When my brother was nine or ten, we taped the Super Bowl. I think it was the 1986 game when Chicago’s Jim McMahon, Walter Payton, and William Perry absolutely mauled the Patriots down in Louisiana, and – of course – not nearly as entertaining a game as tonight’s was. But my favorite part was that David, still working with phonetic spelling issues, labeled the tape “Super Bowel”. As indeed it was, and as every football game is. There’s an MLA conference paper in there somewhere; something about high-end commercials, consumption, men’s butts, and Freud. (And, this year, erectile dysfunction.) But I’m not going to go there. I’ll just say that yes, I was rooting for the underdog southerner Carolina, and yes, I was as mystified by Justin’s breast-baring of Janet as anyone: what the hell was that?
Anyway. I’ve been quiet here lately, largely because I’m wading through various sets of instructions for setting up and configuring various open-source wikis. As I’ve said before, I’d certainly welcome any guidance folks more expert than me might offer: I mean, I was all proud of myself for getting Movable Type installed after several hours of struggle, so this wiki config stuff is pretty intimidating.
And the better recipe I found for Doro Wat today was a hit. Mmm, good spicy chicken. Hint: you can make a fraction of the berbere sauce and the niter kebbeh together and it’s still so, so delicious.
dmueller ·
Hey Mike,
The Doro Wat recipe sounds good. My friend E. from Addis Ababa (via D.C.) told me today that Doro Wat is a full-blown Ethiopian meal (when the boiled eggs go in, it’s a big meal). I asked him about it since I’d read your post earlier. It’s become a regular, every-other-Sunday meal around here to make a basic berere sauce, then eat it on spaghetti pasta. I dfon’t have much of a recipe, but when I make it, I reduce five or six chopped onions with a fair amount of vegable oil (to sauciness), mix in a tablespoon of berere powder, two sliced tomatoes and a pound of chopped-up chicken. Cook it for a while. Make the noodles. E. made it with the boiled eggs once, and occassionally, for a treat, we jaunt down to Ethiomart, the one spot in KC where we can buy fresh injera. But this Ethio-spaghetti has become a staple. In fact, we ate it yesterday for the S-bowl on linguini. Can swap out the chicken for beef, too. Ordinary spaghetti will never be the same. -DM
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