Over at Serious Eats they are holding a form of foodie confessional - the topic being The Most Unhealthy Thing You Have Ever Made. Here is my favorite comment:
"I've made a cheeseburger with grilled cheese sandwiches as buns. Hell yes, it was good!"
I recently watched "I'm Not There", the film about Bob Dylan with a number of actors portraying Dylan at various points in his career - Cate Blanchett is phenomenal. To say the film is kaleidoscopic would be an understatement but if you know Bob's music it all fits together. Highly recommended for Dylan fans - all others beware as it will make very little sense.
Below are a couple of musical moments from the film I particularly enjoyed:
I have not bothered to post anything about the latest double standard inflicted on Rush Limbaugh by the news media and the NFL. Rush is a big boy and he knows how to defend himself. But when word leaked out about his participation in group of investors pursuing the purchase of the LA Rams - well, you could just see this coming.
Since the dust from the electronic lynch mob has settled and Rush is no longer an investor in the group I sincerely hope he turns his lawyers loose on every single media source that slandered him. And then finds another group of investors willing to take on the NFL.
I was reading a post about Mick Jagger shopping in a toy store and what an SOB he was to the staff. As I paged through the comments which were filled with similar stories I came upon this one:
scifijazznik October 15, 2009 2:16 PM Reply
I worked at Amoeba Music in Hollywood a few years back and we got all kinds of celebrity shoppers. James Spader and Jim Jarmusch were fairly regular, with Spader wearing one of the best "I'm totally inconspicuous" hats ever. In addition to the hundreds of in-stores, we had a lot of rockstar shoppers like Tom Petty & Dwight Yoakum. But one of the best was Robert Plant. As he shopped, everyone maintained a very respectful distance. When he checked out, the guy at the register said something like "I can't believe I'm selling music to Robert Plant." To which he said "Kind of a mind-fuck, isn't it?"
According to the BBC the American team sponsored by Bob's Red Mill has won the World Porridge Championship in Scotland using this recipe:
Oregon Orchard Oat Brulee
Ingredients:
for oatmeal:
1/2 cup steel cut oats, raw
1/2 cup steel cut oats, toasted
2 cups water
1/8 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup heavy cream
for compote:
1-1/2 cups diced unpeeled pear (2 or 3 pears should do it)
1-2 tablespoons lemon juice
1 tablespoon unsalted butter
3/4 teaspoon toasted crushed coriander seed
1/4 teaspoon cinnamon (for cinnamon sugar)
3/4 teaspoon sugar (for cinnamon sugar)
pinch of salt
3/4 cup dried sweet cherries
1/2 cup Clear Creek Distillery Pear Eau de Vie
3/4 cup granulated sugar for flambe
finely chopped hazelnuts for garnish
Directions:
1. Soak oats in water overnight, covered.
2. Bring water and oats to a boil in a small saucepan. Add salt and cream.
3. Cook 17-18 minutes, stirring. Remove from heat, cover and let set while preparing compote (below).
4. Sprinkle diced pear with lemon juice, set aside.
5. Mix ingredients for cinnamon sugar (the 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon and 3/4 teaspoon sugar) together, set aside.
6. Melt butter over low flame in saute pan. When butter is just beginning to color, add coriander and let it perfume the butter for a few seconds. Add the pears, and give the pan a shake. Sprinkle 3/4 teaspoon of the cinnamon sugar over the pears, sprinkle salt over pears, and toss again to coat evenly.
7. Add cherries and toss to coat. Turn the flame up and pour in the eau de vie. Tilt the pan to catch the gas flame and let the alcohol burn off. (Note: This would be the "not for amateurs" department.)
8. Continue to let the compote simmer until the juices begin to caramelize. Add to the oats and mix in gently. Spoon into three small bowls, mounding the tops.
9. Garnish with granulated sugar. Flambe. (See, again, under "not for amateurs.") Add topping of finely chopped hazelnuts.
Serves 3.
I love the fall. At least we get one last color treat before the monochrome of winter takes over.
The flowers are what M'Lady refers to as "volunteers" - seeds from some of last years plants, the wind or the birds. If they're tough enough to survive and come back in the spring she lets them grow where ever they appear.
For not being George W. Bush. Nominated after only 10 days in office - how can this be perceived as anything other than some sort of ridiculous joke?
Cue the rainbows and unicorns.
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