The Threat To America That Is Barack Hussein Obama

@ossobuco,

ossobuco wrote:

I'm guessing your missus might be like my friend, really knowledgeable.
Knowledge has many airports.. the connections can take a bit of radar.

it's frightening how natural it comes to some people. it really does help having someone like that around to do the osmosis thing on.

Do you know about the Toronto couple? As is my way, I forget their names, and ehBeth can probably just say....

not ringing a bell, but i'll ask beth when i see her next post. can never have too much information...

reminds me, there was a pretty well know jazz club up cahuenga blvd, just up over the pass, the Baked Potato. could that be the one? i guess it's still there.

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@DontTreadOnMe,

DontTreadOnMe wrote:

ossobuco wrote:
Y'know who probably knows a lot about morroccan cooking is Free Duck..

cool. i may have to drag her over to this thread.

Sorry I'm late! I know a shwee tiny bit. I'm not cook myself, but I've eaten the real thing and know if it's good. If you're looking for a spice for lamb I've only ever seen cumin and salt used. Off to read the rest of the thread.

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@FreeDuck,

FreeDuck wrote:

Sorry I'm late!

anytime is a good time!

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@FreeDuck,

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Off to read the rest of the thread.

Skip my posts mate.

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hah! and now we have one more example of the nefarious plan to destroy all that is good about america by the demonic messiah Barack Hussein Obama. here he is seen with his mol as they flit from commie-socialist terrorist meetings with other agents of A.C.O.R.N.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-05/31/xin_3020506311939468203357.jpg

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-05/31/xin_302050631193973449788.jpg

that's right!!! THEY WENT TO NEW YORK CITY FOR DINNER AND A SHOW!!!!!

just look at them.. smiling. it's obscene in the extreme. it's sickening to any real american. obama should be impeached even if only for this treasonous breach of trust.

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in other news.... today, the ol' cucina was abuzz with the sounds of dtom's homemade so.cal. chili being made with love. and a whole can of beer.

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@DontTreadOnMe,

Oh, look and they wore black, how depressing.

So Cal chili, food of the gods..gas on demand. Teasing, I'm soaking anasazi beans as we speak.

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@ossobuco,

ossobuco wrote:

Oh, look and they wore black, how depressing.

So Cal chili, food of the gods..gas on demand. Teasing, I'm soaking anasazi beans as we speak.

see? us californians really are serious about energy alternatives.

i've never heard of anasazi beans. anything to do with the tribe?

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@DontTreadOnMe,

Yes, though I don't know if they still call it a tribe, maybe a culture. I remain pretty southwest ignorant. I can't remember when I bought them, but it was probably something like two years ago, thus the soaking, though the directions on the package don't say to. They have taken up water, as it happens.

They're from a company in Colorado.

Aha, from the package -

"Anasazi Beans were one of the few crops cultivated by the Anasazi Indians.
Anasazi is a Navajo word meaning "ancient ones". The Anasazi Indians are best identified for their architectural achievements known today as cliff dwellings and inhabited these structures as early as 130 A.D. Today these structures can be seen at areas such as Mesa Verde National Park, located in southeastern Colorado. Anasazi Beans are faster cooking, with a sweeter flavor, and can be used for all bean dishes such as chile, baked, soups, and Mexican foods. (Anasazi Beans is a registered trademark of Adobe Creek Milling Company)"

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aha. i like the idea that they are a little sweeter than others. gonna have to track some down.

the chili is nearly done bubblin'. and your beans have inspired me to soak the bag of navy beans i have and make more soup tomorrow. the weather down here has been really mild so far, so chili and soup still seems to fit right.

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@ossobuco,

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Yes, though I don't know if they still call it a tribe, maybe a culture. I remain pretty southwest ignorant.

Allow me to enhance your knowledge, Osso. Anasazi never was an official tribal designation. The word in Navajo means something like "the old ones" or "those who came before." The so-called Anasazi pueblos were already falling into ruins when the Navajo, an Athapascan people, arrived on the scene. The Anasazi had done been and gone and left behind some magnificent architecture. They (the Anasazi) are thought to have been the ancestors of present day Hopi and Zuni and other pueblo-dwelling cultures.

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@Merry Andrew,

Actually, Merry, that's what I thought I've read... not that they were Navajo - it's just what the Navajo called them.

I've read more than the bean package - trying to remember the name of the publication, ah, yes, High Country News, I think - and Dys knows quite a bit, but my own knowledge is shallow, more impressions than years of accumulated and understood data.

I've heard of the beans before, years before, from a friend I worked with in LA.. who had visited the cliff dwellings back then. I'd forgotten about the beans, frankly, until I was going through my bean package basket today.

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@Merry Andrew,

see? we can all learn at least one new thing a day. diggin' it!

thanx, m.a.!

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@DontTreadOnMe,

DontTreadOnMe wrote:

ossobuco wrote:

I'm guessing your missus might be like my friend, really knowledgeable.
Knowledge has many airports.. the connections can take a bit of radar.

it's frightening how natural it comes to some people. it really does help having someone like that around to do the osmosis thing on.

Do you know about the Toronto couple? As is my way, I forget their names, and ehBeth can probably just say....

not ringing a bell, but i'll ask beth when i see her next post. can never have too much information...
reminds me, there was a pretty well know jazz club up cahuenga blvd, just up over the pass, the Baked Potato. could that be the one? i guess it's still there.

I didn't process that you had responded on those -
I'll look the Toronto couple up (her name starts with N...)

The jazz club, I'm starting to think, started with the name Mickey. It was down on the flats, I think south of Hwd Blvd.

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But wait, I came back to the thread to say that I cooked the Anasazi beans today, and they came out very nicely, and now await becoming chile (italo southwesto, or maybe portughesa southwestiera) or.. if I can find some lamb that doesn't break my wallet, a version of 'moroccan cassoulet'.

As to the beans, I like their size, and I like the taste and 'tooth' (with nothing, no salt or anything else added yet). Sweet, I wouldn't go so far as sweet, exactly, but I can see what they mean.

Off to look at food writers - I figure I'll find the Toronto people but maybe I'll also find the woman author I mentioned earlier, the one respected for ferreting out local recipes in (to me) far away places.

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@ossobuco,

I found the couple -
Naomi Duguid and Jeffrey Alford - NYT article about them here -
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/29/magazine/29food.html?scp=1&sq=naomi%20duguid%20+%20jeffrey%20alford&st=cse

And sure enough, the woman's name I was trying to remember is also in that article, Claudia Roden.

In the meantime, I ran across a zillion cookbooks in best seller lists that I don't want to read..

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@ossobuco,

wow, thanks for the leads on the cookbooks. i'm on a mission to find some more exotic dishes that i can get my picky eater, ms. dtom, to dig into.

i'm not sure which jazzclub it was. depending on what year it was, and was way down la brea, it may have been The Parisian Room. it was quite famous at one time. sadly, it closed before i got down there. around 1981. it was a doozy from what i heard.

77 sunset strip was still open till the late 70s. ?

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@DontTreadOnMe,

Parisian room sounds familiar.. I was never there. Went to the Lighthouse in Hermosa a bunch of times.

On the books, you're welcome. I should get one or more of those myself, whatever I can find used for $o.o1. I still haven't cooked my way through one of Madhur Jaffrey's books, though.

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@ossobuco,

Found the jazz place, I think - almost gave up -
it was Shelly's Manne Hole. I can't find the address to be positive.

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@ossobuco,

ossobuco wrote:

Went to the Lighthouse in Hermosa a bunch of times.

played there a time or 2. our music was not jazz though. not by a long shot. Laughing

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@ossobuco,

ossobuco wrote:

Found the jazz place, I think - almost gave up -
it was Shelly's Manne Hole. I can't find the address to be positive.

here ya go!

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/83/Shelly-Manne-Best-Of.jpg

http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/news.php?id=27492

shame. i wasn't into jazz at all really when i was younger. except for miles... he was so radical i had to go there.

i like some of the early ecm stuff too.

bill evans........

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