Nicole Sauce - The Tennessee Waltz: Recent Comments

Comment on Thank You Lannae Long!

2008-06-10T21:27:18Z

BA-C-K!!

Comment on Thank You Lannae Long!

2008-05-31T13:02:04Z

Thanks NS! Shucks. Are you back yet?

Comment on Missive from the road from Nicole Sauce

2008-05-31T00:04:16Z

Wild Rice with Carrots
2 c water
1 c (6oz weight) wild rice
2 carrots, 1/4" slices
1 small onion, chopped
1 tsp salt

Bring all to boil; simmer, covered, 50 minutes to an hour.

Variations: try it in your rice cooker
use chicken broth instead of water

Spinach with Sesame and Garlic
3 TBSP dark sesame oil
1 TBSP minced garlic
1 lb fresh spinach, roughly chopped
1 sploot honey (gives it a teriyaki flavor)
1 TBSP soy sauce
1 TBSP toasted sesame seeds*

* fry raw seeds 1 minute in the oil, and they'll be toasted

Heat oil over medium heat, add garlic. When garlic sizzles, add spinach and stir, cooking only until wilted. Turn heat low.

Stir in honey and soy sauce, turn off heat. Sprinkle on sesame seed (if you didn't toast them as part of the whole process).

Variations: other oil
other greens, fresh or frozen
chopped fresh ginger with the garlic

Comment on Redneck Yacht Club at Centerhill this Saturday

2008-05-22T21:33:03Z

Anyone love pizza and staying off gluten?
Gluten-Free Pizza Crust
Stir together
1 c brown rice flour
1 c other gluten-free flour (or 2c flour w/o gluten)
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp baking powder

Add
1 egg
2 TBSP olive oil
and enough water to make biscuit-consistency dough.

If you use a wooden spoon, you can simply dump this into the pan you'll bake pizza in, flour the back of the spoon and push the dough into crust shape.

Top with all your favorite pizza toppings, sprinkle with garlic, oregano, basil, thyme, and pepper.

Bake 20 minutes at 425 degrees Fahrenheit.

OK, I admit it's "pizza," but it beats another night of rice or potatoes!

Comment on Special Interests

2008-05-13T01:04:20Z

That sentiment, even in jest, is as ignorant and wrong as the assertion that all bodies which hold power are inherently corrupt.

Comment on Special Interests

2008-05-12T14:37:53Z

Don't you know, Nicole: Government is completely benevolent and it's decisions can never be made for anything but the people's best interests. That and the "fact" that the teachers' unions are just trying to get more money for teachers--all of whom are, of course, quality instructors--and never anything for their bosses.

Perish the thought.

Comment on Special Interests

2008-04-11T01:47:51Z

Anonymous wrote:
"I didn't realize we were talking about government spending."

I believe the original topic of discussion was the difference in people's reactions to the behavior of special interest groups or 'big business' vs. their reactions to the same or similar behaviors by our government...

I think most people find it easy to demonize big business, the evil tobacco companies that are trying to kill us and the greedy oil companies that are taking our money and the corrupt auto manufacturers who are in league with big oil etc etc.
But for some reason those same folks (myself included most of the time) look at that same 'evil' behavior by our government as just a normal part of life... like bad weather.
Sure, you might gripe about it, but that's about it. Trying to change it is just a frustrating waste of time and money, neither of which do they have to spare.

I think for the vast majority of people, politics and government are like sausage, you don't want to look at it too closely and the less you know the easier it is on your stomach.

Comment on Special Interests

2008-04-11T01:04:20Z

There is regulation everywhere you turn, including in financial industries. At some point, people who borrow too much must shoulder part of the subprime crash. Investors who take too much risk and lose client's wealth must also shoulder this responsibility. That's not the government's job.

Under the Bush administration you have become less free - take a jaunt to the airport with a bottle of wine.

You have just proven my point: If you have ever-increasing regulation, as we do in the US, eventually some crazy mother f-ing regime will come into power, and you're not gonna like what they do.

Better to keep their fingers out of it.

FCC is another example, like when they expend resources to investigate wardrobe malfunctions. Or do you like it when the Republicans control the definition of "public decency.?"

Comment on Special Interests

2008-04-10T21:00:43Z

In other words, it's almost like we don't have any federal regulation at all.

Comment on Special Interests

2008-04-10T20:55:07Z

I didn't realize we were talking about government spending. The overall increase in spending can be squarely blamed on the Iraq war, which can be traced to the bulldozing that the Bush administration has performed on the checks and balances of executive power and their general policy of malfeasance. I was talking about government regulation. The Bush administration has systematically crippled, politicized, corrupted or otherwise destroyed regulatory agencies on an unprecedented scale. Not the least of which was fostering the unregulated mess that lead directly to the current financial crisis.