One-Pot Roman Chicken Cacciatore With Potatoes - NYT - Recipe
"The only real stumbling black is fear of failure.
In cooking you have to have a what-the-hell attitude"
~Julia Child
While all the stupid, and dangerous, food recalls continue to rage, I am finding myself craving comfort food, and for me that means Italian food! Pastas, olives, and hearty Italian dishes of all kinds, usually make my soul happy! I love fresh salads and seasonal fruits, but I decided I am going to ignore my love of berries, lettuces and assorted fresh vegetables, for now. I did, however, find a salad that sounds fresh and enjoyable and that seems like it will pair nicely with this recipe.
Melon Salad With Nectarines, Tomatoes And Basil - NYT - Recipe
"2020 has been such a shitty year, 2020 should replace 666 and 13,
as the number that symbolizes evil and misfortune."
~Oliver Marcus Malloy
Inside The Mind Of An Introvert
We are quicky approaching the final quarter of 2026, and other than the massive recalls of practically everything we eat, I'd say we are doing very well! Tut there is a little sticky wicket that we all tend to forget, Covid-19 isn't gone, and right now, it is surging in most states! Shrug. This post is probably nothing too different from my usual posts about Covid, but jeeze... I feel like a damn sitting duck most of the time. Vaccines are available, take them! Masks are still a good idea, use them! Who knows what the next devastating illness that will run through us will be? Sometimes I just want to yell at the top of my lungs, HELP!
"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread, winding it's way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that, 'my ignorance means just as much as your knowledge. "
~Isaac Asimov
This is so stupid and salacious I don't even want to think about it, but it is now apart of history, so here were are. This woman, Natalie Harp, is in love with Trump. How? Why? Who knows, but it's fairly apparent that she is. From ridiculous love letters, that spooked the Secret Service, to her hiding out in trunks of government SUVs to be with him, it's plainly clear that this young lady has a screw loose. As Maggie Haberman of the, New York Times, put it recently, Natalie Harp is Trump's binky. Her main function is to run his social media accounts, and feed him cool stories about himself. Trump is an 80 year old man, with failing health and who is in obvious mental decline, but what is her excuse? Why is she so gaga over a man so misogynistic, mean spirited, and cruel towards others, women in particular? A liar whose, at last count, has told well over 34,000 lies since jumping into the world of national politics. The number is more than likely higher than that! You'd think that hearing him call a female reporter, "piggy" would be enough to tarnish that devotion, but apparently not, she is his faithful Girl Friday. Available to answer his every whim, and reassure his fragile ego that he did indeed win the 2020 election. Oh yeah, and that he's better looking now then when he was in his 30's and his dick is 12 inches long. There's only one thing left to ask about this bizarre circumstance, does Laura Loomer know she has a rival?
Laura Loomer
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Update:
Oops... I guess she does! It seems that the White House has a leaker in their midst!
Well, this can't be good. I have my doubts about that post attributed to Marjorie Taylor Greene, but it's being covered by several respected news outlets, but the New York Times was not one of them. We live in an age when miscalculations could suddenly thrust us into all out war, nuclear or otherwise. On the other hand, if MTG knows something, and speaking up can save an entire world, then you go girl! At the end of the day, we also live in a world where Facebook and X is where people go for their news. I didn't hear word one about this on MS NOW, which is my main source for news, but there's always tomorrow. Who the fuck knows? But it wouldn't surprise me.
Who was the mysterious, Deep Throat? Well, now we all know it was, Mark Felt, former, Deputy Associate Director of the FBI, but in 1973, things were a little bit more, well, mysterious! We didn't even know when this funny, what-if, movie came out, who, Deep Throat, was. We didn't learn his identity until much later, when Felt revealed himself to be the source of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein's Washington Post articles exposing the crimes of the Nixon White administration. Watergate was quite the smear on American politics, Nixon betrayed the trust of American's who supported him. It took a long time for some to recover from it. Fast forward and here were are! The Nixon era makes current American politics seem... quaint. But perhaps one day we will all laugh about the times we are currently living in. Time does heal all wounds, and it also wounds all heels, so there's that. I hope so, and watching comedies that bring what was possible, into what could be, works for me! I love funny movies about politics, but this movie is more than funny, it's got heart, and you'll feel patriotic just watching it! Well, that might be a bit of an overstatement, but you'll cheer for Betsey and Arlean, and doesn't that feel good?
This movie comes with a pretty delicious recipe for, Hello Dolly bars, also known as, 7 Layer bars or Magic Cookie bars. Here is the recipe, minus the little extra "magic" provided by Betsey's brother, Larry. Although I like Larry's variation too!
Hello Dolly Bars
Searched and sourced from AI Assistant
1/2 cup ( 1 stick ) of butter, melted
2 cups graham cracker crumbs
1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
1 cup butterscotch chips
1 cups chopped walnuts or pecans
1 cups sweetened flaked coconut
1 14oz can Sweetened condensed milk
Set oven to 350 degrees.
Put the butter inside your 13x9 inch baking pan,
and let melt in the oven or microwave.
Mix the graham crackers and press into the melted butter to form a base.
Sprinkle the Chocolate chips, butterscotch chips, chopped nuts,
and coconut evenly over the crust layer.
Drizzle the sweetened condensed milk over the top layers,
so it sinks into the layers.
Bake for 25 - 30 minutes until the edges are golden brown.
Cool completely before cutting into squares.
Note:
You can substitute chopped dried fruit such as apricots or cherries, for the coconut.
And now, a little music from the era... some of my very favorite songs from the early 1970's.
"If television's a babysitter, the Internet is a drunk librarian who won't shut up!"
~Dorothy Gambrell
Cat And The Girl Vol.1
Okay, so later this week we will make the switch to Dish TV. We currently have Xfinity, and have been their devoted customers for over a decade, but the price for it has gotten completely out of control, especially right now, when the price of everything else is equally untenable. We are paying $275 a month for their top tier channel line-up, internet, and home security. The equipment for Xfinity Home is basic, but does alert police if something is happening, like it did several years ago when someone tried to break into our old house, not once, but twice! Also, we had to subscribe to TCM for $9.99 extra a month, rather than get it for free, because Comcast, in it's infinite wisdom, decided that not enough regular customers were watching the channel, so they boxed it with a sports and entertainment package, which I paid for, but never used. Ugh.
But with the new change we will be saving around $150 a month, and TCM comes standard with our service from Dish. Now, to be clear, the package doesn't include Internet, I get that from T-Mobile for $30 a month, and I am planning to approach our home security differently too. Maybe bolster our Ring account with new equipment, or possibly I will look into ADT or maybe SimpliSafe. We'll see. San Joaquin County charges an additional $75 per year to have a security system that alerts the police, in the event of a break-in, or emergency, and even more if the alarm goes off, when there is no emergency! It get that false alarms can be expensive, but come one, I feel like I am being ripped off right and left! Oh well, I will figure it out, and in the meantime, I am saving a lot of money, and getting a little more for it!
I hate the idea of a two year contract, because I am 64 years old and who the hell knows if I will even be alive in two years, but here's to making whatever future is ahead of us better! I will update later in the week about how the installation goes. I extremely dislike letting representatives into my home. Everyone thinks there is no such thing as Covid-19 anymore, and no one wants to wear a mask. How many homes will the installation professional be in, before he spends time in our home? What germs might he bring along with him?
I hate that Covid happened, but it did, and it changed my life. Sometimes I feel like a drunk librarian, with all I do to research all the happenings surrounding the Coronavirus, and the FDA Recall lists. It's hard to not feel anxiety about it all, when it has affected me the way it did. I am doing the best I can, and trying to take care of us the best ways I can.
"As a matter of fact, most cases of food poisoning are never linked back to their source."
~Eric Schlosser
Walmart
Stockton, California
August 14th 2026
There were exactly 3 bags of Taylor Farms Salads available on the shelf, at my local Walmart. The, Buffalo Ranch,Maple BourbonBacon, and Nashville Hot. As I looked at the shelves, I wondered why three remained? One bag of each? Where did they come from? Do they belong there? Did someone pick them up, found out that they were recalled, and they put them back? Were these flavors exempt from the recalls? What are we putting in our bodies?
Are there enough CDC scientists to catch the next pandemic? How about the next really big cases of Salmonella or Legionnaires poisonings. What about the Norovirus or E. Coli?? Is The FDA doing all it can, particularly in that there have been so many cuts to their research teams? While we are busy with these real concerns, are we keeping just as busy ignoring Covid-19 variants and surges? It looks like the usual summer surge of Covid-19 has been relatively mild, will the autumn and winter surges be equally as mild?
I have honest fears.
I think I have good reasons for them.
A lot of products seem to be disappearing off the shelves.
