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February 8, 2003

I made a mess of beans with ham for dinner the other night and am finishing the last of it for lunch as I write this. Mmmmm, beans. Great northern beans. There's a reason they are called "great."

I went back to my previous way of cooking--just throw anything in that might help. I had a big jar of beans and I got a package of chopped ham. I'm too afraid to open the ham that is Tupperwared in the back of my fridge. It's been living there since before Christmas and I should probably evict it.

I evicted other food from the fridge today, but not the ham.

Anyway, beans, ham, onion, cilantro, salt and pepper. And olive oil. Sauteed the onion in the oil over a medium heat until the onion was turning transparent. Tipped the ham into that and sauteed till I could smell the ham cooking. Added chopped cilantro -- I guess it was about two tablespoons worth. Saute a little longer, add beans and enough water so that it will boil and beans won't stick to pan. Heat to boil, the reduce to simmer. I let it simmer about 45 minutes. No real reason, but it sounded good. And it tasted good. And still does.

It's nice to actually finish leftovers rather than let them die of attrition. Today I had to get rid of some onion relish that I made who knows how long ago, as well as the last of the Caldo Verde. I liked the Caldo Verde especially because it was a thick potato soup with no dairy products. Depending on the broth you use, or if you just use water, it can also be frighteningly low fat. The onion relish was okay, good on tomato sandwiches, but I should have soaked the onion in salt water to reduce its pungency. The next time I make it, I will leave out the lemon juice, too. I eat the onion relish at my favorite Indian restaurant straight, but this was to strong and too sour.

Other evicted tenants included a huge amount of leftover pork that I brought home a week ago from a Tex-Mex place. I also got rid of the festering Hungarian Cucumber Salad with Sour Cream. It is really quite good (I make it with red onion in the mix), but much more a summery dish than one for winter.

To complete the tour of recent kitchen triumph, yesterday I did a pot roast in my new crock pot. The lid on this crock pot is too light and tends to jiggle around when whatever is in the pot comes to a boil. Some liquid boils off, then, which is not supposed to happen with a crock pot. At any rate, the roast was a little dry, but still good with the mashed potatoes I made. mmmm, taters..... from scratch!

What I need to do is stop buying so much a the grocery -- I don't go very frequently, so when I do, I load up on perishables and then have to cook frantically to get them all used before they crawl away. I have eggplants that I'm going to do something with today, and a pound and a half of lamb neck to use in a stew the day after.

I can't seem to get quantities right -- I cook enough for a small family, but there's just me.
posted by el goose on 2/8/2003 12:54:47 PM | link

Another doggie who needs help.

Yes, that's doggie. As in doggie-woggie.

posted by el goose on 2/8/2003 02:57:33 PM | link

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February 6, 2003

Quesadillas for lazy bastards

Cooking for losers.
posted by el goose on 2/6/2003 08:06:21 AM | link

Maybe it is the grape soda.

Another reason why Mother Nature doesn't provide us with blue food naturally, with the possible exception of blueberries. But there are frozen Black Cherry Slushes. User Warning: not to be viewed while eating. May disturb those with weak stomachs.

posted by el goose on 2/6/2003 10:07:21 AM | link

The problem with narcissists is that they think everything is about them. And they have no trouble telling this to others. Oh, wait, that's two problems.

Here's a third. They're boring.

posted by el goose on 2/6/2003 10:52:41 AM | link

I'm Going To Use My Heat Vision To Stop This Giant Robot

I'm going to make a link to this post because it charmed me and made me laugh!

posted by el goose on 2/6/2003 10:53:24 AM | link

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February 5, 2003

Cover that horse's ass!!

A brief report about Guernica at the United Nations in the New York Times Arts page, not even as the lead.
posted by el goose on 2/5/2003 03:19:46 PM | link

Illegal Art

The degenerate art of our times.


posted by el goose on 2/5/2003 04:21:54 PM | link

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February 4, 2003

White House Cancels Poetry Symposium
"While Mrs. Bush respects the right of all Americans to express their opinions, she, too, has opinions and believes it would be inappropriate to turn a literary event into a political forum." Noelia Rodriguez, spokeswoman for first lady Laura Bush, said Wednesday.
Guernica Reproduction Covered at the UN
NEW YORK.- The "Guernica" work by Pablo Picasso at the entrance of the Security Council of the United Nations has been covered with a curtain. The reason for covering this work is that this is the place where diplomats make statements to the press and have this work as the background. The Picasso work features the horrors of war. On January 27 a large blue curtain was placed to cover the work.

Fred Eckhard, press secretary of the U.N. said: "It is an appropriate background for the cameras." He was questioned as to why the work had been covered.

A diplomat stated that it would not be an appropriate background if the ambassador of the United States at the U.N. John Negroponte, or Powell, talk about war surrounded with women, children and animals shouting with horror and showing the suffering of the bombings.

This work is a reproduction of the Guernica that was donated by Nelson A. Rockefeller to the U.N. in 1985
More on Guernica cover up -- a woefully underreported story
The drapes were installed last Monday and Wednesday — the days the council discussed Iraq — and came down Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, when the subjects included Afghanistan and peacekeeping missions in Lebanon and Western Sahara.

...

U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, who keeps a Matisse tapestry and a Rauschenberg collage in his private 38th-floor conference room, denies he had anything to do with the "Guernica" cover-up.

"If you heard all the things done in my name, you'd think I was everywhere," he joked Friday. "I heard it was artistic."

Mr. Kabbaj amplified thus: "We had a problem with, you know, the horse."

It was, of course, a camera crew that noticed that anyone who stood at the U.N. microphone would be photographed next to the backside of a rearing horse.

Picasso: Social critic, Cubist and a little too opinionated for many in this organization.
When I hear the word "Culture," I ___ ___ __ ________.
posted by el goose on 2/4/2003 02:34:01 PM | link

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February 3, 2003

Just ignore this post. I'll be finished soon...



Which of Henry VIII's wives are you?
this quiz was made by the proper Victorian ladies at Spookbot

I feel better now. You?
posted by el goose on 2/3/2003 02:12:49 PM | link

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February 2, 2003

It came from the abyss: can philosophy be filmed?

This first burst of biographical revelation is also the last. Later in the documentary, Kofman asks Derrida whether there have been any "traumatic breaks" in his life. "Yes, there have been," he responds. There is a long pause. "Thank you," says Kofman, and both break into warm, exasperated laughter; at this point the philosopher's discretion has become a running joke.
The unwilling subject deconstructing filmmaking while being filmed.
posted by el goose on 2/2/2003 02:52:22 PM | link

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