Calderon’s Fault?: Speculation that Mexico’s foot-dragging
enabled spread.
Captured: Nine suspected Somali pirates.
Race Relations in America: Improving, according to NYT poll.
Vindication!: Fried foods boost memory, study says.
Yay!: More money for bus service.
Recipe of the Day: Fresh Pea Salad (Recipe and photo via 101 Cookbooks)
1 cup fresh mint leaves
2 dried dates, pitted
1/2 of a small serrano chile, stem removed
a squeeze of fresh lemon juice and zest from that lemon
1 1/2 cups fresh peas
1 small head of romaine lettuce, cut into shreds
1/2 cup toasted pumpkin seeds
fine grain sea salt
To make the mint-date dressing, puree the mint, dates, chiles and lemon juice and zest using a food processor or hand blender. Blend until uniform in texture. Thin it out by adding a tablespoon of water at a time until it is a consistency that you can drizzle (the photo up above is before I added 2-3 tablespoons of water to thin it out). Taste and adjust for lemon and spiciness.
When you go to cook the peas, the key is not overcooking them. Fill a big bowl with ice water and set aside. Add some salt (as you would pasta water) and the peas. Bring six cups of water to a boil in a medium saucepan. You are just going to boil the peas for a very short time. Don’t leave the stove. Somewhere between ten and twenty seconds.You want them just barely tender, so they still pop in your – mouth. Quickly drain and dunk the peas in the bowl of ice water.
Just before serving gently toss the peas, lettuce, and pumpkin seeds with about half of the dressing and a couple pinches of salt. Taste and add more dressing if you like. Finish with a pinch or two of your favorite finishing salt.
Serves 2 – 4.
That’s it?
I suppose no news is good news…
Arlen, Arlen, Arlen…
Until the second week of April the Mexican governemnt assumed that the epidemic in the capital was the same epidemic they had seen in Veracruz since as early as December. Since they already had a policy in place of supressing any publicity and trying to hide the problem there, it’s not surprising that they continued the policy when the epidemic spread to the capital.
It wasn’t until the mortality rate spiked that they took it seriously, and now they are taking it really seriously becuase they know how easily it spread in Veracruz.
Did you see that some Asshole was buzzing New York in a 747?
What’s with that?
Fried food boosts memory, and we get salad? I hope it’s corn fritters tomorrow!!
@4 I’m surprised there was no reporting on that either.
It was for a “photo op” for Air Force One with the Statue of Liberty in the background. The Defense Department was all secretive and scared the bejesus out of New Yorkers by flying low near Ground Zero.
Seems a little reckless and inconsiderate
@5: From the fried-foods-are-suddenly-good-for-you article:
“But he pointed out that OEA was not commercial available for human consumption and it has not yet been documented that it will have the same effects in humans as is seen in rats.”
Ini other words, don’t hold your breath.
@ 6, it also seems like the different parts of our federal government are not communicating with each other very well.
@7 I am smelling set up. A 747? seriously. There are sad spastics that are pulling as hard as can be to undermine the Obama administration. Try picking on his refusal to push the attorney general to prosecute about torture…. I forgot, we only torture Americans-if said crime involves sex; orientation, acts, likewise.
Does ECB ever post anything without the word bus in it?