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Slow-Roasted Pork Shoulder with Cabbage and Apples, Hilarious Cartoons, Beautiful Butterfly Artwork

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It’s Wonderful Wednesday!

Another cool Wednesday presentation for enjoyment, inspiration, thought and a laugh or two.

BEGINNING WITH:

BEAUTIFUL BUTTERFLY ART

LESLIE ELMAN’S POP QUIZ AND FASCINATING FACTS
Who knew who resigned as president of Columbia University when he was elected as the president of the United States?
AND that there’s an opposite word for paranoia?
I didn’t!  Now we all know.

QUICK QUESTION
Would I rather have the ability to instantly learn any skill or have a photographic memory?
Took me about 5 seconds to say, “Learn any skill!”
You?

LAND OF BEGINNING AGAIN
Had my full attention.
I’ve always kind of referred to such as a Do-Over
However, I adore the term — Land of Beginning Again — way more than a Do-Over

JAMES DEAN’S QUOTE
Is simple – but – super thought provoking deep.
I’m so gonna put this one to memory.

SLOW-COOKED PORK SHOULDER RECIPE
With the 3 side-kick ideas calls out, “Hello, hello memorable fall dinner.”

TRACY BECKERMAN’S
Column on meatloaf is hilarious.  Always
Fortunately, my family has a really good meatloaf recipe that we make and have made over the years.  Passed down from our grandma.  It’s really good!  However, there’s a meatloaf in my world thanks to my neighbors, Trent and Susan.  It’s called Smoked meatloaf and it is bar none!

As a matter of fact, when I traveled to visit family last year, Trent gifted a loaf (frozen) and I traveled it in my luggage.
My mom actually said, jokingly, “Cher, if you get off the plane without Trent’s smoked meatloaf or —”
Not sure what the “or” thing might have entailed.  Ha!
I arrived with the loaf of smoked greatness and family enjoyed sooooo much!

WE SURE DO APPRECIATE ALL OF YOU  — DAYMAKER READABLE ART FAMILY!
Gratitude for your time + engaging + sharing + caring.

Have a great rest of the week!
Catch ya Friday.
Same time.
Same place.

POP Quiz

POP QUIZ

  1. THE ALAN LOMAX COLLECTION AT THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS IS LARGELY DEVOTED TO THE HISTORY OF WHAT SUBJECT?
    a) Cookbooks
    b) Folk Music
    c) Political cartooning
    d) Stamp collecting
  2. POLARIS, ALSO CALLED THE NORTH STAR, IS THE BRIGHTEST STAR IN WHICH CONSTELLATION?
    a) Cygnus
    b) Draco
    c) Gemini
    d) Ursa Minor
  3. WHO RESIGNED AS THE PRESIDENT OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY WHEN HE WAS ELECTED PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES?
    a) Jimmy Carter
    b) Dwight D. Eisenhower
    c) Theodore Roosevelt
    d) Woodrow Wilson
Slow Roasted Pork Shoulder

QUICK QUESTION

WOULD YOU RATHER HAVE THE
ABILITY TO INSTANTLY LEARN ANY
SKILL OR HAVE A PHOTOGRAPHIC MEMORY?

Slow Roasted Pork Shoulder

POP QUIZ ANSWERS

  1. The Alan Lomax Collection at the Library of Congress is largely devoted to the history of folk music.
  2. Polaris, also called the North Star, is the brightest star in the constellation Ursa Minor.
  3. Dwight D. Eisenhower resigned as the president of Columbia University when he was elected president of the United States.

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THE LAND OF BEGINNING AGAIN

I wish that there were some wonderful place called the Land of Beginning Again

Where all our mistakes and heartaches and all of our selfish grief

Could be dropped at the door and never put on again

I wish we could come on it all unaware

Like the hunter who finds a lost trail

And I wish that the one whom our blindness has done the greatest injustice of all

Could beat the gates like an old friend that waits for the comrade he’s gladdest to had

We would find all the things we intended to do, but forgot and remembered too late

Little praises unspoken, little promises broken and all the thousand and one little duties neglected that might
have perfected the day for one less fortunate

It wouldn’t be possible not to be kind In the Land of Beginning Again

And the ones we misjudged and the ones whom we grudged in their moments of victory

Then would find in grasp of our loving handclasp

More than pertinent lips could explain

For what had been

Hardest we’d known had been best and what seemed loss would be gain

For there isn’t a sting that will not take wing when we’ve faced it and laughed it away

And I think laughter is most what we’re after in the Land of Beginning Again

So I wish that there were some wonderful place called the Land of Beginning Again

Where all our mistakes and all our heartaches and all our selfish grief could be dropped
like a shabby old coat at the door and never put on again.

~ Louise Fletcher ~

ONLY THE GENTLE ARE
EVER REALLY STRONG
~ JAMES DEAN ~

SATISFACTION
GUARANTEED:

REMEMBER THE GOOD WITHIN YOU

RIDDLE ME THIS

WHAT IS HARDER TO CATCH
THE FASTER YOU RUN?

Slow Roasted Pork Shoulder

SLOW-COOKED PORK SHOULDER WITH LEMON AND GARLIC

A stellar Main Attraction! 
An overnight rest in a simple marinade infuses this pork roast with extra flavor.  Makes about 6 servings

INGREDIENTS

  • 1 (6-pound) boneless pork shoulder, trimmed
  • 1/3 cup fresh lemon juice
  • 7 TBSP (or a little bit more) olive oil, divided
  • 1/4 cup minced fresh garlic (my go-to is LIGHTHOUSE freeze dried garlic – so easy to rock-and-roll with — no arduous task of smashing, peeling and mincing — however, gotta be freeze dried LIGHTHOUSE garlic, available at many grocery markets or simply order on-line/next day delivery -a plan ahead sort of thing + it’s great to have on hand for numerous other recipes)
    (( PRO TIP – buy 2 or more jars ))
  • 1 tsp salt, divided
  • 1 tsp freshly ground pepper, divided
  • 1 large yellow onion, diced
  • 3/4 cup dry white wine
  • 2 TBSP chopped fresh oregano (my go-to is LIGHTHOUSE freeze dried oregano – unless, of course, you have an herb garden with oregano begging to be picked and ready for action)
  • 1 lemon, halved

HERE’S HOW WE PREPARE IT

  1. In a large resealable plastic bag, combine pork, lemon juice, 4 TBSP olive oil garlic, 1/2 tsp salt and 1/2 tsp pepper.
  2. Seal bag
  3. Gently shake to combine
  4. Refrigerate at least 8 hours or up to 12 hours

AFTER 8-12 Hours

  1. Remove pork from bag
  2. Discard bag and marinade

PREHEAT OVEN TO 325*
IN A LARGE DUTCH OVEN POT

  1. Heat 2 TBS olive oil over medium-high heat
  2. Add onion
  3. Cook onion until lightly browned, stirring frequently for about 5 minutes
  4. Remove onion from Dutch oven pot and put on a plate/container on kitchen counter
  5. Add 2-3 TBSP olive oil to pan
  6. Add pork shoulder piece and over medium- high – heat sear until lightly browned on all sides – about 2 minutes on each of the sides
  7. Return onion to Dutch oven pot with the pork shoulder
  8. Add wine, oregano, remaining 1/2 tsp salt and 1/2 tsp pepper

WRAP TIGHTLY TOP OF DUTCH OVEN POT WITH FOIL
Bake approximately 2 hours and 30 minutes

REMOVE FROM OVEN

  1. Carefully remove pork from pot and place on a cutting board – let rest about 5 minutes
  2. Squeeze lemon halves over pork shoulder
  3. Slice pork shoulder and platter on individual plates
  4. Spoon a little drizzle of pan drippings over pork slices – just a little – a little goes a long way

SERVE WITH THESE 3 SIDE KICKS:

  • Sauteed green cabbage – I saute my thinly sliced cabbage with equal parts olive oil and butter
  • Fork size chunks of Macintosh and or Gala apples
  • Slices of a really great fresh baguette + butter

~ Hippie Cowboy recipe box

RIDDLE ANSWER

YOUR BREATH

Slow Roasted Pork Shoulder

LOST IN SUBURBIA

SAVE THE MEATLOAF
BY TRACY BECKERMAN

“Hey honey, I just found out I can make a meatloaf in the slow cooker,” I told my husband.

“No offense,” said my husband, “but we don’t even really like the meatloaf you make the regular way.”

I frowned.  I couldn’t be mad at him because I knew it was true.  I did not have the best meatloaf reputation.  When it came to making a dish as basic as meatloaf, I was something of a ground beef failure.  No matter how diligently I watched the meat thermometer and poked my meatloaves to see if they were done, they still always came out dry and cakey.  They weren’t really meatloaves.  They were more like meatbricks.

In my defense, I come from a long line of lousy meatloaf makers.  My great-grandmother brought her lousy meatloaf recipe over from the old country.  She called it “mitlof,” which loosely translated to mean “large ball of meat you chew forever.”  She passed the lousy meatloaf recipe on to my grandmother, who passed the lousy meatloaf recipe on to my mother, who handed it down to me.  Not wanting to break with tradition, I persisted.  But the next time I made my great-grandmother’s “mitloaf” when my kids came to visit, it was overwhelmingly panned by the meatloaf critics in my house.

“Sorry mom, but there isn’t enough ketchup in the world to save this,” said my son.

“You killed the meatloaf,” said my daughter.  “You’re a meatloaf murderer.”

“On the bright side, honey, if you had a couple hundred of these, we could use them to pave the driveway,” said my husband.

“That bad, huh?”  I replied.

“Yeah, but think of all the money we could save on stone pavers.”

The writing was on the wall.  It was clear I needed a meatloaf intervention.

So I asked a friend of mine who made world-renowned meatloaf, and she told me she made the most delicious, moist meatloaf in her slow cooker.  I begged her for the recipe.

“It’s so easy,” she said.  “You mix all the ingredients together, make a loaf shape, put it in the slow cooker on low, and in four hours it’s done.”

“That’s it?”  I said.

“Turns out great every time.”

I was dubious but I’d never seen her kids boycott dinner on meatloaf night like mine had, or her dog walk away from the meatloaf when it fell on the floor like my dog did, or her get a cease-and-desist notice from the Health Department like I did, so I decided to give it a try.

I followed all her instructions for making the meatloaf, lined my slow cooker, then added the loaf and hit start.

Without being chained to the oven to keep checking on the meatloaf, I went out for a few uninterrupted hours of shopping.  Drunk with meatloaf freedom, I hit up the bookstore and bought several recipe books for slow cookers.  I went to the cookware store and bought some new oven mitts that didn’t have burn marks on them.  And I went to the drugstore to buy a bottle of antacid … just in case.

Four hours later I got home and ran to the slow cooker to check out my delicious, new, juicy meatloaf.

I yanked off the top and peered in.

As I stared down at my meatloaf, I realized I had forgotten one crucial step in the slow cooker recipe:

Plug it in.

~ Tracy Beckerman is the author of the Amazon Bestseller, “Barking at the Moon:  A Story of Life, Love, and Kibble.”
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Fascinating Stuff

  • Feeling as if everyone hates you and the world is conspiring against you?  Some might say you’re experiencing paranoia.  But what if you feel that everyone loves you and they’re all on your side?  There’s a word for that, too.  Pronoia, the deluded belief that everyone admires and approves of you, is the opposite of paranoia.  The name was coined in 1982 by Fred H. Goldner, a professor of sociology at Queens College in New York City.
  • The tallest library building in the United States is the W.E.B. Du Bois Library at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.  When it opened in 1973, the 296.5-foot-tall brick-lined tower was the tallest library in the world.  It was surpassed in 1996 by the 106.9 (about 351 feet) Shanghai Library in China.  And that was topped in 2017 by the new National Library of Indonesia in Jakarta, which, at 127 meters (about 417 feet), is currently the world’s tallest library.
  • Lots of Hollywood “biopics” feature the film’s real-life subject in a cameo role.  Among them:  Erin Brockovich as a waitress named Julia serving Julia Roberts as Erin Brockovich in “Erin Brockovich.”  Chuck Yaeger played a bartender serving Sam Shepherd as Chuck Yeager in “The Right Stuff.”  Larry Flynt played the judge in the trial of Woody Harrelson as Larry Flynt in “The People vs. Larry Flynt.”  And Eddie Egan, inspiration for Gene Hackman’s detective character, Jimmy “Popeye” Doyle, played Doyle’s boss in the “French Connection.”
  • Most U.S. mottos are Latin or English phrases, but there are some outliers.  Among them:  California’s motto, “Eureka” is Greek for “I found it.”  Hawaii’s motto, “Ua Mau ke Ea o ka Aina i ka Pono,” means “The life of the land is perpetuated in righteousness” in Hawaiian.  Montana’s  “Oro y Plata” is Spanish for “Gold and Silver.  Minnesota’s “L’etoile du Nord is French for “Star of the North.”
  • The sports teams of Davis & Elkins College in West Virginia are called the Senators, an appropriate mascot for a school founded by two U.S. senators from West Virginia:  Henry Gassaway Davis and his son-in-law, Stephen Benton Elkins.  Each a wealthy landowner, they donated the property and the money to found the school in 1904.

COPYRIGHT 2024 LESLIE ELMAN
DISTRIBUTED BY CREATORS.COM

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2 replies
  2. Marty says:

    Daymaker’s choice of art illustrations warms my heart.

    Now to The LAND OF BEGINNING AGAIN. I’ll tell you what I did with The LAND OF BEGINNING AGAIN. So I have attended my share of memorials and sat in regret that I never knew some of those nice things about the deceased person. So I said to self, “I’m setting out to discover more great facts about friends as well as sweet acquaintance. So here’s what I do. I call (or text) a person (woman) and say something like, “I’ve been thinking of you and decided to give you a call to see if you could come to my home for coffee? We can sit ______ (sit by my fireplace, sit near the flowers in the yard, sit on the porch, sit in the kitchen) and talk for awhile. The Results: I’m proud of myself because I have followed through and loved every minute of it.

    Just this day I had a woman here for tea that I barely knew but felt I wanted to know better. It was great. She stayed about an hour.. OK, there’s my do over, maybe you are thinking of someone to ask.

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