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I stumbled upon this "recipe" while trying to recreate/interpret a wonderful dish called Hungover Kale from Mucci’s Restaurant on W. Lake Street in Minneapolis. Theirs includes pancetta, pine nuts and Chardonnay. As I had none of the above items, I decided to wing it with ingredients that I had on hand. After all, that's half the fun of cooking, IMO. And while I won’t claim that my dish is tastier than the offering from Mucci (it isn’t), I can attest that it's pretty damn good in its own right (it is.) Serve it as a main course with an egg or two on top, or in combination with a side of buttered noodles, rice, or macaroni and gravy.*
*hat tip to Paulie Walnuts
Ingredients:
-6 cups kale chopped and washed
-1 medium to large yellow onion chopped
-6 cloves garlic chopped (more or less to your tastes)
-8oz ground pork sausage (could sub turkey sausage or skip entirely, but it becomes a different dish--still good, I bet)
-2 jalapeño peppers sliced (more or less depending on your tastes)
-3 tablespoons olive oil
-3 oz. dry vermouth (a good glug from the bottle.)
-1 can cannellini beans drained and rinsed
-1 teaspoon crushed red pepper (you could cut that in half if you lack fortitude)
-sea salt
-black pepper
-farm fresh eggs (optional)
-green onions (optional)
-quarter cup pine nuts or chopped walnuts (optional)
Now first an admission, I rarely ever follow a recipe. (It's why I don't bake. lol) In fact, I take a perverse pride in winging it in the kitchen. I once made dinner for a group of co-workers from the restaurant at the Hilton, including the executive chef and his wife. Yes, I was nervous. Very nervous, as a matter of fact. Turns out, I shouldn't have been--everybody loved it. (It was my Hot and Spicy Pork.) Afterwards, Chef J.G. asked if he might have the recipe. I told him there wasn't one, I just threw it together by feel. He smirked and said, "I wasn't aware that you played Jazz." With that in mind, these measurements are all approximations.
In a large skillet add 3 tablespoons olive oil and bring to medium heat. Add onion, jalapeños, and a couple pinches of sea salt. Cook until onions are semi-translucent. Add garlic and brown for a few minutes. Add ground pork sausage and raise heat to med high. Add the crushed red pepper and brown the sausage while gently mixing the contents with a spatula. Once the meat is cooked somewhat (med-rare-ish), raise heat to high and add the cannellini beans. After a minute or so, add 3 ounces of dry white vermouth (cooking sherry or the Chardonnay that the recipe actually calls for could be substituted.) Promptly add the chopped kale on top of ingredients and cover. After a minute or so on high, reduce heat all the way down to low. Check dish after 12-15 minutes and stir your mixture of ingredients all together. Re-cover the skillet and continue on low heat for 5 more minutes. The beauty of this recipe is that while it's ready to serve at this point, you can continue to keep the dish on low heat for another 15 minutes or more. Kale retains its integrity far longer than most greens, so it won't turn to mush. It affords you the time to tend to other items you might be preparing, or simply give you an opportunity to enjoy a glass of wine before dinner. First rule of the kitchen? Marinate the chef. Top with the pine nuts or walnuts if you have them. (I did not this outting.) Add additional salt and pepper to taste. Once plated, a sprinkling of sliced green onion will add even more color, flavor and texture thus assuring your dish is ready for its close-up, Mr. DeMille. Bootsy's Hungover Kale: a versatile and tasty dish that works for breakfast, lunch or dinner. Serves 3-4 as an entree, 6-8 as a side dish.
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16. Just a Bunch of Buxton Videos
Honestly nothing was going to beat Puckett and I couldn't find a single Buxton moment that really stood out to me, so I'm just going to post a lot of his great plays here so enjoy!
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Loading ...Date: Thursday, April 22.
Batting stars: Gary Ward was 3-for-4 with a double, a walk, and two runs. John Castino was 2-for-4. Jim Eisenreich was 2-for-5 with two doubles. Randy Johnson was 2-for-5 with a double.
Pitching star: Fernando Arroyo pitched four innings of relief, giving up one run on four hits and four walks. Bobby Castillo retired all five men he faced.
Opposition stars: Mike Stanton pitched three shutout innings of relief, giving up one hit and striking out one. Richie Zisk was 2-for-4 with a double, two runs, and two RBIs. Jim Essian was 2-for-4 with two RBIs. Manny Castillo was 2-for-5.
The game: The Twins put two on with two out in the first, but nothing came of it. They again put two on with two out in the third, as Bobby Mitchell doubled and scored on Ward's single. Ward went to second on the throw to the plate and scored on a Kent Hrbek single to put the Twins up 2-0.
The lead lasted all the way to the bottom of the third. Jim Essian led off with a single. Singles by Julio Cruz and Castlllo loaded the bases. Bruce Bochte walked to force home a run and Zisk's two-run double put the Mariners ahead. An intentional walk reloaded the bases. Al Cowens singled home a run and a walk to Joe Simpson brought home another. Twins starter Pete Redfern came out of the game, but Arroyo gave up a two-run single to Essian before finally getting out of the inning. It was 7-2 Seattle, and they would lead the rest of the way.
The Twins managed to not score in the fifth despite getting doubles from Eisenreich and Ward, as Eisenreich was only able to get to third on the Ward double. They got one run in the sixth when Castino singled, went to second on a Lenny Faedo walk, and scored on Eisenreich's single. They got one more in the seventh on walks to Ward and Hrbek and a single by Johnson, cutting the margin to 7-4. The Mariners got one of the runs back in the bottom of the seventh when Zisk singled, Jim Maier walked, and Simpson delivered an RBI single. That made it 8-4, and that's where it stayed.
WP: Mike Moore (1-2). LP: Redfern (1-2). S: Stanton (3).
Notes: Mitchell was in right field, as Tom Brunansky had not been brought to the majors yet. Later in the season Mitchell would take over in center field because of the struggles of Eisenreich.
The Twins didn't really have a full-time DH. Johnson played the most games there with 66. Others to see significant time at DH were Jesus Vega (39), Mickey Hatcher (29), Randy Bush (26), and Dave Engle (20).
Castino was a second baseman at this point, due to back trouble and to the presence of Gary Gaetti.
This was Redfern's last major league season. He had been decent from 1979-1981, but in 1982 he was awful, going 5-11, 6.58, 1.83 WHIP. It says much about the Twins pitching staff that he still made 13 starts and appeared in relief 14 times.
This would be Arroyo's last appearance as a Twin. Despite pitching pretty well in this game, he had an ERA of 5.27 and a WHIP of 1.68 at this point. He was released and claimed by Oakland, for whom he was not a lot better. After this season he would make only one more major league appearance, for the Athletics in 1986. He would walk all three batters he faced and be done in the majors for good.
The Twins went 5-for-14 with men in scoring position, but still stranded eleven men.
Hrbek was leading the team in batting at this stage of the season at .323. Eisenreich was batting .321.
On the other end of the scale, Mitchell was batting .160 and Butch Wynegar was at .167.
Record: The Twins were 6-10, in seventh (last) place in the American League West, five games behind Chicago. They would finish 60-102, in seventh (last) place, thirty-three games behind California.
The Mariners were 7-9, in sixth place in the American League West, four games behind Chicago. They would finish 76-86, in fourth place, seventeen games behind California.
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Herman Long (1866)
Kid Elberfeld (1875)
Jake Stahl (1879)
Claude Hendrix (1889)
Ben Cantwell (1902)
Pete Quesada (1904)
Roxie Lawson (1906)
Bill Deegan (1935)
John Stephenson (1941)
Jeff Bittiger (1962)
Mark Leiter (1963)
Doug Strange (1964)
Ricardo Rincon (1970)
Kevin Ohme (1971)
Steve Pearce (1983)
Hunter Pence (1983)
Lorenzo Cain (1986)
Air Force General Pete Quesada was one of the original owners of the expansion Washington Senators. He also was the first head of the Federal Aviation Administration.
Bill Deegan was an American League umpire from 1971-1980.
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Addie Joss (1880)
Bill Bailey (1888)
Eric McNair (1909)
Bill Wight (1922)
Bob Zuk (1927)
Johnny Antonelli (1930)
Terry Cooney (1933)
Charlie Lau (1933)
Woodie Fryman (1940)
Vicente Romo (1943)
Terry Harmon (1944)
Mike Macfarlane (1964)
Paul LoDuca (1972)
Antonio Osuna (1973)
Pedro Hernandez (1989)
Bob Zuk was a long-time scout who was responsible for signing, among others, Reggie Jackson, Willie Stargell, and Gary Carter.
Terry Cooney was an American League umpire from 1975-1992.
Date: Tuesday, May 11.
Batting stars: Luis Rivas was 3-for-5 with a triple and a double. Doug Mientkiewicz was 3-for-6. Cristian Guzman was 2-for-4 with a walk and two runs. Torii Hunter was 1-for-2 with a two-run homer (his third), a walk, and a hit-by-pitch.
Pitching stars: Carlos Silva pitched seven innings, giving up two runs (one earned) on eleven hits and no walks and striking out four. Joe Roa pitched a scoreless inning, giving up two hits and a walk. Aaron Fultz pitched two shutout innings, giving up one hit and striking out one.
Opposition stars: Joel Piniero pitched seven innings, giving up two runs on six hits and a walk and striking out three. Randy Winn was 3-for-5. Dan Wilson was 3-for-5. Jolbert Cabrera was 2-for-2 with a stolen base. Rich Aurilia was 2-for-4 with a walk. Scott Spiezio was 3-for-6 with a triple and three RBIs. Bret Boone was 2-for-6.
The game: It was actually a pitchers' duel most of the game. In the top of the first Ichiro Suzuki reached on an error, went to second on Boone's single, and scored on an Edgar Martinez single to put the Mariners up 1-0. The Twins tied it in the bottom of the first on singles by Guzman and Mientkiewicz and a ground out by Corey Koskie.
Seattle got a pair of one-out singles in the second, but it stayed tied until the fourth, when singles by Aurilia, Winn, and Spiezio put the Mariners up 2-1. The Twins tied it in the sixth when Hunter homered to make it 2-2.
J. C. Romero came on to start the eighth. John Olerud singles and was bunted to second. Singles by Wilson, Winn, and Suzuki made it 4-2. Roa then came on and gave up a two-run triple to Spiezio to give Seattle a 6-2 lead.
It looked bad for the Twins, but they came right back in the bottom of the eighth. Bert Blyleven's favorite pitcher, Shigatoshi Hasegawa, came in to pitch. Guzman and Mientkiewicz led off with singles, followed by walks to Michael Cuddyer and Hunter. Mike Myers came in and hit Jacque Jones with a pitch, making the score 6-4. J. J. Putz came in. Lew Ford hit a sacrifice fly and with two out Rivas singled home the tying run.
Each team put two on with one out in the ninth, but the game went to extras. In the bottom of the eleventh, Shannon Stewart walked and was bunted to second. Mientkiewicz then delivered an RBI single to win the game for the Twins.
WP: Fultz (1-1). LP: Ron Villone (3-1). S: None.
Notes: Hunter was at DH, with Lew Ford in center field. The Twins didn't really have a regular DH in 2004. Jose Offerman had the most games there, with 39. Matthew LeCroy had 30, Ford 26, Stewart 21, and a variety of others with eleven or fewer.
This was the year Joe Mauer was injured most of the season, so Henry Blanco was the regular catcher.
Corey Koskie started the game at third base but came out in the fourth inning, replaced by Cuddyer. He apparently was injured, as he would not play again until May 27.
Michael Ryan pinch-ran for Hunter in the eighth. Offerman pinch-hit for Blanco in the eighth. LeCroy came in to catch in the ninth.
It was kind of a typical Sliva game--two runs, eleven hits, no walks. He threw 104 pitches.
Romero was a good reliever most of the time in 2004, but he had a few major meltdowns, and this was one of them. Four earned runs in one-third of an inning. Roa didn't help him, obviously, but Romero didn't help himself, either.
The teams combined to strand twenty-three runners. The Twins were 2-for-15 with men in scoring position.
Record: The Twins were 18-13, tied for first in the American League Central with Chicago. They would finish 92-70, in first place, nine games ahead of Chicago.
The Mariners were 12-20, in fourth (last) place in the American League West, 9.5 games behind Anaheim. They would finish 63-99, in fourth (last) place, twenty-nine games behind Anaheim.
