Sam Kornstein

Stuffed Mushrooms

Posted on March 5, 2012March 5, 2012 by Sam Kornstein in Recipes

I don’t have a good place to keep recipes. I sometimes put them in Word documents and then can never find them when I need them. Easy solution. I’ll just start posting them on this blog in a new ‘Recipes’ category. Here’s goes number one. Ingredients: 12 Large Whole Mushrooms 1 Clove Garlic 1 Onion Parmesan Cheese Butter Bread Crumbs Directions: -Cut the stems out of each mushroom cap and chop them up finely -Chop up 1 large onion and 1 clove of garlic -Sautee the stems, onion, and garlic in butter -Add ¼-½ cup of finely crushed seasoned bread crumbs once the stems/onions/garlic are lightly browned -Stir in some parmesan/asiago cheese until the mixture has a doughy and malleable

Abraham’s Daughter

Posted on March 3, 2012March 3, 2012 by Sam Kornstein in Music

A new Arcade Fire song off the upcoming soundtrack of The Hunger Games:

Poor-People Programs

Posted on March 3, 2012March 3, 2012 by Sam Kornstein in Current Events

Via Ezra Klein, Mitt Romney’s budget in about 150 words: Let’s try to make this as simple as possible. Money comes into the federal government through taxes and bonds. The vast majority of it is then spent on old-people programs, poor-people programs, and defense. Mitt Romney is promising that taxes will go down, defense spending will go up, and old-people programs won’t change for this generation of retirees. So three of his four options for deficit reduction — taxes, old-people programs, and defense — are now either contributing to the deficit or are off-limits for the next decade. Romney is also promising that he will pay for his tax cuts, pay for his defense spending, and reduce total federal spending by more