June 28, 2013

June 28, 2013

A Thought for Today

"Do not cry, do not laugh, try to understand"

Baruch Spinoza
(1632 - 1677)

A Piece of My Work

Last year, I learned to work with slab clay. It is rather easy. As I could not make friends with the turn table, I wanted to make a vase by wrapping a piece of slab around a bottle. It worked quite well. I decorated the piece a bit and...voila. 



                                         

Recipe of Today

(From Saveur, June 2009

 

Pignata di Agnello

(Lamb stew from Basilicata)

 

Serves 6-8

 

Ingredients:

 

3 lbs. boneless, trimmed lamb shoulder, cut into 1½“ cubes

1/3 lb. pecorino cheese, cut into ½” cubes

¼ lb. soppressata or spicy salami, cut into ¼” cubes

1 large onion, roughly chopped

2 carrots, peeled and cut crosswise into ¼” coins

1 rib celery, chopped

2 lbs. new potatoes, peeled and cut into 1½“ pieces

½ head of escarole, ends trimmed and roughly chopped

4 sprigs thyme

1½ tsp. red chili flakes

½ tsp. freshly ground pepper

1 tsp. Kosher salt

 

Procedure:

 

Combine ingredients in a 5-qt. Dutch oven with 3 cups water. Cover pot with aluminum foil and then with the lid to create a tight seal.

 

Cook over medium-low heat, shaking Dutch oven occasionally, until the lamb and potatoes are tender and the juices have thickened slightly, about 2½ hours.

 

Thought...

One thing of which I have most fear is fear.

                             Michel Montaigne

Thought

Something deeply hidden had to be behind things.

A.      Einstein

Thought...

 

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

                             Socrates

Thought

Death ends life but not a relationship, which struggles on in the survivor’s mind towards a resolution it may never find.

                             EMM

Thought...

Government is an art… to make men strive like free, yet bind them in an order that gives freedom strength.

                             Julius Caesar

A Thought

Politics is the art of getting votes from the poor and funding from the wealthy while promising them protection from one to other…
                                              EMM, 1955

Thoughts...

Life is a sheet of paper, white,

Whereon each one of us must write

His word or two, and then comes night.

                             J.R. Lowell

 
 

This above all: to thine own self be true

And it must follow, as the night the day,

Thou canst then be false to any man.

                             W. Shakespeare

 

Beauty is truth, truth, beauty, that is all

Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

                             J. Keats