From our Food Goddess, TaMara:
I have lost my cooking mojo. I have a stash this <————> big of recipes I want to try and share with you, but every time I look at my kitchen I go,“meh”. So next week I’m going to begin blogging in a bit of a different way and hope it brings back enough creativity to overcome my kitchen ennui. I hope you’ll check in and see how it’s going. There will probably be plenty of notes on Bixby antics. He’s become quite the clown. Spoiler alert, he has a girlfriend.
Until I can rediscover my kitchen magic, here are some recipes from 2012 that take advantage of garden bounty:
I am not a fan of canning. When I am overrun by tomatoes, I lean more towards freezing bags of pureed cooked tomatoes to use in sauces and soups later on. I also love to make a batch of salsa each week when the produce is fresh. Since I was faced with an abundance of tomatoes this week, I felt it was time for some salsa.
I have a Vita-Mix, which means if I’m not paying attention, salsa quickly goes from chunky salsa to picante sauce in the blink of an eye. Tonight my first batch went to full juice before I realized what I was doing. I’ll pulse my next batch and pay closer attention. Not sure what I’m going to do with the juice – but it sure tastes good.
Tonight’s recipes are all about tomatoes and what to do with the bounty from the garden or farm stand. I bet everyone has a favorite salsa recipe, I like mine fresh and simple. JeffreyW has a good salsa recipe and a nice Salsa Verde in case you’re tired of tomatoes, recipe here. He also makes and cans batches of his Awesome Sauce™, recipe here.
I love tomato season – sliced on a plate, grilled with olive oil, pasta caprese salad (recipe here), or just going out to the garden and eating the grape tomatoes right off the vine.
Are tomatoes a summer favorite? What’s your favorite way to prepare them? Anyone (besides JeffreyW) canning? And I know you have some salsa recipes to share…
Featured tonight, salsa recipes:
TaMara Fresh Salsa
4 tomatoes, quartered
6 green onions
2 tsp crushed garlic
½ to 1 bunch cilantro, remove stems
2 to 4 jalapenos*, remove stems
2 tbsp red wine vinegar
dash of limejuice if desired
blender or food processorIn blender or food processor, add all ingredients and coarsely chop until blended well**. If you can make a day ahead, it gets even better. Seal in an airtight container and refrigerate for up to a week.
**If you prefer a chunkier style salsa, you’d be better off chopping vegetables by hand.
JeffreyW’s Salsa:
(Oh, you wanted his recipe…)
Couple of the jalapenos, a smallish onion or two, those green peppers, and most of the tomatoes. Added a couple of dried ancho peppers all snipped small, a dash of chili powder, a few garlic cloves, a good squirt of lime juice, a bit of salt and fresh ground black pepper
(I think this is why I write the recipes and he takes the photos – both of us working to our strengths)
That’s if for this week. Have a great weekend – TaMara
Little Boots
lord this place and recipes.
Omnes Omnibus
Slice. Salt and pepper. Eat.
Little Boots
@Omnes Omnibus:
see? simple, basic.
Little Boots
quiet, quiet place.
Yatsuno
Pasta di pomodoro!
Little Boots
@Yatsuno:
exactly.
Little Boots
sorry to kill your thread, annie.
it looked like good salsa.
schrodinger's cat
I put tomatoes in everything. Sauteed onions, garlic and tomatoes is a good base for almost anything you can think of, chicken, fish, veggies, you name it.
schrodinger's cat
I make a roasted tomato salsa. Roast one pound tomatoes, one red onion and a few cloves of garlic in a Pyrex dish in the oven for about 30 to 40 min. Then blend everything together, add salt to taste and juice of one lime. Garnish with chopped cilantro before serving.
Little Boots
actually, it’s a pretty GOOD recipe place.
Tommy
@Omnes Omnibus: We should get along better.
That is how I was raised and how it is done in my household. Just got my first tomato from my garden and it didn’t touch a counter before it was washed, sliced, salt, pepper, into my mouth.
Little Boots
@Tommy:
why do people encourage that man?
Tommy
@schrodinger’s cat: I don’t know if it is a midwest thing. But like with corn, tomatoes are a staple of almost everything I eat during the summer. I am not sure I will have a meal in the next couple months where I don’t have tomatoes.
Little Boots
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debit
My cherry tomatoes are finally starting to ripen (Sweet 100 and Sungold). Most of the time they don’t even make it from the back yard to the house before they are in my belly. Once some of the larger tomatoes are ready it will be non stop gazpacho until they are gone.
Tommy
Oh happy story about food. The 15th of next month I get to go to “Corn Day.” Held in the town my parents live in across the state. You pay $5 and get a piece of fried chicken, ice tea, and as much corn as you can eat. People walk around with buckets of corn. You eat corn until you can’t stand. I kind of wish I could take a few of you there. One of those things you almost have to experience to believe.
rikyrah
that salsa looks good.
Little Boots
@rikyrah:
it really does.
Scamp Dog
@schrodinger’s cat: Do you cut up the tomato and onions before roasting or after?
Anne Laurie
We had a long spate of way-warmer-than-usual weather this spring, and my favorite local garden center had tomato plants in mid-April. (Traditional last-frost deadline is Memorial Day, although in the last five years I’ve done fine assuming mid-May.) Because it had been such a long winter (and tomato season is tragically short around here), I couldn’t resist buying just one cherry tomato — a new Burpee hybrid, Power Pop.
The plant survived a number of near-freezing overnights in the ensuing months, and started setting flowers in early May… but none of the fruits ripened until last week. Just as we were getting the first ripe cherry tomatoes from the (expensive) California mail-order heirlooms.
And I have to be honest, the Power Pops may be more nutritious than the ‘average’ tomato, but they’re not one-tenth as flavorful as the Blondkopfchen!
jl
I was at a party thing the other night, and it was dark where the food was, and I thought I saw a bowl of diced tomato feta cheese and basil salad. So, me being very polite and having lots of self control, and it looking like no one else had any interest in it, I got a pile of it on my plate and started wolfing down.
But, it was watermelon, feta cheese and mint salad, with a few tiny specks of very finely diced green pepper.
It was good.
I’ve always been suspicious of people doing things with watermelon. I think it should just be chilled sliced up and eaten.
But this salad was good and I am gong to try to make it.
Tommy
@jl:
Yes. That is my thinking exactly. I am pushing 50 and not sure I’ve ever had watermelon any other way.
Anne Laurie
@jl: I felt the same way, first time I tried a watermelon-basil-feta salad!
You’re right, it’s delicious… and there’s the advantage (at least for me) that you can eat it & not have to change your shirt afterwards. :}
NotMax
Shall pass on cilantro in anything, thanks. Vile stuff.
As it is a food thread, repeating.
FYI, go easy on wolfing down the kale.
jl
@Tommy: All I can say is, if you have a wedge of watermelon lying around, chop it up into little tomatoe salsa sized cubes, throw in some crumbled feta and some mint leaves, and if you feel really adventurous, shave some little itsy bitsy shaves of hot geen pepper and see how you like it.
I was very surprised.
The whole idea violates my watermelon ethic, but I guess I am weak.
jl
@Anne Laurie: I’ll always get something on my shirt no matter what it is, so I don’t have to worry about that.
Tommy
@jl: I will have all those things in my house in the next few weeks and will give it a try.
wasabi gasp
My mom is getting wacky with the salads. She offered some to take home yesterday. I couldn’t resist after seeing all the olives and stuff in it. Love them olives. Got home and fixed a couple of bowls. My girlfriend noticed the olives, too, “yum, look at all the olives.” They were fucking blueberries. Crazy old woman.
Tommy
@wasabi gasp: Oh olives. I live in a pretty rural area. I don’t have Whole Food or Fresh Fields, what I was used to when I lived in DC. My food options are limited. I got this pretty good grocery store about 60 miles round trip from me. Every time I go into the place they have a salad bar. At least 6 kinds of olives. I often load up just on olives.
Mike in NC
@NotMax: Cilantro triggers my allergies. Hate it.
Tommy
@Mike in NC: I am not a huge fan of Cilantro. I can take it or leave it. Well I tend to take it in small amounts. But not sure there is a single thing most people dislike more than Cilantro that are foodies and like to cook.
wasabi gasp
@Tommy: Love the olives, Tommy. All kinds. Not up for any olive trickery and shenanigans. But you know, for someone who isn’t a blueberry fan, Mom’s wacky salad wasn’t all that bad. Actually, pretty good. The blueberries worked! Now them walnuts…I could have done without those.
Keith P.
I picked up some fresh San Marzanos today and have some nice canned tomatoes (Sclafani) and am going to make my spaghetti sauce tomorrow AM. Pancetta, fresh meatballs, hot Italian sausage, red wine, fresh herbs, lots of garlic and caramelized onions.
Omnes Omnibus
@Keith P.: What time do you want me to stop by? I’ll bring wine.
Tommy
@wasabi gasp: Oh walnuts. I think my mom made that salad once. Look I don’t mind nuts. You put a bag of walnuts in front of me I will eat them all. Love me some nuts of all kinds. I just don’t like them on my salad.
Roger Moore
My personal favorite thing to do with tomatoes is gazpacho. That and pizza sauce, though for that I’ve given up on using fresh tomatoes and switched to canned San Marzanos.
Omnes Omnibus
@Tommy: My mom makes a spinach, strawberry, and walnut salad with a poppyseed dressing that is out of this world.
Omnes Omnibus
@Roger Moore: This is also quite good.
Tommy
@Omnes Omnibus: I am trying to stir those flavors around in my head. I can’t. But I bet pretty tasty because it is my experience when you combine “strange” stuff often you often get a good result.
Tommy
@Roger Moore: I should know this but I don’t. How do you do pizza sauce? My garden is about to explode in tomatoes. Not a huge pizza guy, but something I’d like to do once or twice. If for no other reason I can take the tomatoes, squash, and bell peppers from my garden for a dinner!
wasabi gasp
@Omnes Omnibus: Mom did a salad with strawberries a couple of weeks ago. I should’ve seen them blueberries coming.
Tommy
@wasabi gasp: Blackberries. Strawberries. Blueberries. Huge fan. I just don’t need them in a salad.
Omnes Omnibus
@Tommy: You don’t know that.
Tommy
@Omnes Omnibus: I am willing to bet your mom could turn me. I don’t mind being proven wrong from a food POV.
Omnes Omnibus
@Tommy: Phrasing!
Tommy
@Omnes Omnibus: This is why you and I don’t often get along. I said something nice about you. Tried hard to be polite. Honest in what I said. But you throw it right back at me.
Omnes Omnibus
@Tommy: I am going to be polite and explain. I used a joke from the TV series Archer. I was not attacking or insulting you.
Tommy
@Omnes Omnibus: Well it went right over my head. Archer, not watched it since the first two years :). Not that hip!
Mnemosyne (tablet)
@jl:
Watermelon and feta salad is very “in” right now. We had a fancy picnic at work today and that was one of the things they served.
Mnemosyne (tablet)
@Tommy:
“Phrasing!” means you just said something that someone could interpret as a dirty joke or a sexual comment. Re-read your first sentence.
wasabi gasp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKaQzQAlNn4
Tommy
@Mnemosyne (tablet): I got that and if I could have reworked that sentence I would. What pisses me off is I didn’t mean it in that way. Nothing close.
Omnes Omnibus
@Mnemosyne (tablet): Thank you.
@Tommy: Dude, no one said you did. I am and have been making an effort this evening. How do you want to respond?
Omnes Omnibus
@wasabi gasp: Holy fuck. Unexpected from you.
Tommy
@Omnes Omnibus: I kind of like you, we can butt heads and debate stuff. I like that. Honestly if everybody agrees with me that is boring!
wasabi gasp
Uh-oh, here it comes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56npRdAWQdw
wasabi gasp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ny5HWOD8lXY
Mnemosyne (tablet)
@Tommy:
That’s the point — you dont mean it “that way,” but … phrasing.
LesGS
In the summer I often get “too many tomatoes” from my CSA. Then I chop up a couple pounds of them, and then with onions, garlic, and any greens (chopped up) I got with them, I simmer a sauce (usually with some cumin) in my big sauce pan.
Once that is pretty much done, I mix in some feta cheese. Then I make six dimples in the sauce, one in the center and five around, and poach eggs in the dimples. Put a lid on to steam the eggs firmer if you want, or don’t if you like them runny. Sop with pita or naan, if you want. Good for any meal, breakfast, lunch, or dinner.
You could used any veggies with this, really. I have used tomatoes, spinach, kale, zucchini and summer squash in the mix. I would use red or green peppers too, but my sweetie doesn’t like those.
Tommy
@Mnemosyne (tablet): I am not smart enough to write that sentence and not mean what I wrote, but some underlining meaning. That his mom could turn me on to salad with fruit or nuts. What I find funny is you are reading into what I said. Then projecting it to me. That is interesting.
Mike J
@wasabi gasp: Is the food thread turning into a music thread?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvkyysA8MpY
Omnes Omnibus
@Tommy: Dude, I have offered a number of olive branches this evening. Accept them or don’t.
Stella B
I haven’t canned any to tomatoes this year. My own tomato harvest has been a bust and the drought has kept the prices high at the farmer’s market. If they come down a bit more, though, I’ll pull out the canner. I like my home canned tomatoes.
Mnemosyne (tablet)
@Tommy:
And that’s where the comedy is.
wasabi gasp
@Omnes Omnibus: Seemed appropriately naughty.
@Mike J: Naughty, too.
Suzanne
@Mnemosyne (tablet): Is it comedy or dumbassery?
wasabi gasp
Cold. Frigid, even.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeU_1T1zReU
Major Major Major Major
What’s a good last name for a building maintenance type? This is your chance to make history/name a tertiary character in my story.
Omnes Omnibus
@Suzanne: One tries.
Mnemosyne (tablet)
@Suzanne:
The comedy is that the person is a dumbass who doesn’t realize their phrasing can be interpreted multiple ways.
Suzanne
@Mnemosyne (tablet): It feels wrong to laugh at the afflicted.
But I do it anyway.
Suzanne
@Major Major Major Major: I work with lots of facilities guys. I know an inordinate number of Gregs and Rogers, though there’s also lots of Phils, Terrys, Steves, and Eds. Younger dudes are Darrens and Kevins.
? Martin
@Major Major Major Major: Vargas, Garcia, Lopez, Reyes, Torres.
Pretty much all of the building maintenance people around here are either Latino or Filipino.
wasabi gasp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAJKdVOpGjI
? Martin
Supposedly it is going to rain in California tomorrow. That would be a wondrous thing.
Major Major Major Major
@Suzanne: Haha his subordinate is already named Steve.
@? Martin: I like Reyes, thanks!
Anne Laurie
@Major Major Major Major: The formulation I grew up with for That Guy was “Let George do it.“ George has a history.
When George is on sick leave, Bob (via, I’m guessing, Bob Newhart by way of Bob & Ray) has been known to fill in for him.
Suzanne
This was an awesome Bobo takedown. What a tool.
I am not convinced that Bobo and Tommy are not related.
Steeplejack
Synchronicity on the tomatoes. I went to the liquor store today to pick up my quarterly hogshead of rum and on a whim also bought a fifth of Ketel One vodka. Been jonesin’ for a Bloody Mary, which I have been enjoying this evening while background-watching Perry Mason. Tomato juice.
That is all.
Major Major Major Major
New chapter on my Big Fish Story is up!
J R in WV
@Mike in NC:
I think the cilantro thing is a genetic switch. To some people it tastes soapy, and to others it tastes like spicy mint strangeness umm good. It took me a couple of tries to understand what I was tasting, but now I like it in the right combinations.
But I totally understand allergies – cucumbers make my stomach upset if they aren’t peeled totally, and no seeds. If they’re seedless and I peel them, makes a great salad with onions and vinegar. So I love them done right, but have to be really careful.
Steeplejack
@Tommy:
“Phrasing!” explicated.
Long version.
You walked right into it with “I am willing to bet your mom could turn me on.”
In case the above doesn’t make it clear, it was a joke.
J R in WV
@Major Major Major Major:
Still cooking right along.
I had a hard time finding the whole thing when I first visited the website. It seemed that where I entered was kind of chaotic. But the fiction, that is good. Keep it up, or I will be very disappointed!
That’s how my Mom responded whenever I got a good grade, and I thought it would be funny in this context. ;-{ )
SWMBO
@Tommy: This place serves AMAZING corn on the cob. They soak it in huge garbage cans then grill it over hot coals. Then they have aluminum pans with butter and paint brushes slop it on. We ate between 12-15 ears of corn when we went. Best corn I ever ate.
http://strickersgrove.com/Default.aspx
NotMax
@Tommy
What Steeplejack said.
It’s meant in a humorous (blue) vein, not as a jab or put down.
And Archer rocks.
Steeplejack
@SWMBO:
Phrasing!
Steeplejack
@NotMax:
Man, your link-fu sucks.
But thanks for the validation.
NotMax
@Major Major Major Major
The name Bruno Muller keeps rattling around the inside of the skull for some reason after reading your question..
NotMax
@Steeplejack
Mea culpa. :)
Arthritis in the fingers is no picnic when it acts up.
Steeplejack
@NotMax:
Hey, typos happen.
Steeplejack
Caesars, “Kick You Out.”
BillinGlendaleCA
The new monitor arrived and I’ve got it all hooked up to both computers and the sat box. The problem now is Win8, either the text is really small(but surprisingly readable) on the new monitor or is absurdly yoooog( and classy) on the HD touchscreen. Maybe Win10 will help. While I have Win10 installed, I don’t have it on this machine(it’s on a VM on this machine, but that’s different).
Major Major Major Major
@J R in WV: just click on the tag or category for “the fish”
And thanks for the really nice comments by the way! It’s what keeps me ticking.
SWMBO
@Steeplejack: lol
If we’re not careful, this is how we get ants!
Steeplejack
@SWMBO:
Yup.
Tommy
@SWMBO: I wish I could almost take many of you on a Ballon Juice field trip to Corn Day. It is something that has to be seen to experience. We grow a lot of corn where I live and this is just a day we bow your heads and worship it by eating as much as we can get our hands on.
opiejeanne
@jl: When we visited Paris we ate at a little restaurant called au Bougnat, around the corner from Notre Dame. We were served a little appetizer of watermelon, diced tomatoes, coarse salt, and some herb like thyme or dill. Can’t remember. It was very good, and a total surprise because in the dim light we weren’t sure what was in the little dishes.
SWMBO
@Tommy: This place is in the middle of corn. Corn as far as you can see. They pick it into sacks, drag it over to the pavilion and start the process of soaking and grilling corn in the husk. Amazing. Where are you going for Corn Day?
Tommy
Watching Running Wild With Bear Grylls. Kate Hudson. I’d pay for him to do that stuff to me. Drop me off the side of mountain. Lets eat ants. How is that not fun?
opiejeanne
@? Martin: Rain? What is rain?
We visited Rainier National Park today, drove past so many nearly dry rivers it is enough to make one weep. Several of the lakes along the drive are reduced to pools of green slime.
I hope it does rain for you. I’d like it to rain in the PNW soon, too.
Tommy
@SWMBO: Right across the state in the town my family has lived in since we came here in 1876 from Scotland. I’d tell you the town but I will “out” myself and where I live, not my parents.
BillinGlendaleCA
@opiejeanne: We may get some the remnants of Delores, currently a TS off of Baja. I’m still planning on hiking later in the morning.
opiejeanne
@Tommy: I don’t think we know your last name, so how will that “out” your parents?
opiejeanne
@BillinGlendaleCA: I really hope you get some rain. We still own a little cabin near Blue Jay and it’s so dry there right now it’s scary. We were down there for a week for a quick visit in the end of June, and the smoke from the fire near Jenks Lake started getting so bad in our area that we headed back north a day early. My allergies went nuts from the smoke. I think that one is called the Lake Fire.
I’m just waiting for another burn like the one in 2003, The Old Fire. That was truly terrible, but that fire today that didn’t jump the freeway, just burned across it, that’s something really terrifying.
Tommy
@opiejeanne: Gosh I feel so bad. I can’t stop my phone from chirping and telling me there are thunderstorm warnings. Not sure if in the last three months we have not had rain every three days or so. At times we have had rain every day for a week plus.
Watching the news and reading what folks here say I so wish I could send some rain your way. Just strange I wonder if my sump pump is working or if my house will flood and others don’t have water.
Amir Khalid
This sounds almost too good to be true: Researchers at Oregon State University have apparently found a miracle species of seaweed. They say it’s twice as nutritious as kale, and tastes just like bacon when you fry it up.
Tommy
@Amir Khalid: I thought you were making shit up until I actually clicked through and read the article. Wow.
SiubhanDuinne
@Steeplejack (also Omnes, Mnem and Suzanne):
Notice, please, that Tommy did not write “I am willing to bet your mom could turn me on.” He wrote “I am willing to bet your mom could turn me.”
Tommy
@SiubhanDuinne: Who knew talking about berries in salads could get me in so much trouble :).
Amir Khalid
@Tommy:
Make shit up? Moi? How dare you, sir!
Tommy
@Amir Khalid: Just seemed to be too good to be true. Kale that tastes like bacon. Seems almost not to be right.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Amir Khalid: So Beavers discovered this?
BillinGlendaleCA
@opiejeanne: Being that I’ve spent 52 of my 55 years here in Southern CA(the other 3 were in Seattle); I thought I’d seen everything relating to wildfires. Water drops on an interstate, never saw that before.
SiubhanDuinne
@Tommy: LOL, a person has to weigh every word around these parts :-)
opiejeanne
@Tommy: Sometimes it rains, sometimes it doesn’t. Not the first drought but a pretty bad one.
The rain the midwest and other points East have been getting this year is probably a lot of the rain we would have normally gotten instead. There has been a high pressure ridge that diverted a lot of our spring storms. We are starting to look at that el nino sitting out there in the Pacific and crossing our fingers. It’s the largest one on record but it started too late to make it rain. We hope it sends us some rain this coming fall and winter.
Meanwhile, a month ago the water company told us not to start conserving water because they’d have to raise the rates and we in western Washington have enough water for now because we have so many reservoirs. This week they announced the whole state is in a state of extreme drought. It’s bad. Old trees in Seattle are dying because they haven’t had enough rain in the past couple of years, and no one has thought to water them. People don’t water their lawns here in the summer, just let them dry up and turn yellow, so the trees don’t get any water either. I’ve started watering the birches across the front of my property because of the lack of rain, but I’m afraid that I could be too late already. I would hate to lose them.
Amir Khalid
@Tommy:
No, no. It’s a seaweed that’s more nutritious than kale, and tastes like bacon.
Major Major Major Major
@Amir Khalid: I’m sure it will be on my local menus soon so I’ll let you all know.
Anne Laurie
@Amir Khalid: I’m willing to let the nice researchers beaver away. I’ve tried dulse a few times, mostly the snack-food kind (at Irish heritage events, when a coworker returned from his Newfoundland home town with souvenirs) and it’s been… well, I liked it better than kale. But then, I think of kale as what Terry Pratchett had in mind when he wrote about dwarf bread.
opiejeanne
@BillinGlendaleCA: No, those water-drops on the cars were a first for me. When we still lived in Anaheim there was a bad fire that started in the Anaheim Hills and moved west across the 91 freeway and into Yorba Linda and on into Diamond Bar. I think that was 2008 or 2009. It jumped two freeways without burning the cars, although the people trapped in a traffic jam on the 91 got out of their cars and got out of the way because the smoke was so thick they couldn’t breathe. We were up on 18, Rim of the World area, and watched it spread. When we tried to head home on Sunday we couldn’t get home on the 57, had to take the 605 to get around the fires. We were on the 10 trying to find a way home; it was dark, traffic was creeping, and the crests of all of the hills were bright with a nearly continuous line of fires for miles. It was something to see.
Steeplejack
@SiubhanDuinne:
Just tried to explain the joke and quoted from memory. Mea culpa.
BillinGlendaleCA
@opiejeanne: I grew up in 1000 Oaks, several times we were surrounded by fires, the 101 was closed off on both sides of the valley.
opiejeanne
@Anne Laurie: I never heard him mention kale but I wish someone had gotten him started on the subject because I’m sure it would have been hilarious.
I have eaten kale prepared in a way that I liked, in a salad, but the description of what was done to it makes me think I’d rather eat many other healthy things instead. Mostly I try to avoid it.
Major Major Major Major
@opiejeanne: the parts where you have to beat it over the head with a hammer and oh I’m sorry “massage” it? I’ll stick to arugula or whatever.
That’s right. Arugula is now the non-douchey green.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Major Major Major Major:
Thanks Obama.
opiejeanne
@Major Major Major Major: LOL! Maybe I’ll try growing that next. We grew kale last year and it was a huge nothing. I mean, it grew well for us and no pests wanted to eat it, but neither did we, really.
Major Major Major Major
@opiejeanne: I loathe roughage. Metamucil, centrum, and a good lager is basically the same thing as kale and you can just chug two thirds of it.
The only real super foods are raspberries and rum. The Galaxy tastes like one and smells like the other, I forget which, look up ethyl formate. And doesn’t that sound like a tasty beverage? We’re made of stars after all.
Another Holocene Human
Need a trashy place to grab some news that won’t crash my laptop browser or overload my mobile browser that isn’t Gawker. Suggestions?
I have been known to load and reload gay blogs all day long but it’s a pretty narrow topic of interest and gets emotionally exhausting. Sometimes I just want to point and laugh at stupid people pratfalling in a way that doesn’t threaten my personal well-being.
NotMax
Speaking of Archer, the message for Comic Con.
Major Major Major Major
@Another Holocene Human: the El Rey network on TV is basically constant badass pratfalls, if you get that.
You could try memeorandum and click on the lesser links if you want to read idiots and/or balloon juice.
Or pick a city in Florida at random and read their local newspaper.
Another Holocene Human
@Major Major Major Major: Actually used to do that last one but it gets old after a while. It’s a wheel of karma that turns turns turns with no escape.
eta: thanks for the tip on Memeorandum. Already read a piece where Nick Denton tries in a disingenuous way to defend himself (“the line has moved”–bullshit, asshole). Will have to try this some more….
Joel
@Tommy: completely wrong — tons of great cooks love cilantro. There’s a possible reason for the antipathy, though: http://mobile.nytimes.com/2010/04/14/dining/14curious.html?referrer=
Omnes Omnibus
@SiubhanDuinne: Yes, I know.
schrodinger's cat
@Scamp Dog: I cut up the tomatoes in half and also the onion, before I put them in the oven.