Happy Labor Day Weekend hard working Tumblrs of the world.
This is delicious and delectable! I love grilled meats! Yum. This is a quick marinade. You can put the chicken in the marinade in a ziplock, put it in a cooler bag with some ice, and then grill it fresh when you get to whatever BBQ you might be going to for Labor Day. I like to cook this recipe on the up high rack of the grill, over indirect heat, because the apricot jelly might make the chicken stick to a super hot part of the grill. That being said, more juice and olive oil than jelly and you shouldn’t have too much of a problem with sticking.
In a ziplock bag, 6 or 7 crushed garlic cloves, the juice of 2 whole lemons or 1 lemon and 1 sweet orange or tangerine, a big drizzle of olive oil, a tablespoon apricot jelly or jam, salt and fresh ground pepper, a teaspoon of soy sauce, teaspoon of sesame oil. Mix thoroughly and set aside a small cup of this for final basting on your chicken. You could add extra garlic to that final baste cup for extra flavor and health.
Add chicken pieces to the bag, mix it all together and let marinate in the fridge for about 20 minutes to 1 hour. Don’t go longer with small chicken pieces like the legs or the lemon juice will start to “cook” the chicken a bit, so it gets a weird texture.
Once it’s marinated, place chicken pieces over indirect heat on a hot grill, keep turning and cooking for 10 to 15 minutes, at the ned of cooking time, baste with the reserved marinade. Cook all the way through. I like to make rice with this and grill veggies and tomatoes to go with it.
Crispy Garlic Ginger Tofu Bun Bowl with Black Rice and Mint
This was a delicious experiment. I posted this pic on Instagram and one of my friends asked for the recipe right away. It was the first time I’ve ever made this, so I quickly wrote it out the way I did it. Sometimes when I do experimental cooking, I taste as I go along, and I might forget a step. Hopefully I remembered everything. This recipe was inspired from a picture I saw on Yelp.
When I was looking for the rice noodles in my pantry, I found a package of black rice, and decided to add some to the dish for color, texture, flavor, and nutrition. I love black rice. It’s nutty, delicious and good for you. Cook black rice according to package directions, this takes about ½ hour of simmering. I cook it in a lot of water in a saucepan, drain and cover it at the end.
Boil water for noodles. Pour hot water over dry rice noodles in a heat proof bowl, and let steep for 10 minutes or more until they’re cooked, but not mushy. Taste them a few times. Once you like the texture, drain, cover and set aside. They should be somewhat soft for a cold noodle salad.
For the crispy garlic tofu: Using paper towels or a kitchen towel, gently press as much water as you can out of a block of organic tofu. Cut into cubes. Heat a cast iron skillet to med, add 1 tablespoon organic canola oil. Season the tofu with salt & pepper, dust with 2 tbsp corn starch. Add tofu cubes to the hot skillet and cook on all sides until it starts to get crispy. Mince 5 large, or 10 small garlic cloves, the more garlic the better. Grate or mince ½ inch of ginger. Add the minced garlic and ginger, 1 tablespoon organic soy sauce, and a drizzle of sesame oil to the sizzling tofu. At this point I also added about 3 tablespoons of the simmering black rice water to loosen up all the garlic, and give more flavor. Stir and cook everything together to crisp up. Season with a sprinkle of Korean chili powder or any chili powder you have, add a teaspoon of organic ponzu for citrusy brightness. Continue to cook on med low, until it becomes caramelized and the garlic crisps.
Serve with noodles, add a sprinkle of sesame oil, Korean chili powder, black rice, sliced scallions, fresh mint leaves and enjoy. You could also add fresh basil, Thai basil, or cilantro, peanuts, or any nuts, or a sprinkle of organic sesame seeds to garnish. I like the ones from Edison Grainery. Great quality, great price. I made a side salad to go with this using slivered snap peas, sliced carrots, curly kale, garlic, with lemon, & olive oil dressing. Yum!
Apologies about the lack of article reviews lately, but I’m in the middle of suffering through writing a proposal for my PhD dissertation, which I will be defending halfway through next month (gulp gulp). I’m afraid I’ll need to take a bit of a break while I desperately write about narratives, reported speech, and deception. However, while I’ll be back to posting articles in a few weeks, in the meantime enjoy this article about how linguists could actually help us talk to aliens.
Much as this article points out that we can’t assume we will know if aliens rely on sight to communicate, in making this recipe it would be good to assume that only a few people will know how to make Gremolada (minced garlic, parsley, and lemon zest FYI). The combination of the Gremolada with some orange zest and garlic is sure to spice up your day, similar to how we need to spice up our understanding of the possible ways that aliens communicate. Good Cooking!
Published by: Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting Plenary Address January 8, 2009
LL Abstract:
In this address, Deborah Tannen outlines a theoretical framework for the notion of dialogicality, or the way that people draw on constructed voices of others to display identities that either display relationship status or hierarchies in a given interaction. Focusing on the constructed dialogue strategy of ventriloquizing, or the practice in which a speaker uses phonological, lexical, and syntactic resources to take on the voice of another or of an alternative personal persona. Illustrating her claims with examples from natural conversation, she argues that this animation allows speakers to negotiate two dynamics shaping conversation: relative closeness or distance on one hand, and relative hierarchy or equality on the other.
LL Summary:
Tannen (2009) begins this address by connecting Penelope Eckert’s work on indexicality and personae to her framework of meaning in interaction, noting the influence of Bateson, Bakhtin, and Becker. Describing her address as dealing with prior text and thus intertextuality, she next introduces her focus on the discursive strategy of reported speech, which she characterizes as “constructed dialogue” due to how speakers use this strategy to “take on the persona” of others. Tannen then outlines her theoretical framework, beginning with Mikhail Bakhtin’s (1952-53 [1986])views on dialogicality (or the interplay between current and previously experienced instances of language). Bakhtin describes every utterance as full of echoes and reverberations of other utterances, so that a current utterance is in “dialogue” with previous utterances. After explaining Gregory Bateson’s (1979) ideas on meaning as relationships from things to other things, Tannen ends this section by adopting A.L. Becker’s (1995) concept of ‘languaging’, where language is context-shaping (in other words, context is created by language) and outlined by a series of six relations. Before moving on to further examples, Tannen explains her own theoretical framework of the ambiguity and polysemy of connection and power. In her concept, every utterance and relationship results from a combination of two dynamics driving conversational discourse: relative closeness vs. distance and relative hierarchy vs. equality. She gives the example of overlapping speech, which can be in some instances be an interruption (or power maneuver) and in others be a cooperative overlap (as an enthusiastic chiming in or “cooperative overlap”, a connection maneuver). In her theory, such a display can be both polysemous (both a connection and power play) or ambiguous (can be either of the two moves). In the next part of her address, Tannen uses examples of ventriloquizing to show how people take on voices of others to introduce a persona, and to borrow characteristics from that persona in a move of creating closeness or distance with their interlocutor. In the family interactions she describes, fathers take on the voices of mothers to downplay directives, mothers voice dogs to get their kids to clean toys, children voice themselves and fathers, and expecting mothers voice their unborn children to chastise fathers-to-be. In these examples, Tannen argues that speakers communicate meaning by taking on voices that create personas, then borrow recognizable characteristics associated with them to negotiate relative connection and hierarchy. She concludes by revealing the role of this linguistic strategy in shaping family relations, arguing that intertextuality plays a key role in shaping discourse and the negotiation of connection and power in interaction.
Much as this delicious dish is remarkably easy to make (in one pot!), you will find this address remarkably easy to consume quickly! Tannen raises some thoughtful arguments about the role of prior text in conversation, and you will raise normal arguments with your family about who gets to finish this garlicky, cheesy pasta. I’d recommend adding some sun-dried tomatoes or dried kalamata olives to add a pit of texture to this amazing recipe, and it only takes 15 minutes to make! Good Cooking!
Published by: Language in Society Volume 27 Pages 291–334
LL Abstract:
In this article, Heritage (1998) looks at the appearance of the discourse marker “oh” in a particular context - turn-initial position in responses to questions - and demonstrates how the use of “oh” generally suggests a change of state in the speaker. He shows how this oh-prefacing may mark a previous question as problematic or indicate that a speaker is reluctant to pursue a conversational topic. After exploring a wide range of examples where oh-prefaced turns are produced, the article concludes that while “oh” generally shows its producer has undergone a cognitive “change of state,” people rely on the contextual aspects of their utterances to determine the sense of this change.
LL Summary:
Heritage begins with several examples from conversationsto show how “oh” generally shows or registers that its producer has undergone a change in state of knowledge or information. He then specifies the focus of this paper: oh-prefaced turns that are produced as the second pair in a sequence, aka those that are produced in response to a question. The author continues by characterizing “oh” as indicating that a question has occasioned a marked shift of attention, meaning it was unexpected or problematic in some way. In this section, Heritage discusses an interview with Princess Margaret and excerpts between students and teachers to conclude that one function of “oh” prefaced responses is to indicate that the question to which they respond is inapposite. In the next section, he expands on inapposite inquiries by distinguishing between cases where the question indexes something “already known” by participants because of prior talk or joint understandings, and cases where questions are poorly fitted to the sequential context they are produced in. The author looks at examples of women and men and finds a pattern of assertion -> query -> oh-prefaced reassertion that is produced when matters from prior talk are questioned. Looking at reported speech, Heritage shows how some oh-prefacing indicates that a question’s answer is self-evident from the physical or cultural/individual knowledge context, or that there is some element of the social environment that makes the question problematic. After using examples of the functions of oh-prefacing in troubles-telling, questions, and problematic questions, he notes that in some contexts, the exploitation of oh-prefacing as a method of emphatic response to questions has become quite common. In the following section, the article explores cases where oh-prefacing is used to project reluctance to talk about the topic raised by an inquiry. Heritage identifies three ways that this reluctance is shown in the data: oh-prefaced responses are minimal or unelaborated in the matter of the inquiry, producers of oh-prefaced responses unilaterally shift topic immediately after the response or shortly after, or these producers withhold on-topic talk (aka remain silent). In the final section of the article, Heritage examines responses to personal state inquiries like “How are you?” Building on Jefferson’s (1980) work on troubles talk, where she proposes that this troubles talk is marked by a general tension between attending the trouble or “business as usual,” the author shows that oh-prefacing can intensify the downgrading of downgraded responses (like “oh pretty good”). Finally, Heritage concludes by restating his argument that oh-prefacing uniformly conveys the sense that the prior question has occasioned a shift in attention to the matter of the question, so that its central use is implying the inappositeness of this question.
While Heritage identifies multiple functions of oh-prefaced responses in his article, the recipe for this dish will leave you swooning over its simple steaming ingredients! Much as we use oh-prefaced responses to suggest a range of social cues, this dish has a range of flavors - asparagus, lemon, garlic, that suggest a crisp and zesty bite. Good cooking!
MWV 2/12/18
PS Apologies for the delays in posting, all! About to finish a qualifying review paper by March so going underground until that’s done- will post short updates until that’s over! Bon Appétit until then!
This article reminds me of the recipe for pasta mista:
Much as this Italian recipe elevates pasta that Americans might throw away, the article discusses how middle-class white families are beginning to elevate their perceptions of bilingual education. However, unlike the worrisome implications of this strain on those students who might be pushed out of multilingual instruction, you’ll find this recipe for an usual type of pasta, chickpea, and basil dish has only delicious implications if you give it a go. Good cooking, and see you in 2018!
My dinner tonight ♡. Salmon seasoned with garlic, salt, pepper, turmeric, Cheyenne, rosemary and lemon essential oil over a bed of organic white rice steamed in grassfed butter. For the side … fresh brocolli steamed with coconut oil and seasoned with salt and pepper!
Servings: 6 (8-10 as a side) Prep Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 1 hour
STUFF Salad: 1 cup freekeh or other grain (quinoa, bulgur, etc.) 1 head cauliflower 2 sweet potatoes 1 tablespoon olive oil a sprinkle of dried spices that you like, or a few sprigs of thyme, rosemary, etc. 1 large apple
Lemon dressing: 1 bunch parsley (about 1 cup), minced 1 small clove garlic, minced 2/3 cup olive oil juice of one lemon (more to taste) 1 teaspoon agave (optional) ½ teaspoon salt pepper to taste
STEPS Rinse the grains and place in a rice cooker with the appropriate amount of broth or water (refer to package directions – it depends on the grain). Set on the white rice setting and prep the other stuff while it cooks.
Preheat the oven to 425 degrees. Chop the cauliflower into small florets. Peel and chop the sweet potatoes. Place on a baking sheet and drizzle with oil. Sprinkle with salt and pepper and add a few sprigs of thyme or other dried spices if you have some that you like. Roast for 20 minutes, stir, and roast for another 10-15 minutes. When they are golden brown and soft, remove from oven and set aside.
While the veggies are roasting, combine all dressing ingredients in a jar with a tight lid and shake to combine. Chop the apple and set aside.
When the grains and vegetables are done, toss everything together. This can be done when everything is hot or when it’s cooled, although the texture will be different (heavier) when hot. Store leftovers separately (salad and dressing) if possible.
NOTES
If you want some crunch, add a few handfuls of chopped nuts like cashews or pecans.
Nutrition facts are for 6 servings.
Serves 10Calories Per Serving: 314% DAILY VALUE39%Total Fat 25.1g0%Cholesterol0mg6%Sodium150.5mg7%Total Carbohydrate 21.6gSugars3.8g8%Protein4g12%Vitamin A 187.4µg32%Vitamin C 19.2mg
Nosey Frankie! #latergram from a shoot last week & re-posted from @frankiefrenchie_andfriends Thank goodness for @mambeblankets protecting the leather chairs! #summertime #tomatoes #garlic #foodphotography #mascot #frenchie #frenchbulldog
1 1/2 pounds combo of chicken drumsticks and thighs
1 cup halved cherry tomatoes
4 cloves garlic roughly chopped
½ teaspoon kosher salt
¼ teaspoon fresh cracked black pepper
1 tablespoon olive oil
2 tablespoons dry white wine
Instructions:
Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
Rinse and pat dry the chicken.
Place chicken in a baking dish. Place tomatoes around chicken. Sprinkle with chopped garlic. Sprinkle with salt and pepper. Drizzle with olive oil and white wine. Cook for 45 - 60 minutes or until chicken is cooked through. If it starts to brown too much place foil on top to prevent burning. Serve.
