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posted by on February 12 at 8:00 AM
Reopened: Snoqualmie Pass.
Anti-Contraception: “Pro-Lifers” in South Dakota.
Still Not Out: Huckabee vows to stay in the race.
And a Million iPhone Owners Cackle With Glee: Massive BlackBerry outage reported.
“Must-Win”: For Clinton, Ohio and Texas.
Meanwhile, In Kenya: Women are beaten for wearing pants.
Meanwhile, in Divorce Court: McCartney and Mills try to sort it out.
Every Child Deserves a Mother and a Father: The Pope delivers another anti-woman, anti-gay sermon on marriage.
Speaking of Which: Mistrial declared in case of mother who microwaved her baby.
Recipe of the Day:
Mario Batali’s Short Ribs with Gremolata (Recipe via The Paupered Chef; photo of gremolata via Creative Commons.)
Ingredients
¼ cup extra virgin olive oil
4 pounds short ribs
Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
2 carrots, peeled and roughly chopped
1 onion, roughly chopped
2 celery stalks, roughly chopped
5 garlic cloves, thinly sliced
2 cups Barolo, or other full-bodied red wine
1 16-ounce can of peeled tomatoes, crushed by hand with their juices
1 cup brown chicken stock
½ bunch thyme
½ bunch rosemary
½ bunch oregano
Gremolata
Leaves from 1 bunch of flat leaf parsley
Zest of two lemons,
¼ pound fresh horseradish, grated
Preheat the oven to 375. Salt and pepper the ribs generously, then heat the olive oil until just smoking and add them. Don’t crowd the pan, or else the steam released from the ribs will interfere with the browning of their neighbors. Do it in two batches if necessary. Let them sit on a side for 4-5 minutes, then turn, so that a golden brown crust happens all over the place and there’s no red still visible.
Remove the ribs to a plate, and add the carrots, celery, onion, and garlic, browning for five minutes or so. Add the remaining ingredients, and scrape the bottom of the pan vigorously with a wooden spoon to loosen up any brown bits on the bottom of the pan.
Bring the sauce to a boil, then add the ribs.
Cover the pot with tin foil, creating a kind of concave lid that dips down into the pot and serves as a low ceiling over the meat. Put it into the oven and cook for 2 hours, without peeking.
In the meantime, make the gremolata.
Peel the horseradish, grate into a bowl, and add finely chopped parsley with lemon zest.
When the 2 hours are up, peek in the pot. The ribs should actually, literally be separating from the big piece of bone. If not, make sure there’s enough liquid and let them go another 20 minutes.
Serve with the gremolata sprinkled on top.
Yeah, Slate was saying the same thing about HRC. I predict she will win one but not both of them. Obama and Hillary are trending towards spliting everything.
After living in VA and knowing the landscape there, I wouldn't be surprised if Hillary wins. She is also favored in Wisconsin, where she leads in the polls, and the demographics favor her. Her campaign is playing the expectations game so that they can talk about the "huge upsets."
iPhone users would be happy about Blackberry users having problems? Why?
Living in VA I feel Obama has a good chance today. However, I am a college student, so my perception is probably somewhat skewed but when Bill Clinton came and spoke at my school yesterday, the crowd (who had waited hours in the cold to hear him speak) started chanting "yes we can" and a few brought Obama posters. Also my parents, including my dad who habitually watches the O'Reilly Factor voted for Obama this morning.
There was something going on in Greenwood this morning; NW 85th was blocked off by cop cars between 3rd and 8th. Anyone know what happened?
@5, I went on a shooting spree, move along nothing to see here...
@3
Erica has an iPhone and apparently she wants *everyone* to know it.
@3
Because we're better than they are [now]. We used to be BlackBerry users, but now we live in the cozy confines of Smug City.
Sarcasm aside, the Edge network was acting like freakin' bullcrap last week, and iPhones have problems in general. For example; the iPhone will only check your e-mail every 15 minutes, and if you're not connected to wireless, it's fucking slow. With my BlackBerry, I'd receive my e-mails the moment they arrived. Safari also decides to crash and completely close out. A lot.
Pros and cons for everything, I guess.
Mmmm...microwaved baby . . . with gremolata!
@7
Note the cute, subtle pairing of HRCs ass-handing in the election, and beating of Kenyan women.
Erica has a chip on her shoulder, and apparently she wants *everyone* to know it.
Yes, the only thing scary than testosterone is testosterone FROM AFRICA!
northern virginia is obama country with maybe the exception of alexandria. southern virginia is a bit harder to figure out.
hrc wins texas, but loses ohio.
is a good thing huckabee is hating on old man mccain.
OK well I work for a team that makes competing products to both the iPhone and Blackberry, so I could actually have a material reason for wishing them to fail. But neither myself nor anyone I have talked to on my team wish for RIM users to have problems. Ya think the developers in Cupertino are glad that the Blackberry network went down, or is that just certain customers of theirs?
My prediction is that Texas will be the only one left Hillary wins. I think Ohio will--just barely--go Obama and Obama will win Wisconsin by a bigger margin than anyone expected.
A Non Imus @10, y'know, I'm trying to parse this one myself. Like, "She didn't just suggest what I thought she suggested, did she?"
I think Slog ought to put up a reader poll, asking, "Was Erica C. Barnett's pairing of Hillary's troubles (campaigning against the son of a Kenyan man) with the beating of women in Kenya deliberate or not?"
I think I might have to press the "Not sure" radio button.
When can we start beating women for wearing pants in this country?
my mom told me about the blackberry problems last night. i never had anything go weird with mine.
That single county in Washington we thought Hillary had won? Turns out she lost that one too.
@13 some people feel better about their choice when the alternative fails in some way. this is a very common trait (schadenfreude). while it might not be true for every-last iphone user -- or even a majority of them -- playing up that angle sure makes for a more entertaining headline.
I really don't understand the Erica-baiting. As I said before (when it looked like it was going the other way) it's usually wise to save the sore-winner act until you've actually won.
ah yes, that would be more of the afore mentioned schadenfreude...
Come on, people. The placement of the Clinton and Kenya stories is not some subtle, snide comment. Honestly, it takes a conspiracy theorist's mind to even make that connection.
Umm, I doubt it was deliberate, but having the recipe of the day directly follow the story about the mother who microwaved her baby is really tacky and un-funny.
Also, if you read down the first letter of each bolded line, it reads "RASAMMMES" - and we all know what that means, right?
Papa Ratzi needs to get a life. (or get laid)
All THREE passes were closed on Saturday. Wowza!
I'm an iPhone user, and I'm not happy. For whatever reason, my AT&T service is down too. Catch 22: since my phone is out of service, I can't call to complain. I went looking for online support, forgot my password and had to reset. New password was sent... TO MY PHONE.
Thanks, South Dakota! Just when I was starting to forget why we moved 1500 miles immediately after graduating, you go ahead and remind me!
@27:
ha-ha!
If having these fucking services go down is what it takes to get you to put both hands on the steering wheel, I'm all for it.
In fact, Apple has sold over 4 million iPhones. That's a lot of cackling...
@27
I call BS. Your iPhone is tied to your computer, i.e. you must use iTunes to even activate an iPhone. All you had to do was plug the iPhone back into your PC, and run the backup from iTunes. Reset? I think not.
Also, your iPhone has only a mirror to the email you access on your PC (or Mac). There was no reason to think a new password was sent only to your iPhone - you must have received that email on your main account, web or service provider based.
I don't believe you really have an iPhone or you'd know all this.
More recipes Erica: Try Cindy McCain's Farfalle Pasta with Turkey Sausage, Peas, and Mushrooms!
@31 -- and a quarter of them have "gone missing", in other words aren't on AT&T. Most of them have probably been unlocked for use on other networks. That's especially funny because Apple only gets paid out of your AT&T contract -- they lose money on the device itself.
@9, that's exactly what I thought.
Erica, please don't put your recipe of the day right under news stories about microwaved babies. It made me gag a little.
Better yet, combine them: let's have recipes for babies. I don't think I'd want horseradish in the gremolata for that, though. And I would NEVER cook a baby in a microwave. Smoked in a kamado, perhaps?
I love Mario Batali (he's one of my two fave TV chefs along with Michael Smith), but did he write the instructions for that recipe? Cuz they SUCK. Anyone who isn't familiar with browning meat, then browning the veggies, then deglazing, will have trouble with the preponderance of pronouns.
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