Food for Mind and Body

Take a small bowl and place water in it. Dissolve yeast and let stand for 5 minutes.
Take a large size mixing bowl and combine together sugar, flour and salt in it.
Cut in about 3/4 cup butter using a pastry blender until mixture begins to resemble coarse meal.
Combine eggs and milk in the yeast mixture. Add this to the flour mixture. Stir to form sticky dough. Cover and refrigerate overnight.
Punch the dough and divide into half.
Place each half on a floured surface and roll into a 12-inch circle. Cut both the circles into 12 wedges.
Roll up each individual wedge tightly, beginning at the wide end.
Seat the points and place rolls with point side down on the greased baking sheets.
Curve rolls to form crescent shape. Brush with melted butter.
Cover and let the rolls rise in a warm place (about 85° F), free from drafts, for about 1 hour or until the rolls become double in bulk.
Bake for about 8 minutes. Remove from pan and allow the rolls to cool a little.

It’s a twisty path we thread when we argue that popular culture has an impact in the real world.

I believe, firmly, that what we see in movies and on television, what we read in the few books that become mass phenomena these days do shape our assumptions about what is normal and what is real, that we can help build the dream of a more just and inclusive world and work through the nightmares we may be building for ourselves.

I do not believe that mass culture makes individual killers pick up guns and build bombs and murder the diplomatic representatives of foreign nations. But that doesn’t mean that popular culture can’t enrage people, that certain narratives and characters can’t become the stones disturbed minds use to sharpen their views of the world, and that movies can’t become a tool by which people ficitonalize themselves.

Alyssa Rosenberg on death by fiction in the “Innocence of Muslim” riots. Her full take. (via think-progress)

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ronniefein:

Sometimes simple is best. This is the time of year I buy a load of apples and bake pies and fancy cakes and gorgeous French apple tarts.

But, with all the cooking and baking I’m doing now, I also try to make a few really easy desserts that are light and fresh tasting so we can eat them even after a heavy holiday meal.

This one is a classic. Good plain, with a hot cup of coffee or tea. Or with ice cream of course.

I think I could write a whole book about different kinds of apple cake.

Apple Cake

3-4 medium tart apples, peeled, cored and coarsely chopped

1/4 cup sugar

1 teaspoon cinnamon

3 cups all-purpose flour

1 tablespoon baking powder

1 teaspoon salt

1-1/4 cups sugar

1 cup vegetable oil

4 eggs

1/4 cup apple, orange, peach or mango juice

1 teaspoon grated lemon peel

2 teaspoons vanilla extract

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Lightly grease a 10-inch springform pan (or a 9”x13” cake pan). Combine the apples, 1/4 cup sugar and cinnamon together in a bowl and set aside. Place the flour, baking powder, salt, 1-1/4 cups sugar and vegetable oil in the bowl of an electric mixer. Beat at medium speed for 2-3 minutes or until thoroughly blended. Add the eggs, one at a time, beating after each addition. Stir in the juice, lemon peel and vanilla extract. Spoon half the batter into the prepared pan. Spoon some of the apple mixture on top. Repeat the layers. Bake for about 65-75 minutes or until a cake tester inserted into the center comes out clean. Makes one cake

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My Wishes

Things I would like to see happen in 2012-2013……………….
100% recall of all US military forces not bases inside the united states……
Elimination of both political parties…
Elimination of The stock market….
Elimination of the commodities exchange……..
Elimination of the electoral college……..
Elimination of the Federal Reserve……
Remove Social Security / Medicare trust fund from the General Fund and return it to its self as when established…..
Require repayment of all funds / interest to the SSA / Medicare truest fund that have been misappropriated by congress…….
Require all members of government to contribute thru FICA without exception…..
Elimination of all Corporations and conglomerates reduced to their individual companies……
Remove corporate rights as falsely provided by the constitution… Declare that corporations are not persons
Elimination of all forms of campaign contribution except the individual person and limit this to 2,000 dollars per person……..
Elimination of special interest groups and their contributions to congress…….
Regulation of insurance rates and doctor / hospital fees and rates….
Elimination of DHS, CIA, IRS, FDA, TSA, and several other departments…….
Require Congress persons to perform a minimum 40 hour work week and only have a maximum of 5 weeks of total holiday /vacation time per year……..
Reduce congressional pay rates to a level equal to a median middle class employment position…..
Reduce maximum term in office of politicians to 3 terms max……….
Require all government employees to contribute to the same insurance plans and savings plans as are available to the general public……

Chance that any of this will happen -0-…. Government once a thief always a thief…..

mexicue:

Are you missing your Olympic Fever as much as we are? Come cure your hangover with one of our sliders! (Taken with Instagram)

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gocookyourself:

Pizza Sauce Like A Boss

CHECK out this hilarious recipe video, directed by Ryan Mackfall

SPREAD it like a boss

GET the book!

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GO COOK YOURSELF

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justanerdyfoodie:

Julia Child’s Ratatouille: recipe here

↵ Originally from justanerdyfoodie

↵ Reblogged from pbs-food

whiskey burgers
recipe here

↵ Originally from f00dlyfe

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