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Comment on Paleo Bison Stew by Scotch Drinker

Scotch Drinker — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:12:12 +0000

Ooo, hadn’t thought of tapioca. And I have a ton of okra fresh from the garden right now so I might be trying that tonight. I’ll have to pick up some more bison stew meat and some tapioca this weekend and throw together another experiment.

Comment on Paleo Bison Stew by Jason

Jason — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 17:08:33 +0000

If you’re trying to go gluten free, there are alternatives like potato starch. It won’t behave the exact same way and you should add it in a slurry, but you get a similar result. Same goes for corn starch or tapioca.
If you want to stay away from all flours, try adding fresh chopped okra and/or gumbo file powder (sassafras leaves). If you go with file powder, you’ll need to add it just before the end of cooking and not while boiling.
It’ll take a try or two to get the hang of using them, but they are excellent natural thickeners for soups or stews.

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Comment on Paleo Bison Stew by Scotch Drinker

Scotch Drinker — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 03:22:47 +0000

Mmm, I like your idea especially removing most of the processed foods from the stew. Of course, I’m trying to avoid flour which poses a problem but I might have to give that a try next time since I’m a fan of gravy. Mmm gravy.

Comment on Paleo Bison Stew by Jason

Jason — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 19:08:35 +0000

Instead of the added sauce or CoM soup, you might try lightly coating the cubed meat in flour before you brown. Once the liquid (stock is best) is added you get a nice thickened gravy. Switch to a can of whole tomatoes that you crush, and use fresh, roasted and peeled chilies and you have no processed foods (other than the tomatoes, but they’re whole, so very little processing)

Comment on Escaping The Cozy by RB

RB — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 01:49:42 +0000

Sage advice….

Comment on Thoughts on the US Open by Scott

Scott — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 02:20:51 +0000

It’s a media age, so he had to stop by for the obligatory national network question. I personally wouldn’t have cared if he’d just gotten in the car and left. He’s a golfer and having hung out with golfers, they don’t have a lot to offer the human race, unless you want to learn to golf. Like everybody else, really.

Comment on Thoughts on the US Open by Scotch Drinker

Scotch Drinker — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 19:17:07 +0000

All we’ve heard from Tiger for a decade is 4 syllable answers about how he didn’t have his A-game or the 150 variations of such that he trots out there. Yes, it was a dumb question but there was a huge opening there to say “you know what, I’ve grown up a lot and I’m thankful I’ve made as much progress as I have over the past few months” or something to that effect. I wish Rolfing would have asked “what do you take positive from the week” but whatever.

Why bother stopping for the interview at all? In the end, yeah, he’s a piece of unrepentant crap as far as being human is concerned but for being a supposed student of the game, I wish he’d be a little more considerate of the parts of it he clearly can’t stand.

Comment on Thoughts on the US Open by Scott

Scott — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 13:09:05 +0000

Eh. We’ve all heard what Tiger thinks about everything for about a decade now. Halvert, on the other hand, probably was doing his first world-wide interview. First I’ve heard from McDowell, too.

And, that was an unbelievably dumb question. “What can you take away from a round with five bogies?” Really? That’s the best NBC can do? I kind of boggled when I heard that. You couldn’t have thought that was worth asking…

I’m not a Tiger lover. He’s a pretty sorry human being, obviously. Kind of a Ty Cobb of golf, or maybe there’s a better analog out there. I just like watching the guy play golf. And I’m very giggly at his sorriness, too…can’t help myself there.

Comment on Can Civilization’s Birthplace Become Its Funeral Pyre? by seedub

seedub — Sat, 22 May 2010 04:25:33 +0000

i have to admit to both ignorance and hubris at this moment. i both do not understand the issue at hand fully and yet would claim that those claiming to have wisdom about it are fools.

greece is in a heap of trouble; on this we can all agree. but greece’s running a deficit, at least from my perspective, does not mean anyone else must necessarily be running a profit. let me explain.

the world economy, however intricate and through whatever rationalizations, operates fully within an artificial construct at this point. in the absence of anything to back up wealth concretely, the world economy is reduced to nothing more than theoretical numbers. there has been so much talk about the world economy expanding and contracting, but think about it: relative to what? it’s the fucking world. there is no relative measure. and there can be no absolute measure, because the ruler is always going to be theoretical.

that established (at least in my admittedly somewhat scotch-addled brain, with a hat-tip to the site itself and a hearty thanks to the boys at lagavulin), the very idea of accounting equalization can be called into question. just like entropy can contract within a subsystem without violating the second law of thermodynamics due to the macrosystem’s existence, so can greece run a deficit without anyone running a profit. in fact, it is theoretically possible for the books not to balance at all because a debt has been incurred against a historical balance that never actually existed. the world economy expanded beyond what it should have, and now balaces are owed, but to whom? the books do not necessarily need to balance. after a while, one begins to wonder who owes whom since no one actually owned anything in the first damn place.

sometimes it’s all just numbers, and we are deluding ourselves and perpetuating a dangerous myth to suggest otherwise and behave accordingly.