O noes! It's teh Snoe Storm Of Teh Centureeeee!
For the record, so far we've gotten about four inches of wet sticky snow, and they're predicting rain later so it'll probably all melt off, then freeze into black ice, then melt off over the next day or so.

But goddam, the grocery store was swarmed like a midnight screening of Twilight!

Look for yourself: www.vcu.edu/ramcam/bb_controller.html

Does that really look that bad?
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Fri 5 Feb 2010, 20:18, 10 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

pfft
people reacted the same way in this country to the snow, and they were all wrong.
( willenium Fist bump for verification, Fri 5 Feb 2010, 20:32, Reply)

Doesn't look that bad to me.
But I like the way you can control the camera.

And I like the way that heavy snow and cold weather gives you an excuse to stay in eating bubble & squeak. It's perfect winter food.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Sat 6 Feb 2010, 9:44, Reply)

Bubble and squeak?
Translation, please? That sounds somewhat scatological.
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Sat 6 Feb 2010, 12:12, Reply)

simple recipe
thefoody.com/vegetable/bubblesqueak.html
( Jinxy13 is hating the S key, right about now., Sat 6 Feb 2010, 12:45, Reply)

Cabbage rather than sprouts, every time.
And best served with crisp, verging on over-done, smoky bacon, and lots of HP sauce.


I'm making myself quite hungry now. B&S will never be classy food, but it's magnificent on a cold winter night.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Sat 6 Feb 2010, 13:10, Reply)

So how did they derive that name for it?
Still sounds scatological to me.

The cold weather food over here thus far has been chili, gumbo, spaghetti with hot sausage, soup with home-made bread, puerco pibil over rice, and enchiladas. All of those will fill you quickly and keep you warm.
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Sat 6 Feb 2010, 13:59, Reply)

It's from the sound of the cooking.
It's a reference to the boiling water that the potatoes and cabbage are cooked in, followed by the squeaky noise that the cabbage leaves make against each other when you stir. I think.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Sat 6 Feb 2010, 14:00, Reply)

Heh. Sounds about right.
Actually it sounds an awful lot like what my mom used to refer to as German potato pancakes. She would fry up onions and mix them into leftover mashed potatoes and fry globs of that into pancakes for breakfast. I haven't thought about that in years.

Google has turned up dozens of recipes for German potato pancakes. Might have to introduce my daughter the vegetarian to this.
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Sat 6 Feb 2010, 14:18, Reply)

Do not try B & S.
There is no going back.
(porkylips looks better as the sun goes down., Sat 6 Feb 2010, 14:14, Reply)

Update
The snow turned to rain last night, and now there's a light powdery dusting coming down. The Miata has less than an inch of snow on it at this point, and it doesn't look like we're going to get a lot more of anything.

But on CNN there are reports of snow! delays! planes canceled! mayhem! gridlock! in Washington DC as they get hit by it.
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Sat 6 Feb 2010, 14:23, Reply)