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...behind the Boston Marathon bombing. Three dead, including a young boy. And one college policeman. His brother got more instant justice, Glock style. And this ingrate immigrant, now is in Federal Prison, where Old Sparky still awaits him. Not to digress, but mother dear, also on the family dole, was caught shoplifting. Nice folks, all. And this crumb complains about the food not being up to religion of peace snuff. And sends a handwritten ckemency letter to Merrit Garland.
Well, for whatever reason, the ueber libs are working to save him, to dodge the death penalty. But here's the kicker.
As currently configured, the 1.9 TRILLION boondoggle, most of which goes to Dem causes, abortion and mismanaged cities/states, and not COVID, also includes $1,400 checks to federal inmates. Justice, Liberal styled.

...Now, all branches of anthropology are finally being combined with lab bench science, and the new epi-genomic genetics.
So what? Well, for starters, it seems that the diet/life style our 2 million year old proto homo erectus evolution, to which everything from enzymes to telomeres is closely adapted, is at odds with what we've been hearing from the nuts and twig vegan, new age, energy channel-crystal worshiping, alt leftie moonbats.
But I digress.
This newer anthropology, for example, takes human relics, mostly bones, from dig sites, with dates, and using modern chemical techniques, including various chromatographical/mass spectroscopic analyses, and gets a much better hold on what we ate, until the Neolithic period, with settlement based grain farming, some measly ten thousand years ago.
Skipping the usual Vierk bombast, just the facts Ma'am. So---
Lean, large cuts of meat, fish, with some animal fats, and colored (fresh/frozen) veggies, along with fruits (nuts), seem the best choices. Soy, dairy, grains of any sorts, especially wheat products---not so much. No processed anything, and no sugar, especially Fructose---deadly "fruit syrup". Add in lots of good water and plenty of walking (as if in search of the next mammoth or deer), and bingo!
Now, personally, I'd like to see corroborating evidence from the biological study of living tribal folk, as in the Amazon, or SA and the Southern Darkie Continent, and elsewhere with free living populations, along with lots more from public health research, but I'm buying it all without such.
Doubt it? Just look at that beautiful smile, tall stature, healthy face and head of hair. Don't only take my words for it.

I use a fair amount of pure virgin olive oil in salads and for cooking. Usually purchased in small bottles, organic whenever there is a sale. A few weeks ago while shopping at the local farmers market I saw 3 liter cans of olive oil on sale. I would pass this at the normal price and the special sale caught my attention. But... who needs 3 liters?

I held on to one empty bottle waiting for this and last night I finished off another small bottle. It was time and I decided to open the 3 liter can.
Unable to find a funnel, I poured from the can into an 8 ounce plastic cup.

Glug, glug, glug... I had to squeeze the can and back off as it wasn't pouring smoothly. The spout was small and the oil too thick for air to come into the can while the oil came out. It reminded me of motor oil... heavy viscosity and if you pour too fast it splatters.

I pinched the end of the plastic cup into a V-shape and started pouring into one of the small bottles. Going as slow as possible it's was similar to coming out of the can. Too much oil flow and it clogged the opening and spilled over the top of the bottle!

What a stinking mess I had made. 20 paper towels later and filling the cup several times, I was able to refill both small bottles, wipe up and move on to other things.

Rethinking for the next episode. this could easily be enough oil to last me for 2 years...
The next time I do this I'll be better prepared with a funnel or turkey baster or something more efficient in transferring from a can to a small bottle.

I've been wanting to make rice pudding for a while now.
As a kid my mother did some conventional rice pudding where the rice always sat on the bottom while the 'pudding part' floated to the top.

This is a takeoff on my previous blog about the Venezuelan Chicha, a drink made with cooked rice, milk, condensed milk and ice cubes. The secret there was putting the rice in a blender.

We had terrible weather today and I decided to stay home and try a twist on an old recipe.

I took 2 cups of cooked rice, a glass of whole milk, 3 eggs, 2 spoons of condensed milk, 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract, a few sprinkles of cinnamon and 1 squirt of honey.
With the whole thing in a blender, I had to stop a few times to mix it with a spoon as the part on top wasn't so thick it wouldn't swirl around and mix with the bottom. I could have added more milk but wanted it to keep it thick.

30 minutes in an oven at 325 and the top started to darken. I allowed it to cool and tried a few spoonfuls.

The results: Success!!



The consistency was similar to tapioca pudding and a flavor similar to flan, though not burned with syrup on the top.

If/when I do this again, I'll probably cook it longer so the skin on the top will harden slightly.

When I was a kid, I adored the taste of a hamburger. It was simply awesome. Over the years I lost my love for the hamburger. How did this happen? Were my taste buds changing, or has the hamburger changed? For years I believed that I had aged and my food preferences had matured.
Then in the 1980's I found myself living on a farm and running a small beef cow/calf operation. I had 2 Angus, 1 Hereford and 2 Charolais cows. I would go to livestock auctions to see what was going through the ring and one day an incredible Angus cow was brought out with her fat little bull calf. The cow was not for sale but the calf was and the cow was brought out to show the lineage. I was the winning bidder for the calf which kind of surprised me to be so lucky. I concluded none of the big buyers present needed a bull calf that day. The truth was elsewhere. When I got the calf home I put him in the barn (it's good practice to keep a new animal separated from your herd in case he has cooties) he began eating hay immediately. This was odd because he was too young to be eating hay already. He also seemed to be coughing quite a bit. Not wanting to take any chances with infecting my herd I hauled him to a large animal vet in my Chevy van. He was found to have pneumonia and was infested with worms which was what gave him his nice round appearance, he was also about 6 months old, not a month old like I thought. This explained the hay eating. Thinking back I remembered something I observed in the auction ring but disregarded at the time. The mother cow was avoiding the calf totally. Apparently she had never even seen this calf prior to being brought into the ring with him. The other, far more experienced buyers didn't miss this fact and withheld bidding. They could see the scam the auction was perpetrating by offing this runt on some shmuck (me) and I couldn't. WTH, I grew up in midtown Manhattan I had a lot to learn about cattle farming, apparently I needed educating about livestock auctions too.

China is 13 hours ahead of the East coast USA and their festival started on the 10th. My plans Saturday were to go to Miami and shop at the huge Chinese market to get some Mooncakes, but a Celebration of Life for an old friend lasted longer than expected.
Instead, I went to a Chinese supermarket near my house, but I was surprised they didn't have any Mooncakes.


Some Mooncake history and legend:

I bought a mooncake two weeks ago , I visited a Chinese bakery and saw them wrapped up with a sign $9. The woman told me they only make them once a year so I bought one. I figured it must be really good since it was so small and expensive. My mind was changed after the first bite. Bitter and gross. I threw it in the street and then ran over it with my car just to feel better about the situation.

Every 4th of July Nathan's Hot Dogs has a contest on Cony Island. Joey, the undisputed king of hot dog eating was the 13-time champion setting a record of consuming 75 hot dogs in 10 minutes.
He broke his record by consuming 76 hot dogs in today's competition.

Joey "Jaws" Chestnut does it again!