Tags:
Today I will:
( Cut for quotidiana )I think I'll finish my coffee and start with getting dressed and getting on the bike.
( Cut for quotidiana )I think I'll finish my coffee and start with getting dressed and getting on the bike.
If you have at any point kept a toothbrush at my house (and are not sabotabby, who lives here), please be advised that as of today, I am throwing out all the toothbrushes. The next time you need a toothbrush, you may take one of the new toothbrushes that I have purchased from its sealed package, use it, write your name on it in Sharpie (I shall provide a Sharpie, writing names for the use of), and leave it in my toothbrush basket for your use whenever you are here.
I am nearly sure that there were toothbrushes in that basket that had not seen any use in the past three years, and I have quite forgotten whose is whose. So, I suspect, have many of the original toothbrush owners.
For the record, mine is the small hot pink toothbrush.
I apologize to any who may have loved their original toothbrushes. The situation in my toothbrush basket was getting out of control.
That is all.
I am nearly sure that there were toothbrushes in that basket that had not seen any use in the past three years, and I have quite forgotten whose is whose. So, I suspect, have many of the original toothbrush owners.
For the record, mine is the small hot pink toothbrush.
I apologize to any who may have loved their original toothbrushes. The situation in my toothbrush basket was getting out of control.
That is all.
For human_loser, who recently bemoaned the lack of good chili recipes on the Web. This is how I make chili, in a Crock Pot. You can use a pot on the stove, but if you do, you probably should go off to yoga class or to sleep while it's simmering. This makes a lot of chile. You can make less chile by halving the recipe. You can also get creative with the additions. I have added chopped carrot, green pepper, various types of hot pepper, and cubed firm tofu. I really like the way red lentils make the chili thick and hearty, especially if I'm not adding fake ground round.
Ingredients
1 medium sized cooking onion, chopped reasonably fine
4 cloves garlic, minced
1 - 2 tbsp chili powder (yes, you can make your own, but this is just simpler)
Optional: 1 package fake ground round, with or without Mexican seasoning*
3 or 4 chipotles, chopped
2 or 3 jalapeno peppers, chopped
1 can red kidney beans, drained and rinsed (or 1 cup cooked red kidney beans)
1 can black beans, drained and rinsed (or 1 cup cooked black beans)
(You can also use chickpeas, red lentils, and/or pinto beans)
1 can chopped tomatoes (you can also peel, seed, and chop 8 large tomatoes, if you really want to or think tinned foods are evil)
Salt
Oil for cooking the onion
Optional additions:
1 chopped red or yellow bell pepper
1 cup frozen corn niblets
A few handfuls of sliced button mushrooms
Spicy pepper sauce
Tomato paste
Process
Start your slow cooker warming up. Add your tomatoes and chili powder.
In a large-ish frying pan, heat the oil (about 2 tbsp) on medium heat. Add the onions and cook them until they are soft and transparent. Add the garlic, and fake (or real, if you must) meat, and turn down the heat, cooking until the garlic is cooked and the fake meat is "browned." Remove the frying pan from the stove (turn the stove off!), and put its contents into your slow cooker.
To the tomatoes, onions, optional meat (fake or real), and garlic, add the chili powder, chipotles, jalapenos, beans/lentils, optional mushrooms, and a bit of salt. Cover. Turn the slow cooker up to high if you have not already done so. If it looks too full of beans and stuff and not sufficiently sauce-y, add a tin of tomato paste and some water. If it looks too watery, add a handful of red lentils.
Go away: go to sleep, or to work, or to yoga class, or to anyplace that will take you away for several hours while your kitchen and home fill with the smells of cooking chili.
When you come back, peep into your burbling slow cooker. Taste the results. If you like it hotter, add some chili sauce. About 20 minutes before you want to serve it, add your corn or bell pepper, if you're doing that.
Serve with warm corn bread.
* If you want meat in your chili, substitute ground beef. Brown it after you've clarified your onions.
Ingredients
1 medium sized cooking onion, chopped reasonably fine
4 cloves garlic, minced
1 - 2 tbsp chili powder (yes, you can make your own, but this is just simpler)
Optional: 1 package fake ground round, with or without Mexican seasoning*
3 or 4 chipotles, chopped
2 or 3 jalapeno peppers, chopped
1 can red kidney beans, drained and rinsed (or 1 cup cooked red kidney beans)
1 can black beans, drained and rinsed (or 1 cup cooked black beans)
(You can also use chickpeas, red lentils, and/or pinto beans)
1 can chopped tomatoes (you can also peel, seed, and chop 8 large tomatoes, if you really want to or think tinned foods are evil)
Salt
Oil for cooking the onion
Optional additions:
1 chopped red or yellow bell pepper
1 cup frozen corn niblets
A few handfuls of sliced button mushrooms
Spicy pepper sauce
Tomato paste
Process
Start your slow cooker warming up. Add your tomatoes and chili powder.
In a large-ish frying pan, heat the oil (about 2 tbsp) on medium heat. Add the onions and cook them until they are soft and transparent. Add the garlic, and fake (or real, if you must) meat, and turn down the heat, cooking until the garlic is cooked and the fake meat is "browned." Remove the frying pan from the stove (turn the stove off!), and put its contents into your slow cooker.
To the tomatoes, onions, optional meat (fake or real), and garlic, add the chili powder, chipotles, jalapenos, beans/lentils, optional mushrooms, and a bit of salt. Cover. Turn the slow cooker up to high if you have not already done so. If it looks too full of beans and stuff and not sufficiently sauce-y, add a tin of tomato paste and some water. If it looks too watery, add a handful of red lentils.
Go away: go to sleep, or to work, or to yoga class, or to anyplace that will take you away for several hours while your kitchen and home fill with the smells of cooking chili.
When you come back, peep into your burbling slow cooker. Taste the results. If you like it hotter, add some chili sauce. About 20 minutes before you want to serve it, add your corn or bell pepper, if you're doing that.
Serve with warm corn bread.
* If you want meat in your chili, substitute ground beef. Brown it after you've clarified your onions.
Wow, you guys. Beethoven kicked my butt tonight. Then Bruckner stomped on my groaning nearly dead form, and now I have no voice. Whose brilliant idea was it to program Beethoven's 9th and Bruckner's Te Deum in one concert? Someone who hated sopranos, that's who!
Seriously, Beethoven, who could not hear the tortured noises the real-live sopranos were making, thought it'd be lovely to have a page of high A. And then to throw in some B-flats for good measure. It sounded so great in his head, you see.
Bruckner looked at what Beethoven did, and thought "Hey neat! I should do that too! Only I'll have them go up to a C! It'll be great. I don't know how he recruited the angel choirs from Beethoven's brain to actually sing the thing, but he must have. A corporeal choir would have mutinied. (Actually, probably not. Choral singers as a species tend to be pretty meek.)
Yesterday, I thought I had a pretty good singing day. Vocally, I mean. Music-wise, yesterday was Purcell's turn to kick my butt, with his wacky quasi-recit.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sarcasma is a good and patient teacher, though, so I feel like I maybe aquitted myself okay.
Speaking of Purcell, you can watch an entire English National Opera production of The Fairy Queen on YouTube (embedding has been disabled, so you'll just have to click the link). The singing is quite excellent. The dancing is also excellent, but weirdly Po-Mo, as is the staging. The cast is pretty, and it's a pretty queer production, all in all: One pair of the lovers is M/M; Titania has drag-handmaidens, as does Oberon; and of course Oberon has a thing for Titania's Indian Boy. You might want to skip the Chinese Wedding Masque—it made me kind of squidgy in my "I think they mean this ironically, but wow does it feel racially problematic" place. That said, I loved the Maoist codpieces. Still and all, if you're feeling a lack of English Baroque Pseudo-Opera in your life (and who does not, from time to time*), this may be the antidote.
*excluding![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
loolica , who has told me that she just plain doesn't like classical music, and therefore probably never feels a lack of English Baroque, which is cool because she's an awesome person, and it would be a boring world if we were all the same.
Seriously, Beethoven, who could not hear the tortured noises the real-live sopranos were making, thought it'd be lovely to have a page of high A. And then to throw in some B-flats for good measure. It sounded so great in his head, you see.
Bruckner looked at what Beethoven did, and thought "Hey neat! I should do that too! Only I'll have them go up to a C! It'll be great. I don't know how he recruited the angel choirs from Beethoven's brain to actually sing the thing, but he must have. A corporeal choir would have mutinied. (Actually, probably not. Choral singers as a species tend to be pretty meek.)
Yesterday, I thought I had a pretty good singing day. Vocally, I mean. Music-wise, yesterday was Purcell's turn to kick my butt, with his wacky quasi-recit.
sarcasma is a good and patient teacher, though, so I feel like I maybe aquitted myself okay. Speaking of Purcell, you can watch an entire English National Opera production of The Fairy Queen on YouTube (embedding has been disabled, so you'll just have to click the link). The singing is quite excellent. The dancing is also excellent, but weirdly Po-Mo, as is the staging. The cast is pretty, and it's a pretty queer production, all in all: One pair of the lovers is M/M; Titania has drag-handmaidens, as does Oberon; and of course Oberon has a thing for Titania's Indian Boy. You might want to skip the Chinese Wedding Masque—it made me kind of squidgy in my "I think they mean this ironically, but wow does it feel racially problematic" place. That said, I loved the Maoist codpieces. Still and all, if you're feeling a lack of English Baroque Pseudo-Opera in your life (and who does not, from time to time*), this may be the antidote.
*excluding
loolica , who has told me that she just plain doesn't like classical music, and therefore probably never feels a lack of English Baroque, which is cool because she's an awesome person, and it would be a boring world if we were all the same. Tags:
.
