Parsnips, darn it

The Times magazine of 1/24 had a recipe for a beef roast with pan-roasted winter vegetables and it basically changed everything. The beef had a simple-to-do herb/salt/brown sugar rub and the veg course (with celery root, carrots, parsnips and garlic in butter) was INSANE. I had never in my life known that the parsnip was such a mighty, mighty thing. But my superpower of picking recipes that will be good did not fail.

I URGE STRONGLY YOU TO MAKE THIS MEAL. Particularly if it's cold out.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/24/magazine/24food-t-000.html

I confess

I don't know who's in the Superbowl! Colts, right? But no idea who the other team is!

I RULE!

Ivy says spring!

Local fave Ivy the Groundhog says early spring, which means I have to read the rest of that Eleanor Perenyi book Green Thoughts, because I will likely be putting tomatoes in by Friday!

And EVERYTHING!

AND I mistyped the title above as Green Thoughs at first, which would be a supremely dumb band name, you're right: The Green Thoughs...

Nick's Picks 2/2/2010

I'm not sure what exactly Twitter was, but I'm glad it's over...Updike was right when he favorably reviewed Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes; it's a hell of a yarn...gonna give the rest of the afternoon over to Dane pop-group Alphabeat and see what I get...not much more disappointing in this life than brown rice...I'm famously a cat guy, but there's not a whole lot wrong with a good dog...people who go out of their way to say "no onions" when ordering food should be buried alive...Myrna Loy was quite a dish...I think Delphic just may be this year's English band I like for about a month and then never listen to again...whoever invented the calendar was a smart one...have I mentioned my favorite discovery of 2010 is Sunkist Orange soda?...Still hearing Jay-Z everywhere I go, but am guessing that the Raveonettes' "Boys Who Rape (Should All Be Destroyed)" will be the go-to ringtone for spring...the whole "trains for SW Ohio" sounds like a tax boondoggle of epic proportions and a new terrain for criminal activity - unless they deploy ED209...not liking JD Salinger is like not liking the Beatles. Liking JD Salinger too much leads to killing Beatles...

Suggestions!

We take them!

Any features that will help you live life the Nick Eddy Way?

Drop 'em to us!

[Not so fast with the "please stop!" there, smart alecks!]

Attractive lady finds constitution draft

This scholar - whose middle name is Updike! - found some drafts and bits and bobs from the genesis of the US Constitution!

Among the tasty tidbits found in the scratchings:

The Bible's the Bible and the Constitution is something else. Don't blend
them, trash!



Ev'ryone should be made to read one+ goode books during a week's
time.



"Lest" rhymes with "nest" and is not verily spoken as "least."



If there comes some sort of magical talking type-box machine, one should
partake of somethinge called Nick Eddy Does Relent and send him farthings or
[illegible]

To posit the idea that just anyone, especially one whose goal in the life
of a society is to be a versicator on Sportscenter, can also lead a great nation
is a treasonous fallacy.


The smart persons should be armed, not the cretinous hoards of the
meth-mawed.

Also found: a to-go order for some "latkes and Olde Bay seasoning."

Six more weeks of winter, my arse!

Let's wait til 10am and see what D_____'s own Ivy (pictured) says!

Check in for EXCITING UPDATES!