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DrLostCauses

@acpacek.bsky.social
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Academic studying political causes/consequences of well-being. Fan of the interesting and important. Despairing Boston sports and happy Liverpool fan. Views and opinions are my own, not my employer’s or my state’s. I speak as a private citizen.

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DrLostCauses @acpacek.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Picked some Rosa Bianca eggplants from the garden and did a thing.
eggplants eggplant parm
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DrLostCauses @acpacek.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I make Portuguese roast chicken at least once a month. Complicated and messy colonialism in one dish. Tried adding mint this time as a minor tweak.
portuguese roast chicken
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DrLostCauses @acpacek.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A l’il Sunday shrimp sauce piquant. Beer, football, and total escapism for the moment.
sauce piquantsauce piquant
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DrLostCauses @acpacek.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
If I win the lottery, this.
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DrLostCauses @acpacek.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Croatian wine. Mighty fine.
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DrLostCauses @acpacek.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Ipswich steamers. A helluva rare treat down here.
steamers
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DrLostCauses @acpacek.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
IYKYK. Esp if you’re Polish. It’s hot here.
polish salads
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DrLostCauses @acpacek.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
My fellow political scientists. Do you know what mysteries and delights could be at your finger tips?
palmer house cookbook
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DrLostCauses @acpacek.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Taken a lot of tries to get Louisiana red beans right. Finally.
red beans
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DrLostCauses @acpacek.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Portuguese roast chicken and college football after heavy yard work and getting fall food garden prepped. Life ain’t great but it can be kind of ok at times.
portuguese roast chicken
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DrLostCauses @acpacek.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
If it’s Wednesday it must be Portuguese caldo verde.
portuguese kalePotatoes and chouricocaldo verde
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DrLostCauses @acpacek.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Happy APSA2026 to all who attend. Please watch out for this uninvited attendee and don’t bring him home with you.
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DrLostCauses @acpacek.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
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DrLostCauses @acpacek.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Sunday gumbo is a nice way to wind down two days of yard work.
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DrLostCauses @acpacek.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Sweet home, Chicago.
chicken Vesuvio
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DrLostCauses @acpacek.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Had a pack of ground lamb, garden eggplant and tossed the two together with onions, garlic, tomato and a lot of random mideast spices (baharat, harissa, something else). I did not expect anything great but it’s very nice.
Some kind of thing
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DrLostCauses @acpacek.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Patatas panaderas and grilled black sea bass. Life ain’t great right now but it’s not terrible.
patatas panaderas
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DrLostCauses @acpacek.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Do you have a weekly go-to comfort dish? Portuguese roast chicken is becoming mine. Love making enough to share.
portuguese roast chicken
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DrLostCauses @acpacek.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
If I could adopt a water buffalo and take up cheese making, everything in this dish would have been grown or raised by me. Thank God others do the cheese making. Still, one of my better eggplant parms, and i’ve had some epic fails here.
eggplant parm
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DrLostCauses @acpacek.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Patience my friends, patience. Wait for that Yankees series.
fenway franks
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DrLostCauses @acpacek.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
It’s hot af down here. Gaspacho time. This is just the base.
gaspachogaspacho
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DrLostCauses @acpacek.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
garden
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DrLostCauses @acpacek.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Breaks me every time I listen but the reasons are intensely personal.
altered beast
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DrLostCauses @acpacek.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Sunday is Portuguese comfort food night.
Portuguese roast chicken
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DrLostCauses @acpacek.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Venus flytrap flower. Had no idea they did this.
Venus flytrap flower
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DrLostCauses @acpacek.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Scallops seared, sauce made with butter, jamon iberico, shallots, parsley, smoked paprika, sherry. Might be ok.
scallops
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DrLostCauses @acpacek.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Efe rio and a heart stopping exciting match. A damn nice Saturday.
efe rio
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DrLostCauses @acpacek.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Do venus flytraps flower? News to me.
venus flytraps
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DrLostCauses @acpacek.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Trying out hot climate greens. Brazilian spinach or sissoo. Nice crunch, rather mild. But healthy I guess and grows like a weed here. A keeper.
brazilian spinach brazilian spinach
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DrLostCauses @acpacek.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Rather inauthentic chicken tagine. I have no tagine alas, so doing my best.
Chicken tagine
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DrLostCauses @acpacek.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Excellent stuff from Uruguay.
Uruguay Pinot noirUruguay Pinot noir
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DrLostCauses @acpacek.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Shiraz Andaz tonight. Persian food is good.
Persian Shiraz AndazPersian Shiraz AndazPersian Shiraz Andaz
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DrLostCauses @acpacek.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
If you see old vine Carignan from Lebanon, buy it. They make an unloved grape wonderful.
Old vine Carignan
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DrLostCauses @acpacek.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
My Portuguese ancestry toasting Cape Verde tonight. Onward and upward!
Cape Verde rum
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DrLostCauses @acpacek.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Ok.
Party movement
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DrLostCauses @acpacek.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Metaphors abound.
Dead duck in reflecting pool
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DrLostCauses @acpacek.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Hello Larry
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DrLostCauses @acpacek.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Ratatouille time.
Three types of eggplants
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DrLostCauses @acpacek.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
The pride of Connecticut, Jimmy Nardello Sweet Italian peppers. These are huge. They’ll finish reddening and then be dried.
Italian peppers
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DrLostCauses @acpacek.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Portuguese roast chicken over onions, peppers and taters. Marinated in Portuguese allspice and pimenta moida at work here. And probably no small amount of colonial suffering as well. My people’s comfort food comes with…some unfun stuff.
Portuguese roast chicken
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DrLostCauses @acpacek.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Marinating something for tomorrow with the great Portuguese condiment.
Hot crushed peppers
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DrLostCauses @acpacek.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Succotash, with most items from garden. One of the best Southern things.
Succotash
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DrLostCauses @acpacek.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Pickled/preserved some lemons, new territory for me. We’ll see how this goes.
Pickled lemons
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DrLostCauses @acpacek.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Long busy day calls for chicken sauce piquante. Tomatoes, celery, onions, garlic and herbs from garden. Chicken, Manda sausage from Baton Rouge, and creole seasoning, not from my garden.
Chicken sauce piquante
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DrLostCauses @acpacek.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
This came up feral in the garden and I don’t know what the hell it is. My very uneducated guess is cushaw squash. At least 5 fruit so far.
Squash.
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DrLostCauses @acpacek.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
The Maine boy is happy.
Fiddleheads.
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DrLostCauses @acpacek.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Let the great rite of summer begin: the tomato inundation.
TomatoesTomatoes
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DrLostCauses @acpacek.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Tomato season in Texas is fun.
Tomatoes Tomatoes
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DrLostCauses @acpacek.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Working through a roast chicken in a leek, fennel, tarragon, lots of other herbs, cream and mustard and wine and lemon juice. It might be British, French or both. Leaning towards British based on my recipe research but not a hill I would die on.
Roast chicken
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DrLostCauses @acpacek.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Portuguese caldo verde. Being part Azorean I grew up with the *rustic* island version. For this I grew the *authentic* Tronchuda kale favored on the mainland to see if it made a difference. Less…”kaley” I guess?
Portuguese caldo verde.
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