Recipes

One thing I will likely do from time to time in this blog is share some recipes I have created. Reed hates it when I make something really good, and I don't write down how I made it. We have many, many "originals" that will never be made again. So tonight, I was running late from the office as usual. I had planned to make a meatloaf. A loaf of meat. Ummm. I got home at 7:10 and Reed was supposed to be home from the gym at 7:30. So I decided to make something from the leftover meat from a beef roast I made on Sunday. I had wanted to try to make beef stroganoff with it but all the recipes I found online made it sound so bland. People have talked about making beef....oh god, I can't even spell it. Or say it for that matter! Old age sucks :) Okay, I think it's beef burgundy but I was trying to think of the French name for it. Let me try Wikipedia.

Geez, God Bless Wikipedia! I really mean it! It's Beef Bourguignon. I still don't really know how to pronounce it. Bore-gen-yown (yown rhymes with known). Is this the type of blog people hate to read?? I would, I think, if I weren't the one writing it. Blah, blah blah. Okay, here is the freaking recipe already!

Beef Burgundy Stroganoff

Left over beef roast, cut into 2-3 inches strips

1 can cream of mushroom soup (98% fat free)

2 cups fat free sour cream or fat free plain yogurt

1/2 cup dry red wine like Burgundy (I used Cabernet Sauvignon...Ha! rhymes with Bourguignon!)

1 packet dry onion soup mix

Sprinkle of nutmeg

4 cups cooked, whole wheat egg noodles


Mix first six ingredients together in large saucepan over medium low heat until heated through. Mix in cooked noodles, heat through and serve.
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Okay, onto my rant. I got on the gayindy.org list serve and took notice of the conversation. Some freak posted that she was sure that Jon Elrod is gay. No evidence whatsoever to support this. The underlying belief is that he is in the closet and should not be. I could have seen this coming. First off, we all know that the stupid gay community thinks everyone is gay if they dress nice and are hot. Tom Cruise, Tom Selleck, I can't think of others because all my brain cells went to getting Beef Bourguignon. But there are many others. Then, he is gay friendly, unmarried, kinda soft spoken. It was this wench's "hunch" that Jon Elrod was gay.

Well, you know what? I have a hunch too. I think that Andre Carson is one of those big black men who is scared to death that nelly gay boys are looking at his big round ass walking down the street, and that he is essentially a big homophobe. I have no evidence of this. But I choose to believe it nevertheless.

(Sorry, an aside--my all-time favorite Dilbert strip, and I repeat it way too often (I tried to find it online but only spent a few minutes looking and came up with nothing ADDENDUM, 3-7-08 spent more time at work trying to find the strip but at least got a better handle on the dialogue): Dilbert is on a date. The woman says "I hold the point of view that crystals can heal." Next panel "I have no scientific evidence to support this but I choose to believe it anyway." Last panel, Dilbert answers and his date steams: "Since when is ignorance a point of view?" Even better than what I remembered. If I find it in one of my Dilbert books this weekend I will scan it for posterity.

Before I continue on the above topic, I don't want to forget to commit this letter to the editor in the Star's 3-5-08 issue to the permanence of the Internet:

http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?aid=/20080305/opinion01/803050382/1031/opinion01&GID=wziZr2KtbSsjHZzP4sjgLh0FA4TKW+QvN9+//n5KsCo%3D

And pasted in below (is this illegal?)

Secret taping hurts Carson but bolsters Elrod

In response to Edwin Locke's Feb. 28 letter: The New England Patriots became the NFL's least-trusted football team in the 2007 season after they were caught secretly videotaping the New York Jets. Likewise, Andre Carson's campaign was involved in secretly videotaping Jon Elrod on the state legislative floor in early February.

Carson's campaign used the videotape to question Elrod's judgment for signing campaign letters then turning them over to a legislative employee to put in the mail. It's easy to understand Elrod's mistake. Rarely, if ever, has an Indiana state representative run for Congress while the legislature was still in session. This year's session ends three days after the March 11 special election. Elrod was signing letters in a public place in clear public view, was honest about what happened and said he'd never do it again.

This videotaping incident actually reflects worse on Andre Carson, whose supporters were conspiring for political gain.

I want a congressman I can trust and Jon Elrod is a man who will always be upfront with the voters.

Bob Demaree
Indianapolis

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Amen to that! I especially liked the last sentence. I truly believe Elrod to be an up-front kind of guy, principled, moral. Even though I have no evidence to support this. It's true, this is my own intuition. Same with Andre Carson. I don't trust him. And the Indianapolis gay community seems to be ga-ga over him just because he is Julia Carson's grandson. While she was a true advocate for the gay community, I had my own issues with her as our representative--for all of the 7th district, not just the gays. Legacies might work in fraternities and sororities, but I don't think they have any place in politics.

So these dimwitted gays who are speculating about Jon Elrod's sexual orientation. Who the eff really cares? He supports the rights of gay people to live in peace, and yet we can't afford him the same courtesy? I can't figure out why this is fascinating for these folks. A Republican who is gay friendly? Unacceptable? Is that why we're attacking him? I really want to tell my gay brothers and sisters to get your head out of your collective gay asses and maybe, for once, vote for a candidate who is good for all people and vote for Jon Elrod. And don't fall lockstep in line with whatever candidate the Democrats hand us. Please be at least marginally discriminating with your vote.

Finally, I have to say I am pleased with myself for not extending a recipe metaphor throughout this post, like "Andre Carson, a recipe for disaster!" or "Jon Elrod offers a recipe for success for the 7th district!" It could have very easily happened.

Pray for peace everyone.

Drew