I agree with everything you said except using it in place of broccoli rabe, which has a delightfully bitter taste unlike either broccoli or yu choy. Broccoli rabe would overpower a mac & cheese dish, but yu choy feels just right.
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That’s almost what my dinner is going to be: boxed mac with sliced up smoky links, extra cheddar, and chopped up yu choy (chinese broccoli).
24·8 days agoDoctorow doesn’t allow DRM on his works (both print and audio) so he can;t distribute through sites lilke Amazon that require it. Instead he runs a kickstarter to pay actual talent to do the audio and distributes through smaller channels.
Are those just boiled veg? Where’s the garlic salt and pepper? I’d coat with butter or olive oil flavored with: paprika & cumin, or tarragon & thyme, or mustard & honey. Any extra would go on the meat.
Anyway, it looks very pretty… just a bit bland.
Thank you for all the posts! I admire your dedication. Also, I’m glad to see I’m not the only one using those take-out/deli style containers for most everything.
2·15 days agoI make this minus lemon, plus oregano; sometimes rosemary, too.
Edit: also worth trying is Senate Bean Soup.
Given your other post, this sems like a fine meal for ravenous kids. If you wanted to spend more time making something similar with more veg (mirepoix style) you could try this as a replacement : https://www.fitmamarealfood.com/cheesy-curry-chicken-rice-casserole/ – but mostly, I’d find a hotter, more flavorful curry powder.
If you do get a better curry powder, my mom got me on a recipe like the following, but using canned mandarin oranes instead of chutney or jam (she also might add meat like tuna or chicken): https://www.noracooks.com/curry-chickpea-salad/ – I mention it as an easy meal as a salad or sandwich.
8·25 days agoI’m like this when I microwave fresh veg. I cover the bowl in plastic wrap, and when the veg are cooked I KNOW the big balloon effect is steam hotter than boiling water, and I KNOW it will burn me if I try to take the plastic off without a utensil, but I don’t want that steam bubble to collapse on the veg, so I try to get just a corner off, and maybe if I … SSSSSSSTEAM BURN! Why oh why didn’t I use a fork or something? Next time, I swear, I will be ready (not).
We didn’t ‘go’ places. We just wandered around. Not quite this long ago, but like this (source):
This is equivalent to your parents saying "you may only talk to people at school
You’ve got my point backwards. I’m saying kids would be better prepared for life if they talked to people, and particularly if they talked to people they don’t particularly care about rather than only swapping phone memes with kids they already know. Also, no one is saying there should be a complete ban on phones. The article simply suggests keeping the bedroom screen-free (better for sleep, studying, etc.). I went further to point out that as we’ve become more ‘social’ on phones we’re less social in society.
First bit: Why do we as a country (speaking from the U.S.) allow police to assualt the citizenry? Why aren’t we all in our town halls demanding the removal of any cops who handcuff kids, tackle people who don’t speak English, or fire guns at anyone who isn’t at that moment attacking someone? The police should be under our control by our consent. We elect their bosses if not the sheriffs themselves. Why aren’t we showing up in numbers in person to demand better?
Second bit: I know there are still some communities where kids can ride their bikes without fear because the parents still know everyone on the block. They might not like all the neighbors, but they know them and aren’t calling the cops on them. The bad part of that is a distrust of outsiders and unwillingness to accept anything different. Humans fall into us/them thinking too easily. As far as I have heard/read/seen, the best way to mitigate that is first-hand exposure to the ‘other’ because people tend to be better than whatever sterotype someone worries about. Reminiscing here: I remember visiting my grandparents and having them walk me into various houses on the block to chat with neighbors. It never occurred to me as a bored child that this was socially incorporating me into an insular community that might have been sucpsious of a strange kid biking around the same streets over and over if they didn’t know I belonged there.
That said, I don’t understand how the kids like me who grew up running wild wherever we wanted became parents who didn’t allow any roaming, and who’s kids then became adults that will call the cops before asking the neighbors. Maybe we move too often. Maybe we fear litigation. Mostly, I suspect, we work too many hours for not enough money such that adults don’t have the energy to form old-style communities where people banded together (both for good and bad), and instead everyone only bitches online just as I am doing right now.
I understand that it is harder to bond to someone who isn’t immediately digitally available. I understand that "kids these days! " do their social stuff online, but at the same time, they seem to have largely lost all skill at interacting with real humans of slight or no aquaintence.
It is easy to make sarcastic comments on your phone about how stupid this or that is. The sterotypical basement dweller can snark all day. What takes social skill is actively engaging with people you don’t care about and finding common ground.
Yes, digital people track some of this on facebook and such, but in real life: in which community groups do they participate? Do they know what their neighbors do and what they like beyond snapshots of events? That is: yeah, they saw that pic of that cookout, but did they know that he volunteer teaches English as a second language Tuesday and Thursday at the library? When was the last time they went into a neighbor’s home (or had one visit theirs) to share a cup of coffee and complain about that road that needs fixing and who to push about it?
Edited to replace ‘you’ with ‘they’ so there’d be no confusion that I mean multiple ‘you’ readers rather than a single person.
As an old fart who witnessed social gatherings for decades, it looks like social stunting comes from smartphones rather than their absence.
Somewhere in there, Ars should have noted that this does not mean literally ALL grants, but all federal grants as defined in 2 CFR 200.1 (which isn’t to say they won’t change that definition).
Tomato acidity can do a number on you cast iron’s patina.
If you like livermush and you’re ever near D.C./Maryland, try scrapple, which is almost the same thing.
I agree. Smoked sausage is tasty :-)
I was trying to say that a fresh meat would have been healthier than a smoked sausage with nitrites and all. You CAN get nitrite-free sausage, but unless you’re looking for that in particular, any given smoked sausage probably has questionable additives.
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If you look, I was the person explaining that per Doctorow collective action is good. You’re replying to a post where I said, “…or even vote Z, then together the difference will matter.” Maybe you meant to reply to someon else, or maybe you’re a sock puppet that forgot to change accounts.
Peanut butter & honey sammiches are a thing, too – but maybe you want pb & apricot or orange marmalade in that tortilla.