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I’m proud of Austin. Besides getting the election right (even the conservative part of town tossed the fedora-wearing jackass for the head of the GLBT Chamber of Commerce) there’s this:
https://twitter.com/elenamejialutz/status/796447708332564480
from the NASA Mohawk guy – made me smile a little, maybe will you, too:
https://twitter.com/tweetsoutloud/status/793869955880017920
Good morning, meese. Thursday …
It is 45 degrees in Madison with an expected daytime high of 59. Sunny skies are in the forecast.
I tentatively opened my news feed this morning … and just can’t. The enormity of the damage that the haters – on the right and the left – have done cannot be minimized. We have rewarded hate with the highest office in the land and control of the world’s largest military. What could possibly go wrong? The horror is that 60% of those who voted for Trump believe he is unqualified – which means they don’t think that being qualified is important for our presidents. I suppose this is the inevitable result from the George W. Bush presidency, any idiot can be elected president. But I hoped when they saw the example of Barack Obama, it would signal a new day.
I am still picking through the details of the Affordable Care Act. President Obama is meeting with the yam today. I hope he can convince him to slow down on full repeal. It is going to literally kill people. I will choose the cheapest possible policy that covers for catastrophic illness with the assumption that the policy itself will still be in place but the premium subsidies will be gone. Gawd, what a mess.
See all y’all later.
At least I can eat this morning. I’m still in shock, but I keep putting 1 foot in front of the other. The one Faux News fan in the office yesterday, about the protests: “some people don’t like democracy”. I bit my tongue so hard. Protests ARE democracy. Also — the electoral college is anti-democratic & needs to go. Listening to my Scottish friends’ pretty song, with the chorus I love: surrender now my love, it’s time to fall in love, time to be what we should be
Good morning, Meese. Where are we all today? It’s nearly 9 a.m.!
Another beautiful morning in this benighted country, with current temps at 43 F., going up to 61 F. Finally, autumn is behaving as it should.
Have not looked at the news on TV nor listened to it on the car radio since The Awfulness. Last night I told my husband to go downstairs if he wanted to watch the news, or if he wanted to watch it in the family room while I cooked, I would just go downstairs until “Wheel of Fortune” came on at 7, at which time I would come upstairs to resume cooking. As Dearly Beloved cares for his dinner even more than he cares for the dog, this worked.
There are going to be changes in my life. I’ll still come here, because I cannot do without our Moosekind gatherings! Late this morning because I had to tend a diary that somehow got on the Rec list—most of them sink quietly out of sight like a lovelorn maiden. However, I will not read the papers nor look at any news program on TV. I can’t stand to look at their smug, gloating faces. THEY are in large part responsible for this debacle. From now on I’ll be like most people I know, never listening to the news or reading the paper. That’s the complete opposite of how I’ve always lived.
Also going to severely limit time at the Great Orange Satan, as the Bernie Bros. are back like a pack of baying hounds in full cry. They blame HRC for everything, including the moment of her birth. Looking at her and listening to her yesterday as she spoke I could see that she had cried all night and hadn’t slept. I know what that looks like.
In my personal life, I am still dealing with the fallout of the Great Mistake in August, when I thought I’d donated $25.00 to Aji’s house and got billed for $2,500. Had to close that bank account and open a new one. Well, now I’m having trouble with the annuity that gets posted on the first day of the month. The fact that I have a new bank account seems to have completely deranged TIAA-CREF. They are withholding one-third of the sum and no matter how much I call them, I have not been able to get it out of them. Today is the 10th, right? So it’s 10 days since I’ve been without that money. Today I will call them for the fourth time AFTER I call Vanguard, an outfit that seems to have a measurable IQ, to ask whether I can transfer my annuity from TIAA-CREF to them. I knew TIAA was stupid (they can’t figure out that my state income tax withholding is less than my fed income tax withholding, although I’ve told them about it), but I didn’t know it was evil.
Gather that there have been protests! Moosekind, please join me in fulfilling my daughter’s request of yesterday: by what name shall we refer to Thing? Shall it be “Voldemort,” the “Duke of Orange,” or what?
Wishing everyone a good day in the, ah, new reality. BTW, I’ve stopped all my recurring charitable contributions because of what happened, but my dog’s health insurance will rise greatly, so it evens out.
Gawd, what a nightmare! Sometimes the “convenience” of online transactions and banking create huge messes. We used to say “to err is human – to really foul things up requires a computer”. Online access multiplies that!
I hope you get it sorted out and soon.
34 at daybreak heading for upper 60s and sunny. Still stunned, shocked, horrified. But thinking now. We thought we were slowly overcoming the Deplorables that make up the Alt Right. We weren’t. They just went underground. They were organizing and waiting for an opportunity. A candidate – any candidate – who gave them permission to come out of the shadows by being opening and acceptedly Deplorable. Donald Trump didn’t need a ground game because they were prepared. He doesn’t have to be intelligent, competent, experienced – he could have been a talking android for all they care. He was their opportunity and they grabbed it. And we still almost beat them. (Actually did – definitely in popular vote and maybe in some of the iffy state calls.)
Now we have to survive them and do our own underground planning and preparing – getting ready to grab our own opportunity to get the leadership and head our country back toward the kind of greatness our nation was dreamed for. Not founded on, as Denise can and will tell you, but dreamed up for. But we can only do this together so we need to stay together. Bright the day, Meeses. I love you. {{{HUGS}}}
Good morning, 51 and cloudy in Bellingham. RonK and our son are in Kennewick, tending to more estate business so I’m home alone with Heide, the black lab. She’s an emotionally aware dog so I’m getting lots of licks and concerned cuddles.
I took my son and his family out for a birthday dinner last night and our conversation just kept going back to the election. Emma is a freshman this year and very aware. Her school has a lot of Hispanic students and grief counselors are available. Watching her face and listening to her talk about her day brought even more tears…..
Thanks to all for being here. I hope we can continue to learn from and to support each other as we find our way to live with the new reality of President Yam. More tears…….
Good morning Meese.
I have nothing much to say. Spent the morning finishing my Sunday piece
Gonna play some World of Warcraft to unwind – then grade papers this evening
Morning all. Finally a coolish day and week ahead – highs in the 70’s instead of 80’s, cooling off at night into low 50’s, high 40’s – it’s not really winter, but I’ll take what I can get.
I’m still in shock like everyone else, and I cannot watch the news again. Period. I had subscribed to the digital edition of the WaPo late in the election season, as a sort of thank you to David Farenthold for his noble and yet ultimately fruitless reporting on Trump’s foundation and other finances, but I need to cancel that now. The little news I’ve seen from twitter indicates that OF COURSE the Democratic Senators are saying they’ll work with Trump, they’ll compromise etc. Cowards. What we need is for Schumer to have the same attitude McConnell had when Obama took office – obstruct at every turn, I say. There is nothing Trump’s cadre will plan to do that Democrats should cooperate with in bringing to fruition. Nothing.
I keep thinking back to 1980 and 81 – I was in DC, working in the Office of the Secretary of HHS, doing the budget for Social Security until March of 1981 when I was rescued by Cong. Pickle at the House Ways and Means Social Security Subcommittee and went up to the Hill. Reagan won in 1980 and the Republicans also took the Senate for the first time in decades. It was a grim horrible time in 1981, as his goons took over Federal agencies and proceeded to gut them. The joke at the time was that the main qualification for a Reagan appointee was that he had to be hostile to and ignorant about the mission of the agency he was appointed to lead. Reagan was enormously popular – and yet in 1982, the Democrats not only defended their Senate seats, but gained one or two, as I recall. And there was one main reason why – Reagan went after Social Security.
This was in response to SS’s dire financial situation at the time – we would have been unable to pay benefits beginning in mid 1983, the Trust Funds were drained. His budget people put out a proposal that I think was not intended to go public but was leaked, to make draconian, immediate cuts in Social Security, chief among them eliminating the possibility of retiring at 62-64 as of the following year. The uproar at the Reagan proposals was immediate – the Senate passed a sense of the Senate resolution 99-0 rejecting the Reagan proposals, and in the 1982 mid-terms, the Dems defended their Senate seats, added one or two more and added a bunch of House seats as well.
I don’t know if Social Security retains the potent punch it had then as the “3rd Rail of American Politics”, but I do know Senate Dems didn’t gas on about cooperating with Reagan to decimate the program in 1981. True, the parties did cooperate to do the 1983 Amendments on which I worked, but we really didn’t have a choice – we were up against a deadline of not being able to pay benefits, so both sides gave in on some things. This time, though, I see no reason for Senate Dems to cooperate at all – Trump is not Reagan, he’s a monster controlled by alt-right white supremacist fascists, and we have to stand up to it, not negotiate with it. I have little hope Chuck Schumer will actually do that, though.
I ache for Obama having to deal with this human garbage as incoming President, and I hope he will find a way to lead or at least help influence effective opposition. The majority of this country voted for Hillary and against Trump – we have to remember that and act like it. Make him a one- term President as the Republicans hoped to do with Obama – they didn’t succeed because Obama actually was and is popular. Here’s hoping the Orange Blob shows his true colors so he can be canned in 4 years.
Everyone have as good a day as possible under the circumstances – I remain down but hopeful that we’ll all get through it.
Please keep sharing your stories about your time in DC. When things are bleak, at least for me, history provides hope. Based on what I am seeing, it appears that the Republicans will overreach as they did in 1981 – maybe worse now because even they must see that this is their last chance to destroy good government and they will have to kill it all in order for their party to survive. The best we can hope for is that their “unified government” is wishful thinking and that the warring factions in the Republican Party are unable to agree on anything.
This:
I cannot even put into words how badly I feel for the Obamas. They deserve so much better than to have their legacy repudiated and erased. I would not blame President Obama if he said “to hell with it all”. But I somehow doubt that he will.
Good morning, meese. Friday …
It is 52 degrees in Madison with an expected daytime high of 46. Sunny skies are in the forecast.
I am still staying away from the news except to scan Twitter to stay abreast of current events. I am still not reading any post-election think pieces – I am saving a few to maybe read later (I have read a few “it’s okay to grieve” pieces). I was heartened to see that Dr. Howard Dean wants to be DNC chair. He is the perfect guy to run it because he understands both the new wave of Democrats and the old timers who built the party. He presided over the 2006 mandate, making Nancy Pelosi speaker and taking the Senate. I do not want anyone in a position of power there who supported Sen. Sanders after the nomination was sealed. We will not rebuild on a new purity agenda, Democratic Party principles actually did quite well in 2016. We will rebuild by going back to the 50 state strategy, building a bench (ours, quite frankly, sucked), and by respecting our past while we embrace the future. The people going after Donna Brazile are misguided: we did not lose because of the DNC, we lost because people stayed home or went to the polls and skipped voting for a president. Was it because we dared to nominate a woman? If so, fk them – I don’t want to hear it. Was it because some of the left of the left made Hillary an unacceptable “impure” candidate? If so, fk them!
The path forward is still electoral politics and primarily a firewall in the Senate. There is a Senate race, a runoff in Louisiana. If the Democrat wins, we have 49 seats meaning that we can block Ryan’s agenda by peeling off two Republican Senators. History will not be kind to anyone in Congress who votes to privatize Medicare and repeal the Affordable Care Act to replace it with high risk pools and Health Savings Accounts. I am not sure even the gerrymanders will hold in 2018 if they do that.
Still not sleeping well (as you can see from the time) and barely eating. It is 3 days into the Yam Era and I need to focus on getting my finances in order for the hard times that another round of trickle-down tax cuts will bring.
See all y’all later!
Have a crisis brewing at school – on my very liberal campus
Just heard students are planning a walk out – to push back against this hate
I saw some very disturbing things reported on Twitter, how the new Aryam Nation is planning to purge everyone Not Them. The warnings are not subtle and are frightening. Since people Not Them will likely not have the protection of the federal government after January 20, 2017, the fear is not unjustified.
I don’t see a way out of the mess created by this election FAIL … I hope someone smarter than me sees one.
Haven’t looked at twitter yet
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I just can’t deal with this:
Deporting the DREAMers, basically taking back a promise made by a government to some of its most vulnerable residents – and their families. Gawd! This can’t be happening!
Good morning, 52 and partly cloudy in Bellingham. I can’t sleep. have no appetite, can’t focus on anything, and keep erupting with tears and anger. And I’m really struggling to accept that white women voted for the yam as they did. I’m at a loss for words……
Sorry to be so blue today.
princesspat, I am at a loss for words to describe how I feel. Repealing the good government policies and executive orders of the Obama Administration essentially destroys the credibility of our government – the promises of health care and protection from deportation and environmental regulations are meaningless. I am sure that is looked at with delight by the Republicans as their plan is to destroy government and put all the power in the hands of the wealthy. But that all the good of the last 8 years can be undone by selfish people not taking time to vote or not being able to “hold their nose” and vote for someone who is in their mind, impure, is horrifying to me.
I was better yesterday before Ryan’s new plans and the yam’s immigration transition team headed by Kris Kobach hit the news wires. Now I am newly devastated.
Hello, Meese. (How can I wish you a good morning in view of what happened?)
Sunny here in NoVa, currently 50 F. going up to 62 F. Woke up this morning with a worsening cold and a very rude rhyme in my head:
“Oppose! Obstruct! Otherwise we’re f*cked!”
This is meant for the Democratic members of the Senate and the House.
Yesterday I asked for and received an application form for a job at the local pet store. It’s within walking distance from here and is closed on Sundays. They don’t actually have any openings, but what the hell. If my Social is going to be taken away I might as well have a little job.
Not sleeping well and am gorging on carbs. Yesterday I had a conversation that really depressed me. My granddaughter likes to play with this woman’s little girl. Yesterday they were mining for gold in the dry creek bed again in the little playground while the mother and I talked. Her parents are East Indian, her husband is from Belgium. She told me that as much as she deplored Thing’s ascendancy, she had no objection to illegals being deported. WTF?
But the really, really frightening thing she said was that perhaps Thing would be okay, it wouldn’t be that bad, we’d get through it just as we got through Ray-Gun and Dubya. But Thing would have his fingers on the NUKE button!
I didn’t live in Germany in the 20’s and 30’s of the last century but I’ve read about it. At first people said, “He’s a clown, he’s a joke, he’ll never get anywhere!” Then he was elected as Chancellor.
Then people said, “Oh, he didn’t really mean all those wild things he said! He wouldn’t actually deport Jews, take over their businesses, turn them out of their living places!”
But that’s just what he did. Kristallnacht and all the rest of it.
Right now I DON’T see any hope, I don’t see how anything will get better, unless the Great God Zeus strikes Trumpence with a simultaneous bolt of lightning before the College of Electors meets and they all decide to vote for Hillary.
Sorry to be so gloomy but thanks for letting me vent. I think I’ll take a break from GOS and FB. My Christianly cousin in San Antonio sent me something by a guy mansplaining that we need to put on our “big people panties” and accept the situation. No. Thing is not my president. I mean, Ray Gun was stupid and Dubya even more so, but Thing is DANGEROUS.
And now, breakfast and back to bed because my cold is worse. See you tomorrow!
38 at dawn (still is) heading for 70 and sunny – like the goddess is trying to make up for the election or something. Still not functioning well. Chair brought us GF muffins (OK, they’re commercial – they’re really cupcakes) but the smell is making me sick. I’ll bag it and take home. Either eat it or feed it to the birds. I think birds can eat chocolate.
Over at GOS the AFBs have taken over the FP again – those of us who were Hillary supporters from the beginning used to refer to ourselves as the Village Under the Bus (as the AFBs threw everybody – even groups like Planned Parenthood- under the bus if they endorsed Hillary) – and we have now created the Village Under the Bus community for our group. First priority is to stay together. Second is to grieve and comfort each other. Third is to figure out what the heck we can do under the circumstances both as damage control and as a way forward. Evil is never permanent but rather than just hunkering down and surviving (although we’re doing that too) we want to hasten its departure. Not sure what or how but we really are stronger together so that’s step one. It at least feels better to do something even if it turns out to not work.
Need to get to work – both at GOS (I’m an admin for the group) and where I get my paycheck. Bright the day, Meeses. {{{HUGS}}}
I found the group & am following. Sigh.
Slept in, then dozed for longer. I needed a morning of relaxing. Only plan for today is to get in a long walk. Signed the change.org petition. Already have a “but eeevil big cities” comment on my FB post about it.
Morning all. I’m living pretty much in a state of abject terror today, after seeing lists of proposed Trump nominees, and Gingrich’s promise to bring back HUAC to “find Islamic terrorists”. Oh yeah, and their ‘sympathizers’, and oh god we’ve seen this story before.
But still the most terrifying thing to me is the Russian connection and the possibility that the Russians now effectively own the White House, given Trump’s probable indebtedness to them. I cannot imagine what is going on in our intelligence and defense agency top ranks now – how can they reconcile their oaths to protect and uphold the Constitution and still do this man’s bidding? I truly don’t know where this will end.
I also fear for our party – we’re looking at a civil war among Democrats now between the Berners, plus Elizabeth Warren, pushing for Keith Ellison for chair of the DNC, and the main part of the party whose possible candidates, beyond Howard Dean, I don’t know. It’s going to be ugly and it’s insane, at a moment when more than ever we lead leadership to oppose the fascism that has at long last come to the US. I don’t think it’s fair to ask him, but I see no choice for Obama but to step up here and lead our opposition – doesn’t have to be DNC chair, but we need him now.
I don’t think efforts to get the EC to overturn the state results that put us in this mess will work, but I understand the impulse, as I do the demonstrations. Dee, that is so horrifying what happened at New Paltz – at UF here, I think the administration is trying to figure out how to make us a sanctuary and a safe place.
I’m scared and disheartened – but I can’t run away so I guess we have no choice but to fight as best we can. One thing’s for sure, Schumer and the Senate Dems have got to stiffen their spines and obstruct EVERYTHING. We need to get that Louisiana Democratic Senate candidate elected in that runoff – I will send money, not much else I can do.
If you’re looking for a distraction, I have a Netflix suggestion – they have an original series now running, The Crown, about the early days of Elizabeth II’s reign. It’s very well done, and historically based, although there must be a lot of fictional re-imagining of private conversations and actions. I think there are 10 episodes in all but I’m not sure they’re all up yet – I binged on 4 of them last night and it definitely took my mind off the current horror in Washington. I feel somewhat guilty about that, but there’s a limit on what I can actually do.
I had thought about turning my musings on 1981-82 from yesterday into a diary at DKos, but I don’t want to venture back into a swamp of Bernie bros crowing over Hillary’s defeat. Short sighted is only the first and most polite term I would apply to that.
Everyone be well and safe.
I think the electoral college thing opens up a Pandora’s box. What we have now sucks but you can’t change the rules in the middle of the game. Apparently people wanted to make some changes after the 2000 debacle but Republicans thought it was a GWB diss to do so. Then when we got control in 2009, we only had 2 years to deal with the Great Recession and drain the Bush Administration swamp. I am sure no one thought our time in power would be so short.
So many things need to be fixed related to elections but we do not have an honorable partner in the Republican Party. I am hoping that there are enough decent people left in the Senate to not give power to some of the cabinet posts being considered.
I don’t know what President Obama will do. We need him desperately to lead us but, my gawd, he must be devastated by what has happened. I know I am but I don’t have the additional burden of taking care of those whose lives will literally be endangered by a Trump presidency.
I see friends talking about leaving the country. I can’t.
I can’t remember if I shared this link from Ezra Klein, at Vox……
Donald Trump’s success reveals a frightening weakness in American democracy
He wrote this before the election and I felt my worry increase while reading it then…..seems even more insightful now.
Saved to Pocket to read later. I am still not ready for think pieces! I have read a few pompom pieces and I am scanning Twitter so that I don’t lose track of what is going on but that’s it.
Geordie – please do the diary and publish it through the Village Under the Bus – or if you don’t want to join the group, send me the link. Name it something innocuous enough the Bros won’t notice but the folks who are trying to figure out ways to at least do damage control and at most get Congress back in 2018 need the insight of people who’ve been there before. And thanks. {{{HUGS}}} bfitz
Good morning, meeses. Saturday …
It is 28 degrees in Madison with an expected daytime high of 48. Sunny skies are in the forecast.
I am almost there. Yes, it is 1am and, yes, I am not sleeping well or eating much. I am still not going to do deep dives into news because it is too depressing but the panic is easing a bit. I am going to put my faith in the institutions that President Obama says are enduring and hope that the Great Dismantling moves slowly enough so that we can win some congressional seats in 2018 and be like Congress in 2007-2008, blocking the worst of the Bush Administration’s plans. We’ve been there and we survived. In the meantime, the top priority is to protect our most vulnerable citizens from the hate that is coming at them like a firehose. We see it here, even in librul Dane County, because white rage at their shrinking majority is real and this election cycle has emboldened them (the winning was just icing on the cake – the losing would have resulted in the same thing). By the way, I am not in the group who thinks that when the yam fails to deliver on all of his promises they will turn against him; he has already delivered on their biggest issue – that the next president be a white male.
I am at my core a glass half-full sort of blogger so I will return to my writing, probably next week, with positive pieces. Not the hoped for “President-elect Hillary Rodham Clinton staffs her cabinet” pieces but the “rebuilding from the electoral setback” pieces that we are going to need. I am not going to stop being in the Democratic Party wing of the Democratic Party, or give up on the politics of the possible, pragmatic progressivism. That will be the next battle – to cool down those who say we lost because we were not liberal enough. That makes no more sense than Ted Cruz saying that Romney lost by not being conservative enough. The yam did not win by being more conservative than Romney! He won because he was a successful huckster and rode the backlash against the rising tide of multiracial multicultural America symbolized by Barack Obama’s presidency and Barack Obama’s Democratic Party. And we will win when there are enough of us willing to say “we are Barack Obama’s America and we want our country back!” and more of us voting, for crying out loud.
In the meantime, Barack Obama is still our president and that is a very good thing.
See all y’all later!
Up for ungodly hour walking. Didn’t walk yesterday. It’s 54, so long sleeves & maybe a jacket….
We had a really positive day on campus – a lot of hugs and tears and anger – and a large demonstration – marched into town and back
Talked in class about steps we need to take
plus the wear a safety pin campaign
I saw the walkout covered on Twitter by some national media. It is good to see people coming together to fight this.
I have my safety pin and one for my daughter.
Denise – would you mind posting this in one of the Village Hangout diaries? Everybody’s trying to find things to do, to help, or to at least remind us of the kind of people Hillary supporters are. Both the report of the march and the Dragonfyre tweet are great.
Good morning, Moosekind! It’s 36 F. frosty degrees here in NoVa, with brilliant sunshine, going up to 53 F. today. Time to light a fire in the woodstove and make Baked Barley (tastes a lot better than it sounds) for Vegetarian Night tonight.
Yes, I still feel awful—still can’t read the news or watch TV—and my cold doesn’t help. As it has reached the nasty stage, I postponed the Sunday lunch we were supposed to host for our friend.
GOS has once more turned into a fetid swamp. I temporarily left Facebook, couldn’t bring myself to deactivate completely. That would kind of put paid to my author page. On the other hand, I absolutely do not feel like writing at the moment, possibly forever.
Need to polish the silver before Thanksgiving, wrap some presents for mailing while we still have a functioning postal service (the Rethugs are dying to close it down), and so forth. I’m going to start looking for a part-time job within walking distance of this house. If they take away our social, we’ve got to do something. Might have to rent out the downstairs space for Air b-n-b.
Hope everyone will have a good weekend.
baked barley? Sounds interesting – what’s in it?
Thanks for the Hillary address, another democrat! I plan to write to her.
Here’s the recipe. I only make half of it for the two of us because it makes a LOT. Tonight we’ll have pumpkin soup for the first course, then the barley plus maybe a green vegetable, and then a red, blue, or black fruit.
Baked Barley and Mushrooms
Servings: 4 Preparation time: 1 and 1/2 hours
1 onion diced
1/2 pound mushrooms, sliced
1 cup barley (not the quick-cooking kind, the regular kind)
Salt and pepper to taste
5 tablespoons butter (nevah! I use one tablesp. of olive oil)
2 1/2 cups vegetable broth, boiling
Preheat oven to 350 F.
In a large deep frying pan, sauté onion, mushrooms, barley, and seasoning in butter (olive oil). Stir frequently until barley is lightly browned.
Place in a casserole and stir in broth.
Cover and bake for approximately 1 hour. If barley is too firm when all the liquid is absorbed, add more boiling water. However, avoid overcooking—barley is more delicious when firm and slightly crunchy.
NOTE
Be very careful when removing cover from casserole, as steam builds up within.
Diana’s Note:
When you first read through this recipe, your immediate reaction is very likely, “Oh, DREARY me!” However, this is surprisingly delicious. Even my carnivorous husband likes it. You can see how easily it’s converted to a vegan recipe by the simple substitution of olive oil for butter.
This dish is basically brown, so you could serve it with the Steamed Trio (carrots, cauliflower, and broccoli) and make sure there’s fresh pineapple (possibly topped with bits of candied ginger from Trader Joe’s) for afters.
*I think this recipe came from Autobiography of a Yogi. It was aeons ago that I started using it.
I don’t think it sounds dreary at all, it sounds yummy! Thank you!