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I’m making this.

I could spend hours there.

Haven’t made this for years, so I will tonight.
Vinegar-Splashed Chicken
The original recipe calls for boned chicken with skin on, which is hard to do unless you bone your own chicken. Feel free to substitute boned, skinless chicken. Also, if you want this a bit spicier, instead of adding a bunch of chilies, try dicing a […]

So I hooked up the laser disc player (you know, those 12-inch laser discs). We have hundreds (at least) of dollars in laser discs, and it would cost hundreds (at least) to replace them. The player works — it’s not like we have to replace them immediately, but it’s an old player, it won’t last […]

While going through boxes, behind one I found the blanket I’d brought out here, you know, before the furniture came, and has been sitting there all this time — a (once) white blanket. It’s a good thing there’s bleach in the house.

I’ll take “Free Speech Victories” for $1000, Alex.

Uh, well, I hadn’t gotten much sleep and felt like hell, but I got extremely hungry, so I went to the Waffle Shop. I ordered way too much food, and went into a coma after I got back.

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Back to the Golden Wok — I think we’ll be eating there a lot.

I collect regional cookbooks (and recipes). I love those cookbooks printed by church or social groups, and if I do go into an antique store, I look for the books (antique stores are great places to find old, out of print, church cookbooks). When I travel, I rarely come back without a regional cookbook.
I looked […]

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Somebody (Mitch, maybe?) suggested the Golden Wok downtown, so yesterday, I went there for dinner, and left quite happy.
I started with hot and sour soup. The first thing I wondered as I took my first sip was whether the chef forgot to add the vinegar. There was no “sour” detectable. But the stock was rich, […]

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I’ve been getting around 500 spam messages every fifteen minutes today — I’m busy downloading then deleting them. What’s today? What’s going on? Am I the only one?

Here’s Carreras again, singing Colpito qui m’avete from Andrea Chénier, and he’s not slopping all over the place. So José, why don’t you sing the music as it’s written and the composer meant for you to sing it all the time? Why do you want to sound like a pig?
Oops, spoke to soon. He hit […]

We just started getting Ovation TV recently and for the first time, I tuned in. Great Tenor Performances is on. I had to mute the system when I first tuned in because the ghastly José Carreras was on, doing what too many Italianate singers do, scooping all over the place (actually, what Carreras does can’t […]

The idiots at HuffPo have simultaneously gone off the rails and yet again demonstrated that they have no morals, no ethics, no principles, and no sense of proportion: “At least Hitler meant well” (link is to Ace’s post — if you want to read the original, it’s linked there. I won’t link directly to any […]

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The envirowackjobs somehow manage to outdo their own idiocy, delving for new depths of utter stupidity in search of global hysteria. Thanks to Tim Blair, I saw this Chicken Little story:
Boaters on Lake Superior said the water is so low it appears the world’s largest freshwater lake is disappearing.
The lake, which is about 18 inches […]

Hamas to Spiegel:
There are naturally very many weapons around now. Two years ago, one bullet in Gaza cost around €3.50 — now it would cost 35 cents. The American aid money has been translated into weapons. Thank you, America!
Hat tip to LGF.

While I’m repairing the hard drive, here are a few gems of leftist idiocy. Remember Cameron Diaz, one of the stupidest idiots in Hollywood? The ditz who said on Oprah before the 2004 election, “If you think that rape should be legal, then don’t vote,” that idiot? Well, she’s made a leftist ass out of […]

Just in case you wondered.

Making your own isn’t too tedious (provided you don’t buy a whole coconut), but it’s more time consuming than buying canned. I keep dessicated unsweetened coconut just for that emergency.
Don’t even think about the whole coconut thing. First, you have to split it open, and that’s the easiest part. Then, you have to separate the […]

I did the whole make your own Thai curry paste thing until I noticed all the Thais at the local international grocery were buying little cans of curry paste. The store sold so much of it to the Thais, in fact, that they had trouble keeping on the shelves. So I tried it, and I […]

As in Sam’s Club for some needed supplies. Of course, I dedicate my trip to Sam’s Club to the Silky Pony and his “two Americas” idiocy.

Line of the day: “This is what I get for trusting a bunch of goddamn hippies with chemistry degrees. Oh, they’re okay when it comes to making bathtub meth. Just don’t let them near your garden.”

I’ll stick to roller coasters.

If you change the date on an article, it changes the URL. See here. Updated.

Homemade sausages:

Pictures and directions here (though my question is where’s the kraut and mustard?)

I was at Wally World, and they had these little Brinkman charcoal smokers for 28 bucks. I owned one of these before, and they do give you great results, and barbecuing on my grill is expensive (it takes more charcoal and wood), so I bit the bullet. Putting it together was fun, especially since all […]

Another political quiz (this one is even more simplistic than most), courtesy of Mamacita.

Your Political Profile:

Overall: 95% Conservative, 5% Liberal
Social Issues: 75% Conservative, 25% Liberal
Personal Responsibility: 100% Conservative, 0% Liberal
Fiscal Issues: 100% Conservative, 0% Liberal
Ethics: 100% Conservative, 0% Liberal
Defense and Crime: 100% Conservative, 0% Liberal

How Liberal Or Conservative Are You?

There’s only one terminal at the State College airport, and as I was sitting there waiting to board the plane, I happened to turn around and see three flags. Now, if you saw three flags in an airport, what do you think they would be?
Sure, there was Old Glory. And yes, there was the Pennsylvania […]

Would you like to know what your elected congresscritters think of you? Are you sure? Then, be my guest — but it’s not pretty. Hat tip to the good folks at Maggie’s Farm.

you’d want locked up psychos to be able to vote, too.

First, there was the man who strangled the bobcat. Today, there’s this:
A camping trip to Low Gap Camp Grounds near Helen turned into a harrowing experience for Chris Everhart and his three sons when they tangled with a 300-pound black bear.
But it proved fatal for the bear.
The bear had taken the Everharts’ cooler and […]

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Ants Climbing a Tree (Hunan — more western Chinese recipes here)
This is a remarkable dish. The little bits of pork look like ants and the noodles like tree limbs (that’s the idea, anyway). Note that there is a trick to this dish. What makes it memorable is the contrast between the spicy hot flavor and […]

I was extremely hungry for some reason a little after ten this morning, so I shut down the laptop and headed to the Waffle Shop. They don’t have a webpage (though Mr. Breakfast has reviews here), but here’s a pic:

Wait. I was thinking to myself as I drove there, “Self,” I thought, “We’re all out […]

From Jeff Jacoby:
From school vouchers to stem cell research to racial preferences to torture, the American right bubbles with debate and disagreement, while the left, for all its talk about “diversity,” rarely seems to show any. As National Review’s Jonah Goldberg points out, that may be because “liberals define diversity by skin color and sex, […]

Talk about my era TV. Bonanza is on. I’m sure I haven’t seen an episode of Bonanza since they first aired.