Just made this tonight, and I want to get it out of my head and onto something comparatively persistent before I forget it.
Ingredients:
- 1 stalk of rhubarb, finely chopped
- 1 leek, coarsely chopped
- 1 teaspoon (or more) brown sugar
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 2 tablespoons balsamic vinegar
What to do:
- Heat the oil in a saucepan at medium-high.
- Throw in the leeks, cook for about 5 minutes.
- Add the balsamic, the rhubarb, and the sugar. Cook for 10 more minutes or so, uncovered.
That’s it. Serve over your favorite poultry — I put a tablespoon of the stuff over a chicken breast and it was awesome-sauceome.
If you’re not worried about health/calories, drop 1 tablespoon of olive oil and replace with some butter, and add up to 4 tablespoons of brown sugar.
Thanks to this site for the basic idea.
I haven’t had much experience with Nabokov, but the few things of his that I have read were astonishing. Lolita was one of the most disruptive and transcendent things I have ever read. Soon after completing that, I read Pnin and Pale Fire, but I blasted through them far too quickly and I barely remember what they were like.
I’ve been meaning to read more of his stuff, and recently found King, Queen, Knave at a thrift store for a couple of dollars. I took this as a sign and picked it up, and read it all in one day last Saturday — which resulted in an epic sunburn, since I was engrossed in reading it on the beach.
I took notes as I read, because I remember Lolita being tricky: Little details early on in the novel evolved into major plot points by the end, and I was completely baffled by what happened in the final pages of the book. This time, I had my guard up, and I tried to capture all the little snags as I recognized them. As it turns out, my rigor was unnecessary: King, Queen, Knave is stylistically provocative and complex, but the plot itself is largely predictable throughout. The simplicity of the plot made it easier for me to concentrate on Nabokov’s wonderful prose.
Anyhow, since I have all these chapter notes sitting around, I figured that I might as well write a synopsis. So, here goes.
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There is so much on the web already written about GTD that I don’t feel the need to rehash it in great detail here. The gist of it is this:
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It was at this juncture that a friend of mine lent me Body for Life, by Bill Phillips. I wrote off the book as mere propaganda for Myoplex (Phillips is the founder of the company), but I have found in the past that such propaganda can be very inspiring in its simplicity, and so I took a couple of hours and plowed through the salient parts.
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