Medicare For All

Well, a health care reform bill has left the Senate Finance Committee. Now the biggest capitalistic health care guns will come out and valiantly attempt to gut any “socialism” from the bill. I’d like to say looking at industrialized Europe’s social safety net: How did Americans get so mean? But weren’t we always mean? To the indigenous population, to slaves, to immigrants? But these people didn’t matter; still don’t matter to “real” Americans. Now the only difference is the ruling oligarchy in order to keep their money and power must ravage the middle class. Maybe I should be asking: How did Americans get so stupid?

Website Wednesday

But I am in a happy mood. Even happier than just a few minutes ago. Some background: I had selected a medical/health website for this Wednesday and I was pretty happy with it though I don’t like to recommend that type of site usually. Then I started reading a thread over at Ravelry which asked the question: What do you serve for dessert? (OK, I know it’s not knitting, but I was interested - and hungry.) I thought I would get links to recipes but most of the posts just listed the desserts people eat. (Disclaimer: I have a 100-calorie bag of kettle corn popcorn once a week. I love popcorn!)

But one poster took pity on us, Ravelers, and linked to a baking website. Thus, my pick for this Wednesday:

http://bakingbites.com/

BB says about itself: Baking Bites is a site for those who love cooking and baking, whether your preference is to whip up simple chocolate chip cookies, decorate fanciful cupcakes to slow-rising artisan breads. In addition to being a recipe resource for home bakers, the site is a source of baking tips and advice, food news, reviews, discussions and inspiration - all in addition to of those recipes, of course! The site was founded in 2004.

Baking Bites was named as one of the best 50 food blogs in the world by the London Times, and has been featured in other newspapers and publications, including the Washington Post, the Sacramento Bee and People Magazine Country Edition.

Nicole Weston is the writer, the baker and the tester. She is also an equestrian so be sure to take a look at Jazz on the “About” page.

Now to the website. First, there is an up-to-date blog covering an array of food related topics. Currently, some are about airline food, spice, donuts, rice pudding (w/recipe), and Korean food.

Scroll the middle right vertical bar and get recipes such as homemade Girl Scout cookie recipes or black (chocolate) and white (marshmallow) Rice Krispie treats.

Or scroll the same vertical bar for “Categories” and links to all sorts of food related topics.

Then scroll the far right vertical bar for food news from other bloggers. (Oh, those delicious looking pictures are making me hungry!)

Need all your recipes on one page? Click “Recipe Index” on top and scroll through Nicole’s recipes to your heart’s content. There’s a from-scratch banana upside down cake which I would like to try with a mix (probably not as good but easier for me) and all those pesky bananas I wind up with but without enough days to eat them all. While many of the recipes are the dessert variety, there are recipes for such categories as Souffles, Tarts (with main course tarts), Travel, Soup, Side Dishes and Salads.....the list goes on.

OK, let me stop now. I want to start scrolling these recipes. There’s one for homemade raisins. You need very hot weather for it but I want to be ready for next summer.

Happy reading and baking.