Notes from Real Time

1) Hilarious comment made by Maher re: many Repubs dislike of Newt. "Tom Delay, you remember him? He said about Newt, 'you're the most despicable man I've seen since shaving this morning." 2) If you ever have the opportunity to watch Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA, House), don't! What an ass, what an ignorant, head in the clouds, condescending, insufferable, racist human.

3) Kennedy (radio host, etc) is SO annoying.

4) Martin Bashir is smart and a total doll.

Fabulous dinner of crab salad and parsnips

I cannot even think of eating another bite, and you might now have a sense of what that means coming from me. Wow- great meal, but I am stuffed. The crab salad was lovely!!! T scarfed his down. I adore bitter salad greens and with the egg dressing and crab? Delish! For our side, I decided to roast some parsnips but didn't want to just go the regular olive oil-salt route. Instead, I took a leap and made a dressing of olive oil, kosher salt, brown sugar and crushed rosemary, tossed the parsnips in that until coated and roasted until tender. Love this! I'll share both recipes later. Off to watch Bill Maher from last night- yee haw!

Egg dressing for crab salad

This is SO good and is so pretty. Egg yolks, mustards, hot cream, a bit of cayenne and EVOO whisked over a double boiler into an aioli dressing. YUM! Can you imagine this tossed with jumbo lump crab meat and served over a mix of shaved celery, radicchio, endive and frisée?! Chives and thin Meyer lemon slices to top it all off. I cannot wait!