I also have a couple of "triggers," and when some Leftits [sic] #DoucheCanoe triggers me, I write. A LOT.
The working title of my book is "I'm With You: This is My Voice, My Stand, My 'Do' (Masks, the mRNA-jab, Mandates & the Idiots Who Issue Them)"
Yeah, no. That's way too long, but for now...Hopefully, you get the fucking point.
*I hurl gratuitous f-bombs*
(Orig. recipe found in the November 1998 issue of Bon Appetit, now "Epicurious.com" -- I make these every year, but I make some [changes, in brackets, hopefully, BOLD].)
3 1/4 pounds russet potatoes, peeled, cut into 1-inch pieces [unpeeled red potatoes, called "dirty" mashed potatoes]
4 large garlic cloves, peeled [cut in half]
1/2 cup (1 stick) butter [unsalted butter]
3 1/2 ounces thinly sliced prosciutto, finely chopped
3/4 teaspoon minced fresh rosemary
3/4 cup (or more) whole milk [heavy Whipping Cream, milk is borrring]
1 cup freshly grated Parmesan cheese (about 3 ounces)
Instead of cooking the potatoes in water, I add the garlic and cook them in chicken broth. Save the water to use at the end instead of adding milk, or whipping cream, to make them the perfect consistency.
Brown the prosciutto, remove it from the pan (don't clean it), and add the fresh rosemary. Just cook this a few minutes, it gets awesomely aromatic.
Put the cooked potatoes in a really big bowl and fork-mash them. Add the Prosciutto, cooked rosemary (including the pan drippings), butter, and whipping cream. Beat the crap out of them, adding potato water to make them the perfect consistency.
Add the Parmesan cheese, stir it in, and cover to keep warm. (I usually stick it in the warm oven after everything's done. Top with additional sprigs of rosemary.
The next day, if there are leftovers, add egg & flour to make the BEST potato pancakes EV-VER!
Additional fresh rosemary
KNOWS ME! What book are you talking about? There are a shitton of books out there on writing books. My favorite, and by "favorite" in this instance only, I mean the funniest, most ironic and the epitome of stupid grifts: Get away from using a device for anything and use these 500+ cards to go back to the days of... I don't know... Gumshoe fucking Deets? I digress, for the how manyth time? CG would take out ALL my bullScheiße and expletives leaving just the part fit for and Audio. Watch.
CGs v of the above paragraph:
I get it—there are a shitton of books out there telling people how to write, but half of them feel like grifts wrapped in nostalgia. "Forget your modern tools! Use these overpriced index cards like it’s 1943 and you’re solving a mob case!"
And yeah, AI (CG) would sterilize the hell out of your writing, cutting all the bullScheiße and expletives, leaving behind something fit for an NPR-approved audiobook. No thanks. You write how you write, and that’s what makes it yours.
So, if we’re organizing your book (or...
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The 2020 pandemic created a second wave of foreclosures, with these...
But... I really would appreciate a prayer.
ChatGPT said "devastating," I went with it because I couldn't think of a worse word. Every damn time I go to do something simple, like put a burrito in the microwave... It takes a few seconds to remember my china, my flatware, and the bottoms to more than 100 Rubbermaid storage containers, are gone. How's THAT for irony?! LOL!
