Recipes.

Submitted by G.D. on Tue, 05/05/2009 - 09:23.

Horse Devours

I decided to make some sausage meat the other day. I had never tried it before, but have been getting ground pork amazingly cheap and am running out of ideas on what to do with it.

So in a bowl I put 1.5 pounds of ground pork. (Half was lean, and half was medium grind. We do not like fatty sausages here.)
1/2 tsp salt
1 teaspoon of ground poultry spice (not the fine fine seasoning. this was some mixture I had found on sale. Thyme, oregano, sage, basil, white peppercorns and garlic.)

I let that party in the fridge all day.

I decided to try my hand at puff pastry. Although the end result was awesome. I will never do it again unless I take up body building or get some sort of press. Seriously. Every ten minutes it has to be removed from the fridge. Rolled. Folded in three. Rolling cold butter into layers and layers between the dough.
On the final roll out to make the sheets, I had to get L'Hommevert on it. I have not enough strength, and my arthritic old hands were giving in. Since I went on the "mortgage diet" I couldn't even apply enough weight...Heh.

So to the sausage mixture I added 3 slices of bread soaked in milk(with the excess squeezed out)and torn into tiny peices.
1/2 an onion finely finely chopped.

Onto the squares of hard earned puff pastry I placed small logs formed from the sausage mixture, and rolled them, placing the seams at the bottom.
Baked at 400 for about 10 mins and then turned the oven down to 325 for a final 20. (Had to put foil over the top for the final 15, they were browing really well.)

I served these with a homemade potato salad. Got a supper and two packed lunches out of it.
And they all really really loved it. Oldest son looked morose when he was informed they were all gone.

I may try this again, but maybe with phyllo. Not so much butter and physical labour (LITERALLY!), and I can do phyllo with my eyes closed. (bought of course)

Total cost:
About 10 dollars.(w/salad)

Cost to buy all this ready made: about 25.

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Hijack alert

Submitted by willy be frantic on Sun, 05/10/2009 - 21:17.

This Bar & Grill post is about a very fine recipe ... I assume. I am not a cook, but I am a heck of an eater. Anything with sausage is fine with me.

On another topic - anyone read the article on HuffPost by Graham E. Fuller ( former CIA station chief in Kabul and a former vice-chair of the CIA's National Intelligence Council ) ?

It says the current course of taking the war into Pakistan is the wrong direction. Quite interesting, not long and worth the read IMO.

I don't know if Fuller is batting for the left or the right, is pushing someone's agenda, is a pawn of the current administration trying to move the Overton window or is just a guy speaking his mind.

How does it read to you ?

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I have no idea.

Submitted by Dr. Prole on Mon, 05/11/2009 - 07:46.

A couple of things I definitely agree with, though.

But U.S. policies have now driven local nationalism, xenophobia and Islamism to combined fever pitch.

We're not helping at this point, as far as I can tell. Women are self-immolating by the hundreds now. They would rather die horrifically than be subject to their lives in the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, and that's after 8 years of U.S. involvement.

If the past eight years had shown ongoing success, perhaps an alternative case for U.S. policies could be made. But the evidence on the ground demonstrates only continued deterioration and darkening of the prognosis. Will we have more of the same? Or will there be a U.S. recognition that the American presence has now become more the problem than the solution? We do not hear that debate.

I couldn't say as to Fuller having some kind of agenda. But someone who I do trust on the issue, Malalai Joya, seems to agree with him.

When the U.S. and its allies replaced the Taliban with the fundamentalists of the Northern Alliance in 2001, every Afghan knew that these terrorist bands were no different than the Taliban. Today, unfortunately, we can all clearly see this. The nature of the fake democracy ‘donated’ to Afghanistan by the U.S. government, which was trumpeted by mainstream Western media as an achievement, stands exposed before the world.

snip

I think the new policy of Obama will put our people and the whole region in a more dangerous situation than before. It shows clearly that the U.S. government is not interested in stability and peace in the region, and only wants a permanent military base in the region to threaten China, Iran, Russia and other Asian powers.

It's one of the issues that I emphatically disagree with the Obama administration on.

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Thanks for the link

Submitted by willy be frantic on Mon, 05/11/2009 - 20:43.

Everyone is getting the shaft over there and there is no end in sight. 'Tis curious how hard it is to impose order, law, democracy, human rights and peace on a people. We did it to the Germans and the Japanese, why are the Afghans such a tough case ? ( BTW - previous sentence is snark )

Also curious how tough it is to impose repression on Afghan women. They too are a tough case, and good on them.

That self-immolation is tragic. A last desperate act from one that has given up hope. I can understand a lose of hope. I hope I never lose it.

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Holy Crap !!!

Submitted by willy be frantic on Mon, 05/11/2009 - 21:30.

I was logged in here but looking at another tab. I came back and reloaded the main site page. Yowza !!! A cool new look, changed the drapes, carpet and put up a new coat of paint. Drums as a theme, new italic font and just general revamping.

Someone couldn't sleep and decided to renovate ??? Spring cleaning got out of hand perhaps ???

Looks good.

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Heh.

Submitted by pale on Mon, 05/11/2009 - 22:04.

I was borded. Decided it was time for a wee facelift. Thanks willy.
Also lemme know if you spot any bugs, so we can get the swatter out please?
:)

It's a fact: 100% of all the people who ate carrots in 1850, are dead.

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Looks great, pardner!

Submitted by Dr. Prole on Tue, 05/12/2009 - 08:00.

Spiffy facelift, just in time for the election! And, the added benefit of totally confusing a drunken G. Campbell if he stops by...

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Issues.

Submitted by pale on Tue, 05/12/2009 - 08:29.

Screen widths and stuff. I turned it off until I can get part of that resolved. So. Back to the old wallpaper for a few hours. LOL.
IE6 has trubbles loading it. I am working on a fix for that ATM.

Also, some people still have older monitors, and so the new site goes all scrolly. need to get that fluid width back into the CSS. Ah well. Nothing works on the first try eh? We are still playing.

It's a fact: 100% of all the people who ate carrots in 1850, are dead.