Bo Zarts
Bo Zarts's JournalI spent a very long day, today, in the ER and Cardiac unit.
I had excruciating chest pain at 4am. The ER was great. Got me back to the unit stat, and got the heart enzyme work done (X2), blood work, chest x-ray, and mid-afternoon, a stress EKG with Gamma camera before and after.
Good news: no heart problems found. Bad news, the severe chest and abdominal pain contines. More tests coming.
One of the worst nights/days of my life (70 years).
Ari Melber just showed clips of the Fool ranting about "pay for play." (MSNBC "The Beat")
After a number of iterations of the Fool ranting about how much he knew about "pay for play", video clips from - mainly - the campaign, it hit me. Hit me hard. So hard, I spewed a mouthful of a really nice Pinot Noir all over my favorite white Cliff Dwellers Lodge t-shirt.
Pay for play? Nay, PAY FOREPLAY. Trump is a whoremonger, and everyone knows it. This twist on a phrase just cracked me up.
I'm no prude, but - seriously - I do wonder how many prostitutes Trump has "had" in his life. And I wonder, too, if he was on that list of the DC Madam, Deborah Jeane Palfrey. Palfrey operated Pamela Martin and Associates, an escort agency in Washington, D.C.
Someone in the original field of 16 (?) GOP candidates for the 2016 election must have been on the list. The attorney controlling the client list of Pamela Martin and Associates threatened to release info on a candidate or candidates a few months before the GOP Convention in 2016.
Then that attorney went silent. My guesses: 1. the individual that was on that client list dropped out of the race, or (and much more likely); 2. Big buck$ and NDAs silenced that attorney (who I assume worked for the Palfrey estate).
Don't forget, too, that Deborah Jeane Palfrey was "suicided" on May 1, 2008, in Tarpon Springs, Florida. That was shortly after "The List" came out, and implicated a number of high level officials in the Bush administration. I have a theory on those names, or at least one, but it is pointless now.
Things are connected. Things are well hidden. I worked for Ken Lay pre-Enron (as a Learjet 55 and Lockheed JetStar-II pilot). Lay leaves Transco and forms Enron. Enron fails. Cliff Baxter was suicided. Lay is convicted and sentenced, but dies of a heat attack at his Aspen estate on July 5, 2006. No autopsy .. immediate cremation.
The suicides bother me. The secrecy.
Tamarind
Just got into cooking with tamarind. What an incredible fruit! So Asian .. so Thai.
I made a basic tamarind marinade/baste a few days ago. Did a couple of chicken thighs on the grill. Crusty, spicy, piquant. Great BBQ sauce.
Used the same sauce last night on an oven-cooked Cornish game hen (which is neither Cornish, nor game .. it is just a chicken bred to be small). Incredible. Still had some leftover tamarind sauce.
Tonight was steak night (I'm solo on the mountain). Thawed a "Denver" steak (AKA a Hudson steak) from the NY Butcher in Greenville. Googled "steak tamarind recipe" and, the top recipe was for a Denver steak!
I had the tamarind stock - slightly different from the recipe - but I know how specious recipes are. My tamarind stock was good. The only thing lacking was soy sauce and fresh ginger. Both are standards that I keep on hand.
So I added the soy sauce and ginger to my tamarind stock, and marinaded that Denver steak several hours. Then took the steak out of the marinade, and flopped it on a charcoal grill. Four minutes per side, then I pulled it to indirect heat until my meat thermometer indicated medium-rare.
Meanwhile, I took some of the marinade (that had not been in contact with the raw meat), and cooked it down into a thick steak sauce.
I had boiled some tiny, tiny potatoes earlier in the day (one must plan ahead, even when eating alone), and chilled them. They went into an arugula salad. What a great idea. I'm so glad it was mine!
So, how was the steak? Crazy good. I sliced it in thin strips, and dolloped on some of my back-burner tamarind steak sauce.
Tamarind seems to beg lime juice and cilantro. I had neither, and I wasn't driving into Brevard just for those. Tamarind also begs a good, thick salt. Big, crunchy grains. But not too much.
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