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Skriven 2010-10-30 12:06:00 av MICHAEL LOO (1:123/140)
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 JW> News Flash: Yellowknife Realtor eats two Double Downs and suffers
 JW> cardiac arrest. Found at his desk, head down in greasy wrappers.
 JW> Film at 11.

I claimed in my description of the one that I had (a full year
ago, and I haven't had one since) that I could eat two of them,
less the cheese of course. I'm actually not sure about that,
but they were surprisingly edible.

 JW> That didn't actually happen although I thought I felt a twinge. [g]

I'm sure one double down or a hundred isn't going to make
a substantial dent in your life span.

 JW> The Double Down is just now being marketing in Canada, so I had one
 JW> (not two) today for lunch.  They are everything everyone said they
 JW> would be.
 JW> Our Dave Sacerdote thinks they are the coolest fast food item to
 JW> come along in years, absolutely delicious, a poor man's chicken
 JW> Cordon Bleu. He's right.

They were pretty cool, I admit.

 JW> Uber SNAG (Sensitive New Age Guy) Mark Morford at the San Francisco

Is that an accepted acronym? Cool.

 JW> Chronicle thinks they are sodium and grease filled gut bombs, made
 JW> from sad, soulless factory chickens, churned out by a greedy and
 JW> uncaring industrial-mega-death-corp and a vile symbol of everything
 JW> that's wrong with America today. He's right too!

One problem I have with polemicists from both ends is that
they go for the easy target, plus they tend to get bits
wrong. "Fistful of karmic hate?" Morford, you stupid bunt,
you're even a bad writer.

 JW> To assuage my guilt I ordered a side Caesar salad instead of fries
 JW> but as it came with cheese, bacon bits, deep fried croutons and 2
 JW> monster pouches of salad dressing I might as well have had the
 JW> fries, even though I set aside the second pouch of dressing.

There's no getting around it, but be reassured that diet
has less to do with health than an army of dieticians would
have you believe.

 JW> I will order it again but I'm going to limit myself to one a month.
 JW> I just hope I don't get hooked and start jonesing for daily doses
 JW> like some kind of depraved addict.

I'll probably not order one again - it's a bit salty, and the
cheese that apparently serves as its integrator isn't for me.
Plain chicken for me, please.

Greatest chicken recipe
cat: mine, low-carb
servings: 8

32 fl chicken stock
3 lb chicken thighs (about 8)
2 lb chicken breasts
3 lb onions, sliced thin
16 fl heavy cream
6 fl dry white wine
1/2 lb cream cheese
thyme
lots of pepper
salt to correct

Bone the breasts and boil the bones in the stock
for a while. Reduce stock to 1 1/2 c.

Remove skin from all chicken. Render out the fat. Eat
the cracklings.

Brown the chicken pieces in the rendered fat, cooking
the breasts the least, the thighs somewhat more. Remove
to a warm place. Dump the onions in the same fat and cook
over low heat, salting ad lib, until onions are
essentially a uniform mush. Add the stock, heavy cream,
and wine. Season. Bring to the boil; then lower heat to
a simmer and let cook until thickish. Add chicken, cover,
and cook 15 min or to taste. Thicken with cream cheese.
Serve over the starch of your choice.

vaguely after Julia Child: or at least made to taste
like something out of Mastering the Art of French Cooking.

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