Got a thick piece of beef shoulder on sale, it was about 3lb. It was in the fridge for a few days and was asking me to do something with it. So I did. I also had blueberries and some Thanksgiving leftover fresh cranberries. Here we go.

• Two tablespoons Olive Oil
• Two tablespoons Butter
• 6 Garlic cloves, thickly sliced
• Large onion cut to large 1/2″ chunks
• Two apples, cut to 1/2″ chunks
• One cup blueberries
• One cup cranberries
• Half dry chili ancho (or whatever dry chili, smoked is better, or just some whatever hot pepper)
• Salt
• Black pepper
• Nutmeg (not too much)
• Allspice (moderate amount)
• Mustered powder (moderate amount)
• Three cups chicken broth (or whatever broth)

Rub some salt and black pepper on all sides of meat. Olive oil and butter in a pressure cooker, medium flame, brown garlic a bit, take out garlic.

Put in meat and sear each all sides till nice brown. While on last side add onions by the meat. Stir onions while the meat is searing.

Add everything else including garlic from the beginning. Add water to cover everything. Close lid , high heat until pressure cooker steam out, then on low heat for an hour to hour and a half.

Turn off flame and let cool until you can open pressure cooker. Now you’ll already be tempted to eat some, wait if you can, it will get better.

Simmer on medium-low until liquids reduce to half of what it was. Now you can eat. Stop! Don’t finish everything! It will be even better the next day.

The meat will be falling apart, so handle with care.

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We’ll use one frying pan for everything

Ingredients:

• Wide noodles
• Olive oil
• Butter
• Mushrooms (I used oyster and baby bella) sliced to big pieces
• Onion sliced to thin half rings
• Garlic
• Beef (precooked Ghetto Sous Vide) cut to 1/2″-1″ pieces
• Broth (I used liquids from the precooked meat)
• Red wine
• Salt, black pepper, red hot pepper.
• Flour
• Heavy cream
• Chopped parsley

Place noodles in pan, add hot water and some salt, bring to a boil, cook al dente, take out from water, put aside (can be placed directly on the plates you’ll use to serve). Discard water.

Place pan back on high heat, add some olive oil and some butter. add mushrooms and after a minute add onion and garlic. Keep on high heat until you get some nice browning. Move aside in pan, add a little more oil and add beef, let brown a bit, a couple of minutes.

Add broth and red wine, salt and peppers, let boil. Sprinkle a little flour (not too much), stir it in and let boil for a minute. Add heavy cream, stir and let cook for a minute or two, and you’re done.

Pour over the cooked noodles. Sprinkle chopped parsley on top. Enjoy.

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So here’s what you need:

• Cheap meat. get something with fat in it. Any beef cut will do.
• Onion
• Garlic
• Salt
• Black pepper
• Mason jars

Quantities are whatever you want, by whatever amount of meat you use. Here goes.

Cut the meat to pieces you can fit in the mason jars. add some salt and pepper (not too much) and mix it to be pretty even over the meat pieces.

Cut the onion to half rings.

Place some onion pieces at the bottom of a jar (half an inch or so) and two-three garlic cloves on top. then fill the rest of the jar with meat and tightly seal the jar with its cover. Repeat with more jars until you run out of meat. I usually make 3-4 jars in a batch.

Place the jars in a big/deep enough pot to contain them (if the jars are a bit taller than the pot that’s fine too if you can place a cover on the pot). Fill the pot with cold water to the top. It’s important to start with cold water to let the jars heat gradually.

Bring to a boil with high flame, then lower to end-high and let boil for 10-15 minutes. Cover, lower the flame, and let cook for at least 4-5 hours. 8 hours is even better, can be overnight.

Turn off and let cool (an hour or so).

What you get is sealed jars full of cooked meat. Closed they can last for a very long time, months and even years, even not refrigerated, as long as they are unopened and sealed.

The fat will be separated and form a layer at the top. The meat is tender and flavorful, and can be made into anything – I make a great Beef Stroganoff with it, chili, mix it with rice, Sloppy Joe etc. I use the onion and garlic from the bottom with stuff I cook.

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So I believer the solution will be treatment. 100 years ago people died from infections, pneumonia, diverticulitis, blood pressure or even the flu, 20 years ago people died from AIDS – these and a zillion other similar things are now treatable, we don’t prevent them yet, we treat them and it can be as simple as a few days of once a day pill, or daily medication, but it’s treatable.

So I believe the same will happen with COVID. It will be treatable. Yes, we’ll have vaccines that will improve, and maybe one day it will be eradicated, but until such day we will just treat it and you’ll get well within days and back to normal life.

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So unfortunately not much improved. Actually I believe things got worse from the global view, but maybe not in an obvious way.

What I’m worried about is that a combination of the US not building nuclear power plants, which currently seem like the only viable solution for green energy, and the rapid increase in demand for energy. So nuclear energy is probably the only viable solution period.

On the flip side, China keeps building new nuclear power plants, and adds more and more nuclear power capacity, setting for itself new annual goals.

Power plants take a long time to build, and need substantial initial investment, The Biden infrastructure bill at $3.5 trillion, budgets a total of only $12 billion for nuclear energy – $6b for maintenance of existing plants and $6b for new micro nuclear power plants.

My opinion? The budget for nuclear energy is way too low. Energy drives everything. We need to get manufacturing back to the US. We have to reduce dependency on import of products and energy (oil). The cost of energy drives pricing of everything – from direct cost of manufacturing, to transportation, the money people spend on consumer goods (if people spend more money on energy – transportation, heating and cooling and house power – they have less to spend on other stuff), so the economy suffer. It doesn’t matter if you drive an electric car, you need energy to run and produce everything,

Take a hypothetical situation where energy is practically free in the US. This will make the US unbeatable in every aspect. On the other hand, if we don’t accelerate nuclear power production, and other countries, mainly China, will, this will be a double whammy, US will be short in energy, and China will have plenty. This will be really bad, any way you see it.

I don’t trust the government (definitely not the current one) to get this done unless we are at war (I hope not). So I’d say, Musk, Bezos, Buffet, Gates, Zuckerberg, Brin, Ellison, Balmer, Bloomberg – start working together if you want to keep the US as a place you want to live in. Break the oil dependency, reduce carbon footprint, get nuclear energy the US main power source within the next two decades. And whomever is in the government – give the incentives for everyone to get behind this, match investments, tax breaks, land, whatever is needed to accelerate the process. Oh, and it will also create a huge amount of jobs, that won’t be a bad thing either.

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So here’s what I believe is very plausible. Biden, within the next, let’s say, 18 months, will deteriorate so much cognitively, that he will step down. Now, that’s not a risky prediction, at this point most people will be surprised if it will not happen.

What I predict is that, when it happens, the media will make him a martyr (even if he’s alive), they will say he gave his life for public service, will make him a hero. He was the victim of scrutiny from the right, and the pressure made him worse, etc. . “Poor Joe”, “he is the victim” will be the narrative.

This of course, while the country is going down the drain with Biden & Co’s good work, plus we’ll then get Kamala which will be even worse, so we have to brace ourselves until 2024.

Oy.

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