If I wasn't already in bed I'd be on my way over.

Posted by: Jordan61 at August 23, 2024 12:00 AM (16NmB)

328 Did somebody say "Hadacol"?

https://youtu.be/dW27Ha_bfBc

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 23, 2024 12:00 AM (SMy0Z)

329
+1 on the coconut oil

Posted by: Soothsayer at August 23, 2024 12:01 AM (PViBW)

330 Did somebody say "Hadacol"?

https://youtu.be/dW27Ha_bfBc
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Does not even check

Posted by: Miklos thinks Prof. Longhair at August 23, 2024 12:02 AM (lSyD7)

331 If I wasn't already in bed I'd be on my way over.

Posted by: Jordan61 at August 23, 2024 12:00 AM (16NmB)

Busy Sunday? We're trying to do sushi in town. My mom's in town and wife's birthday. You down?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 23, 2024 12:02 AM (i24o9)

332 Yup. West Bend or similar electric skillet with lid works perfect. We always bought the cheapest popcorn, but in Iowa it was good. Vinton was the brand, a small town. It was of a type called "butterfly" or white popcorn variety. The yellow popcorn variety is distinctive in that it pops in much larger kernals (good for sales) and is much tougher, without the fragile "wings" of butterfly varieties. Thus it is much more suited to shipping - in the pre-popped state - without breakage or settling in shipment.
It has those hulls that get caught in teeth as well as being tougher. The "Orville Redenbacher" stuff went over like a lead balloon around these parts.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 23, 2024 12:03 AM (aeylG)

333 Hadacol was an actual product consisting mainly of alcohol.

Gummint shut 'em down.

Posted by: Miklos now makes his own at August 23, 2024 12:04 AM (lSyD7)

334 Busy Sunday? We're trying to do sushi in town. My mom's in town and wife's birthday. You down?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 23, 2024 12:02 AM (i24o9)

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Dammit, we're leaving on vacation Sunday morning.

Posted by: Jordan61 at August 23, 2024 12:04 AM (16NmB)

335 Bummer. Let me know by text return date, and we'll hook up.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 23, 2024 12:05 AM (i24o9)

336 Bummer. Let me know by text return date, and we'll hook up.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 23, 2024 12:05 AM (i24o9)

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Will do!

Posted by: Jordan61 at August 23, 2024 12:07 AM (16NmB)

337 28
It's the other Indians that care about their dots.

Posted by: Methos at August 22, 2024 10:12 PM (Dnobf)
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Dot Indians are Push-starts
Turbaned Indians are Pull-starts
Feathered Indians are Tickle-starts

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, le patate sono cotte #02 at August 23, 2024 12:08 AM (qfLjt)

338 Mom was thrifty, so always bought the store brand popcorn kernels.

Mom's wisdom: store the kernels in the freezer. She swore they'd pop lighter & fluffier after being frozen, and fewer "old maids" (unpopped kernels)

Posted by: JQ at August 23, 2024 12:08 AM (njWTi)

339 For those who need a palate cleanser from politics, this might work.

https://youtu.be/FT8QIapHiqU

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 23, 2024 12:08 AM (VNX3d)

340 Making Jiffy Pop was so cool when I was a kid.

Posted by: Vic at August 23, 2024 12:08 AM (OFe7r)

341 I would dice up the onions and put them in the freezer in ziplock bags. I put them with the bags of pepperonis, shredded cheese and other pizza fixin's

Posted by: Kindltot at August 23, 2024 12:09 AM (D7oie)

342
Yeah, Jiffy Pop was fun.
Tasted good, too.

Posted by: Soothsayer at August 23, 2024 12:09 AM (PViBW)

343 Dot Indians are Push-starts
Turbaned Indians are Pull-starts
Feathered Indians are Tickle-starts
Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, le patate sono cotte #02 at August 23, 2024 12:08 AM (qfLjt)

Muslim Indians are kick-starts.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 23, 2024 12:09 AM (SMy0Z)

344 Sorry vic . Keep forgetting to take off your sock.

Posted by: polynikes at August 23, 2024 12:10 AM (OFe7r)

345 Dot Indians are Push-starts
Turbaned Indians are Pull-starts
Feathered Indians are Tickle-starts
Posted by: Ciampino

And those "other women" are Pop's-tarts

Posted by: Miklos now makes his own at August 23, 2024 12:10 AM (lSyD7)

346
Mom's wisdom: store the kernels in the freezer. She swore they'd pop lighter & fluffier after being frozen, and fewer "old maids" (unpopped kernels)
Posted by: JQ

Fluffies and duds

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 23, 2024 12:10 AM (63Dwl)

347 I have 3 packages of Jiffy Pop in the pantry.

Something very nostalgic about it. There is a different taste to it.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 23, 2024 12:11 AM (5p7BC)

348 Cinnamon is yuck!
I don't care for sweet potatoes/yams.
Halloween is an American festivity but has spread everywhere. It was just starting to take hold in South Africa when we left in 1994.

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, le patate sono cotte #03 at August 23, 2024 12:11 AM (qfLjt)

349 Busy Sunday? We're trying to do sushi in town. My mom's in town and wife's birthday. You down?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder

Order sushi and not pay.

We know you kids

Posted by: a Repo Miklos is always intense at August 23, 2024 12:12 AM (lSyD7)

350 When I was 12 , my best friend and I would do Jiffy Pop every Saturday night and watch Houston Wrestling .

We put sugar on the pop corn.

Posted by: polynikes at August 23, 2024 12:13 AM (OFe7r)

351 Any bird experts here? Came back from town today, and there was a bird picking gravel in the driveway that I did not recognize. Pigeon-sized, gray body, and russet-brown head. No feather crest.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 23, 2024 12:13 AM (SMy0Z)

352 Something very nostalgic about it. There is a different taste to it.
Posted by: Dave in Fla

Useful for teaching kids how to use a damn stove and PAY ATTENTION

Posted by: The Learningsof Miklos at August 23, 2024 12:13 AM (lSyD7)

353 Cinnamon is an interesting agricultural product.
It only grows in certain areas.
If you are keeping an eye on your blood sugar, cinnamon will knock it down a bit, but not if you add sugar to it, obviously.
Cinnamon without sugar is a bit strident by itself.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at August 23, 2024 12:14 AM (MeG8a)

354
Succulent chinese meal!

https://youtu.be/kCBE306TRcU?si=Q-41BTtbs_hZZ90U&t=16

Posted by: Soothsayer at August 23, 2024 12:14 AM (PViBW)

355 Fluffies and duds
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 23, 2024 12:10 AM (63Dwl)

This post would fit well on the other thread, too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 23, 2024 12:14 AM (SMy0Z)

356 My current inclination, drop the rice and get double beans. Or one of our Mexican food restaurants offers potatoes, and I select that.

Posted by: Goatweed at August 23, 2024 12:15 AM (KRyeA)

357
btw, the above video should be included in Every food thread.

Posted by: Soothsayer at August 23, 2024 12:16 AM (PViBW)

358 I like using a little bleach with every load, but Holy Shit it tears up my clothes to smithereens. (Yes, I use too much, I know.)
Posted by: Soothsayer at August 22, 2024 11:09 PM (PViBW)

I have heard people suggest TSP as an additive, or adding in washing soda and boraxo.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 23, 2024 12:16 AM (D7oie)

359 Gretchen Whitmer: "Right now, before the crisis is when we get to choose. Why wouldn't we choose the leader who's tough, tested, and a total badass?"

https://t.co/GYtoBQKDxw
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Because she sucks!

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, le patate sono cotte #04 at August 23, 2024 12:16 AM (qfLjt)

360 When I sold my restaurants several favorite kitchen tools were excluded from the inventory list and are still in use at home.

Posted by: scampydog at August 22, 2024 11:51 PM (41CYW)

Was it you that recently vacationed in Paris?

Posted by: javems at August 23, 2024 12:18 AM (8I4hW)

361 I wonder if that's because homegrown are fresher, or because you grow different varieties than what are grown commercially. Kind of like the difference between homegrown tomatoes and store-bought industrial tomatoes.
Posted by: BillyD

Same with strawberries. The kind of strawberries people grow in their own patch can't take the the handling, time, and travel that commercial berries need. Universities develop varieties of fruit and vegetables that can take commercial handling.

Posted by: nerdygirl at August 23, 2024 12:18 AM (0Htd1)

362 Gretchen Whitmer: "Right now, before the crisis is when we get to choose. Why wouldn't we choose the leader who's tough, tested, and a total badass?"
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Tough? Tested? Total badass?

WTF (D) could she possibly be referring to?! Certainly not kumswalla...

Posted by: JQ at August 23, 2024 12:18 AM (njWTi)

363
I have heard people suggest TSP as an additive, or adding in washing soda and boraxo.
Posted by: Kindltot

Thanks. But not sure that will satisfy my OCD obsession with adding some sort of chemical "disinfectant" to the wash.

Posted by: Soothsayer at August 23, 2024 12:19 AM (PViBW)

364 Gretchen Whitmer: "Right now, before the crisis is when we get to choose. Why wouldn't we choose the leader who's tough, tested, and a total badass?"
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Tough? Tested? Total badass?

WTF (D) could she possibly be referring to?! Certainly not kumswalla...
Posted by: JQ

Zombie Harry Truman?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 23, 2024 12:20 AM (VNX3d)

365
Whitmer: "Right now, before the crisis is when we get to choose. Why wouldn't we choose the leader who's tough, tested, and a total badass?"

Uh, um, remind me again who was Shot In The Head a few weeks ago and jumped up to rally the crowd?

Posted by: Soothsayer at August 23, 2024 12:20 AM (PViBW)

366 Thanks. But not sure that will satisfy my OCD obsession with adding some sort of chemical "disinfectant" to the wash.
Posted by: Soothsayer at August 23, 2024 12:19 AM (PViBW)

Apple cider vinegar? Worst that could happen is you'd smell like a pickle.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 23, 2024 12:21 AM (6cZhR)

367
Someone spoofed the out-of-control gaslighting last week and photoshopped the president out of his now-iconic image of almost being assassinated and inserted harris' image.

But that's pretty much what they're doing.

Posted by: Soothsayer at August 23, 2024 12:22 AM (PViBW)

368 Thanks. But not sure that will satisfy my OCD obsession with adding some sort of chemical "disinfectant" to the wash.
Posted by: Soothsayer
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Lysol makes (or used to make?) a non-bleach laundry disinfectant. Haven't looked for it since Dad passed. (Needed it for his laundry because chemo & compromised immune system.)

Posted by: JQ at August 23, 2024 12:22 AM (njWTi)

369 Bedtime.

Posted by: javems at August 23, 2024 12:24 AM (8I4hW)

370 Popcorn is kind of a specialty item in ag, it isn't high on the farmer list. It's kind of a pain in the you know what to grow I think, or more special handling or storage maybe. While stale or dried out popcorn is obviously no good, retail popcorn can be "too fresh" is my understanding as well.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 23, 2024 12:24 AM (aeylG)

371 Italian salad dressing was the all-purpose marinade,
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I make Italian dressing a couple times each week. Will use whatever is handy - vingar, varieties, lime, OJ, etc. Love it. Scampywife likes this odd one the best: balsamic, extra virgin olive oil, a bit of maple syrup, Montreal steak seasoning, garlic, and a bit of ginger. *shrugs*

Posted by: scampydog at August 23, 2024 12:24 AM (41CYW)

372 Posted by: Common Tater at August 23, 2024 12:24 AM (aeylG)M

Guessing it has to have an optimal moisture content for it to properly pop.

Posted by: polynikes at August 23, 2024 12:27 AM (OFe7r)

373 Dad's Asian, so we're a Rice Family.

A while ago, someone dropped a large bottle of soy sauce at the grocery store. A white woman unthinkingly exclaimed, "Whew! That stinks!" I was speechless upon hearing such blasphemy.

Posted by: Pete in Texas at August 23, 2024 12:27 AM (BHrzb)

374 Anti-Israel protesters swarm former Republican presidential primary candidate, Vivek Ramaswamy, blocks from DNC, tell him he has no right to be there unless he calls out Israel over “genocide” in Gaza.

www.israelnationalnews.com/news/395057

Posted by: Braenyard at August 23, 2024 12:27 AM (geKVs)

375 Microsoft says it’s finally getting rid of Control Panel in Windows

https://tinyurl.com/4uw52yys

Yeah right. Actually I like the Control Panel. Settings is shitty as I have to guess which one to open and then read through to see if it contains the item I want to change.

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, le patate sono cotte #05 at August 23, 2024 12:28 AM (qfLjt)

376 Corn cross-pollinates easily.. and specialty crops must be handled carefully to prevent it--silks & tassels bagged after hand pollination and/or grown far away from other types.

...AFAIK...

Posted by: JQ at August 23, 2024 12:29 AM (njWTi)

377 Was it you that recently vacationed in Paris?
Posted by: javems
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Leaving in a couple weeks. Long trip, ending in Paris. I have Atelier Maitre Albert on the radar. I believe you referred that one, thank you. Looks delicious and is near where we are staying.

Posted by: scampydog at August 23, 2024 12:29 AM (41CYW)

378 Bullet wounds in bodies of all 6 hostages from Gaza suggest they were killed by captors
_timesofIsrael

Posted by: Braenyard at August 23, 2024 12:30 AM (geKVs)

379 Javems, or was it Le Bistro des Augustins? That's on the list too!

Posted by: scampydog at August 23, 2024 12:31 AM (41CYW)

380 Yeah I suppose it's like anything else, the corn has to be dried down to a certain percentage or it is subject to mold.

I like those "Corn Nuts" too, although not very often. I think it is fried and salted parched corn. Like a lot of foods, "healthy" oils don't fry correctly or have off flavors sometimes, limited shelf life.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 23, 2024 12:31 AM (aeylG)

381 Bulldoze Gaza 'from the river to the sea' ... the only solution that occurs to me...

Posted by: JQ at August 23, 2024 12:31 AM (njWTi)

382 Posted by: Pete in Texas at August 23, 2024 12:27 AM (BHrzb)

I grew up in South Louisiana so Im also a rice guy.

But regard to Asian sauces, dumpling dipping sauce is the sauce of the gods.

Posted by: polynikes at August 23, 2024 12:32 AM (OFe7r)

383 Breaking at DNC protest: A black woman beats a woman after she was called the N-word. A masked leftist runs in to stomp on the white woman. An older man tries to stop the fight but then the leftists begin beating him too.

https://t.co/2IETNfaCsl

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, il risotto e cotto #06 at August 23, 2024 12:32 AM (qfLjt)

384 few that get a disproportionate amount of use?

12 inch cast iron skillet, 12 quart stainless stock pot and the George Forman grill.

Awesome pick with Guy Clark BT. Thanks for stepping in.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * unburdened at August 23, 2024 12:34 AM (OsWI5)

385 A Windows Update is Breaking Dual-booting PCs

https://tinyurl.com/2swvtp99

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, il risotto e cotto #07 at August 23, 2024 12:36 AM (qfLjt)

386 "Disproportionate" is not a bad word in this usage.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 23, 2024 12:36 AM (aeylG)

387 General Foods International Coffee Cafe Vienna mixed with warm tap water from the basement bathroom.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 22, 2024 11:44 PM (RIvkX)

Vina Cafe 3-in-One Vietnamese coffee out of the individual sachets with hot water out of the insta-hot in the breakroom.
It was only fair trade, organic, and ecologically sensitive by accident, otherwise it was a good pickmeup.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 23, 2024 12:37 AM (D7oie)

388 Tough? Tested? Total badass?

WTF (D) could she possibly be referring to?! Certainly not kumswalla...
Posted by: JQ

Welp, according to the campaign ads, Heels Up is tough on crime and tough on border control. Oh, and she's going to fix inflation. And she seems to be yelling in her speeches. I've gotten really fast with the mute button on my remote.

Posted by: nerdygirl at August 23, 2024 12:37 AM (0Htd1)

389 A Windows Update is Breaking Dual-booting PCs

https://tinyurl.com/2swvtp99
Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, il risotto e cotto #07

Newsflash: Microsoft breaks Windows. Police are investigating multiple reports of broken Windows. Film at 11.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 23, 2024 12:38 AM (VNX3d)

390 Crush a few coffee beans with your teeth, spit them into a muddy hoofprint, and drink up.
Posted by: A Texas Waddie at August 22, 2024 11:48 PM (6cZhR)

there is something about this as a running joke that makes me laugh.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 23, 2024 12:38 AM (D7oie)

391 Red Delicious are no good.
The peel is too thick, the fruit too mealy.
Posted by: San Franpsycho
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True today, but 70 or so years ago, they weren't that bad. They are the result of 60 years of breeding for shipping long distances, which requires thick skins, which results in the mealy texture of the meat.
Of course, the apples today that have been bred for taste are way better than any of the varieties available when I was a kid.

Posted by: buddhaha at August 23, 2024 12:39 AM (VoS8E)

392 A Windows Update is Breaking Dual-booting PCs

https://tinyurl.com/2swvtp99
Posted by: Ciampino

YOU WILL HAVE NO OTHER OPERATING SYSTEMS BEFORE ME!!! BOW AND WORSHIP, SHEEPPLE!!!

Posted by: MICROSOFT IS GOD at August 23, 2024 12:39 AM (wh7vU)

393 Man, 24, accused of attempting to murder Army officer in uniform near barracks in Kent faces trial

https://mol.im/a/13769789

Bet he's a muzzie.

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, il risotto e cotto #08 at August 23, 2024 12:41 AM (qfLjt)

394 Crush a few coffee beans with your teeth, spit them into a muddy hoofprint, and drink up.
Posted by: A Texas Waddie
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Here is some AoS blasphemy. I don't drink coffee. Ate a couple coffee beans as a teen (because idiot boy) and it didn't settle real well.

Posted by: scampydog at August 23, 2024 12:42 AM (41CYW)

395
Newsflash: Microsoft breaks Windows. Police are investigating multiple reports of broken Windows. Film at 11.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf

Call that Bastiat guy.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 23, 2024 12:42 AM (63Dwl)

396 The local County Fair is held near end of September. I plan to spend some time at the (D) booth...

To heckle, belittle, debunk, and laugh-- at their BS. Hope to have a bit of an audience.

Posted by: JQ at August 23, 2024 12:44 AM (njWTi)

397 I wonder if that's because homegrown are fresher, or because you grow different varieties than what are grown commercially. Kind of like the difference between homegrown tomatoes and store-bought industrial tomatoes.
Posted by: BillyD at August 22, 2024 11:54 PM (Yt3ED)

all that and my fertilizer mix that has micro-nutrients like zinc sulfate, Epsom salts, and kelp and fish bone meal. I grow non-commercial varieties, and I have a habit of planting the sprouting Yukon, red and russets out of the potato bin in the spring.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 23, 2024 12:44 AM (D7oie)

398
Man, 24, accused of attempting to murder Army officer in uniform near barracks in Kent faces trial

https://mol.im/a/13769789

Bet he's a muzzie.
Posted by: Ciampino

He's the hairy handed gent who ran amok in Kent

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 23, 2024 12:44 AM (63Dwl)

399 Thousands of Indonesians attempt to storm parliament to protest changes to election law

https://tinyurl.com/dstmmyfn

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, il risotto e cotto #09 at August 23, 2024 12:44 AM (qfLjt)

400
Reading about Bezos's "New Glenn" rocket. This is supposed to launch the "EscaPADE" probe mission to Mars in Oct. Yep, October of this year.

Blue Origin isn't exactly transparent, but it appears that had two of their rockets (the core stage, I think) fail. One exploded, the other imploded. This latter was caused by someone not opening pressure equalization valves on the tanks. They brought the thing in from the hot outside into the cool A/C inside. Pressure dropped and it imploded.

The exploding event was caused by a "stress test" to that rocket/stage frame they were doing.

They might better call Space Daddy if they want to get their EscaPADE launched.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 23, 2024 12:45 AM (w6EFb)

401 I wonder if that's because homegrown are fresher, or because you grow different varieties than what are grown commercially. Kind of like the difference between homegrown tomatoes and store-bought industrial tomatoes.
Posted by: BillyD at August 22, 2024 11:54 PM (Yt3ED)

all that and my fertilizer mix that has micro-nutrients like zinc sulfate, Epsom salts, and kelp and fish bone meal. I grow non-commercial varieties, and I have a habit of planting the sprouting Yukon, red and russets out of the potato bin in the spring.
Posted by: Kindltot
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Reds and russet here. I prep the dirt and put up the critter fence. Scampywife does the all the magic.

Posted by: scampydog at August 23, 2024 12:48 AM (41CYW)

402 Bet he's a muzzie.
Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, il risotto e cotto

When news sources avoid using names or photos, you know one of the "victim" groups is involved.

Posted by: nerdygirl at August 23, 2024 12:48 AM (0Htd1)

403 Oregon is now giving $30,000 for new home buyers. The only requirement?

You can't be an American citizen.

https://tinyurl.com/jdnteaum

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, il risotto e cotto #10 at August 23, 2024 12:49 AM (qfLjt)

404 Oregon is now giving $30,000 for new home buyers. The only requirement?

You can't be an American citizen.

https://tinyurl.com/jdnteaum
Posted by: Ciampino
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Sickening. Saw a headline today (couldn't bring myself to click it) that Newsome, in CA is pushing liar, no down loans to illegals.

Posted by: scampydog at August 23, 2024 12:51 AM (41CYW)

405 402 Bet he's a muzzie.
Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, il risotto e cotto

When news sources avoid using names or photos, you know one of the "victim" groups is involved.

Posted by: nerdygirl at August 23, 2024 12:48 AM (0Htd1)
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That's true usually but in this case there is both a detailed photo and a name. Do read the article, it's short. Scary-looking dude.

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, il risotto e cotto #11 at August 23, 2024 12:51 AM (qfLjt)

406 He's the hairy handed gent who ran amok in Kent
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 23, 2024 12:44 AM (63Dwl)

But lately he's been seen in Mayfair.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 23, 2024 12:51 AM (6cZhR)

407 351

Junkos maybe? I have those and your description fits...

Posted by: COMountainMarie at August 23, 2024 12:52 AM (tRAXV)

408 Trump reveals why he doesn't want classified intelligence briefings

https://mol.im/a/13766739

Surely that would only be shared with the President-elect and not with unelected candidates?

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, il risotto e cotto #12 at August 23, 2024 12:54 AM (qfLjt)

409 He's the hairy handed gent who ran amok in Kent
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 23, 2024 12:44 AM (63Dwl)

But lately he's been seen in Mayfair.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy
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You better stay away from him, he'll rip your lungs out Jim
Huh, I'd like to meet his tailor

Posted by: scampydog with a Cinese menu at August 23, 2024 12:54 AM (41CYW)

410 Thanks. But not sure that will satisfy my OCD obsession with adding some sort of chemical "disinfectant" to the wash.
Posted by: Soothsayer at August 23, 2024 12:19 AM (PViBW)

If you want a suggestion, ten t 5 to 10 mg of iodine per liter of water is supposed to be an effective disinfectant for drinking water, and I will let you figure out how many drops per gallon of your washer that is.
At that level it shouldn't stain even your whites

Posted by: Kindltot at August 23, 2024 12:56 AM (D7oie)

411 New phone = typos aplenty.

Posted by: scampydog has fat fingers apparently at August 23, 2024 12:56 AM (41CYW)

412 That's true usually but in this case there is both a detailed photo and a name. Do read the article, it's short. Scary-looking dude.
Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, il risotto e cotto #11 at August 23, 2024 12:51 AM (qfLjt)

Could be muzzie. Maybe a new convert.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 23, 2024 12:57 AM (SMy0Z)

413 400
Reading about Bezos's "New Glenn" rocket. This is supposed to launch the "EscaPADE" probe mission to Mars in Oct. Yep, October of this year.

Blue Origin isn't exactly transparent, but it appears that had two of their rockets (the core stage, I think) fail. One exploded, the other imploded. This latter was caused by someone not opening pressure equalization valves on the tanks. They brought the thing in from the hot outside into the cool A/C inside. Pressure dropped and it imploded.

The exploding event was caused by a "stress test" to that rocket/stage frame they were doing.

They might better call Space Daddy if they want to get their EscaPADE launched.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 23, 2024 12:45 AM (w6EFb)

Yeah, I read an article that NASA is relying on them to launch a Mars mission in the near future on a rocket which has never flown, has a history of multiple schedule slips and has just had two major "anomalies". Insane.

The Mars mission has a tight launch window, and if they miss the upcoming one it will have to wait until late 2026.

Just call Elon. He should be able to work this in somewhere alongside the Boeing rescue mission.

Posted by: BillyD at August 23, 2024 12:57 AM (Yt3ED)

414 Trump reveals why he doesn't want classified intelligence briefings
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I assume it's because he doesn't want to be in a room alone with *anyone* from the US intelligence community.

Posted by: Methos at August 23, 2024 12:57 AM (Dnobf)

415 Look, every time I hit post I'm taken back to that pan of frying chicken. Somebody eat that chicken and be done with it!
It looks good. My dinner was two tuna sandwiches - pretty good. Monthly budget has run short this month so it's going to be tuna for a few days. Now if I were a cat ...... yummy.

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, il risotto e cotto #13 at August 23, 2024 12:59 AM (qfLjt)

416 Maybe a new convert.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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How does that happen, converts. I get it if it's been ingrained from childhood. Converts? I don't understand their brain malfunction.

Posted by: scampydog has fat fingers apparently at August 23, 2024 01:00 AM (41CYW)

417 Urgent manhunt for Arizona man who threatened to shoot Trump during visit to the border TODAY

https://mol.im/a/13769873

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, il risotto e cotto #14 at August 23, 2024 01:01 AM (qfLjt)

418 Junkos maybe? I have those and your description fits...
Posted by: COMountainMarie at August 23, 2024 12:52 AM (tRAXV)

Not a junco. Bigger bird, quail or pigeon-sized, and the body gray, and the head reddish brown. Like a red-headed woodpecker, but duller colored.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 23, 2024 01:01 AM (SMy0Z)

419 How does that happen, converts. I get it if it's been ingrained from childhood. Converts? I don't understand their brain malfunction.
Posted by: scampydog has fat fingers apparently at August 23, 2024 01:00 AM (41CYW)

If one is already batshit crazy, islam can validate that in the mind of the crazy person. And the radical muzzies seek out the batshit crazy to convert, in hopes that such things will happen.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 23, 2024 01:03 AM (SMy0Z)

420 Oregon is now giving $30,000 for new home buyers. The only requirement?

Giving mortgages to people who can't come up with a down payment. What could go wrong? Deja vu all over again.

Posted by: nerdygirl at August 23, 2024 01:04 AM (0Htd1)

421 Mourning dove?

Posted by: Kindltot at August 23, 2024 01:05 AM (D7oie)

422 Succulent chinese meal!

https://youtu.be/kCBE306TRcU?si=Q-41BTtbs_hZZ90U&t=16

Posted by: Soothsayer at August 23, 2024 12:14 AM (PViBW)

RIP

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 23, 2024 01:07 AM (i24o9)

423 Mystery item falls out of Nancy Pelosi's pants during her DNC speech

https://mol.im/a/13769475

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, il risotto e cotto #15 at August 23, 2024 01:08 AM (qfLjt)

424 Mourning dove?
Posted by: Kindltot at August 23, 2024 01:05 AM (D7oie)

We have doves here, and pigeons, too. There was a distinct color difference between the grey back (not speckled noticeably) and the red/brown head. Not bright red head, more a brick color.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 23, 2024 01:10 AM (SMy0Z)

425 at the flea market today I bought the double CD set of Evil Roy Slade and The Brothers O'Toole

Posted by: Kindltot at August 23, 2024 01:10 AM (D7oie)

426 You need a laugh?
Democratic delegate 'robbed at gunpoint by men in ski masks during Chicago convention'

https://mol.im/a/13769839

The two men resembled the two Jussie Smollett Nigerians in skin tone.

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, il risotto e cotto #16 at August 23, 2024 01:10 AM (qfLjt)

427 418 AOP

perhaps a female dove? Yeah, juncos seem to travel in packs. I've had solitary doves that also fit the description. I suppose it can depend on where you live...
I'm surely not an avian expert...

Posted by: COMountainMarie at August 23, 2024 01:11 AM (tRAXV)

428 Mystery item falls out of Nancy Pelosi's pants during her DNC speech

https://mol.im/a/13769475
Posted by: Ciampino
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Give me a diablo sandwich, a Dr. Pepper, and make it quick, I'm in a goddamn hurry.

Posted by: Before T. Did it better than Nancy at August 23, 2024 01:12 AM (41CYW)

429 Well hey, COMM, you are up late tonight!

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 23, 2024 01:13 AM (Sgq8y)

430 426
That robbery story reminded me: was it Jessie Jackson whose Escalade 'lost' its wheels while parked in Detroit(?) where he was meeting?

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, il risotto e cotto #17 at August 23, 2024 01:13 AM (qfLjt)

431 They might better call Space Daddy if they want to get their EscaPADE launched.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley

"Blow it up, it's paid for"

I'll git a 'nother 'un

Posted by: The Iterative Redneck Elon Development Process at August 23, 2024 01:13 AM (lSyD7)

432 Cowbird?

Posted by: Lirio100 at August 23, 2024 01:13 AM (I5U35)

433 Like a red-headed woodpecker, but duller colored.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

HEY

Posted by: Miklos might resemble that remark at August 23, 2024 01:15 AM (lSyD7)

434 perhaps a female dove? Yeah, juncos seem to travel in packs. I've had solitary doves that also fit the description. I suppose it can depend on where you live...
I'm surely not an avian expert...

Posted by: COMountainMarie at August 23, 2024 01:11 AM (tRAXV)

I looked at a whole lot of mourning dove photos, and none had red-brown heads. None.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 23, 2024 01:15 AM (SMy0Z)

435 Don't know the veracity of this: Trump issues a message to every military general or official involved in the Afghanistan withdrawal, to have their resignation papers on his desk within MINUTES of his inauguration

"I want them on at 12PM inauguration day. Everybody involved with that disaster."

https://tinyurl.com/3ac4tkmt

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, il vino e sul'tavolo #18 at August 23, 2024 01:16 AM (qfLjt)

436 Lol, Fox cuts Trump off to switch over to Gutfield, so Trump just calls Gutfield live on the air.

The man doesn't sleep.

He also did an event at the border in AZ today, and had to be rushed away due to a possible security threat.

So, midday, he's a target for assassination.
Evening time, he's calling Gutfield to say his poll #s are way up.

Love him

Posted by: Shenanigans at August 23, 2024 01:17 AM (wGun1)

437 The two men resembled the two Jussie Smollett Nigerians in skin tone.
Posted by: Ciampino

See, copper? I gots a alibi

Posted by: Miklos does not patronize Subway or subways in any case at August 23, 2024 01:17 AM (lSyD7)

438 351 Any bird experts here? Came back from town today, and there was a bird picking gravel in the driveway that I did not recognize. Pigeon-sized, gray body, and russet-brown head. No feather crest.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 23, 2024 12:13 AM (SMy0Z)

Not a junko - those are small, sparrow sized. Sounds like a brown headed cowbird, a striking lookin bird with a distinctive brown head. Most will have a black body, but there are variants where the body will be gray.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 23, 2024 01:17 AM (S6gqv)

439 Cowbird?
Posted by: Lirio100 at August 23, 2024 01:13 AM (I5U35)

I believe you are right! About the right size, and the brown-headed cowbird does range well into Alberta.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 23, 2024 01:19 AM (SMy0Z)

440 got me there, I am not good at birds.

by the way, I had to refix the clothes dryer, it bound up again so it wasn't the butter knife causing all the problems. I squirted a little breakfree on the bearings for the motor and that seems to have loosened things up. Next step is to pull the motor and do a proper oiling of the main bearings.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 23, 2024 01:20 AM (D7oie)

441 Well, getting late, and sleepiness is overtaking me. Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 23, 2024 01:21 AM (SMy0Z)

442
Not a junko - those are small, sparrow sized. Sounds like a brown headed cowbird, a striking lookin bird with a distinctive brown head. Most will have a black body, but there are variants where the body will be gray.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 23, 2024 01:17 AM (S6gqv)

Was it laden or unladen? That will tell you everything..

Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 23, 2024 01:21 AM (t7Bqe)

443 {{{DDS}}}

I know, right!
I got fascinated by a bird conversation...

Posted by: COMountainMarie at August 23, 2024 01:22 AM (tRAXV)

444 I believe you are right! About the right size, and the brown-headed cowbird does range well into Alberta.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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I was rooting for it to be a night owl.

Posted by: Before T. Did it better than Nancy at August 23, 2024 01:22 AM (41CYW)

445 Cowbirds aren't what you'd call parents of the year....

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at August 23, 2024 01:22 AM (34Ss2)

446 G'night, AOP.

Posted by: scampydog at August 23, 2024 01:23 AM (41CYW)

447 Fans slam 'racist' NHL team policy after black player Anthony Duclair CUTS OFF dreadlocks to comply

https://mol.im/a/13769411

Well he had a choice and made it so FU fans.

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, il vino e sul'tavolo #19 at August 23, 2024 01:23 AM (qfLjt)

448
Good evening, all.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 23, 2024 01:25 AM (lCaJd)

449 I've been off the blog much of the day so I don't know if this made it: One dead at shooting at Texas high school

https://mol.im/a/13769511

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, il vino e sul'tavolo #20 at August 23, 2024 01:28 AM (qfLjt)

450 For that special girl?
Miners unearth second biggest diamond ever in Botswana with 2,492-carat stone worth tens of millions

https://mol.im/a/13768581

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, il diamante e molto grande #21 at August 23, 2024 01:30 AM (qfLjt)

451 "Mindy Kaling, who hosted during the evening, introduced Pelosi as 'mother of dragons,' referring to the powerful Queen on the TV show Game of Thrones."

This would be the character who went insane and used her dragon to slaughter thousands of innocent people while destroying her own city.

Yeah, it fits.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 23, 2024 01:31 AM (6cZhR)

452 >> Trump issues a message to every military general or official involved in the Afghanistan withdrawal, to have their resignation papers on his desk within MINUTES of his inauguration

I heard him say that the other day at one of the rallies, don't remember which. He was on the TV, and said that. Every one of you generals involved with that, I want your resignations on my desk at 12PM.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 23, 2024 01:35 AM (w6EFb)

453 A robot's attempt to get a sample of the melted fuel at Japan's damaged nuclear reactor is suspended pending problem resolution.

https://tinyurl.com/7r8233bs

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, il diamante e molto grande #22 at August 23, 2024 01:37 AM (qfLjt)

454
Oregon is now giving $30,000 for new home buyers. The only requirement?

You can't be an American citizen.

https://tinyurl.com/jdnteaum
Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore

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I can't stand to click but surely this can't be Constitutional? This is a law on a matter NOT related to national origin that affects people differently based on their national origin.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 23, 2024 01:37 AM (lCaJd)

455 Lesbian Michigan AG issues bloodcurdling warning to Supreme Court

https://mol.im/a/13767687

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, il diamante e molto grande #23 at August 23, 2024 01:39 AM (qfLjt)

456 Oregon is now giving $30,000 for new home buyers. The only requirement?

You can't be an American citizen.

https://tinyurl.com/jdnteaum
Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore

Calif same thing is in the Legislature right now... same amount... coincidence? I think not...

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 23, 2024 01:42 AM (xaFKb)

457 "The Michigan Attorney General issued a startling challenge to Supreme Court Justices who might consider relitigating same-sex marriage protections.
Speaking at the Democratic National Convention, Dana Nessel borrowed the words of gun-loving actor Charlton Heston to warn anyone attempting to deny her right to marriage: 'You can pry this wedding band from my cold, dead, gay hand.'"

Any Gypsy could tell her it would be easier to just cut off her finger.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 23, 2024 01:45 AM (6cZhR)

458 Lesbian Michigan AG issues bloodcurdling warning to Supreme Court

https://mol.im/a/13767687
Posted by: Ciampino
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She is a nerotic hormone spasm.

Posted by: scampydog at August 23, 2024 01:46 AM (41CYW)

459 Anyone seen Jim SND around?

Posted by: scampydog at August 23, 2024 01:48 AM (41CYW)

460 How many of you have heard Kamala's talk about what she learned about her power as a prosecutor? About how she found out she could ruin someone's life just by accusing them.

What a fucking psychopath. This is absolutely a person who can't be allowed anywhere near a position of power.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at August 23, 2024 01:48 AM (Da7Vv)

461
I heard him say that the other day at one of the rallies, don't remember which. He was on the TV, and said that. Every one of you generals involved with that, I want your resignations on my desk at 12PM.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley

+++++++++++++++++

I really hope he means it. I suppose the specific form it would take is that he gets elected and then spreads the word: literally, resignations on my first day of office by noon and you'll get the pensions you don't deserve -- or it's investigations and dishonorable discharges.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 23, 2024 01:48 AM (lCaJd)

462 I had issues with the tomatoes this year as well. I had a dozen each of Rutgers 250 (supposedly the old style high acid type) Terra Cotta, a nice so-called ugly tomato that is delicious with a balanced acidity, San Marzanos for sauce, and a single Kentucky Beefsteak.

There was a rough hot and dry June, which we made it through. Continued upper 90s for awhile, so most of the plants got a shade cloth to help out. Still, a tendency to rot quickly. Then those weird black bugs that fuck each other all over the fruits. Gross. Anyway, I don't have a total on the yield yet. There are still some on the vines.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at August 23, 2024 01:50 AM (w6EFb)

463
How many of you have heard Kamala's talk about what she learned about her power as a prosecutor? About how she found out she could ruin someone's life just by accusing them.

What a fucking psychopath. This is absolutely a person who can't be allowed anywhere near a position of power.
Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president

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I guess that's not from her magnificent acceptance speech tonight.

Speaking of which, did anyone hear it? I see posters upthread who indicate that it's over and they are dumber, but no highlights or juicy quotes I see -- not that I'd want to relive that experience if I'd undergone it once.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 23, 2024 01:50 AM (lCaJd)

464 Oddly, only a single tomato hornworm all summer.

Happily, no blossom end rot. I took care of that with the vinegar and eggshell mixture (foliar spraying).

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at August 23, 2024 01:51 AM (w6EFb)

465 451 "Mindy Kaling, who hosted during the evening, introduced Pelosi as 'mother of dragons,' referring to the powerful Queen on the TV show Game of Thrones."

This would be the character who went insane and used her dragon to slaughter thousands of innocent people while destroying her own city.

Yeah, it fits.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy

Would this make Paul Pelosi her brother?

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 23, 2024 01:51 AM (wh7vU)

466 Should be past my bedtime, but wanted to check in here to see if there's any talk about Tim Walz and his son.

What's going on there? What's wrong with the kid?

Posted by: BurtTC at August 23, 2024 01:53 AM (GtZ7X)

467 456
It used to be that in order to open a bank account one had to be a legal US resident - a Resident Alien. This is not just a status obtained by living in the USA, but is one done legally through the State Department. A SSN gets issued.
Surely States are not going to fork out taxpayers money to non-residents? Nor should banks?

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, i politicanti sono tutti matti #24 at August 23, 2024 01:53 AM (qfLjt)

468 I've avoided the convention as much as possible. I heard there was a rumor that Beyonce would appear, the purpose of which was to ensure that everyone stayed for Kamala's thing.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at August 23, 2024 01:54 AM (w6EFb)

469 What's going on there? What's wrong with the kid?

Posted by: BurtTC at August 23, 2024 01:53 AM (GtZ7X)

1) from what I understand, the kid has some kind of developmental disorder

2) apparently Daddy was jerking his hand as the family walked onto the stage. I saw it on Twitter and it was disturbing.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at August 23, 2024 01:56 AM (w6EFb)

470 Speaking of which, did anyone hear it? I see posters upthread who indicate that it's over and they are dumber, but no highlights or juicy quotes I see -- not that I'd want to relive that experience if I'd undergone it once.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 23, 2024 01:50 AM (lCaJd)

It was really a big fat nothing. So much pablum, and given what it was, I guess you'd have to say she delivered it effectively. But there were cheer lines line "I love this country!" And it seemed like she was genuinely thrilled at the idea of what can come next, but me being me, I got the real sense what she was talking about is herself.

I didn't see the Obama speech from his own nomination, but I guess that was what they were going for. I'm just very realistically expecting the voters (real voters) just aren't going to buy it from her.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 23, 2024 01:58 AM (GtZ7X)

471 Ti's that time. G'night Horde.

Posted by: scampydog at August 23, 2024 02:00 AM (41CYW)

472 What's going on there? What's wrong with the kid?

Posted by: BurtTC at August 23, 2024 01:53 AM (GtZ7X)

1) from what I understand, the kid has some kind of developmental disorder

2) apparently Daddy was jerking his hand as the family walked onto the stage. I saw it on Twitter and it was disturbing.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at August 23, 2024 01:56 AM (w6EFb)

Were people aware before now the kid is disabled?

Because yeah, that jerking of the kid's hand, that really happened, and it's the kind of thing that shows a real demonic character behind the "aw shucks" persona he's trying to portray.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 23, 2024 02:01 AM (GtZ7X)

473 I'm going to say, my son is an adult now, but the level of his intellectual disability is quite substantial. He's never going to be able to take care of himself, and as long as I'm alive I'll be the one doing as much as I can for him, so he's never in any danger.

I have had to physically try to drag him at times, but only ever because it's sometimes necessary. What Walz did was unnecessary, and given how quickly he did it, how mean it looked... there's something seriously wrong with that man.

Seriously wrong.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 23, 2024 02:04 AM (GtZ7X)

474 459 Anyone seen Jim SND around?

Posted by: scampydog at August 23, 2024 01:48 AM (41CYW)
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I just checked and no posts from Jim today (22nd) or yesterday (21st) unless I missed a blog or two.

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, i politicanti sono tutti matti #25 at August 23, 2024 02:06 AM (qfLjt)

475 I just checked and no posts from Jim today (22nd) or yesterday (21st) unless I missed a blog or two.
Posted by: Ciampino
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Thanks, Ciampino. I sent him an email to check in.

Posted by: scampydog at August 23, 2024 02:09 AM (41CYW)

476 Power ✔️ test
Fail

Posted by: Skip at August 23, 2024 02:10 AM (fwDg9)

477
I got interested in this. As we would expect, POTUS can "fire" any general, admiral, or other commissioned officer. And by fire, it means relieve from command.

Actually booting them out, no pay, no pension and all that is something else. In (declared) war time, POTUS can do that too.

Now, any such big shot brass "asked" to resign should do so immediately, if he wants to keep his rank. 3 and 4 star ranks are temporary, only held during the term of whatever office they are appointed to.

So, if some 4-star didn't want to "retire", he would revert to 2-star rank then an there, and would have no place to go, nothing to command. And POTUS could then order court martial proceedings against him if he really wanted to stick it to him.

So, best thing is to just resign and "voluntarily retire" from your office/command.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 23, 2024 02:16 AM (w6EFb)

478 Good one, Buck!
I'm not seeing skewers for the potato-skewering process.

this baked potato holder, which bakes four potatoes quickly ... I just put a little oil and kosher salt on the spuds (no foil), then skewer them

Posted by: m at August 23, 2024 02:21 AM (64Zez)

479 If I have to lie, steal, cheat, or kill, with * as my witness I will never suck dicks for favors again.

Kamala Harris
2024 dnc

Posted by: N at August 23, 2024 02:22 AM (8XibL)

480 It is better with the gone with the wind soundtrack

Posted by: N at August 23, 2024 02:27 AM (8XibL)

481 https://tinyurl.com/54a4r8t2
20 Tweets from Bad Blue

Posted by: Skip at August 23, 2024 02:39 AM (fwDg9)

482
It was really a big fat nothing. So much pablum, and given what it was, I guess you'd have to say she delivered it effectively. But there were cheer lines line "I love this country!"

Posted by: BurtTC

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Bloogh. Effectively delivered pablum, my least favorite. Thanks for the notes.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 23, 2024 02:43 AM (lCaJd)

483 481 https://tinyurl.com/54a4r8t2
20 Tweets from Bad Blue
Posted by: Skip at August 23, 2024 02:39 AM (fwDg9)

Thanks, Skip!

Posted by: m at August 23, 2024 02:45 AM (64Zez)

484 If I have to lie, steal, cheat, or kill, with * as my witness I will never suck dicks for favors again.
Kamala Harris
2024 dnc

You may want to reconsider that.

Posted by: Vlad Putin at August 23, 2024 02:46 AM (6cZhR)

485
My corner of X is full of grief over a kid who was "transitioned" as a teen, went through a hellish series of medical complications, and just died at the age of 24. People had been following her for years because she posted her "progress" on social media. Here is the spreadsheet of her medical procedures and costs that she maintained until her death. Almost $1mil in medical bills, paid for by taxpayers and policy holders.

https://tinyurl.com/4pvjf3nh

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 23, 2024 02:52 AM (lCaJd)

486
Just reading what role Bobby, Jr. might have in a Trump 2.0 admin. I was thinking maybe go after Fauci and his agencies, not to mention Pfizer, et al.

But I saw some talk, spurred on by shit Tucker and even Don Jr have said: put Bobby in charge of the CIA with orders to clean house, expose all their dirty little secrets and dirty little lies and let the chips fall where they may.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 23, 2024 02:54 AM (w6EFb)

487
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 23, 2024 02:52 AM (lCaJd)

And that doesn't really describe it. She had at least one heart attack, two strokes, sepsis, blood clots in both lungs, blood clots in her legs, kidney failure necessitating dialysis, deep vein thrombosis, and a couple other things I can't even remember. Oh, constant urethral infections and fistulas, a mysterious "pouch" that formed that contained urine she couldn't excrete, a couple other things.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 23, 2024 02:54 AM (lCaJd)

488 It astounds me that people who enter into this contract with the devil to transition cannot possibly understand the grim future.

It does not make your life better, it saddles you with a burden that can never be relieved except through death.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at August 23, 2024 03:06 AM (w6EFb)

489 487
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 23, 2024 02:52 AM (lCaJd)

And that doesn't really describe it. She had at least one heart attack, two strokes, sepsis, blood clots in both lungs, blood clots in her legs, kidney failure necessitating dialysis, deep vein thrombosis, and a couple other things I can't even remember. Oh, constant urethral infections and fistulas, a mysterious "pouch" that formed that contained urine she couldn't excrete, a couple other things.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 23, 2024 02:54 AM (lCaJd)

At 24! I just ....

Posted by: m at August 23, 2024 03:11 AM (64Zez)

490 Just the idea of Kennedy running the CIA, positively Shakespearian after they killed his uncle and father, will enrage the Deeper State and Breakaway Civilization types to redouble their efforts to eliminate Trump.

So, Trump should do it, Kennedy should accept it, and let the events fall where they may.

Just stay safe and out of jail...

Posted by: Mister Ghost at August 23, 2024 03:13 AM (TGPs7)

491
At 24! I just ....
Posted by: m

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Her plight is known because she was a social media addict -- oh, that's right! She also battled opioid addiction TWICE -- anyway, her plight is known because she rather compulsively TikToked about it. God only knows how many others there are like her.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 23, 2024 03:13 AM (lCaJd)

492
Trump should do it, Kennedy should accept it, and let the events fall where they may.

Just stay safe and out of jail...
Posted by: Mister Ghost

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I haven't completely bought the narrative that the CIA killed the Kennedys. If it didn't, the irony of being cleaned out by a Kennedy is doubly delicious. To tell lie after lie after lie and half-destroy the country and then be reamed out on the basis of another phony narrative that was started because of your own nefariousness is funny.

CIA: lies and half destroys the country
Kennedy: reams out CIA, finds out CIA didn't kill dad and uncle.
CIA: damn you!
Kennedy: You deserved to lose.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 23, 2024 03:17 AM (lCaJd)

493 I had somehow missed the sentence given to the guy who went after Mr Pelosi:

May 17, 2024 — David DePape, 44, of Richmond, California, was sentenced today to 360 months in prison and five years of supervised release

Posted by: m at August 23, 2024 03:21 AM (64Zez)

494 Trying to thwart every bit of your genetic code to masquerade as a grim parody of the opposite sex has cruel and dire consequences, huh?

Posted by: Never Would Have Guessed at August 23, 2024 03:31 AM (uabYJ)

495 Been up since I posted at 2am, might as well get moving

Posted by: Skip at August 23, 2024 03:37 AM (fwDg9)

496 It's cool tonight. Publius says next week it will get hot again.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at August 23, 2024 03:53 AM (w6EFb)

497
Harry Truman later said that creating the CIA was a Big Mistake. He wrote some op-ed back in the '60s, after the JFK assassination about that.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 23, 2024 03:53 AM (w6EFb)

498 Morning to all the insomaniacals! A halfway decent night's sleep for me, with interruptions, for this Friday. Some coffee may put me right. I'll work out, then get through the day, and then -- the consummation devoutly to be wished: the weekend!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 23, 2024 03:54 AM (omVj0)

499 I'm not ready to let go of summer yet.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at August 23, 2024 03:54 AM (w6EFb)

500
Trying to thwart every bit of your genetic code to masquerade as a grim parody of the opposite sex has cruel and dire consequences, huh?
Posted by: Never Would Have Guessed

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Somehow, rerouting your endocrine system, urinary tract, and reproductive organs using tissues that you transfer from one part of your body to another while doctors are incentivized to keep cutting while you keep getting whittled away to nothing doesn't work out.

That's another thing, she had so many tissue failures that there was scarcely a square inch of tissue that was in its original position doing what it was meant to do. Grafts from her cheek to her messed-up urethra, grafts from her arm to make her fake pecker, I can't remember all the other grafts but she was always recovering from a graft and dealing with a catheter.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 23, 2024 03:54 AM (lCaJd)

501 Truman:

Now, as nearly as I can make out, those fellows in the CIA don’t just report on wars and the like, they go out and make their own, and there’s nobody to keep track of what they’re up to. They spend billions of dollars on stirring up trouble so they’ll have something to report on. They’ve become ... it’s become a government all of its own and all secret. They don’t have to account to anybody.

That’s a very dangerous thing in a democratic society, and it’s got to be put a stop to. The people have got a right to know what those birds are up to. And if I was back in the White House, people would know. You see, the way a free government works, there’s got to be a housecleaning every now and again, and I don’t care what branch of the government is involved. Somebody has to keep an eye on things.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 23, 2024 03:54 AM (w6EFb)

502 I think the CIA would be wasting its own just to keep them quiet.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at August 23, 2024 03:55 AM (w6EFb)

503 I'm not ready to let go of summer yet.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at August 23, 2024

***
I can understand that -- when summer is warm, brief, not will-sappingly hot, and you have three other seasons. In my case, I've been ready to fling summer over the bridge railing since May.

Early May. Maybe even since mid-April.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 23, 2024 03:58 AM (omVj0)

504 Well. The humidity remains down quite a bit; 68%, so that heat index is *only* (only!!!) 87. I might have a pretty good workout.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 23, 2024 04:03 AM (omVj0)

505 Pixy's other site is up.

https://ai.mee.nu

Posted by: m at August 23, 2024 04:04 AM (64Zez)

506 Coffee is up, working on making a ham and cheese omelet

Posted by: Skip at August 23, 2024 04:07 AM (fwDg9)

507 Pixy's up!

Posted by: m at August 23, 2024 04:20 AM (64Zez)

508 Pixy's up.

Posted by: Tuna at August 23, 2024 04:21 AM (oaGWv)

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