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Pilot's Alphabet

2010-06-24T14:37:00.000-07:00

A	Alpha	N	November
B	Bravo	O	Oscar
C	Charlie	P	Papa
D	Delta	Q	Quebec
E	Echo	R	Romeo
F	Foxtrot	S	Sierra
G	Golf	T	Tango
H	Hotel	U	Uniform
I	India	V	Victor
J	Juliet	W	Whiskey
K	Kilo	X	X ray
L	Lima	Y	Yankee
M	Mike	Z	Zulu

2010-05-24T22:20:00.001-07:00

Earth Day letter, 1970

2010-04-22T13:39:00.001-07:00

Mister Microphone

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stumped

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itaru yonenaga from tou

2009-11-06T09:21:00.001-08:00

pimp my pumpkin

2009-11-03T22:08:00.000-08:00

"a" is for atom

2009-10-20T21:50:00.000-07:00

How to make a crispy fruit crumble

2009-10-19T23:42:00.000-07:00

How to make a crispy fruit crumble: "

I don't know about you, but I think all this talk about baking being a-precise-science-and-all-that is scaring a lot of people away from baking. I mean, I'm sure baking a ten-layer wedding cake or five hundred tarts may well be precise science. But baking just a pie or a few cookies, that's hardly more so than making a simple bowl of soup.

So, if you're one of those people, I have just a recipe for you to try. Or even if you're not, try it anyway, it's so simple and so good, you'll thank me for it later. (Hold it with the proposals though boys, I am otherwise occupied.)

This is going to be the easiest dessert you’ll ever make. Really it will. It’s basically comprised of two parts, an unusually crisp crumble topping, which comes together in minutes, and a fruit filling, which can be just about any fruit in abundance at the moment. At my market, stone fruits are just about done. So I'm sending them off with the last hurrah with the French prune plums - quetsches as they're called over there.

The crumble topping is quite a bit crispier than your usual crumble,
and also quite a bit crumblier than your average crisp. I'm calling it
a 'crispy crumble'. It came together because I always thought fruit
crisps never had enough of the crispy bits to keep me happy. I'm all
about carb, you see. A pizza, for me, is all about the dough, sushi all
about the rice, and pie all about the crust. So I wanted a heftier
crisp topping, but I also wanted to keep the crisp and not just turn it
into a regular crumbly crumble. Hence born this recipe.

It actually came together pretty quickly. Starting with my usual
crumble recipe, I added oats and nuts and a little more butter just to damn
bless myself properly. You can use rolled oats, spelt flakes, or just
about any uncooked cereal flakes or blend you have on hand. The same
goes with the nuts - sliced almonds as I did here, chopped pecans should do well, or walnuts, or just about anything, really. A little bit of spice, a little bit of flour, and a little bit lot of melted butter and you're in business.

As for the fruits, you can use whatever stone fruits still hanging about in your market, or when Fall fruits arrive you can do a quince-apple-prune one like I did last year (but use this crispy crumble topping instead.)

For the crispy crumble
(This makes enough to top baking dishes like this, and this. It's easy to scale it up or down to fit your appetite.)

1 1/2 sticks butter
1 cup all purpose flour
1 cup sliced almonds
1 cup rolled oats, spelt flakes, or whatever blend of uncooked cereal flakes you have on hand
1 cup brown sugar, packed
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp nutmeg
a pinch of clove
1/4 tsp salt

In a small pot, melt the butter over medium heat. In a large bowl, dump the rest of the crispy crumble ingredients and stir to mix. Pour the melted butter over everything and stir with a fork until the dry ingredients are moistened and form clumps. Cover with plastic and let rest in the fridge while you prepare the fruits.

For the fruit filling
Enough fruit to fit your baking dish. In the large Le Creuset dishes I linked to above you'll probably need about 4-5 pounds of fruit. Cut up the fruits to big chunks, juice one lemon over them, toss with a little sugar (a little more if the fruit is sour) and a table spoon or two of flour (depending on how wet you think it might be). That's about it.

Put the fruit chunks in the baking dish, crumble the topping evenly over them. Place the baking dish on a foil-lined baking sheet to catch the drip or you might need to clean the oven afterwards. Bake in a pre-heated oven at 350F (175C) for about 50 minutes. (If you're doing it in a smaller dish you might want to check at 30 minutes or so.) You should see some of the fruit juices bubbling over and the topping should be golden brown, that's when you're done. Oh, yes, and your house should smell heavenly too. That's how you know.

2009-09-17T15:34:00.001-07:00

Zabars Challah

2009-09-13T13:10:00.000-07:00

09/09/2009

Recipe for Simple Sweet Challah

Enjoy this week's recipe from Andrea Watman
Simple Sweet Challah

This is my favorite Challah recipe. It is easy to make – and the sweet taste of the bread is just wonderful. I serve it warm with honey on Rosh Hashanah. Growing up my Grandma Bertha made dinner every Friday night. She set a beautiful table with a Challah as the centerpiece. No, she didn’t bake it – she walked to 161st Street and Gerard Avenue in the Bronx – to The G & R Bakery. If you lived anywhere near Yankee Stadium The G & R Bakery was where you met on Friday’s. You had to go early in the day because there would always be a line. The Challah was so shiny that as I child I thought it was polished. For years I tried to bake Challah and could never master it. This recipe has never failed me – so I hope you’ll give it a try.

Ingredients:
2 packages dry yeast
2/3 Cup Warm Water (110 degrees)
5 Egg Yolks – Lightly Beaten
3 Whole Eggs – Lightly Beaten
7 Tablespoons Corn Oil
½ Cup Sugar
2 Teaspoons Salt
4 ½ Cups Flour
1 Cup Raisins (Optional)
1 Egg Yolk – Beaten
Poppy Seeds (optional)


Preparation:
1.	In cup or small bowl dissolve Yeast in the warm water with approx 1 tablespoon of sugar. After just a few minutes the yeast should begin to "bloom". It will become foamy and it will give off a sweet smell. If your yeast is not fresh this will not happen – do not go any further – start over with fresh yeast.
2.	In a large bowl mix Egg Yolks, Eggs, Oil, remaining Sugar, Salt and Yeast mixture.
3.	Add enough flour to form stiff but sticky dough (you can do this in a stand mixer – using the dough hook attachment).
4.	Then turn dough out onto a floured surface and knead until smooth and elastic (adding more flour if needed) – about 6 minutes – work in raisins as kneading.
5.	Form a ball and place in a greased bowl and turn dough so all sides are greased. Cover with a clean kitchen towel and place in warm area to double in bulk – about two hours.
6.	Punch down and knead briefly.
7.	Roll dough into a 24” long rope. Create a spiral round loaf. (Sometimes I divide the dough into three parts, then I make three smaller ropes and braid them – then I form a circle from with the braid).
8.	Place on baking sheet lined with parchment.
9.	Brush loaf with beaten egg yolk, sprinkle top with poppy seeds (if desired), and allow too rise until dough doubles in size – about 45 minutes.
10.	Bake until golden brown in a pre-heated 375 degree oven – 35 to 40 minutes.
11.	Allow to cool before slicing and enjoy!

Tuesday

2009-08-25T12:24:00.000-07:00

yesterday I partook in all my regular Tuesday traditions: Regretting all those cheap tacos from Taco Tuesday; then undergoing a mixture of deep reflection, soreness and introspection after Trampoline Tuesday

i'm no Rick Astley

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r.i.p.

2009-08-25T12:08:00.000-07:00

not cindy

2009-08-25T12:07:00.000-07:00

i am a golden god!

2009-08-25T12:03:00.001-07:00

Disco Dracula

2009-08-18T10:08:00.001-07:00

Twittergraphy

2009-08-18T09:31:00.000-07:00

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/03/opinion/03schott.html?_r=1

The 140-character limit of Twitter posts was guided by the 160-character limit established by the developers of SMS. However, there is nothing new about new technology imposing restrictions on articulation. During the late 19th-century telegraphy boom, some carriers charged extra for words longer than 15 characters and for messages longer than 10 words. Thus, the cheapest telegram was often limited to 150 characters†.

Concerns for economy, as well as a desire for secrecy, fueled a boom in telegraphic code books that reduced both common and complex phrases into single words. Dozens of different codes were published; many catered to specific occupations and all promised efficiency.

The phrases below are from the third edition of “The Anglo-American Telegraphic Code,” published in 1891. It can only be hoped that, as Twitter advances, more people will begin Tweeting in code, thus:

Patrick Duffy and an emotionally sensitive crab

2009-06-05T15:53:00.000-07:00

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For Some, Voice Mail Is Losing Its Allure - NYTimes.com

2009-04-02T14:44:00.001-07:00

"I had to give up something and that, for me, was voice mail,” he said. “It’s cutting out some forms of communication to make room for the others.”

tick tock

2009-03-20T17:21:00.001-07:00

Espresso Porn!

2009-03-20T17:18:00.001-07:00

settle down

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dreams shattered

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Go coffee go!

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sunny moscow

2009-03-12T22:14:00.001-07:00

the city rises

Espresso Porn!

2009-03-12T22:13:00.001-07:00

Espresso Porn!
Originally uploaded by MattReynolds

sweet form and wooden handle to boot!

the sound of summer

2009-03-10T14:33:00.001-07:00

red is good

2009-02-19T15:29:00.001-08:00

IMG 0950
Originally uploaded by adepace

Butler's Pantry

2009-02-19T11:52:00.001-08:00

I want to make a pie in here

Get Smooved

2009-02-12T16:43:00.001-08:00

Girl, if there is any doubt in your mind as to what time it is, let me break it down for you: It is time for you to get Smooved.

Aw, baby, I know that I had said some things that made you mad, but I am extremely sorry. If you just come on home, I will make it up to you. I will take you to new stratospheres of love. I will sex you wild.

To make up for all the foolish things I said, tomorrow night, I will escort you to my crib, where I will prepare for you a romantic meal comprised of succulent lobster from the finest sea. We will both eat the lobster and enjoy a side dish of rice with it. There will also be a baked potato waiting for you, and some butter for you to place upon that potato. In addition, there will be sour cream, which you may also put on the potato if you so desire.

I will also serve juice.

Then, when we have each finished eating our meals, I will lay your body down on a bedsheet comprised of 100 percent silk, which I will purchase in advance from the finest store in this city. Then, just before we freak, I will inquire as to how you like the feel of the sheets. If you inform me that you do not like it, I will travel to other cities around the world until I locate a store that sells sheets that are more to your satisfaction. Then, I will purchase those sheets and return home to put them on the bed for you.

It is then that I will hit you doggy-style.

While I am freaking you, I will whisper various things in your ear. Some of the phrases I will say to you are, "Baby, you are my everything," "You feel so good, I can't stand it," and, "Girl, ride me." There will also be candles and a CD featuring the music of Keith Sweat to create an atmosphere of unbridled romance, making you wet.

This is how you will get Smooved.

Just say the word, and we will share interplanetary cocoa love until the break of dawn. We will bump across the galaxy, exploring the known solar system with our passion. We will journey to places even the astronomers have never been. We will bump to Pluto, as well as to the moon.

When we are through with the lovemaking aspect of our romantic evening together, I will still continue to attend to your needs. If you wish a grape to be placed in your mouth, I will place one there. It does not matter whether you want a purple grape or a white grape, as I will supply myself with grapes of both colors.

If you would like to be massaged with scented oils, I will appear behind you and do so. I will make sure to rub your neck and shoulders lovingly, neither rubbing so hard as to be painful, nor so soft as to be ineffectual for massaging purposes.

Aw, girl, I want to throw you on the floor right now and ride you hard.

To summarize my feelings, I love you, and that fact is inscrutable. If you could only find it in your heart to forgive me for all the foolish things I did and said, we could take a magical voyage to Atlantis together, sailing on a caravan of love. Just say the word, and I will sting you. I will Smoove you.

All night long.

i feel better already

2009-01-30T11:08:00.001-08:00

one more reason to love vancouver

2009-01-28T14:38:00.001-08:00

what?

2009-01-21T16:59:00.001-08:00

tricky scores!

2008-12-18T12:03:00.001-08:00

deep fried wieners

2008-11-08T22:22:00.000-08:00

fluffy beard

2008-11-08T22:02:00.000-08:00

bendy

2008-11-03T16:59:00.000-08:00

sterolab

2008-10-21T14:07:00.001-07:00

SeeqPod - Playable Search

Squirrels for Obama!

2008-10-02T09:26:00.001-07:00

it's nice, but you know, kinda...

2008-08-18T20:45:00.001-07:00

Bottoms Up Doorbell

2008-07-25T13:31:00.001-07:00

designer:	van Jagt, Peter
design year:	1994

This
very clever doorbell consists of two sizes of wine glass which
literally "clink together" when someone rings your doorbell. An
absolute classic from Droog from the mid 1990s. A fabulous conversation
piece and the clinking together of glasses is a wonderful auditory
metaphor for the arrival of guests. This piece is stocked in the US for
immediate delivery.

notes: measures 10" x 3.5" deep x 9.5"

retromodern.com - (2129) van Jagt, Peter - Bottoms Up Doorbell for Droog

pizzelle

2008-07-23T08:42:00.001-07:00

you just gotta...

2008-07-12T21:56:00.000-07:00

Lawn zombie sculpture

2008-07-08T14:02:00.001-07:00

http://www.designtoscano.com/product/garden+statues/fantasy+statues/assorted+creatures+outdoors/the+zombie+of+montclaire+moors+sculpture+-+db383020.do

The Helio Sequence

2008-07-08T13:52:00.000-07:00

Lately I don’t think of you at all Or wonder what you’re up to Or how you’re getting on I never think of calling you Or how things could have been Or wonder where you sleep at night Or whose arms you wake in I’m living alone, living alone I don’t need you anymore I’m living alone, living alone I don’t need you anymore Lately I don’t get lost in daydreams I never lay awake at night Staring in my bed And I don’t think about your face Or anything you’ve said And I don’t think twice When someone says your name Or twist my mind in circles Wondering which of us to blame I’m living alone, living alone I don’t need you, anymore Living alone, living alone I don’t need you anymore I never walk alone and think Of all the empty words Or wonder when the day will break Or when the time will turn And I don’t break down When someone says your name Or twist my mind in circles Wondering which of us to blame I’m living alone, living alone I don’t need you anymore Living alone living alone I don’t need you anymore Lately I don’t think of you at all Lately Oh, lately

tattoo you

2008-06-29T23:14:00.001-07:00

espresso porn

2008-05-20T23:11:00.001-07:00

The Sex Pistols and Ron Paul The Tonight Show - Boing Boing

2008-05-06T17:42:00.000-07:00

Jay Leno will have The Sex Pistols and Ron Paul on this evening's Tonight Show.

just another reason not to like vegatables

2008-05-06T17:38:00.000-07:00

"Dear secret force of the universe, be it intelligent or just accident/chance or cause and effect, whatever you believe in, can we just agree that sometimes the best stuff in life is almost free, found in a veggie bag in your fridge.

Don't do it.

2008-04-10T18:43:00.000-07:00

I should've know better. I know. Don't tell me I'm stupid for thinking it could be good. I never thought it'd be good. I just... had to try it anyway.

The added vanilla flavor, which is far too strong, tastes like cheap vanilla extract. After one gulp I felt like I was drinking up the mixture of melted ice cream, flat soda, and backwash that's left in the bottom of someone else's old root beer float.

If you see it, stay away.

Giant Chewy Nerds, on the otherhand, are my new best friend."

hi Adi

2008-03-10T21:41:00.000-07:00

Create myspace graphic with Gickr

looking forward

2008-02-25T07:55:00.000-08:00

you that period during sunset on a hot summer night. the sun is over the horizon and all shades of orange/yellow are gone but its not dark yet. the sky to the east is pitch black and the west is almost white but definitely a blueish tone. in between there are this 1000 degrees of blue that gradates between the light and the dark. those shades of blue. i only get to see them a few times a year, and when i do i stop dead in my tracks knowing that they are only going to last for a few seconds before being consumed by the darkness. i love them all.

Remember, if you come across a crashed meteorite don’t touch it

2008-02-19T20:48:00.001-08:00

Weird Hyphen

2008-02-19T20:43:00.000-08:00

oh YEAH!

2008-02-17T21:18:00.000-08:00

speechless

2008-02-02T17:38:00.001-08:00

public art.gallery4Culture

2008-01-31T15:51:00.000-08:00

Ross Sawyers

Gallery4Culture General Information
101 Prefontaine Pl S
Seattle WA 98104

Elvis has left the building

2008-01-29T14:23:00.000-08:00

On December 21, 1970, President Nixon met with Elvis Presley in the Oval Office. The pill popping rock star offered to help the president combat the rise in drug use among Americans. Elvis brought President Nixon a World War II Colt 45 pistol and several Presley family photographs as gifts. Nixon gave the King an FBI badge.

29 years ago, on August 16, 1977, Presley died of a drug overdose.

Since It's Apparently News Every Time Obama Gets An Endorsement...

2008-01-28T17:10:00.000-08:00

I thought it might be helpful (in the interest of equal time and all) to tick off a few of the endorsements Hillary Clinton (you know, that annoying lady standing in the way of Obama's coronation) has scored:

The New York Times.

The American Nurses Association.

Billie Jean King.

Former VP candidate Geraldine Ferraro.

The National Organization for Women.

Barbra Streisand.

The National Women's Political Caucus.

The Women's Campaign Forum.

Director Steven Spielberg.

Poet Maya Angelou.

Washington State Rep. Jay Inslee.

Former House majority leader Dick Gephardt.

California Senator Dianne Feinstein.

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom.

The United Transportation Union.

The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers.

King County Executive Ron Sims.

General Wesley Clark.

The International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers.

Rob Reiner.

The Alabama Black Caucus.

The American Federation of Teachers.

Civil rights leader and Congressman John Lewis.

The American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees.

Barney Frank.

Walter Mondale.

The governor of Ohio.

The governor of Pennsylvania.

The United Farm Workers union.

WCLA-Choice Matters.

House Intelligence chair Silvestre Reyes.

Former HUD secretary Henry Cisneros.

Former Washington governor Gary Locke.

Washington State Sen. Maria Cantwell.

Oregon Governor Ted Kulongoski.

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

The Amalgamated Transit Union.

think spring

2008-01-28T17:07:00.000-08:00

Q: Which drummer was the inspiration for Animal from the Muppet Show.

2008-01-24T08:29:00.000-08:00

A: Keith Moon.

bumper commitment i can stand behind

2008-01-24T07:59:00.000-08:00

for the jew who has everything....holy breakfast

2008-01-02T20:37:00.000-08:00

i don't know what to say

2008-01-02T15:01:00.000-08:00

La Villa Basque

2008-01-02T13:02:00.000-08:00

"Vernon business owners eat at La Villa Basque, owned by Mayor Leonis C. Malburg, who has been on the Council since the Eisenhower administration".
Mr. Malburg is the grandson of John B. Leonis who was Vernon’s founding father and arrived from the Basque region of southern France in 1896.

HEAVY METAL FUN TIME ACTIVITY BOOK

2008-01-02T12:09:00.000-08:00

http://www.lastgasp.com/d/31343/

by Aye Jay

$9.95

48 pages

ISBN-10: 155022798X

ISBN-13: 9781550227987

Publisher: ECW Press

From the creator of the bestselling Gangsta Rap Coloring Book comes a new activity book for kids and kids at heart. The Heavy Metal Fun Time Activity Book has all the fun of a heavy metal parking lot without all the moshing and beer stains on your favorite band T-shirt. With a foreword by party anthem master Andrew W.K., the book gives headbangers the chance to color legends like Metallica, Danzig, and Pantera; help get Spinal Tap through a backstage maze; complete the Black Metal word scramble and hair metal crossword; draw themselves into a Gene Simmons mask; make words using the letters in YNGWIE MALMSTEEN; solve Heavy Metal Sudoku (hint: it’s all 6's); and so much more! "At last, an activity [book] for Metal Heads. From Slipknot to Spinal Tap, the brain teasers are all there. Use some magic and the answers are sure to come." -Ronnie James Dio, former front man, Black Sabbath and Rainbow

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