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My copy of Prehistoric Textiles just showed up on the courier. Y'all, this is the original doctoral thesis of which Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years is a drastically cut revision for popular audiences. More photographs, more diagrams, more high-level discussion, more cultures reviewed, more geeky goodness, more! I Can.Not.Wait to get home and start getting into it.
...three hours and eight minutes to go.
*drums fingers*
*crickets*
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I am completely, ridiculously enamored of Continental Spanish cooking.
I've cooked so much Mexican and other Western Hemisphere cuisines derived from Spanish that I thought I pretty much, sort of, had a sense of a big picture. I was wrong. It's completely familiar ingredients, yet it's completely different from anything I've ever had before.
This book was donated a year or so ago and went into storage for the expansion. I pulled it out last month and glanced through it today, and I'm just taken. I ILL'd this and this and this.
( roasted veggies for escalavida )
![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) madrun , my goddess, you MUST make escalavida. You guys do so much grilling anyway, and I think you would absolutely adore it.
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Last week, one of our summer people - a retired elementary school teacher - brought in a huge donation of lovely, lovingly cared-for, critically acclaimed picture books spanning years of collecting.
So this morning I'm cataloguing a stack of them and I come across Thank You, Mr. Falker. (If you have not read this book, go find a copy. What are you waiting for? No, I don't care whether you have children or not. Just go.)
Bawled.my.damn.eyes.out.
My fangirlish Patricia Polacco love knows no bounds.
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I got started making dinner tonight and realized 1.) I'm out of some of the veg I'd need to make a good salad (primarily fresh tomatoes) and 2.) I didn't have enough mayo for eight wraps, and one wrap per person was just not enough dinner. I'd originally planned black bean soup to go with these, but never got the beans in the crock pot to soak.
So I started casting around for something to throw together as a side dish, and found I had a can of beans lurking up in the cupboard! Soup after all! Threw this together in about fifteen minutes, and OMG SO YUMMY.
3 Tbsp. olive oil
1/2 onion, diced
1 Tbsp. minced garlic
1/2 c. chopped parsley
1/2 can chipotles in adobo, chopped
1 can black beans, drained
1 can diced tomatoes, drained
2 c. broth (I used frozen turkey broth)
1 tsp. cumin
Throw oil, onions, and garlic in the bottom of a saucepan; saute until onions are translucent. Add parsley and chiles; stir until both are well coated in oil. Add beans, tomatoes, and broth; stir and bring to a full boil. Add cumin, stir, let boil another minute or two; serve with an optional dollop of sour cream. Dinner's DONE.
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So, I've done it again - I've allowed this big huge pile of books to pile up without reviewing them. Must keep better track!
( Fundamentals of Collection Development and Management )
( Touching the Fire )
( Community Capitalism )
( White as Snow )
( The Braided World )
( Plainsong )
( Honor Harrington )
Next up: Ashes of Victory by David Weber; Library Contests: A How-To-Do-It Manual by Kathleen R. T. Imhoff and Ruthie Maslin.
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This recipe is an amalgamation of several Tastespotting recipes, with a couple of twists of my own.
Y'all, I walked in the door with an armload of groceries at 6:53. We were sitting down and eating at 7:29.
1 lb. Italian or other loose sausage
2 Tbsp pre-chopped garlic
1 medium bundle kale
1 can plain, fire-roasted, or olive-oil-and-basil diced tomatoes, or 4-6 sauce tomatoes
2 c. pork, chicken, or turkey stock
1 medium chipotle or guajillo pod or 1 Tbsp chile caribe
8-10 fresh basil leaves or 1/2 Tbsp dried basil
3 c. white beans, pre-cooked
2 c. water
sandwich fixings
Open a 1-lb package of sausage directly into a heavy-bottomed stock pot over medium-high heat. (I used loose Italian sausage, but I think it would be just as good with sage breakfast sausage). Break up; add garlic and stir.
While sausage and garlic are browning, chop a bundle of kale. Open a can of diced tomatoes or chop fresh tomatoes. Thaw 2 c. frozen stock, or open canned stock or reconstitute bullion. Break up a whole dried chile, if available. Chop fresh basil, if available.
When sausage is mostly browned, add kale and stir briskly. When kale begins to wilt, add chile flakes or 1 Tbsp chile caribe; basil; 1/2 Tbsp sea salt. Stir thoroughly, then add tomatoes, 3 c. pre-cooked white beans and stock. Add 2 c. plain water, turn up to high, bring to a full boil, then turn down to a simmer.
Prepare sandwiches (I served grilled cheese, but ham or turkey would also be awesome) .
Pour a glass of wine and kick off your shoes, because you're DONE. :-)
I think this would work fine with tofu sausage and vegan stock, but you might want to do the veg prep first, as IIRC tofu sausage tends to brown up a little more quickly than pork.
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This is NOT directed at anyone on my flist - I'm not angry at any of you, none of you have said anything that has upset me. But several of you have directed my attention to articles or conversations that keep plucking at the same theme, and it's that theme that's pissed me off about five times in two days now.
Division of Wildlife administrators, farm inspectors, librarians, public health nurses, and Small Business Administration counselors, are wildlife advocates, farm advocates, knowledge advocates, public health advocates, and small business advocates first and bureaucrats second. Oh, and somewhere in there also, they're citizens.
Not all Government is Federal Government, not all bureaucracy exists to abridge the freedoms of the citizenry, and not all government spending is waste.
In criticizing the institutions, even condemning them - which is absolutely necessary and the duty of a responsive and self-deterministic citizenry - let's not forget that these institutions are run by individuals, and by far and large, those individuals care more about serving their constituents and clients than about pulling a paycheck with a big ol' government seal at the top of it. These individuals are not the enemy.
As someone with populist and civil libertarian political leanings and who feels strongly about tightly run, responsible, effective, no larger than neccessary government institutions - and who as a government employee is directly responsible for the spending of tax dollars, busts ass every single day to make sure that those dollars are returned to my citizens, who would rather take a personal pay cut than cut services - it's really hurtful to me to hear blanket OMG THE GOVERMENT scaremongering. The conversation could be more nuanced than that, and needs to be.
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Because madrun asked! I got in a rush last night and forgot to link from here.
If you follow Tastespotting or, uh, any food blogs at all, you probably already know that the challenge was a traditional lasagne with handmade pasta. (Yes, I'm at the tail end of everything this month.) It made, OMG, a MOUNTAIN of food - we have fully half of it left over. And it was sooooo gooood!
( cut for more cheesy goodness... )
I SWEAR, next month, I am going to plan ahead, I am going to get local ingredients, I am going to photoblog the whole operation, I am, I am.
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| 50bookchallenge #11,12,13,14,15, 16,17: review shorts, part 2 |
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| Sheryl Crow / Anything but down |
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Continued from here.
( Four Ways to Forgiveness )
( Sun, Stone, and Shadows )
( Here on Earth )
( The War for the Oaks )
( Dresden Files 4/5/6 )
Up next: Fundamentals of Collection Development and Management; Rio Grande Stories; Touching the Fire: Fifteen Poets of Today's Latino Rennaisance; Community Capitalism; White as Snow; Kitty and the Midnight Hour.
Rio Grande Stories and Touching the Fire are for the Big Read supplemental list. I'm going to be reading a bloody ton of Latino/a collections, and especially Mexican and Mexican-American collections, in the next couple of months, for that project. Suggestions are welcome.
I'm probably going to do the same thing with the Carrie Vaughn books as I'm doing with the Dresden Files - read three at a time, between heavier stuff. Somewhere in there I want to finish (and possibly re-start) Blue Highways, which I started too soon after finishing school ("brain is tired, cannot, whu?" ) and never got back to.
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I've been having a lot of input glitches on my work computer; IT Guy is stumped, so I wonder if any of you brilliant tech folks have seen anything like this before.
( argh! )
So WTF?
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Oh, my Goddess, have I got a BIG ASS PILE of books to review. Reviews, consequently, quite short, just sketches.
( Quiver )
( An American Childhood )
( Outliers )
( What Next? )
( Writing in an Age of Silence )
( Collapse )
Another big batch coming in the next day or two, and then I'll be caught up.
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touched
hungry
snarky
satisfied
cranky
accomplished
thwarted