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Grandma's Borscht
Ingredients:
2-21/2 lbs. Pork short ribs (with bones)
Large bunch fresh red beets, or 2 cans, sliced
3 potatoes, diced
2 ribs of celery, chopped
1 large onion, chopped
2 cups finely shredded white cabbage
1 one lb. can crushed tomatoes
1 fat clove garlic
Rinse meat in cold water, cover with 6 cups water (add more later if soup thickens too much)
Bring to a boil and skim off excess fat
Reduce to simmer and let cook for 11/2 hours or until meat is tender
Add tomatoes and beet juice (from cans) and simmer for 15 minutes
Add celery, garlic, onion, and potato and continue simmering for 20 minutes
Add beets and cabbage
Cook until "you can't stand the smell in the house"
Take out meat, remove fat and bones, and cut meat into bite-sized pieces. You can chill soup before serving and remove more fat from the top.
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About Me
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- Born 1958; Fell in love 1979; two children; Artist; Quaker; never skied, never will
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Grandma's Borscht
Ingredients:
2-21/2 lbs. Pork short ribs (with bones)
Large bunch fresh red beets, or 2 cans, sliced
3 potatoes, diced
2 ribs of celery, chopped
1 large onion, chopped
2 cups finely shredded white cabbage
1 one lb. can crushed tomatoes
1 fat clove garlic
Rinse meat in cold water, cover with 6 cups water (add more later if soup thickens too much)
Bring to a boil and skim off excess fat
Reduce to simmer and let cook for 11/2 hours or until meat is tender
Add tomatoes and beet juice (from cans) and simmer for 15 minutes
Add celery, garlic, onion, and potato and continue simmering for 20 minutes
Add beets and cabbage
Cook until "you can't stand the smell in the house"
Take out meat, remove fat and bones, and cut meat into bite-sized pieces. You can chill soup before serving and remove more fat from the top.
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favorites
- Authors; Kurt Vonnegut, Roald Dahl, William S. Burroughs, Edgar Allan Poe, Franz Kafka, Oscar Wilde, Mary Renault, David Sedaris
- Blogs; Daily Kos, HuffPo, Bob Cesca's Goddam Awesome Blog, Go!
- Books,fiction; Candide- Voltaire, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater- Kurt Vonnegut, And The Ass Saw The Angel- Nick Cave, Teleny- Anonomous
- Books,non-fiction; Miss Manners' Guide To Excruciatingly Correct Behavior- Judith Martin, The Things I Love by Liberace, The Stray Shopping Carts Of Eastern North America: A Guide Of Field Identification- Julian Montague
- CDs/Albums; Taking Tiger Mountain By Strategy- Brian Eno, These Foolish Things- Bryan Ferry, Stranded- Roxy Music, Back To Black- Amy Winehouse, Chelsea Girls- Nico, Prayers On Fire- The Birthday Party, No More Shall We Part- Nick Cave, Low- David Bowie
- Colors; VanDyke Brown, Vermillion, Indian Yellow
- Composers; Beethoven, Mozart, Puccini, Verdi, Eno
- Edible Root; Ginger
- Humanitarians; Benjamin Franklin, John Woolman, Thurgood Marshall
- Martyrs; James Naylor, John the Baptist, Martha Stewart
- Name of an actual business establishment; Donna's Beauty Barn
- Operas; Turandot- Puccini, Don Giovanni- Mozart, Tales Of Hoffmann- Offenbach
- Painters; Salvador Dali, Odd Nerdrum, M. Caravaggio, Willem DeKooning
- Photographers- Cindy Sherman, Robert Mapplethorpe, Pierre et Giles, Joel-Peter Witkin, Man Ray, Steven Arnold, LaChapelle
- Playwrights; Tennessee Williams, Jean Genet, Joe Orton, Christopher Durang, Moliere
- Pop/Alt. Musicians; Nick Cave, David Bowie, Ron and Russell Mael (Sparks), John Cale, Dusty Springfield, Amy Winehouse, Nico
- Porn title; Beef Strokenoff
- Quotes; "Dig tunnels deep, hide rice everywhere"- Mao Tse Tung "Now if not even the soaring dogs live in isolation, but invariably manage to encounter their fellows somewhere or other in the great dog world, and even to conjure new generations of themselves out of nothingness, then I too can live in the confidence that I am not quite forlorn." -Kafka (really, just open a story and point somewhere on the page) "We throw people at weddings" - Kennith Rice "Bourbon... Codeine " Tallalulah Bankhead's last words
- Sculptors; Michelangelo B., A. Rodin, H. Moore, D. Hanson
- Song Lyrics; 'I see you crying, but I'm not buying, your Meryl Streep mimicry..'- Sparks, '..it's not enou[gh], you love blow and I love Poe'- Amy Winehouse, '..like a Pit Bull Terrier, only scarier'- Salt 'N Peppa
- Words; Lozenge, Plinth, Perpendicular, Unkempt
field trip
seven-year-old's take
10 things I'm sick of seeing on TV
- ads which seem to target corporate systems managers on their down-time
- dramatizations of clogged nasal passages
- talking reptiles
- driving the only car on the road
- choosy Moms
- hapless Dads
- frank and earnest Seniors
- children having candy hallucinations
- italian families eating dinner
- skinny women eating yogurt
A flagrent mis-use of military power
...relied on me to provide...(memoirs of a stage hand)
- Patti Smith-bodyguard for Mom
- Tom Jones-offstage soppy blazer catch
- Cab Calloway-help putting trousers on
- Paul Anka-microphone cord paging
- Carol Channing-backstage guiding (too dark)
- Queen Ida-candles(dressing room black-out)
- Helen Reddy-smoke-free environment
- Otis from the Temptations-oxygen
- Bobby Vinton-'Dubonnet'
- Anne Murray-rental car
- Gilbert Godfried-ride from hotel
- Maryilyn McCoo-Congo line simulation
- Florence Henderson-a gropee (not a misspelling)
- Dennis Miller-an ego stroke
- The Indigo Girls- frosted strawberry Pop-Tarts
- Siouxsie Sioux-chocolate cake
- Jerry Vale-honey (for the throat)
- The Grateful Dead-ginseng
- Donovan-1/35th of an audience
- Every '80s B-list band-beer
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stay tuned
- I spray anyone daring to enter these waters with more spitlets of wisdom.
- Bi-monthly Spellcheck for proper nouns
- A Seven Year Old's Take (I download his Fisher- Price camera)
- Ask Magic 8 Ball (advice- in the form of a question, please)
- Poetry Corner (until someone ruins it for all of us)
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