Put potatoes and parsnips in stock, mostly covering the vegetables. Boil for 20-30 minutes, till tender. Put vegetables in a big bowl; reserve stock in a separate container. Add butter, roasted garlic, rosemary, and Spike to bowl. Start mashing with fork. Return vegetables to pot, add a bit of the stock, and turn on heat to low. Keep mashing and keep gradually adding stock. Add parsley at end.
about 3/4 cups of vegetable stock (ideally made with mushrooms and fresh tarragon)
Put parmesan, goat cheese, nutritional yeast, and a bit of butter in a big bowl. Add tarragon, parsley, lemon zest, salt, and pepper to bowl.
Start heating (1) water for pasta, (2) vegetable stock in small pan, and (3) butter in skillet.
Add shallots to butter. Let shallots soften just a little, then add mushrooms and saute for 5 mins. Mix in roasted garlic, then add a bit of white wine. When wine has halfway reduced, add enough vegetable stock to cover vegetables.
Cook pasta while letting vegetables simmer. (It’s good if the stock does not simmer down all the way.) Shortly before pasta is done, add the vegetables to the bowl and stir thoroughly. Add however much additional stock you need to make the consistency nicely creamy without being at all watery. (Optional: Toast pine nuts in skillet; add to sauce.)
Drain pasta and add to sauce, then stir all together. You can make any final adjustments to the sauce’s consistency by thickening with parmesan, or thinning with stock or pasta water.
Cut carrots and parsnips into thick strips — kind of like short, thick french fries. Toss with oil in 2 foil-lined baking sheets (one for carrots, one for parsnips). Sprinkle with garlic, herbs, salt, and pepper. Roast in oven at 400 for 20 mins. or until soft.
Meanwhile, cook quinoa in simmering stock in medium pan for 15-20 mins.
Remove carrots/parsnips from oven and consolidate into one pan. Drizzle with vinegar and honey, and toss. Add vegetables to quinoa and mix. Sprinkle nutritional yeast and more honey/salt/pepper to taste, and serve.
Chop all vegetables. Slowly saute leek, celery, potato, fennel, zucchini (in that order) in olive oil. Add stock, then parsley. Blend. Squeeze lemon and add salt + pepper. Garnish with fennel leaves.
Chop and saute onion + mushrooms in olive oil in a big skillet. Add seasonings.
Add white wine and/or a bit of stock, turn down the heat, and let it simmer for a while. Optional: add garlic.
On another burner, mix equal parts flour + butter in a little pan to make a roux.
Pour stock into roux and combine so it becomes the “sauce.” Pour the sauce into the mushroom + onion. Add nutritional yeast. Continue cooking for a couple minutes so everything blends together. Optional: parmesan.
I’m planning to change the purpose of this blog. I’m going to use it to store recipes for my own personal use. I’ll keep it open to public view, but I’m not going to try to make the blog at all popular or even useful to other people. For one thing, I generally don’t use measurements or time things.
I also plan to go through the old posts (the ones before this one) and (1) migrate some of them to a Blogspot blog and (2) delete the ones I don’t find useful anymore.
In the United States, millions of people – mostly, young, poor men, the same people who don’t have health insurance or choose not to take advantage of the available health care – are left mateless, sexless, and childless, and are destined to die as total reproductive losers. In every human society, there are more childless men than childless women.
How come nobody cares that millions of people in the United States fail to achieve the ultimate goal of all biological existence, the meaning of life itself? Why isn’t it the government’s job to make sure that every American has sex regularly and frequently and produces children? Why doesn’t the government import surplus women from Russia and Ukraine and distribute them at taxpayers’ expense to millions of young, poor men who can’t otherwise get laid?
That subliminal racism plays a part in some people’s criticisms of our president is being addressed as a problem. I would argue that it is more realistically observed as a fact, one that is unlikely to be completely absent in any human society. We have outlawed deliberate segregation and discrimination. We have rendered bigotry socially incorrect, to the extent that it now lies somewhere between smoking and pedophilia. Can we do more than this? Do we need to?
To believe in determinism is thus to go far beyond the observed and known facts. It could be true, I suppose. But it requires a huge leap of faith, as well as a tortuous effort to deny that what we constantly observe and experience is real. Instead, I think psychological science is better suited to a belief in indeterminacy. As far as I can tell, there is no proof of any deterministic causality anywhere. That is, there is no proof that any result is 100% inevitable, though in practice some things seem to be very highly reliable. When I turn on the light switch, the light pretty much always comes on, unless some other causal factor (e.g., burned-out lightbulb, power failure) prevents it. Still, there is no way of saying whether this is 100% inevitable or simply a very high probability. Indeterminacy lurks at the subatomic level, and once in a very long time this could show up at the macro level. In human behavior, of course, things are not nearly so reliable or predictable.
