Dammit, now I want a steak, and I haven’t got anything thawed. You bastard.
You have to season it and let it sort of absorb it before searing it and getting that rare center to just where it stops mooing. Sublime. I can taste it.
But you lost me at mushrooms. I’ve tried them but I just don’t…get it. Like olives. Or cilantro. Is it genetic? The texture makes me want to hork.
I purchased two Scanga Meat (local company) tenderloins yesterday. Very $ but worth it as we only don’t do steak that often. I don’t bother with anything else from the grocery store or wherever.
I’m with you on the mushrooms. I don’t mind TOO much if I have to pick them off a piece of pizza. To me, there is know point in them. Have at it if you like 'em. You can have all of mine.
Olives I love, but cilantro is, I believe genetic. Cilantro is OK provided it’s just a bit.
I planned on making spaghetti today, dammit, but somewhere in the back of my freezer is a London Broil, to be unearthed and thawed at room temperature on a special occasion, seared with a dollop of real butter, seasoned with something to be determined after careful contemplation—but definitely freshly-ground----and eaten with from-scratch mashed potatoes.
Oh, and if you want your stuff to keep, I found these things called Rubbermaid Brilliance, which are air tight and keep your frozen stuff in excellent shape.
Dammit, my stomach’s growling.
I’m going to have to bake fresh bread for the garlic bread to get the steak out of my mind.
And it may be petty, but when I heard how Trump eats his steaks, it was the last little bit of confirmation what a raging cretin he really is.
Christ, my stomach is growling so bad at the thought of that steak I think I scared the cat.
Barr’s attempts to drive a stake through the heart of law and order is beginning to attract attention. Over 1000 former DOJ officials, from both Republican and Democratic administrations, call on him to resign. That’s got to hurt a bit. Hopefully.
I’m thrilled that the outcry is building. It’s our only hope.
That article was written just after the election. Here’s the author’s update from a couple of days ago (It may be pay-walled. I had to open it up in an incognito tab.):
We need to do everything we can to support them and others who raise this alarm. If there are protests organized, I plan to attend them. I called Josh Hawley’s office to leave a message for the Senate Judiciary Committee to investigate Barr and have written emails to both my Senators and my House representative to organize efforts to call on Barr to resign.
The only thing that is going to work at this point is public pressure. A lot of it.
I sent an email to Hawley. Hoping all this helps. I want Barr opened up and exposed. There’s way too much dirt someplace. I have a gut feeling that his ridiculous religious fantasies and helping Trump are conflicting his supporters. Corner Barr and make him spill it.
When I called Hawley’s office yesterday, I had to let the phone ring for about 3 minutes before I could leave a message. I was told they were experiencing a “very high volume” of calls, which was the reason for the delay. I was delighted to learn this.
What Barr is doing is breaking the law, openly and repeatedly. His failures to comply with lawful Congressional subpoenas and summons for witnesses from his DOJ are crimes. His Giuliani back channel is extremely irregular and must be explained. His lying to the American people about what was in the Mueller report violates his oath and makes him unfit to hold his office. Carrying out his personal religious agenda also makes him unfit for the office he holds. His efforts to muscle his prosecutors for particular outcomes in pending criminal cases is immoral, entirely contrary to the principles of equal justice for all and strike at the very foundation of the rule of law. He has to go. The only way to force that is to bring sufficient pressure to bear on our Congressional representatives.
Even if Trump/Senate Republicans protect Barr through the November election, we have to make them all nervous enough to curtail his abuses to the greatest extent possible until then. They hate it when we’re paying attention.
It’s not just the president, though. Trump is absolutely behaving like an authoritarian, as are members of his administration - there’s no question about that. But he’s getting crucial help from Mitch McConnell and the rest of the party, and it’s the absence of a competition for power by the legislative that makes Trump dangerous. It’s the contempt for constitutional norms and the propensity for conspiracy theories that makes the right dangerous.
"Shortly after his being sworn in, Trump boasted that “my generals … are going to keep us so safe.”
But during his presidency, Trump’s generals have slowly fell by the wayside, many of them resigning because their views were not “aligned” with his. The tepid resignation letters from these high-profile military officials evolved into a more pronounced denunciation, with some being outspoken in their opposition against Trump’s policies."
And yes, it does help.