Except for Hillary…Posted on 11/12/2018 6:00:11 AM PST by NOBO2012
I am not one to let the buzzards get me down as a rule, but their constant circling in multiple groups is beginning to make me a bit anxious: manufactured votes being counted in Arizona, Georgia and Florida with barely a peep from anyone, thousands of “migrants” continue their march to violate our laws and borders, Hillary is running for president and California is burning.
Since today is only a holiday by government edict and since we already held a proper Veterans’ Day observation yesterday, on the proper day, we are now free to move about the Internet. And even though it’s still almost 2 weeks off, we’re moving into the kitchen – LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, START YOUR BLOW TORCHES: THE THANKSGIVING RECIPE MARATHON HAS OFFICIALLY BEGUN. As always, Julia Child residing.
Like all days it will still be an open thread, but you can begin dropping any holiday recipes you’d like to share with the MOTI today. Feel free to request and/or post recipes that have been previously posted as there’s no viable search function in Disqus to find those from the past. Who knows, maybe this year somebody will gather them up in one place!
I’ve got two simple recipes for you. The first is a very simple alternative to the standard shrimp cocktail appetizer. It’s from Monahan’s Fish Market in Ann Arbor where they call it “Shrimp Rémoulade” even though there’s no mustard in it - Mid-Westerners, go figure.
Shrimp Rémoulade – From Monahan’s Fish Market
- 1 lb. medium shrimp, peeled & deveined, tails off , well dried (or frozen, cooked, defrosted)
- 2 scallions, chopped
- ½ red bell pepper, diced
- ½ C Monahan’s Remoulade Sauce (recipe below)
Bring water to a boil, add shrimp and cook until they are barely opaque (about 3 min.), drain, ice to chill down, pat dry.
In a med. size serving bowl, combine the scallions and bell pepper with the remoulade sauce. Fold in the shrimp to coat. Serve with picks as an appetizer. While technically an appetizer you can also serve on greens as a salad or on a roll as a sandwich.
Remoulade Sauce
Yield ¾ cup
- 1/3 cup ketchup
- 1 1/2 t lemon juice
- 1/4 t paprika
- 1/4 t Jamaican Pickapeppa sauce (skip, if you don’t have, or substitute Worcestershire sauce )
- 1/2 t tabasco
- 1 1/2 t Cajun seasoning - any brand is fine
- 1/4 t cayenne (omit to reduce heat factor)
- 1/2 cup mayonnaise
Combine all ingredients in mixing bowl.
The Shrimp can be served on greens for a salad, on a roll as a sandwich, or with toothpicks as an appetizer.
My second offering is not so much a recipe as a concept. You’ll need a bucket of those soft pretzel balls popping up everywhere – Costco carries them:
Then take out a frying pan, any size, melt enough butter to comfortably cover the bottom and plop in as many of those little nuggets that will fit with enough space to shake them around a bit. Turn heat to low and let them warm through, about 5 minutes, shaking or flipping with a fork to rotate every minute or so. Turn the heat off and sprinkle generously with some of the salt that comes with them: yes, this step is necessary! Transfer 5 or 6 to each serving plate and serve with a small ramekin of warm (real) maple syrup. Of course you can serve these with bacon, sausage, scrambled eggs if you’d like, that might prevent you from eating too many of the tasty little balls. They are addictive, but you’ll thank me anyway.
So there: you’ve seen mine, let’s see yours.
And let’s get going, those old buzzards aren’t going to cook themselves.
Or alternatively: it’s been 3 weeks and the buzzards are still circling, what’s your position, ethically speaking?
Posted from: MOTUS A.D.
I know you are speaking metaphorically but my wife has this weird, almost pathological, hatred of turkey buzzards, which are very common where we live.
Mark for later
In the past 6 years here in South Texas, I have been hit with two wind storms.
On both occasions the very next daylight, the buzzards were sitting on utility poles next to me.
On another day I had to put down a sick goat. There was some blood on the ground after I took the goat for disposal.
Twenty minutes later the buzzards were on the spot.
This is how buzzards roll.
In the interest of synchronicity, I’ll post that Jack Hemingway recounted a time when his dad, Ernest, had a dead goat staked out on the roof of his Cuban farmhouse for the purpose of attracting turkey vultures, which they took turns shooting, while getting drunk as owls. Julia Child was the Matron of Honor at Jack’s wedding. They were both in the OSS, at the time.
Turkey buzzards are a federally protected species. A few years ago, my brother hit one while piloting my father’s private plane. The result was thousands of dollars in aircraft metalwork repairs and some complicated federal paperwork to clear a potential protected species violation. Not even a feather of that damn buzzard could be retained.
“I know you are speaking metaphorically but my wife has this weird, almost pathological, hatred of turkey buzzards, which are very common where we live.”
We live in a semi-rural area. About two weeks ago, one of the State Highway crews tossed a dead deer into the woods across the road from our property. Soon after, we had about a dozen black vultures show up, sit in the trees surrounding us. In between taking turns on the deer, they were eyeballing our female Shetland sheepdog who was in the yard. I got her out of there ASAP. It was pretty creepy and freaked my wife out. We see several varieties of birds of prey all the time, but had never seen black vultures before. They hung around for 3 days then moved on.
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