I make risotto pretty often and I’ve never rinsed my rice. Also, even in my mother’s recipe, you don’t rinse the rice before or after (which I’ve seen people do). Now I’m going to try making it both ways and see what happens.

This is like a timballo with rice. If you have a tube cake pan (Bundt) or a springform pan, all you do is make up your risotto, let it cool and add a couple of egg yolks, press it on the bottom and sides, then fill up the middle with whatever-you can layer mozzarella, meat, bechamel, peas...Once you’ve reached the top…

Thanks. I hesitated to post that because it does seem like bragging-I did it so why can’t everybody? type bullshit. Nobody should have to do without for years to make sure their kid isn’t drowning in debt by the time he’s 21; or everyone should make enough money that they can actually save enough to educate their…

What it always boils down to is the idea that somebody might get something they didn’t.  Something something socialism.

I agree. And I argue with people all the time about that. Remember how Obama got vilified by saying that rich people didn’t build their riches on their own? He’s absolutely correct. Every time Exxon’s giant tanker trucks  ruin a road or wear out a bridge or pollute a waterway-it’s my taxes paying for that, since Exxon…

I thought that was the point I was making? That college should at the very least be affordable-if not free for the first two years-and that young people should not have to start out their adult lives 100k in debt that they will never be able to repay? 

I’m an old, and my first year of college cost $6700. When you totaled my scholarships, financial aid, etc. my parents paid $700 my first year, which at the time was a lot considered my father was supporting 4 people and his elderly mother on about 40k a year. I probably had only about 12k in loans, which have been…

YAY!

Back in the day when I was a parent to two school age children, my day started at five am and did not stop until 10 pm, between working, getting kids to school, making lunches,working through lunch so I could leave in time to get the kids from after school care, driving back and forth to sports and activities, trying…

Over 27 million Americans don’t have health insurance, or have the financial resources to pay for health related costs.  Stephen Miller is probably salivating over the idea of deporting them too.

It’s not uncommon for people unfamiliar with the research process to just assume you can start with humans and that there aren’t any laws involved and you can just do whatever you want. It’s the same with animal research-they think you can just walk down to Chimps Are Us and check out a dozen chimpanzees to experiment…

I did that when I worked in a school library. Kids would come up wanting to check out a book, and I’d have to tell them, you can’t because you owe 25 cents for an overdue book. I’d say you owe 25 cents, watch their lips quiver, and then say, oh is your last name Watson or Williams? Sorry, my mistake and wipe out the…

She’s scouting out new drilling sites.

He should contract with John Hammond for delivery of a few T Rex to guard the border. No one can outrun a T Rex, except maybe a shirtless Jeff Goldblum.

I’ve been a member of an IRB and an IACUC. He’d never get approval for this (for Human Subjects anyway). First of all, pregnant women are a protected class. Second, all the evidence shows his theory is bunk, and he’d never get approval unless he has some evidence it’s possible to reimplant an ectopic pregnancy.

Every time I see Gorka on the news I want to throw my head back and scream “Gooooooooorrrrrrrrrrkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!” like Sheldon does with Will Wheaton on Big Bang Theory.

I concur.

Karen was divorced from her first husband, which is in itself a big no-no according to the Magic Sky fairy, and still attending a Catholic church despite that, so she had to have gotten an annulment. I can’t find any record of their divorce, which makes me say hmmmm, in terms of possible overlapping dates with dating…

Bet the doctor charged you for the delivery he never did, too.

Perhaps her punishment IS dating Stephen Miller?