Comments on: Is Mark Schauer a Better Cook than Cindy McCain?

By: Rayne

Rayne — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 19:27:23 +0000

Yummy, PJ, sounds like a Polish or Hungarian recipe, what with the yogurt/sour cream and the caraway.

By: PJEvans

PJEvans — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:41:37 +0000

The promised recipe:

Bitka

2 tbsp butter or margarine
2 medium onions, chopped
1 1/2 lb lean ground beef (Mom used 3/4 to 1 lb)
1 medium potato, peeled and cut in 1/2 inch cubes
1 medium turnip, peeled and cut in 1/4 inch cubes
3 medium carrots, cut in 1/4 inch slices
2 stalks celery, cut in 1/4 inch slices
1/4 tsp caraway seed
1 tsp salt
1/2 tsp paprika
1/8 tsp pepper
1 cup yogurt or sour cream
1 tbsp flour
1 tbsp chopped parsley

In a large skillet (frying pan) with a lid, melt the butter over medium-high heat.
Add the onion and stir occasionally until limp.
Add the ground beef; break apart while cooking until browned, about 5 minutes.
Stir in the veggies and seasonings.
Reduce the heat to medium or medium-low; cover and cook until the veggies are just tender, about 25 minutes. (If it starts to scorch, add a tbsp of water.)
Stir together the yogurt and flour, stir into the beef and veg and cook for 1 or 2 minutes, stirring.
Transfer to a serving dish and sprinkle with parsley.

By: PJEvans

PJEvans — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:41:09 +0000

I’m not surprised. I’ve heard that if you’re black, you don’t want to be arrested by the LAPD, and if you’re brown, you don’t want to be arrested by the sheriffs. I’ve heard of some pretty blatant racism elsewhere, in the recent past.
As individuals, they can be really nice people, but as groups, they’re closer to gangs.

By: earlofhuntingdon

earlofhuntingdon — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:41:14 +0000

Porn-related allegations are mother’s milk to the Base, regardless of how much repression, incest and cheating goes on there. And regardless of how hypocritical are the celibate and cerebral CongressCritters who hawk it to them.

As much as I dislike guugle’s (I like to confound their search s/w) privacy and records retention policies, using their Central Valley-sized search records database to establish local (or even national) obsession with virtual sex – apart from justifying the Base’s obsession with ending it – has the potential to expose some of that hypocrisy.

By: earlofhuntingdon

earlofhuntingdon — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:34:45 +0000

Only the WaPoo would consider it news that Bush’s Justice [sic] Department engages in illegal partisan hiring for positions in its career bureaucracy. Only they would be dumbfounded to learn that Bush does that across the federal government, especially in the newly union membership-bereft DHS. Only the Wapoo would imagine Bush hired a Regent University grad as the government’s chief hiring officer for their talent.

By: bmaz

bmaz — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:37:23 +0000

Despite all protestations to the contrary, the Red Squads live on in your sheriff’s department. I actually had a former lieutenant admit it on the record back in the late 90s.

By: PJEvans

PJEvans — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:28:32 +0000

bmaz, the sheriffs here in LA do dog passes through the trains at random intervals - I think they’re after explosives, mostly, but it wouldn’t surprise me to find the dogs also could alert on drugs.
They also have just started a random bag check program: you have to walk through the check to get to the platform, but they won’t necessarily stop you. If they were checking for teh stoopid, there are several passengers who would have been busted.

I may, later today, put up the recipe for a meat and veggie dish that sounds like it’s related to pasties. Potato, onion, turnip, carrot(s), celery, yogurt-or-sour-cream. Gotta type it first.

By: emptywheel

emptywheel — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:31:28 +0000

Oh yeah. My bro makes mean breakfast burritos, when I whine sufficiently.

By: Rayne

Rayne — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:04:52 +0000

That is an interesting combo — wouldn’t have guessed squash.

We’re big on breakfast burritos here, but just as likely to make with leftover steak, chicken, pork and sometimes fish. Mmm. Pan grilled tilapia with queso fresco, salsa verde (Mrs. Renfro’s), chopped scallions and lettuce.

By: MarieRoget

MarieRoget — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:55:28 +0000

Thanx. Interesting combo. Casa Roget burritos are usually more like LooHoo’s description @ 102- whatever’s in the fridge, but minus the Tabasco & add red chile flake & chipotle sauce.