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Made chicken and olives tagine last night. Gonna try it again tonight with lamb shank, lemon, olives, and dried apricots. Puree two tomatoes and an onion with a healthy pinch of saffron paprika and ginger powder, and some salt/pepper. Add 1/4c olive oil and 1/4c melted butter, and marinade a chicken's worth of chicken parts in the whole mess for a half hour. Put the chicken and marinade into a tagine and add a cup or two of chicken broth to mostly cover the chicken. Simmer at medium-low heat for an hour or two, until the chicken is cooked through. Add 1-1/2 cups of pitted olives and the chopped peel from two preserved lemons (optional) and simmer another half hour. If you use a skillet or saute pan, you might need to add more water during the simmer, but then you can raise the heat at the end and reduce the sauce to make it thicker. Present tableside in the tagine or plate with flatbread and freshly minced coriander.

Er, not really. Curry means gravy or sauce -- and the term isn't really used by Indians, it's an English word from the Raj era. A vindaloo is a type of curry, which in Goa is made with a vinegar sauce, and is nearly always quite spicy and hot. Maybe I should have said "That recipe looks more like a generic curry than a vindaloo curry." And the comparison to chili is rather apt. Even in the same region, dishes will have a lot of variance. My last trip to Hyderabad, I must have eaten a dozen different biryani, and none were the same. All were amazing, though. -jon-

That recipe looks more like a curry than a vindaloo, which uses a vinegar-based marinade. Granted, I've been served "vindaloo" in US restaurants that were simply a spicy curry. Here's a good idea of what I'm used to, lamb with plenty of tamarind and ginger along with the vinegar. Highly recommended recipe. Another recipe with chicken that's similar to yours, but more like a vindaloo you'd get in Goa. "Of course, lager! The only thing that can kill a vindaloo!" - Dave Lister -jon-

Bulk CL search tool. Can also subscribe to a search using an RSS reader, but that's a little more complicated to explain. -jon-

It was even funnier in person, especially when he blew out a seam on his first run, and got a little more cautious with his carves.

We'll be in the Bozone this week and next, but will probably hit Bridger the most. I want to get down to Moonlight at least once, though. But if there's a repeat of my last trip -- 50" dump on Christmas -- not a lot of carving. :) -jon-

The local ski shop (as well as several I found online) quotes $15 to replace a buckle, not including parts -- so to replace all four buckles on both boots would be almost a hunnert bucks. Buying all the parts here would run just over another hunnert. At that point, I'd have spent almost half the price of the new track boots. Of course, if the ski shop works for spare beer instead of cash, and the parts are scavenged from old boots, it's a little more reasonable.

I was thinking that, myself. I had mentioned to a skier friend that I love my boots but hate the buckles -- and dropping $550+ on new boots & heels wasn't a reasonable solution. He thought that a good ski shop could drill out & mount better buckles, using spare parts from a ski boot model that I liked. I'm too risk-averse to drill out my own boots, but encourage you to test it out and let us all know how it goes! -jon-

I'll bet the powerboater was cited by USCG and has to fight his insurance company, but at least no one was hurt, so he's not fighting criminal charges as well. I've been following a story down in California, where an off-duty deputy ran down a slow-moving sailboat while going 40mph+ on a lake at night, killing one of the sailboat passengers. The helmsman on the sailboat's charged for the death, after the deputy's own department refused to take witness statements that incriminated him. -jon-

Maybe a half-million candlepower of Landing lights in some cheap housings? Maybe they'll melt the snow in the air. I know they get pretty dern hot. :D -jon-

Is there a 3 half-day course? The Father Time special? ;) -jon-

I used to brew with a guy, his little brewpub was called "Red Dawg". He'd been in business about 5 or 6 years, when some shmuck from Miller comes in one day and slaps a lawsuit on the counter. Tells him they own the name, now that their beer's been on the grocery store shelf for a few months. He built a damn fine new brewpub with the settlement, that beer put his kids through college. As to the worst beer I've had, that'd be Michelob N/A in lukewarm cans on the flight deck in the middle of the Persian Gulf. Floated around for weeks looking forward to beer call -- damn skipper was a teetotaler, so he had N/A beer shipped aboard. -jon-

I have a bad feeling, if I ever got talked into a cruise that by the third day I'd have snuck into the engine room to pull watch or do maintenance. "Who's the guy standing lower level machinery?" "I dunno, but he always relieves me early"

I have a pair, yellow. Came with my boots when I stole them from MikeT's closet, and I've never tried them, just put the stock soft ones back in and threw the yellow ones in the gear box. -jon-

There's nothing on the hill, except a day lodge in which the gondola ride ends. The only two places I know within walking distance of the gondola are the Baymont and the Morning Star Lodge. There's another couple right off the freeway, same exit, maybe a mile away from the gondola. You might call over to the Internet Sales guys at Dave Smith Motors, and see what they have to say. They get a lot of folks flying into town to pickup their trucks, and should know every motel in town. If they're making a trip to spokane, they might hook you up with a ride, too. -jon-