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Onion Rings

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The internet's a great repository of wonderful information.

I found a great recipe for onion rings:

4 large white Spanish onions

For the coating:
2kg plain flour
500g polenta
Salt and pepper to taste
For the batter:
1ml lager
450g plain flour
20g Cajun spices
Salt and pepper to taste
For the oil
3 litres vegetable oil
Heat the oil in a domestic fryer or cast iron saucepan until it reaches 180 degrees C. Use a thermometer to check it’s hot enough as hot oil is essential to guaranteeing a crispy ring
Slice the onions into 1cm rings – keep the large outer ones and discard the rest.
To make the coating, thoroughly mix the flour, polenta and together in a bowl and season accordingly.
Now make the batter. Pour the beer into a large stainless steel mixing bowl. Gently add half the flour and mix thoroughly with a whisk. Then add the rest of the flour, cajun spices, salt and pepper and whisk thoroughly again until the mixture is smooth with no lumps.
Gently turn each ring in the flour/polenta coating and shake off any excess. Then dip into the batter and plop one by one carefully and slowly into the hot oil. Beware spitting oil!
Fry the rings for approximately 3 mins until crisp. Remove, shake off the excess oil and place in bowl with some kitchen towel. Transfer to 4 bowls or plates. Enjoy as they are or dip into barbeque sauce or aioli.

2 kg. of flour. Yum!

 

 

 

Government Still Sold On Green

Yours. Even as Solyndra executives invoked their Fifth Amendment right in Congress Friday to avoid self-incrimination in a growing political scandal, the feds, the state of Oregon and the city of Portland are preparing to put more than $250 million behind another California startup. SoloPower plans to begin manufacturing in North Portland by spring. They claim that'll bring 170 jobs to start, and as many as 500 down the road. Uh-huh.

The tenant (Solopower) plans to provide 112 parking spaces (including 100 vehicle spaces, 5 carpool spaces accommodating 2 people per vehicle, 6 accessible spaces and 1 van accessible space). The facility will operate with two-12 hour shifts, with a maximum of 100 employees on site at one time, during two shift change periods each day.

Oregon tried to land Solyndra, and Evergreen Solar, and SpectraWatt. Every one of them was offered millions in taxpayer money to locate here. Every one of them went elsewhere. And every one of them went bust.

This is a situation in which Oregon's famed anti-business climate may actually be saving taxpayer dollars.

• SoloPower, preparing to manufacture in Portland, says its flexible solar panels surpass Solyndra and competitors (oregonlive.com)
• Federal green energy loan guarantees could go to 15 more companies (oregonlive.com)
• Solyndra Executives Refuse To Testify At Hearing (npr.org)

Migrant Depression

Migrant depression has

a captured my soul

I know what I want

But I just don't know

How to go about

Gettin' it.

Music, sweet music

Migrant depression is a frustrated mess.

 

What A Humorless Bunch

Of course, given the company they were forced to keep, there's really no reason to yuk it up.

Child rapist Neil Goldschmidt and his blushing bride, Diana, Sleepy Ted Kulongoski and his wife, and Babwa Wobets.

Had to have been a horrible thing to endure.

 

Mark Bosworth

The Metro employee went missing somewhere around Riddle, OR in the midst of a "Cycle Oregon" event.

It is difficult to summarize in one word Mark’s potential condition (loss of memory, confused, disoriented, etc.), so we wanted to share some facts prior to his disappearance: 

MISTAKEN LOCATION: While physically in Oregon, Mark said that he was…

• In Canada
• On the East Coast

Well, he's been a Metro employee - that alone means he's disoriented. That aside, hope for the best.

Wrangle-Her

If I was younger (and single), I might be movin' to Montana soon.

 

Skeptics

Cover of Bill Clinton

BILL CLINTON declared last week that Americans “look like a joke’’ because leading Republican presidential contenders decline to embrace the agenda of the global-warming alarmists. Presumably he had in mind Texas Governor Rick Perry, who says that “global warming has been politicized’’ and calls claims of a decisive human role in climate change an unproven theory. “You can’t win the nomination of a major political party in the US,’’ fumed the former president, “unless you deny science?’’

To which Marc Morano, publisher of the irreverently skeptical website Climate Depot, promptly replied: “Bill is correct! No Democratic presidential candidate could get the nomination unless they deny the large role that natural variability plays in climate.’’

And therein lies the meat of the matter: nobody denies that climate change occurs. There's actually only one point of contention: those who wish to impose control over others claim that human activities are so significant that they threaten planetary climate. They believe that you should be taxed, fee-d, and otherwise retaliated against in order to Save The Planet™ (and allow them to make money).

On the other side are the sane folks, who don't hold themselves in such lofty regard; they understand that, in the great scheme of things, they're really pretty insignificant. They know full well that anybody who believes that anybody who believes that forcing everybody in the city of Portland to compost kitchen waste will have any effect on the climate of the planet is a loon.

Unfortunately, lunacy seems to be a requirement for holding public office today.

Related articles

• Bill Clinton blasts GOP climate change skeptics (cbsnews.com)

Professional Journalism

The men were heading past the south jetty to go crapping on the 18-foot aluminum boat. They had decided to turn back when the wave struck and capsized their boat.

http://www.katu.com/news/local/130502938.html

And they wonder why they have so little credibility, these days.

Copenhagenizing Portland

Apparently, the first step involves bicycling without a helmet, and the next involves bicycling to the hospital to give birth (that's why you have a basket mounted to the front, silly!). Look for mayor Sam to make these law in the coming weeks.

Seems Familiar

Billed as a public-private partnership, the project was seeded with $110 million from federal and state governments. The agency has spent about $45 million of that on plans and salaries.

It's Alaska's version of the CRC!

Speaking of Bridging gaps, October 8th looks to be an interesting morning in the 'Couve. Speakers include Tiffany Couch, Washington. Forensic Accountant & Financial Investigation, Acuity Group, PLLC. She knows how the CRC blew through $145 million with nothing to show for it.

As well, Randall O'Toole from the Cato Institute, John Charles from Cascade Policy Institute, and others. Mark that Saturday on your calendar.