So, the Cornish hens were huge and didn't get all the way done, even though I left them in for long. They had to get chucked in the microwave for a few minutes. You know, I used to like Cornish hens because they were small and served one person, but these were enormous! One was plenty for two people.
Everything else went well, though, and I added polenta to the menu. Mom likes it, but my stepfather doesn't, so she rarely gets to have it. I've got the last bit of it in my lunch today, as well as leftover kale - yummy!
Actually, the leftovers are almost gone already. All that's left is one Cornish hen (probably fated to be dog treats) and about one serving of mashed potatoes.
Give people an opportunity to ask "politically incorrect" questions and get non-judgemental answers to them.
Common topics include race, religion, age, gender, culture and sex. The "best of the week" when I looked included questions about African-American skin tones, pornography use, and homosexuality. All the questions were ones that many people have no doubt thought about many times, but never dared ask.
My mom and stepfather are joining Jeff and me for Thanksgiving this year. Mom and I are vegetarians, so there will be no turkey. We're going with Cornish hens, instead, though they just get bigger every year.
The menu:
Lime Cornish hens (butter under the skin, lime slices on the skin, stuffed with a whole pierced lime)
Chipolte mashed potatoes (red potatoes w/chilies in adobo sauce)
Appetizers will be candied chili nuts (mixed nuts w/chili powder, honey & butter, toasted in oven) and this goat cheese salsa thing with chili lime tortilla chips. Yeah, we're going with a Caribbean theme. How'd you guess? :)
Dessert will be over at my in-laws. Mom's bringing pumpkin pie and my auntie Mo's pecan pie. Yum!
You gotta love it when you catch the illustrious New York Times in a word usage error. From Frank Rich's column, "Bono's new casualty: 'Private Ryan'"
The pressure groups that are exercised by Bono and "Saving Private Ryan" are often the same ones who are campaigning to derail any news organization that's not towing the administration line in lockstep with Fox.
It's "toeing," not "towing."
I hate when words are used incorrectly, even though this mistake is at least understandable - something that a spellchecker could mess up for you. But I have to admit, it's kind of fun catching the New York Times in a mistake. :)
I love my dogs, but I don't love my dogs. I'm sure they'd love breast milk - heck, Indy loves his winter poopcicles, so I'm pretty sure he'll eat anything - but that doesn't mean it's good for them, either physically or mentally.
And her logic is a little whacked - why would her pup defend her kid, just because they both drank breast milk? I just don't get it.
I just watched a pigeon get plucked from the air by a hawk.
While I have no particular love for the particularly stupid breed of central Ohio pigeon, it was rather disturbing to see it happen at eye-level from my office window, only about twenty yards away.
Yet, two flocks of pigeons still are waffling around the downtown skies.
News reports have been abounding lately that vitamin E supplements may not be as good for you as previously thought. I'm not terribly surprised by this.
I worked in a health food store, Sunflower, in college, a small mom & pop one, not one of the near WalMart ones that are now much more common. There, I learned that people believe that if something is good, even more of something must be better. That's safe with some stuff, like vitamin C - it's water-soluable, and if your body doesn't need it, it will excrete it with no problem. Things like vitamin E are fat-soluable. It sticks to the fat in your body and just hangs out there until it's used or you lose the fat. And if you don't use it and it just keeps adding up ... well, eventually you're going to poison yourself.
Even when I worked at Sunflower, it annoyed me to see people gulping down pills without even asking if they needed them. They paid huge amount of money for a bottle of multivitamins, then buy blue corn chips because they were "health food."
Want to get healthy? Eat better and exersize more. Eat your dark, leafy greens and nuts if you want extra vitamin E. Or vitamin C, for that matter. Don't subsist on fast food and chips and then think you can make it all up because you swallow a vitamin pill.
Lecture done.
PS: It's 11/11.
UPDATE: I stand corrected. You can get too much vitamin C. But it's sure a whole hell of a lot harder with a water soluable vitamin.
