It’s been a while since we had a thread discussing new Netflix streaming discoveries. I’m enjoying Intelligence, which a couple of you recommended in the last thread. My favorite recent discovery is the Norwegian crime comedy/drama A Somewhat Gentle Man. What’s yours?
Saturday Morning Open Thread
Eight Pizzas Later
That was fun. Everyone came over and brought their own ingredients, and I basically cooked pizza for the last three hours. I just made the dough and made a red and white sauce, and we added things to different pizzas and shared and ate as they came out of the oven. My personal favorite was a white pizza I made. I made the white sauce with garlic, fresh basil, olive oil, and ricotta, and just blended it in the food processor. Put a layer of that down, then a bed of spinach, some fresh tomato, artichoke hearts, fresh basil, and buffalo mozz, and cooked it. Very good.
Even made a pizza with anchovies, and people who thought they hated them liked it, so we broadened some horizons, which is cool.
Tomorrow- CARROT CAKE!
Open Thread
So today’s drama was when I woke up this morning, Rosie refused to get out of her crate. I undid her crate, went into the kitchen to turn on the boiling vessel, opened the door for the girls, and noticed there was a Lily, but not a Rosie. Looked everywhere (it never occurred to me she was still in the crate) and finally found her sitting there looking pathetic. I tried to get her out, and she refused to walk and looked like she was in pain. I picked her up and carried her to the front yard, where normally if I let her down she would run like hell, and she just flopped over in the grass. Called the vet, dropped her off on my way out of town, and made arrangements for mom to pick her up later on.
They called me, and apparently she had impacted anal glands. As I said on twitter, anything beyond that, I missed, because I was throwing up in my mouth. So they “expressed” her anal glands, gave her a shot, and now I have pills to give her. I told a neighbor this a bit ago, and she offered to teach me how to do it myself, but I made a command decision that this was something that was worth spending money on. Life is too short for me to spend one minute learning the proper technique for squeezing my dogs ass.
In other news, Steeler football tonight, and I am about to make a home made pizza. You?
Very Good Question
Greg Sargent asks a very good question.
Readership capture
I haven’t done a reader’s blog feature in a while so here goes:
- If I had no loot: The Commander Guy finds a Galtian in the London riots.
- Only the echoes of my mind: Brilliant at Breakfast also gets a Joe Buck vibe from Rick Perry.
- No dark star: Zandar is correct, this headline writes itself.
And a reader video — this time, a short film — from reader A.
What’s going on in your blog or editing room?
Open Thread: Thursday Garden Chat
Fruits of my labors! Left to right: Carmello, Rose de Berne (which is a lovely, delicate pinkish-red), Heirloom Great White, two Black Plums, Kellogg’s Breakfast, some Golden Sweet Plums & one Black Pearl, Persimmon, and Cherokee Purple. (I’ve never seen a Cherokee that didn’t look like a failed sci-fi prop, but they are soooo delicious!)
Two Japanese Black Trifele (which are actually from Russian stock, and yes, they do look like organic trucknutz), another Rose de Berne, the same Great White from a different angle, and my first two Ramapos.
Rose de Berne, Black Princes, Kellogg’s Breakfast, and Cherokee Purples. I’m inordinately proud of that Kellogg’s, at well over a pound it’s the biggest I’ve ever managed to grow… so far.
Around here, we’ve finally reached the precious late-summer season where we have more ripe tomatoes than we can eat raw. When the Spousal Unit finally makes it home with the fresh mozzarella, I’m gonna take a stab at Mark Bittman’s stuffed tomato recipe. Later, I should make a batch of Smitten Kitten’s slow-roasted cherry tomatoes to freeze, if I don’t end up gobbling the delicious end product out of hand first!
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So… what’s it look like in your gardens, this week?
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(As always, if you want to demonstrate what good photography looks like, you can email jpegs to [email protected] or click on my name near the top of the right-hand column.)