Friday Open Thread
Woohoo, it’s Friday! Does anyone have any exciting plans for the weekend? Let’s get this open thread started.
On the lighter side, “20 Unholy Recipes: Dishes So Awful We Had to Make Them.” Interestingly, a lot of the recipes are from the 70s. They all look so awful, it’s hard to pick just one.
Jellied Chicken (yes, you read that right)
This recipe was taken from The Blender Way to Better Cooking — 200 pages of recipes, all requiring a blender. Enough said. Read more about this recipe here.
Yesterday, reports the Philadelphia Inquirer, Sestak conducted a taping of Larry Kane: Voice of Reason, a cable news show. When Kane put the question to him directly, Sestak answered “yes,” but declined to elaborate.
Kane asked whether the job was Secretary of the Navy, to which Sestak, a retired Navy Admiral, replied: “No comment.” The current Navy Secretary is Ray Mabus, a Democrat and former Mississippi governor who campaigned extensively for Barack Obama in 2008.
Asked by Kane whether the job was “high-ranking,” Sestak said that it was, but added he would “never leave” the Senate race through such a deal.
The White House is denying making any kind of offer. The Sestak/Specter primary has not been getting a lot of attention recently and I’m not sure why. Perhaps Sestak is trying to heat things up a bit?
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tonight at the Brandywine YMCA is Family Night. look for the Steel Band performing between 6 and 8 pm. see if you can find me.
Those recipes are horrific. When I lived in Minneapolis people ate alot of jello salads and aspics for “fancy” dinners. Yuck. And there is no way to get a better presentation on that mess. Even that crazy lutefisk seemed to be a hazardous way of getting fish aspic. Probably an early entry in the Stuff White People Like list. 😎
But that list reminded me of the crazy find of pretty damn horrible Weight Watchers recipes from 1974. (Make sure you click through each of the cards on the right.) The Mackerel Pudding seems especially nasty.
Tomato Aspic–that takes me back–Aunt Mary made it for every summer reunion w/ black olives in it. Once it melted, kinda tasted like gazpacho.
I know a guy who wrote a “Meat Loaf” cookbook, and was published!! He said, and I agree, the worst meatloaf was a fish one.
So, Tiger Woods made his half-assed “apology” to the world today. It was a huge fail! The only reason he “apologized” was because he got caught. He then tried to make himself out to be the victim (papparazzi, etc.). He needs to go away.
I guess I don’t understand why Tiger Woods has to apologize to the world. He really needs to apologize to his wife and kids and also to the women who he’s hurt. I could care less, myself.
Tiger’s apology has been on NPR this afternoon and I don’t get why this is a big deal or why I should give a damn. But the apology sounded rehearsed and staged and phony on the radio, so I can only imagine what it looked like on TV.
It looked the same way it sounded – staged, rehearsed, phony. Hand-picked “audience” and reporters.
UI–I think his apology had to be televised because it was the only way to reach all he slept with. Warren Beatty probably would have done the same thing–but you know–that was a more gentile time, and girls didn’t talk:).
SPEAKING of moronic former alaskan governors http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/18/family-guy-voice-actor-says-palin-does-not-have-a-sense-of-humor/?no_interstitial
NOW WHAT, SAINT SARAH?
I had sex with Tiger Woods in 2002 and I still feel like I owe HIM an apology.
Those 12 Step programs are very cleansing jason.
My program is twice as good. 24 steps! I’ve been stuck on step three for a while but in my defense, camel milk is pretty tough to find in this country.
6 in 10 texans think that humans lived alongside dinosaurs. Just sayin’
…also flying planes into buildings with the intent of killing people is not terrorism according to Republicans. If only George Bush knew that we could have avoided the whole Iraq war thingy.
it’s heroism if it is used against a government run by a socialist nazi gay kenyan
oh, that jellied chicken looks a bit like Karl Rove
DELib–you just gonna stand by and take that?
That the jellied chicken looks like Karl Rove?
I can see that — they are both icky.
i mean his forehead. its kind of the same color/texture. i also have a feeling it only appeals to very white people. i cant see anyone with any culture other than WASP being into that shit.
anyone else think it is really Unamerican that they play other country’s national anthems at the olympics? commie bastards! probably an ACORN plot
(have you called tom and ted today?)
Thanks for reminding everyone, a.p. Be sure to keep calling Carper and Kaufman! There’s been lots of movement on the public option front, with Reid and Obama expressing support.
I think we should word it like this “has senator carper decided to side with the American people who gave him their vote, or the insurance companies who gave him their money?”
Hey Cassandra,
They left off the big blob of mayonnaise in the center. Much more attractive and definitely WASP food. You can’t have WASP food without mayonnaise. ;o)
Happy weekend without snow everyone!
Ollie North is the perfect speaker for a DEGOP gathering. Famous for providing arms to the very Iranian Mullahs Republicans continue to pee their pants over, he is the perfect embodiment of DEGOP amnesia. I don’t know which amnesia afflicted Delaware Republican is funnier. Mike Castle who forgot that he voted against the economic stimulus before going around taking credit for it, or Dave Burris who can’t remember all the way back to 2008 when voters ejected Republicans for wrecking the economy with their screwball economic policies. The same policies that Burris thinks just might work if tried again with more gusto this time.
Observation: Kent County GOP Chairman David Burris is not Jason’s Favorite Punching Bag David Burris.
President Haig has died
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/20/AR2010022001243.html?hpid=topnews
Haig was the real guy, portrayed by Reagan and John Wayne. Never got his own show–but he even had looks!!! I always wondered what happened to him. Smitty, Smitty, Smitty–you around? Ike and Alex rest in peace.
Not mayonnaise, Rebecca — Miracle Whip. Ick.
General Haig was no hero! Like Henry Kissinger he was responsible for war crimes during Vietnam.
Yup. In retrospect aren’t all wars criminal?
What I don’t like about Burris is that he is smart enough to know that the policies he champions (tax cuts for the wealthy, trash the social safety net, no regulation of the financial sector, wars of nationalist and personal vanity) have wrecked the economy – but he is Republican enough to keep pushing those failed policies for his own narrow self-interest.
That jellied chicken both looks like, and describes DIck Cheney.
Going to “Harispray” tonight. Tired of the same three places we always eat. Can anyone make any restaurant recommendations? Is the Columbus Inn back in business?
Jason, have you tried Domaine Hudson or Mikimotos? (Both on Washington Street) Also, Mr. P and I both love Orillas – a tapas restaurant at 413 N. Market Street.
Harry’s Seafood (Riverfront) always delivers. Haven’t been to Moro’s (on Scott St. near Kid’s) in a while, but they usually deliver fine dining.
I’d make reservations at every one. Hopefully I haven’t named the 3 places you’re tired of!
My first choice would be Orillas.
Mikimotos is the best place ever.
I love Mikimotos, too. But if I may offer a suggestion. Do not order an entree. Order a bunch of appetizers and… enjoy!
Orillas is awesome! If you want to go, make reservations pronto — they are difficult to get into on weekends. There is a new sushi place at the Riverfront called Kooma’s. Very Nice indeed.
Columbus Inn is not yet back in business but they are furiously working to get there.
I was never really thrilled with Columbus Inn – and I went there often in the day – when I use to work at the premiere salon down the street 😉 and once with the NJ’s food critic before they closed. Yuk!
Haven’t tried Kooma’s yet – Cassandra, are you free any time soon?
Orillas rocks!
Thanks all.
Orillas is major nom. Their flatbreads are awesome, as is the pulpo con papas.
I’ve been disappointed by Mikimoto’s BIG TIME the past few years. Prices have gone up, but the size of the rolls have SHRUNK considerably. As well, it seems they have no clue how to make an acceptable sweet potato fry. You don’t just take them out of the oil and put them in a basket. They need to drain for a minute or two. Every time I go there, I order the sweet potato fries thinking whoever’s behind the fryer will FINALLy get it right. I love sweet potato fries so much and really love seeing them on menus, but when I get a soggy, uncrisp, limp sweet potato fry, it really kind of peeves me.
I only went to the Columbus Inn once and had a Caesar salad and the mac and cheese. Both were excellent. Am told they had a killer Sunday brunch, but I never went to that.
I am away a couple of days this week, but next week might be cool to run down to Koomas!
Prices have gone up at Mikimotos. But I mostly eat the sashimi or nigiri sushi and don’t know too much about the rest. They have ALOT of types of rolls — too many for me — but this seems to be one of their big appeals.
they still have happy hour specials. i like them for their atmosphere. Inuyasha meets yuppy alooflness.