1/24/2010

So...a most interesting time indeed. In Britain there is a move to lock the results of Dr David Kelly's autopsy for seventy years. Now one must ask WHY????? because the truth would hurt the former prime minister, Bush and Cheney and reveal that invasion of Iraq was for occupying the Mid-East because Israel can no longer hold it down? because Dr Kelly was also involved in germ warfare research?
This is public at the same time that the Supreme court reveals its teeth, as it were in the decision to rip off the barn doors and let the big money groups,read corporations, go at it. The right- wingers love to say "well unions and the ACLU can give all that they want too". Please!! compare the AFL/CIO to General Electric or the organic food movement's resources to General Foods. Yes!! I see a time of horror on the horizon. I will continue to pray and cook and garden and involve myself with my grandkids aand all of my family but I know there is a storm brewing in the collective and perhaps we need this but there is a forecast of suffering that I now feel in my bones.
Money has been so tight and today I am planning to cook chicken cacciatore again but that may turn to vegi chili which is so popular. I need to write down a recipe for this and here goes:
VEGI CHILI
*COOK A POUND OF PINK BEANS OR PINTOS OR BLACK BEANS
OR USE ABOUT FOUR CANS OF BEANS OF YOUR CHOICE-RINSED
*SAUTE AN ONION AND GREEN PEPPER AND MANY CLOVES OF GARLIC
WHEN THIS IS ALL LIMP AND COOKED LOOKING ADD:
*ONE TABLESPOON ANCHO AND NEW MEXICO AND 1 1/2 TEASPOONS PASILLA
GROUND CHILLIES. ALSO ABOUT A TEASPOON OF GARLIC POWDER (USE YOUR
DISCRETION HERE BUT I THINK THAT SPICES HAVE TO STRONG HERE)ALSO
SPRINKLE IN CUMIN AND OREGANO POWDERS GENEROUSLY AND ADD ABOUT TWO
TABLESPOONS OF BROWN SUGAR AND OF COURSE SALT ALL OF THIS TO YOUR
TASTE. ALL OF THIS FLOATS FROM TIME TO TIME SO START WITH THIS
IDEA AND ADJUST TO YOUR OWN TASTE.ALSO ADD A GOOD HANDFUL OF
CHOPPED CILANTRO
*NOW ADD A PACKAGE OF YOUR FAVORITE GROUND MEAT SUBSTITUTE AND COOK THIS THIS INTO THE SAUTE
* ADD AT LEAST TWO REGULAR CANS OF WHOLE TOMATOES-CHOOSE THE BRAND
THAT GIVES THE BEST FLAVOR. I DON'T CHOP THE TOMATOES I JUST SQUEEZE
THEM GENTLY AND THEN TEAR THEM INTO PIECES. WATCH THE DEVELOPMENT
OF THE CHILI-YOU MAY WANT TO USE A THIRD CAN OF TOMATOES.ADD SOME
WATER TO GET THE AMOUNT TO THE LEVEL YOU NEED TO FEEL YOUR FOLKS
THE WATER WILL COOK OUT AND THIS HELPS TO GET THE "CHILI TASTE"

THIS RECIPE WILL FEED FOUR VERY BIG FOLK WITH LEFTOVERS OR SIX
REGULAR FOLK BUT WITH NO LEFTOVERS

Okay I can't get this to print but will get S to help when he gets up. I always write eaarly in the morning-my only true alone time something that ironically I have always had.
Everything changed in the grocery store so the menu is: Mexican stew of pork and white beans and rice on the side with tortillas and cheese and fresh red chard that I grew which we will probably have as a salad sort of side dish,steamed and dressed with balsamic vinegar and extra virgin olive oil and garlic and salt and pepper or we may use lemon-this is a big harvest time for lemons everywhere and we have a bowl of lemons.