Monday, October 26, 2009

PAIN,MENTAL AND PHYSICAL......

SUNDAY MORNING, AFTER THE AUCTION DISASTER OF THE PRIOR NIGHT, I WOKE UP.. OF COURSE DEPRESSED, BUT IN PAIN. MY KNEE HURT AND FELT SWOLLEN, AND MY HIP ALSO HURT. I HAD DIFFICULTY IN WALKING..SCHLEPPING SLOWLY, I WENT FOR COFEE AND BAGLES DOWN THE STREET.
THIS KNEE AND HIP THINK HAPPENS A FEW TIMES A YEAR, AND DISAPPEARS AS SUDDENLY AS IT APPEARS. i GET DEPRESSED THIS TIME OF THE YEAR...EVERY YEAR....AND AS TIME GOES ON, THE DEPRESSION THIS TIME OF THE YEAR GETS WORSE. WHEN TEH LEAVES FALL OFF THE TREES, AND LITTER THE GROUND.....AND ALL THE COLORFUL FOILAGE DISAPPEARS, I BEGIN TO WONDER, IF I WILL BE AROUND TO SEE THE REBRITH OF SPRING....SO I GET MELODRAMATIC, BUT REALISTIC, ESPECIALLY THAT I ALREADY HAVE LIVED LONGER THAN MY FATHER...BY 4 YEARS. ALTHOUGH i CANT SEE THE BAR CODE ON MY ASS WITH THE EXPERATION CODE, NO ONE REALLY KNOWS WHEN THEIR TIME IS UP.
i STILL DONT TAKE GERITOL....IF THEY STILL MAKE THAT STUFF? iF THEY DO STILL MAKE IT, THEY SHOULD ADD VIAGRA TO THE SYRUP....AND LUCKILY......THAT IS ONE DRUG i DO NOT NEED YET. I REALLY THINK THAT VIAGRA SHOULD BE AN INGREDIENT PUT INTO SOFT DRINKS, CANDIES,(LIKE M AND M'S WITH VIAGRA CENTERS, AND SNAKS.....LIKE PRETZELS AND POATOES CHIPS AND NACHOS, INSTAND COFFEE AND IN TEA BAGS,.....AND IN OTHER FOODS...WHY??? jUST THINK ABOUT IT...IF EVERYONE WAS VERY BUSY TAKING CARE OF "BUSINESS" TO CORRECT THE PROBLEMS BY VIAGRA IN THE FOOD...THERE WOULDNT BE TIME TO FIGHT, AND MAKE WARS....JUST THINK...OF A VERY SEXUAL WORLD.....PEOPLE WOULD NOT WORRY ABOUTGREED AND ACQUISITIONS...LIFES PLEASURE WOULD BE MAKING LOVE....WHO NEEDS A BOAT, THREE HOMES, A PLANE, DIAMONDS, MILLION DOLLAR PICCASOS,......LIFE WOULD BE JUST WONDERFULLY HEDONNISTIC....MAN WOULD FIND TIMES TO FIND CURES FOR DISEASES, AND MONEY SPENT ON WAR..WOULD BE SPENT ON MAKING THE PLANET THE GARDEN OF EDEN IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE..HOW SIMPLISITIC...

Saturday, October 24, 2009

Another shitty Auction and rain store, and Fire DEPT CAME AGAIN

What a shitty day. Started when the assholes from PSEG came to put on the gas, which they were supposed to do yesterday....and they didnt do it right. A oung guy came at 8 in the morning.....and did someting that caused the filters to burn..which set off the fire alarm...which brought the entiure HOHOKUS FIRE Dept......
My stomach was in my mouth..I figured another auction ruined by the building .....THe fire deprtment guys were very nice and helpful They called the ALARM guy ED, who came right down and did what ever was needed...at least temporaily, He then mentioned that the lights were flickering....in the building...He inspected the outsdie electric poles. and noticed there were loose wires on the pole....which come nto the building..So I caled PSEG, and eventually someone called a few hours later asking questions....and a real person came about 2 afters after that..a guy with a shitty attiutde...but I remained calm He wanted to know which pole and what wire and what time our elctrician noticed it...etc. I couldnt answer these questions and he was very nasty and annoyed.
Mean while we were understaffed.....geting ready for the auctions. More calls than last time, but the auction was the same shit. The same people who sit with the fingers p their ass and dont bid.
Then after the auction, they try to buy the items for much less that I asked for an opening bud..and get nasty when they cant get it....I offered a fabulous rug for almost nothing.....750 for a KERMAN PERSIAN RUG.worth thousands.....they wouldnt bud then after the auction, they offered 500. and when I said no....why didnt htye bid during the auctio they just said KEEP THE RUG...nice, clean and persian 9x12
There were quite a few laughs during the auction...but NO MONEY. But that is the way it goes....The people do not want good things...they want 40.00 crap...Auction people either want garbage or great things for free. If they do want something great...they want to go to Sotherbys.

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

i HAVE BEEN THINKING ABOUT NATIVE AMERICANS

TONIGHT, I made another versian of polenta, italian corn meal..served in the form of a pie, a casserole, a side dish, a main dish...and eventually i will develope some that can be deserts....I am thinking of MARZIPAN POLENTA>>>anyway, the brand name on the BAG is INDIAN HEAD... That is the brand..and there is a drswing of a proud INDIAN CHief, with his eagle feathers stickin gup straight, as if they were dipped in Viagra.
For those of you who do know know it, I have always had great respect for NAtive American,,,,,even before I knew why, I was alwasy on there side. When My uncle Archy, used to hide from my AUnt BECKY, he would lock himself in a room and watch TV....COWBOYS and INDIANS... He was alwasy yelling and shouting and getting emotinally involved..SITTING at the edge of his chair.....well, i thought he was disturbed (anyone married to Aunt Becky would have to be disturbed, if not before marriage, then definatley after being married to her for 30 years....(at that time). I couldnt understand why they were always after the INDIANS...I looked at it..that the settlers stole the INDIAns land and wouldnt give it back..why shouldnt they attack the white folK?
They wre always being called savages, but eventually when I grew up and learned more about their beliefs...THE GREAT SPIRIT,....they asked for forgiveness for killing animals that they would eat, and use for survival. They only killed enough for what they needed. They conserved nature. They spopke to the souls of the animals that they hunted. They respected their women and children. They mostly were good spiritual people. Of course some tribes were more warlike than others.... and all of use have a dark side now and then.
Eventually, they most most of their land, to the US Government, the railroads....et all. THye were massacred, poinsoned and given blankets with smallpox germs in it to decimate their numbers. They were sold guns to kill each other, and given alcohol so they would become alcoholics.. They didnt understand genetics exactly, but the white man knew INDIANS were more pron to alcoholism than other groups.
Now on the reservation, they languish.. Once a PROUD NATION.......they suffered a true holocaust, by the hands of the UNITED STATES Government,, who claims to be a Democracy, with liberty and justice for all. What a load of crap. I am not AntiAmerican, but not proud of what we did to people. We literally used the CHINESE as slaves to build our railroads, We murdered most of our Native Americans, and hunted the boffalo to near extinction, we put Japanese American Citizens in concentration camps during the 2nd world war..and confiscated all of their property,we built the planations in the SOUTH on the backs of the balck men, who were slaves...had no freedom at all, and were treated worse than the barnyard animals..how many hundreds of thousands were litteraly worked to death? And later in the 1950s, black people were used in the south for experiments on Syphliss.....and we can go on to the presetn day....with DOnt ASK DONT TELL.....The freedom we talk about is very abstract....very, and non existence in many circles.
But lets get back to the INDIANS... Making polenta, I couldnt help think of the name of the brand of cornmeal I was ususingl.INDIAN HEAD... now what if it wasnt an INDIAN, but someone else. Lets say a JEWISH PErson... WOuld they CALL the corn meal JEW HEAD..and he owuld be wearing a cute little yarmulka and have side curls??? Or if it were a NEGRO, a black man or womans head and it might be called BLACK HEad, but that is the name we use for a pimple......If it were a CHINESE Person, would they call it CHINA HEAD, ...or JAP HEAD, or.......
If they had a BASEBALL time and didnt call it by an INDIAN NAME, if it might have been called the Washington YELLOW SKINS, or JEW SKINS, or BLOACK SKINS??? or the BOSTON JEW SOCKS, or Black or YELLOW SOCKS,....and in front of CIGAR STORES, instead of having a Hand carved INDIAN....they had a hand carved HASSIDIC with a black hat and blakc coat and sidecurls...holding a bunch of caigars...that would have been a hoot....
Back to the BASEBALL TEAm, INstead of the BRAVES....which if the team might have
been called the "Balabusters" (homemakers) or the BO)-vants (big muscular guys) or theCincinati Yentas........or the Cincinati HOMEBOYS.......etcetc

SPEAKING OF POLENTA.. made it a very different way tonight...too a big mixing bowl. addeda can of diced tomatoes and a can of hot water, a chopped onion, a little green scallion, garlic powder,salt pepper, chilli powder, a few teaspoons of Chipolite sauce....stirred. let sit for 5 min, then microwaved for about 15 min....took it out and it was nice and thick. added half a jar of parmigiana cheese...cooked it in the oven for 5 min more..then poured into a baking dish...poured salsa on top and baked it for 30 min......(I added some extra vergin olive oilbefore baking"
Then put it in the frigde after cooling.. To serve...well, you can slice it and heat it up, in micro wave, you can fry it... adding cheese and sauce later... You can put all different kinds of sauces..on it....try a white one , not only red....Try a Mexican mole sauce.....(with chocolate...in it ..its great)

You can serve it as a main course..with veggies and salad or as a side dish...
Polenta....is so versitile. You can add meat, fish, poultry, veggies... if you dont make it spicey you can add fruit(this is an invention I am working on) as a dessert.

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Bad mouthed today on Craigs list-then got an apology

Apology to Granny's (Hohokus)

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Date: 2009-10-20, 12:14PM EDT
Reply to: see below

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This is an apology to the proprietors of Granny's attic.

Not to put the blame where blame is not due. The post is not from "Mentally-ill" dealer, but from an unsatisfied customer. (The post containing the "cookies and meatballs" reference).

I am sorry for my remarks and did not look to harm Granny's business, but to just blow off some steam. Which, was absolutely misdirected.

I am also sorry for the time you have spent responding to my post.

Please accept my apology and in truth Granny's really does have some amazing items ( which I am upset I cannot afford :( )


Location: Hohokus
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Sunday, October 18, 2009

CRAIGS LIST NONSENSE, fRANKLIN rOOSEVELT

PEOPLE ARE SO FULL OF KRAPPE. HOW CAN SOMETHING BE BRAND NEW, MUSEUM QUALITY AND STILL IN THE BOX......WHAT MUSEUMS PUTS NEW THINGS TO SHOW OFF. OTHER NONSENSICAL DESCRIPTIONS" NEEDS A LITTLE " TLC" AND YOU CAN SEE THE ITEM IF BROKEN, RIPPED AND NEEDS REFINSIHING.....

ANOTHER GREAT OVER ABISED ONE IS THE USE OF THE WORD "GORGEOUS" MY GOODNESS...I DIDNT THINK HELEN KELLER COULD TYPE..ANYONE WHO WOULD THINK SOME OF THE "GORGEOUS" ITEMS WERE GOOD LINKING, WOULD HAVE TO BE BLIND.. MOST OF THE ITEMS LABELED "BEAUTIFUL,GORGEOUS" FANTASTIC, ETC ARE EITHER UGLY OR JUST PLAIN ORDINARY KRAPPE THAT NO ONE WOULD LOOK AT IF THOSE WORDS WERENT USED

ONE OF THE FUNNIEST IS THE USE OF THE WORD"AMAZING" IN MOST CASES, IT IS AMAZING THAT THE ITEM WASNT THROWN IN THE DUMPSTER, INSTEAD THEY PUT IT ON CRAIGS LIST...THE BEST ONE EVER, ABOUT A YEAR AGO...WAS AN "AMAZING" REDISH/ORANGE LEATHERETTE(PLASTIC) SOFA. iT WAS RIPPED IN TWO PLACES, QUITE BADLY..YOU COULD SEE THE WHITE STUFFING COMING OUT....AND, IT WAS SO FILTY, YOU COULD SEE CAKED UP FOOD AND "STUFF" ON IT. tHE PERSON LISTING IT, SAID IT NEEDED A LITTLE UPHOLSTERING.....OTHER WISE IN GOOD CONDITION...I WROTE AND ASK IF SHE WAS BLIND....AND HOW SHE COULD, WITH A CLEAR CONSCIENCE PUT SUCH A FILTHY ITEM ON CRAIGS LIST....THAT WAS DISGUSTING....I THOUGHT I SAW COCKROACHES WITH SIGNED THAT SAID, BOYCOTT THIS SOFA" aLTHOUGH i AM BEING SILLY, I AM TELLING THE TRUTH.

i WENT TO LOOK AT A PERFECT CONDITION CEDAR CHEST. tHE PHOTOS LOOKED GREAT..ON ALL SIDES. tHE SELLER LEFT THE TOP OPEN SO WE COULD SEE THE PERFECT INTERIOR...BUT WHEN WE GOT THERE...THE TOP WAS BURNED BY AN IRON....AND THE IMPRESSION OF THE IRON WAS BURNED INTO IT IN BLACK. tHE MAN SAID..WELL IT NEEDS A LITTLE REFINISHING..YOU CAN REFINISH IT WITH A GALLON OF GAS AND A MATCH.

pEOPLE LIE SO BADLY ABOUT CONDITION.....THE WORST WAS EIRE STREET ANTIQUES IN HOBOKEN WHO WENT OUT OF BUISINESS. HE OFFERED AN OFFICE DESKS FOR 500. I ASKED THE CONDITON HE SAID PERFECT...I ASKED HIM TO SHOW ME THE TOP....COMPLETLEY CLUTTERED WITH PAPERS....HE SAID HE COLDNT TAKE MORE PHOTOS AND HE WAS MOVING AND THE PAPERS WERE THERE FOR A REASON...(THEY SURE WERE) i HIRED A TRUCK.....AND TWO GUYS TO GET IT......BUT.......THE TOP HAD 5 CIGAREET BURNS IN IT AND SCRTCHES......SO TELL ME, WHAT PART OF PERFECT WERE THOSE BURNS......I JUST DONT GET WHY PEOPLE HAVE TO LIE......THEY ARENT GOING TO SELL THEIR CRAP ANYWAY...

AND THEN WE HAVE THE "LACK OF KNOWDLEGE" PEOPLE INVENT THEIR OWN STYLE.....HORRIBLE MEDDITERRANEAN FUNTIURE IS OFTEN LISTED AS DECO AND MISSION. LOUIS THE 17TH SEEMS TO BE FAMOUS....(i THINK THERE WERE ONLY lOUIS 14,15,16") YESTERDAY SOMEONE POSTED A DEPRESSION ERA SERVER, PAINTED WHITE AS country french......pEOPLE COMPLETLEY MIX UP THE NAMES OF STYLES...WHY THIS IS NOT MISREPRESENTATION PURPOSELY,,IT IS STILL AMUSING... i FIND SOME THINGS LISTED, FOR PRICES THAT ARE BEYOND AMAZING....RIGHT NOW, SOME JOKER HAS A REPRODUCTION METAL ROOSTER FOR SALE...THAT HE CLAIMS HE FOND IN A 100 YEAR OLD MANS BASEMENT......FOR 4500. MAYBE ITS WORTH 25 TO 45 DOLLARS. HE CLAIMS TO BE A DEALER, BUT HIS STORE IS THE TRUNK OF HIS CAR... HE IS THE SAME GUY THAT SUPPOSEDLY SOLD A PIECE OF TOAST WITH THE RUNAWAY BRIDE IN IT FOR HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS ON EBAY...OF COURSE..HE RAN THE PRICE UP HIMSELF..AND NO ONE PAID...SO THE ENTIRE SCAM COST HIM 90 CENTS....AND HE MADE HEADLINES.....YOU CAN GOOGLE THIS STORY..I WONT POST HIS NAME......NEXT HE WILL STICK HIS SON IN A BALLOON....TO GET IN THE NEWS....

i WILL KEEP YOU AL POSTED WITH CRAIGS LIST NONSENSE.....FRAUDS....AND FUN... PLEASE FORWARD THIS TO FREINDS...TO KEEP AN EYEOUT FOR MY ARTICLES..

FDR WAS AN UNUSAL MAN...TO DAY THE LEAST. HE GOT US THOUGH MOST OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR...A WAR, THAT WE DIDNT START..AND THE BAD GUYS THREATEDN US AND THE REST OF THE WORLD....HE HAD TO MAKE SOME PRETTY TOUGH DECISIONS, LIKE LETTING PEARL HARBOR BE BOMBED...SO AMERICAN AND HER PEOPLE WOULD SEEK REVENGE...AND GLADLY ENTER THE WAR...WHICH WE REALLY HAD TO..SO WE COULD SAVE EUROPE, AND ULTIMATELY SAVE OURSELVES.
KNOWING THAT PEARL HARBOR WOULD BE BOMBED, AND OUR BOYS WOULD BE KILLED....WAS A TERRIBLE BURDEN ON HIS SOUL, BUT ONE THAT HAD TO BE MADE.
BUSH AND CHENEY, NEW OF THIS....AND USED THE SAME CONCEPT TO LET THE WTC CENTER GET BOMBED..SO AMERICAN WOULD BUY ANOTHER WAR AND SEEK REVENGE ON THE MUSLIMS.....WHO THEY WOUULD BLAME IT ON...WHO BUSH WOULD BLAME IT ON.....MOST MERICANS DIDNT KNOW THAT BEN LADEN WAS ON THE CIA PAYROLL PRIOR....AND BIN LADENS FATHER AND GEORGE W.BUSHES FATHER GEROGE, THE OTHER FORMER PRESIDENT , WAS IN BUSINESS WITH THAT MAN....BIN LADENS FATHER...AND THEY WERE IN THE WAR MATERIALS BUSINESS...ONE OF THEIR PRODUCTS THAT THEY PRODUCED IN THE "CARLYLE OR CARLISE GROUP...WAS THE BRADLEY TANK....THAT IS USED IN THE IRAQI WAR...(SURPRISE SURPRISE) AND THAT GEORGE BUSHES GRANDFATHER...PRESCOTT BUSH WAS A CONGRESSMAN WHO ALSO SOLD WAR GOODS...AND ONE OF HIS CLIENTS WAS A GERMAN, NAMED ADOLF HITLER...AND CONGRESS CONFISCATED HIS HOLDINGS...NICE FAMILY RIGHT... WELL LETS GET BACK TO FDR.
ROOSEVELTS MOTHER WAS A RICH BITCH AND TRIED TO CONTROL HIS LIFE....WHEN HE CAME DOWN WITH POLIO HIS MOTHER SARAH TRIED TO HIDE HIM AWAY...AS IN THOSE DAYS, POLIO WAS SOME HOW WAS LOOKED UPON AS SHAMEFUL.....EVENTULLY FDR STARTED A REHABILITATION CENTER IN WARM SPRINGS GEORGIA..HE INVEST MOST OF HIS INHERITANCE TO RENOVATE AN OLD HOTEL AND SPA, INTO A PLACE FOR CHILDREN WITH POLIO...AND HELPED A LOT OF PEOPLE....PHYSICALLY AND MENTALLY..... iT WAS PURE GOODNESS..COMEING FORM HIS HEART...AND WAS NOT POLITICALLY MOTIVATED.....THERE HAD HIS LIFE ON TV TONIGHT, AND HIS SMILES WERE THE LARGEST WHEN CHIDLREN WERE BEING HELPED AND HAVING A GOOD TIME....

Thursday, October 15, 2009

The Ending of a flying saucer with a 6 year old in it..

I personally think tha the father or parents somehow planned th scam.....what we all watched today....and were on pins and needles....and brought to tears..as we watch a balloon, fly 50 miles....supposedly with a child beneath. The nation was frozen with fear of what might have happened to this child.
I was hoping all the while it was a scam, or a mistake....and after learning the parents were twice on TV reality shows....I think that this is the case. Maybe it was publicty for his invention.....the balloon flying saucer really could travel...faster than a regular balloon... so this is how he will market it....then they might go on talk shows about this .....
ANYWAY.....regarless, no 6 year old child was scared to death, or frozen to death..or was injured.. My personal prayer was answered.

A DANISH VIEW ON SOCIALIZED MED

(i MET THIS PERSON ON AOL) Socialized health care... I do not know any other kind of, I have nothing but good things to say about it. An example of it: My Mum who is is 70 plus, fell on steps while getting a newspaper from downstairs. Father called a taxi as she seemed to be well enough to travel to the ER in a taxi, there was a small amount of blood in her hair and a scratch on her arm.
Arm was bandaged, no broken bone, a few stitches were put onto the small cut on her head. She was kept overnight.
The following day a hospital taxi took her home at no cost. Few days later a check of 12 euros arrived from the taxi company, that was the amount my father had paid to go to the ER.
Total cost euro 0.00.

Another example: I was practicing my water skiing in Finland few years ago, I fell and felt a slight pain on my ankle,
on a way back I went to the ER for x-rays, nothing was broken, an ACE bandage was put on.
Total cost: euro 6.00, my father was ever so angry, he said they made me pay because I was living in the UK at that time. Them Brits and the EU....
Maybe the USA , where every year 30.000 persons die because they have no access of any healthcare, should take a note of my little stories. The other huge number is patients, reported of being over 100.000, dying in hospitals due to inadequate care, early discharges, med errors, treatments discontinued due to their health insurance running out, or no treatments were started if there was no enough money to cover the hospital stay.

These are few of my thoughts on the issue.

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

DomPerignon...I was saving it for a special event

The special event was tonight. But not a romantic interlude, or to celebrate the publishing of my book, or winning the lottery, or finding a Picasso in an Attic. I opened the bottle because I am depressed. Business is awful and I cant figure out how to make it better. Advertising doesnt work. No one reads teh newspapers anymore, and even 48 2 minute spots on channel 12 news.....didnt bring people into the auction....
People are driving me crazy.... People, ie customers or browsers..Yesterday one customer, who had a credit, found the perfect piece she said..and she called up today to even cancel something...that she didnt pay for. She was very nice, sweet..but still drove me crazy....People price things...I give them a very good price, they bargain, a drop it more..and then..........they dont even respond. they walk out..They want things for free.. so tonight, I came to the apt very depressed. I do not have tranquilizers.....so I decided this was the evening to break open the Champagne... I am not a drinker either, but.....tonight, I would drink the best Champagne ....
I was apprehensive opening the bottle.I was afraid it would explode, becuase I dropped it. I untwisted the wire that holds the cork in place. I twisted the top,expecting it to shoot with pressure..But nothing. It was flat!!! Hardly any bubbles...What let down.....

I am depressed. Seems like the 44 years of success in the business mayb becoming to an end. But I have overcome bad times before. I have to calm down, so I can think clearly and try to turn adveristy into success again. There are different time. I have been blaming myself, but most of the antique stores already have gone underm, all over the world. The amount of people who want them has diminished...and the amount of antiques available to buy has diminished.. Less stuff, less people....and styles have changed. Young people want different things these days. What is antique to young people now, is 1940,50 and 60's DANISH modern is antique to them. Lucite is antique top them. And to make things worse, EBAY is a great competitor. The antique road show makes every little old lady thing her old panties are rare antiques and valuable. I am surprised these old ladies dont put a price tag on their ass.
I think the only mistake that I have made was not to drop prices earlier...and try to do more volume...but its hard to change old ways ....hard to accept certian things have become valueless.....for example Hummels..that were 200. not people want them for 40.00, Christmas Plates from Denmark that were 45 to 75....are down to ten dollars,school clocks that were 150 dollars in 1966-70 are now 75-100, No one seems to want Grandfather clocks anymore..Roll top desks, which were the ultimate treasures...hardly sell because, you cant use them with computers.....The entire oak phenomena is over....most people dont want oak anymore....simple oak dressers bring in nothing like 100...which means, we cannt send anything out to be refinished......
On the other hand, certain items go crazy.....like a brass dust pan, that came out of a Light House....and it was stamped with the naem of the light house....well, i put it on EBAY for 45.00 and it hit over 1000......go figure...

Recipe.....More ideas with the SALSA con QUESO. Cheese salsa wih Jalapenas... Macaroni and cheese.... ala MExicana...

Cook the macaronis....drain. Toss with a little bit of sour cream, pour on the salsa with cheese, add a table spoon of chopped jalapena,(optional) a sprinkle of garlic powder, few tablespoons of very fine chopped parsely, toss well,cover with either Mexican Salsa, or thick PASTA sauce..chuncky is best. Optional additions chopped well cooked bacon(crunchy, or sausaage, or sliced meatballs.. you can always ad some olives,capers,water chestnuts, fresh tomatoe, or anything else you might want to try...bake in oven till it all bubbles up. Let cool for 10-15 minutes before serving.

Monday, October 12, 2009

DIfference between Muslim&JEWISH VIOLENCE

Muslims blow up school buses full of Children,....they blow up restuarnts, mosques of fellow muslims, set car bombs near hotels and kill hundreds, they put bombs in the road to blow up American and other solidiers...they kidnap peole and chop off their heads...They are vicious ,ruthless killers. Yes, the different groups of MUSLIMS the SHIA vs the SUNNi..... the major difference is who each group belives should be the leader of all MUSLIMS. One group wants a relative with DNA from the PROPHET MOHAMMED...to head the MUSLIM world. The other group, feels that a relative isnt important, but a person who is qualified to lead...be chosen. And they will kill millions in the long run, to ahe their way.

Now in the Hassidic World, there are two main groups. The SAtmars (FROM EATERS HUNGARY...SATMAR COUNTY (AND NOWPART OF IT IS IN ROMANIA (THE TOWN OF SATU MARIE)

ONE GROUP OF HASSIDS, BELIVES THAT ISRAEL SHOULD NOT BE THE HOME OF THE JEWS..UNTIL THE MESSIAH RETURNS....AND THE OTHER GROUP IS VERY SUPPORTIVE OF ISRAEL...AND THEY FIGHT AMOUNG THEMSELVES....BUT THERE IS A STORY OF INCREDIBLE JEWISH VIOLENCE....
NO, THEY DIDNT BOMB ANYONE, OR BURN DOWN THEIR BUILDINGS, OR SHOOT THEM, OR POISON THEM, OR BEAT THEM WITH BASEBALL BATS.....WHAT THEY DID WAS SO HORRIBLE, ITS DIFFICULT TO WRITE ABOUT IT.... OH, THE HORROR..... ONE GROUP, KIDNAPPED AN IMPORTANT RABBI OF THEIR OPPOSING "TRIBE" THEY TIED HIM UP, STRIPPED HIM NAKED,EXCEPT FOR HIS UNDERPANTS, AND (oh my god) THEY CUT OF HIS BEARD!!!! THIS WAS AS IF, THEY DROPPED AN ATOMIC BOMB ON THEIR COMMUNITY.. THE DISRESPECT...TO HAVE A HOLY MAN, SHORN OF HIS BEARD....SO SYMBOLIC OF A HOLY MAN....A HASSIC....AND THEN TO HAVE HIS BEARDLESS BODY, DROPPED OFF ON THE STREETS OF BROOKLYN IN, ONLY HIS UNDERPANTS........IT IS CERTAINLY LUCKY, THAT THIS RABBI WASNT A HIDDEN CROSS DRESSER, WEARING LADIES PANTIES.....(THIS IS A TRUE STORY AND i WILL GET DETAILS TOMORROW, OR THE NEXT BLOG.)

i WOULD SAY THERE IS A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SOUL OF THE MUSLIM AND THE SOUL OF THE MUSLIM....BUT......THERE ARE ALWAYS VILENT PEOPLE IN ALL GROUPS. ALL FUNDAMENTALISTS ARE SOMEWHAT CRAZY...IF NOT INSANE. ALL OF THESE GROUPS ALL SEEM TO KNOW THAT THEIR WAY IS THE ONLY WAY..AND IT WAS DECIDED BY GOD. Well I have news for all of them, they are all wrong. But many of them will kill for what they think GOD wants.,they all belive that they know what god wants, ..becuase they were told by a person, or by a book...filled with legend,fantasy and superstition, and they all take themselves much to seriously. if there is a GOD somewhere....or some great spirit, and he would have expectations upon his human creations....they would be very simple. He would want them to be kind to each other, kind to the planet(environment) and kind to other creatures on the planet. What else could be important??? Dont kill, lie or steal. Dont be greedy. Share...I think those are enough rules.. If one ate mat on FRIDAY, or would eat lobster or shrimp or pork....with or without milk, or mention the Name of GOD IN VANE...ehy, no one knows what GODS name is anyway....
RECIPE OF THE DAY.... take an ENglish MUFFIN, toast it, butter it and schmear it with Toastado Salsa with Queso and Jalapena (Cheese sauce with Jalapenas) top with sliced sauted mushrooms, topped with crumbled bacon, topped with friend onions.

To the above you can add a slice of fresh tomatoe, a scoop of garlic mashed potatoes,slice of ham, chopped scallion, pimento, capers, marinated artichoke hearts, anchovies, or anything your little heart desires...The main incredient is the ENglish Muffin and the Cheese sauce....

NATIONAL HEMMROID WEEKEND

I REALLY SHOULD HAVE BEEN A PROCTOLOGIST. I DEAL WITH SO MANY ASSHOLES..SATURDAY EVERYONE JUST TALKED AND TALKED AND LEASURED AND THEY WERE ALL COMING BACK ON SUNDAY....AND THEY DID... AND ON SUNDAY, THEY CONTINUED TALKIGN AND MEASURING, AND THINKING,AND BOUGHT NOTHING ...AGAIN....AND THEY ARE ALL COMINGBACK AGAIN......SEEMS THAT IN THE SCHEME OF THINGS....I AM A SOUNDING BOARD.FOR PEOPLE WHO CANNOT MAKE DESCISIONS...
THERE FORE I SHOULD HAVE BEEN A SHRINK....I WASTED MORE THAN 8 HOURS WITH PEOPLE WHO WANTED NOTHING...BUT IT TOOK TWO DAYS TO DECIDE THIS....AND NEEDLESS TO SAY, I AM ANGRY AND FRUSTRATED....OUR TIME IS WORTHLESS TO THESE PEOPLE...WE ARE ENTERTAINMENT. WE ARE A MUSEUM.....WITH NO ENTRY FEE, WHO GIVES OUT CAPPUCHINO FREE, AND COOKIES FREE.... AND THEY EVEN USE OUR TOILET PAPER.
THE ANSWER IS TO OPEN A RESTUARANT, A MUSEUM AND A PAY TOILET. aND HAVE PSYCHIATRIST COUCHES AND THERAPISTS ON HAND. WE CAN DISPENSE MEDICATION AS WELL, LEGALLY....(OVER THE COUNTER SUGAR PILLS)

TODAY,INHONOR OF COLOMBUS (CHRISTOPHER COLON) I MADE MEATBALLS AND 6 HOUR TOMATOE SAUCE AGAIN) AND WILL SERVE IT TO THOSE WHO ARE BRAVE TO EAT THE HEAVILY GARLICED SAUCE.. MR COLOMBUS,......WHOSE REALL NAME WAS COLON....WHERE COLOMBUS CAME FROM I FORGOT..... COLON WAS A NAME, THAT MANY MARANOS(JEWS THAT CHANGED THEIR NAME AND PRAYED IN THE DARK-HENCE MARANO(DARK) WAS A NAME THAT JEWS WITH THE ANCIENT NAME OF THE PRISETLY CASTE (KOHANE-KAHN,COHEN, AND OTHER VARIOUATIONS TOOK) THERE IS REFERENCE HERE AND THEIR THAT COLOMBUS/COLON WAS JEWISH, AND SEARCHING FOR A PLACE FOR THE JEWS OF THE INQUISIATION TO GO TO.....IT IS FACT THAT HIS SCRIBE ON THE BOAT WAS JEWSIH AND THE LOG OF THE BOAT WAS WRTTEN IN HEBREW. THE WORK TURKEY, THAT THEY SAW IN AMERICAN, IS AN ADAPTATION OF THE WORD IN HEBREW FOR PEACOCK.....(SUPPOSEDLY)
COLOMBUS DID NOT DISCOVER AMERICA. THE INDIANS WERE ALREADY HERE.... AND THE VIKINGS HAD BEEN HERE YEARS BEFORE..AND HE NEVER SET FOOD ON SOIL THAT IS NOW THE UNITED STATES. HE DISCOVERED HISPANOLA, WHICH IS HAITI AND DOMINICAN REPUBLIC...SO WHY DO WE AND THE ITALIAN MAKE SUCH A BIG FUCKINGING DEAL ABOUT THIS PUTZ...WHO STARTED KILLING INDIANS, BROUGHT THEM DISEASE AND LED TO THEIR DEMISE AND EVENTUAL HALOCAUST...I RAISE MY MIDDLE FINGER TO HIM....

Friday, October 9, 2009

WE JUST BOMBED THE MOON!!!

NASA JUST SENT A MISSLE TO ATTACK THE MOON...SEARCHING FOR WATER....ICE UNDER THE SURFACE.....THIS IS SO VERY IMPORTANT.......JUST ASK ALL THE HOMELESS PEOPLE,..ASK THOSE DYING FROM AIDS, CANCER AND OTHER DISEASES......JUST ASK AL THE HUNGRY PEOPLE, HUDDLING AND SHIVERING. DID THEY ALL JUMP WITH JOY, AS THE MISSLE PIECED THE HARD CRUSTY SURFACE, AT THE COST OF UNTOLD MILLIONS OF DOLLARS.
MANKIND, AMERICAN KIND, MILITARY KIND ALL SEEM TO HAVE THEIR PRIORITIES SO CONFUSED. AS THE ECONOMY CRUBLES, AND PEOPLE ARE LOOSING THEIR BUSINEESES AND HOME, I CANNOT RATIONALLY SEE CAUSE OR REASON, TO SPEND MONEY ON PROJECTS THAT WILL NOT IMMEDIATELY HELP HEAL OUR PROBLEMS.
I WILL NOT CALL IT A WASTE.. OUR OF SCINETIC RESEARCH, COMES PROGRESS. BUT THEIR TIMEING IS OFF. I AM SURE THIS COULD HAVE WAITED TAX MONEY, WHICH ULTIMATELY COMES FROM EVERYONE, SHOULD BE USED FOR EVERYONE. HELP THOSE HERE. WE ARE NOT WANTED IN AFGANISTAN, EVEN BY THOSE WHO WE SAY WE ARE PROTECTING.. WE ARE THERE TO ELIMINATE A THREAT OF MUSLIM DOMINATION OF THE WORLD, WHICH I AM BEGINING ALMOST TO AGREE WITH.
THE MUSLIMS, OR AT LEAST THE TALIBAN, ARE RELIGOUS FANATICS, TERRORISTS, WHO WILL KILL THEIR OWN, TO PUSH THEIR AGENDA....AND KILL THE INFIDELS EASILY.
I CERTAINLY WOULD WANT TO LIVE UNDER THE REIGN AND DOMINATION OF THIER PHILOSPHY.THEY REALLY ARE A THREAT TO WORLD PEACH, AND LIVING FREELY, CREATIVELY. tHEY TREAT WOMEN LIKE CHATTEL,HAVE LITTLE USE FOR THE ARTS OR SPORTS,AND LIVE IN THE DARK AGES. THEY ARE MORE VIOLENT IN THEIR PRIMITIVE WAYS, BUT I BET THEY WOULD RATIONALIZE THE USE OF AN ATOMIC BOMB, IF THEY HAD ONE....TO RID THE WORLD OF EVERYONE BUT THEIR OWN KIND. AND THEIR KILL THEIR OWN KIND AS WELL, DEPENDING ON IF THEY ARE SHIA OR SUNNI. THE SLIGHT DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THEIR PHILOSPHY OF WHO SHOULD RULE THE MUSLIMS, A RELATIVE OF THE PROPHET OR AN ELECTED PERSON....IS CAUSE FOR DEATH AND DESTRUCTION. SO REDICULOUS AND SO SAD. MILLIONS HAVE BEEN KILLED IN THIS PHILOSOPHICAL STRUGGLE. I AM SURE, THEIR GOD IS NOT ONE THAT I WOULD EMBRACE.

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

mORE THOUGHTS ON OUR 44TH ANNIVERSARY

YEARS AGO, AND I AM NOT SURE WHEN THE FANTASY CAME TO ME.....PROBABLY SOMEWHERE IN THE FIRST THREE YEARS OF OWNIG GRANNYS, I VISUALIZED THIS GIANT STORE....WHERE, LIKE A DEPARTMENT STORE, THNGS WERE ARRANGED ACCORDING TO WHAT THEY ARE....AND THE TIME PERIOD THAT THEY CAME FROM. I REMEMBER EVEN VISUALIZING ANTIQUE STOVES, AND SINKS, AND REFRIGERATORS(VINTAGE) AND AN ART GALLERY......AND DIFFERT AREAS AND FLOORS FOR DIFFERENT TIME PERIOD.. iT WAS REALLY A FANTASY....AND NEVER THOUGHT IT WOULD COME TO PASS.
i REALLY DIDNT THINK IT WOULD BE ECONOMICALLY FEASABLE... IN THOSE DAYS, I WAS STILL ONLY EARNING ABOUT 150 A WEEK AS A TEACHER... AND DEPARTMENT SIZE STORE WAS OUR OF THE QUESTION...I EVEN JOKED ABOUT AN ELEVATOR....AND ONCE, i FOUND A SIGN...A STAINLESS STEEL SIGN THAT SAID "ELEVATOR" AND FOR FUN...I ALWAYS KEPT IT,...WOULD NEVER SELL IT,JOKINGLY I WOULD SAY"sOMEDAY THIS WILL HANG OVER MY ELEVATOR"
AND TODAY, THIS SIGN, HANGS OVER MY ELEVATOR...THAT I HAD TO PAY FOR...INSTALLED TO KEEP THE LAW OF THE STATE OF NJ....HAPPY....FOR THE ADA ACT...TO BE COMPLIENT THAT HANDICAPPED PEOPLE CANTAKE THE ELEVATOR TO THE 2ND AND THIRD FLOORS....
SO MY FANTASY DID COME TRUE. nOW i AM WAITING ALSO FOR THE FANTASY OF MAKING A BUNCH OF MONEY TO COME TRUE......INSTEAD OF KEEPING THE LANDLORD AND THE ELECTRIC COMPANY...AND INSURANCE COMPANIES HAPPY.

44th Anniversary today

For the kid who never stuck to anything...or finished anything, there is no one more surprised that today is GRANNYS ATTIC's 44th ANniversary. When I started the store, it really was just as a storage place, in a 15x20ft tiny barber shop that sat 2 people. I figured it was one of those gimmick ideas that I had..and would last a few months, till I was able to get rid of all the stuff that I had collected to furnish an apartment, where ALan Seidmen and I threw parties. It was a cold water flat, dark and dismal, in a crummy but safe area of CLIFTON> We didnt live there, only partied there...until, our activities was teh casue celebre to have ous thrown out.
Al the Antiques and furnishings that I had amazed, either from garbage picking, Salvation army, or brought back form my apartment at college....needed to be stored, else where than my parents garage. There fore,I rented the tiny store, for what I thought was a month or two....and lasted for three years, until it was destroyed by a flood. By this time, the Antique business had infected my blood and brain; The complusion of both collecting art and antiques was strong. And I even Had made enough money in three years to put a small down payment on a house....a fixer upper,...so although the store was almost a total loss...with three city dump trucks filled with my losses....I opened up a much larger store down the street, and NEWER and Larger Grannys Attic was born in CLIFTON, to last 39 years.....
After 9 years, I quit teaching and became a full time schlepper. From knwoing absolutly nothing about art and antiques when I began, I became some kind of expert...in a wide variety of areas.. But I admit, I am not a super expert in any one area.... Like the DR, who specilizes in the right testicle (not the left) of a little known AMazonian Indian TRIBE....my expertize is spread over a wide variety of subject, not narrowed down to a PHD in any one thing.
I have traveled the world 40 times, buying and schleping and shipping antique to America. I have made friends all over the world. I have had an Apartment in Amsterdam(and never once smoked a join-even though its legal) although I would very deeply inhale and hold my breath many times...in rooms filed with medical quality smoke.
I have become a licensed auctioneer...an concept never ever dreamed about, not even for the first ten years of business. We created an auction which used to get turn away crowds and make lots of money.....We saw antique go from garbage prices, to oak furniture bringing in goldprices...then then fall again...sadly way down.
I have made a lot of freinds in the business..mostly with customers, yet I have one friend a dealer, Ken Saltzman...who I met in 1966.who is still a friend and dealer, who is calling it quits this year. I met him and his wife Patty, who is in heaven now...when they first got married. I witnessed the birth of their wonderful children (one girl a Dr and one a Lawyer) I saw them become grandparents....and saw him cry at her funeral. My trip in this business has been very interesting...and without it, I am sure my life would have been much more mundane and boring.
I met a customer, who became a lover.....the affair became almost tragic...including an overdose, where I thought death for this person was immenent...but luckily Survival was to be found...but eventually incarceration onand off for three years...and then with the aid of a customer, a very famous criminal lawyer....this person is out, and hopefully will return to college....and have a good life. The tragicness, the emotional rollercoaster was the inspiration for me to start writing poetry and philosophy...and I have now a large volumne over over 100 entires....most of which, I immodestly think is very good. I also had the fortune of being inspired to write a novel,which becuase of another customer...went to Randome HOUSE and they said they wouuld print it if I make it 140 pages longer.
My writing.....in petry and novels.... unlike these uncorrected blogs....are much more sophisticated.....and spelling, etc is better. I apologize for rushing..but rush I much, for with one tuchus, one cant dance at two weddings. (famous Latin Quote)..or was that Ancient Greek?
Well, I need a coffee now to jump start my motor for the day. IN my morning conclusion, I must add, the maybe the finest things coming out of my adventure in antique land, are the collections of friends and employees that surround me. Theiry loyalty is almost in bibical proportions.

Monday, October 5, 2009

its shocking!!!! THE SAGA OF ANCHOIVE GOAT CHEESE PASTA CONTINUES

TONIGHT I A DEICDED TO CLEAN THE KITCHEN...DISHES HAVE BEEN PILING UP, AND THE REFRIGERATOR IS LEAKING....I FINALLY GOT THE DRAIN OPEN, AND THE SINK WORKING...I GOT MOST OF THE DISHES AND POTS AND PANS CLEANED....WHEN I DECIDED TO WIPE OF THE LEAK BY THE REFRIG....I SUDDENLY WAS GETTING SHOCKED....THE ELECTRIC VIBRATION GOING THRU MY BODY...IT WASNT PAINFUL...JUST WIERD....I ALMOST THOUGHT i COULD "SEE" THE ELECTRIC...bUT, AT THAT MOMENT, THE CLEAN MANIA STOPPED!!

i TOLD YOU ALL ABOUT THE REMEBERANCE OF THE GOAT CHEESE-ANCHOVIE PASTA FROM 40 YEARS AGO OR MORE....THEN THE OTHER NIGHT, i RECREATED THE DISH THAT i WAS AFRAID TO EAT BECAUSE I HATED BOTH GOAT CHEESE AND ANCHOVIES..I THOUGHT I WOULD PUKE AT THE TABLE, IN THE HOME OF THOSE POOR AND HUMBLE ITALIAN IMMIGRANTS..SO LONG AGO.
BUT WHEN I RECREATED THE DISH, WITH ONLY THE ADDITION OF CAPERS, I LOVED IT....IT WAS FANTASTIC..NOT NAUSEATING..wELL i THOUGH MAYBE I DIDNT PUT IN ENOUGH GOAT CHEESE OR ANCHOVIES.....THAT I SET MY SELF UP TO LIKE IT BY NOT PUTTING ENOUGH THE THE BAD STUFF...SO TONIGHT, I DOUBLED THE AMOUNT OF CHEESE AND FISH.....AND IT STILL WAS FABULOUS....SO NOW I HAVE LEARNED, THAT I FACED THE DEAMONS..AND WHEN I WASNT AFRAID OF THEM...I LEARNED TO LIKE IT....I AM NO LONGER AFRAID OF BUTTERMILK...STILL DONT LIKE IT..BUT I DONT HAVE THE REPULSION THAT I ONCE HAD...SO NOW....I JUST ABOUT LOVE MOST THINGS THAT WE OF THE WESTERN CULTURE EATS...
I DO NOT LIKE STINKY TOFU....FRIED BUGS, AND SOME OF THE VERY WOERD THINGS THAT YOU CAN SEE ON THE FOOD CHANNEL...WITH THE GUY WHO GOES ALL OVER THE WORLD LOOKING FOR VERY STRANGE THINGS TO EAT. I HAVE EATEN ALL TIMES OF SEAFOOD...ALLIGATOR, STEAK AND KIDNEY PIE.....AND LIKE THEM ALL.

Sunday, October 4, 2009

OY VAY"MY SON THE DICTATOR" THE PRESIDENT OF IRAN IS JEWISH!!!!!!

I wasn't really sure we could top last week's list of disclosures about celebrities and politicians. To recap: David Letterman is a philanderer. John Edwards is an (alleged) serial philanderer. And if there were any remaining doubts, Roman Polanksi really is a child rapist. But here's one secret I'm quite certain none of us saw coming: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is...wait for it...Jewish.

Wow.

This guy has had one helluva summer: Electoral fraud. Torture allegations. Oh, yes and that pesky little nuclear facility he's been building. Now it turns out he's Jewish to boot? Say it ain't so, Mahmoud.

But apparently it is. According to a story that broke over the weekend in London's Daily Telegraph, a photograph of the President holding up his national identity card during the recent Iranian elections provides evidence that he is Jewish.

That document reveals that his original last name - Sabourjian - is a well-known Jewish surname in Iran, one that even connotes that his family was once observant. A note scribbled on the card also shows that his parents changed their last name to "Ahmadinejad" after they converted to Islam when he was born. Although Ahmadinejad has never denied that his name was changed, he has never offered an explanation.

To be fair, he's not the first famous person to be "discovered" to be Jewish. Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright is probably the most prominent American in recent times. (If you haven't read Michael Kinsley's send-up of this phenomenon in Slate, it's a must.)By Damien McElroy and Ahmad Vahdat
Published: 7:30AM BST 03 Oct 2009

Ahmadinejad showing papers during election. It shows that his family's previous name was Jewish A photograph of the Iranian president holding up his identity card during elections in March 2008 clearly shows his family has Jewish roots.

A close-up of the document reveals he was previously known as Sabourjian – a Jewish name meaning cloth weaver.


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Funny, you don't look Jewish? The short note scrawled on the card suggests his family changed its name to Ahmadinejad when they converted to embrace Islam after his birth.

The Sabourjians traditionally hail from Aradan, Mr Ahmadinejad's birthplace, and the name derives from "weaver of the Sabour", the name for the Jewish Tallit shawl in Persia. The name is even on the list of reserved names for Iranian Jews compiled by Iran's Ministry of the Interior.

I AM NOW WATCHIN THE HISTORY CHANNEL.....ALL ABOUT UFOS' THERE WAS A CONFERENCE WITH ALL FAMOUS PEOPLE...SENATORS, ARMY AND AIRFORCE BIG WIGS,.....THERE HAS BEEN A COVER UP BECAUSE THERE ARE UFOS....THERE IS PROOF.....AND THE CIA WANTS TO KEEP THE PEOPLE CALM....ONE GOOD THING...THEY ARE PROBABLY MORE ADVANCED AND NOT ARLIKE..BECUASE WHEN ONE OF THEIR SMALLER CRAFTS WAS FIRED ON...THE ONLY THING THAT HAPPENED TO THE IRANIAN FIGHTER JET THAT FIRED UPON IT..WAS THAT THEY LOST CONTROL ,UNTIL THEY TURNED AROUND AND LEFT......WHEN THEY REGAINED CONTROL.....WHICH MEANS, THEY AVOID CONFRONTATION WITH JUST DISABLING, NOT KILLING....

Saturday, October 3, 2009

I MADE THE GOAT CHEESE/ANCHOVIE PASTA/new polenta

LOOKING back into the past brought up the memory of the anchovie goat cheese pasta dinner, that scared me.....I kept thinkin gabout it and last night bought the ingredients...and tonight, I was surprised by the outcome.
First the recipe thatI used(came straight from my brain) I mashed up a large clove of garlic, and put it into a soup bowl with maybe 1/8 of a cup of virgin olive oil...then added pepper(NO SALT) I mashed up three anchovies into a paste and added that to the olive oil...i then put the oil mixture into the microwave for 2 minutes...then added two ounces of creamy goat cheese. mix it for a few minutes and then added a tablespoon of small capers.....
I pour that over a bowl of linguini.... To my surprise I didnt gag. I was waiting apprehensively for the bad taste to set in. IT DIDNT! It was delicious....It didnt taste fishy, or goatlike. It was fabulous.
I am going to make it again and increase the anchovies and goat cheese....I will first double the amount of each..and see what happens.. Anyway....I am over my fear of both goat cheese and anchovies....(and together-wow)

The store was filled with people today.....to bad they were all on welfare..Very few people wanted anything.....They all got out alive..I didnt kill anyone today...I was even nicer than usual.....I am practicing being nice to customers(who do not deserve it) Maybe it might pay off...but I hate being a phony.....

Polenta is one of the dishes that can have a million different recipes.....and toppings.... Tonight I made a polenta...vegetarian...with fresh corn and tiny peas, a hint of harlic, and chopped pimentos.....Very simple....and tasty... can be eaten as is or can have toppings. I am working on a topping of peas in cream, a pinch of nutmeg and dried MINT.....salt and pepper.

Friday, October 2, 2009

Pasta Ala Mama, GoatCheese & anchovies tomorrow

I am always talking food..so when I was posting an ad for the store in STATEN ISLAND, I started being silly and my post said" YO TONY and Vinnie, come to the store this weekend and try some of my mothers GRAVY..that she used to cook for six hours..with steak bones, sausage and meatballs...nice and thick......" Staten Island has lots of Italian people who shop here...so I got very Italian....well, right now, as I sit here and blog...I have a pot of "gravy" with three types of tomatoes and sauce...bones, sausage and homemade meatballs......are cooking..in a thick iron pot...will cook for many hours...slowly at 300 degrees. Flavors will blend......

In my blog the other day, I rambled on about how a poor family invited me to dinner. Of all the things that I hated...to eat...that disgusted me...were goat cheese and anchovies...well, that is what the mother made that night...Goat cheese and anchovies sauce over pasta....I was afraid to eat it.....and was worried I might gag at the table...I did survive the ordeal.....and it wasnt that bad.... 45 years passed...when I remebered that day.....I have been thinking of it for a few days and tonight, at STOP AND SHOP, I bought a tin of anchovies, and a container of goat cheese and tomorrow, I am going to make the same sauce...and eat the meal...that humbled me years ago. I am wondering if my sense of taste has changed since then. I learned to love blue cheee,avocados and yogurt..since then... and I am hoping I will now like the combination...
I even tried buttermile last year....Buttermilk was the only food i the world (outside of things like worms, or cheese with maggots in it or other very woerd things)...that would make me gag JUST THINKING ABOUT IT. i FORCED MYSELF TO DRINK SOME... I DIDNT LIKE IT... BUT I DIDNT GAG OR PUKE..... it was just funky.......
I find it funny what items freak people out. I had a frIEnd named DAVID, who gaged from beets. TAo him beets were as disgusting as eating cat shit. I even had a freind who didnt like apples...I thought EVERYONE LOVED APPLES.. hOW INOCUOUS...oTHER PEOPLE HATE MUSHROOMS(i LOVE THEM) AND CHEESE,(i LOVE IT) SOME PEOPLE HATE ALL SEAFOOD....CAN YOU IMAGINE HATING LOBSTER....CAN YOU IMAGINE THROWING UP FROM EATING PEAS? PEOPLE ARE WIERD.....BUT TASTE IS LIKE ALLERGIES....YOU DONT CHOOSE THEM, THEY CHOOSE YOU.....
WELL, I AM SO WIERD...I LIKE LIVER AND VARIOUS OTHER PARTS OF ANIMALS..LIKE BRAINS AND EGGS, STEAK AND KIDNEY PIE(IF MADE RIGHT) THE KIDNEY MUST BE RINSED AND CLEANED AND WASHED CORRECTLY OR IT TASTES LIKE PIS.
I AM VERY LUCKY...I LOVE EVERYTHING AND STILL I DO NOT WEIGH 1000POUNDS. BUT I MUST GO ON A DIET...OR ELSE, I WILL EVENTUALLY EXPLODE!!!!!