This is a wonderful-tasting and easy flatbread. Bread 1 cup water 3 cups bread flour 1 Tbsp sugar 1/3 cup chopped yellow onion 1 1/2 tsp salt 2 tsp yeast or 2 1/2 tsp bread machine yeast Topping: olive oil crushed rosemary Coarse salt Use the dough cycle. When done, immediately place the dough ball …
Earlier today Eric Cantor, R-Va and House Majority Leader, walked out of the debt ceiling negotiation meetings he’d been participating in with VP Biden and others. He claimed it was because the mean nasty Democrats insisted on getting tax revenues as well as spending cuts into any deal to raise the ceiling. There’s speculation in …
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About to go into the oven. Sausage (Italian, browned), Pepperoni, Green Pepper, Mushroom, Olive and Onion pizza with Mozzarella and Provolone. From Bread And then, when it came out of the oven: From Bread I forgot to take a picture while it was still on the pizza pan, so I’ve had two or three bites …
It’s no surprise that Congress has failed the American people, given the radical loonies who now hold sway in the House of Representatives. But those who had been hoping for help from the Federal Reserve were mistaken in that hope. It projects unemployment to remain above 7% through 2013, and decides it won’t do anything …
Ladies and Gentlemen, your Republican party: Planned Parenthood will stop treating Medicaid patients and lay off two of its three STD specialists after the donations it had been using to replace state funds ran out Monday. A tough state anti-abortion law cutting off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood of Indiana went into effect May 10, …
Every election year the Republican party howls “voter fraud” and tries to discredit Democratic efforts to get out the vote. Sometimes it succeeds in scaring the public and Congress (see ACORN) and manages to diminish those efforts. This year, however, with newly-elected Republican legislatures in many states, it’s gone beyond howling and is passing new …
From Events “I was so much younger then, I’m older than that now.” Dad and me, 1951. We all miss him.
I like Fareed Zakaria’s writing and thinking, but his column in Thursday’s Time magazine shows that he’s been awfully slow to recognize what’s been happening in the past 20 years in the Republican party. He writes: . . .right now any discussion of government involvement in the economy — even to build vital infrastructure — …
The Europeans (and the press) really do like to obfuscate. As Atrios says, “I guess we’ll continue to maintain this fantasy of ‘bailing out Greece’ instead of ‘bailing out people who lent money to Greece.’” Greece is in trouble because it borrowed more money than it could pay back. From whom did it borrow money? …
Well, technically, for the appliance guy(s) to come install a new microwave into the hole we currently have in our wall. Originally the thought was that, due to the custom fit required, repairing the old microwave oven was the only option. But we got to thinking that repairing a nine-year-old machine might not be the …