That's Maureen Dowd. She's going there. Into the realm of violent metaphor, visualizing shooting the President. It's an amusing riff, but it's an image I would self-censor.
In any event, I agree with a lot of her mockery of "Sarah Palin's Alaska":
Sarah checked her freezer at home before she flew 600 miles to the Arctic, trying to justify her contention that she needs to hunt to eat. Wasn’t it already stocked with those halibuts she clubbed and gutted in an earlier show?For the price of all that plane-flying, couldn't you just mail-order a freezer-full of meat?
“My dad has taught me that if you want to have wild, organic, healthy food,” she pontificated, “you’re gonna go out there and hunt yourself and fish yourself and you’re gonna fill up your freezer.”
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Isn't she the chick with one eye but the big tits in that cartoon show. Allegedly.
@Trooper York
"That's 99% of Palin's problem. If she looked like Helen Thomas she wouldn't get these beyotches in such a lather."
You've nailed it, she's gorgeous (they are jealous, those lib-she's) and the libs in general can't stand it that she actually has her own opinion (or anyone else for that matter). Its high school all over again (perpetual!) for the gibberals - can't see beyond their 'kumbayashi'. The libs are the incarnation of PC, our modern censorship. Conform, or be CAST OUT.
garage,
I am told I need to cook teal pretty much rare, like steak, or it will be tough. I'm glad I have three, because I assume the first one will be a test.
I've always done fat little farm ducks broiled crispy, or braised and turned into to stock for gumbo.
I am told I need to cook teal pretty much rare, like steak, or it will be tough
True story.
Teal should be medium rare to rare.
Same thing for wild goose. Most people think because it is 'wild' that they need to cook it to death. When it turns out tough and dry (wild birds don't have the fat that domestic birds do) they swear off on eating wild game because it is terrible.
It isn't terrible. The cook is terrible.
I love it when life-long office types go on about the terrible aspects of hunting or roughing it. Although, I do admit, every once in a while one of them will drive to a car-friendly park, attach a customized tent to the butt of their car and call it camping out.
Hey not all city dewellers are like that. Some of us love he woods. I mean it is a little awkard walking around in our two tone shoes and sharkskin suits... but the woods upstate is a great place to dump a bod... errr ...enjoy the great outdoors.
DBQ - what medium should I use? Sear in a pan and finish in the oven? Or a small offset fire with some pecan chips in the grill?
"I'm curious - not challenging, but truly curious - of those posting comments here saying what things are like in Alaska, how many of you have been to Alaska?
I lived in Alaska for awhile. I had an uncle who lived there for many years. I hunted only once - I shot a rabbit, I did not enjoy it, and stuck to fishing and photography after that. Fishing in Alaska is incredible. Alaska is incredible, and I'm sorry I left.
You haven't lived until you've witnessed a friend pulling a leatherman out of a pile of shit - wait for it, you can't make this stuff up. My buddy lost his leatherman (multi-purpose tool) one night while tent camping in the woods. He had gotten up around 4am to 'dump', still in a drunken stupor. The next morning I helped him look for his lost leatherman...I found it laying in his excrement not far from the tent...funniest damn thing...
What's so funny about that. Titus often finds his tool in some excrement.
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
Now if you work up and found your tool in Maureen Dowd....well that would be disgusting. Seriously.
@Trooper York
LOL. Always comes back to that tool, doesn't it.
@ Beth
I usually just breast the bird and bone it, pound the breast to tenderize, maybe marinate in a mild marinade (lemon/garlic/herb/olive oil) and pan sear like you would a lamb chop.
For a small duck like a teal, maybe split it down the middle and pan sear and finish it, bone side down for a small amount of time, with a lid on to create a mini oven effect, I usually find that the legs and wings are rather tough and tend to use those for stew or soups.
I have smoked mallards. Split and brined them first in dry rub salt and brown sugar brine and low temp. Sometimes I have added chilie powder to the brine for an interesting zip. They aren't rare anymore but they retain the juicy texture.
Good LUCK!!
No guarantees. Hope it turns out well. Better under cooked than over cooked.
So I finally read it. IOW, she's admitting Obama is pretty, but not at the top of the food chain?
DBQ, thanks! So, if I'm following you correctly, I could use the legs and wings in gumbo. They shouldn't get tough or dry because I'd braise them and make a slow stock from them. Yum.
Beth, the same for venison. Either cook it medium rare or braise it for a long, long time. Anything in between makes shoe leather.
For goose and sometimes duck, I always braise: fry at high temperature to brown and crisp the skin, then a long cook in my massive 19th century French copper braising pan.
then a long cook in my massive 19th century French copper braising pan.
Do you cover the cuivre?
That part isn't difficult for me to understand. What is difficult to understand, indeed, impossible to believe, is that 3 people took a private plane from south Alaska to north Alaska and camped and hunted for days because they needed to get meat for the freezer.
Can you buy caribou in the local supermarkets in Alaska? My guess is "not", but until I knew for sure I'd just assume the Palins wanted some caribou for the freezer, and went out and got some.
"Need" is such a subjective term.
OTOH, a lot of hunters (myself among them in earlier days) were taught an ethic that if you killed it, someone had to eat it. So if I killed six squirrels, I walked around the community until I found five other people who wanted a squirrel for the freezer.
I can't stand the taste of venison. When I was in college, a roommate brought back venison steaks from home, and told me to cook them. Well, the 20-year-old me took a mallet and pounded pounded pounded them to tenderize them -- following his instructions -- and only recall blood splatter.
Field dressing is critical. If the scent glands stay on too long, it's going to taste like skunk ass. If it's not properly bled to boot, it's going to taste like rotten skunk ass.
"Do you cover the cuivre?"
Yes, it has a great, heavy lid, which has a shallow depression in the center to pile coals on top from back in the days when a braise entailed burying the whole pan in the hearth coals.
So if I killed six squirrels, I walked around the community until I found five other people who wanted a squirrel for the freezer.
If you gave Meade a live squirrel he'd euthanize it in the freezer for you. No killing required on your part. Anything less would be species discrimination on his part.
wv: loodi = constipation, as in "Oh Lord, I'm stuck in Loodi again..."
"Field dressing is critical. If the scent glands stay on too long, it's going to taste like skunk ass. If it's not properly bled to boot, it's going to taste like rotten skunk ass."
Absolutely. I think this is the reason why so many people have a negative impression of venison.
I also think people make the mistake of treating it like beef. Venison is not beef, and can't (for the most part) be cooked like cuts of beef. I would never try to cook steaks of venison, at least not in the way I'd cook a beefsteak.
My favorite cuts are the rolled loin, which cooked quickly in crème fraîche with blackberry preserves and garnished with blackberries is absolutely delicious, and the haunch, braised for hours. The tougher parts of the deer also make wonderful game stock.
Did anyone here notice Dowd's old boyfriend, Aaron Sorkin, called Palin's show a snuff film due to fish and caribou kills?
I didn't watch her show because I could tell from the previews that I'd get tired of her shrill yelling all the time.
As much as I liked her when she spoke to the Republican Convention, her voice just grates on my nerves.
Kind of like Maureen Dowd.
AJ Lynch said...
Did anyone here notice Dowd's old boyfriend, Aaron Sorkin, called Palin's show a snuff film due to fish and caribou kills?
I didn't realize the connection.
I wonder what Sorkin thought of "Mutual Of Omaha" as a kid. Probably thought it was gratuitous violence.
I think Sorkin is a former drug abuser- I wonder if his old drug dealers or their suppliers ever maimed or killed anyone?
If the squirrel (or any other pest) invades our home, yes, I will euthanize it.
Speaking of freezers...
Parasites and tapeworms are common in venison. Eating fresh venison is not recommended. Freeze venison for a minimum of 48 hours to kill tapeworms and parasites before you eat them.
Ann,
Do you somehow think that the meat you mail-ordered would be any less killed or dead? What exactly is your point?
Parasites and tapeworms are common in venison.
Wild, and organic!
That is indeed a massive pan, Palladian.
Matt said...
Methadras uses the 'C' word. Not such a humble Mechanical Engineer are you?
Nope. Never claimed to be either. Women like Dowd are distasteful and cunty.
Trooper York said...
I was never much on hunting. The guys in the neighborhood used to go upstate every year and blast a deer or two. Then they would strap them to the hood of he GTO and speed down Route 17 and bring them to the butcher who would whack them up into steaks. They would have a annual vension dinner at the Knights of Columbus.
But I always remembered that dead deer tied down with it's glazed eyes and it's tongue lolling out of it's mouth and it's eyes vacant and empty.
You know the way Lindsey Lohan looks in bed.
I don't have the heart for hunting animals. I go after leftards instead.
I'm certainly late to this thread, but I was busy taking care of farm animals and spinning mohair into yarn.
You city and suburb folks might be surprised at the low cost of having meat prepared at your local meat locker.
Meat ends up costing probably less than 50% of what you pay at the supermarket. Wild game would be even less than that.
Every year, I buy 1/3 of a cow from a friend of ours who raises a few each year. After I pay him and the locker folks (who cut the meat to my direction and wrap each portion in freezer paper) comes out to about $2.00 a pound - that includes rib steaks, rib roasts, chuck steaks, chuck roasts, round steak, ground chuck and such yummy things as spare ribs, stew meat and neck bones (great for soups).
The two of us have enough beef to last us one year for about $350.
If we were eating venison, it would cost us even less for the same poundage.
Beth, for a million diff. recipes for venison go http://www.huntingblades.com/venison.html
I usually just breast the bird and bone it, pound the breast to tenderize,
Trooper and DBQ round out the Althouse porn thread.
To do it right they were supposed to fly coach to go hunting in a state that is about 1/6th the size of the total lower 48, and has only about 1000 miles of "interstate" type highways? The rest are backroads or "city" streets.
This is the state where one has to FLY or take a boat to get to the state capitol.
A "private plane" in Alaska isn't quite the same as what we think of down here.
There is certainly a relatively large number of private planes --- if you look at the lake the Palins live on, there are plenty of float plane docks, unlike anything I recall seeing in the lower 48.
Flying places to do stuff is not such a big deal there.
AK has ~11,000 registered planes.
Population is ~700,000.
Wisconsin has 7100 planes.
Population is 5.6 million people.
CA has 37,000 planes.
Population ~37 million.
And some of their pilots can take off and land in unusual situations. And waste gas playing.
When they go hunting or fishing there can be unexpected challenges and innovative fixes.
(Note they not only fly places, they stash their gun under the wing when space is tight.)
This is not Manhattan or Madison, boys and girls.
Althouse, private planes are the taxis & buses of Alaska. Once you leave the urban areas you have pretty much two transportation choices, water or air. You really have no idea how vast Alsaka is, sure we all know it's so & so many acres/miles, but until you're in the air you just can't wrap your mind around it.
We flew quite a bit and I am not really thrilled about flying in small aircraft, but everyone is as nonchalant as if they are on the crosstown bus.
You and Meade should take a trip to Alaska, you'd love it. One of the best vacations we've ever taken.
btw-I watched the show and her dad said the first rifle what Sarah usually shoots. Apparently the rifle's sight was out of calibration as they couldn't hit a target with it back at camp either.
I thought the stuff about filling the freezer made the point that hunting and fishing to supplement their diet is important to Alaskans, culturally and financially. Food from the lower 48, especially meat and dairy, is still very expensive outside the urban areas.
I recognize the way Sarah fondly pats the packages in her freezer, taking satisfaction from it. She still has the urge to fill the freezer. The Palins probably had to supplement their meat supply when they were a young family.
I find myself doing the same sort of thing. I grow veggies and fruit, make jam, marinara sauce and can fruit, not that I must but because it's satisfying. I admire the rows of jars as I fill the cupboard. I was raised that way and it's ingrained.
I still make the $2 spaghetti sauce we lived on when we were first married, because we like it...of course now it cost $8.
What people have to know about venison, is that you must hang the deer upside down while it cools. There is a world of difference in the taste.
I've plane-flown to Canada for a few fillets of Walleye, and yes, its worth it.
Chip Ahoy said...
" Is there a relationship that can be drawn between flying to the hunting "
is this like Al Gore in his private plane?
Dowd's just jealous. She bagged Michael Douglas, but lost him.
MadisonMan, rutabega turnips are bitter as all get out. There is not enough salt or butter to make them taste good. Rutabagas are what people eat when they can't get poke salad or acorns.
I love this.
Once again a Sarah Palin thread notches well in excess of 200 comments.
Trooper York,
We caught about 200 porgies and a bunch of flounder.
You CAUGHT porgies?
I thought you just waited for those to jump into the boat.
That part isn't difficult for me to understand. What is difficult to understand, indeed, impossible to believe, is that 3 people took a private plane from south Alaska to north Alaska and camped and hunted for days because they needed to get meat for the freezer.
In Alaska, flying somewhere in a small plane is not at all exotic. Would you find it impossible to believe that somebody would, say, drive 300 miles from the suburbs of Chicago to northern Wisconsin to deer camp in order to come back with meat for the freezer?
Wait until HD House finds out that Sarah Palin is planning to spend next summer on the east end of the long island. SP has informed some friends that she intends to really fuck up the liberals by renting a pretty well known house on the east end of long island for the summer of 2011. Should be fun to watch.
I find the act of hunting rewarding in and of itself. I am not trying to "save money" or pursue a "green life style". Instead I am trying to kill a wild creature to whom I have just been introduced. I hunt to kill. I celebrate my hunt by eating my kill. I enjoy the entire process. I like its travials, its surprises and its risks. And yes I like the thrill of ending the life of a wild creature. Especially if th ecreature is difficult and dangerous to hunt.
Doing the hunt with an attractive woman who is skilled in outdoor living has rewards as well. The pair bonding opportunities are significant.
@Beth:
I'm curious - not challenging, but truly curious - of those posting comments here saying what things are like in Alaska, how many of you have been to Alaska?
As I said, my experience is limited to Sitka (and the Ketchikan airport, which is what the Bridge to Nowhere was intended to serve). My wife worked summers up there and I would go with her while I was writing my dissertation. The shopping fell to me, so that's why I knew how much food costs, and I actually had time to see the town and talk to people. There is a possibility I will go up in spring for the herring, if I have nothing better to do. It's good money, provided you take it home and don't live in Alaska.
Alaska is terribly expensive. You have to be rich, or know how to live without money. In Sitka rich and poor live all mixed up together, as there are only so many places to build. A common sight is a million-dollar house across the street from a single wide--but the single wide has the waterfront, because it was there first. I saw every kind of boat, from rusted out tubs clearly owned by drunks to a yacht that looked the starship Enterprise.
You CAUGHT porgies?
I thought you just waited for those to jump into the boat.
Yeah, yeah I know. They are easy to catch. I was six years old at the time.
You are right. The only thing easier to catch than porgies is herpes.
And nobody wants to watch an hour of her sitting on the couch, ordering meat from the Schwan's catalog.
That's gold.
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