Week in Review
Tucson, AZ
Most important item of the week: I need a good meatball recipe. Not one with rice in it. Not one where the meatballs taste like minature golf ball-shaped hamburgers. I have a sense that they should involve pork and be somewhat spicy. Perhaps some fennel in there. I don't know. I prefer but do not require that said meatballs have the capability of sprouting into a meatball tree which grows lovely meatballs and tomato sauce in the unfortunate event that they should roll off of my table, out of the door, into the garden and under a bush. This is for religious purposes so please give this some serious and respectful consideration and share what you may know. Thank you.
Apparently the female guards at the Elmore Correctional Facility in Alabama have a women's pany fetish. These dirty little girls wouldn't let Loretta Nall and her mother in to visit a relative because they didn't have on g-strings or crotchless panties or those edible getups. Loretta, if you change your mind about not wearing panties to get into the facility, let me know and I'll send you some panties from my store you can have fun reporting back on. I can just see it now- "I wasn't allowed in panty-free, but apparently my glow-in-the-dark g-string, tiger print bikini with loincloth, and red crotchless panties were all well within the rules."
Wendy Seltzer, techie lawyer, mulls over the ramifications of architectural design in the service of social policy. In effect, she says, architecture may be used not only to regulate activity, but further to hide that fact from the general public.
Don Lloyd of Catallarchy has an insightful analogy that puts gasoline "price gouging" in perspective. I'm going to use that one on the next person I hear complaining about "price gouging".
lewlew talks taxes with her daughter who has a unique and insightful view of what government really is.
Everyone has already posted about the FEMA internment camp. Relative to that revelation, Matthew Wheeland comments on the culture of fear- fear on the part of government of its citizens, that is. Writes Matthew, "The are heavy doses paranoia and fear swirling throughout the government's responses to this disaster. But are these signs of a top-down consolidation of power, or are the masses staging a second American Revolution? Or will we all go back to normalcy when the new TV season starts?"
Everyone is also posting about 9/11. Not only are people posting, it's all over the television and radio and pretty much everywhere. I find most annoying those messages which convey a thought along the lines of remember/don't forget 9/11. WTF? Of course nobody has forgotten 9/11 except perhaps very young children and those suffering from Alzheimer's or amnesia. And nobody's going to either for a good, long time. So shut up with that already, okay? How about at least something potentially useful like "Learn from 9/11"? Nonetheless, I found Tom Knapp's 12 September 2001 comments and Sunni Maravillosa's New York/New Orleans comparison both worth reading and reflecting on. And now I'm going to go back to avoiding the cartoon patriotism that is swirling around about 9/11, the wars, and the hurricane.
In other depressing news, Claire Wolfe says it's time- or rather it was sometime after Real ID became law and before the door-to-door firearms confiscations in New Orleans. We just have to figure out what it's time for- not necessarily shooting the bastards, I would guess, given her emphasis on being effective.
Recipe of the Week: Maple-Baked Apple Chicken
My junk mail alter-ego Priscilla Horkenschtirker subscribes to a free magazine from Kraft called Food and Family. This is very handy for me since I need snack ideas because I make snacks every Wednesday for a local youth organization's homework/reading hour. But there's other stuff in there, too, and last night I made the recipe from that magazine by this name. I'm putting it down here with my modifications.
Ingredients
2 boneless skinless chicken breast halves
1/4 of a medium red onion, sliced
1/2 a sweet apple such as Gala or Fuji, sliced (I left the skin on)
some maple syrup
some Kraft Zesty Italian Dressing (well shaken)
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
2. Spray medium ovenproof skillet with cooking spray. Heat on medium-high heat. Add chicken and cook approximatley 3 minutes on each side or until lightly browned on both sides. Remove from heat.
3. Place onion and apple slices on top of and around sides of the chicken.
4. Mix syrup and dressing to taste (I think I wound up with about a quarter cup of each so start with less than that) and pour over chicken, onions, and apples.
5. Bake 20-25 minutes or until chicken is cooked through. Spoon liquid over chicken when serving.
Yesterday when I was posting this, I meant to add in some wisdom for the week but I forgot what it was. Just remembered it today.
Wisdom of the Week:
She who lies down to nap around toddlers wakes up as the foundation of a castle.
Most important item of the week: I need a good meatball recipe. Not one with rice in it. Not one where the meatballs taste like minature golf ball-shaped hamburgers. I have a sense that they should involve pork and be somewhat spicy. Perhaps some fennel in there. I don't know. I prefer but do not require that said meatballs have the capability of sprouting into a meatball tree which grows lovely meatballs and tomato sauce in the unfortunate event that they should roll off of my table, out of the door, into the garden and under a bush. This is for religious purposes so please give this some serious and respectful consideration and share what you may know. Thank you.
Apparently the female guards at the Elmore Correctional Facility in Alabama have a women's pany fetish. These dirty little girls wouldn't let Loretta Nall and her mother in to visit a relative because they didn't have on g-strings or crotchless panties or those edible getups. Loretta, if you change your mind about not wearing panties to get into the facility, let me know and I'll send you some panties from my store you can have fun reporting back on. I can just see it now- "I wasn't allowed in panty-free, but apparently my glow-in-the-dark g-string, tiger print bikini with loincloth, and red crotchless panties were all well within the rules."
Wendy Seltzer, techie lawyer, mulls over the ramifications of architectural design in the service of social policy. In effect, she says, architecture may be used not only to regulate activity, but further to hide that fact from the general public.
Don Lloyd of Catallarchy has an insightful analogy that puts gasoline "price gouging" in perspective. I'm going to use that one on the next person I hear complaining about "price gouging".
lewlew talks taxes with her daughter who has a unique and insightful view of what government really is.
Everyone has already posted about the FEMA internment camp. Relative to that revelation, Matthew Wheeland comments on the culture of fear- fear on the part of government of its citizens, that is. Writes Matthew, "The are heavy doses paranoia and fear swirling throughout the government's responses to this disaster. But are these signs of a top-down consolidation of power, or are the masses staging a second American Revolution? Or will we all go back to normalcy when the new TV season starts?"
Everyone is also posting about 9/11. Not only are people posting, it's all over the television and radio and pretty much everywhere. I find most annoying those messages which convey a thought along the lines of remember/don't forget 9/11. WTF? Of course nobody has forgotten 9/11 except perhaps very young children and those suffering from Alzheimer's or amnesia. And nobody's going to either for a good, long time. So shut up with that already, okay? How about at least something potentially useful like "Learn from 9/11"? Nonetheless, I found Tom Knapp's 12 September 2001 comments and Sunni Maravillosa's New York/New Orleans comparison both worth reading and reflecting on. And now I'm going to go back to avoiding the cartoon patriotism that is swirling around about 9/11, the wars, and the hurricane.
In other depressing news, Claire Wolfe says it's time- or rather it was sometime after Real ID became law and before the door-to-door firearms confiscations in New Orleans. We just have to figure out what it's time for- not necessarily shooting the bastards, I would guess, given her emphasis on being effective.
Recipe of the Week: Maple-Baked Apple Chicken
My junk mail alter-ego Priscilla Horkenschtirker subscribes to a free magazine from Kraft called Food and Family. This is very handy for me since I need snack ideas because I make snacks every Wednesday for a local youth organization's homework/reading hour. But there's other stuff in there, too, and last night I made the recipe from that magazine by this name. I'm putting it down here with my modifications.
Ingredients
2 boneless skinless chicken breast halves
1/4 of a medium red onion, sliced
1/2 a sweet apple such as Gala or Fuji, sliced (I left the skin on)
some maple syrup
some Kraft Zesty Italian Dressing (well shaken)
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
2. Spray medium ovenproof skillet with cooking spray. Heat on medium-high heat. Add chicken and cook approximatley 3 minutes on each side or until lightly browned on both sides. Remove from heat.
3. Place onion and apple slices on top of and around sides of the chicken.
4. Mix syrup and dressing to taste (I think I wound up with about a quarter cup of each so start with less than that) and pour over chicken, onions, and apples.
5. Bake 20-25 minutes or until chicken is cooked through. Spoon liquid over chicken when serving.
Yesterday when I was posting this, I meant to add in some wisdom for the week but I forgot what it was. Just remembered it today.
Wisdom of the Week:
She who lies down to nap around toddlers wakes up as the foundation of a castle.
posted by Kirsten | 9/11/2005 11:21:00 AM
5 Comments:
I can provide recipes for either Swedish meatballs (beef, cooked in a thick stock, not spiced) or Thai (VERY chilli's, lemongrass and basil.)
There must be more types of meatballs than I realized. I'm looking for something that goes well with spaghetti (the Italian kind, in case there are other spaghettis) and marinara sauce.
Here's how I do Italian meatballs. I include instructions for a basic sauce, too, but the meatballs will work in any Italian sauce. Hope it helps.
We got the same Kraft thingie in the mail this week. Bought the stuff at the store today. Hope to make it early next week. I'll let ya know how it turns out..
Freedom42
One hint- if you're thinking that a tart apple like a Granny Smith might be nice to balance out the sweetness of the maple syrup, you might reconsider that. When I tried that, they just turned out too tart to go with the rest of the dish. Also, I'd blow off what I think was Kraft's recommendation to use Red Delicious apples- I find they don't have very good flavor.
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