Ice cream and quality time with my girl:
I feel better now.
by John Cole| 86 Comments
This post is in: Open Threads
Ice cream and quality time with my girl:
I feel better now.
by Adam L Silverman| 48 Comments
This post is in: Food, Open Threads, Recipes
Earlier this week I broke out the emergency tiara, frilly apron, and matching oven mitts to make a salted caramel cheesecake. This was a favor for the Mom who was giving it as a gift. So I did the salted caramel parts while she did the cheesecake parts.
Here’s the recipe.
Cheesecake
3 eight ounce bars of cream cheese
3 eggs
8 ounces of sour cream
1 cup of sugar
1 teaspoon of vanilla
1 cup of graham cracker crumbs
2 tablespoons of butter
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Melt the butter and mix with the graham cracker crumbs to make the crust. Place the butter moistened crumbs into the bottom of a 10 inch diameter springform pan that has been sprayed with cooking spray or buttered. Pat down the crumbs to form the base and then place in the freezer while preparing the cheesecake batter.
Whip the cream cheese and the eggs together until smooth. Alternating between one bar of cream cheese and one egg. Add the sour cream and whip until incorporated. Then add the sugar and the vanilla.
Salted Caramel Ganache
8 ounces of heavy whipping cream
8 ounces of caramels
Place the caramels in a bowl that can be used as the top part of a double boiler. Scald the heavy whipping cream. Pour the scalded cream over the caramels and let sit for five minutes. If the caramels are not completely melted and soft and won’t incorporate with the cream, place the bowl over the top of a pot of boiling water/bottom half of a double boiler, and whisk until the caramels melt and incorporate with the cream into a ganache. Then add kosher salt to taste.
Add the salted caramel ganache to the cheesecake batter and mix until thoroughly incorporated. Remove the springform pan from the freezer and pour the cheesecake batter into it. Place in the oven and back for one hour. Then turn off the oven and let it cool with the door open for one hour. Then remove from the oven and let cool on the counter for one hour. Then refrigerate. Once the cheesecake is cold (at least several hours in the refrigerator), make a 1/2 batch of the salted caramel ganache and pour onto the top of the cold cheesecake. It will begin to set up immediately. Sprinkle with kosher salt or finishing salt and place back in the refrigerator until ready to serve.
Enjoy!
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by Adam L Silverman| 30 Comments
This post is in: Cat Blogging, Nature, Open Threads, Pet Rescue, Not Normal
Pogonip put up a comment yesterday about a cat hoarding tragedy in the Columbus, OH area. Apparently someone in Gahanna, OH had collected, for lack of a better term, 166 cats.
GAHANNA, OH (WCMH) –Wednesday, more than 160 cats were taken out of a Gahanna home.
“We did remove 111 alive cats, 55 deceased unfortunately,” said Kerry Shaw with Columbus Humane, formerly called the Capital Area Humane Society.
Columbus Humane said it’s one of the worst cases of animal hoarding it has ever seen.
“The cats were in deplorable conditions and some have serious health risks right now, serious health conditions,” said Shaw.
Unfortunately, this has overwhelmed the Columbus Humane Society’s capabilities right now.
Columbus Humane, which operates a shelter at 3015 Scioto Darby Executive Court on the Far West Side, was so overwhelmed with the cats from Gahanna that they had to shut down operations to the public Wednesday, Shaw said.
Veterinarians were examining the 111 live cats to evaluate their health, gather evidence and determine their future, Shaw said.
Pogonip was hoping that any of you all in the area might be able to help out. Specifically:
Hello, I remember from reading this site before that readers would organize to help pets all across the country.
I lived in Columbus, Ohio for years and still keep up with their news. Earlier this week, in suburban Gahanna, one hundred eleven cats were rescued from a collector. The local shelter is so overwhelmed they’ve had to stop accepting turn-ins. They can use all the help they can get. Details and updates can be found at dispatch.com and nbc4i.com.
So if you live in the area and were considering adopting, from the Columbus Humane Society, now might be a good time to consider doing so from the Columbus Human Society to ease their sudden overcrowding problem.
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This post is in: Get off my grass you damned kids, Go Fuck Yourself, OLD MAN YELLS AT CLOUDS
I’ve just been in a seething rage the past 48 hours. This tax bill may have pushed me over the edge. Oh, and shitheads like Mike Murphy, who looks like a conehead with pubic hair for a combover:
60 fucking votes and it was only Democrats because the Republicans got their amendments and changes and voted against it for purely political reasons. https://t.co/lLHDnrrmAn
— Serenity Now! (@Johngcole) December 16, 2017
.@murphymike douchebags like you like to pretend you are better than the current GOP and sit there and say "How did we get to this and how did we get to Trump" while throwing your hands up in the air and saying Republicans used to be better.
— Serenity Now! (@Johngcole) December 16, 2017
You know how we got to this? Because of the crap you are trying to pull today. You're just making shit up, knocking out revisionist both side nonsense, and trying to make up what happened.
— Serenity Now! (@Johngcole) December 16, 2017
We got to where we are because of people like you. You're fundamentally no different than Trump or Sarah Palin. The only difference betwee you and them is the shit you make up is appealing to idiots like Chris Cilizza.
— Serenity Now! (@Johngcole) December 16, 2017
so just shut the fuck up and go back to your regularly scheduled day drinking, you god damned hack.
Nice work on the Bush campaign, btw. Y'all got what, 1 percent of the vote? Maybe?
— Serenity Now! (@Johngcole) December 16, 2017
His response was to block me. Lying ass prick.
Penguins look like shit. At least SNL is new with Kevin Hart and the Foo Fighters.
by DougJ| 152 Comments
This post is in: Assholes
I was born in 69 so I’m not quite old enough to remember the Saturday Night Massacre. All you olds out there, what was it like in terms of the mood of the country? Was there real outrage?
We’re headed towards something like that again, I believe, and I’m curious what it’s going to feel like.
This post is in: Science & Technology, Daydream Believers
It turns out that the government had a secret program on Unidentified Flying Objects, and the New York Times just found out about it. It seems to have ended in 2012, but you never know about that black money!
There are a couple of videos in the article. This one is embeddable, the other one apparently not.
I’m not impressed by either; it seems odd they couldn’t bring the objects into focus, and the motion of the first suggests to me some sort of reflection, although I’d need to see more of the environment to call it that more positively.
But they’re probably not Venus, and it’s worth trying to figure out what they are if only to identify the circumstances that can convince pilots there’s something out there when there isn’t.
And much of the funding ($22 million over five years is not a lot) went to a friend of Harry Reid’s.
The truth is out there.
by DougJ| 162 Comments
This post is in: Assholes
The politics of the tax scam bill are most likely terrible for Republicans, e.g. no major legislation that polled this poorly has ever passed. So why are they passing it? I think Krugman has the right idea:
[F]or some significant number of Republicans we may be seeing what I’d call the “K Street end game.” Suppose you’re a GOP Congresscritter representing an only moderately R district, say in NY or California – and you see growing evidence of a huge Democratic wave next year, with election results so far suggesting something like a 15 point swing. What do you do?Well, you could say, “Gee, I’d better buck the party line and show my independence to win over swing voters.” But how likely is that to work? How many people even know how their representative votes?
Or you could say, “Well, I guess I’ll be looking for a lobbying job/ think tank position/commentator role on Fox News in 2019” – in which case your mission in what remains of your Congressional career is to keep donors and the party machine happy, never mind the voters.
There aren’t enough Fox News gigs to go around for the 50+ Republican Congressmen who get shit-canned by voters next fall, but there’s definitely enough lobbying and think tank sinecures to go around.