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Barack Obama owes more than I'd like him to owe to the Wall Street crowd. He probably at this point owes a little more than I'd like him to owe to the military. The rest he owes to the millions of people who elected him in 2008 – especially to those people whose enthusiasm I neither shared nor really understood – and he will owe them even more if they come out and pull his chestnuts out of the fire for him this time around. He may sell them out – and, yes, I understand if you wanted to add "again" to that statement – but they are not likely to revenge themselves against the country if he does and, even if they decided to, they don't have the power to do much but yell at the right buildings.
On the other hand, Willard Romney owes even more to the Wall Street crowd, and he owes even more to the military, but he also owes everything he is politically to the snake-handlers and the Bible-bangers, to the Creationist morons and to the people who stalk doctors and glue their heads to the clinic doors, to the reckless plutocrats and to the vote-suppressors, to the Randian fantasts and libertarian fakers, to the closeted and not-so-closeted racists who have been so empowered by the party that has given them a home, to the enemies of science and to the enemies of reason, to the devil's bargain of obvious tactical deceit and to the devil's honoraria of dark, anonymous money, and, ultimately, to those shadowy places in himself wherein Romney sold out who he might actually be to his overweening ambition. It is a fearsome bill to come due for any man, let alone one as mendaciously malleable as the Republican nominee. Obama owes the disgruntled. Romney owes the crazy. And that makes all the difference.
He can earn million-dollar gains without anybody knowing. He can execute make-believe trades by sending fake emails from hacked computers. He doesn't always lose money. But when he does, he loses more than $6 billion. He is … the most indebted man in the world.
Jérôme Kerviel is learning one of life's harsher lessons: It stinks to be $6.3 billion in debt. That's how much his fraudulent trades in 2007 and 2008 cost French bank Société Générale, and how much he has been ordered to pay in restitution — after he gets out of jail in three years. A judge recently upheld these terms on appeal.
The RCMP's Operational Communications Centre received a 9-1-1 call just before 1:00 pm. The operator was not able to understand the person that made the call. In the interest of public safety, the operator dispatched a General Duty officer to attend the residence and ensure everything was fine. Constable Jeremiah Walker attended the residence off North Nechako Road to investigate.
After the officer failed to get a response when he knocked on the door, he entered the residence and announced "police, anyone here". Cst. Walker heard a reply from a bedroom in the residence. He found an elderly woman in bed with obvious health issues.
The woman explained that she was bed ridden and was trying to contact her husband, who had gone out. When she was unable to reach him, the service directed her to the 9-1-1 centre. She said that she was otherwise fine, but was hungry. Learning that it would be a couple hours before her husband would likely return, Cst. Walker asked the 75 year old if it would be ok if he made her something to eat. The woman consented, adding that she would like some cheese and crackers. Cst. Walker headed to the kitchen returning a few minutes later with cheese slices and crackers.
An inquest into the death of a teenage Canadian prison inmate has opened in Toronto, where coroners are examining video footage of the 19-year-old woman being hooded, manhandled, bound with parcel tape and forcibly injected with anti-psychotic drugs.
Observers say it is Canada's prison system which is on trial, after the footage was finally released late on Wednesday, following a five-year legal battle to bring the videos into the open.
Ashley Smith was 14 years old when she threw crab apples at a postman, an offence which landed her in a youth facility for a month – a sentence which was constantly extended due to her disruptive and occasional violent behaviour.
After nearly four years of incarceration, the teenager from New Brunswick killed herself in October 2007 – despite being placed under formal suicide watch by the institution where she was held.
A case of the most appalling and barbaric treatment of a mentally ill person.
A Greek journalist who published the names of more than 2,000 Greeks with Swiss bank accounts has been acquitted of breaking data privacy laws.
Costas Vaxevanis's acquittal on Thursday came hours after he went on trial in a case analysts said was a test for press freedom in Greece.
An indirect message to rich people: Pay your taxes!

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Author has written 8 stories for Danny Phantom, Detective Conan/Case Closed, Saiyuki, Invader Zim, and Count of Monte Cristo.
Naruto Quiz Thing! Label your own 1-12 fav characters, then answer the questions. Don't forget to copy and paste this inside your profile!
1. Haku
2. Sasuke
3. Neji
4. Itachi
5. Sasori
6. Hidan
7. Tobi
8. Naruto
9. Kakachi
10. Gaara
11. Zabuza
12. Lee
1) Have you ever read a Six/Eleven fanfic before?
2) Do you think Four is hot? How hot?
3)What would happen if Twelve got Eight pregnant?
4)Do you recall any fics about Nine?
5) Would Two and Six make a good couple?
6) Five/Nine or Five/Ten?
7) What would happen if Seven walked in on Two and Twelve having sex?
8) Make up a summery of a Three/Ten fanfic.
9) Is there any such thing as a One/Eight fluff?
10) Suggest a title for a Seven/Twelve Hurt/Comfort fic.
Overexherted and alone
(I hope I spelt that right)
12) Does anyone on your friends list read Three het?
13) Does anyone you know write or draw Eleven?
14) Would anyone on your friends list write Two/Four/Five?
15) What might Ten scream at a moment of great passion?
16) If you wrote a song-fic about Eight, what song would you choose?
17) If you wrote a One/Six/Twelve fic, what would the warning be?
18) What would be a good pick-up line for Ten to use on Two?
19) How might Eleven describe a relationship between Two and Eight?
Whats life without any cheese!? >,
20) How emo is Seven?
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Funny Faces Game
The best face wins the game! One player makes a face that matches one of the faces on the game board. The other players must guess which face it is. Sure to create lots of smiles and giggles, Funny Faces in simple to play but not so easy to win. Contents: 60 Face Cards, 30 Face Tiles, 4 wooden game tokens, game board, mirror. Age: 4+ years
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Just like football fans, who always follow their beloved team everywhere and live and breathe each match, virtual football aficionados wait year after year for the release of a new version of their favorite game. They can consider themselves to be lucky, since for quite some time now they get to choose between two major series that fight for supremacy.
I am of course referring to Electronic Arts' FIFA and Konami's Pro Evolution Soccer. However, it's not a secret to anyone the fact that last year neither of them was received with great enthusiasm. FIFA 08 was reproached the lack of realism and field overcrowd, while the online mode of PES 08 was under any criticism.
Taking advantage of this year's European Football Championship, EA Sports had the opportunity to prove that they could create a good game with Euro 2008. But I was pretty skeptic about it, since I knew that EA's main challenge was called FIFA 09, still in production at that point.
The first thing I noticed in FIFA 09 was the almost identical menu of its predecessor, which, honestly, I never liked. Although it's supposed to be simple and intuitive, it did not prove to be so at all. It continues to be dull, especially when it comes to the submenus for the online mode. Driven by curiosity, I start the first game and I noticed the improved graphics, players' animation and the fluid way of moving the ball on the field. Even though I didn't set the AI on a high difficulty level, it didn't hesitate to steal the ball from me, intercept my passes or to forgive any of my mistakes each time it has the opportunity.
Compared to the previous titles, the gameplay doesn't give me the impression of standardization. I don't feel like I'm playing an arcade game, whereby everything was predefined, with no sign of creativity or spectacle. I was pleased to notice that the field overcrowding, very criticized on FIFA 08, has disappeared in most cases. Although sometimes too many players gather on the center, but this is after all a normal thing in modern football.
Another well implemented aspect is the air duels. I have never seen more realistic duels, not even in PES 09, which I had the opportunity to test and get a feel for some aspects of the game. Up until now, Electronic Arts had accustomed us with random air duels. Most of the times, it did not matter which player was taller, stronger or better positioned. The ball would fly around with no target.
In FIFA 09, things are quite different. It is very important the height of the players and especially putting them in connection to the ball in the air. And synchronization is crucial. If you jump too quickly, the ball will reach your chin, but if the jump is delayed, you cannot reach the ball. I liked this improvement, as it is essential for the gameplay. Especially since a short player will be able to steal the ball in front of a taller one, with the proper timing.
The passing system hasn't been changed too much, but enough to observe the increased realism and attention to details. In addition to this, some passes can be launched without too much effort by pressing the same button, but with increased precision. So players, in addition to traditional passes, can also hit with the heel, the knee or back. Because of these implementations related to the movement of the ball, it's easier to attack the opponent's post, which will make it more difficult for him to defend himself.
But what do you do when you have to defend yourself? Although they say that the best defense is a good offense, this saying doesn't really work here. Even though the game no longer encourages excessive use of tricks and of a single attacker to dodge the whole defense, it's the easiest thing in the world to stop the invasion of a top team. It is essential to have a very precise timing for the tackles and not abuse the sliding techniques. Because the referee will not hesitate to show the yellow card or even to remove you from the field, if you are the last defender and you commit a foul from behind.
A nice thing to know about fouls is that you'll never get a yellow or red card without actually deserving it. And the animations of linesmen amused me every time, and I hardly distinguished between those from FIFA 09 and those from reality.


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I'll show you the WORKING code forst, & then my incorrect code.Internal Server Error
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Trojans beat up on Huskies to remain perfect on season
Matt Leinart completed 19-of-25 passes for 197 yards and four touchdowns to lead the No. 1 USC Trojans to a 51-24 win OVER the Washington State Huskies on Saturday.
The Trojans were favored by 30 points in this one but failed to cover the spread on this day. The game's combined 75 points went OVER the posted over/under (63).
Dwayne Jarrett had seven catches for 94 yards and three touchdowns for USC and Reggie Bush ran for 51 yards and a TD on eight carries in the win.
Isaiah Stanback completed 14-of-18 passes for 202 yards and a touchdown, while also adding a touchdown on the ground for the Huskies. Dashon Goldson returned an interception for a 75-yard touchdown in the loss.


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Of all the pathetic media defenses of Georgetown University law student and women's rights activist Sandra Fluke, Comedy Central's Jon Stewart on Monday might have mounted the silliest one.
During a lengthy segment about "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Gross" Rush Limbaugh, the Daily Show host also went after Fox News's Megyn Kelly by hysterically claiming institutions paying for contraceptives is the same as employers paying for maternity leave (video follows with transcribed highlights and commentary):
After playing clips of various pronouncements by Kelly concerning the absurdity of law students wanting others to pay for their contraceptives, Stewart said, "I understand Megyn Kelly doesn't think the government or employers should ever be required to subsidize someone's sex – unless…"
An August 8, 2011, clip was shown of Kelly talking about how the United States is "the only country in the advanced world that doesn't allow paid, that doesn't require paid maternity leave."
After the clip, Stewart mocked, "You know where that maternity leave came from, right? Nine months prior, half a bottle of Chablis, DVD copy of 'The Notebook,' scented candles, hmm. If you took maternity leave, and employers were required to pay that for you, we paid for you to have sex."
Yes, it's comedy. But like much of what Stewart does, it's also advocacy, as unpaid maternity leave depending on how much a woman makes could cost her and her family tens of thousands of dollars.
By contrast, as NewsBusters reported Sunday, a full month of birth control can cost as little as $9. This is saying nothing about the societal benefit of babies actually being able to spend some time with their mothers in the first few months of their lives.
But there's potentially a larger point in Stewart's attack on Limbaugh and Kelly: if Fluke were a conservative going to Congress and asking for her birth control to be covered, the Daily Show host and his crew would have savaged her.
They would have exposed the hypocrisy of a woman wanting contraceptive coverage going to a Jesuit institution that doesn't do it.
They would also have had great laughs over her being a 30-year-old student because, you know, conservatives are all idiots.
Imagine, too, the chuckles at her carping and whining about not being able to afford contraception as she attends one of the most expensive law schools in the country costing over $50,000 a year.
That would have been a hoot as they depicted her as part of the 1 percent complaining about having to actually pay for her own contraception.
Then they would have talked about – to great laughs from the studio audience – condoms being available on the internet for as little as 10 cents each if she bought in bulk. Imagine the laughter that would have generated.
Next, Stewart would have shared with viewers that since 2007, Walmart and Target have been selling a month's worth of birth control pills for only $9.
They would have had a riot over the fact that just three miles from Georgetown University, there's a Target participating in this promotion.
In fact, they likely would have done what MRC-TV's Corwin Parks did last week - sent a "reporter" to Georgetown to uncover just how easy to find – and cheap! – birth control is in the Georgetown area.
Yes, Sandra Fluke and her mock "testimony" before Congress was tailor-made for comedians like Stewart to have a field day with its absurdity.
But no. Because Stewart is a liberal shill, and he quite understands how this issue is helping his Party as well as the president he adores, he decided to support this 30-year-old women's rights activist despite how inherently laughable her position is.
And this is why having been a huge fan of the Daily Show for years I stopped watching it in 2004.
This is not a comedy program, and hasn't been for approaching a decade.
This is a platform for Stewart and his staff to propagandize the nation under the rubric of satire with a large percentage of the viewers seeing it as their only source of "news" each day.
And folks wonder why the nation is so ill-informed.
(H/T Mediaite)
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A comet C/2013 A1, also known as Siding Spring, is heading for Mars, and there is a chance that it might hit the Red Planet on October, 2014.
On that date, comet 2013 A1 Siding Spring will buzz Mars about 10 times closer than any identified comet has ever flown past Earth.
NASA released Thursday an image of the comet that, on Oct. 19, will pass within 84,000 miles of Mars -- less than half the distance between Earth and our moon.
The image on the left, captured March 11 by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, shows comet Siding Spring, at a distance of 353 million miles from Earth. Hubble can't see Siding Spring's icy nucleus because of its diminutive size. The nucleus is surrounded by a glowing dust cloud, or COMA, that measures roughly 12,000 miles across.
The right image shows the comet after image processing techniques were applied to remove the hazy glow of the coma revealing what appear to be two jets of dust coming off the location of the nucleus in opposite directions.
The nucleus of the comet is probably 1 to 3 km in diameter, and it is coming in fast, around 56 km/s (125,000 mph). A direct impact remains unlikely, a 1 in 2000 chance of impact, but it if does hit Mars, it would deliver as much energy as 35 million megatons of TNT.
Stay tuned for updates as the comet approaches.
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Rugby supporters say they were prevented from taking open bottles of water into a Wakefield Trinity Wildcats game because they were told it posed a "terror threat."
Huddersfield Giants fans claim they had their bags searched for bottled drinks on their way into Sunday's game at the Rapid Solicitors Stadium.
Dave Calverley, chairman of Huddersfield Giants Supporters' Association, said stewards told fans to throw it away before entering the ground.
Mr Calverley said: "It was a totally embarrassing situation. A steward's explanation was that due to a recent upgrade in the government dealing with terror threats we were not allowed bottled water or pop in sports stadia.
"He said it could have been an explosive even after people were drinking the water. It was ridiculous."
Mr Calverley, 62, was at the game with his daughter Helen, 25, when she was stopped by stewards at the turnstiles.
He added: "A steward noticed my daughter had a bottle of water and he said if it was open she couldn't go in. He told her to either leave the bottle outside or empty it or she couldn't go in."
A spokesman for Wakefield Trinity Wildcats said: "It is true that regulations have recently changed on advice from our ground safety officer and that there are restrictions on taking bottled drinks into sports stadia.
"It is a policy that has been implemented in the last six to eight weeks and as with anything new there are going to be teething problems. We publicised it to supporters on our website to make them aware.
"But we have to be black and white in terms of plastic bottles. If a bottle is already open then people can't bring it in and if it's unopened then it is fine.
"The safety of supporters remains our priority and we are simply acting on the advice of our ground safety officer to that end."


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Ragoût de Pattes de Cochons et Boulettes de Porc
One afternoon, my former student supervisor called me into his office. He looked at me and said, "Go home. Go out. I don't care. It's Friday and I don't want you working late today." That said, he removed what would be considered a dinosaur of a Blackberry today, plastic holster and all, and placed it into his secure file cabinet. As I left, I heard a drawer close, a padlock attached, and a workstation powered down.
Many years later, I've been issued a Blackberry for work purposes. And, I find myself thinking back to that incident, especially during the holidays. Especially when my handset, set to vibrate, notifies me of new messages, sometimes vibrating itself across the ledge I set it down on.
Happily this past Christmas, it was just my boss, sending me a snapshot of his first attempt at a dish that carries significant cultural meaning to French Canadians living in Quebec, ragoût de pattes de cochon. I recently returned the favour, forwarding a photo of my latest attempt.
Yes, the tradition we tend to hear about about involves tourtière. If you live anywhere near Quebec, it is often the "du Lac-Saint-Jean" variety, slow-cooked deep-dish meat pies made with potatoes and game meat, never ground, sometimes cubed, sometimes pulled. And, like tourtière, ragoût de pattes de cochon is a dish that likely evolved out of necessity.
It is December, with several long winter months to follow. How do you feed a family when all the prime cuts from your livestock have been either consumed, sold, or, depending on which history books you read, confiscated? There is limited fuel. The cellar is stocked with root vegetables and anything else leftover from the fall harvest. There are pickles and preserves in the pantry.
You make a one pot meal, concentrating what nutrition you can find, especially protein. So, meat pie…meat, root veg, pastry. Or, a rich meat sauce, slowly cooked next to hearth, maybe atop a wood fired stove.
I've attempted ragoût de pattes de cochon before, employing a recipe I found that substituted turkey wings for pigs' feet and what would turn out to be too much "browned" flour, flour roasted in an oven.
Armed with another approach and the understanding that pattes de cochon refer more to pork shanks (so hocks) than trotters, I attempted the dish again. Though, I am told adding pigs' feet to the initial stock makes the resultant dish even richer, contributing even more gelatin.
Yes, I adore seemingly complex dishes that require significant investments of time to make, but the effort is usually very well rewarded.
What You'll Need:
- Roast Chicken Stock
- One broiler/fryer chicken or four chicken legs (or 8 drumsticks/thighs)
- 7 cups of water (preferably filtered)
- kosher salt to season
- high smoke point oil to coat like vegetable oil or canola
- 2-3 bay leaves
- 1 tsp of black peppercorns
- 3 whole pork hocks or 6 halves (approximately 3 kg or 6 1/2 lbs)
- Dry Cure
- 2 tsp kosher salt
- 1/2 tsp black peppercorns
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon (2-3″ stick)
- 1/2 tsp whole cloves
- 2 pinches of nutmeg
- Caramelized Onions
- 2-3 medium onions (one large onion)
- oil to sautee with
- kosher salt to taste
- oil, butter, or lard for searing (lard works best)
- Browned Flour
- 4-6 tbsp of flour
- 2-3 tbsp of rice or corn starch
- Meatballs
- 1 cup dry bread crumbs
- 1/2 cup milk
- 1 medium onion
- 1 egg
- 0.454 kg (1 lb) of ground pork
- 0.454 kg (1 lb) of ground veal
- 0.454 kg (1 lb) of ground beef
- kosher salt and black pepper to taste
Prep (best started two days before serving):
- Place the chicken and pork hocks on the counter and let them come to room temperature.
- Meanwhile place 2 tsp kosher salt, 1/2 tsp black peppercorns, 2-3″ stick of cinnamon, 1/2 tsp whole cloves, and 2 pinches of nutmeg into a mortar and pestle or coffee grinder and process everything into powder. Set the dry cure aside.
- Thoroughly dry the pork hocks with a tea towel or paper towel.
- Coat the exposed flesh of the pork hocks with the dry cure.
- Place them in a tray, cover with plastic wrap, and place the tray in the fridge. Let the pork hocks dry cure overnight, 6 hours minimum.
- Section the chicken into pieces if not using legs or leg portions.
- Pat dry the chicken and season the skin liberally with kosher salt.
- Coat the chicken with a very thin film of oil.
- Roast the chicken on a tray under a broiler until browned on all sides. Rotate the chicken as it browns. Do not walk away from the oven.
- Place the chicken into a large pot or the crock of a slow cooker that can accommodate both the browned chicken portions and the 7 cups of water. The roasting is similar to searing meat for stew. It adds colour and complex flavour to your long cooked dishes.
- Add 4 of the 7 cups of water to the pot or crock.
- Use the remaining 3 cups of water to deglaze the roasting tray. Add a cm (1/2″) of water to the pan and place it back under the broiler for 3-5 minutes. Remove the pan and water and carefully scrape at the bits left behind by browning the chicken portions.
- Add the deglazing liquid (and any remaining water), bay leaves, and black peppercorns to the pot or crock.
- Bring the contents of the pot to a simmer on medium heat.
- Then, lower the heat to low and simmer gently for 4-6 hours.
- If using a slow cooker, cook on low for 6 hours.
- Let the resultant stock cool.
- Strain the liquid and discard the solids.
- To defat, either skim with a spoon or simply place the stock, covered, in the fridge overnight. The fat will rise to the top and form a solid disk you can easily remove.
More Prep (best started the day before serving):
- Reheat the defatted roast chicken stock and bring it to a simmer for 5 minutes.
- Taste for seasoning. Adjust, dilute, or reduce as necessary. Just make sure you have at 6 cups of liquid remaining!
- Slice or "French" the onion.
- Caramelize the onion in a metal-bottomed pan on medium-low heat. This will take 20-30 minutes.
- Once well coloured, add the onions and chicken stock to a large pot or crock of a slow cooker that can also accommodate the pork hocks. The onions will add colour and caramel sweetness.
- Remove the pork hocks from the fridge.
- Wipe off the cure with either a tea towel or paper towels.
- Sear the cured ends of the pork hocks in a metal bottomed pan set to medium heat with oil, butter, or lard. Work in batches as necessary. Because the exposed flesh of the pork hocks have been cured, they will colour quickly. You want them to develop a crust, but not burn.
- Place the seared hocks in the pot or crock with the caramelized onions and chicken stock.
- Bring the contents of the pot to a simmer on medium heat.
- Then lower the heat to low and simmer gently for 2-4 hours. Essentially, we are braising the pork hocks until the meat falls off the bone.
- If using a slow cooker, cook on low for 4 hours.
- Strain the liquid and reserve the pork hocks and stock separately.
- Again, to defat the stock, either skim with a spoon or place it, covered, in the fridge overnight. The fat will rise to the top and form a solid disk you can remove. If you employ the latter method, cover the pock hocks and place them in the fridge as well.
- Prepare meatballs with the breadcrumbs, milk, onion, egg, and ground meat as per the Joel Robuchon method: 1) mix the breadcrumbs (soaked in milk for 30 minutes), onion (finely chopped and sauteed in melted butter), egg, and ground meat together; 2) form meatballs; 3) brown the meatballs in melted butter or lard (with a tsp of oil to raise the smoke point) in a metal bottomed pan set to low heat until coloured on each side.
- Set the meatballs aside.
- Preheat an oven to 350F with the rack set to the middle rungs.
- Reheat what is now a double stock in a metal bottomed pot set to medium heat and bring it to a simmer for 5 minutes.
- Reheat the pork hocks either directly in the stock or employ a pot with a steamer attachment. "Steam" the pork hocks back to tenderness in the steamer inset while the double stock is simmering.
- Sprinkle the flour on a baking tray and roast in the oven for 45 minutes to an hour. It will brown. Do NOT let it burn. The intention for this very traditional ingredient is to cook out the "floury" taste.
- Remove the meat from the pork hocks, discarding the skin, bone, and sinews. Either chop or pull the morsels.
- Sift together the browned flour and starch. The starch contributes a different thickening component that will keep the gravy from hardening as quickly as it cools. There is a reason most flour thickened gravy recipes recommend serving "thinner" than desired. The gravy will thicken to the appropriate consistency at the table. Adding refined starch is another safeguard.
- Thicken the double stock to a desired consistency with the flour mixture over low heat, stirring often. You do not have to use all of the browned flour.
- Bring the mixture to a simmer.
- Add the meatballs to the mixture to reheat.
If you need to store your chopped or pulled pork hock meat, put it into a container and ladle over the stock. Contained this way, the meat will keep another day in the fridge.
[Also known as head cheese.]
Sliced, the "pork hock brawn" dissolves very nicely in the stock.
Serve hot with boiled potatoes and carrots and a side of braised red cabbage and/or slivered brussel sprouts sauteed in bacon drippings.
The bright cabbage and earthy brussel sprouts offer a contrast to the luscious velvety gravy, rich in lip smacking gelatin and tasting of slow cooked meat and nuttiness from the browned flour. Paired with the meatballs, ragoût de pattes de cochon is an extravagant feast, made from very lowly ingredients.
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