Split Pea Soup for the Soul

What's right: Beef pot roast in a pressure cooker.

What's wrong: Mike Huckabee is delusional.

What's left: This is the season for split pea soup. So, I offer options to achieve soup nirvana:


Ingredients:
1 lb dry green split peas
1 tsp olive oil
2 large carrots, peeled
1 medium onion, diced
2 cloves garlic, minced
7 oz reduced sodium ham steak, diced (Boar's Head)
6 cups water
1 tbsp Better Than Bouillon or 1 cube*
1 bay leaf

meld with these

Ingredients:

1 cup split peas, dried
2 1/2 cups chicken stock
5 slices of bacon, chopped
1 large onion, diced
2 carrots, diced
1 medium potato, chopped
1 clove of garlic, minced
1 bay leaf
Salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste

deviate further from these staple ingredients at your professional peril. 15-20 minutes under pressure, natural release. remove smoked hock, if used, and shred the meat in a separate bowl. stick blend to desired consistency. serve in a bowl with a splash of dry sherry and a dollop of sour cream and a spike of the smoked hock meat. have sourdough/peasant bread, room temperature organic butter, cream cheese, fresh smoked fish (salmon, trout), preserved anchovies, sliced hard boiled egss, chopped cornichons, red onion and capers at the ready and in plentiful amounts.

Time for the True African-American to Destroy Jim Crow

What's right: Obama won an electoral mandate.
What's wrong: The seas are rising.
What's left: Where is the federal legislative beef?

What's [faaaaaaaaaaaaar] right: Ted Cruz.

What's wrong: The Yankees lost.

What's left: Taking Sheila [Shazam] to get spayed at 0630 tomorrow. She is a super breed specimen, but I don't roll that way.

Sunday Goodness (or not).

What's right: I made short ribs in the pressure cooker.

What's wrong: Arnold put his disease in her?!? He's got a serious fetish closet.

What's left: The Giants lost.

Lazy Post

What's right: It's Sunday.

What's wrong: It's Sunday.

What's left: The work week starts in about 12 hours

Dinner with Lewis Black

What's right: Going to see Lewis Black tonight.

What's wrong: Mitt Romney release his taxes.

What's left: Dinner at a food truck after the show.

Super Frustrated

What's right: Stewart vs. O'Rielly

What's wrong: Send us to war without fiscal restraint. then pull the fiscal card.

What's left: an incredibly inept system of learning. 19 separate school districts in bexar county alone. but what does the right want to do? privatize. what does the left want to do? more money. both sides are wrong. if we can save money and resources with privatization, then we can surely save money without transferring the 2/3/5/10+ % in management fees by adopting the privatization principles internally.