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Capsule (Full commentary found immediately below Lead Picture):
Wednesday, August 14, 2019
In exchange for my words of wisdom I offer up some words of really good eating.
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Lead Picture (Story below in Thumbnail section)
Wednesday, August 14, 2019
Title page from the Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France
Edmund Burke (1729-1797)
http://www.ub.uni-ortmund.de/aktuelles/rara/burke.html
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Commentary
Wednesday, August 14, 2019
In exchange for my words of wisdom I offer up some words of really good eating.
CURRY SAFFRON SAUCE
[I go for the opulent, smooth sauce)
for 2 people
For Chicken or many other meats: 16 oz of fresh boneless chicken breasts or thighs cut into 2” cubes or
For Fish: 16 oz of fresh fish cut into 2” cubes or
Protein of choice
Optional: ¼ cup fresh pineapple, large-dice [(1/2 cubes)
Use a large sauce pan.
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1 ½ T Asian Oil (sesame oil flavored with fresh garlic, ginger, and scallions)
Heat the oil
1 oz each finely chopped:
shallots
Red bell pepper
serrano chili
carrots
1 ½ T flour, sprinkled over
Soften the above in the oil, about ten minutes at a simmer.
The mirepoix is flavoring the oil.
Add a touch of salt.
3T green curry paste
1T tomato paste
Soften and dissolve in the mirepoix
THE SAUCE, all ingredients added to the saucepan.
6oz coconut milk
3oz coconut cream
2TB fresh lime juice
2oz fresh pineapple juice [or if not available, substitute coconut water with pineapple added]
4T curry powder
1 T cumin
1 scant teaspoon saffron
1 t salt
Bring to a simmer.
Add the chicken or the fish and the other reserved ingredients and simmer the pot for 15 minutes for fish and 20 minutes for chicken.
SERVE WITH
1 cup rice made with 1 cup coconut water and ½ cup fresh pineapple juice(or substitute 1 ½ cups coconut-pineapple water) and cooked al dente
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A “Hey, Dom!” video.
Wednesday, August 14, 2019
The Poodle and the Leopard
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News re: existentialautotrip
Wednesday, August 14, 2019
This is our 495th posting.
Hoping to sail through to #5,000 and then reassess.
Note that our goal is to publish each day’s post the evening before, at 6.00pm.
But we always publish by 6.00am of the day due.
Tonight we’re taping a new video for posting in the next day or two.
Wish me luck.
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Monday’s Dinner posted on
Wednesday, August 14, 2019
A foray into seafood: Lobster and Squid Diavolo.
I sautéed a mirepoix, 1oz each of serrano chili, red bell, onion, celery, and carrot in 3 ½ oz of olive oil. Added a bit of tomato paste and then a 28oz can of San Marzano tomatoes.
Then I added ½ t salt and a ½ cup combined of fresh parsley and basil.
After simmering this for 15 minutes to blend the flavors I added 1lb of squid bodies and tentacles and a 2 lb lobster.
I simmered the pot for 25 minutes and served over al dentissimo spaghetti.
Succulent.
Delacroix: Still Life with Lobster
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Chuckle of the Day:
Wednesday, August 14, 2019
Romeo and Juliet is a tale of true romance.
Especially if you consider two underage kids in a three-day relationship resulting in two suicides and three murders romantic.
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Wednesday, August 14, 2019
Hi, Dom,
Below is a note from my mother, age 94, upon having just completed reading "The Beantown Girls." Her memories must be profound if she can't describe them adequately, she being a wordsmith in her own right. I thought you'd enjoy her comments.
Sally
From: Lorraine Morong
Date: Sun, Aug 11, 2019
To: Sally Chetwynd
I have just finished reading “The Beantown Girls” and found it very evocative of my memories of WWII– not that I was anywhere near the battles, etc., but I related to it more than I can describe to you.
During those four years of the war there wasn’t an hour when we were not aware of what was going on overseas. I had cousins and classmates in the service, as did everyone I knew, and we were always apprehensive about their whereabouts and status. We knew that we were not on the front lines, but we also knew that someone we loved was.
This is a well-written book, and we can be grateful that the Red Cross Girls kept records that are available for research. Thank you for loaning me the book. I’ll put it out in “your” box so you can pass it along to someone else.
Love, Mother
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So appreciative of your contributions.
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Today’s Thumbnail
Wednesday, August 14, 2019
Painting of Edmund Burke MP c. 1767, studio of Joshua Reynolds (1723–1792)
Reflections on the Revolution in France is a political pamphlet written by the Irish statesman Edmund Burke and published in November 1790.
One of the best-known intellectual attacks against the French Revolution, Reflections is a defining tract of modern conservatism as well as an important contribution to international theory.
Above all else, it has been one of the defining efforts of Edmund Burke's transformation of "traditionalism into a self-conscious and fully conceived political philosophy of conservatism".
The pamphlet has not been easy to classify.
Before seeing this work as a pamphlet, Burke wrote in the mode of a letter, invoking expectations of openness and selectivity that added a layer of meaning.
Academics have had trouble identifying whether Burke, or his tract, can best be understood as "a realist or an idealist, Rationalist or a Revolutionist".
Thanks to its thoroughness, rhetorical skill and literary power, it has become one of the most widely known of Burke's writings and a classic text in political theory.
In the 20th century, it greatly influenced conservative and classical liberal intellectuals, who recast Burke's Whiggish arguments as a critique of communist and revolutionary-socialist programs
Edmond Burke (12 January 1729 – 9 July 1797) was an Anglo-Irish statesman and philosopher. Born in Dublin, Burke served as a member of parliament (MP) between 1766 and 1794 in the House of Commons with the Whig Party after moving to London in 1750.
Burke was a proponent of underpinning virtues with manners in society and of the importance of religious institutions for the moral stability and good of the state.
These views were expressed in his A Vindication of Natural Society.
He criticized British treatment of the American colonies, including through its taxation policies. Burke also supported the rights of the colonists to resist metropolitan authority, although he opposed the attempt to achieve independence.
He is remembered for his support for Catholic emancipation, the impeachment of Warren Hastings from the East India Company and for his staunch opposition to the French Revolution.
In his Reflections on the Revolution in France, Burke asserted that the revolution was destroying the fabric of good society and traditional institutions of state and society and condemned the persecution of the Catholic Church that resulted from it.
This led to his becoming the leading figure within the conservative faction of the Whig Party which he dubbed the Old Whigs as opposed to the pro-French Revolution New Whigs led by Charles James Fox.
In the 19th century, Burke was praised by both conservatives and liberals.
Subsequently in the 20th century, he became widely regarded as the philosophical founder of modern conservatism.
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Acknowledgements
Wednesday, August 14, 2019
A tip o' the hat (U.S. President Calvin Coolidge, 1924
Thanks to Sally C and her mom, Lorraine M for their sharings.
And to the Microsoft team at the Prudential Center for their unflagging availability to help with a constant flow of technological problems.
And to 61+ jokes for providing the material for today’s chuckle.
Always thanks to Wikipedia, the Lead and the Thumbnail sections of the Blog very often shaped from stories taken from that amazing website. They are truly worthy of public support.
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Good Morning on this Wednesday, the fourteenth day of August, 2019
Delacroix.
He could paint.
But did he cook?
And now? Gotta go.
Che vuoi? Le pocketbook?
See you soon.
Your love.