We appear to be fucked in both a pandemic and a politics way. Federal prosecutors have said that the people storming the Capitol wanted "to capture and assassinate elected officials." Really? some of the Republican members of the House of Representatives who voted to impeach The Lame Duck are hiring armed escorts and buying body armor. Peter Meijer, from Michigan, explained, "Our expectation is that somebody may try to kill us."
If that's not enough, this afternoon I read an article in The New Yorker that flat-out scared me, "Among the Insurrectionists." (The link should work if you haven't read your limit of free articles for the month.) After reading the article, I wondered what the death total might have been had the insurrectionists been more organized with plans for who was going where when, in other words that I hate to say about my home country, death squads. Would someone have yelled, "Stop!"? And if so, would they have stopped? I hope we never find out the answer to those questions.
As the weekend begins, I worry about Son #2 and DiL= who live in our state capitol, Richmond. I am not sure how close they are to the capitol building, but I know they aren't far from the Robert E. Lee statue on Monument Avenue. I hope the weekend turns out to be, as some say, a big nothing-burger. I don't want to get my hopes up that nothing will happen, nor do I want to assume the worst. We are floating on an ocean of unknown and will be, I fear, for quite some time.
To take my mind off things political and pandemical, today and tomorrow are for my New Years' resolutions to make a monthly pie and to use my Instant Pot monthly. I plan to make sweet potato soup in the Instant Pot, based on a recipe in Wednesday's Washington Post Food section. In the case of the pie, I amended the resolution to hold that I do not use a recipe I have used before. In that vein, January's pit will be lemon meringue. Not typically a winter pie, but The Professor loves it. Besides that, there is the meringue on the top that will require attention with a small blow-torch. I'm not sure it gets any better than that without thermite.
A short post, I know, but I do not want to dwell too long on things about which I am worrying. Sometimes a hole in the sand is the best place to lay one's head.
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I pressure cook rice and also beans, ribs, gammon (ham?), risotto, lemon curd but I use my Instant Pot more as a slow cooker. I've had decades of using a slow cooker and have a long list of tried and tested dinner recipes so I've been slow to add pressure cooked dinner recipes to my repertoire. It's not as if I'm short on time...
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