…on Mars.
What They’ll Have For Thanksgiving
…on Mars.
What They’ll Have For Thanksgiving
…on Mars.
Stuffing The Turkey
I don’t know if there’s a Carnival of the Recipes for Thanksgiving, but in response to popular demand [cue sounds of crickets chirping], here’s my unique recipe for corn-bread and wild-rice stuffing. It’s higher protein than most.
A couple pounds of sausage (I prefer some kind of fancy chicken or turkey sausage–this year I found some chicken/brocolli)
wild rice (maybe half a cup)
pine nuts (maybe half a cup)
a pound or so of exotic mushrooms (oyster, chanterelle, shiitake, etc.)
one onion, chopped
a few cloves of garlic, diced
a few cups of corn bread crumbs, either home made or store-bought stuffing
a few stalks of celery (if desired–I don’t like it that much, but some people think it’s not stuffing without it), chopped
pomegranate seeds (this is the secret ingredient)
A couple cups of chicken broth (from bouillion is fine, unless you want to be fancy)
salt, pepper, sage, thyme to taste
olive oil
Soak the rice overnight in about twice as much water as it needs to cover. Another good thing to do ahead, while watching teevee, is to divest the pomegranate from its seeds (persnickety work).
In the morning, cut up the sausage into bite-size chunks, and saute in the olive oil (amount depending on the stickiness of your saute pan). Chop the rest of the ingredients and boil the rice for fifteen minutes or so (if you overdo it, it won’t have the crunchiness). Set the meat aside and saute the onions, celery and garlic in the same pan.
Put all the non-liquid ingredients in a big bowl and stir well. Add in the broth and mix thoroughly. If it seems too dry, feel free to add as much water…or booze…as you want. It should be moist throughout, but not soaked. You can also add melted butter to taste and texture if you like that sort of thing, and your arteries can take it. Another option, to be more heart healthy, is to fatten it up with olive or canola oil.
Use it like any other stuffing–either inside the bird, or under the skin, or just bake it in its own dish, or all of the above.
Eat, and enjoy.
Oh, and on this Thanksgiving Eve, let us all bow our heads and give remembrance to the woman who invented Stove Top Stuffing™, who has stuffed her last stove top.
Urban Legends
…about Iraq.
At Least One Way
…that Iraq isn’t like Vietnam. We have no POWs there.
It’s not the only one, of course. In fact, the only similarity that I can see is that, for varying reasons, the left (including many of the Dems and the media) want us to lose, and will continue to pretend that we are, despite all the evidence on the ground.
Speaking Of Incoherence
American Future has usefully dissected the New York Times’ evolving editorial policy over the past twelve years on the subject of Iraq. Bottom line (as Joe Katzman notes): they’re partisan hacks.
The Emily Litella Court
The Supreme Court’s Raich ruling last year was a disaster not just for federalism (and freedom), and the founders’ original notion of limited government, but for coherent judicial philosophy in general. Professor Reynolds (and Brandon Denning) explain explain why:
As a practical matter, of course, Supreme Court control over the lower courts has been notional for some time. Lower court caseloads have been exploding, while the Supreme Court is actually hearing fewer cases than it did decades ago. But the Supreme Court
More Smog On The Ocean
Charles Johnson inadvertently follows up on my post, with a shot from (I think) Palos Verdes. Though he doesn’t comment about it, note the brown haze on the otherwise blue horizon. That means that the Santa Anas continue.
WTF! Part II
OK, I got the computer fixed (at least for now), but now I have a question for all the DirecTV Tivo mavens out there. This is something that has been driving me nuts ever since I got the farging thing.
Why does it fill up my hard drive with programs that I’ve zero interest in, have never watched, have never evinced any interest in watching? More to the immediate point, why, when I’m watching Fox News, and have a half-hour of it in the can, and am waiting for Brit Hume to come on, and can zap commercials, does it randomly decide that I’d rather watch Seinfeld, and switch to that channel, thus losing everything on the hard drive from Fox News, so that when I switch back in frustration, I’ve lost the first half hour?