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oh modreq indeed hahahahahahaha

rainy and cold afternoon bump

Okay - for RR, a vegan main dish type recipe:

Feijoada (Black Bean Stew)
from Vegetarian Times Vegetarian Entertaining

1 tablespoon canola oil
1 large onion
1 green bell pepper, diced
1 red bell pepper, diced
2 medium tomatoes, diced
4 cloves garlic, minced
2 cans black beans, rinsed and drained
2 cups vegetable stock - or water
4 red potatoes, diced
4 carrots, diced
3 stalks celery, chopped
2 teaspoons dried thyme
1 1/2 teaspoons cumin
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon black pepper
1/2 cup chopped fresh parsley
1 1/2 cups frozen corn

In a large saucepan, heat oil over medium heat. Add onion, bell peppers, tomatoes, and garlic. Cook, stirring, for 5 to 8 minutes. Add remaining ingredients and cook uncovered, over medium-low heat for 20 to 30 minutes. Let stand 10 minutes before serving. Makes 6 servings.

RR, if you are not a vegan, I like to eat this with a lot of grated Co-Jack cheese on top of it. (The "adding cheese to everything" might be a Midwestern thing...)

Good feijoada is a thing of glory, so recommended.

This is the only feijoada I've ever had, so I don't know how it would compare to others, but I like it!

post-Indian food bump

Tonight I plot these recipes:

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Radish, Cucumber, Apple Salad

2 cucumbers
6—8 small - medium radishes
1 apple
1/4 c Cider/Sherry/White Wine Vinegar
Sugar
Salt

Wash and destem all the radishes and cut off any stringy beards, cut each radish in half. Cut the radishes into thin slices and place in a salad bowl. Cut each cucumber in half and then slice into thin slices and place into the same bowl. Peel the apple, cut into quarters, and remove the core. Cut into thin slices and put into the same bowl.

Drizzle the entire mix with some vinegar of your choice so that all the items are coated. Then, sprinkle with a generous amount of sugar and just a pinch of salt so the sweet and sour is balanced.

This salad should hold for quite a while and will not lose it's crispness but put it under plastic wrap as the apples may brown, even with the acid.

Roasted Radishes
Noche de Rabanos Roasted Radishes
6-10 radishes
6 garlic cloves
2-3 tablespoons of sesame oil
Half tsp of mild chilli powder
Half tsp of smoked paprika powder
A pinch of sea salt

Preheat the oven to 375F. Cut the radishes in half. Place them in a deep baking tray. Peel the garlic cloves and add them whole.
Cover the radishes and garlic in the sesame oil, mild chilli powder and smoked paprika. Add a pinch of salt. Stir well to make sure they are coated in the oil and seasonings. Roast in the oven for 30 minutes. Half way through, stir them round to make sure they are evenly cooked. Serve hot.

You can try this with baby turnips and other root vegetables if you prefer.

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For variety I will probably roast the turnips I have instead.

Hmmmmm, maybe we should create an ITR recipe thread.

Although maybe people would be afraid to try recipes posted on a board labeled Idiot Thread Repository.

TASTY CHUNKS

(someone fill in the recipe)

our technical editor is holding up beer o'clock, and the whole mess is because Dan Goodin @ the Register is a grade-A behind-the-curve sensationalist ASS. FUCKING. HOLE. and made a fuss over some shit that happened last week, was fixed by Monday, and pretty much in every publication including El Reg by Wedensday, but NO, it's FRIDAY EVENING, so SOMETHING has to get BLOWN ALL OUT OF PROPORTION by a bunch of APPOINTEES.

dan goodin you are an amazing farmer of cock

Don't hold back, Tom; tell us how you really feel.

xpost to Dan - I think we all have our own recipes for that, don't we?

You should all be envying my exciting evening of exercise, laundry, and fluid and electrolytes readings. IT IS A PARTY, I TELL YOU

are you happy and/or satisfied with your night, though, sara? serious question.

i only ask because i'm feeling RESTLESS AND UNSATISFIED and so it's interesting to me to see what makes other people feel the opposite of that.

i basically stayed in bed all day today, catching up on a weeks' worth of not-enough-rest. now i'm up and i gotta go to work in an hour. i am leaning more towards anxious and miserable, rather than restless and unsatisfied. i have to meet an old skool friend after work and i really don't want to. i'm also supposed to be having work drinkies and i really don't want to.

what i really want to do is go have coffee with my friend adam and talk shit but the universe is conspiring against us.

could you bail early on work drinks and have late night coffee with awesome adam?

i already had plans to bail on work drinks: awesome adam (i will tell him you called him that, it will make his day) was supposed to meet me at the restaurant for one drink, then we were going to sneak out. but now this dumb school friend has guilt tripped me into meeting up with her and completely fucked my plans.

she's one of those old friends (known her since we were like 12) who i don't have anything in common with, find irritating as hell, but she's like a family - like that annoying cousin you always have to talk to at family functions.

tell her how you can't wait to move to usa so that you'll never have to be annoyed by her dumb irritatingness anymore.

HAHA she already thinks it's totally weird what i'm doing and has no real comprehension of it at all.

OH SHIT i almost forgot to tell you guys:

one of the crazy old drunkk women who called me FUCKING RUDE last weekend came in for dinner last night! she was in my section but i don't think she recognised me - i was super nice to her, and get this:
me: what would you like to drink tonight?
her: ooohhh... i've been drinking beer so i should probably stick to that... i mixed red wine and beer last weekend and ended up... rather sick (giggles)

me: (in my head) AND IT ALSO MADE YOU FUCKING OBNOXIOUS

we can all take pleasure in the thought of her misery (giggles)

you're absolutely right.

ok time to go to work. sigh. send me positive vibes and manifest me an easy night. i can't be fucked with troublesome ppl this evening.

byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Y'alright guys? you should go and see Mike Leigh's new movie "Happy-Go-Lucky" because it's gorgeous and not even slightly miserable.

so my friend turned up but she only stayed for about 20mins, then i had a token drink with my coworkers and then i skived off with adam. so it was okay in the end - lingbert, if you sent positive vibes my way, they actually worked.

xpost to lingbert - you know, my night was okay but I wound up going to bed early because I was annoyed about something entirely unrelated to my usual boring activities (a phone call). But I do get RESTLESS AND UNSASTIFIED often enough. Last night I was more ANNOYED AND GUILTY (although the guilt is objectively unjustified and I know it)

Also hi to RR and Mark C!

I woke up to snow on the ground so as soon as I can get both kids ensconced in Saturday morning cartoons, I'm going to hide in my bed again. A. wants to get up and run 12 miles. I want to avoid homework for a while more.

go back to bed, sara! you deserve a sleep-in!

Last night I saw me some bands including one from Teh Minneapolis who know Matt H. of these parts, and they were friendly and talented duders who all should know:

http://www.myspace.com/vampirehands

Name chosen a couple of years back, well before ANYONE knew about Vampire Frickin' Weekend.

Oh yeah, and my dinner beforehand with all them radish recipes I mentioned:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2199/2442901276_93944b1474.jpg

A+ , with special note of the paper napkin

FANCY

RR, yes, I went back to bed and now I'm all groggy from having slept way too much. (YAY!)

Ned - I have heard Vampire Hands on The Current (local radio station). I remember the first time I heard them because they were also going to play a band called "Mouth Full of Bees" and A. and I were like WOW ARE THESE BAND NAMES FOR REAL?!

A+ , with special note of the paper napkin

A key touch, always.

Meantime, an example of poor phrasing or regional dialect variation, or both -- in an otherwise heartfelt memorial to someone who had tragically passed early that I was reading, it was noted that said person was "the first to start a family game of baseball or corn hole in the backyard." I fear the visions this called up were not what was intended.

Oh dear, part of that that really should have been redacted.

I just like the idea of a family reunion game where the older relatives are on the back porch in the shade, sipping on a drink, watching the festivities..."If I were a younger man I'd be out there right now, giving it the best I could....C'MON THERE BOB, PUT SOME EFFORT INTO IT!"

"Mom, how come I can't play?"

"Hush now, Lisa, boys will be boys."

wow guys i just realized i have the most awesomest roomies ever. a part on my toilet broke and one of my roommates went out and bought a part to fix it. it was the wrong part, but how nice considering he doesn't even use that toilet!

also hi, happy saturday, i do not want to go to work tonight :( bye bye spring break.

Vampire Hands is a great band, but pale in comparison to the even more interestingly named Gay Witch Abortion

Hooray for Minneapolis band names. You may be too young to remember Skullfuck.

Between that and the backyard corn hole games, my mind is porridge.

It is kind of dismaying.

Ned's mind, I mean.

:-(

mmmm porridge.

also mmmm ned's dinner

mmmm eating Ned's branes

that made me puke a little in my throat