The Fog of War MMP

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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So, as some of you know, I just got done being an assistant crew leader for the Ottawa Folk Fest. Let me just say right now, the kitchen crew is the bestest, hardest working, most co-ordinated group of M-Fers that you’ve ever seen. Wow, do those guys ever work their asses off! Even when you enter that “Fog of War”, they keep their cool, just power through, and get everyone fed. So, with that in mind, this week’s MMP includes a recipe, which we did not serve at the folk fest, because our ground chicken order came in, surprise surprise, cooked!

I totally wrote up this recipe the other day, because I wasn’t sure I could actually remember it on a Monday morning/Sunday night. This could be cheating. I’m not sure.

I came up with this recipe one day, because I didn’t have time to let pieces of chicken or pork marinate for a few hours. Also, I am lazy. Anyhoo, here we go.
Greek Chicken Koftas

1 1/2 lbs ground chicken
1 clove garlic, minced
1 tablespoon dried oregano
3 tablespoons fresh mint
1/2 lemon, squeezed
1 tbsp olive oil
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 tsp pepper

More olive oil, for oiling the grill

Chopped tomatoes
Chopped cucumbers
Thinly sliced red onion
Store bought Tzatiki
Greek style pitas

Equipment: Metal or wooden skewers and a grill
In a large bowl, mix together chicken, spices, lemon juice, olive oil, salt and pepper. Git in there and use your hands. Form into 5 long meatballs around 5 metal or wooden skewers. Heeee… they look like…thingys. Heeeeee. Refridgerate for at least 15 minutes.

In the meantime, preheat your grill to high and chop your toppings.

Oil the grill REALLY WELL, and cook the koftas until cooked through, remember it’s ground meat, (about 4 minutes each side.) Heat the pitas on the grill for a minute or so, just til warm.

To serve, spread a pita with tzatiki, place a koftka in the centre, and top with tomatoes, cucumbers and red onion. Watch your family devour them.

So, there it is, your MMP. First time doin one of these. Hope my post makes some kind of sense!

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WhooHOOHOO FIRST!!!**
Orange**; great MMP! BTW, That sounds AWESOME. I would add black olives ( I don’t like em, but some people might) or feta cheese.

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LOL First time I do this, AND I PUT IT IN THE WRONG FORUM. OK, post reported, now I’m going to bed!

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Moved to MPSIMS from Cafe Society.

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grumble mumble Is it even Monday over there?

Anyway, at work, going over the weekend’s going-ons at the Dope. Ought’a be copying tables from The Big Blue Database to a .doc… zzzZZZZzzzz…

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Great OP, Orange, and it sounds yummy!

Yes, Nava, Monday has arrived over here too. It’s dismal and grey for us but it’s a public holiday so no work for me. I have a list of things to do today for our holiday so I will have to get on with those but I can’t do any of it until 'im indoors gets out of bed. He decided to watch a film and drink a quantity of wine last night so it might be a while before he surfaces.

I’m putting dye on my hair instead, that will take up a bit of time, and then maybe I’ll go outside and dig up some spuds. Such excitement, huh?

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Good morning and thanks for getting our week off to a nice start, Orange! That recipe of yours sounds nice. I had to use my google-fu on the Tzatiki. Thru my tired eyes, I saw “tiki” and wondered what possible use that would have with chicken…)

It looks like Irene wasn’t as bad as predicted. I hope everyone made it through safe & sound.

Oh and swampy, I took your suggestion and had pancakes with my brekkie on Sunday. The gf made me an enormous one that was an inch thick and covered the plate. Looks like my pancake tank will be full for a while.

Happy Monday all. Despite the blurfs, we’ll make it. Remember the immortal words of Red Green “I’m pulling for you. We’re all in this together.”

Bri2k
(I’m a man, I can change, if I have to, I guess.)

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But you’re over here, not over there.

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Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffienatin’ YAWN ‘Tis <snerk> 69 <snerk> degrees Amurrkin out with a predicted high of a hunnert once again. We are promised a “cool down” to the low 90s toward the end of the week. Speakin’ of which, since next Monday is Labor Day over heah, a doin’s of sort is planned at the pool for Sattidy. I need to decide between smoked chikin boobs and Boston <snerk> butt. <snerk> Of course there is the possibility of doin’ both cause smoker is big enough and I need sump’n to take to the church house the next day cause it will be brunch Sunday. We shall see.

Wolf (still workin’ on the nickname) that recipe sounds nummy and will most likely get a trial here at da cave soon.

Brick yay on the pancake. Can’t go wrong with pancakes ever.

Ok, I need more caffiene and rumbly tummy wants to be fed. Then, alas, irk purtification must commence. Le Sigh.

Happy Monday Y’all!

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Blurf.

An MMP posted to Cafe Society? The noive! :dubious:

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Oh, forgot.

Yesterday we deheatenized at that convent of Sisters of St Clare (is that the correct name in English? If it isn’t, you still know which ones I mean, right?) I’ve mentioned several times around here. We like going there when The Kidlets are not around, because it’s empty compared with any of the Masses at Mom’s parish. After Mass ended, and in reference to she-flatmate’s ranting about “I don’t see what’s the point of having all these people here for World Youth Day, when churches are empty”, I turned to Mom and said “good thing churches are empty”. That chapel seats about 80 (nuns not included, as they’re in a different room), I’d counted over 60.

There’s one of them who’s got Alzheimer’s, it’s gone so fast that it’s been weeks since her last moment of lucidity. She’s strong and healthy otherwise, so when there were times she’d do things like try to go cook at 3am it was problematic to steer back to bed, but they’ve been able to figure out how to handle her; her best friend since the novitiate told us that often the sick nun will realize that she knows her but not what from and say “are you my cousin? You’re my cousin, aren’t you?” “Yes I am! And you haven’t even given me a hug!” Rather than try to explain, they’re focusing on keeping her happy and life in the convent peaceful.

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Up, caffeinated, off to irk.

Great OP, Wolf!

Nava, sadly it is Monday here. But Monday might be my Friday. And I’d rather be happy than lucid(just ask anybody who pub crawls with me:D )

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nummy sounding recipe, Orange

Oh, it’s Monday alright. Monday came in loud because I forgot to lower the volume on the TV before going to sleep last night - so the weather report REALLY woke me up - good thing my clock is set for 10 minutes later, because I instinctively shut the TV off and fell back asleep

Weather here, post Irene, is simply gorgeous. All the windows (that can open) are open. the fresh air is lovely

However, my back is in major spasm (of course it is - always has to be something). :frowning: :mad:

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Good morning! Sounds like a yummy recipe, Orange.

I got up ealry to go to the gym. The pool heaters were not working! Brr! I sucked it up and swam and did aerobics anyway.

So here I am at irk, and the damn AC is broken. Again. :mad: If y’all didn’t know it, yesterday we broke a temperature record of 109°. Today is expected to be more of the same. It’s freakin’ HOT in here!!! :frowning:

Wah. I wanna go back home. :frowning:

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Not only was it 109 during the day but it doesn’t cool off the rest of the time either. When I came in at 6:45 pm it was still 100. Most every project outside has been pushed back toward October or so. I’ve never seen anything like it.

Those Koftas sound delicious. I’m looking for a Hatch Chile reciepe too. I roasted a bunch on the grill and put 'em in eggs with cheese but I’d like to find some way to do them as an appetizer too.

Hopin’ all our NE MMPers fared well with the big blow.

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(author’s note: ingestion of caffeine has yet to commence. Forgiveness for sub-par brain performance is requested in advance.)

A good morning to a miserable Monday and my not-so-miserable SDMB faceless friends!

Woke up at 5.30, started the coffee, went and took a shower, got dressed. All was good and right with the world, until…

:confused:

Uh… why is the coffee pot not working? [hits with a wooden spoon. No go. Curses it. No go. Kids wake up wondering why dad yelling at kitchen appliances. Kids reassured dad is still sane. Throws coffee pot in the trash]

Ok… calm down calm down calmdowncalmdown… Coffee. Need coffee. Ah ha! Time to get out the ol’ Bialetti pot and get some coffee!

Damn good thing, too. My oldest starts school today!!! First grade! My god, wasn’t he just born like… yesterday? Sounds about right. Why the hell is he is school already? First grade… which is cool. Little guy can read. And I mean read. A Berenstain Bears or Curious George book he just blows through like its no big deal. I’m no expert, but that is certainly some seriously cool shit. My son can read! :cool: I went on a date once -this was post highschool- with a girl/woman who couldn’t read the menu. My six-year-old has her beat.

And my youngest son starts preschool next week. It just gets better and better! Then… I start school at the end of September. A 30yo going to college… that’s nerve-wracking, to say the least.

Well, time to get the munchkins loaded up and off to school. Christ, I could use another cup of coffee. Although, to be fair, the old machine I bought at a garage sale for $3, and that was 6 or 7 years ago. Got some good mileage out of it. Going to have to stop at K mart on the way home.

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I got to sleep in a little this morning. No commute today as I am working from the house for a couple of hours then I am headed to Little Rock for a week long work trip. A fun 6 hour drive form here.

Hope fcm is OK!

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Snapshot in time from Sunday:
The Other Shoe is naked under his bathrobe; the TV is tuned to the Playboy channel and various naked people are screwing in various combinations; the sound is tuned to NPR’s weekend lineup; neither of us is paying attention to any of that because we’re busy brushing the cats’ teeth.

I love days off. :slight_smile:
Snapshot in time from this morning:
The sigh, sound, and smell of rain hitting the already-hot concrete. (It’s 9:30 am here.) My sincerest sympathy to the folks who’ve been flooded by Irene, but we’ll take every last drop we can get down here. (TX).

MAKE IT RAIN!! RAIN!! Rain, rain, rain, raindety-rain.

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btw - this should be Orange’s profile pic

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Hmmm…

A) Naked Husband
B) TV tuned to porn but muted, because
C) John Ydstie and Will Shortz are on the radio
D) While you both are srubbing a… pussy?

Freud would have a field day with this.