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A few days ago I showed all of you my Prime Rib and I'm looking forward to enjoying another during the holiday season.
Many know that it's not a cheap hunk of beef so, how does one stretch the use of such an expensive cut? Make stock with the leftover bones.
Don't throw out the bones from that Prime Rib after dinner. You can wash/rinse the bones, throw them into a stockpot with about 10 cups of cold water and boil them down for about 2-3 hours. What you'll end up with is a rich, flavourful beef stock which can be used for soups, stews and sauces.
If you simply want to make your own beef stock but do not have a leftover Prime Rib, then you might want to ask your butcher if they sell beef bones (most do). These scraps also have some meat attached to them and you can go straight to making a hearty beef soup when the stock is done.
I usually season the bones with some salt and pepper, preheat the oven to 425F and place them in the middle of the oven on a baking sheet for 1 1/2 – 2 hours to brown, render the fat and break down the meat. I also roast onions, carrots and celery with the beef. Now you have flavour.
When you're done roasting the beef bones, you can once again place them in lots of cold water and boil them down for 2-3 hours.
Both methods will also produce some impurities and fat. You can invest in a fat separator or after your beef stock has cooled to room temperature, place the stock pot in the fridge (or wintery outdoors) for the stock to chill overnight. The next day you will find the fat has risen to form a hardened white "crust", which can simply be skimmed off with a spoon and discarded.
Strain your beef stock and you can immediately use it for a stew, sauce or freeze it for later use. Today, I'm making Beef Barley Soup.
Beef Barley Soup
5-6 cups of beef stock
hand-shredded beef pieces
1/4 cup of olive oil
1 onion, roughly diced
1 carrot, diced
1 rib of celery, diced
1 large potato, diced
1/2 cup barley
1 bay leaf
1 Tbsp. of tomato paste
2-3 sprigs of fresh thyme
1 cup of blanched green beans, chopped
salt and pepper to taste
- Place a large pot on a burner with medium-high heat and pour in your vegetable oil, vegetables and bay leaf and saute for 5 minutes. Add your tomato paste and stir in to incorporate and cook through for another five minutes.
- Add your beef stock and turn the heat up to high and bring to a boil.
- When you have a boil, add your barley, beef pieces and some salt to taste. Cover with lid, reduce heat to medium and simmer for 90 minutes.
- Adjust seasoning with salt and pepper, add the green beans and turn off heat. Enjoy hot on a cold day with crackers, crusty bread or a sandwich.
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Monday, June 8, 2009
7 comments:
- Marmee said...
You and I read the same blogs! ;o) Anyway, can you believe this guy? He was probably peeing his pants when conservative talk show hosts started calling O "the Messiah!" Now, he's moved one step further and actually BELIEVES that O is God. This is lunacy!!
- Monday, June 8, 2009 at 8:45:00 PM MDT
- It's Me said...
It's nice, for a change, to have a president that is so well loved! It's patriotism at its best! It is what it is!
- Tuesday, June 9, 2009 at 11:02:00 AM MDT
- El Cerdo Ignatius said...
It's Me: It is what it is!
Ever known anything that was not what it was, or was what it was not? Just askin'. :-D
- Tuesday, June 9, 2009 at 12:41:00 PM MDT
- Chuck said...
Bush even mentioned the word God and the left had a meltdown, now they accept Obama being called a god?
- Tuesday, June 9, 2009 at 6:13:00 PM MDT
While I find this pretty outrageous myself, he said "a sort of god." He didn't call him God....chill people
- Tuesday, June 9, 2009 at 10:16:00 PM MDT
- Larry Durham said...
Well, if he "is what he is" then I think he IS a third rate, intellectually vacant little man with tens of millions of mind numbed sheep rubber stamping every banality he vomits out.
Libs can't explain how anything Barry is doing is going to work...and they sound stupid when they try...which is seldom.
- Wednesday, June 10, 2009 at 11:25:00 AM MDT
- EDGE said...
What one thing does Obama and God have in common?
No birth certificate.
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Embattled Senator Ivor Callely has been portrayed as a pariah who ripped off the state over controversial expenses claims, his lawyer claimed today.
As he moved to sue the Seanad Committee examining his travel costs, the High Court was told the politician has not had a day's peace since a group of cross-party senators found he made suspect claims.
Barrister Michael O'Higgins is challenging the Seanad Select Committee on Members' Interest findings and Mr Callely's subsequent 20-day suspension.
The court heard the senator, who had a constituency office in north Dublin, suffered enormous damage when a committee ruled he had deliberately misrepresented his normal place of residence as being his west Cork holiday home.
"The findings against Senator Callely portrayed him as a pariah, having ripped off the State of €80,000, a chancer, a rogue, a thoroughly despicable person," said Mr O'Higgins.
"He has literally not had a day's peace since that finding."
Mr Callely, whose political base was Clontarf, north Dublin, has been embroiled in the damning scandal over travel expenses and other questionable invoices for several months.
He claimed €80,000 for travel from his holiday home in Kilcrohane, west Cork, and was subsequently suspended from the upper house.
The Seanad Committee had found he deliberately misrepresented his normal place of residence as being the holiday home, rather than his house in Dublin, in order to make the claims.
Mr O'Higgins told Mr Justice Sean Ryan he planned to challenge the committee's findings on three counts.
He claimed the committee confused the definition of Mr Callely's "normal place of residence" and that one member of the committee, Senator Joe O'Toole, had simply refused outright to apply the definition.
Mr O'Higgins said Mr O'Toole had also accused Mr Callely of having an elaborate scheme to avoid paying capital gains tax on his Cork home, which would have been worth €250,000 to the Revenue.
The barrister said that, under a definition of normal residence supplied to Mr Callely by the Department of Finance, his normal place of residence did not necessarily have to be a permanent, principal abode, but had to be a premises that was used for a lengthy period.
"The case I make is he is entitled, purely and simply, to have the matter dealt with by definition," added Mr O'Higgins.
Tourism Minister Mary Hanafin said she was taken aback at the lawsuit.
"I'm surprised that an Oireachtas member would go to the court, and in dealing with this particular problem with Deputy Callely, I would have thought the Oireachtas was the place to deal with it," she said.
The scandal-hit former junior minister resigned from Fianna Fail last month when he claimed he had been denied fair procedures in an internal investigation.
Elsewhere, he has been ordered to explain why he filed four mobile phone invoices from a defunct company which ran to €2,900.
It is understood the Seanad committee has also received another formal complaint about Mr Callely's failure to declare his interest in at least seven properties to Oireachtas authorities.
Mr O'Higgins alleged there had been a drip feed of allegations to the media, which felt they had the right to write about Senator Callely, safe in the knowledge they had the previous finding against him.
The barrister maintained his client had twice tried to change his expenses claim to accurately reflect his travel arrangements when he started spending more time in Dublin ahead of the second Lisbon Referendum - but had been informed it was not possible to change the data during the course of a year.
Senior Counsel Gerry Hogan, for the committee, was given permission to address the court during the ex parte application.
He requested the challenge be heard before the Seanad resumes at the end of the month, at which time he would argue whether the courts has jurisdiction over a Seanad decision.
Mr Hogan told the court it would be unsatisfactory if Senator Callely was granted permission to challenge the committee as his suspension and pending inquiries would be on hold until the outcome of the case.
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Well, all I can say tonight is WOW! Things have suddenly gotten very
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Apparently, it took a mind to grow very quickly, very fast, and become
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NOAA sunspot number : 116
A index : 25
K index : 6
Solar wind speed : 532.7 km/sec
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If you're thinking of joining a beer of the month club you've found the right place. Each month we review a beer of the month club shipment to give you an idea of what you really get. This month Gourmet Monthly Clubs sends us Shmaltz Brewing Company, brewed in Saratoga Springs, NY, and Florida Beer Company.
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Florida Beer Company Key West Southernmost Wheat
Appearance: As a Belgian-style Wheat beer should, Southernmost Wheat pours a super hazy, light straw color with a big, white head on top. This one fades quickly which, while not perfect, is not that irregular either.
Smell: There's a lot going on here! The most obvious is the wheat malt, which lends a dry, spicy smell, and the Belgian yeast which adds to the spicy smell and also gives a bit of what almost smells like banana. Then you pick up the spices they brewed this beer with, the orange peel and, the unusal ingredient that puts this over the top...Key lime.
Taste: Right up front, this beer is a tasty Belgian-style wheat ale. Dry, a little chalky from the wheat, and the crisp, refreshing body one expects. In the second half of the swallow is where it gets interesting! The orange peel and key lime they added combine to give a great citrus taste, with the orange more prevalent and first and the lime more prevalent in the finish. Would we have ever thought to add the key lime? No. Does it work? Yes, especially if you're living in the hot, muggy climes of Florida!
Florida Beer Company Hurricane Reef Pale Ale
Appearance: As opposed to the Belgian-style wheat, the Reef Pale Ale pours a barely hazy orange...we know orange is a weird color for a beer, but it's pretty orange. It looks like beer, definitely, but it's quite orange and has a thin white head that sits on top, receding quickly.
Smell: There's definitely hops in this brew! They smell pretty dank, rather than citrusy as you'd expect from the Cascades use in this beer. Perhaps the sweeter malt that accompanies it is weighing these expected notes down a bit?
Taste: Mildly bitter hops cut through right at the beginning of the beer along with a carbonation that is strong on the front and back of the tongue, but not the middle. As you swallow, bitterness coats your mouth but is quickly swept away by sweeter malts and and orangey taste, only to finish with a pleasant bitterness on the back of your tongue.
Shmaltz Brewing Company / Terrapin Beer Company Reunion Ale 2011
Every year a different version of Reunion Ale is brewed to in memory of Virginia MacLean, who passed away from Multiple Myeloma in 2007. This series of beers raises money for The Institute for Myeloma and Bone Cancer Research.
Appearance: This Reunion Ale pours about as dark as beer can get before it's actually just black. A head the color of coffee with a lot of cream blows up on top and settles into a craggy, creamy froth on top.
Smell: OK, there's a ton going on here! This beer is brewed with cocoa nibs, vanilla and chili peppers. The nibs are especially apparent in the aroma and you can definitely smell a bit of heat from the chilies. The good news is that the vanilla appears to have been used with expert restraint, important as vanilla can very easily overwhelm a beer. Instead, it serves to enhance the cocoa. On top of all of this, you get the roasty malt character indicative of a porter...it sure smells like it's going to taste good!
Taste: This is one smooth beer! The carbonation is extremely low, which works perfectly for what they seem to have been shooting for. Again, the vanilla is used with amazing restraint, really enhancing and smoothing the cocoa. The peppers don't give the heat that we expected from the smell, which is great. All the ingredients play together really well, giving the brew a sweet, chocolaty flavor that would make for a great accompaniment to dessert! Rich and creamy, this is an awesome beer to end the night with.
Shmaltz Brewing Company Hop Manna IPA
Appearance: Hop Manna pours a slightly hazy (perhaps from so much hops?) deep amber with almost reddish tones. The head is large, off-white and not going anywhere!
Smell: Made with seven hop varietals and dry hopped with Centennial and Cascade? We believe it after smelling this! A floral, citrusy hoppiness jumps out at you right away as you pour the beer...you don't even have to try to smell it, the smell will find you! The tasting notes from Gourmet Monthly Clubs say you'll smell cantaloupe and you know what? They're right! Crazy sauce! Anyway, it smells great!
Taste: This is one of those hoppy beers that doesn't have a dominating bitterness. The hops are used more for balance and flavor than a tongue-numbing bittering agent and we're just fine with that! A mild bitterness balances full, clean malt while the hop flavor takes center stage. You remember that cantaloupe in the nose? Well it's back! That is definitely the most surprising flavor to us! There's also the more expected resiny hops and orangey citrus hop flavors, but the melon is really what throws us...and keeps us coming back! This is a tasty brew though for sure!
If you're thinking of joining a beer of the month club you've found the right place. Each month we review a beer of the month club shipment to give you an idea of what you really get. This month Gourmet Monthly Clubs sends us Four+ Brewing Company, an offshoot of Salt Lake City, UT brewery Uinta Brewing Company, Fordham Brewing Company from Virginia and American Honor Brewing Company from Pennsylvania.
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Four+ Brewing Company Sum'r Organic Summer Ale
Appearance: This Sum'r Organic Summer Ale pours with a HUGE white head that stays fluffy for-seemingly-ever! Rather than settling away to nothing, it just thickens into what we can only describe as a meringue...beer meringue, yum! The beer itself is almost an afterthought after this impressive display, a hazy, light straw that looks perfect for a hot summer day.
Smell: The brew smells light. A bit of yeast hits your nose with some fruitiness and, after that, you get a bit of grass clipping-like hops and some lemon...this brew just smells like summer!
Taste: This is a good beer for an extremely muggy day! It starts out with a crisp, but not overdone, hope bite. For people scared of hops, it's not too much, but it will serve to satisfy the hop lover of your friends. It's really dry and has a strong carbonation which suits this style well. Finally, for those of you who often add fruit to your summer beer, no need here! They've used a proprietary Japanese hop that imparts a bit of lemon aroma and taste. Perfect detail for this beer!
American Honor Brewing Company Declaration Ale
Appearance: Declaration Ale pours a clear, rich amber. As opposed to the Four+ Sum'r, Declaration Ale pours with very little head and what's there disappears exceedingly quickly.
Smell: Without a strong head, this beer doesn't give off a lot of smell, but the first thing you'll notice is distinctly American hops. It's not too strong, but they're there and they're citrusy. Other than that, you get just the lightest whiff of clean malt.
Taste: This brew tastes much more bitter than the 28 IBUs it's labelled as having. It starts out bitter and a little thin, but then the malt comes through. The finish is a lot more full as some of the malt sweetens, firming up the flavor and balancing the hops. The malt is well showcased for a pale ale like this, more in the English style than the American style. Overall this is a tasty brew that you'll be happy to try!
Four+ Brewing Company Wyld Organic Extra Pale Ale
Appearance: Tonight has been an exercise in variability! The first beer had a monster head, the second beer had no head and now the third has a very normal, very white head. It's a hazy, golden brew and, when you put the beer and head together, looks very appealing!
Smell: Wyld Extra Pale Ale is made with Simcoe and Amarillo hops, the latter being known for it's tropical fruit aroma, and damn can you smell it!
Taste: Wow, this is tasty! We could drink this all day out at a barbecue and, at 4.5% abv, it wouldn't knock us out either! It's dry throughout with a nice, crisp hop bitterness up front. In the finish you get the tropical fruit from the hops with one of the cleanest finishes we've ever tasted. This would go great with a cheeseburger as the carbonation and crispness would cut right through the creamy cheese and grease of the burger. We'll be on the lookout for this one.
Fordham Brewing Company Tavern Ale
Appearance: This is the darkest beer we've seen tonight as it pours a hazy, dark amber...almost brown. The head is a light tan, about a finger and a half thick and creamy looking!
Smell: It's also the biggest beer we've seen all night, and you can smell it! One whiff and you're met with sweet malt and a touch of dank hops on the back.
Taste: The taste is just as you'd expect from the smell. Sweet malt meets a balancing hop bitterness with gentle carbonation that brings the beer alive but doesn't overpower anything. The hops stick around a bit longer than the malt, meaning the finish and aftertaste is a bit bitter. Think of this as an end of summer brew, when you're not sure if the night will be cold.
If you're thinking of joining a beer of the month club you've found the right place. Each month we review a beer of the month club shipment to give you an idea of what you really get. This month Gourmet Monthly Clubs sends us Lake Placid Craft Brewing from Utica, NY and Choc Beer Company from Krebs, OK.
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Choc Beer Company 1919 American Wheat Ale
Appearance: The 1919 American Wheat pours a barely hazy light straw color. The head is bright white and, while it puffs up immediately, it falls fairly quickly. This is a trait more common in American wheat beers than compared the styles it descends from, German hefeweizens.
Smell: This brew smells quite clean, with just a hint of wheaty, dry spiciness that, again, is usually found in the traditional variation of this beer. American wheats, like this one, are known to be a cleaner, less yeasty beer and this one certainly lives up to that!
Taste: While it lacks the banana and clove so expected from the yeast of a German wheat beer, the flavor of the wheat is really showcased here! It gives the beer a dry, almost chalky (but in a good way) flavor. The wheat is a little spicy and extremely refreshing. This beer would be great on a 90⁰F+ day at a cookout.
Lake Placid Hefeweizen Wheat Ale
Appearance: A cloudy, deep golden beer fills the pint glass as we pour this one. We have to be careful as a big, white head forms on top and threatens to spill over if we're not careful.
Smell: Smelling the Lake Placid Hefeweizen after the Choc American Wheat is a perfect lesson in the difference between a German hefeweizen and an American wheat ale! This one has a ton of clove in the nose with a healthy dose of banana, all from the yeast. It still has the dry, chalky aroma from the wheat, but some strong notes that really liven up the beer from the fermentation process!
Taste: While this beer has a big aroma, the flavor is mainly upfront. On the front of the tongue the yeast and wheat flavors carry over from the smell. But as you swallow, it all drops right off. The mid-palette is there as well, giving this beer a lot of flavor while preventing palette fatigue. Is this the most complex brew we've ever had? No. Is it a strong example of an American-brewed German hefeweizen, perfect for a hot day? You better believe it! Not everything has to be a huge, barrel aged beer and this one is a great example of a well brewed, traditional style that satisfies.
Choc Beer Company Limited Edition Summer Belgian-style Blonde Ale
Appearance: As we would expect, this beer pours a bright, mostly clear golden color until the yeast sediment (optional to pour) comes out at the end of the pour, which turns the whole beer a darker, murkier, hazier dark tan. A white head appears briefly on top but quickly recedes. Not usual for Belgian-style brews but not a big deal for flavor.
Smell: As opposed to the German wheat beer style, while these two look the same this is a Belgian-style beer and therefore lends a lot more bubblegum type aroma and spice from the yeast. There's also less of a wheaty, chalky aroma. While the two look similar, they smell VERY different.
Taste: The first this you notice is that this beer is a bit sweet than the two wheat beers we just had. Again, the yeast is the predominant flavor, but it's not the clove/banana thing that you get. Bubblegum, just as in the aroma, is right up front as a flavor. Not in a bad, weird way but in a way that makes sense for a Belgian-style beer. So far this beer of the month club shipment has been a great showcase for slight variations in yeast with a similar malt base. Totally interesting if you want to learn about how beer is made and where the differences come from!
Lake Placid Ubu Ale
Appearance: And now for something TOTALLY different, the Lake Placid Ubu Ale is a dark English Strong Ale. About as different from Belgian and German wheat beers as you can get! This one pours dark, we're talking dark, dark brown, with tinges of red around the edges when held up to the light...but when on the table, it just looks black!
Smell: When you smell the Ubu Ale, you realize these English ales are fairly mild in the aroma department. The main thing you get is a bit of dark fruit, with a little bit of caramel sweetness. But that's if you look really hard. The smell on this is pretty light.
Taste: While the smell is light, the taste is most definitely not! This one clocks in at 7% abv, and you can taste a bit of that alcohol! Also, that dark fruit you swelled? It really comes through in a prune-like sweet taste. In typical English fashion, the hops are quite subdued, leaving the malt as the predominant taste in this one. It's pleasant, but strong. Definitely an end-of-a-night type of beer. Enjoy!


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Online Store › Get Started with Mindjoga Beginner › Mindjoga Beginner 8 Week Programme with Loaded MP3 Player
Mindjoga Beginner 8 Week Programme with Loaded MP3 PlayerYour price: $147.00
Product summary
Price in Australian Dollars INCLUSIVE OF POSTAGE
Multimedia Player conveniently loaded with our Mindjoga Beginner System.Complete with USB charger and stereo earpieces.Just turn on! (Great for those of us a little techncally challenged!)
Mindjoga Beginner System Loaded MP3 Player is part of a total system to help with stress relief and anxiety elimination.It is a guided journey using Mindjoga Stage 1 EQUILIBRIUM and Mindjoga Stage 2 AWAKENING audios plus supporting tools, information and instructions.On our program you will receive daily support Monday to Friday with weekends to consolidate your learning and practice.We will add you to our Facebook Support group too; where you can share with others on our programs.We look forward to seeing you there.
7 days after your loaded MP3 player is despatched, delivery of your Mindjoga Beginner 8 Week Programme will commence via your email system.
PROGRESSION:To Mindjoga Advanced 8 Week Programme (Mindjoga stages 3 & 4, RESTORATION AND EXPANSION)
Mindjoga Stage 1 EQUILIBRIUM gives tools to stop negative thoughts in a moment, at any moment, whenever we need to.
It shows how to re-balance your stress hormones quickly, stop anxiety attacks in their path and respond positively instead of reacting negatively when life triggers us.
Mindjoga Stage 2 AWAKENING is a deep guided meditation taking you to brain frequencies where our brain automatically re-programs for happiness.It accesses and utilises natural transformational brain frequencies where peace and joy are prevalent feelings.Totally natural, totally safe, you remain always in control.
PROGRESSION:Once completed please progress to our Mindjoga Advanced 8 Week Programme (Mindjoga stages 3 & 4, RESTORATION AND EXPANSION)
Mindjoga� is not a substitute for medication.Please contact your GP before stopping any medication you may be taking.
Results will vary depending upon focus and dedication given to the Mindjoga system.It is important to follow the instructions carefully and make each phase part of daily living for maximum results.


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by: RetailWire
Evangelists have long touted the potential of bringing social media and commerce together, particularly when it comes to Facebook and its nearly one-and-a-half billion active monthly users. Now, according to reports, Facebook members will be able to make purchases through e-commerce shops within its pages without having to leave the site.
"With the shop section on the page, we're now providing businesses with the ability to showcase their products directly on the page," Emma Rodgers, product marketing manager for Facebook, told BuzzFeed, which first broke the story.
Facebook has long relied on advertising as its key source of revenues. Earlier this year, the company announced it was adding Messenger so members could interact with businesses and track packages. The addition of direct commerce to Facebook pages would appear to make the social site into a one-stop shop for retailers looking to build not only their brand images but sales as well.
In an online discussion Friday, panelists on the RetailWire BrainTrust were split on the perennial question of whether Facebook can successfully convert users into shoppers, with some unconvinced that the feature will work — at least on a large scale.
"Consumers have fallen into a pattern of segmenting how they use social media," said Chris Petersen, PhD., president of Integrated Marketing Solutions. "Facebook is still the portal of choice for interacting with family and friends, not a primary place to search for and buy products. Could a buy button work on Facebook? Yes, it if is an impulse buy or the consumer is at a point in their purchase path where they are ready to buy. But how many times do you go onto Facebook looking for product pages or purchase options? Even if a friend recommends something, where do you go? Typically not a product page on Facebook."
"My view is that although there's a mass market, Facebook is best used as a supplementary site for things like flash sales, specials or loyalty pitches," said Ken Lonyai, digital innovation strategist and co-founder at ScreenPlay InterActive. "It cannot deliver the experience of a well-honed website and falls horribly short on maintaining brand ID. Smart merchants will use it for what it's good for and not see it as a lazy solution to creating revenue."
"No – simply no," said Tom Redd, global vice president of strategic communications at SAP SAP. "People will review and learn with the tool, but after they see how Facebook is going deeper into their lives and personal data as they shop via Facebook, it will stop. Even Millennials will start to say no more. Once the scams with shopping on Facebook hit and the lack of security shows, it will all come to a screeching halt."
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Article source: http://www.forbes.com/sites/retailwire/2015/07/19/can-facebook-turn-its-users-into-shoppers/
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