ragingalongborders:

bohemea:

Jon Stewart with his family trick-or-treating

<3!

The two latest additions to our household are some concrete block shelves and these tomato plants, which may or may not actually bear fruit. Mostly I’m just excited about the part where I put seeds in some dirt a couple days ago and now there are green things poking out. Magic!

I made this chicken last night, and it was super delicious. I am a fan of any and all yogurt-based recipes. My only comments:

A) 2 cups of yogurt is WAY too much. Next time I will halve the sauce part and it will probably still be too much. I made six breasts and had more than half of the sauce left over at the end.

B) I should have used a higher breadcrumb-to-sauce ratio, because mine ended up not very crispy at all. But it still tasted good.

I do a lot of stir frying, because it is a quick way to eat random vegetables that happen to be in my refrigerator, and it’s kind of impossible to screw up. I always just kind of throw things in the pan and don’t ever measure anything, but when I stumble upon a good combination I feel the need to write it down for future reference (for example, I now refer to this post about broccoli and TVP fairly often because I can never remember what I put in it). So:

[0. Start making some rice or noodles to eat this with once you’re done.]

1. Chop or press a couple cloves of garlic; sautee it in a small amount of peanut oil.

2. Throw a bunch of green beans in there (I pretty much fill the small cast-iron pan that I use, and that’s enough for two people). If you are like me, you have a giant bag of frozen green beans from Costco sitting in your freezer and you just eat green beans all the time because green beans are amaaaaaazing. So anyway these beans were frozen but this would probably work just fine with fresh ones, you just might cook them for less time. Stir the beans in the oil so they don’t stick, then cover it and leave it on medium-low heat while you get the other ingredients out of the fridge.

3. Add some (maybe a teaspoon?) curry paste. I bought this kind a long time ago to use in this super good recipe I got from my friend Katie. This paste doesn’t seem to ever go bad, which is good because I’ve been cooking from the same container of it for like two years and I’ve barely made a dent in it. (It is also good in egg salad.) And some website I just saw says it’s Mae Ploy’s only curry paste that does not have shrimp sauce in it, which makes this recipe vegan. If you care about these things.

4. Add a variable (but small!) amount of chili paste, according to your desired spiciness level. I keep sambal oelek around because it’s an ingredient in my mother’s pad thai recipe. A little goes a long way. Like, if you put a 1/2 tsp of this stuff in this dish that serves two people, after one bite your head will literally turn into a cartoon steam whistle. I would say that I put less than 1/4 tsp and it is plenty spicy. Stir the beans up so they are covered in the seasonings.

5. Cook it for a while, stirring it every once in a while. I find that about 10-15 minutes on the low end of medium heat makes the beans tender but still a little crunchy, which is the best texture for green beans.

6. Eat it! (with rice or noodles. I prefer rice.)

from superpoop

thisiswhy:

veganchameleon:

TODAY’S THING THAT MAKES ME HAPPY = We have an extraordinary President.  And apparently this photo isn’t retouched — it’s one of his speechwriters in costume for some reason.

I’m really into this. I think all his speechwriters should be permanently in costume.

[pushes up nerd glasses] In case anybody’s curious, it’s a staged photo that’s the punchline to one of Obama’s jokes in his speech to the White House Correspondents’ Dinner (the joke starts at about 8:40 but the whole thing is worth watching). Also this photo was my desktop wallpaper for a long time. I got it from the Official White House Flickr account, which is excellent overall.

sarahschneider:

Love this silly little remix idea I had.  Written with Dan, obvs.  If this doesn’t make conservatives rethink their positions, nothing will*!

*nothing will.

Happy Labor Day!

I can pretty much forgive Twitter for existing, because it resulted in this site, which is my new favorite thing on the internet:

The Longest Poem In the World