January 24, 2010

Football and lots of Chicken in the fridge. Therefore,
Chicken Burritos and White Chili.

The recipe for the White Chili :
1 pound boneless skinless chicken breasts
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 large onion, chopped
1 cup chicken broth
1Red Pepper
1 large can white kidney beans (cannellini), undrained
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 teaspoon cumin
2 teaspoons Chili Powder
1 teaspoon cayenne
Heat oil and saute chicken and onion 4 to 5 minutes.
Remove chicken and cover to keep warm.
Add garlic to pan and cook 2 minutes or until onions begin to brown.
Stir in spices and broth and simmer on low heat for 30 minutes.
Stir in cooked chicken and beans.
Simmer until tender. Serve garnished with Monterey Jack cheese.



I rooted for them even though I'm a Giants fan.
One thing I'm glad about is: I don't have to hear
that J E T S Jets - Jets - Jets Cheer for a while.



Real good read. His stage work was impressive.
Turned down Maggio in From Here to Eternity
to do a Tennessee Williams role. Also, played in Rhinoceros
with Zero Mostel.



The Bing Crosby book is full of good stuff like:

"The mordent—a fast wavering from one note to another and back, a fleeting undulation that suggests a mournful cry—was a vestige of the Byzantine influence that dominated European music in the Middle Ages. That influence vanished from most of Europe but endured in the plaintive folk music of Scotland and Ireland, owing to their economic and geographical isolation from the modernizing impact of the Reformation and Renaissance. A 1950s edition of Chambers's Encyclopaedia defines the mordent as a "certain oscillation or catch in the voice as it comes to rest momentarily upon a sustained sound" and goes on to qualify it as a basic attribute of "crooning." Among young Celtic singers of the twenty-first century, the mordent-heavy approach is known as sean nós, or old style, but it was new to Americans in the 1920s, when Dennis Harrigan's great-grandson pinned the mordent to popular music like a red rose."