Author: Dr Wingnut

  • Rosemary Rolls

    Ingredients3 envelopes dry yeast (6¾ teaspoons)3½ cups warm water9 cups all purpose flour1 Tablespoon salt1 cup olive oil½ cup dried rosemary½ cup coarse sea saltMethodCombine yeast and water, mix well so yeast is dissolved.  Add flour and 1 tablespoon of salt; mix and knead well until dough is shiny and elastic.Put dough into mixing bowl…

  • Happy New Year

    Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.Thomas Jefferson

  • RIP Prince of Darkenss

    Prince been gone patrolling the neighborhood for a couple of days, which isn’t surprising, because he was gone for a week a few weeks ago.  I’d been thinking about when he might return; I was thinking it would be in the morning yesterday, as he generally doesn’t like to hang out in the snow, but…

  • Christmas

    Christmas is for children.  But it is for grown-ups too.  Even if it is a headache, a chore, and nightmare, it is a period of necessary defrosting of chill and hide-bound hearts.Lenora Mattingly Weber

  • Politics

    The reason we have politics at all is that we disagree, sometimes deeply, about how to promote the common good, and we need a peaceful and productive way to resolve or at least manage these disagreements.Ramesh Ponnuru, Bloomberg News, StarTribune, 28-Dec-2011

  • Trust

    I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders.Jewish ProverbGod never gives you more than you can handle, but I wish he didn’t trust me so much…

  • Respect

    Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?Confucius