comfort food

This is an excerpt from an article I wrote for the Catalyst monthly online magazine thingy…

UPDATE: please see a clarifying statement, released by the campaign in response to part of this report, at Post Politics. I will post video of Thursday's remarks as soon as I am able.

Original post follows:

I visited one of the city's hottest political elbow-rubbing spots this morning, as local Democrats hosted U.S. Senate candidate Mike Padgett at Wally's Restaurant on McCallie. The comfort-food mainstay provided an informal setting for a candid conversation between the former Knox County Clerk and the small number gathered to meet him.

There is always a time around Mother’s Day that Homer and I hit what I tend to call “the angries.”

I walked up and down the aisles, picking things off the shelf with the casual ease of someone who’s just gotten paid.  I was thinking about how my parents would take us to Cub Foods when we were little and each of them would have a cart and they would fill them as we walked between them and either they would bicker or we would bicker.  Cans of corn and beans and boxes of Jiffy mix for Sunday morning muffins, crackers and ground beef and cream of mushroom soup for my mom’

Friday was a good, somewhat busy day. Lydia's parents came over and brought lunch and helped us get the house in order. We still had hospital bags that weren't unpacked, and had some things that never made it to the hospital that needed to be put up. They were a big help!

Then, the Owens famly came over to bring us a great dinner. When you're a bit bleary from the eat-change-sleep infant cycle, adult conversation, wonderful comfort food, and smiling faces of a five and two year-ol

Great comfort food, and simple.

4 cups vegetable stock
4 cups water
1/2 cup Earth Balance margarine
1/2 cup flour
16 oz box of seitan torn into small pieces, seasoned works fine and this is also optional
1 small onion finely diced
2 medium carrots peeled and diced into small cubes
1 medium potato peeled and diced into small cubes
1 1/2 TSP salt
1/2 TSP black pepper