tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post5987911504304846385..comments2024-03-28T16:08:29.578-04:00Comments on Sardonicky: Let Them Eat Cake.... Or Not (Update)Karen Garciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15612731479365562803noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-85842661761701361072012-11-19T13:36:00.895-05:002012-11-19T13:36:00.895-05:00Krugman's column seemed like the same old, sam...Krugman's column seemed like the same old, same old to me. Not that I'm not for a more progressive taxation schedule but why does he never mention the role of trade pacts which favor capital in creating the huge imbalance between the rights of employers and the rights of workers? The TPP is in the pipeline right now.Katnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-23847813555325883442012-11-19T08:19:58.125-05:002012-11-19T08:19:58.125-05:00Bravo! Karen’s comment on Paul Krugman’s “The Twin...Bravo! Karen’s comment on Paul Krugman’s “The Twinkie Manifesto” today.<br /><br />“When the world has once begun to use us ill, it afterwards continues the same treatment with less scruple or ceremony, as men do to a whore.” - Jonathan Swift<br /><br />More irony from our poseur Nobel Peace Prize winning President:<br /><br />“Speaking at a joint press conference with Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, Obama called for an end to the firing of missiles into Israel by militants inside Gaza, saying “there is no country on earth that would tolerate missiles raining down on its citizens from outside its borders.”<br /><br />“It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.” – Voltaire<br /><br />Pearl said…“all that work and expense for only 12 Twinkies!!!!”<br /><br />My rule, as I have gotten older and crankier, is that a recipe must not have more than five ingredients. KISS!!!Denis Nevillenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-63244958030719906562012-11-18T21:59:18.798-05:002012-11-18T21:59:18.798-05:00John:
Thank you for sending in the recipe for hom...John:<br /><br />Thank you for sending in the recipe for homemade Twinkies. But all that work and expense for only 12 Twinkies!!!!<br /><br />Thanks anyway.Pearlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-55143342138056951172012-11-18T18:08:42.513-05:002012-11-18T18:08:42.513-05:00Thanks Denis.
If I hear one more Democrat say &qu...Thanks Denis.<br /><br />If I hear one more Democrat say "if the middle class is going to sacrifice so much....the rich should pay a little bit more..."<br /><br />How about....the rich should pay a lot more. And the middle class has sacrificed enough.<br /><br />Incidentally are Federal workers ever going to be unfrozen?<br /><br />BTW...It was exciting to see the Green Party mobilizing people to demonstrate against any cuts at all...oh wait, I must have been dreaming.<br /><br />On the other hand...the Walmart uprising is so good!!! and the occupy relief program.<br /><br />As bad as things are...the forces for good are still out there.d12345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-20617705753250525612012-11-18T15:25:30.725-05:002012-11-18T15:25:30.725-05:00We are the prey.
First, they cut “costs” - wages,...We are the prey.<br /><br />First, they cut “costs” - wages, health benefits, and “staff,” so we have to run faster, like squirrels in cages.<br /><br />We no longer can afford to buy anything.<br /><br />Job creators? Hell, they make more money by giving us all those damn credit cards that charge exorbitant interest rates.<br /><br />Our wages cut so far that many of us don’t make enough to pay income taxes.<br /><br />We become the “47 percent” – the freeloaders, the losers.<br /><br />Still they want take our money from us.<br /><br />“It’s just business, folks - beating older people, retirees and sick people and people who are likely to become older, retired or sick…Republicans and Democrats alike are slavering at the opportunity to destroy Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, led by the kinder, gentler Barack Obama…But they can’t do it the way the thugs do it, brutally and directly. They have to come up with some other explanation. So they talk about “shared sacrifice,” as in “we have a fiscal problem, and we all have to share in the sacrifice to fix it…We are all sinners in the hands of the angry God of Debt.” – Masaccio, Firedoglake<br /><br />http://firedoglake.com/2012/11/18/the-brutality-of-the-rich-and-the-morality-of-the-president/<br /><br />The predators have been emboldened. <br /><br />We must offer ourselves and all that is ours in painful sacrifice.<br /><br />We are the prey.<br /><br />“It is horrifying to see Obama preach morality to the hard-working people of the United States while allowing the people who murdered the economy to go free.”Denis Nevillenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-3862343469819181132012-11-18T15:13:47.429-05:002012-11-18T15:13:47.429-05:00Much better than Hostess.....
Homemade Twinkies
A...Much better than Hostess.....<br /><br />Homemade Twinkies<br />Adapted from leitesculinaria.com<br />Time: 1 hour 40 minutes<br />FOR THE CAKES:<br />Nonstick cooking spray or vegetable oil<br />60 grams ( 1/2 cup) cake flour<br />30 grams ( 1/4 cup) all-purpose flour<br />1 teaspoon baking powder<br />1/4 teaspoon salt<br />2 tablespoons milk<br />4 tablespoons unsalted butter<br />1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract<br />5 large eggs at room temperature, separated<br />12 tablespoons sugar<br />1/4 teaspoon cream of tartar<br />FOR THE FILLING:<br />6 tablespoons unsalted butter, at room temperature<br />165 grams (1 1/2 cups) confectioners’ sugar<br />3/4 cup Marshmallow Fluff<br />2 tablespoons heavy cream.<br />1. For the cakes: Heat the oven to 350 degrees and adjust the oven rack to the lower-middle position.<br />2. To make single-use Twinkie molds, cut 12 pieces of aluminum foil 12 inches wide by 14 inches long. Fold each piece of foil in half lengthwise, then fold it in half again to create a rectangle that’s about 6 inches long and 7 inches wide. Repeat to make a dozen rectangles.<br />3. Place one sheet of folded foil on a work surface with a standard-size spice jar on its side in the center of the foil. Bring the long sides of the foil up around the jar, folding the sides and ends as necessary to make a tight trough-shape from which the jar can be removed. Repeat to make 12 foil molds. Spray generously with nonstick spray or coat with vegetable oil. Place the molds on a baking sheet.<br />4. In a mixing bowl, whisk together the cake flour, all-purpose flour, baking powder and salt. In a small saucepan over low heat, heat the milk and butter until the butter melts. Remove from the heat and add the vanilla. Cover to keep warm.<br />5. Using a standing mixer, beat the egg whites on high speed until foamy. Gradually add 6 tablespoons of the sugar and the cream of tartar and continue to beat until the whites reach soft peaks.<br />6. Transfer the beaten egg whites to a large bowl and add the egg yolks to the standing mixer bowl (there’s no need to clean the bowl). Beat the egg yolks with the remaining 6 tablespoons sugar on medium-high speed until the mixture is very thick and a pale lemon color, about 5 minutes. Add the beaten egg whites to the yolks, but do not mix.<br />7. Sprinkle the flour mixture over the egg whites and then mix everything on low speed for just 10 seconds. Remove the bowl from the mixer, make a well in one side of the batter, and pour the melted butter mixture into the bowl. Fold gently with a large rubber spatula until the batter shows no trace of flour and the whites and yolks are evenly mixed, about 8 strokes.<br />8. Immediately scrape the batter into the prepared molds, filling each with about<br />3/4 inch of batter. Bake until the cake tops are light brown and feel firm and spring back when touched, 13 to 15 minutes. Transfer the pan containing the molds to a wire rack and allow the cakes to cool in the molds.<br />9. For the filling: Using a mixer, beat together the butter, confectioners’ sugar and Marshmallow Fluff. Add the cream and beat just until smooth.<br />10. Just before filling the cakes, remove them from the foil. Using the end of a chopstick, poke three holes in the bottom of each cake. Wiggle the tip of the chopstick to make room for the filling. Transfer the frosting to a pastry bag fitted with a 1/4-inch round tip. Pipe frosting into the holes in each cake, taking care not to overfill, until it gently expands. Unlike real Twinkies, these won’t last indefinitely. They’re best served still slightly warm.<br />Yield: 12 homemade Twinkies.John in Lafayettenoreply@blogger.com