Greatest Website Ever

Jason decided to give me the greatest thing ever.  Apparently there is some guy in Altoona, who sends out these crazy newsletters to people.  Jason gave me one and I discovered that the dude has the entire thing online. 



Clipped from: www.americanrecoveryproject.com (share this clip)
I highly recommend you head over to his site and just read some of these things.  Okay, I know most of you will not, so allow me to point out my favorite parts.


 Over 2000 yrs ago wealthy Arabs began calling themselves Jews to gain entrance to all nations.  In the late 1800s they created The American Bar Association to take over our nation.  In 100 years they built our government & educational systems.  This letter tells you how the school systems sort out the profound followers with the least common sense who rise to the top, become attorneys, judges & others to pose as leaders while doing what the Arabs running the Bar tell them to do.  They make laws & police practice selective law enforcement to build The Kingdom of Hell on Earth.  We are being forced by law to practice Satanism; money worship / Judas Iscariotism, Judaism, the betrayal of all that is right for the money.  To recover we must change everything starting with taking out the trash that’s running a crime ring of espionage out of our courthouses. 
 So, allow me to get this straight:  2000 years ago, wealthy Arabs started to call themselves Jews.  What did they do with the actual Jewish people?  I just cannot imagine what the plan was, since the Jewish people during that time were not all that popular/powerful.  Plus, they were having some of their own in-house fighting, some guy named Jesus was really trying to shake things up...

This evil group of Arabs came to America in the 1800s and they did something horrible.  They decided to help build our government and education system.  Seems like a pretty mean thing to do. 

Satanism=money worship=Judas Iscariotism=Judaism....umm, what?  Something tells me this guy might be a little antisemitic.


There was a trial by jury, which I won because there was no case against me only lies put together to stop me from organizing the protection of American owned small businesses & their consumers. I lost $600,000.00 in law suits I’d filed against my attackers due to bad legal advice given to me by Skip Maddis & John Woodcock of the public defenders office. Since we know that the crime was Espionage for the Arabs involved who called themselves Jews, & treason for the Americans who helped; Judge Cambell, Skip Maddis, & John Woodcock because all the businesses I’d have protected are out of business or in other nations now, I’m owed the $600,000.00 plus damages for false arrest & false imprisonment, with 36 yrs of interest, you the people of the state of Pennsylvania owe me that. Since you know I’d use it on the recovery there’s no loss to you if I should get it. If I don’t get it I simply walk away while you pay my King.
 He lost $600,000 in lawsuits?  And we owe him this money back, with damages and 36 years of interest?  I think I am going to have to agree with the evil Arabs (who call themselves Jews) and rule in favor of not giving this guy money.  I think he says that this trial happened in 1975.  How much would that come to nowadays?

Oh and the king he is referring to is his son.  He has plenty to say about his son.  I will not post that stuff though.   He claims his son has been sexually abused by the boy's mother (which is not funny, if true), but I get the sense that everything this guy says is batshit crazy, like this:


Matthew was Kidnapped on May 2, 2000 when he was 3 months old by Blair County Sheriff’s Deputies, with the aid of State Police & the co-operation of the Freedom Township Police.  I haven’t seen him since October of 2010.  The court is currently holding him hostage as I refuse to practice Satanism in order to attain visitation & I think they’d throw me in jail & kill me to stop me from publishing this truth if I enter the courthouse.  Matt started learning to type when he was in 2nd grade.  He can type 90 words per minute.  He was typing a story every time he visited with me, he called it “The Case of them all”.  I chose to call our Recovery Project by the same name.  Judge Hiram Carpenter violated the law by signing an order May 1, 2000 giving Rebecca Fink legal & physical custody of Matt based on lies she wrote on a court document called a petition for emergency relief.  Judge Carpenter was just following orders he got from the Arab Bar Association, which was treason.  We should put him in jail for life & confiscate all wealth his family has acquired in Treason.  The same should be done to all who have served the enemy as described in this letter.
 I honestly doubt this guy knows the meaning of treason.

Also, check out some of his karma stories.  Mostly about smoking pot and maybe sleeping with some lady.  I am not 100% sure.  Anyways, if you would like to kill some time and laugh hysterically at an idiot, then please check out his site.

The Garrison

A horrible head cold, called for a major pick me up last weekend. As my head was full of mush, the man was in charge of coming up with the goods. And he did good! 


Seeing as all i was capable of doing was bitching (i don't do ill gracefully), he thought the best tactic would be to occupy my mind (and mouth) with food. Enter The Garrison. Now this gorgeous pub is somewhere we constantly lust after, but as Bermondsey is choc full of awesome eateries, it had never made the cut before. How silly of us! 


You know when you step inside a place and it just kind of talks to you. Well, this place did just that. There are so many little eccentricities and quirky goings on, that even before the food was served (which was damn fine by the way), i was hooked! So this is more of an interiors post, but my God, the yummy noises i made whilst eating were so obscene that the poor couple next to me started to blush! And they were French! 


Eat there! 










I am very nosey. So finding myself sitting next to a wall mounted cupboard made my fingers twitch. Yes, i am the kind of person to root through your bathroom cupboard, so a restaurant cupboard is no different! I almost yelped with delight when i found that the contents were a random shoe (yes, a shoe!)and loads of wonderful messages from previous table dwellers. This is part of the eccentric gorgeousness of the place. So after brunch, we piled up all the scribbled notes and lingered over them with a second cup of tea. Pure Joy!

After Big Whiskey...

This is something new I plan on doing every so often.  I will take a movie and write about where they are nowadays.  No, not the actual actors, but the characters.  My blog, my idiotic ideas.

Unforgiven
One of my all-time favorite movies.  I think most of you know the premise, well I was wondering what happened after that night at Greely's Bar.  Time for some hard-hitting investigative journalism...or a bunch of made-up stuff.

William Munny
He moved his kids out to San Francisco, where they did very well in dried goods.  Whatever the hell that means.  He actually ran into Wyatt Earp in 1902.  Earp knew exactly who Munny was, but unfortunately, the two men were way too old to get into anything.  Earp just let Munny go and they spoke about the fates of a bunch of lawmen and villains they both knew.

Munny died in 1905, at the age of 92.  After that night in Big Whiskey, he never touched alcohol again and he never killed anyone again.



Schoefield Kid
He got those spectacles and never had to worry about not being able to see.  The funny thing was that with those glasses, he was actually a remarkable shot, but he became a devout Catholic and never even raised his hand against another man.




Remember Little Sue?  Well after everything happened, she left Big Whiskey and on her way east, she actually ran into the Schoefield Kid.  They traveled together and eventually got married.  They moved to Boston, where the Kid (going by Trevor Darrow) practiced law for nearly fifty years. 


Trevor and Sue had three kids and lived happily ever after.

English Bob
Things did not go so well for English Bob.  After the beating he took from Little Bill, he decided to return to England.



Unfortunately, he was not well liked in England either.  In fact, the whole reason he was in America to begin with:  he was wanted for murder.  Yeah, he shot a guy in the back when he was 17 years old and fled to America.

Needless to say, someone recognized him and turned him over to Scotland Yard (it is rumored that the man who arrested him was Inspector Lestrade with help from someone in the private sector).  English Bob was then executed after a very quick trial.  The family of the murdered man was quite pleased.

Delilah Fitzgerald
The whore who was cut up.  She actually was inspired by the kind words of William Munny and decided to step-up and do something with her life.  With Little Bill dead, there was a void in the county's power structure.

She decided to fill that void.  No, she did not become the new sheriff.  Instead she ran for mayor of Big Whiskey and actually won.  People feared that Munny would return if they went against her.  She was the first female mayor in Wyoming history.

She was also a major player in the Women's Suffrage Movement.

Charley Hecker
He was the only deputy to survive Will's rampage.  After the whole thing ended, he was the new sheriff of Big Whiskey.  Until the following election in November.

Oddly enough though, he won the election.  He did things differently than Little Bill.  He and newly elected mayor Delilah decided to outlaw prostitution, which helped reduce crime.  Also, it helped to reduce the population, since the 12 prostitutes decided to move elsewhere.

He died in a gunfight about eight years later.

W.W. Beauchamp
He continued his travels looking for folks to interview.  He made his way up to South Dakota and ended up finding a place that kept him frozen in time.  He was later thawed out and given a job at a warehouse.



William Munny Jr.
Will sent both of his children to school in San Francisco.  Will Jr. eventually went to school back east and received a degree from Yale.  He returned to San Francisco and took over his father's business.  Within a few years he turned into the largest import/export companies on the west coast.

He eventually became the third richest man in America.  His company became one of the first multinational conglomerates.  He ended up having a falling out with some of his Skull & Bones friends and decided to stop giving money to Yale. 

He helped fund a new school in the west coast:  Stanford.  That is why, to this day, the Stanford library is known as the Billy Munny Library. 



One of the things he did purchase was a giant pig farm, where he visited once a year and rumor has it, delighted in watching those damned pigs get slaughtered...

Game of Thrones Season Two Preview

Okay, I know I just posted something about Game of Thrones, but then I saw the preview for season two (not the teaser or making of video) and had to post it.  Just deal with it.  I make the rules around here.



Season 2: Preview - You Win or You Die

Game of Thrones Banners

I saw these and just had to make them my desktop background (I would love to have a few of these as shirts).  After the jump you can see all of them.

Oscar Pool

I am little irritated that Yahoo does not have an Oscar pool that you can make into a private group. 

So, if you want to compete against me this year, just head here.  The group name is Ngewo's World and the password is joshcroyle.  Should be easy enough, right?  The winner will get my undying respect. 

Another Religious Video

I love these videos.

Hearty Vegetable Soup with Ragi Spaetzle and Beer Bread Rolls

A great welcome to new subscribers Krista, Bobby, and Wendy. It’s great to have you as part of the family!


When I put together a meal recipe consisting of an American vegetable soup containing German noodles that were made with an Indian flour and served with rolls leavened by a Dutch beer, I wasn’t going for some kind of international fusion concept. Hearty Vegetable Soup with Ragi Spaetzle and Beer Bread Rolls just turned out that way.


This unusual (but delicious) combination started with Facebook friend Caroline, a fine cook and baker in India, telling me about ragi (pronounced RAH-gee, with a hard g as in “go”), a flour that not only brings a deep, earthy taste to food, but plenty of nutrition as well: calcium, carbohydrates, proteins, iron, niacin, and more. I had to try it. (Indian food is quite popular in the U.S., so ragi flour wasn’t hard to find.)


Why it occurred to me to use this to make spaetzle (pronounced SHPEHT-sluh or SHPEHT-sehl), a traditional German noodle, and then to use that as the noodle part of a vegetable-noodle soup, is anyone’s guess.


Finally, homemade vegetable-noodle soup demands to be served with warm, fresh bread, so to save time I decided to bake a beer bread and avoid the usual fermenting and proofing processes. In general, when cooking with beer, it’s a good idea to select one that would match well with the meal if you were drinking it. Since the bread was going to be served with a vegetable soup, I wanted a beer with a simple, clean taste. I opted for Heineken.  


The result: a very delicious meal that, in spite of looking like it has a lot of steps, is actually quite easy to make.


A few cook’s notes before we begin:
• If you can’t get ragi flour, or just choose not to, feel free to make a traditional spaetzle  or to use any other form of noodle, whether homemade or packaged. Remember, it’s your soup.
• To soften ragi’s natural earthiness for the American palate (and to use ingredients likely to be found in the American pantry), I used a 50/50 mix of ragi flour and all-purpose flour, and went with American seasonings rather than more traditional Indian ones. (Although some traditional ragi-recipe items, such as shredded coconut, were used in the recipe since those are readily available in the U.S.)
• The soup recipe uses both vegetable stock and chicken stock. If you want to keep the recipe strictly vegetarian, just replace the chicken stock with more vegetable stock. I just like the way a bit of chicken stock rounds out the flavor.
• Beer bread can be denser than yeast bread, so I lightened the texture of the rolls by using all-purpose flour instead of the usual bread flour.
First, our ragi spaetzle.  This recipe makes about 6 cups of cooked spaetzle. That’s way more than the two cups you’ll need for the soup, but leaves you plenty for spaetzle’s more traditional role as a side dish. (More on that in the recipe.)


Prepare a large pot of salted, boiling water and an ice bath.


In a bowl, whisk together 2 tablespoons shredded coconut; 3 egg-substitute eggs; 1 cup skim milk; 2 tablespoons dried parsley; ½ tablespoon dried thyme; 1 teaspoon dried tarragon; ½ teaspoon ground ginger; ½ teaspoon dry mustard; ½ teaspoon dried cayenne pepper; ¼ teaspoon ground nutmeg; 1-1/2 teaspoon salt; and ½ teaspoon fresh ground black pepper.


Combine 1-½ cups ragi flour and 1-1/2 cups all-purpose flour, and add to the liquid mixture to make a loose dough.




Using a ricer, a food mill on the ricer setting, or using a spatula to press the dough through a colander, press the batter out into the boiling water, working in batches if necessary. Boil until the spaetzle floats to the top of the water, then transfer the cooked pieces to the ice bath to stop cooking.


Drain very well. Two cups of this spaetzle can be used in the soup recipe below.








(To use the remaining spaetzle as a side dish for another meal, melt 2 tablespoons of butter substitute in a sauté pan over medium low heat. Add the spaetzle and ½ teaspoon of white wine vinegar and sauté until lightly browned. Salt and pepper to taste. Top with butter substitute and serve.)

Now let’s make our soup! (This recipe makes about two and a half quarts of soup.)




Heat 2 tablespoons of olive oil in a large pot and add 1-1/2 cup diced onion; 1 cup chopped carrots; 1 cup diced green pepper; ½ cup chopped celery; and a ten-ounce package fresh, sliced mushrooms. Cover and sweat over medium heat until soft, about five minutes.


Add 8 cups of vegetable stock; 2 cups of chicken stock, and a 28 ounce can of diced tomatoes, drained but not rinsed. Cover the pot and simmer for 30 minutes. (While the soup is simmering, you can go on to the beer bread recipe below.)

After the soup has finished simmering, add 2 cups of the ragi spaetzle and 1 tablespoon of dried cilantro, and simmer five minutes more.




Prepare a garnish by combining 2 grated carrots and two stalks of celery sliced paper-thin. When the soup has finished cooking, add salt to taste, top with a bit of the garnish, and serve.


And, of course, our beer bread rolls. This recipe makes 8 rolls.


Preheat oven to 375 degrees.


Mix the following  in a bowl until combined: 3 cups all-purpose flour;  3 teaspoons of baking powder; 1-1/2 teaspoons of salt; 3 tablespoons of sugar; and 2 teaspoons of dried parsley or other herb compatible with the main meal.



Add a 12-ounce bottle of room-temperature beer (I used Heineken) and mix until a sticky dough forms.






Divide the dough into 8 equal portions on a baking sheet that is greased or lined with a silicon baking sheet.




Bake for about 12 minutes, then brush the tops of the rolls with melted butter substitute, turning the tray for even baking.



Continue baking until the edges of the rolls are lightly browned. (Total baking time should be about 26 minutes.) Serve warm.




If that doesn’t make your family happy, then I don’t know what will!


That’s it for this week! Please come back next week for another delicious (and kitchen-tested) recipe! Till then, stay well, keep it about the food, find an exciting new ingredient to play with, and always remember to kiss the cook. ;-)