Thursday: Caldo Verde. To make some space, I'm trying to clear out some of the odds and ends from the freezer. Thursday's volunteers were some mexican chorizo, a bag of collard greens and a quart of turkey stock made from our Christmas bird. I made a potato soup, using the chorizo, collards, an onion and a few cloves…

It's pretty good.

On Friday I did pan-fried pork tenderloin sandwiches. They're slices of loin, tenderized thin, dredged in an egg wash and breaded with corn meal. Fry them in a skillet with a little oil until they're golden brown, then serve on a bun with traditional burger condiments. Tasty, and not too awful from a health…

Really? An article on Iowa's loose-meat sandwiches, and you don't mention Ottumwa's The Canteen in the Alley?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wi…

So Butch is gonna be Solomon Grundy. That seems about right for Gotham.

It is. You can take a little on the second year, but you really want to wait until the third to start harvesting regularly. Once it gets going, though, it's a super low-maintenance, reliable crop; all you really need to do is make sure it gets water, harvest every couple days, and remember to cut down the growth in…

Did a pretty decent smoked chicken over the weekend.
I spatchcocked it on Friday night, and dry-brined it for two days in the fridge.
Smoked it with apple wood, and made a red wine gravy with the back and giblets.

First TV show I ever bought on DVD.

Richard wasn't the player character, he voiced the other alien.
No one would ever confuse Richard Horvitz for Jack Nicholson.

He's done it for flimsier reasons…

Plus, they cast Bruce Campbell, then decided to make his character the token homophobe Ellen had to deal with.

I've never heard a good explanation for why the people of Nevada, Iowa pronounce it "Na-vay-da".

The use of the defib was driving me nuts, and I'm an English major.
If there's one thing I learned from Polite Dissent, it's that you don't shock a flatline.

A 19-year-old sophomore, apparently; but the point stands.

Alternate Topic: If Dippin' Dots really are the ice cream of the future, doesn't eating it risk creating some kind of temporal paradox?

Zathura!

A year and a half later, and we saw that flashback episode.
You even got the name right.

Those sure are some horny vikings.

Greg built it himself. Watch the extended theme song:
https://www.youtube.com/wat…

They took a quick look at it as part of a primer on Walter Hill's films, years ago.