Jason Lam's 5-minute pasta

http://www.salon.com/food/eyewitness_cook/…

and a great big jug of chilled Chilean chardonnay.

And a view from the east edge of the yard that reaches Memphis.

Life beats the alternative.

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Tomatoes are abundant in the Ozarks this year. I think tomatoes raised in higher elevations have a better flavor and to me appear much meatier than flatland tomatoes.

Sweetie brought home a quart of various heirloom tomatoes. After re-discovering you must peel them before they're edible I've gone back to tamer cultivators.

Tomato sandwich with cheese:

on two slices of your fav bread spread some olive-oil mayo. then line ea slice with thinly sliced mozzarella, topped with thinly sliced tomatoes. Sprinkle the tomato toppings with fresh basil (dried is ok) and broil each half of the sandwich until the tomato almost sizzles. Put the two halves together and let cool. Great with beer.

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for a little summer reading fun and stimulation there's a free short story dwnld from
Gloria Sawai. It's in rich text format for quick downloading.

"The Day I Sat With Jesus On The Sun Deck And A Wind Came Up And Blew My Kimono Open And He Saw My Breasts"

www.phil.muni.cz/angl/englishdigit/don/can…

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When asked about infiltrators, looked like DPA exec dir had no idea her people were deployed.

*sniff* *sniff*

Eau de Desperacion

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Love the foreshadowing of dirty tricks the Republicans will pull while blaming the opposition, great stuff.


“You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.” Eric Hoffer

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Amidst tomatoes and weddings and local restaurant fiascos, let's not forget what the Republicans, out of office, continue to do to this administration and this country.

http://www.americablog.com/2010/07/judicia…

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Norma, for Pete's sake, it's Saturday night.

It's not like we don't all know this shit, nor that tomatoes taste of politics.

Sweet darling Norma, we all love you, but we sometimes want you to take a rest and taste the tomatoes.

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Good catch Zath. But for me, it's tomatoes, cold beer and two wonderful bitches to share the sun room plus,

reading the latest trend in corporatized education, "Teachers Villages"

- Teacher Villages for charter schools: Medieval castles for the educational company store. Meet Ron Beit, a New York developer, fresh from gaining approval from the New Jersey City’s Landmarks & Preservation Commission for a huge corporate development set to house teachers.

Beit is is pressing ahead with a “Teachers Village”, anchored by charter schools and apartments marketed to educators in New Jersey. The idea is reminiscent of a medieval castle where teachers do not venture out of the castle walls much but get to sleep in the ‘stable’ when not working as serfs for the new charter investors.

http://www.educationnews.org/ednews_today/…

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Cartoon for the addicted. Click on the blue.

http://www.allhatnocattle.net/reaganomics.…

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If you enjoy the best of folk music NPR is live broadcasting the Newport Folk Festival. Some of today's highlights are still up but it ended 7:30 PM EDT.

Tomorrow's schedule is here:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.p…

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eL - the catfish and hush puppies are being cooked right now. Hope the slaw and green tomato relish are good. May add one slicing tomato, can't decide!

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Just for you Goof...quik homemade tartar sauce...1 pint.
You will need
blender,rubber spatula, 2 cup measure, measuring spoons

2 eggs
1 2/3 cups of olive oil, light, you can use other oils but I don't.
1 tblspn fresh lemon juice
2 tsp vinegar (white distilled is my choice)
1 teaspoon dry mustard
1 teaspoon ground cayenne

2 green onions or one small bulb onion cut into chunks
pickles are optional

Add eggs, mustard, cayenne, lemon juice, vinegar and 1/4 cup of the oil in
blender. Push the pulse button a few times until the mixture is well blended,
use spatula to push mixture from sides of blender.

Remove top plug from blender lid to add additional oil.
Add a little more oil and set blender on low speed blend, keep adding oil
slowly as blender is running. Stop to push mixture back into center of blender.
add chunks of onion while blending in oil.
When just about finished adding oil a couple of tablespoons of pickles can be added.

Done. Dip and scrape into container and chill. Will keep for at least 2 weeks in refrig.

You're welcome.

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Cayenne! Now there's a nice twist on tartar sauce, eL. I think I'd like that.

I eat catfish with Louisiana Hotsauce. Or some other red hot sauce if I have to. Someone told me it was a "black" thing, but I don't know about that.

I guess all the black people I've observed do use hot sauce, but I'll bet lots of other people do, too. eL's sauce sounds like the best of both worlds.

It's also good when the catfish is perfectly seasoned that you don't want to interrupt the flavor with anything else. But that won't do for a group, where everybody has different tastes.

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TAP,

Here's one you may like better. Of course hot sauce affectionados know that Louisianan Hot sauce or Tabasco are neither hot sauces.

You will likely find my fav hot sauce on any Asian lunch cafe table.

Sriracha Hot Chili Sauce.

We get ours at one of several local Asian markets or WalMart.

Here's a bit on Sriracha sauce or as my few Asian friends call it, "rooster sauce"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sriracha_sauc…

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I put hot sauce on everything.

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You guys can bid me adieu..I'm off to Los Primeos taqueria for tacos con la lengua with their famous smoked chili sauce and a cold Modello, served by some fine lookin senoritas.
Is anyone else going nutso listening to cicadas get really noisy ?

Meanwhile here's a link to local TV coverage for John Gray's U.S. Senate campaign

http://www.4029tv.com/video/24444075/index…

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Thanks eL, I will print that and give it a go next time. It's funny TAP, both my wife and oldest son ate the catfish and hush puppies with hot sauce. It cracks me up because they say "Please pass the Louisiana". Max, thanks for the editors choice for grocery stores. I put you on to that one.

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i eat catfish with tartar sauce that has hot sauce sprinkled generously over it. as a matter of fact that sounds pretty good right now.....

max, the editor of our local paper puts tabasco on everything. he has to watch his cholesterol really closely. baked potato loaded wtih tabasco sauce. Some people think if you eat a lot of hot sauce it will help you lose weight, but I dont know about that one. I'd have to drink 2 bottles of it with every meal.

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'Pig Meat Is What I Crave' - BO CARTER

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZzjIeXeW5g

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Anybody remember Pigmeat Markham? For whom I say the street is named.

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Americans view alcohol and cigarettes as more dangerous than marijuana.

A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey finds that just 17% of Adults rate use of marijuana as riskier than drinking alcohol. Fifty percent (50%) say alcohol is more dangerous, while 26% rate the two as equally risky. These findings are consistent with a survey last August.

Even a majority of adults who drink alcohol rate it as more dangerous than marijuana. Those who never drink alcohol are more closely divided.

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_con…

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My favorite sandwich in the whole world... is probably one of the simplest. Has to be in tomato season.

Two slices homemade bread, preferably just firm enough not to crumble, gently toasted
One tomato, just out of the garden or given to us by someone who has one of their own
1//2 teaspoon Miracle Whip or less (real butter may be substituted if it's room temperature)
Sprinkle of black pepper

Carefully spread just a sheen of the dressing on the bread. Slice 1/2 inch thick tomato slices. Arrange all of them on the bread. Wrap in a paper towel and eat over the sink.

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I'm with you there, Kat, ever since I was a kid. I'm glad to see you tout Miracle Whip, too. In my family, "mayonnaise" meant Miracle Whip. Real mayonnaise is too--um, something, I don't know--to go with tomatoes. Butter would be perfect.

Actually, as a kid, we ate those, without a paper towel, out in the yard and barefoot, close enough to the sprinkler to rinse off when we were done. Yum!

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