Now I didn’t make yummy apple butter last night but I did make some yummy herb butter which made me think of dill which made me remember that I am tasked with getting the salmon for my father-in-law’s gravalox for Saturnalia, currently referred to as Christmas, although I believe we are now meant to refer to CE, the Common Error, rather than AD, Anno Domini which is sort of exclusionary as Wikipedia attempts to explain.
Terminology that is viewed by some as being more neutral and inclusive of non-Christian people is to call this the Christian, Current, or Common Era (abbreviated as CE or C.E.), with the preceding years referred to as Before the Common, Christian, or Current Era (BCE or B.C.E.)
And of course Jesus was born in the springtime so the whole thing is a confused mess. But we still celebrate his putative birth by putting a tree in the living room
which we have yet to trim like Who’s, and I am all for traditions that involve family, friends, fabulous food and balsam fir smelling up the joint, no matter what you call them. But I know what you will call Bobbi’s gravalox: the one food you would pick if you could only eat one food for the rest of your life. Here is the recipe, as presented to the generation below me:
The sauce alone is ambrosia … now to go and harpoon that salmon!
Have a tasty Thursday …
I know we have a Dillards fan in da house, and at least one John Hartford fan, so here we go.
“Bile ‘Em Cabbage Down” is the first tune (and I don’t mean “one of the first”, I mean “the” first) tune that most new fiddle and banjo players learn, straight out of the box. Like most things in life, you can make it as easy or as hard as you like. These guys do a little of both.
The lyrics are something like:
Bile ’em cabbage down boys
Turn them hoecakes round
The only song that I can play
Is Bile ’em cabbage down.
Just play it until your fingers go numb, and throw a little twist into it on each time through. After all, it’s the only tune you know!
Everyone else, get your dancing shoes on…
Obama is now throwing Dubya under the bus on both torture and the Iraq War. It’s a bit unusual, but I say “What the fuck took you so long?”
Family stuff. Gack.
EO, I really believe that it is all theatre, and none of these political criminals care anything about any of us (except to get re-elected). I think that they laugh quite well at our gullibility. Anyway,…hi all.
being selfish w/a Jackson tune that I’ve always been fond of.
Stumbled on this one earlier. Might as well put it here for posterity. Another fiddle standard.
Of course, Lester and Earl already had it nailed.
Woodpecker: ..that cat looks serious, angry and determined. Need sleep but the moon says no. Had a tune for you and now i’ve forgotten it….I’ll scramble.
was looking for some “the the” and apparently they have been scrubbed and washed away. Maybe some random select.
dunno: always enjoyed his guitar…just plucks and picks.
scenes for the Dude,
Looks like the Badgers are “gettin’ the band back together!”
Paul Chryst set to be next Wisconsin Badgers head coach
I’ll take what I can get!
one third of the proof below.
make that 2/3. man am i an awesome cook.
and look at the size of that potato. make that 3/3. i think it might be GMO.
awesome spectacle. that would make about 8 meals for me.
i only ate one of the pork chops, and the prepared baked potato, and i feel like post Thanksgiving dinner. the monster potato will become breakfast potatoes.
i have been making bread so often that it has become easy to the point of being kind of boring. but it costs maybe 50 cents a loaf, and it is way better than store bread. the only problem is the short shelf life, but we usually eat it all in 3 days or less. that is a whole wheat bread, one that i have been tweaking, and now have the recipe perfect.
that cat is my brothers. the breed is called Abyssinian. it was actually relaxed in the picture. they do look different than most pet cats. they resemble the original undomesticated cat in North Africa from which they trace their ancestry.
hope things are going well down by you. thanks for the tunes.
i’ve taken on a whole new appreciation for food.
Sure miss having some dogs and cats here. Budget says, “not in the budget”
and the southern boy’s take on the big apple.
Hey Woodpecker, do you think you would enjoy that as a living ? (cooking ?) under perfect circumstances of course.
😯 I was thinking that this guy could qualify as a symbol for WTFDIK, or maybe he already has and I don’t even know.
is on the case. relax.
i once considered becoming a chef. i finished college instead. the advice i received at the time was always, “you got the brains, go for the money”. shitty advice.
i ended up managing a kitchen at a bar and grill in college. an awesome lunch spot, all homemade, and top quality. i loved that job, despite the stress of a intense lunch rush. few could handle it. even after i was running the joint, i chose to man the grill over lunch. i was the fastest, least crash prone.
i would like to go back into that. problem is that there are no real restaurants where i live. everything is a “chain”. these places require no talent, and they pay crap anyway. it is sad, but fine dining in many areas is reserved only for the wealthy now. the common man has been so dumbed down that Olive Garden is considered haute cuisine. most don’t realize that these type of places have no chef. everything comes in the back door frozen.
my ideal restaurant would have a simple theme. i like the BBQ places down south. limited menu, but awesome food. short order cooking is low pay hell, and most jerks don’t deserve to have something cooked to order for what they are willing to pay, and willing to complain about anyway!
on Sunday, i will be helping a woman make 500 or more tamales for a charity event. the pay will be excellent also. i get to take home my mistakes!
oh, so the short answer to your question is yes. 🙂
yep. I’m terrible with these things. Sometimes I have them in abundance and they just fall out of my pocket, other times I can’t even find them.
and Dude catches all of this in edit, and… http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/GRAMMAR/commas.htm
caught them in concert a while ago, just 5 rows away…fantastic show.
WoodPecker: yep. even fast food crap has gotten more expensive and smaller in portion. I have to eat it sometime (s). My current parenthesis fetish appears.
B’bq is a difficult gig here. Much is processed and shipped up from N.C. , frozen and then nuked (micro waves are bad news…and I’ll cover this in my conspiracy thread), so we’re flooded with lousy food.)
It can be done. and you can do it.
Super favorite niece back from college for a little while and can’t wait to see her.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begonia
around the 9 minute mark, check Jerry w/the guitar.
My four most interesting reads of the morning:
A tale of woe about our declining middle class
In June, the headlines said stocks were down because oil was up. Now in December, the headlines say stocks are down because oil is down. In short, they are just making it up as they go along
Misunderstanding risk factors has led to massive overtreatment of diseases people don’t have and probably never will
In praise of schmaltz
Good morning and have a great weekend, all.