OK, in the past ten minutes, half-an-inch of snow has accumulated, and if anything, it’s snowing harder.
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BLIZZARD
NOT AGAIN
My corn.
Yes. Sigh. Again. My lettuce and broccoli and onions.
Special, 2am!
Some fine n tasty Dick’s trivia, courtesy Seattlest.
TASTY
Chili feed: SUCCESS!
COOK OFF
Chili down for the pre-cook. The recipe I selected was of interest specifically for its’ dogged avoidance of namby-pamby Frenchified flavor-building practices, can be simplified thus:
Add ground beef to about half the beef’s volume of water. Dump some spices and chopped onions in. Boil for a couple of hours.
I will be tasting and adjusting the spicing, but in the end declined to pproceed as I would have if faced with the same ingredients and flavor goal on my own. No staged addition of spices to browning meat, no carmelization of onions: chili, fifty years ago, was a food designed to be cooked by busy men for other busy men, in large quantities and with a minimum of fuss.
I do imagine remaking the chili in my normal manner, once I’ve sample the recipe. But tomorrow night, youse can call me Cookie.
STUDY
Wikipedia. Skyline. Recent recipe in the P-I.
History of Cincy chili. A recipe.
To chocolatize, or not to chocolatize? And shall I adulterate by using my customary turkey instead of beef?
Chili feed advisory
I’m looking at Wednesday evening. My thinking is to start the cookery on Tuesday night, except for the noodles and such items as may be best served by a shorter cook time. Complainants, please advise!
Cathy
Cathy’s Book – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
For whatever reason, this 2-year-old ARG popped up in some Google ads for me today. Here’s a nonlinked version of the ad:
Cathy’s Book
If found call (650) 266-8233 — And change the default access code!
www.cathysbook.com
I’m interested, but what’s even more interesting is this:
When I saw the ad, I immediately thought, “Wow, someone’s directly looking to drive ARG traffic via ads! I must investigate!”
Given that my operating assumption is that I am just like everybody else, I wonder if that means everybody else also has such well-tuned ARG antennae by now.
Probably not, huh?
Obfuscatory elisions
Certain of my esteemed readership have decried with confternation a recent addition to this publication, viz. In particular the emotive and affected tone of urgenfy, in combination with a most genteel lack of germane or illuminating detailf, has raised alarums in the heartf of certain more senfitive personf among the readerfhip.
Thus, a clarification: neither illnefs nor emergenfy has afflicted the persons of thif houfe, or indeed thif family. A life-event conferning a friend fimply caught me unawaref.
The editorf of this publication regret any public difcommodation or diforder prompted by our refent reportagef.
Viz.
Early Eighteenth-Century Newspaper Reports.
Helpful tutelage!