President Obama On Climate Legislation In The Senate
From his prepared remarks:
The House of Representatives has already passed a comprehensive energy and climate bill, and there is currently a plan in the Senate – a plan that was developed with ideas from Democrats and Republicans – that would achieve the same goals. The votes may not be there right now, but I intend to find them in the coming months. I will make the case for a clean energy future wherever I can, and I will work with anyone from either party to get this done. But we will get this done. The next generation will not be held hostage to energy sources from the last century. We will not move back. America will move forward.
Cooking Ghormeh Sabzi
I don’t usually try cooking anything that requires more than 3 ingredients and 20 minutes of my time. Luckily I didn’t have to this weekend as Jennifer did most of the work, including taking most of the pictures to make it look like I was cooking.
This is Ghormeh Sabzi which is apparently one of the more difficult Persian dishes to cook. All in all we spent 5 hours preparing and then cooking the stew, rice and preparing mast o khiar (Persian cucumber yogurt.) It is hands down my favorite dish, so important wikipedia tells me it’s the Iranian national dish.
The recipe was a combination of these two Ghormeh Sabzi recipes on the internet, the first is a Boston Globe recipe from a Boston area Persian restaurant, the second is from this cooking blog. We doubled most of the greens because we didn’t think it looked like enough. we’d visited the farmers market and had bags of everything we needed.
Mast o khiar recipes (cucumber yogurt) are plentiful on the internet. As are recipes for Persian style Basmati rice, which we only allowed to soak for 30 minutes. Still don’t know how to make tahdig. The dish in pictures below with the final product first.
Wonderful at the end, closest I’ve had to home cooked Ghormeh Sabzi which my mom cooks.
All of the herbs that would eventually get cut and dices into the stew.
The slow arduous task of preparing the herbs for cooking.
Chop Chop Chop Chop
Lots of chopping, I only stood in for this picture.
Most of the work was done by the master chef.
Brown onions and dry out herbs and greens.
I did wash the meat.
Cuts of lamb, beautiful lamb
Adding Turmeric and lamb to the onions. Beautiful color and smell.
Dried lemons with holes are key to the flavor.
Everything together to create the stew with 3 cups of water, more added later.
Stewing
Mast O Khiar (Persian cucumber yogurt)
Rice pan with half a stick of butter and saffron.
The end product
Palin Goes After Meg Whitman
A Palin aide recently told ABC News that the offices of Palin’s political action committee had been flooded with calls asking about her leather jacket after she stumped for McCain’s re-election to the Senate on March 26.
The Palin aide mused that her office would not have received as many calls about the leather jacket if she looked like Meg Whitman, the former eBay CEO who is a Republican candidate for governor of California.
As a friend reminds me it might be partly in response to Whitman strategist Mike Murhpy’s comment in ‘08.
“If Sarah Palin looked like Golda Meir, would we even be talking about her today?”
Chart: Amount Spent By Both Parties At At High-End Lesbian Bondage-Themed Nightclub
PS. I realize that the title has two “at’s” in it, but I can’t actually change the title without changing the url.
Will The RNC be Broke Before November?
I think everyone may be missing just how bad the burn rate is at the RNC. In fact at their current burn rate it probably means the committee just won’t have the cash to help any candidates come November.
For fun here’s the RNC’s burn rate since last February.
Here’s the impact that Burn rate has had on their cash on hand. As the DNC’s Cash on hand slowly grows during a tough election and a tough fight on health care reform. The RNC’s burn rate has been almost consistently negative.
Long live Michael Steele as the chairman of the RNC.
Why Can’t New Mitt Romney Explain Old Mitt Romney
It really is amazing.
Almost five days after Mitt Romney decided to lead the crusade to overturn the health care reform bill that the president signed this week because of the individual mandate provision Romney still can’t explain why he’s on video defending mandates in 2007 and 2008.
You would have though that Romney would have learned. It’s the same Romney that in 2007 couldn’t explain why he was running as an anti-choice anti-gay social conservative when in Massachusetts debates in 1994 and 2002 he was advocating semi-liberal positions on social issues. And it was all on video tape.
I still think that Romney is the shoe-in GOP candidate in 2012 because there are no other good alternatives but even right-wing bloggers are taking notice that Mitt Romney has a serious credibility issue.
Mitt Romney may be a fine tuned robotic candidate but he was built for an age where youtube didn’t exist.
