Citrus Risotto and Veal with Blueberry Sauce

Plato cooked a meal of caprese salad, risotto and veal with blueberry sauce for our usual dinner group on Tuesday September 16, 2008.

Caprese- just tomatoes mozzarella olive oil and salt and basil.

Platos excellent caprese recipe
Plato's excellent caprese recipe

Risotto excellent citrusy flavors.

Plato, ian, diana, ben and alissa were all in attendance

I also reviewed the wines that we tasted that night… I basically just compared them against each other.‚  Click read more if you are interested to see what I thought of them.‚  Might be boring though.

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Best Cheap Beer- Rainier Beer

Last night, my friends and I had the cheap beer taste testing night. I selected Rainier beer to be my favorite cheap beer out of Bud, Bud Lite, Miller, Miller Lite, Coors Lite and another one. Unfortunately, I lost the six-pack of PBR I had purchased, so that was not included in my analysis. I will probably have to do another taste test comparing PBR to Rainier and Olympia Beer.

Clay Gayken: Jerkin His Gerkin

The second part of the blog title was suggested by my lesbian coworker lol. In case you hadn’t heard, Clay Aiken surprised no one by coming out of the closet today. Anybody with half a brain could see that that man’s door swung the other way.

In commemoration of Clay Aiken announcing his homosexuality, I have decided to dub him with the new nickname “Clay Gayken”.… read more “Clay Gayken: Jerkin His Gerkin”

Hmmm

Hmmm- At almost any given moment at least one person is reading what I have written.‚  So why do I feel lonely?‚  Strange that a blog does not fulfill all of my life’s needs and desires.‚  I certainly expect it to.

Discussing the Economic & Political Condition of America

Mark and I have been discussing the current economic & political crises and what implications they have.

Mark:

Hey Joel,

Regarding the mortgage crisis and overall financial meltdown we are in, I was wondering what you think of this following mortgage crisis screws americansarticle.‚  http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aSKSoiNbnQY0

Then the following link is to the bill that was proposed in 2005 meant to avert much of what we are dealing with right now.‚ 

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Government Healthcare Deregulation & Reform

The presidential race has brought the current awful state of healthcare and the desperate need for reform to the front of the minds of many Americans.‚  Right now, 30% of Americans have difficulty accessing healthcare due to its enormous expense and the difficult tangle of regulations that must be maneuvered through.‚  The US government has created a Byzantine tangle of healthcare regulation that makes both healthcare providers and healthcare insurers operate in an extraordinarily inefficient manner.‚ … read more “Government Healthcare Deregulation & Reform”