The Blog of Burgher Jon

Turkey Kielbasa, Sauerkraut, Apple Bake

Ingredients:

12 oz Oscar Mayer turkey polska kielbasa
32 oz (4 cups) sauerkraut, drained, liquid reserved
1 granny smith apple, peeled and chopped
1 cup onion, chopped
4 oz carrots, diced
2 tbsp brown sugar
1/4 cup apple juice

Directions:

1) Heat oven to 350°F.
2) Mix 1/4 cup of sauerkraut liquid into apple juice. Stir brown sugar into apple juice mixture and set aside. Do not discard remaining liquid, it may be used later.
3) Cut kielbasa into slices or dice, whichever you prefer. Place in a 13—9-inch pan along with remaining ingredients, including apple juice mixture. Mix well and spread evenly in pan.
4) Place in oven and bake uncovered for 30 minutes, or until kielbasa is heated through and apples are tender, stirring occasionally. If sauerkraut seems a little dry when stirring pour in a little more of the remaining sauerkraut liquid, to your taste, and finish cooking.

I end up looking through a lot of sauerkraut recipes as part of my never ending quest to feed the hungry people who drop by my blog.  Since I’m not a fan of sauerkraut in general, I think most of them sound pretty disgusting.  Well the one above struck me as particularly awful, especially with turkey kielbasa from Oscar Mayer!

Now on to the purpose of Sauerkraut Sundays… As I go through the week, I use Twitter to send out little updates and links.  I realize that I do this quite a bit and that not all of you use Twitter, so with that in mind I’d like to take Sunday to do sort of a week in review.  I’ve selected the most useful of my tweets from the last week and placed them in to the categories that I use in this blog.

Me

• The #PittsburghMarathon will be on May 15th next year. Should I? It would be one hell of a birthday-eve.
• I haven’t done as little work in 4 days as I did in the last 4 in years. It was Great! Now back to regularly scheduled programming.

Personal Technology

• I just set up the Boxee remote on my ipod touch. <little nerdgasm>http://youtu.be/1OL6ruHE7WA

Pittsburgh

• Sounds Interesting… RT @FatHeadsPGH: FatHeads on tap right now BEAN ME UP COFFEE STOUT 5% #cheers #craftbeer
• All 7 of Pittsburgh’s highest paid execs got raises of at least 5% last year one was 372.8%). http://bit.ly/cNQZFO
• Hard to win a seat at at a table tonight. (@ Rivers Casino)http://4sq.com/92D71D
• Local raised smoked salmon at the south side farmers market is amazing.
• Drinks are too cheap at jack’s its not safe.

Social Media

• Stopping payola in social by accountability. @sethgodin‘s complaint: http://bit.ly/bST9RN My Response: http://bit.ly/aRdfav

Sports

• So wait, today’s #Worldcup consolation game is a soccer game that doesn’t matter? Isn’t that kind of redundant?

Startups

• This company (http://bit.ly/djAPBU ) has 5 digit revenue. It makes you feel like a crappy entrepreneur when dumb ideas make $.

Technology News

• It’s learning RT @hunch: Pick a # from 1-10. vegetarians are twice as likely to pick 9: http://hun.ch/94fds8 /@hunch
• 4sq five times larger then gowalla and growing 75% faster. Game, set, match. http://tcrn.ch/a0FlA0

Unsolicited Advice

• I’m a fan of what the Southside Starbucks is trying to do with their space. If you haven’t been in a while, stop by.

Other (Mostly Humorous Comments from the Week)

• I got 142% in discrete math in college (includes probability) and yet I insist on playing blackjack. Why?
• Ha! RT @vseanclark: Can’t get work done if I have to debunk markitecture first. Maybe that’s one of those new jobs created by cloud.
• I agree that companies need ops and innovation focus. But budgets always drive former, latter gets lost if not a focus.
• HA! “….at the craps table, which boy is THAT an appropriately named game.” http://bit.ly/9MBVfy (via @PittGirl )
• You mean this piece of cardboard is not the real ipod? http://twitpic.com/22zwkv