No court on earth would have found you guilty.

Sometime in what, the late 80's early 90's chocolate mousse became trite and passe, which is a crying shame. It’s an epic example of how applying the right technique to just 5 ingredients can result is something ethereal and transcendent. Some classics really should never go out of style, this is one. I once had a…

That’s the way my Sicilian mother always made them, too. I would never second guess her on that.

I’ll die right next to you on that one. I’ll do it with meatballs, or, as I did last night, use some sweet italian seasoned ground pork in the sauce and simmer, simmer.

Would you do that with the tennis ball sized ones being described here?

No food safety issues if you are simmering for an hour and a half. The meatballs should easily reach safe to consume internal temperatures. Easy to check with an instant read thermometer, or by plucking out the biggest intact meatball you can find a slicing it open.

Toss your raw meatballs directly into the sauce. No frying. No baking. Just simmer in the sauce for about and hour/hour and a half. You may lose one or two to the sauce, but I promise you they will be the best textured meatball you’ve ever eaten.

And lets be clear about something. The reason she didn’t pursue the death penalty for the guy who killed the cop was purely politics. She campaigned on not pursuing the death penalty to an electorate that was against it. It’s what she won on and her opponents would have destroyed her with it in the next election if…

I’m sick of having nothing but bad choices but to me at least there’s a big difference between someone like Bernie who might be clueless but at least is pointed in the right direction and Harris who was a literal foot soldier for mass incarceration and the police state. Shit like this why people don’t vote at all.

Thorough as always Michael. This is the article I’m going to link anytime anyone brings up Kamala Harris. People could claim that this was the past or she was just doing her job all they want but the fact that she went on the Breakfast Club and joked around about smoking weed while there are people still sitting in…

The reason for cooking pork all the way to well done is trichinosis, since it’s a parasite both the worms and their eggs can get pretty deep in the meat. And it takes quite a bit of heat to kill them. Otherwise the interior of a whole muscle is pretty much sterile.

The whole “overcooking pork” thing is a holdover from when pigs were used as living garbage disposals. There was a very high chance that the pig could contain the trichinosis parasite, and the only way to kill it was to cook it to around 180F.

Nowadays, pigs are fed a commercial feed instead of scraps, so the risk has…

Sad to say that I had this album. Joe Lynn Turner is no Ronnie James Dio.

Or, if you’re an old like me:

I grew up in California’s main agricultural belt, the San Joaquin Valley. At least once a year there would be a news story about an entire extended family (20+ people) in Kings, Tulare or Fresno County ending up hospitalized because there was a slip in butchering and that part of the pig they roasted ended up…

The pork and pork fat was sourced from a well-regarded butcher shop near my home. Still, didn’t want to take any chances. 

There are plenty of non-trolls out here in the Grey Wasteland, just plugging along, hoping to one day be made one of the cool kids. It’s fine. I’m not bitter.

We’ve always buried our dogs and placed a tree above them.

On the rare occasion that I have reason to be in my childhood hometown, I’ll always pull by my house to see what disasters various new owners have inflicted upon it. A dumb new paint color, covering my old sandbox, stupid use of the garden, etc. But eventually I feel better, and smile and drive away. It does my heart…

Fuck that shit.