Our friends at the Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board have sent along some recipes during this Lenten season:
Wisconsin Burrata Cheese With Smoked Salmon And Arugula Salad
By Chef John Caputo
Servings: 4
Ingredients:
2 cups balsamic vinegar
12 ounces Wisconsin Burrata cheese
9 ounces smoked salmon
1 cup arugula

Cooking Directions:
Place the vinegar in a small saucepan over medium heat. Allow it to come to [...]

Publication: Waukesha Freeman (Conley); Date: Mar 18, 2010; Section: Opinion; Page: 10A
Judge race is non-partisan and Congdon wants to keep it that way
Also, is Neumann running for governor or U.S. Senate?

(James Wigderson is a blogger publishing at http://www.wigderson.com and a Waukesha resident. His column runs Thursdays in The Freeman.)
I promise this will be a [...]

I’m telling you, liberals have no senses of humor. This Twitter ID could have been funny. Instead, it’s only a list of restaurants and the bills from Scott Walker’s campaign finance reports. What? No food recommendations? No funny comments? Not even a mention of the restaurants’ hours?
It’s about as [...]

The Water Commission met tonight to consider recommending to the Waukesha Common Council to move forward with the application for water from the Great Lakes. The commission voted 5-0 in favor. The plan now goes to the Common Council to vote April 8th, and it’s likely the Common Council will approve the application. [...]

Jim Rowen objects to the word “extortion” used by Milwaukee Journal Sentinel columnist Patrick McIlheran to describe any attempt to get the kind of concessions Rowen would like to see in a water deal between Milwaukee and Waukesha.
“We’re going to keep coming to you every month to check up on ya. We’re going to make [...]

From Terri McCormick’s What Sex Is a Republican?, another favorite sentence from the foreword written by Tony Seton, pp XV.
While she wrenches the moral gut with her description of the poisoned process, she holds her lens far enough from the crime scene to show us the vulnerability of those in control.

Vice President Joe Biden offered a blessing to the Irish Prime Minister’s late mother. Nice, but she’s still alive. According to the Associated Press, Biden realized his mistake, offered a blessing to the Prime Minister’s late father, and then said, “a silent mouth is sweet to hear.”
He probably learned that Irish saying [...]

Daniel Pipes sees a silver lining in the cloudy thinking of the Obama Administration about Israel. Among other things, he notes the Administration apparently can’t count:
(2) If Obama et al. hope to bring down Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s government, they can’t count Knesset seats. Peeling away Labor will lead to its replacement by rightist [...]

I received in the mail my complimentary copy of Terri McCormick’s What Sex Is a Republican? I’m not really sure I want to start this project. The book has Acknowledgements, Foreword, Purpose, About the Author, a Preface, and an Introduction, all before I get to chapter one. After ten chapters, there’s a [...]

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel columnist Patrick McIlheran, writing in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, looks at how Milwaukee’s difficult reputation came about, and what should happen when it comes time for Milwaukee and Waukesha to negotiate. Here’s the background from the column:
Waukesha’s problem is that its well water is tainted with radium, put there by God [...]