Pot Luck

First! (4.00 / 2)

What's happening, kids?

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by: atdleft @ Mon Mar 08, 2010 at 21:00:47 PM CST

Trying to figure out dinner... (4.00 / 2)

I have a small lunch-sized thing of colcannon leftover in the fridge, but if I want anything else I have to cook it.  And the sink is once again full of dishes which don't seem interested in washing themselves.

Hmmm, colcannon and kiwi it shall be!

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by: JayinPortland @ Mon Mar 08, 2010 at 21:19:31 PM CST

Ermm... (4.00 / 2)

Hmmm, colcannon and kiwi it shall be!

Separate, not together.  I don't think kiwi goes well with mashed potatoes and cabbage?

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by: JayinPortland @ Mon Mar 08, 2010 at 21:20:19 PM CST

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No, it wouldn't... (4.00 / 2)

But maybe in a curry?

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by: atdleft @ Mon Mar 08, 2010 at 21:30:33 PM CST

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I just finished dinner (4.00 / 2)

It was Fairway's Lucia potato salad with a five bean salad and the tinniest sliver of grass fed organic skirt stake.

Also a slice of this delicious new bread I discovered, Black Rooster Baltic Rye.    

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by: Eddie C @ Mon Mar 08, 2010 at 21:37:49 PM CST

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Ah, rye... (4.00 / 2)

Unfortuantely, I haven't found a great one here yet.  My next mission is to try Fressen's breads, they sell at the farmers' markets here.  Not sure why I haven't tried one of their dark ryes yet, actually.  Their pretzels are fantastic, and a great "walking home" snack I usually pick up just before I leave the People's Farmers' Market on Wednesdays.

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by: JayinPortland @ Mon Mar 08, 2010 at 21:56:02 PM CST

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I think it was the first time I ever had a dark rye (4.00 / 2)

There was a demonstration and I said that it tasted like pumpernickel but right after I said that I tasted sourdough rye. Sort of like two for the price of one.    

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by: Eddie C @ Mon Mar 08, 2010 at 22:09:48 PM CST

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Have you tried News Seasons? (4.00 / 1)

New Seasons has two artisan rye breads. One is a lighter colored caraway rye (they also have this one in a sandwich loaf), and the other is a dark rustic round of rye bread. Both are quite tasty. The flavor of the dark rye is so good that I eat it just itself. Rye is my favorite bread, and good rye is so hard to find.

I generally shop at the Concordia store. I know they have the rye there; not sure about the other stores.

Fressen's sounds good, too. They sell at the Tuesday Lloyd Farmers' Market. Hey, you could catch them tomorrow.

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by: caseyOR @ Tue Mar 09, 2010 at 01:40:29 AM CST

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Yeah... (0.00 / 0)

They're okay, but they don't really quite cut it as 'great' to me though.

But certainly passable.  I shop at Seven Corners about two or three times a month, and they carry them as well.  I hit Sellwood and Arbor Lodge sometimes, too.  Concordia was my old store when I lived on NE 102nd 3 years ago.  MAX from Gateway TC to 82nd, and the 72 bus stopped right out front at Killingsworth & 33rd...

Fressen's sounds good, too. They sell at the Tuesday Lloyd Farmers' Market. Hey, you could catch them tomorrow.

Ha, I'd love to!  Tomorrow and next Tuesday are their last winter markets of the season, for that matter.

I'm really thinking about hitting Lloyd tomorrow.  Still haven't been there yet.  The problem with that market for me tends to be their hours, though.  Weekday mornings are mostly for working or for sticking around home and searching desperately (heh) for work these days for me, while the People's Wednesday farmers' market (which I'm sure is much smaller than Lloyd) is so much closer and has much better hours (2 - 7 PM).

I think this week I'm probably gonna stick with People's, but I'd really like to hit Lloyd next week just to say I was there during their first winter season.

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by: JayinPortland @ Tue Mar 09, 2010 at 02:01:11 AM CST

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Lloyd Market just became a year 'round market (4.00 / 1)

If you can't make it next week, don't worry. Lloyd Market announced today that they will be staying open all year 'round. They have had a great response from both vendors and customers. So, they decided not to close on March 16.

You've got plenty of time.

Market hours remain Tuesdays from 10 AM- 2 PM.  

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by: caseyOR @ Tue Mar 09, 2010 at 02:25:56 AM CST

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Nice!!! (0.00 / 0)

I hadn't heard that yet, thanks for the news!  I had thought they were closing next week, and opening again for the regular season in May.  A weekly year-round Tuesday farmers' market is awesome!

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by: JayinPortland @ Tue Mar 09, 2010 at 02:29:36 AM CST

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And the foie gras wars continue... (4.00 / 1)

I missed this last week, but apparently Tasting Las Vegas did something late last week on "The Great Foie Gras Debate". They confessed that they like the flavor when it's done well, but their conscience isn't a fan.

Now I'll admit that I can be a prissy gourmand at times, but I just can't justify torture and abuse... Not even for great cuisine. (And btw, my conscience has been at peace ever since I became a vegetarian almost 6 years ago.)

Act on Principles and make equality happen.

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by: atdleft @ Mon Mar 08, 2010 at 23:51:42 PM CST

Same here... (4.00 / 1)

Just horrible stuff overall, no excuse for it anywhere.  I cringe when I read reviews praising 'foie gras burgers' and shit like that here in Portland.  That's really one of the very few food items my conscience can't stand, and despite my own food choices anyone here who knows me knows I'm by no means ever critical of the way others choose to eat.

Here's AAF's take on the stuff.  Beware, especially, of the so-called "humane foie gras" bullshit that tends to go around every once in a while.  No such thing.

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by: JayinPortland @ Tue Mar 09, 2010 at 00:04:16 AM CST

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Oh, no... (4.00 / 1)

"humane foie gras"

That's like the Cheney family defending Dick's & Dumbya's use of "enhanced interrogation techniques" and using that language to try to make us forget it's TORTURE. And sadly, many of my fellow Nevadans can't get enough of this animal torture. Even some of my otherwise fave restaurants do it. Sigh...

Act on Principles and make equality happen.

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by: atdleft @ Tue Mar 09, 2010 at 00:36:47 AM CST

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Jim Kunstler, Randall O'Toole and Fox News... (0.00 / 0)

Never in the history of American urban planning policy debate has there been a better named 'analyist' than the Cato Institute's Randall O'Toole.

Emphasis on "tool".

Turns out that James Howard Kunstler received an invitation from Fox News to appear alongside Randall O'Toole last Friday on a segment on zoning.  

Jim went ahead and replied to them like I wish so many others would -

Max--
I was on a John Stoessel [sic] ABC show a few years ago and I consider him a completely unethical person, since he used me as a straw man and distorted everything I had to say -- in the editing process.

Randall O'Toole is a shill for the sprawl-builders. You deserve him.

Please tell Stoessel he can kiss my ass.

Jim
James Howard Kunstler
"It's All Good"

The sooner more people stop taking that network seriously, the better off we'll all be.  Sometimes, "kiss my ass" really is all that the media outlets who are dragging down our public discourse deserve.  A taste of their own medicine, eh?  Time to stop granting them even a shred of credibility.

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by: JayinPortland @ Tue Mar 09, 2010 at 04:07:17 AM CST

All media is biased in one direction or another (0.00 / 0)

and to a greater or lesser extent depending on one's own point of view. I don't trust any of them, not FOX, not CBS, not NBC, not ABC, not PBS, CNN, MSNBC, et al, no one.

I just take them for what they are, info streams to be combined and cross checked against all the other data I can get my hands on.

"Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday." ~ John Wayne

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by: JoanneRigutto @ Tue Mar 09, 2010 at 05:04:19 AM CST

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Well... (0.00 / 0)

I don't know of any other widely available media outlets that even come close to leaning in any direction as Fox News does to leaning far right.

They're simply the most biased of any news organization in recent American history, if not of all time.

We can argue about this host or that on any given station, but in the end we will never even come close to finding a current media outlet with a more consistently ideological point-of-view than Fox News.

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by: JayinPortland @ Tue Mar 09, 2010 at 05:20:18 AM CST

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I used to watch PBS all the time (0.00 / 0)

I grew up on that channel. PBS is as far to the left in their political and social commentary as FOX is to the right. And when I was a kid, PBS was funded almost solely by tax dollars although now the Oregon network OPB is mostly viewer funded along with grants and endowments from industry, charities and a bit of public money.

I have yet to see any network or show that wasn't biased in one direction or another. Of course some are worse than others, and I agree, FOX is very biased, that's why I don't watch it much. I used to listen to Rush Limbaugh too, but switched to other hosts because I got tired of hearing his incsessent whining about Clinton. He was like a broken record saying basically the same things over and over and over again. Every once in a while I listen, and after so many years, nothing's changed, I think all that's different is the names of the people he's whining about.

During the day I listen to talk radio, which is all about bias in that the hosts have their own positions and I like hearing different view points on all topics, but I have no illusions that those view aren't biased.

Hell, even the local news is biased to a greater or lesser extent.

"Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday." ~ John Wayne

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by: JoanneRigutto @ Tue Mar 09, 2010 at 07:27:08 AM CST

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I've been planting onions for the past couple days. (4.00 / 1)

Planted 5# of yellow onion sets Sunday and 5# of red onion sets yesterday.

Going to divide up all of the Jerusalem artichokes and divy them up between two rows. I can't believe it, they already have roots and buds coming out.

I have 20# each of Norlan Red, Yukon Gold and red fingerlings to plant and I'm going down to Al's Garden Center in Woodburn for blue taters if they have them in. Also going to check on when the Walla Walla Sweet green onion sets will be in. I planted 420 sets last year, which wasn't nearly enough. I'm shooting for 1,000 this year. That'll give me 1,000 WWS, and around 700-800 each of the yellow and red onions. When I cull the onions this fall I'm going to reserve 100 of each to replant for Calcots, which will be harvested in February or there abouts.

"Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday." ~ John Wayne

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by: JoanneRigutto @ Tue Mar 09, 2010 at 09:25:16 AM CST

I planted my sunchokes (0.00 / 0)

they still haven't come up, but I think they've started growing roots since I tried to dig one up to see what it was doing and I couldn't pull it out when I tried. I've got 'em in pots bc I was warned that if I put them in the ground it'd be hard to get rid of 'em.

"I can understand someone from Iowa promoting corn and soy, but we are not feeding the world, we are feeding animals and soft drink companies." - Jim Goodman

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by: Jill Richardson @ Tue Mar 09, 2010 at 09:40:21 AM CST

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LOL (4.00 / 1)

kind of like bamboo. Someone once told me that the best way to contain bamboo is to plant it in a big pot and put the pot in the middle of a concrete slab.....

In some parts of the country sunchokes are considered an invasive species. I know that when I was digging potatoes last fall I was constantly running across sunchoke roots with little nodes on them that were forming new tubers.

Fortunately, or unfortunately (depending on whether I want to keep them or get shut of them) the chickens love the things. So if I ever need to eliminate them, all I have to do is broadcast the scratch grains where the sunchokes are. But more than likely, I'll be able to sell all I can grow. One of the local chain stores was interested in them last year, the produce stand would like to carry them, and I only had enough this winter to supply one shareholder (fortunately I only had two and the other one doesn't like them).

The really great thing about the sunchokes is that they stored in the ground really well. I dug all of my potatoes and a lot of them froze and turned to mush during the short cold snap we had in December, but the sunchokes just soldiered on. I may try storing the taters in the ground too this year, where I'm going to plant them has good drainage.

"Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday." ~ John Wayne

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by: JoanneRigutto @ Tue Mar 09, 2010 at 10:25:41 AM CST

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OY! (0.00 / 0)

I just make a whole bunch more work for myself. Went to Woodburn this morning and picked up 12+# of blue potatoes, which I had intended to do, and got some Mizuna seed, also intended to do.

Then I figured, hey, as long as I'm out, might as well swing by the feed store in Canby on my way home. You know, just to see if they had Walla Walla Sweet green onion sets. Totally innocent.

Get to the feed store and figured I'd just walk by the chicks to see what all they had.... Hmmm, got some red and black sexlinks, that's interesting, as well as a couple other breeds. Oh, they have cornish cross, $1.69, straight run. Nice price. Got some pretty old black astralorps too.

Go out to peruse the plants and roots.

Thinking about the chickens. It would be nice to get an early start on some broilers. Could use some for us, got a shareholder who'd probably like to buy a couple too.

What the hey, they're only $1.69 a piece.... Swing back over to the baby chickens, see one of the employees I know. Tell her that I want 10 cornish cross. She asks if I'd be interested in a deal on the older black astralorps. I ask her how much, but the price is too high and we have plenty of layers anyway. I think about it... my first mistake. Then I make her a counter offer for all of them, there are only 13 after all... my second mistake. She says 'Sold!'.

So now I have 10 cornish cross that I'll be butchering in a couple months, and 13 more black astralorps. What the hey, I build that second bay in the brooder box that is empty right now. Hate to see all that space go to waste....

"Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday." ~ John Wayne

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by: JoanneRigutto @ Tue Mar 09, 2010 at 13:10:57 PM CST