Matt: I think if you want that plum flavor you should start with prunes. They'll absorb the liquid and puff up and get juicy while the plums will shrivel up.
Jesse: I would go for natural sugar: an apple or an orange just before you leave for the event.
since plum and dried prunes are the same thing - I am gussing the plums would be good. if you are cutting them in half - and not roasting the roast very high half anhour should be good. I don't think of plums as super sweet - and I am guessing that this would be a good use for the less than perfectly ripe plum. and I would limit the amount olives, unless u you are useing the very dull canned olives. - they can be overpowering.
I also vote no plums. If you're going to add olives, I'd also add lemon zest and raisins, and nix the feta.
I think the feta sounds great but I would add it in the last five minutes.
My coworker (who can see my sleepy face) told me not to go to the thing tonight, and I always do what she says.
DCistas, have there been significant weather-caused mail problems out of your area? I've been running around like a chicken with my head cut off all day looking for something plaintiffs filed, and they are saying that they transmitted it to a place that was supposed to mail it out of DC on the 20th. It hasn't gotten to here, North Carolina, West Virginia or Louisiana neither. Since Tuesday. And I always think that plaintiffs lie. So what's the truth?
I think Matt did the olives and feta last week, and thought it came out well.
You know... flipping the bird becomes much more about a personal release of emotion than an expression of displeasure when one is wearing mittens.
If there's a storm in any part of the country, it frells things up for the whole system, since the planes aren't where they're supposed to be.
O'Hare had some 200 cancellations yesterday. It's our fault. Again.
I generally get my Internet news from two main sources, CNN and BBC. BBC leads with "Court clears Serbia of genocide" while CNN leads with "Mom wins stay for custody of Smith's body". So the verdict of the UN's top court on the issue of country's involvment in genocide vs. a delay in determining the custody of a body.