Split Pea Soup with Ham Hocks
Despite moments of doubt and faith, the Split Pea Soup came out very well. The ham hocks I used didn’t have as much flavor or meat on them as they usually do, but I augmented them with some ham I had around. At the end I added crushed red pepper, which gives zing to the soup…which some folks will love and some…not so much. I’ll be coming back to this soup again, as it’s one of my favorite winter soups. Continue reading
Vegas Vette
Though I’m not an especially big Corvette fan, I do like orange, and I found the lines on this classic vette on the show floor at CES 2011 to be very compelling.
Phil Gochenour’s essay “Utopia of Pain: Adolescent Anxiety and the Ideology of Narrative in Robert A. Heinlein’s Starship Troopers” in the Space Warriors issue of the New York Review of Science Fiction (#269) is an excellent and illuminating piece of criticism. Rather than ask which moral transgression the author is guilty of, a popular game, but not necessarily a useful one, we are asked to consider what sort of ideal the characters are being pointed towards.
It is an ideal that comes from within Heinlein as imaged for adolescent males. One which fosters the separation from the mother and the development of a self view in which the boy becomes a man, where the military replaces the family, and challenging replaces protecting. Continue reading
Flying from Dulles
Just after New Year
A big wreath
Keeps a tenuous hold on the wall
And the old year
Which will be gone when I return.
A pretty blond with anime eyes
Gets on the B train
I get on the A
And travel the Kubrician tunnels Continue reading
Yield: 12 14 oz servings / 4.5 quarts
Calories: 250
Carbohydrates: 12
(approx)
This is close to the Christmas Soup I made a few weeks ago, which everyone liked a lot, but had quite a few carbohydrates in it. Since we’re cutting back on carbs for a while, I thought this would make a good low-carb soup if we just left out the potatoes and held back on the beans a bit. Continue reading