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T. Rev's LiveJournal:
| Thursday, July 9th, 2009 | |
| 10:28 pm | |
| Thursday, June 18th, 2009 | |
| 1:29 am | Roast Recipe 2 - 3 pounds chuck roast or similar cut of beef 1 cup balsamic vinegar 1 small rutabaga, peeled and quartered 1 small onion, chopped fine 6 cloves garlic, slivered 4 oz. brown mushrooms, sliced a few chopped dried shiitake caps salt, pepper, oregano, bay leaf ONE GODDAMNED POUND CHOPPED BACON Seal pan with foil, braise about four hours. |
| Saturday, June 6th, 2009 | |
| 2:40 am | |
| Saturday, May 30th, 2009 | |
| 12:18 am | |
| Wednesday, May 27th, 2009 | |
| 12:25 am | Unsafe Wherever You Go EMERGENCY OVERVIEW Appearance: light beige to gray powder. Warning! Cancer hazard. May cause eye, skin, and respiratory tract irritation. Target Organs: Respiratory system, eyes, skin. ... Spills/Leaks: Vacuum or sweep up material and place into a suitable disposal container. Avoid generating dusty conditions. Provide ventilation. Do not let this chemical enter the environment. ... Storage: Store in a cool, dry place. Store in a tightly closed container. ... Engineering Controls: Facilities storing or utilizing this material should be equipped with an eyewash facility and a safety shower. Use only under a chemical fume hood. ... WARNING: This product contains ..., a chemical known to the state of California to cause cancer. Hat tip: In the Pipeline. |
| Thursday, May 21st, 2009 | |
| 11:44 pm | Good Evening Hello. It's quiet. |
| Wednesday, May 6th, 2009 | |
| 1:16 pm | Karma II I took in Ratty a few days ago, shut her up in the bathroom to keep her quarantined from the other cats. She settled down easily enough, and seemed generally OK aside from diarrhea and flatulence of remarkable vileness. Took her in to the vet this morning, knowing that if she failed the FIV/FeLV test I'd have to have her killed. No point sugar-coating that ugly fact. She passed. Tomorrow she'll be spayed, and her fetuses killed. (See above.) On Friday, if everything goes well, I'll bring her home to stay. |
| Tuesday, May 5th, 2009 | |
| 9:09 am | What The Hell Do You Eat? Well, I've been on this crackpot fad diet for a year now as of last week. I am down almost 70 pounds, perfectly happy with what I'm eating, no desire to change back to a "normal" diet...ever. But Rev, you ask, what exactly do you eat? You can't just be chowing down on sticks of butter all the time. No, no. If I've hit a plateau and I want to kickstart the weight loss, yeah, it's pretty much steak, bacon and hard cheeses for a little while, but I wanted to share one of my staple dishes today. Rev's Cauliflower Gratin Thing: 1 head cauliflower 1 pound bacon 1-2 eggs half and half any mix of soft and shredded hard cheeses mustard oregano salt pepper The bacon, cauliflower, and sauce can be prepared in parallel, making this dish fairly quick and painless to make. For the bacon: Cook the bacon, drain on paper towels, chop/crumble. For the cauliflower: Rinse and clean the head, remove the stem and green leaves. Place on plate, cover completely with plastic wrap to form a steam enclosure, microwave for 8-12 minutes depending on size. Cauliflower is ready when it holds together but yields to gentle pressure. Remove plastic wrap--don't scald yourself--and rinse thoroughly in cold water. For the sauce: beat eggs in a large bowl with mustard, oregano, salt and pepper. Add half and half and whatever cheeses seem good. You want a fairly runny consistency, and enough sauce to thoroughly contain and cover the cauliflower and bacon when incorporated. Add chopped/crumbled bacon to sauce, stir to incorporate. Put whole head of cauliflower in bowl, crush coarsely with a potato masher or similar implement, and stir to incorporate. Transfer contents of bowl to a loaf or casserole dish, top with more shredded cheese, and bake until top begins to brown. Don't overbake it or the sauce will curdle and separate. I make this dish two or three times a week. Never get tired of it. |
| Thursday, April 23rd, 2009 | |
| 1:00 am | Karma Cats come around the kitchen door sometimes. I started feeding them a while back; predictably, this led to more cats coming around. One feral kitten in particular has been coming around since she was maybe 2-3 months old. I made a project of socializing Ratface. Originally she was completely terrified of humans; now she will come into the house for brief periods and sit in my lap. I was considering adopting her, after getting her tested for FIV/FeLV, spayed, wormed, etc. A while back, ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} sysd sheltered a dog in the back yard for a month, who scared away all the cats. While the dog's been gone for a few weeks, most of the cats have not returned. Ratface is back, though...Obviously pregnant. Way too young for it, too. Not sure what to do now. |
| Sunday, April 19th, 2009 | |
| 11:08 pm | |
| Tuesday, April 14th, 2009 | |
| 12:49 am | Today's Adventure You know, I probably shouldn't be holding the knife that w...yep. Yep. |
| Thursday, April 2nd, 2009 | |
| 5:49 am | Spending Our Way Out Of This So the current Federal strategy on the current economic situation is to throw around a lot of government money in order to take advantage of this multiplier thingy that Krugman likes to talk about. One of my spot-check techniques for testing the soundness of an argument is this: If the situation were different--if a critical variable were reversed--would the conclusion change? If the economy were booming, would an Obama administration argue for cutting spending and reducing the deficit? I don't know. I remember Clinton salivating over the so-called peace dividend. Not that Obama is Clinton. But I wonder. |
| Tuesday, March 24th, 2009 | |
| 8:34 pm | On Derailing I think I understand the concept of "derailing" as employed in recent internet discourse. This pleases me; it was a big puzzle to me for several weeks. ( This will not interest you. Go away. ) |
| 7:29 am | |
| 1:46 am | Adventures in Cheese So a high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet does tend to restrict one's food choices. To offset this, I have started explorations into the mysterious world of cheese. I have made some delightful discoveries--St. Andre and Lancashire are new favorites of mine. Then there's Morbier. I bought a twelve-dollar wedge of the stuff today. sysd's little book of cheeses suggests that Morbier is mild, with an aroma of hay and nuts.This is accurate, if by 'hay' you mean 'horseshit' and by 'nuts' you mean 'testicles'. It went straight into the trash, and the trash went outside so as to not stink up the kitchen. Damnation. |
| Tuesday, March 17th, 2009 | |
| 5:18 am | Hello How are you? |
| Saturday, March 7th, 2009 | |
| 5:15 pm | |
| Thursday, February 19th, 2009 | |
| 3:16 pm | About that Cartoon I'm not sure how it follows that there's a chimp = Obama implication in the cartoon; while Obama stumped extensively for the bill, he didn't have much to do with actually writing it, did he? Am I missing something? |
| Tuesday, February 10th, 2009 | |
| 7:40 am | Time Orderty Found a really cool rarity on youtube: the original video for Jerry Cornelius's 1969 hit "Space Oddity". Interesting footnote: the song was written by David Jones. Jones is better known, of course, for his role as Major Thomas Newton in the late '70s relaunch of Star Trek. |
| Friday, February 6th, 2009 | |
| 6:20 am | PUNY HUMANS um, hi |
