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Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Georgian Recipes: Chicken in Walnut Sauce or Chicken Satsivi
Melissa of The Traveler's Lunchbox posted a recipe for Georgian spinach pkhali last week and I got an immense craving for Georgian dishes again. I've been cooking quite a few of them for various reasons - there were some Georgian cooking classes I gave back in 2008 and 2009, there have been Georgian midweek feasts at our home, there are recipes to re-test and re-write for yet another cookbook project ;) But apparently while I've been cooking all those delicious Georgian dishes, I've failed to share the recipes with you, dear readers. I'll try to rectify that shortcoming a.s.a.p., starting as of today. To start with (and that is a 6th Georgian recipe @ Nami-Nami), I'll give you a recipe for a really lovely and unusual chicken dish.
Georgians love walnuts - they are one of the few people who use walnuts as a main ingredient in the kitchen, not just as a garnish here and there - and they do that pretty much on a daily basis. One of the most well-known and popular uses for walnuts is in satsivi sauce, which can be served with chicken, fish and vegetables (aubergine/eggplant satsivi is another very popular dish). There is no one recipe for satsivi - apparently there are at least 20 different versions - and that does not count the secret versions of all individual Georgian cooks! The name 'satsivi' comes from the Georgian word 'tsivi', meaning 'cold/cool' - and it illustrates the fact that a warm satsivi sauce is spooned over a cooked chicken and left to cool and marinate the chicken. Because of that, it's strictly a cold-weather dish. Nobody would pour hot sauce over cold chicken and leave it like that on a hot summer day - it's a health hazard. For hot summer days there are other chicken and walnut dishes (you'll find a recipe both for katmis bazhe and chkmeruli in Darra Goldstein's Georgian cookbook). If you're interested in the fish satsivi, look out for it in Claudia Roden's excellent book on Jewish cuisine.
Trust me - it's a lot easier to make than it sounds - and the end result is totally worth it!
Georgian Chicken in Walnut Sauce
(Kana-satsivi ehk Gruusia-pärane kana kreeka pähkli kastmes)
Serves six to eight
1 large free-range chicken
1 onion, peeled
2 bay leaves
some parsley stalks
about 1.5 litres of water
3 Tbsp sunflower oil
2 large onions, finely chopped
250 g walnuts
6 garlic cloves
1.5 tsp ground cinnamon
0.5 tsp ground cloves
1.5 tsp ground coriander seeds
2 tsp dried marigold leaves
1 tsp freshly ground black pepper
1 tsp paprika powder
0.5 to 1 tsp Cayenne'i pepper or chilli flakes
a pinch of dried savory
0.5 to 1 tsp salt
3 Tbsp white wine or cider vinegar
about 1 litre chicken stock
Heat the oven to 200 C/400 F.
Place the chicken into a saucepan, pour over enough water to cover. Bring into a boil, removing all the froth that appeares on the surface. Then add the peeled onion, bay leaves and some salt. Reduce heat and simmer on a low heat for about 30 minutes.
Remove the chicken from the saucepan and place onto a deep oven dish, "face down". Add half a cup of boiling liquid. Roast in the middle of a 200C/400F oven for about 20-30 minutes, until the chicken is cooked.
Remove the chicken from the oven and let it rest for about 10-15 minutes.
Then you've got two options. Traditionally the chicken is cut into about 8-10 pieces and these are arranged on a serving tray. I've served this dish to a larger group of people and then it's more convenient (for the eaters, that is) to remove the flesh from the bones and cut into large bite-sized pieces, like this:
While the chicken is cooking in the oven, you should
1) Reduce the chicken stock - you'll need about 1 litre
2) Prepare the satsivi-sauce:
Chop the walnuts and garlic cloves in the food processor - you'll want small crumbs, but not a powder!!
Heat oil on a heavy frying pan. Add the chopped onion and sauté for 7-8 minutes.
Add the walnut mixture and fry, stirring all the time, for 3-4 minutes.
Return it all to the food processor and process into a thick coarse paste.
Now - return it to the pan again and add all the seasoning (except wine vinegar):
Fry for a few minutes, stirring carefully. Now start adding the chicken stock, ladleful at the time (you may not need all the stock - it depends on the thickness of your walnut paste - I've used anything from 3 to 4 cups). Let the sauce simmer for about 20 minutes over a low heat, until it thickens.
Season with wine vinegar and again with some salt and pepper, if necessary.
Pour the satsivi sauce over the chicken pieces and let cool to room temperature. Serve at room temperature, garnish with pomegranate seeds or parsley or cilantro leaves.
11 comments:
- Rosa's Yummy Yums said...
That dish looks delicious!
- 1:54 pm, March 29, 2011
- ahmcguffin said...
Oh! Wow! That looks sooo good! I've made Georgian recipes and absolutely loved them but I had no idea how, um, authentic they were. Most of the recipes I have came from Anya von Bremzen's Russian cookbook, Daria Goldstein's Georgian cookbook is a recent acquisition of mine. I am so happy I baked chicken yesterday!
- 3:33 pm, March 29, 2011
- Lizna Liisu A. said...
Lovely photos! And a really unique dish, you have an awesome "Georgian collection"
Pille, a question - do you have any good 'Pilav' dishes? I'd love to see your versions.
Much love! Hope you and your family are alright.
- 3:53 pm, March 29, 2011
- Lizna Liisu A. said...
Also, I would like to share http://mediterraneanturkishfoodpassion.blogspot.com/ this blog with you, :) Maybe you already know it? But I hope you like and can recreate some of these dishes, don't know why, but I always prefer your versions, you make everything so simpler. :)
- 8:40 pm, March 29, 2011
- Aniitram said...
Viimane pilt on nii ilus :) Ja kana tundub loomulikult ka isuäratav- taaskord üks põnev retsept, mida kunagi proovima pean.
Pille, tõin oma blogis Sinu blogile tunnustuse ka ära. Sinu blogi on alati tore lugeda, retseptid on põnevad ja isuäratavad! Aitäh Sulle!
- 10:03 pm, March 29, 2011
Oh yum yum yum!!! Once again as I felt myself failing and lacking kitchen inspiration you have provided me with something new and exciting to cook that looks so tasty! Thank you X
- 1:23 am, March 30, 2011
- Michael said...
Chicken and Walnuts, what a unique combo. Looks delicious!
Thanks and Regards
blenders and food processors
- 1:24 am, March 31, 2011
- Marisa said...
I possess no framework for Georgian cuisine, but you've certainly piqued my interest with this recipe. That sauce looks divine!
- 5:16 pm, March 31, 2011
- melissa said...
Mmmm, satsivi - I'm drooling!
It's true that there are dozens of different variations - I had one in a Georgian restaurant in Berlin that had a sauce the consistency of whipping cream; it was completely smooth and very subtly spiced. I'll have to try your recipe for comparison purposes!
- 12:28 pm, April 07, 2011
Dear Pille,
I really enjoyed reading your fantastic blog.
I cannot wait to the Chicken in Walnut Sauce ob the weekend with my wife, I'm sure it will taste delicious.
In case you are not already part of InterNations you are of course invited to join - just let me know and I will send you an invitation.
I am looking forward to your response and would be happy to welcome you to our global expat community.
- 11:40 am, September 02, 2011
- Pille said...
Rosa, Ruby - cheers :)
Ahmcguffin - Darra Goldstein's book is pretty good, she's surely done her homework :)
Lizna - I've got some good plov recipes. In the autumn, perhaps?
Aniitram - suured tänud!
Marisa - it's surely a cuisine worth checking out if possible!
Melissa - oh, please do try this version. I'd be honoured ;)
Philip - hope your wife will enjoy the recipe! Re: expat community - I did live in Scotland for 7 years, but have now been back home for almost 5, so I don't qualify as an expat :(
- 5:05 pm, September 09, 2011


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Sofiati (for those not familiar with the term)Defined by Carl Gable in Murano Magic as:"Mouth blown glass with classic lines and delicate colors"
hello John - reminds me of someting equally delicate and 'impossibly thin' that I had the good fortune to find couple of years back..........although mine was marked, as you can see from the thread. Obviously, ignore any reference to the Stuart piece. Might Anita comment on whether my piece should also technically be described as 'Soffiati' glass. Here is the link to my bowl... http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,28600.0.html which unfortunately is now showing some slight suface cloudyness - although presumably it can be removed. Also, apologies for piggy backing onto your post.
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Thursday, June 17, 2010
Don Easton's "Portrait of a (Oil Industry) Capitalist"
Buried in the text-heavy copy of those ads are some undeniable truths that no one in those days could have imagined would come back to haunt us half a century later.
These statements were made with a different motive in mind, but if we had had the benefit of genuine forsight, perhaps we would have read a forbidding warning in what was meant to be a reassuring confirmation that we (all of us average hard working consumers) were "in the driver's seat."
It turns out all we need to do is look in the mirror to see the portrait of a capitalist. I'm not saying its a dirty word by the way (before all the Fox News watchers jump down my throat) I'm just saying that we are all culpable in disasters like the one unfolding in the Gulf. The oil economy transformed the world and raised the standard of living for untold millions of (mostly western) people. Its also caused untold suffering to millions and millions of people, plants and animals all over the world.
Unfortunately every silver lining has a dark cloud inside of it. And tar balls.
I'm as guilty as anybody so, seriously, I am not meaning to preach. I just thought it was sort of interesting when I stumbled across these ads in my collection and, by coincidence, we find ourselves immersed in the worst oil spill disaster in the history of civilization ( latest estimate, nine times worse than the Exxon Valdez and counting ) and I see all the fingers pointing blame at somebody else. Union Oil spelled it out half a century ago: "the people in this country determine [an oil company's] entire course of action... whether it shall expand its drilling operations or curtail them" ... with their "votes" at the cash register. For our purposes in modern times, that can be expanded to "the people of the world..." because let's face it, with automobile ownership and a rapidly expanding middle (consumer) class in Asia, we're really all in this together from here on in.
The question is, have we learned anything at all or will it be business as usual? And where do we go from here?
* Although I know nothing about illustrator Don Easton I have a gut feeling he was a West Coast illustrator ( and Union Oil was a California company so it makes sense ). Easton's ink line drawings are really lovely to look at close up so I have posted these scans 50% bigger than I usually do. Just click on any one to see the details of these many small spots in greater detail.
* My Industry Flickr set.
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Sadly I agree, as a culture we all bear responsibility for the events in the Gulf. It would be easy to blame this all on BP. But the truth is that their attitudes (chiefly: get the quick buck) are shared by many US and International companies. This started decades ago with the advent of CEOs coming in and cutting costs (often at the expense of labor, safety or research) to show a quarterly profit to shareholders. After a few good quarters, and outrageous compensation to the CEO they are off to "help" another publicly owned company. This idea of efficiency has spread to our public education system - productivity before ethics!
Sorry if this off topic, this is an (excellent) art blog - not a political rant fest.
Thanks for all the work you put into TI!
- Anonymous6:24 PM
Sadly there have been worse oil spills: http://www.flickr.com/photos/joug/4700592764/ReplyDelete
- Anonymous7:03 PM
interestingly, Standard Oil (now Chevron) mounted a similar campaign called See Your West - very nice photo giveaways (by folks like Ansel Adams) with every fill-up - a sort of continuation of Manifest DestinyReplyDelete
Oil companies have expertise in drilling for oil, but are not really experienced in stopping leaks or cleaning up spills. There are thirty thousand oil rigs pumping oil out of the ground twenty four seven in the gulf alone, and the percentage of accidents are extremely small. The vast majority of these operations have amazing records of NO oil spills or leaks, therefore they need experts that do have the experience of solving the problem.. but they were turned away by the Obama administration. Unfortunately, BP was not allowed to drill in shallower waters closer to the shore line, where they requested. Deep water drilling is much more risky in many respects. This massive leak has now become potent fodder for those in government and others that want to demonize the oil industry or any big corporation for that matter. The more people on this earth, the more chance of all kinds of accidents, regardless of safety measures or inspections. Solution: Oil.. no butter up your bicycles and avoid other products from oil, which are so numerous that we would be living in the "Dark Ages" without them. By the way, oil is technically a "green product", so I guess that makes oil companies "green companies". ;-)ReplyDelete
Since today's post was two fold, I agree with Leif that the pen and ink illos by Don Easton are very nice, and I think your right about having that "west coast look". But, Charlie Allen would know better than I. Don Easton sounds vaguely familiar, but don't recall him in the S.F. market from 1960 on.
Tom Watson
Thank you for the fascinating post. Those ads are great, and actually make you think. I wish we saw more campaigns like that today. (and Easton's wonderful inks don't hurt)ReplyDelete
Thanks to you all for your excellent comments! This issue really hit home for me the other morning, when a radio commentator I was listening to talked about how all pervasive petroleum products are in our modern life. Boiling it down, he said, "basically, if its not made of glass, metal or wood, its got petroleum in it." As an example he talked about how both shampoo and deodorant have oil in them and the containers are made of the stuff. That made me realize that everything, from the food I eat to the clothes I wear to the the furniture in my house to the tools of my profession (and of course every element of any mode of transportation in my life, including my running shoes!) are ALL dependent on the oil economy.ReplyDelete
Tom, I agree with you that gov't dropped the ball in this case, but I wouldn't point a finger directly at Obama. That's far to partisan and doesn't address the larger problem. The problem as I see it is way more pervasive in all aspects and levels of government and hinges on a lack of regulation and oversight. And even then, the buck has to stop with each and every one of us, because we elected the government and allowed the system to be run the way it is. Until we demand strict oversight, we'll keep having to live with the consequences of sloppiness, shortsightedness, and immediate gratification.
- Chad Sterling10:53 AM
The oil leak is a terrible problem, but the way Obama is going after one 'guilty party' is ridiculous.ReplyDelete
Glad you enjoyed your birthday, I bet they had to prise you out of there.You didnt manage to sneak out a few originals did you?
I like these drawings by Easton, they remind me a little of Charlie Allen as Tom said.
Thanks for the insightful and level headed comment Leif, and I understand your points. I agree with Chad's comment about Obama only blaming one source for the oil leak as being ridiculous. My disdain for Obama is his lack of leadership and politicizing every situation.. and now he's actually lying about it. Since I didn't vote for him, because I knew he had no experience or background that would indicate he would make a competent leader, I don't feel that I contributed to the administration's lack of any productive response to the oil leak. I agree we must have necessary regulations to protect people and the environment, which is the government's job, but not to the point that regulations are strangling, overly discouraging or causing productivity to become less safe. One of many example is that sand was rejected because the radical environmentalists claim that using sand to absorb the escaping oil is bad for the wildlife environment.. isn't the oil worse for the wildlife environment than sand? The government should not be in charge of the oil business, nor any other private enterprise, and the U.S. Constitution's wording indicates that the federal government should have LESS authority and our state governments should have more authority in regulation matters. Government should stop the bleeding before it starts playing the blame card. When you live in a glass house, it is best not to throw stones at others.. and in this case, I am speaking about congress grilling BP, even before an independent investigation is completed. The questions were not only premature, but were immature! But, why am I not surprised?ReplyDelete
Tom Watson
I'm sure there are as many examples of ineptitude in the Obama administration's handling of this crisis as there were in the Bush administration's handling of Katrina.ReplyDelete
Regarding regulation, no one wants one extreme or the other, Tom - most people - the vast majority, whether they lean left or right - want moderation that's beneficial to success and progress. Extremists on both sides inevitably derail real progress. Unfortunately those with vested interest in pushing an extremist agenda too often grab the media spotlight and seem to be speaking for the majority... when in fact they represent almost no one but themselves.
What I'm really trying to get across (and this was why I created this post in the first place) is that we arrived where we are today because we all willingly participated in the oil economy. That's why I find the language in the Union Oil ads so fascinating.
They said, "Hey folks, its your call. In this wonderful world of capitalist progress, you're our boss!" Back then no one seems to have had the foresight to imagine what a world we would create ... how dependent we would all become on the 'black gold'. What Union Oil's ads actually say is, "This is your fault - we're just giving you exactly what you want. We'll drill and drill and drill and screw this planet up so bad it'll become a lifeless hulk, so long as you vote at the pumps that we keep going."
Of course hindsight is 20/20. Today, as energy alternatives are being considered, at least we have enough contrarians stepping forward to say, "Wait a minute, before you put in a million billion windmills, have you any idea how that will affect the health of people who will live their lives near them? The birds that will migrate through those areas? the actual patterns of the weather?"
Just one example, but you get my point? If only there had been some voices raised to question the proliferation of petroleum in every aspect of life back in the '40s... perhaps we could have avoided some of the pitfalls that oil dependence lead to. Clearly an alternative is neccessary, because the oil economy, for all its transformative benefits, is also the cause of indescribable world-wide misery. Just saw some photos of the nightmare that is Nigeria, where they've had the equivalent of an Exxon Valdez spill every year for the last two decades, and nothing's been done. It will only get worse. And I mean in our own backyard. The degradation its going to cause to the planet in the next hundred years is almost incomprehensible... the easy-to-get-at oil is mostly gone. BP has proven that extraction technology hasn't kept pace with our thirst for the juice - and the thirst is growing around the world every year. We need enlightened leadership that will wean us off the oil teat.
Unfortunately it is the extremists on one side that are calling the shots now, because they have a powerful political voice and influence over theReplyDelete
Obama administration.
There is still untapped oil in North Dakota, the Rockies and in Canada that could be drilled relatively safe to humans and the environment, providing the majority of oil to north America for hundreds of years to come. It's on the drawing board, but will probably be delayed and possibly derailed at every level of approval.
Leif, you seem to be in line with Obama's demonization of big oil companies and the "evil" capitalist market, when you interpreted the Union Oil ads. I think they were telling the public that they understood their needs and desires, and were dedicated to provide the material for their products and transportation. Maybe that's a foreign concept for some, but it's a concept that I understand well.. and I don't think they "raped" the resources and then blamed John Q. public for it in their ads. That is a subjective interpretation that supports disdain by those that want to blame capitalism for the world's woes.
From the kid that sells lemonade on the corner for spending money, to oil tycoons that provide products for a huge mass market, it's the human spirit that motivates all of us.. well most of us.. to advance our life style. The oil companies knew that 50 or 60 years ago, and they know that now. We can rationalize every thing we do from eating fast food to a day at the zoo, and tell ourselves we are contributing to a dark future for man kind and our earth. Call me selfish, but I remain optimistic that we have the brain power to solve problems we as a society create, just as we have so many times in the past. But, it could be done a lot more effectively if we can get the damn politicians out of the way. If we don't have that capability, then our hand wringing, whining and ranting will be ultimately an exercise in futility. It will be dedicated people that will ultimately solve the oil leak, clean it up and try to avoid future disasters, not the phony politicians that don't have a clue.
Blowing an event out of proportion only creates distortion panic and confusion, at a time when we need calm level heads finding fair minded logical solutions to this problem and future problems.
Tom Watson
Tom, you definitely are too optimistic. America has been claiming to have the power to lose their dependency on oil since the 1970s, and yet they haven't.ReplyDelete
Lampshade, that probably started with former President Jimmy Carter, who pushed that agenda along with the growing popularity of the environmentalist movement. But, imagine the U.S. using very little oil, and the dictator run countries dominating the world's oil supply. Can you guarantee that wouldn't happen? We would no longer be able to defend ourselves adequately. It would absolutely NOT be in our best interest, nor the world's best interest to have brutal despots of the world dominating and running most of the oil production supply.ReplyDelete
If it isn't oil it will be the forest or something else that radical environmentalists will try and make us feel guilty about. Incidentally, I have nothing against environmentalists, my wife is an environmentalist, but not a radical one. We are dependent on lumber to build homes, but we haven't cut all the forests down, nor will we. My brother in law is a CDF supervisor of timber sales, and I get honest accurate information from him, not the environmental extremist version.
My optimism is not that we become idealistic and live in a Utopian land, but that we will always adjust and readjust to our challenges, and solve problems in an effective manner that does not leave us weak and vulnerable. But, that also will depend considerably on those that are in charge, and I admit my optimism is very questionable right now.
Hollywood loves to portray the American culture in an over the top very exaggerated way, because it plays on our emotions and miss directed guilt of many who watch movies. Unfortunately some people think it's all true, and they look for evil where Hollywood says it is. What's worse is that people in third world countries see America through Hollywood's often twisted over the top portrayal, and think Americans are heartless, cruel, gun slinging, pathological maniacs preying on the innocent or anyone that disagrees with us. Amazingly, some Americans actually believe it as well.
It's a complex issue with many different conflicting interests, and it will always be a work in progress, in my opinion.
Tom Watson
Interesting discussion. Nice art!ReplyDelete
The blame for the BP disaster goes back to about 1900 in my estimation. And, if you think about it, there is nobody alive who started us on the road to global prosperity and the environmental quandry that accompanies the use of oil as the lifeblood of civilization. History is gone and dead and you can't drag dead people to court.
Same as Katrina, where the poor quality of the water walls was known for most of the 20th century, and nothing was done.
That Union Oil "portrait of a capitalist" ad is classic bad faith advertising, exploiting some perception, exaggerating it, pretend they're the cure.
As a fellow who is in and out of the ad world myself, I have a particular bone to pick with the ad... where it says, "34,114 American people own stock... the average stockholder owns just 137 shares."
Okay... the "average" stockholder doesn't exist. All they did was divide the amount of shares by the number of owners, and came up with 137. They try to hedge this in the next line "some own more and some own less..." Uh huh... Some might own 1 share, some other fat cat might own 51% of the stock and rule the roost. They don't say. So what we have here is a classic half-truth used to exploit the preference of the little guy to buy with other "little guys" who aren't actually little.
Same ol' same ol in the ad world.
I remember watching BP commercials out the wazoo just before the spill about how "green" BP was... kids and attractive young women running in green fields with daisies... pure exploitation of the "green youth" market, and, of course, in some measure BP's interest in going green is true.... which is to say, in most measure it is and was phoney baloney.
I'm more impressed with Exxon investing in Craig Venter's ideas for manipulating algae.
Yeah, I'm afraid I'm with Kev, Tom. Yes, I may be demonizing Big Oil in my interpretation of the Union Oil ad, but please don't presume to align me with the Obama administration. I started my reply to you by stating I was sure their ineptitude had contributed mightily to this mess. As far as I'm concerned, both government and corporate culture deserves to be demonized. I'm an equal opportunity demonizer! ;^)ReplyDelete
And what's with this "radical environmentalist" moniker? Aren't you painting environmentalists with a broad, demonizing brush when you throw those kinds of talk-radio terms around?
Can you at least demonstrate for me an example of a "radical capitalist" by comparison so I know you're not completely biased on the side of industry and free market capitalism? Or do you actually believe corporations aren't motivated by greed and self-preservation and will gladly steamroll anyone and anything that gets in the way of their bottom line?
- Rich1:29 PM
Indeed, quite an interesting discussion following Leif's original post. Out of it I would like to repeat the following comparison between mid-1940s and today:ReplyDelete
"Union Oil spelled it out half a century ago: "the people in this country determine (an oil company's) entire course of action in whether it shall expand its drilling operations or curtail them...with their "votes" on the cash register.
Leif then expands the whole thing saying: "For our purposes in modern times, that can be expanded to "the people of the world"...
The vast implication of this struck me as a fact pertaining to the present globalization issue. There hardly was any global thinking in the mid-1940s. National thinking prevailed; and that billions of Indians and Chinese and other peoples of threshold countries should one day come to adopt something like an "American way of life", would have been a far cry then. Just taking everything "for granted" won't work any more nowadays. All this incredible waste of resources may be quite feasible in a national context, but no more in a global one.
Just too many "votes" nowadays at the cash register worldwide...
Hmm, more negative subjective conjecture over a couple of mid century oil company ads. I guess conjuring up the notion that advertising agency copywriters were plotting to fool the dumb public into buying oil stock, more gasoline and God knows what else, fits the cynical mindset that there were and still are boogie men in the closet and a conspiracy behind every closed door. Sorry, I just don't buy it! Kev, we also can't drag the dead into court to defend themselves, which makes them convenient targets for the cynics and those that profit from negativism.. primarily the Unions, the media and certain politicians.ReplyDelete
Leif, I am not suggesting the U.S. government, big corporations, capitalism or any other institution including the Christian community, are always innocent of any wrong doing. I've been around too long to deny that. Mistakes, bad decisions and corruption are not going to disappear because we rant, point fingers and declare exposure to diabolical schemes, or any other outrage we can muster. Are we as individuals so sanctimonious and perfect in our personal daily lives that we gleefully condemn everything we suspect as being guilty of not fitting our idealistic view? In this case, we are looking through today's prism at a past era that had different extenuating circumstances that most are unaware of. For some, it is popular to condemn or be derisive towards those things that were considered worthy or sacred in the past, such as Christianity, Patriotism, Capitalism, Strong Work Ethic, Prosperity, etc. That has become today's prism that some are looking through at the past. It doesn't take wisdom or insight to be critical.
Leif, my opinions and comments do not come from talk radio, but from my knowledge and experiencing as an adult, almost six and a half decades of American history. It doesn't make my opinions necessarily more valid, it just gives me a different perspective. Although we agree on illustration the majority of the time, it is no mystery that typically my point of view is conservative and typically yours is not. But, it might be boring for both of us if we agreed on everything all the time. ;-)
Free market Capitalism is a complex issue with many different conflicting interests, and it will always be a work in progress, in my opinion. Even Canada is one of the founders and still benefiting from the Free Trade Agreement.
Tom Watson
huh? What conspiracy? What cynicism? What do I profit from writing this comment? I honestly don't know what you're talking about, my friend.
The aspect of the ad I pointed out is self-evidently an effort to cook the numbers to appeal to a certain demographic. I've written copy for advertising clients and agencies. I know the reality of trying to sell, hype, and hawk to a particular demographic. To speak euphamistically, one "pulls out all the stops" until the client is satisfied. If you aren't cynical about advertising copy, you haven't been around as much as your years might suggest.
And, furthermore, I have attended enough meetings in the advertising world to have seen many different kinds of "boogie" men first hand. Your rhetoric doesn't change my experience.
This is not to say I'm either anti-business, anti-corporate, or anti-entrepreneurial. I'm for all 3 of those things, but I know the difficulties of getting through in the marketplace. The elbows fly all day long because they must.
Kev, thanks for your response and your insight. I'm sorry your experience writing copy was on the ruthless side, and as you described, to "pull out all of the stops". Although you didn't use the words lie or distort the truth, etc., I got the impression that the agencies you did work for came dangerously close to being dishonest or perhaps were dishonest.ReplyDelete
I too wrote a little advertising copy and worked with copy writers on major oil company accounts and other accounts as well, in the 70s' and 80s'. Young & Rubicam, J. Walter Thompson, Doyle Dane Bernbach, Hal Riney and Partners and McCann-Erickson were a few agencies I worked on campaignes with. I was fortunate enough not to have that experience with developing headlines, copy, nor was I ever instructed to embellish or distort the truth. In fact every bit of copy had to be read and analyzed for accuracy and honesty by the corporate attorneys. On occasions, if it was doubtful, we were told to take out some wording or rewrite it, because it was a claim that could not be supported with fact. I'm not saying your scenario never happened in advertising. I'm saying that I personally did not work with anyone or any agency that tried to "cook the copy". Law suits were a big concern for both the client and the agency, so my experience was that they were extra careful about what they could and couldn't say. The attorneys had the final say, and if there was any doubt or concern, they would reject it, without hesitation. As Vice President, Creative Director for a medium size west coast agency, one of our accounts was Chevron, and it was the same scenario.
As to your comments about slanting the numbers and shares of stock for each shareholder, stocks were and are bought in large blocks as well as individuals buying individual shares. The large blocks are made up of a collection of individuals like you and I. I don't think large oil companies have one "fat cat" individual who owns the majority shares of stock. There are many ways of investing in stock and many organizations and institutions that collectively invest in large corporations to the advantage of both the investor and the corporation. The bank invests the money we deposit as a way of generating income.
Some of my friends and I were able to retire before age 65 through our individual investment plans. My retirement income is primarily the interest only on my investments, and never depleting the principal. After I retired, I converted from higher risk to low risk, high yielding stocks, money market and mutual funds. It is the large corporations that provides that opportunity to increase our savings. Like any of life's endeavors, there are always risks, but research and watching where your investments are going, will minimize that. If the corporations I invested in didn't make substantial profits, I would have a financial problem. If they decide to pay their CEO big bucks because he made a big profit for the corporation that year, I don't have a problem with that. Gleefully by some, the whole institution is being slammed and demonized because of some corrupt individuals that screwed their clients out of their investments. That is always a risk, and I feel badly for those that lost their investments, but no one pointed a gun to their head and said give me your money. "Buyer be ware" applies to everything.
Kev, my point is that most of the comments have all focused on negative interpretation and conjecture, of the Union Oil ads, probably somewhat fostered by the BP leak, which is still under investigation. However, in my opinion the positives out weigh the negatives in the oil company issue, and in Capitalism as well.
Tom Watson
Thank you for the response, Tom.ReplyDelete
Actually, I don't think we are all that far apart in our world views. I still believe capitalism is the worst system in the world except for all the other ones, as Churchill once said. Our differences, however, may stem from the fact that we are copywriters working in different times.
My use of the word "fatcat" was rhetoric, an exaggeration to make a point about the possibilities left open by the vagueness of the copy.
My point was that the ad implied something (the stock is distributed essentially equally among many) it did not state. And it could not state what it implied for the exact reason that ads must have some degree of truth to them in order to prevent lawsuits. If the equality of shareholding was a reality, you can bet there would have been no implication about it. They would have stated the facts plain.
Instead we have "of course, some own more and some own less."
Meditate on the precision elision of that line. It could not have been written as an afterthought, given that the entire sweep of the ad hinges on the point the line addresses.
Color me cynical, but I think that line was crafted as it is solely to equivocate the only statement the ad was designed to make.
The copywriter's assignment -- and you must know this, given your experience -- is often to tell the truth in a way that puts the company and its product in the best light. That is, in the light that will appeal most to the target demo. The truth is sculpted to this end.
It isn't lying. Nor is it exactly telling it straight.
I have never been asked to lie straight out with copy... except, that is, by clients at the low end of the spectrum who tend to be more desperate for sales and market share. Quite often these kinds of clients don't realize that what they have asked me to write is untruthful... either because they think that advertising is innately dishonest and that's just the way the game is played, or they actually believe something about their product that isn't true, either because of magical thinking or an inability to understand any kind of technical analysis.
Just so we are clear... Most of the copywriting I've done for major agencies and corporations tends to avoid anything to do with facts about the products. Its all about emotions, values, and tone. When facts are involved, my basic assignment tends to be simply translating legalese into English from a corporate lawyer's notes. (Or reconfiguring legalese previously translated so it fits the greeking on a new piece.)
- C. Easton7:23 PM
I'm Don Easton's granddaughter.. He died in the late 1950's.. IN his late 50's. He indeed was a California artist, active from the early 20th century up until his untimely death, doing many ads, oils, pen & ink, pastels and watercolor.. his family is thrilled you included his work in your piece. I never knew him...having been born after he passed...so many of his works are not known to me. THANK YOU!ReplyDelete


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At the WSJ's D conference, Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer sit down for a lengthy chat that's part interview, part argument and part product demo. The news: No news, says Ballmer: He acknowledges what Microsoft (MSFT) has already disclosed -- that's talking to Yahoo (YHOO) about possible tie-ups. But he insists that he's not in the market for the entire company:
"We are not rebidding for the company. We reserve the right to do so. But that's not on the docket."
Then again, Ballmer repeatedly says that the MSFT/YHOO talks broke down because of price and price alone. So based on that logic, if Jerry and company (or his advisors/handlers/investors) come back with an acceptable offer, is he a buyer again?
The rest of the chat's highlights include a pretty interesting walk through memory lane, where Bill and Steve discuss their time at Harvard, and early days at the company. They spent quite a bit of time talking about Bill's reluctance to take any risks with his company's money, which seems to have implications for the Yahoo deal. It was also interesting to see just how much Apple, popular adulation of the company, have gotten under MSFTs skin.
Less interesting: The Windows 7 demo, which revolved around bringing multitouch technology to the OS. Look for this in late 2009. Or if you can't wait that long, go play with an iPhone.
Transcript follows: Apologies for the long run-up. We promise to skip the intros for future D chats over the next couple days.
We're about to watch Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer show off Windows 7 at the D6 conference; we're also hoping that Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg are able to eke out some non-product news out of the duo -- as in, what's going on with Yahoo?
While we're waiting, we can tell you about Bill Gates' summer vacation plans: He and the family are taking a 10-week vacation in Europe this summer (the Euro-dollar exchange hasn't disuaded him), splitting up their time in two different locations. Where are they staying? He wouldn't tell the press scrum that formed around him at the D6 cocktail hour, and we can't begrudge him that. We must say that we found him remarkably even-tempered about fielding questions from the likes of us, given that no one could hear a thing in that room.
Warming up now: Dow Jones CEO Les Hinton is introing the conference, to the strains of REO Speedwagon. Praises Walt and Kara. Acknowledges that Dow Jones now has a new boss, who will be speaking at D tomorrow. Now Kara and Walt, who walk on to "Gimmee Some Lovin". They praise the attendees for showing up.
Now time to show off some gadgety goodies on stage. There's some kind of Close Encounters light show in the back. Kara describes it as a "gay bar circa 1978". Now she's stumping for gay marriage. Winding up slowly to the event at hand with a video preview. Actually, we've seen this before, it's the "Bill's last day" video shown off at CES this year. This is supposedly the "director's cut" - we'll embed the old one below. We think the extensive Matthew McConaughey part is new. New pact with our readers: We'll save you the pla- by-play until Bill and Steve show up onstage.
Here they are, ushered on by "Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner". Getting in the way-back machine to talk about Bill and Steve's Harvard days. Bill didn't spend much time in class, because he didn't like it, and Steve was too busy to go to many classes.
Basically we're watching the tech equivalent of "The Actors Studio", except instead of one bald interviewer, there's one bald interviewer, and Kara. If there's news here, it's going to come later on.
Steve recounts Bill's recruiting call to him when he was getting his Stanford MBA -- Bill says that it's too bad Steve doesn't have a twin brother to go to work at Microsoft, then hangs up. Steve eventually gets the hint, and leaves after a year of B school. Upon getting there, Steve figures out company's problem: "I did no business analysis. Every customer said their stuff was late. And every employee said they were always working" so he figures out they need to hire more people. But Bill didn't want to expand beyond his bare bones staff. Steve quoting Bill: "I didn't ask you to leave business school to bankrupt us!"
Bill proud of his fiscal conservancy, an approach he says the company has kept for three decades: "We're one of the few companies this day that keeps enough cash on hand that even if our customers didn't pay, it wouldn't be a problem." Steve grudgingly acknowledges that this approach is smart: They take no financial risk, to this day.
Walt passes on conventional wisdom: Bill is tech guy, Ballmer is sales guy. True? Not really, says Bill: There's strategy, and both of them have been intimately involved in that. Also, Steve did tech, even though "I'm not an engineer! I've have never written a line of production software" - he ran the Windows 1.0 team. Steve on Bill: "As good a salesman as the company will ever have."
Walt: The two were close partners, and then Bill becomes world-famous and Steve isn't. Didn't that bother him? Steve: "No, not a bit" Steve's fame benefited the company. And Bill clearly the senior partner, "so it never had been a big deal to me at all." What about realtionship now? Bill: "We had 8 years where Steve was handling bottom line, all the decisions," and that was great. "I am the junior partner. I have been for the past 8 years."
Steve: That transition took about a year to figure out. Bill's transition out of the company will be easier, though. Bill will spend about one day a week there. "We'll figure out the projects that Steve wants me to work on". But still, Bill is chairman, largest shareholder. Doesn't Steve want to consult with him? "Never. I'll consult with my friend Bill Gates...I look at it that way, instead of the formal, oh, Bill's chairman of the board." Just about to get to present tense questions now....
OK. Please tell us about Yahoo. What's going on?
Steve: "We made a bid for Yahoo. That bid was out for about 3 months. it became clear that there was a difference between the bid and ask...we have quite a thing about financial discipline. We are talking to them about some other things...We are not rebidding for the company, we reserve the right to do so, but that's not on the docket."
Wheeling out a whiteboard so that Steve can explain his thinking re: Yahoo. You'll want to see the video for this. "It's a scale business. To accelerate scale, it made sense for us to look at the Yahoo acquisition. I still think it's a scale business" but we'll have to get there in different ways." Mentions Facebook relationship...
"Ongoing discussions" with Yahoo about a relationship. "If nobody else gets scale except for the current leader... " you'll have one guy telling you what to sell your ads for. Kara: "Like a monopoly." Big laughs. But yeah, Steve says, that's right.
Bill, what do you think, in detail. "Yeah, I thought it was good."
Bill, what do you need to do in addition to scale? Search important. Shouldn't just think about search in the way you think about it today, when you just get a bunch of links. Debate about whether MSFT search share has dropped. Steve: "We need innovation both at the search level, and at the ad platform level"...Walt: Is "cashback" innovation? Is it just a gimmick? Steve: "It's a business innovation."
Steve describes Microsoft's online advertising/search plan: Bascially, spending money and resources and being relentless. He hits his hand repeatedly to make his point. He is getting a bit worked up here. "People think that in our business great things happen overnight. They don't happen overnight." They require patience and being tenacious.
Now on to OS. Steve: "With 20/20 hindsight, would we have done things differently? Sure." But says Vista a success, not a failure. "Application compatibility, did we do it exactly right?" Well, not exactly. But it was a tradeoff for security. Bill: "We need to do better" but we say that about all of our products. "There are a lot of things that very successful about Vista."
Steve: Windows 7 demo, likely to ship, "within three years of general availability of Windows Vista", late 2009. Showing off some multitouch capabilities, a la "surface" products Microsoft has been showing off (or the iPhone). Basically, if you've played with the "big ass table" that Microsoft has shown off, you've got a sense of what's coming. Will require new hardware investment for most consumers: Need both multitouch screen and a digitzer.
Kara: What's the point? They show off some practical applications: "Concierge app" adds bells, whistles to maps. It's an example of an app that could be written, not a Windows 7 feature. Walt: Can I do things on screen that I could do with a mouse? Sure. Kara notes iPhone-like similarities.
So Bill, what does multitouch "mean" for future of computing? Is this the way people will use computers going forward? Bill: Today almost all interactions with PC are keyboard, mouse. But going forward, speech, vision, ink - all of those will become huge.
Walt: I assume Apple has one more turn at OS before you get this out the door. What if they do this? They already have multitouch consumer product on market (iPhone). "Is there a risk that the work you're doing here will look like they got there first?" Steve: Windows 7 PCs will look fantastic!
Kara talks about Steve Jobs' ability to turn around excellent products quickly, by snapping his fingers. Ballmer gets testy, notes that Apple only coming out with a handful of products, while MSFT works with hundreds of applications. "Our partners will sell 290 million PCs; Apple will sell 10 million PCs". But Walt won't let him skate, arguing that old Windows machines started up faster than new Vista machines.
Steve: "If what you're trying to do is really have a the variety that people on the planet want, our model works very well. And we're trying to improve it."
How do you feel about the Mac/PC ads. Bill: "People are pretty rationale about buying machines, beyond ads, in terms of picking what works well for them". This is getting reasonably heated, because Walt continues to needle him about Vista, and Apple. Bill: "You're kind of repeating yourself."
Reader Q: "Do you feel that unsuccessful pursuit of Yahoo has tarnished image" Steve: "No".
Walt Q: According to one research report: RIM is number one in smartphones, picking up share. Apple in second. You're in third. Does that worry you? No, says Steve: Because actually we're selling more smartphones than anybody but Nokia. Steve and Walt having a debate about categories, and descriptions.
What about Google phone? "Google comes late, and with no experience, so we'll see." What about advertising? "Nobody knows what the model is, so we'll see."
Audience Qs: Opportunity for advertising in MSFT core products? Neither Steve or Bill very interested in it, Steve is fairly dismissive. Bill less dismissive, but describes MSFT's caution about pushing advertising into core productivity tools.
MSFT seems kind of me-too lately. So what's your new "big hairy audacious goal"? Bill describes "questions" - basically, what will the future look like in various incarnations? And we're really being ambitious about that.
More details on MSFT/YHOO. How frustrated where they after talks broke down? Bill: "I've been totally supportive of everything that Steve has done." Steve: "I'm not frustrated at all... the fact that we couldn't agree on some of the issues - we couldn't agree on price, basically" doesn't mean that we're upset with them.
Slide's Max Levchin (wearing Slide t-shirt) wants to know what they think of apps, basically. And apps in the cloud, undermining MSFT core biz: Steve - there's going to be compromise between what browser can do, which is limited, and the flexibility of what the cloud offers. (Implicit here: MSFT core biz isn't going away). Bill: Not a big Facebook app user.
Esther Dyson question: Why not make for-profit healthcare your next big hairy goal? Steve: We are working on healthcare, via software. "It's a big deal for us". But our involvement begins and ends with software.
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- Champions League
Messi eases fears after injury scare
Lionel Messi says the knee injury picked up against Benfica on Wednesday night is not as serious as first feared, and he could be back in action for Sunday night's La Liga game at Real Betis.
Messi was stretchered off following a challenge with Benfica goalkeeper Artur during the 0-0 Champions League draw at the Camp Nou, with tests carried out immediately after the game discovering bruising on the outside of his left knee.
Concerns among Blaugrana fans - and hopes among Real Madrid supporters - that the Argentine might face some weeks on the sidelines were eased on Thursday morning as he worked out in the gym at Barca's Ciutat Esportiva.
He was then also able to attend a post-training commercial event as scheduled, where he told the assembled reporters he had feared a more serious injury as he was leaving the pitch.
"I feel fine, luckily it was only a bang," Messi said. "At the time I thought the worst because of the pain. When they examined me and discarded the idea of a serious injury, I was calmer."
Messi, a substitute in the game, said the collision with Artur had been painful, but he had still tried to complete the move and score.
"I thought it would be the last ball I would touch for a long time," he said. "Despite the pain I tried to play on and hit (the ball)."
Barca fans need not worry should he not make it back in time for Sunday's game at the Estadio Benito Villamarin and miss a first game through injury since sitting out two matches in September 2010 with an ankle knock, Messi said.
"I do not know if I will be there on Sunday, it depends on how it improves," he said. "The team will go on the same with or without me. We have plenty of other players."
Messi dismissed a suggestion that, with Barca already sure to top the group, he had only played to try and score the two goals he needs to pass Gerd Muller's calendar-year record total of 85.
"When we go out on the pitch we always have the risk that something might happen," he said. "Muller's record is not an obsession for me. It would be nice to break it, because the record has been there for many years. If it happens then good, but there is no problem if not."
There was other good fitness news for Barca with Andres Iniesta and Jordi Alba returning to normal training with the group after minor niggles earlier in the week, and Alexis Sanchez, Marc Bartra and Dani Alves all stepping up their recoveries from injuries which have seen them miss recent games.
Barca's players have Friday off, but are back at the Camp Nou on Saturday morning, when Messi's knee will be evaluated and a decision taken on whether he travels with the squad to Sevilla on Sunday.


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All the plot lines have been plotted, all the colors named, all the emotions emoted. It's been said everything worth doing has been done before. All we are left with are variations of themes long since discovered.
Even sitting here writing this very column, agonizing about creating an undiscovered string of sentences, an idea even, I'm sure some poor sap has already done it, probably hundreds of years ago, chiseling it into some rock in the Netherlands. In fact, I bet that same guy was lamenting that even his thoughts weren't original but simply a rehash scribbled in sloth poo on the walls of some dank cave.
It makes me want to scream. Or at least put together a few random words just to say I've created something original, something like "titanium retinal mitosis" or "interstellar manifold injection." I'm betting those words have never been in such close proximity. They probably have though.
It's been said that those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat it. In regards to automotive design, that's both a blessing and a curse.
I've got to wonder if car designers agonize over the same thing. They must, it's part of the creative process. Design a vehicle (which, by the way, has already been done) truly unique. I'm not talking about the crazy futuristic cartoons we get from design students (some of which are very cool) but a car that has actual merit.
Which brings me to the Mercedes SLS.
The gull-wing door thing and all, you guys did that already. Did you get a deal on Lambo doors or something or is the idea well sucked dry? That the SLS is a fine performance vehicle is without question. The gull-wing door thing though, that tune played out in the 1950s (it wasn't that good of a design solution anyway). How about moving on and building something really original?
In truth, I like the way the SLS looks. It's got just the right amount of retro to make it look like a fully modernized 40-year-old 300 SL. I wonder if any of the MBZ designers thought about that. They were tasked with recreating a classic. What about designing a modern classic, a car we can appreciate 50 years from now? And who knows, maybe someone will be tasked with recreating it.
I refuse to accept that our creative consciousness has hit a wall. I guess the trick is trying to break through it and see the other side. In the meantime, I will continue the bang my head against said wall and try to create something truly unique, something like:
Transgenic vehicular induction. Try looking that up on Google.
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3 Easy Steps to Design a Website for the Boomer Generation:
Designing Sites for Baby Boomers
It's the market that still seems to be eluding the online marketing world: Boomers. In the last two years, several sites have popped up to court this generation. And, yet, they still can't find a way to form a real boomer community with them, even though there are, according to the 2000 Census, over 79 million. Sure, many companies are investing heavily into tapping this market, but online, I believe that many still consider this to be a niche group not worth catering to.
Three Boomer Sites Not Up Snuff:
eMarketer predicts that by 2011, over 83% of the Baby Boomer population will be online and active. Logically, and naturally, these folks are going to want a place to congregate. And, whomever can find the right model and design, will own the market. As you can see from the chart, all three sites are below half a million monthly users. So where are they all going?
How To Design a Dynamite Baby Boomer Site:
Just a few quick tips on how to design a site that Boomers may actually want to visit
1. Color Choice is Key:
Studies have shown, and science has proved, that the color blue is actually the hardest color on the eye on the as we age. Moreover, you have think about the psychological implications of the palette you choose, what group of colors best represents that generation. Blue, while being a very gender-neutral color and representing trustworthiness, also represents sadness and the ambient. Physiologically, blue calms and sedates.
Colour perception and sensitivity; less violet light is registered, making it easier to see red and yellows than blues and greens and often making darker blues and black indistinguishable.
If you look at three sites listed above, blue dominates the palette. Seems this would be the color to stay away from, right? These sites aren't banks or financial entities in any sense, so why use blue? What kind of trustworthiness do they have to build, visitor loyalty? Why "calm and sedate" your visitors, seriously?
2. Large, In-Your-Face Text
Not only does body deterioration come with age, but so does eye deterioration. To be honest, I like sites with text bigger than 10 point font, considering I live at the keyboard 60+ hours a week. If your users have to struggle to read the site, then you can bet 99 out 100 times, they're gone, especially a demographic that has poor eyesight to begin with.
I would stick with no less than a 12 pt. font, possibly in Arial or Tahoma.
3. The Site has to be About Boomers
Of course all three sites are "about" Boomers, but are presented in such a way as if they are selling something to them, rather than a place to commune. I believe the website will have to serve the ego of the Baby Boomer generation, not merely have a name and outer shell that identifies with them.
If you're following, then the solution to designing the Boomer site is to create a robust social networking site. All they'll want to do is talk about themselves: photo-sharing, video sharing, blogging, discussions, etc. (after all it's what they've done best the past 50+ years) It doesn't need to be as globally-integrated to other sites, they won't use it. They key is to have very easy to use functionality: pick and post. Remember the K.I.S.S. Rule: Keep It Simple Stupid.
No website is going to take over for Ebay or Amazon to serve their commerce needs to buy goods. No website like this going to serve as the "News" station replacement over their local newspaper sites and national news sites. They don't even want to connect with one another; they just want to talk out loud to everyone else.
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First Snow for Ohio, Pa., NY and W.Va. This Week
October 21, 2013; 6:41 AM
Waves of cold air and moisture will bring the first snowflakes and snowfall of the season this week to the Great Lakes and central and northern Appalachians.
Meteorologist Dan DePodwin described the upcoming pattern as "a reminder that winter is on the way."
Mixed rain and snow and heavier snow showers can occur on multiple days this week.
@The614GWF tweeted: "@breakingweather: Waves of cold air will bring the first snowflakes of the season to OH, PA, WV & NY next week: http://ow.ly/pXgLV " YAY"
States that are likely to catch their first glimpse of the white stuff this season include northeastern Illinois, northwestern Indiana, the western and northern Lower Peninsula of Michigan, northeastern Ohio, western and northern Pennsylvania, western Maryland, the West Virginia mountains, western and northern New York, the mountains of Vermont, northern New Hampshire and northwestern Maine.
AccuWeather.com meteorologists will also be monitoring the possibility for a potent storm system to shift that snow zone closer to the Ohio River and over more of the New England mountains.
Significant snow shower activity is not likely to reach the I-95 corridor. However, colder air will work its way to the coast in stages. After highs in the 60s Monday, temperatures will trend downward through the 50s later in the week.
AccuWeather.com Winter Weather Center
When Will Cold Reach New York to Philly, DC?
Last Gasp for the Atlantic Hurricane Season
Accumulating snow is most likely over the higher elevations of the Appalachians, parts of Michigan and northwestern Indiana, where a few inches are possible. Slow travel is possible over the highest elevations, especially along secondary roads with temperatures dipping into the 30s at times by day and the 20s at night.
It is possible that lawns and elevated surfaces in some valley and lower elevation spots get a light coating of snow.
Nearest to the shores of Great Lakes, warm waters make keep the air a bit too warm for all snow and perhaps any accumulation.
The snow for the lower Great Lakes and Appalachians follows the first snowflakes of the season for the Upper Midwest this weekend.
The first snow showers of the season will also fall over a large part of central and southern Ontario and western and southern Quebec this week.


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Hi all!
I'm on vacation from all things this week including the internets (mostly)…but I wanted to take a moment for my annual Thanksgiving Feastitutde Preparedness post.
Last year…on this very day…I was having surgery. Trust that I am very thankful for a fantabulous recovery and the help and love of family and friends.
This year I'm heading to Kentucky to visit my Blog Father, Brother Rob Thurman, at his farm (hooray)!
I'm not cooking the feast solo this time…just my Corn Casserole Yumminess…but I'll also need my copy of Ordinary People (a Thanksgiving tradition and yes, I know that's kind of creepy but fuck it I never claimed that my ass isn't bent) and lots and lots of vodka followed by cran.
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One of my besties and fellow blogger, Amy Black, has been requesting a curry recipe on LLB. Since her wish is my command, I introduce to you Curry Fried Quinoa.
I decided to take traditional fried rice and simply swap the white rice with organic quinoa for a healthier dish that is vegetarian, yet still packed with protein.
I then added curry and chili powder to give the dish a little extra kick!
- 1 cup uncooked quinoa
- 2 cups water
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 1 green bell pepper (diced)
- 1 red onion (diced)
- 1 tbsp ginger (minced)
- 4 cloves garlic (minced)
- ½ cup frozen peas
- 1 tsp chili powder
- 1/2 tsp red pepper flakes
- 2 tbsp curry powder
- 2 tbsp soy sauce (not pictured)
- 2 eggs (whisked)
- 2 tbsp green onions (diced)
Begin by preparing the quinoa. Boil two cups of water, then add one cup of quinoa and cover. Remove from heat and set to the side.
Next, heat olive oil in a wok or large skillet over medium heat. Sauté the bell peppers, onions, garlic and ginger for 5-7 minutes then add the peas.
Mix together and cook for 2-3 minutes then add the curry powder, chili powder, red pepper flakes and soy sauce.
In a separate skillet scramble the whisked egg. Add the scrambled egg and cooked quinoa to the vegetable mixture.
Top with diced green onions and serve.
This is the perfect dish to throw together on a weeknight, quick, simple and delicious!
Shrimp or chicken would both be great additions to this dish!
♣ Vegetarian Option: This recipe is vegetarian.
♦ Gluten Free Option: When gluten-free soy sauce is used, this recipe is gluten-free.


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A Group Outing with the Sound Tigers guarantees your friends, family, co-workers, clients, or team an unforgettable experience filled with fast-paced AHL Hockey action, great music, promotions, contests, and prizes, all an affordable price.
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By Chris Kral
NFL team training camps have opened and the preseason is right around the corner.
All week, our favorite players have been getting back in action and showing off their skills. In addition to showing off on the field, one player decided to show off upon arrival at training camp.
Indianapolis Colts wide receiver Reggie Wayne has earned a reputation for his flashy training camp arrivals and this year was no different. In keeping with tradition, Wayne stepped up his training camp arrival game.
Here's Reggie Wayne's 4 most ridiculous training camp entrances:
4. Reggie Wayne with the Indiana National Guard.
Reggie Wayne was with the Indiana National Guard recruiting command. Wants to make sure to say he's honoring our soldiers. #Colts—
Reggie Hayes (@reggiehayes1) July 28, 2012
3. Reggie Wayne of Wayne Construction.
2. Helicopter Reggie Wayne.
Last year @Colts WR Reggie Wayne arrived to camp in a copter. It wasn't his 1st big entrance: indy.st/1yITFcN http://t.co/P1VCFtQm21—
IndyStar Sports (@IndyStarSports) July 20, 2014
1. Race car Reggie Wayne.
14-year vet Reggie Wayne had his best arrival yet to #ColtsCamp.
Video, Pictures, Details: oak.ctx.ly/r/1f8gc http://t.co/fgYvjQa421—
Indianapolis Colts (@Colts) July 23, 2014
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Ah, the Smell of Home Baking
Stirring it up! Our guests tell us they love waking up to the tantalizing smells of home baking and freshly brewed coffee. The following recipe is one of our morning "wake-up smells".
Quick Honey Oatmeal Muffins
400'F 12-18 min =12 muffins
In a large bowl combine:
- 2/3 c. milk
- 1/3 c. vegetable oil or applesauce
- 1 egg, beaten
- 1/4 c. honey or slightly less maple syrup
In another bowl mix together:
- 1 1/2 c. quaker oats (not instant)
- 1 c. all purpose flour
- 2 tsp. baking powder
- 1/3 c. brown sugar
- 3/4 tsp. salt
- 1/2 c. raisins
- 1/2 c. chopped nuts
Add the dry ingredients to the bowl of wet ingredients, stirring until just blended.
Spoon into a muffin tin lined with cupcake papers. Bake and enjoy.
You can use raisins, chopped dried fruit or fresh cranberries, dates, pecans, almonds – use your imagination just remember that the more dried fruit you use, the more liquid is absorbed from the mix so don't get carried away.
Dishing It Out! My first stove was a wooden orange crate complete with painted-on burners, wooden spool knobs, and a heavy cardboard oven door kept closed with a twist knob. I graduated from that directly to cooking with the real thing… no Easy Bake Oven for this kiddo! My mom encouraged my cooking skills and my dad encouraged creative interpretation of recipes. I can't remember a time when I didn't like to cook.
Guests often ask for recipes so from time-to-time I will post some of our guest favorites on the blog. I don't claim any of the recipes as my originals as they are from my stash of over 45 years of collecting recipes from family, friends, magazines, cookbooks, and various internet sites. Bon Appetite!