Recipe Sunday: Homemade Chipotles in Adobo

Every Christmas, my husband gives me a big bag of different types of dried chilies to play with. Anchos, guajillos, pasillas, etc. Having dried peppers on hand means that I can just throw them in the mortar and pestle to combine with other spices for a quick add-in of flavor.

Who has two thumbs and loves dried chilies? This woman!

But today I came up with an idea, and to make the idea work – I needed chipotles in a tart and spicy adobo sauce. However, I realized I didn’t have any.

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Clintpocalypse Now: Democratic National Convention Open Thread

DNC 1Come and watch the tire fire coronation of America’s second-most despised presidential candidate! Bathe in the warm soothing charisma of America’s newest heart throb, Tim Kaine! Get shouted at by an old man! Boo at something! It’s time for the Democratic National Convention. You can live stream the thing on C-Span here. It’s also on the you tubes if C-SPAN is too spicy for you. Democracy in action! God help us all.

Hillary Clinton speaks tonight some time after 10:00, if C-Span is to be believed.

TRUMPOCALYPSE NOW: YOUR GOP CONVENTION OPEN THREAD

trump=pence1Join us as we weep and rend our garments as the Party of Lincoln prepares to nominate a malevolent cartoon to preside over America’s doom. THE TRUMPENING IS AT HAND! THE GOP CONVENTION HAS BEGUN!

You can leave-stream it here, but all the networks your grandparents watched before Obama’s death-panels killed them will probably be showing it. Tonight’s headliners include Bride of the Monster, Melania Trump, living death skeleton Rudy Guiliani, and some crazy general. Tonight’s theme is apparently “horror.”