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Off to make potato soup. I may be back — then, I may not.

Mahndisa has posted a recipe that sounds phenomenal, Mahndisa’s Marvelous Garlic & Basil Turkey. But I’m going to take issue with her about herbs. She says:
Oh, I always used FRESH HERBS ONLY!!! If you cannot find fresh herbs, than you should start an indoor hydroponic garden.
It depends on the herb.
Fresh basil is lovely stuff, but […]

Æblekage (Danish Apple Cake)
Well, not really a cake. More similar to an apple crisp, but not. But excellent stuff.
3 lb apples - not too sweet
10 oz. sugar
10 oz. dried breadcrumbs
7 oz. butter
Preheat oven to 350.
Grease an ovenproof dish and line with a layer of breadcrumbs. Dot with lumps of butter, sprinkle with sugar to taste […]

Iraq the Model:
Executing Saddam is an execution to a dark era in Iraq’s history and it’s a message to all those who followed his ways that there is no turning back; yes, the people will never kneel to a tyrant again and will never give up.
The future is in the hands of the people and […]

Do not read while eating, drinking, or while food or drink is within reach! I believe this is what is known as a thorough fisking, here, Brit-style.

From one of the KosKidz:

I began my restaurant career at a very elegant French bistro in downtown Louisville, L’Artiste, in the early 80s. When I was hired, they first trained me as a pastry chef.
About the French: Love the food, hate the frogs. I’m a Francophobe from long, long before it became fashionable, from even before I started working […]

While looking through boxes, I found my Anglo-Saxon dictionary. I haven’t seen that in years. Unfortunately, my Old Norse dictionary was not in the same box.
Dinner tonight: Pork chops and bratkartoffeln (German Fries).

See Radio Equalizer — follow the links and also scroll down and read the wacked out comments.

Gateway Pundit has a round-up of American liberals mourning their new hero, Saddam Hussein (sorry, I won’t link to the nonsense; you’ll have to go to Gateway Pundit for that).
Don’t ever allow a Leftist to lecture you on human rights again… Ever.
Lord, please help those sick, sick people.
I don’t call the lack of any moral […]

To see the liberals’ utter lack of any moral compass, Tennessee Gorilla Womyn (or should that be Womin, or Womon?), refers to the execution of Saddam Hussein as a “lynching.”

There’s only one thing the French do better than anyone else (other than surrender and support mass-murdering tyrants). No, not wine. No, not cheese.
Bread.
The paradox here is that if you examine French breads, you notice that they contradict the preference for ridiculously elaborate foods the French usually display. The great French breads are also the […]

From Alpha Patriot:

Celebrations broke out after Hussein was dead, and that there was “dancing around the body.”
In Deerborn, Michigan, Iraqi-Americans dance in the streets.
A preacher in a masque in Najaf called the execution, “God’s gift to Iraqis.”
NBC tried to get a telephone interview with an eye witness, but couldn’t: “This son of a bitch is lying […]

Note that the subject line of this odd spam message was, “Just save a pot of money on the medicines you buy.” Knowing that makes this even weirder:
repentance; that Christ having and another, I am of Apollos; right to all good things to come. If God has given us his only himself, even after he […]

A while back, I got into a disagreement in the comments thread on an education blog — I believe it was D-Ed Reckoning, but I’m not sure. It was a brief disagreement, since I didn’t wish to continue the discussion, and the other commenter was a bit heated, about one of those myths that, well, […]

Whenever I link to another one of my posts, it sends a pingback, of course. So why does wordpress put my pingbacks and comments in the moderation queue, for me to moderate?
And am I the only person who seems to be winning at least ten lotteries (I never entered) a day?

Only government — here, the educracy — can take an excellent idea and pervert it with a political agenda into something that is no longer recongizable. When I was a PhD student, I saw this process in action, as ultra-sincere sociolinguists changed bilingual education into a tool for furthering their political agenda.
Bilingual education
Contrary to popular […]

from one of Tim Blair’s commenters:
Has a conservative ever falsely claimed service in the Peace Corps?
Food for thought, that.

The carcass is in the stockpot on the stove now. One advantage of making your own stock: It do make the whole house smell wonderful.

Hat tip to Clark Baker for this article that looks at where NEA money goes. Let’s look at a partial list of where the largest teachers union in the nation spends its money, and see how concerned about education they are, shall we?

Mr. Crittenden has outdone himself.
It was March 11, 2003, when I got on the bus that was taking us from the Hilton out to the camps in the Kuwaiti desert. Sig got on after. I didn’t know him then, except he introduced himself and took my name, because he was very serious about his […]

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I give a standing ovation to Michael Medved for going off on the paranoid “North American Union” conspiracy moonbats, and pulling no punches.
This paranoid and groundless frenzy has been fomented and promoted by a shameless collection of lunatics and losers; crooks, cranks, demagogues and opportunists, who claim the existence of a top secret master plan […]

The African Queen is on TCM. Two stellar performances.

that the president of the teachers union doesn’t know what 1/3 + 1/4 is? (Hat tip to NYC Educator).
I saw this after getting back from Office Depot — where they now sell “tip cheat sheets” by the cash registers, for idiots who can’t calculate a 15% tip.
What was that about my sample size, again?

Jules Crittenden sez:
Gerald Ford was president well before I could vote
Where’s my wheelchair …

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The Carnival of Education is posted at Darren’s!

Throwing away bacon fat is heresy! Anytime bacon was cooked at my parents’ and grandparents’ homes, the fat went into a coffee cup that sat in the refrigerator so it was always there to be used.
Want to make spätzle? See here.
Kartoffelsuppe (Potato Soup)
2 T. butter
2 large yellow onions, thinly sliced
1 stalk celery, thinly sliced
6 slices […]

Mary Eberstadt has written a long but excellent article for Real Clear Politics, The Scapegoats Among Us, in which she discusses the reasons for recent political scapegoating largely as a response to 9/11:
One way to begin is to survey the main intellectual and political currents since 9/11, which investigation yields a fact both unexpected and […]

is from Don Surber

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When I read this list of ludicrously PC college courses (hat tip to Darren), I didn’t even blink:
Occidental College’s The Phallus covers a broad study on the relation “between the phallus and the penis, the meaning of the phallus, phallologocentrism, the lesbian phallus, the Jewish phallus, the Latino phallus, and the relation of the phallus […]

We caught Dolly with her snoot buried in the dressing yesterday. So much for more dressing.
Sigh.

Aslan gives himself as a sacrifice

Aslan is resurrected

I’m afraid I got a late start cooking. I slept until 4:30 — unheard of for me (I have an internal clock that wakes me at 3:30 every morning. I haven’t slept as late as 4:30 in months.) I started the stock yesterday and simmered it for about eight hours, then put it in the […]

I just saw a teaser for the second half of this season of BSG. I’ll quote: “One dies, one is a cylon, and one finds Earth.”
I’m a bit busy with company to make guesses. After Christmas.

For obvious reasons, I’m scrounging around in all these old recipes, and found a couple I thought I’d share. Enjoy!
Sour Cream Cake
This is one of my great-grandmother’s recipes. If you like pound cake — because this is very much like a pound cake, dense and rich — you’ll love this; it was one of my […]

For my Democrat friends:
Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit, our best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low-stress, non-addictive, gender-neutral celebration of the winter solstice holiday, practiced within the most enjoyable traditions of the religious persuasion of your choice, or secular practices of your choice, with respect for the religious/secular persuasion and/or […]

Moonbats roasting o’er an open fire …
When a San Joaquin Valley school district decided to call Christmas and Easter vacation “Christmas and Easter vacation” instead of “winter and spring breaks,” an unidentified moonbat reacted sharply, setting fire to a Christmas tree, an American flag, and himself in protest.
This wackjob has a website dedicated to another […]