Your open thread #2 and some good vibes

Posted on May 31, 2009 by Uppity Woman

For Socal, some California Boys!

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52 Responses

  3. Irlandese, on May 31st, 2009 at 5:04 PM Said:

    My fave Beach Boys tune:

  4. Irlandese, on May 31st, 2009 at 5:18 PM Said:

    I’m having fun with this. One of the few things I miss about living in SoCal–the beach! My other fave:

  5. Mary, on May 31st, 2009 at 7:53 PM Said:

    UW<
    Irlandeae,

    Thanks for the vids. Mellow. Nothing to jangle the nerves. Intelligible lyrics, none of them violent or antisocial..

    The degeneration of pop music from the Beach Boys, who began in the Kennedy era, to rap "music," parallels the degeneration of our society from the Kennedys to the obamas.

    I guess nothing exists in a vacuum.

  6. socalannie, on May 31st, 2009 at 7:55 PM Said:

    Thanks Uppity! We all love these songs. Good Vibrations is my fave Beach Boys song. Heres a fun fact about it:

    Wilson was still working on his long-playing magnum opus, Pet Sounds, when he started “Good Vibrations” late on the night of February 17th, 1966, at Gold Star Recorders in Los Angeles. During the next seven months, in four studios, at a cost of more than $50,000 (at that point the greatest sum ever spent on a single), Wilson built “Good Vibrations” in sections, coloring the mood swings with locomotive cello, saloon piano and the spectral wail of a theremin. “We didn’t think about doing it in pieces at first,” Wilson says now, “but after the first few bars in the first verse, we realized that this was going to be a different kind of record.” Very different.

  7. Nobody Special, on May 31st, 2009 at 8:27 PM Said:

    Very interesting bit of information Socal.

    I love that song, but after seeing Menopause the Musical, well good vibrations has a different meaning…..still happy and relaxing though, LOL!!

  8. socalannie, on May 31st, 2009 at 8:33 PM Said:

    NS – rofl!

    Mary, you’re so funny! I agree with you!

  9. Uppity Woman, on May 31st, 2009 at 8:53 PM Said:

    Oh cripes, Nobody. My iced tea came out of my nose!

  10. Uppity Woman, on May 31st, 2009 at 8:58 PM Said:

    Hey who’s the dork in the kokomo vid. I thought it was going to be the beach boys. yeesh, that guy sure is impressed with himself isn’t he?

  11. Uppity Woman, on May 31st, 2009 at 8:58 PM Said:

    Ok everybody post cool songs gone by you like.

  12. imustprotest, on May 31st, 2009 at 9:01 PM Said:

    Love the Beach Boys Concert! Thanks! I’m a socal person myself, just can’t tell by my screen name! Sun FINALLY came out here in SoCal as we’ve had a “June Gloom” kind of w/e I’m lovin’ this summer warmup concert!

  13. Nobody Special, on May 31st, 2009 at 9:25 PM Said:

    Uppity I think the guy made the kokomo video for the girl you see toward the end. At the end it says and this is what I want for the rest of my life. Perhaps there was some significance to the song or the locals pictured…maybe it was a proposal, maybe they were moving to a tropical local….something.

    Hope your nose is better, at least you weren’t drinking something carbonated!

  14. Uppity Woman, on May 31st, 2009 at 9:25 PM Said:

    k then let’s try this again. the other one didn’t embed.

  15. Uppity Woman, on May 31st, 2009 at 9:28 PM Said:

    I do wish that jerks on youtube wouldn’t pretend with their titles. I thought it was the real thing with some nice island shots. Had no idea I was going to be looking at schmaltz.

  16. Nobody Special, on May 31st, 2009 at 9:34 PM Said:

    How was your chicken? That’s exactly how I roast mine, except I use majoram too. My little one loves my roast chicken! There were times during her treatment when the only thing I could entice her with was roasted chicken. She prefers drumsticks so I’d roast a pan of drumsticks and that’ s all she would eat…..ah roasted chicken will always hold special memories for me……mom medicine you know.

  17. Uppity Woman, on May 31st, 2009 at 9:39 PM Said:

    It was delicious and yes I use marjoram sometimes but I didn’t have the fresh so I went with what I had fresh. I love marjoram with chicken.

    We roasted some sweet potatoes in with white potatoes too . It was great.

  18. Uppity Woman, on May 31st, 2009 at 9:41 PM Said:

    hey you should go take a look at my chicken vesuvvio recipe over in the food tab. I’m telling you, it smells so good you will be DYING for it to be finished.

  19. socalannie, on May 31st, 2009 at 10:00 PM Said:

    That recipe looks great. I’m going to make it tomorrow (the chix vesuv). Thanks for mentioning it.

  20. Nobody Special, on May 31st, 2009 at 10:01 PM Said:

    I got the recipe Uppity, sounds good I’ll have to try it. I haven’t been into the poverty recipe section. Funny I have this old special recipe edition of Woman’s Day, the whole magazine is inexpensive recipes and they’re broken down by cost per serving. Of course it’s from…..not kidding here 1982! Ouch….don’t laugh, but there sure are some good and inexpensive recipes in there. Maybe I’ll pull that old magazine out and post a few. I keep the magazine with my cookbooks, LOL!

  21. Uppity Woman, on May 31st, 2009 at 10:01 PM Said:

    You will NOT regret it.

  22. socalannie, on May 31st, 2009 at 10:02 PM Said:

    Uppity, I agree about the cooking sherry, but do you recommend dry or dessert sherry for this dish?

  23. Uppity Woman, on May 31st, 2009 at 10:03 PM Said:

    Oh man, Nobody, I had boatloads of Women’s Day back issues. I finally threw them all away. With the internet, there are so many recipes, you don’t lack. That recipe, though, is handed down to me from family.

  24. Uppity Woman, on May 31st, 2009 at 10:04 PM Said:

    And no way I knock old cook books. I have a lot of them. I still use the old Better Homes cook book for some things.

    Socal, I use harvey’s bristol cream sherry. That way, I can snort while I cook. lol. Just kidding. It cooks well.

  25. Uppity Woman, on May 31st, 2009 at 10:06 PM Said:

    Besides it you break it down, it costs less than that cooking sherry crap, which I think is really just extract and water.

  26. socalannie, on May 31st, 2009 at 10:06 PM Said:

    Okay. Bristol Cream is delicious. Thanks!

  27. socalannie, on May 31st, 2009 at 10:09 PM Said:

    Yeah, I don’t think I’ve used cooking sherry in over 20 years.

  28. Uppity Woman, on May 31st, 2009 at 10:10 PM Said:

    It cooks well with any dish calling for sherry too. At least I think so. The rule is never cook with a wine you don’t like to drink.

  29. Uppity Woman, on May 31st, 2009 at 10:11 PM Said:

    Men LOVE that dish.

  30. Uppity Woman, on May 31st, 2009 at 10:14 PM Said:

    I think harveys cooks so well because it has that raisin thing going on with the wines. You remember Poe’s Cask of Amontillado? There’s amontillado grapes in Harveys too.

  31. Uppity Woman, on May 31st, 2009 at 10:17 PM Said:

    Socal does your family like pot roast. I have the most scrumptious pot roast recipe that’s a little work but its a knockout. With red wine in it.

  32. Nobody Special, on May 31st, 2009 at 10:23 PM Said:

    Old cookbooks now I have one you would just LOVE…NOT! I got it from my MIL, I simply had to have it just because. It’s from the 1950’s, it’s called Political Pot Luck…….a collection of recipes…wait for it…wait for it…from men only.

    Contributors were politicians, statesmen, lobbyists, and the press…oooh ah. But of course only men, this was the 50’s. It also includes “Culinary secrets from proprietors of Tallahassee’s popular steakhouses in whose smoke-filled private rooms, it is said, more politicking, lobbying, and new gathering is done than in the Legislative chambers.”

    I’ve never actually read the cookbook or even tried any of the recipes I just wanted it because of the era it represented. Gee come to think of it, this past year it seems as though we’ve almost come full circle huh???

    Anyway I’ll have to take a look at it and see what wonderful recipes the elected officials of the sunshine state have to offer. If I find any treasures I promise to share.

  33. Nobody Special, on May 31st, 2009 at 10:29 PM Said:

    OK Uppity just flipping through the book had to let you know….there is a deep dish cherry pie recipe from Adlai Stevenson, LOL! I know how much you love pie and how could you resist Adlai Stevenson pie????

    I guess it’s not just Florida politicians in the book.

  34. Uppity Woman, on May 31st, 2009 at 11:15 PM Said:

    Cherry pie. Vanilla ice cream. God.

  35. socalannie, on May 31st, 2009 at 11:16 PM Said:

    We love pot roast! Would love the recipe! I also use red wine in my spaghetti sauces, stews, etc., but come to think of it, I could use a good pot roast recipe. The last one I used was average.

  36. socalannie, on May 31st, 2009 at 11:18 PM Said:

    “The rule is never cook with a wine you don’t like to drink.”

    Excellent cooking rule!

  37. socalannie, on May 31st, 2009 at 11:23 PM Said:

    NS, yum! You should post the cherry pie recipe. Although, I’m somewhat ham-fisted at making pastry & pie crusts. That would be a great dessert for the 4th, wouldn’t it? Adlai Stevenson cherry pie & homemade ice cream (which I make every 4th).

  38. Uppity Woman, on May 31st, 2009 at 11:32 PM Said:

    I’ll dig it up and put it in the recipe tab, Socal.

  39. Nobody Special, on June 1st, 2009 at 12:11 AM Said:

    I put the Stevenson cherry pie, Hubert Humphrey beef soup and a peanut butter soup recipe in the poverty recipe section.

    Socal, Uppity put the pot roast recipe in there too.

    OK Uppity you’re quite the political blog now, what with politicians recipes, LOL! Oh man could we have fun with making up recipes for some current day politicians!! What possibilities!

    Oh and does anybody out there remember a Frank Trippett from the St. Petersburg Times year 1958? The man is a disgusting pig. His recipe is to get a chicken give it to his wife and if it’s not ready on time “whip the hell out of her” He goes on from there with suggestions if that doesn’t work….what a scum.

  40. socalannie, on June 1st, 2009 at 12:34 AM Said:

    Thanks NS. I will try those as well. Am planning the cherry pie for the 4th. The trippett guy sounds disgusting.

  41. Cinie, on June 1st, 2009 at 1:10 AM Said:

    Socalannie, pie crust is easy if you don’t stress over it. The bottom layer is especially easy cuz who cares if it tears? Just patch it up and go on. The top’s no problem if you don’t try fancy. Lay it on there, roll the edges, then crimp with a damp fork. It looks “rustic” and tastes great.
    Just don’t use too much water and keep everything cold, and it’ll be great. You can even freeze it, in fact, you should stick it in the freezer for at least a few minutes when you’re baking. But, if you can make biscuits, and even if you can’t, you can make pie crust, no sweat. It’s just flour, margarine, butter, Crisco, whatever, a dash of salt and a little ice water.

  42. socalannie, on June 1st, 2009 at 2:13 AM Said:

    Thanks Cinie! I will definitely take your advice! :)

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  45. Nobody Special, on June 1st, 2009 at 4:25 PM Said:

    Thanks Uppity for making my day!! I did my weekly grocery shopping this afternoon and picked up the ingredients to try your chicken vesuvius recipe. One of the ingredients I needed was the sherry…..and I got carded!!!! Yea me!!!!

    I was seriously and intently carded mind you. At first I laughed off the request for my ID. Then the young cashier admonished me by saying “Don’t you come up in here with your little sister trying to act all grown up. I said show me your ID”

    So thanks for sending me out to buy sherry to try your recipe! Oh and if by chance there is some new program to employ the blind as grocery cashiers…please don’t share!

  46. Uppity Woman, on June 1st, 2009 at 4:54 PM Said:

    Nobody, RRRRRRRRRRROFLLLLLLLLLl Lucky you!

    You have GOT to change your screen name here! You are definitely not nobody! Come on. At least just change it to SOMEBODY!

  47. Mary, on June 1st, 2009 at 5:13 PM Said:

    “You have GOT to change your screen name here! You are definitely not nobody! Come on. At least just change it to SOMEBODY!”

    Mary seconds that request!

  48. Somebody, on June 1st, 2009 at 5:20 PM Said:

    OK ladies I’ll be somebody, but I stop at calling myself somebody special….that could come off wrong unless you knew the back story!

    So I am now somebody….that sounds odd too, LOL!

    Hey guess what I’ve been reading more in that political cookbook and I totally missed a waffle recipe by JFK, complete with his signature on his senate letterhead. Cool huh? Also, I’ve figured out who the Speaker of the House is in this book, it’s Sam Rayburn. I couldn’t read his signature, but I found him listed somewhere else in the book. He has a bizarre fried chicken recipe. I shall post both recipes.

    Uppity my husband thinks you would love to do a rant on the stupid St. Petersburg Times reporter that submitted a chicken recipe that called for whipping his wife….but geez the guy is surely worm food by now why bother?

  49. Uppity Woman, on June 1st, 2009 at 6:14 PM Said:

    Hey Somebody, tell your spousal unit that that St Petersburg wife probably killed him a long time ago. In his sleep.

    You know, Somebody, methinks that your cookbook has some monetary value. Just saying. I’ll be ten clowns would fight over it on ebay.

  50. Somebody, on June 1st, 2009 at 6:58 PM Said:

    Nah I doubt it’s worth much, or not enough to part with it. I’d rather have the fifty bucks you know. My in-laws had all sorts of first edition books including the entire Mark Twain collection, autographed by Clements. They really aren’t worth that much, I checked. You wouldn’t believe the treasure trove in their house, in totality perhaps there is some value but it’s fifty or a hundred bucks here and there kind of thing. We were supposed to try and ebay everything but my SIL and BIL wanted the house on the market so they rented a dumpster and threw everything away or that’s what they say they did. We were preoccupied with our daughter and her cancer.

  51. mcnorman, on June 1st, 2009 at 9:12 PM Said:

    Priorities somebody. Too bad @ the SIL and BIL.

  52. Somebody, on June 1st, 2009 at 9:48 PM Said:

    Yes Mcnorman priorities.

    UW my spousal unit thought the wife killing the guy in his sleep was funny. He added that it’s probably not nice to speak ill of the dead even if he was a pig, LOL!

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