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Little more than 12 hours after Tour de France champion and four-time Olympic gold medal winner Bradley Wiggins was knocked off his bike, his mentor Sutton was involved in a collision with a Peugeot 206 being driven by a 61 year-old man in Levenshulme on Thursday morning.
Australia-born Sutton is making a good recovery, British Cycling announced today.
A spokesperson said: "Shane is making steady progress but is likely to remain in hospital for one more day under observation.
"He has fractured his cheek bone which will require surgery in due course. He is expected to make a complete recovery and will be back in work shortly."
Sutton was wearing a helmet when the incident occurred and the headgear was credited with playing a major role in ensuring his injuries were not significantly worse.
The 55 year-old, Dave Brailsford's right-hand man at British Cycling and Team Sky, suffered bruising and bleeding on the brain but those injuries are understood to not be a concern.
British Cycling performance director and Team Sky principal Brailsford visited Sutton in hospital last night.
Sutton has worked with the British team since 2002 and has been credited with playing a major role in transforming the fortunes of the sport in this country.
He was awarded an OBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours list in 2010 for his services to sport.
His career began as a road and track cyclist, where he won numerous titles including a Commonwealth Games gold medal in the 1978 team pursuit competition and the 1990 Milk Race.
He split his time between the track and the road in coaching this year's British competitors at the London Olympics and has worked closely with Wiggins for some time, playing a major role in the 32 year-old's transformation to become Britain's first Tour de France winner.
Wiggins spent a night in hospital in Preston after a vehicle collided with him on Wednesday evening near his home in Lancashire.
He was thrown off his bike when a white Vauxhall Astra Envoy is thought to have pulled out of a petrol station in Wrightington and collided with him.
Wiggins suffered minor injuries, including bruises to his right hand and ribs, and he is now recovering at home in Eccleston, near Chorley.
Wiggins' wife Cath wrote on Twitter today: "He is getting spoilt rotten... at least for a while."

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Israel News - Stay Informed, Pray Informed
At least a dozen people were killed and many more wounded early Monday morning when Israeli soldiers sent to board six blockade-busting international "aid" ships approaching the Gaza Strip were met with violent resistance.
The aid ships set off from Turkey at the weekend, insisting that their cargo was desperately needed by the residents of Gaza, despite the fact that Gaza receiving many times more humanitarian aid each week via Israel. The ships were also carrying many items Israel is trying to keep out of Gaza because they have been used in the past by Hamas to built rockets and bunkers.
The flotilla's organizers originally said that they would not use violence if confronted by the Israeli navy.
But an Israeli army spokesman said that the first soldier over the side of the main flotilla ship after it ignored radio calls to halt was immediately stabbed in the chest. The spokesman said that in addition to many activists wielding knives and metal bars, at least two were armed with guns, forcing the Israeli troops to use deadly force to seize control of the ship.
In addition to the dozen or so fatalities among the activists, some 50 were wounded and transferred to Israeli hospitals for treatment. At least 10 Israeli soldiers were also wounded, two seriously.
"This was not a peace missions, it was an act of terror," said IDF spokesman Col. Avi Beneihen.
In an address to the press later in the morning, Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon called the incident a "premeditated and outrageous provocation." He said Israeli troops had found many weapons prepared beforehand for use against Israeli forces aboard the ships. "It was an ambush for Israeli soldiers."
Ayalon said the presence of weapons aboard the ships only further demonstrated that the flotilla's purpose was not humanitarian.
For weeks leading up to the launch of the flotilla, Israel told its organizers in the Free Gaza Movement that many tons of humanitarian aid were entering Gaza every day, and that Israel would gladly add the permitted goods they had collected to the aid truck convoys.
But Ayalon said Israel was repeatedly informed that the Free Gaza Movement first and foremost intended to break the Israeli maritime blockade on Gaza and its Hamas rulers.
As many of the activists aboard the ships were Turkish, the Turkish government issued a very harsh condemnation of the Israeli action. The Turkish military's chief of staff rushed home from a visit to Cairo to discuss his nation's response.
Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas called for an emergency session of the Arab League to consider a strong regional reaction against Israel.
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Kemper and Sash — SuicideGirls of the Day
Meet Kemper and Sash, two SuicideGirls from California. Kemper says she loves sharks and puppies while Sash says green tea and bubble gum ice cream make her happy.
Name: Kemper
Age: 23
Location: California
Into: Sharks, puppies
Not into: Indoor pools
Makes me happy: Chihuahuas, breakfast, happy hour
Makes me sad: No dogs allowed, high kill shelters, strays
Things I can't live without: My dogs, car, sleep, chapstick
Favorite bands:
- Hank Williams Sr.
- Ella Fitzgerald
- Peggy Lee
- Karen Elson
- Violent Femmes
- Smashing Pumpkins
- Cake
- Louis Armstrong
- Patsy Cline
- Queen
Favorite books:
- I Am Legend
- What Dreams May Come
- Sense & Sensibility & Sea Monsters
- The Stand
- The Devil's Teeth
- Greek Mythology
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
- Resurrection
- Candide
- Pride & Prejudice & Zombies
Name: Sash
Age: 24
Location: Los Angeles
Into: Movies, sex, Lucky Strikes
Makes me happy: Green tea and bubble gum ice cream, udon, driving, and being with my best friend and my boy
Makes me sad: Being alone for long periods or time, eating greasy foods
Five things I can't live without: Cell phone, cigarettes, black eye liner, bracelets and my tongue ring
Vices: Smoking
Favorite bands:
- Atmosphere
- Fiona Apple
- Mindless Self Indulgence
- Slipknot
- Rob Zombie
- Radiohead
- Mickey Avalon
- A Perfect Circle
- Death Cab for Cutie
Favorite films:
- 'Kill Bill' (Vol. 1 & 2)
- 'Pulp Fiction'
- 'Snatch'
- 'Battle Royale'
- 'Magnolia'
- 'Reservoir Dogs'
- 'Clueless'
- 'Empire Records'
- 'Fight Club'
- 'Reqieum for a Dream'
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At the end of last week, Texans coach Gary Kubiak said that he expected running back Arian Foster to make his training camp practice debut on Sunday after starting camp on the PUP list because of a lingering calf injury.
The calf is holding up just fine, but Foster did not join his teammates on the field as planned on Sunday. Kubiak said, via the team, that Foster did not practice on Sunday because of a sore back.
There doesn't seem to be much concern that Foster will need to remain on the sideline much longer and it's certainly understandable that the Texans would continue to opt for the cautious approach with such an important part of their team. It's an approach that has extended to others with a big hand in the Texans' success. Defensive end J.J. Watt was a spectator on Sunday with a sore elbow that Kubiak said was not a big concern.
Neither injury will turn into one unless we get a lot closer to the regular season without any improvement.


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Google: 'no timetable' on China talks
We will stop censoring when we stop
Google has reiterated that it's no longer willing to censor search results in China. But as it continues to censor search results in China, it's not quite sure when this will actually stop.
In mid-January, as it told the world that alleged Chinese hackers had pilfered unspecified intellectual property from the company, Google said that it would spend "the next few weeks" discussing "the basis on which we could operate an unfiltered search engine within the law, if at all." That was seven weeks ago. But Google vice president and deputy general counsel Nicole Wong told the US Senate Judiciary Committee today that the company has "no timetable" for when talks will be completed.
That said, Wong insisted that the company is "firm in our decision that we will not censor our search results in China and we are working towards that end," as reported by the AFP.
"We want to get to that end - of stopping censoring our search results - in a way that is appropriate and responsible," Wong said. "We are working on that as hard as we can but it's a very human issue for us."
At a California conference about three weeks ago, Google co-founder Sergey Brin told The New York Times that any change in the company's China situation may take "a year or two" rather than "a few weeks."
"I want to find a way to work within the Chinese system to bring information to the people," he said. "Perhaps we won't succeed immediately, but maybe in a year or two." ®
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Campbell Chefs Debut Slow Kettle-Style Soups
Campbell Soup Co., Camden, N.J., enters the premium soup category with a line of five Campbell's Slow Kettle-Style soups.Campbell chefs combined distinctive ingredients like asiago cheese, baby bella mushrooms and white beans and slowly simmered them to create Slow Kettle-Style soups to be "better than homemade."
Throughout a multi-year development process, Campbell chefs were provided with the opportunity to create exciting flavor combinations that deliver on the brand's promise that each soup has been "made with patience, not preservatives."
Varieties include: Tuscan-Style Chicken and White Bean Soup with asiago cheese, thyme and rosemary; Tomato and Sweet Basil Bisque with cream and ground red pepper; Burgundy Beef Stew with baby bella mushrooms, roasted garlic and rosemary; Portobello Mushroom and Madeira Bisque with shallots, thyme and sage; and Southwest-Style Chicken Chili with black beans and sweet corn.
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As people continue to become more interested in gourmet foods, they are seeking out products that offer an everyday premium experience. We anticipate the new Slow Kettle Style soups will provide the quality they are seeking."
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Sunday, June 06, 2010
Ottolenghi's roasted aubergine with saffron yoghurt
Ottolenghi's new book, Plenty, is just out, and I've already bookmarked several recipes from the book that I'm keen to try. Meanwhile, I'm still in love with their first book, Ottolenghi: The Cookbook. I've blogged about their bright and beautiful cucumber and poppy seed salad already (and I've made it twice). I've tried their orange florentine cookies twice. But there's a dish I've made thrice at home, as well as twice at a Middle Eastern cooking club session I hosted few months ago. That's their fabulous recipe for roasted aubergine (eggplant) with saffron yogurt. I cannot imagine anyone not liking this salad (well, perhaps if you hate aubergine/eggplant and saffron :)) - it's bright and colourful, with contrasting textures and bold, interesting flavours. I've followed the recipe pretty much to the letter, apart from roasting the aubergine slices on a hot griddle instead of the oven, and slicing them into rounds as opposed to wedges. Highly recommended (if you like aubergines and saffron, that is :))
See also Meeta's beautiful version of this recipe. Her beautiful and detailed posting almost discouraged me to blog about the salad, but then it's my favourite dish, too :)
Roasted aubergine with saffron yoghurt
(Röstitud pommud safranijogurtiga )
Serves four
2 medium-sized aubergines
olive oil for brushing
2 Tbsp pine nuts, toasted
a large handful of pomegranate seeds
a large handful of basil leaves
sea salt flakes and freshly ground black pepper
Saffron yogurt:
a small pinch of saffron strands
3 Tbsp hot water
200 g thick Greek yogurt
1 garlic clove, finely crushed
3 Tbsp lemon juice
3 Tbsp extra virgin olive oil
sea salt flakes
Start by making the sauce. Place the saffron strands into glass, pour over the hot water and let infuse for 5 minutes. Pour the infusion into a bowl containing the yoghurt, crushed garlic, lemon juice, olive oil and some salt. Whisk well to get a smooth, golden sauce. Taste for seasoning and chill until ready to use (Can be made up to 3 days in advance).
Cut the aubergines/eggplants into 1 cm slices (cross-wise). Brush both sides with oil, sprinkle with salt and pepper. Grill on a very hot griddle pan until soft and golden brown, then flip over and fry the other side until golden brown as well. (Alternatively - and originally - roast for 20-30 minutes in a 220 C oven). (This can also be done up to 3 days in advance. Keep the roasted aubergine slices in the fridge, but bring to room temperature before serving).
To serve - layer the roasted aubergine slices onto a serving dish, slices slightly overlapping. Drizzle with saffron yogurt, sprinkle with toasted pine nuts, torn basil leaves and pomegranate seeds.
11 comments:
- siri said...
I've never heard of the cookbook, but it sounds fantastic based on everything you've made out of it so far. I ADORE all the flavors of this dish, just wish my husband could appreciate saffron more. Looks really pretty with the pomegranate seeds sprinkled over the top- such a nice summer dish!
- 2:08 pm, June 06, 2010
- Patricia said...
I am still working on a previous book of theirs; they are most imaginative putting together the great but unexpected.
This eggplant recipe sounds wonderful but I must ask, did you mean a handful of basil leaves, or basil seeds. I don't think I have ever collected basil seeds.
- 4:39 pm, June 06, 2010
- Kalyn said...
This is just gorgeous. I have the first book too, need to get cooking from it.
- 5:29 pm, June 06, 2010
- discount cookware said...
Your recipes are very much different from the other people and from the picture they seems to be really tasty.
- 8:23 pm, June 06, 2010
- Marisa said...
Been hearing rave reviews of this cookbook from all over - I need to get my hands on it!
Salad looks beautifully exotic & flavourful.
- 6:40 pm, June 07, 2010
- Cooking in Mexico said...
This looks so wonderful. I have a lonesome eggplant in the fridge, and homemade yogurt and saffron. But no pomegranate seeds. Are you able to find them fresh this time of year?
- 7:02 pm, June 08, 2010
- Jeanne @ Cooksister! said...
Oh, how beautiful! Ottolenghi is a genius - all his recipes just WORK. Don't have Plenty yet, but it's definitely on my hotlist!
- 6:08 pm, July 07, 2010
- Zarah Maria said...
This is one of my must-try's, too - and you're helping it moving up the to-try list;)
- 10:46 pm, September 09, 2010
- Monica said...
I made this today and found it disappointing. Maybe it was my yoghurt (a little on the tangy side), or that I used cashews instead of pine nuts? I don't know but I wasn't crazy about this. Kind of a let down because I almost always adore Ottolenghi's recipes. Worth seeking out is his chermoula aubergine with yoghurt, a much better dish in my world!
- 4:07 pm, October 03, 2012
- adam said...
This looks delicious and fresh, Ive used saffron and yoghurt before (with onion) as a marinate for chicken and it is amazing flavour.
- 6:39 am, December 09, 2012
Had the walnut yoghurt yesterday - fabulous - but can't find the recipe - any help?
- 9:57 am, March 08, 2014


text: At 09:04 AM 11/26/2005, Mark Hahn wrote: > > Ultimately though, to update the aphorism: "nobody ever got fired for > > recommending MS" > >personally, I think the clustering world is a bit complacent, not unlike how >unix was before Linux. the terrarium is a barrier in both directions - >because we are, for the most part structurally incompatible with WW, >the competition is more tectonic, rather than teeth-at-neck. Indeed... I agree.. the "current" user base for clusters is quite philosophically different from the "current" user base for MS products. >so, getting back to the point, I don't really see from SC05, where WW will >gain much from HPC clustering. multiple vendors said that MSFT's goal was >to insinuate itself into the low-end cluster market first, then move up. >no real surprise there, but I have doubts about whether this makes sense. >why? because low-end clusters are mostly a mistake. > >at a university like mine, for instance, nearly _everyone_ realizes that it's >insane for each researcher to buy/use/maintain his own little $50-500K >cluster. I see three clear reasons for this: > - the value of a cluster is some superlinear function of its size. > - the maintenance cost of a cluster is very sub-linear. > - most workloads are bursty. >the first two factors encourage larger clusters; the latter means that bursts >can be overlapped in a shared resource very nicely. However, this sort of logic (the economies of scale) push clusters towards the model of the "mainframe supercomputer" in it's special machine room shrine tended by white garbed acolytes making sure the precious bodily fluids continue circulating. One of the biggest values of the early clusters was that they let people "fool around" with supercomputing and get real work done, without hassling the instutional overheads. Sure, they may have been non-optimized (in a FLOPS/dollar sense, certainly, and in others), but because they were *personal supercomputers*, nobody could complain. They were invisible. There is, I maintain, a real market for smallish clusters intended to be operated by and under the control of a single person. In one sense, I'm wasting compute resources, but, I'm also doing this because my desktop CPU spends most of its time at <5% utilization. Having that desktop under my personal control means that if something isn't working right, I can just abort it. Or, if I am seized by the desire to dump all the other stuff running temporarily and run that big FEM model, I can do that too. No calling up the other users and asking if it's ok to kill their jobs. No justifying processor utilization to a section level committee, etc. To recapitulate from previous discussions: a cluster appliance >the other aspect of the MSFT-SC05 thing is that there doesn't appear to be >any real synergy between the WW software ethos and clustering. WW is all >about plugging applications together - embedding activeX controls, etc. >what would you plug into in a cluster? there's nothing wrong with MSFT's >plan to do a cluster environment based on SQL server, visual studio and MPI, >but there's no real skeleton there, just connective tissue. no Word/Excel this is the real MS/Cluster disconnect... Clusters just don't seem to fit in the MS .NET world. On the other hand, MS has a lot of smart people working there, and it's not out of the question that they'd figure out some way to leverage the idea of "commodity computers with commodity interconnects" in some MS useful way. Jim


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In this post we are going to talk about what are passion flower tea health benefits and side effects.
Passion flower is one of the most effective herbal sedatives and natural tranquilizers in the world. It has been widely used as a medicinal herb to alleviate sleep and nervous disorders, anxiety, stress, headaches and insomnia. It also helps with problems of frequent asthma attacks, involuntary convulsions and high blood pressure caused by a nervous condition.
Passion flower is used as a sedative for patients with neurotic disorders affected by various diseases of the nervous system (atherosclerosis, hypertension, conditions after cerebral vascular crises, post-traumatic encephalopathy, encephalitis and metagrippal arachnoiditis).
Passion flower extract is marketed for its ability to treat alcoholism. In the case of chronic alcoholism, it's reported to reduce affliction for alcohol, cutting down the excitement and exaltation, and normalizing behavior. It is recommended by the National Health Service of Germany.
Furthermore, organic passion flower tea is good for your blood pressure and shows a healing effect for Parkinson's disease.
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Here's how to make passion flower herbal tea recipe for anxiety relief:
Pour 3-5 ounces of boiling water onto 1 teaspoon dried and chopped passion flower herbs. Let it brew for 10 minutes, then strain and drink 1 cup of tea 30 minutes before bedtime to treat nervous anxiety, insomnia or gastrointestinal malfunction (if it originated on the basis of a nervous breakdown).
Contraindications on Drinking Passion Flower Tea
Despite the fact that many books say that passion flower does not cause side effects and is quite acceptable for both adults and children, some points still must be considered.
For example, people who suffer from severe gastrointestinal diseases (chronic gastritis, gastric ulcer, etc.), as well as from angina pectoris and arrhythmia, should not use this tea without a prescription.
People with low blood pressure should go easy on passion flower too since it has the property to lower it. Particular care must be exercised in the treatment of children.
Pregnant women can drink this tea in small quantities, but, again, it is better to consult a doctor.
Cerebral atherosclerosis, the presence of uric acid salts, myocardial infarction, and idiosyncrasy are the one hundred percent contraindication to passion flower.
Passion flower tea cannot be combined with monoamine oxidase inhibitor antidepressant.
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I was really thrilled when I received a Parcel from Ireland 7 Bootlegs of Bowie 's Concerts
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LinkedIn4profit.com needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 62 designs submitted by 14 freelance designers.
The web page will be for home business seekers who want to make money from their social networking web sites such as LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter by learning to become a corporate recruiter.
I would really like the image to have two people connected through Links with a $ dollar sign in the middle and then encircle them under a roof or in a home to show "work from home".
I love the prominent $ in the "S" in iRepresent
I removed the globe request, it seems to cluttered.
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- I would like a big version and small version please
- Business Professional Theme
- I will use the logo for multiple groups and websites so no tag line is needed just an image that portrays this them:
- Social Networking
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- Simple Steps to Succeed
- Rewarding Career - Helping people
- Matchmaker between job seeker and company
- Working from home (freedom and flexibility)
- I don't like cartoons in a logo
- Nothing too wild, I like conservative business theme
- Please do not put any additional text beside "iRepresent"
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On quivering Bambi legs, I step out into the world of self-publishing for the first time.
I have one novel, 18 Twitter followers, 78 Facebook followers, and about as many readers of my blog. Your aunt's uncompleted Google+ profile probably has a greater online presence than I do. And yet I am thrilled for the future.
Why? Not only because of my lunatic-gluing-magazine-cutouts-of-eyeballs-to-his-walls fervor for writing fiction, but because of the invaluable guidance and inspiration I've gotten from folks like Joe Konrath, Barry Eisler, and David Gaughran.
The generosity and openness of their advice is a refreshing (and fitting) contrast to the country-club exclusivity and impassivity of so much of the legacy publishing world.
A Rube Goldberg chain of events and circumstances brought me to Joe's blog as I worked on my first novel, SAVANT (now $2.99 on Kindle). Barry and I "met" in the comment section of journalist Glenn Greenwald's former blog at Salon. I was an avid commenter there, Barry let me know he enjoyed my political and legal observations, and we exchanged the occasional email.
I mentioned I was working on a book and he pointed me to some writing resources on his blog and Joe's. At this point, I had exactly zero knowledge of publishing; I was still just trying to get my head wrapped around completing an entire novel—one with, like, lots of chapters and characters and subplots and stuff.
The first time I visited Joe's blog, I read it into the night. His experiences and insights, delivered with refreshing honesty and bluntness, were profound revelations to me.
After reading all that, I barely had the stomach to query agents when the time finally came to publish my manuscript. Still, I coveted the sense of legitimacy, the Seal of Institutional Approval from all those literary big shots with Manhattan addresses. For a short while, at least.
I understand the importance of a good hook, but the query death march felt far bleaker than just distilling my full-length novel into a snappy pitch.
Before me towered a crumbling edifice, and at its portcullis I was commanded to obey every jot and tittle of Ye Olde Rules of Submission, whereupon the thing I had so lovingly crafted for years was tossed onto the Slush Pile, a vast lagoon of hopes and aspirations subject to milliseconds of judgment from jaundiced 20-somethings so overburdened with submissions that they could only take to Twitter every two minutes to preach to their thousands of writer followers that Thou Shalt Not Use This Type of Sentence Structure, or Why Hath Ye Proles Sent Me Yet Another Story of a Disfavoured Kind, or I Just Allowed an Author Through the Iron Gates and It Wasn't You TREMBLE BEFORE ME.
Ok, maybe it wasn't quite that dramatic, but you get my drift.
I think I made it through, at most, 20 queries before I decided I was wasting my time. After all, even if I did get an agent, this would likely mean several more months trying to get the attention of a publisher, all just to do 99% of the marketing myself, under unconscionable royalty percentages, nonsensical pricing, and restrictive contractual terms.
I abandoned the query process without a second thought, but still I felt intimidated by the prospect of self-publishing. Much of the appeal of latching onto an agent and a publishing house came from the promise they would hold my hand as I went through the daunting business of refining, packaging, and distributing my book for the first time.
But now, with so many resources out there for independent authors, instead of one hand holding mine through the process, I have a hundred.
Having made my decision, I returned to Joe's blog and reread the annals of his steady march toward independence. On Barry's suggestion, I read Be the Monkey for an added shot of courage and wisdom. Then I discovered David Gaughran and his indispensable Let's Get Digital guide, which I still consult daily.
Who knows, maybe if I had kept querying I would have gotten an agent eventually, and that agent would have gotten me a traditional publishing deal, finally granting me that glimmering Seal of Institutional Approval. I've always believed my novel is good enough for that, and I still do. But indie options, incentives, and support systems are strong enough now that even a neophyte like me has little reason to go through the nuisance of knocking on the clubhouse door for months on end, begging to be let in.
If not for folks like Joe, Barry, and David, I probably would have thought I had no other choice but to keep knocking. From the bottom of my heart, I thank them for the advice and encouragement they've so generously and openly shared so that other independent authors might flourish as greatly as they have.
I suppose I shouldn't be surprised to find that the champions of a more democratic approach to publishing are similarly egalitarian with their hard-earned knowledge and experience.
I shouldn't be surprised, but I truly am grateful.
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I don't know why we buy bananas, without fail, during every trip to the grocery store especially since we rarely give them a second look once they get to the fruit bowl. I usually end up throwing them out, a couple of days later, when they are overly ripe. Every once in a while I make a banana bread not because I'm too crazy about it, but because I can't think of anything better to do with a bunch of bananas (other than making the occasional smoothie, pancake or batch of muffins) that are rapidly spoiling.
I've made a couple of different versions of banana bread since I first started baking but never one that's been spiced up like this. This is a very nice spiced bread/cake to bake especially this time of the year, it being the holiday season and all.
Wet ingredients:
3 very ripe bananas, mashed well (I pureed the bananas)
2 Tbsp unsalted butter
½ cup sugar (adjust according to taste and sweetness of fruit)
1 egg
3 Tbsp yogurt
2 tsp vanilla extract
Dry ingredients:
1½ cups all-purpose flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp baking powder
2 tsp cinnamon
½ tsp ginger powder
½ tsp powdered cloves
¼ tsp salt
½ cup chopped walnuts
Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Grease a loaf pan and set aside.
Cream the butter and sugar together. Add the egg; beat well. Add the mashed bananas, sugar and vanilla extract. Mix well.
Mix the dry ingredients together and combine with the wet ingredients. Add a few walnuts to the batter and sprinkle the rest on top. Pour into the greased loaf pan.
Bake for 45-50 minutes at 375 degrees F, then turn off the oven and let it continue to remain inside for another 5-10 minutes.
I've baked a couple of different versions of this bread over time and this seems to be one version that I will keep going back to.
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Spiced Banana Bread
I don't know why we buy bananas, without fail, during every trip to the grocery store especially since we rarely give them a second look once they get to the fruit bowl. I usually end up throwing them out, a couple of days later, when they are overly ripe. Every once in a while I make a banana bread not because I'm too crazy about it, but because I can't think of anything better to do with a bunch of bananas (other than making the occasional smoothie, pancake or batch of muffins) that are rapidly spoiling.
Cooked by TBC on Wednesday, December 10, 2008
41 Burps:
- purplesque said...
I lurve banana bread. Any time. All the time.
- December 10, 2008 at 11:04 PM
- Rachel said...
love the choice of spices used..
- December 11, 2008 at 12:25 AM
- Bharathy said...
I am a fan of banana bread :)..
Have blogged the same recently..addition of ginger and other spices is new to me.. :)..I have not tried with any additions thinking they would suppress the natural banana flavour.
Perfect bread!
- December 11, 2008 at 12:47 AM
- Bharathy said...
Glad to note that you tried and liked the kuzhambu..:)
- December 11, 2008 at 12:49 AM
- Happy cook said...
I am the same, none of us like bananato eat them alone, unless if i make a fruit dalade, i still buy them and it end up in cakes.
Freeze them when they are ripe and then you can use them when you want to make a banana muffin.
- December 11, 2008 at 4:16 AM
- RAKS KITCHEN said...
Hey,thats a cool one,wish i could eat a slice and really give a nice *burp*,excuse me!
- December 11, 2008 at 8:43 AM
- Laavanya said...
The bread has sliced beautifully.. and the addition of spices must be such a lovely touch. We always buy banana too, I freeze the blackened ones to make smoothies later or make the banana halwa nowadays since both As like it :)
- December 11, 2008 at 10:18 AM
- Mahimaa's kitchen said...
wow .. what a beautiful loaf. it happens with me too. i always buy bananas and end up throwing some :) so i buy only 2-3 banans everytime i go to grocery stores. more than that becomes a waste.
- December 11, 2008 at 11:08 AM
- Anonymous said...
Wow....this looks delicious. Good idea to spice it up! I just made a batch of such cookies.Will post them soon :)
- December 12, 2008 at 3:35 AM
- Jenny said...
Wow, this looks yummy! I'm giving it a try!
- December 12, 2008 at 11:18 AM
- Namratha said...
Spiced loaf, perfect for the season!
- December 12, 2008 at 11:23 AM
- Cynthia said...
I know what you mean about buying them and then throwing them out. I have had to stop myself recently everytime my feet took me over to the banana stand :)
- December 12, 2008 at 4:27 PM
- Uma said...
perfect banana bread. looks yum!
- December 12, 2008 at 11:32 PM
- Srivalli said...
oh my..such a wonderful bread!...
- December 14, 2008 at 7:09 AM
- Sig said...
I love banana bread... I too used to throw the ripe ones away before, but not anymore :)
- December 14, 2008 at 3:59 PM
- DEESHA said...
that looks yummm
- December 15, 2008 at 3:23 AM
- Aparna said...
I must say the texture of your banana bread looks very nice.
I love bananas but I just haven't been able to get used to the taste of banana in baked foods. :(
- December 15, 2008 at 12:47 PM
- farida said...
I love banana breads! Your spiced version sounds great! Just like you I end up buying bananas every time I go to the grocery store. When I see the signs of overriping, I toss them in a freezer and use when I need.
- December 15, 2008 at 3:36 PM
- Shreya said...
hi, great way to eat bananas:-) love the perfect colour and texture
- December 16, 2008 at 2:26 AM
- Rajani said...
i've just frozen a bunch of overripe bananas. u r so right - its banana loaf time!
- December 16, 2008 at 5:40 AM
- Red Chillies said...
Hi TBC, for some reasons I missed your posts and I thought you were in Inida ( I know, I know I must be living in a cave).
I have the same problem of using up bananas. I loved your version of the bread.
- December 16, 2008 at 8:18 AM
- AnuSriram said...
Thats lovely, fluffy and delciious!
- December 16, 2008 at 10:13 AM
- Sharmi said...
hmmm I can smell them... looks heavenly with all those spices. perfect for a warm holiday evening!
- December 16, 2008 at 4:54 PM
- Sheetal Kiran said...
I think buying bananas and then leaving them until over-ripe, is a universal thing! I have to pick up bananas when I go grocery shopping too, and then the poor things just sit there until someone takes mercy and has one or makes banana bread.
Love this recipe ... especially the use of spices. I am sure your kitchen smells heavenly after baking!
- December 16, 2008 at 4:55 PM
- anudivya said...
Wow... I am not sure if this is my first time here... but this bread looks amazing. Yeah bananas are a staple at my home too, but I end up not using them most of the time. I guess they are too versatile at times to use my imagination.
- December 16, 2008 at 9:14 PM
- Sunshinemom said...
Amazing bread, TBC! I love the flavors you used - cinnamon rocks any bread for me!
- December 16, 2008 at 10:48 PM
- Mallika said...
Good idea! Have you tried making banofee pie? hat's another good use of soon to go off bananas.
- December 17, 2008 at 3:35 PM
- Uj said...
I have the same problem too.. buying them everytime.. One day I decided not to buy and hubby asked for the same!!! I have some to ripe banana's if they overripe.. will try this as it looks yummy... loved it texture..
- December 17, 2008 at 8:49 PM
- Meera said...
Beautiful picture!! Loved it.
- December 18, 2008 at 8:47 PM
- Geri said...
I love banana bread. This looks really good.
- December 20, 2008 at 2:25 AM
- Elizabeth said...
I like this idea of spicing up an ordinary banana bread. I have been making mine a little more interesting by including dried coconut, but this seems more seasonally appropriate. I'm going to try it out!
- December 20, 2008 at 9:46 PM
- A kitchen scientist & a white rat hubby!!! said...
lovely bread..tbc..Merry Christmasn & A Happy New Year !
- December 21, 2008 at 6:33 AM
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- December 22, 2008 at 11:18 AM
- TBC said...
Thanks for your comments, everybody. I am sorry that I have not been able to respond to comments individually or even visit your blogs. Busy days....
- December 22, 2008 at 11:18 AM
- Denise said...
We have banana trees in our yard and it seems that we either have no bananas or 200 at one time ...lol!
Banana bread is the answer ... freeze them for gifts during the holidays along with a recipe card.
Everyone loves homemade for the holidays!
- December 24, 2008 at 1:43 PM
- TBC said...
Denise- thanks for visiting!:)
- December 29, 2008 at 9:25 PM
- Kevin said...
Nice looking banana bread.
Happy new year!
- January 1, 2009 at 10:43 AM
- Miri said...
That is one lovely looking banana bread!
- January 5, 2009 at 5:26 AM
- TBC said...
Kevin & Miri- thank you!
- January 6, 2009 at 7:24 PM
- Snooky doodle said...
oh my! thios looks del;icious. I m always in search for the best banan bread recipe and this looks amazing. Have to try it :)
- January 7, 2009 at 9:42 AM
- TBC said...
Snooky doodle- welcome to my blog. I'm gald you saw something you liked.:D
- January 8, 2009 at 11:31 PM


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Hungary, about to take on the EU presidency, could use its position to mount a major push on reducing the human and natural risks of large stockpiles of poorly maintained and regulated mining wastes across eastern Europe, WWF said.Kolontàr, Hungary: Hungary, about to take on the EU presidency, could use its position to mount a major push on reducing the human and natural risks of large stockpiles of poorly maintained and regulated mining wastes across eastern Europe, WWF said.
The call comes as emergency operations continue to head off an increasing risk of further large scale flows of toxic aluminium processing sludge from the broken reservoir above the town of Kolontàr. The initial breach of the reservoir walls a week ago killed at least seven, inundated six villages and sent a caustic alkaline plume towards the Danube.
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Stratus Technologies, the maker of high-availability software and fault-tolerant servers, has snapped up rival Marathon Technologies for an undisclosed amount. The purchase locks up a niche market and keeps Marathon's wares out of the hands of larger rivals, which might have otherwise grabbed it to bolster their server or virtualization portfolios.
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The Avance virtual machine clustering provides 99.99 per cent uptime, which works out to 52 minutes of downtime per year, and with an hour of downtime costing the average company around $100,000 per hour that adds up. The ftServer hardware clusters, which use special Gemini chipset add-ons to Xeon E5-2600 servers, can deliver 99.999 per cent uptime, which works out to only five and a half minutes of downtime per year.
It is not obvious on first glance why Stratus needs Marathon. Stratus has 520 employees and generated $260m in sales in the fiscal 2012 year ended in February, and is by far the larger company. The everRun MX product has an option called Extend that lets it do geographically distributed clustering over wide area networks, which will be useful for Stratus. (The asynchronous replication feature in everRun MX Extend is actually a licensed version of ARCserveDR from CA Technologies.) Unlike VMware's vSphere FT fault tolerant extensions, everRun MX can span more than one virtual CPU when it does failover of a single virtual machine, and this would be particularly valuable to VMware.
Marathon has mothballed (but is still supporting) its software-based fault-tolerant clustering for older 32-bit Windows Server 2003 operating systems running in bare-metal mode without hypervisors, and it could be that Stratus wants to get its hands on this code. It seems far more likely that Stratus was able to get a good price to eat a competitor and keep it out of the hands of a potential rival.
Stratus tells El Reg that it is acquiring all the assets and intellectual property of Marathon, including the everRun line. What Stratus does not say is that Marathon also had its own hardware-based lock-stepping technology way back when, and if this technology is not too dusty, it could be used to beef up future Stratus and NEC FT machines. Marathon also licenses its software to Citrix Systems for its own XenServer HA extensions, so that is valuable, too. ®
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A built-package format for Python.
A wheel is a ZIP-format archive with a specially formatted filename and the .whl extension. It is designed to contain all the files for a PEP 376 compatible install in a way that is very close to the on-disk format. Many packages will be properly installed with only the "Unpack" step (simply extracting the file onto sys.path), and the unpacked archive preserves enough information to "Spread" (copy data and scripts to their final locations) at any later time.
The wheel project provides a bdist_wheel command for setuptools (requires setuptools >= 0.8.0). Wheel files can be installed with a newer pip from https://github.com/pypa/pip or with wheel's own command line utility.
The wheel documentation is at http://wheel.rtfd.org/. The file format is documented in PEP 427 (http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0427/).
The reference implementation is at https://bitbucket.org/pypa/wheel
Why not egg?
Python's egg format predates the packaging related standards we have today, the most important being PEP 376 "Database of Installed Python Distributions" which specifies the .dist-info directory (instead of .egg-info) and PEP 426 "Metadata for Python Software Packages 2.0" which specifies how to express dependencies (instead of requires.txt in .egg-info).
Wheel implements these things. It also provides a richer file naming convention that communicates the Python implementation and ABI as well as simply the language version used in a particular package.
Unlike .egg, wheel will be a fully-documented standard at the binary level that is truly easy to install even if you do not want to use the reference implementation.
Code of Conduct
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Bryanna Clark Grogan's Vegan Feast Kitchen/ 21st Century Table: The kitchen journal of a vegan food writer.. I'm on Facebook and Twitter (see links in sidebar at right).
Thursday, October 8, 2009
I like my own homemade soymilk (with a bit of oatmeal in it when I make it) the best—I put that on my cereal and in my tea, coffee, etc., make smoothies with it and cook with it. I like the taste of it better than Silk.
Of commercial soymilks, I like the taste of Soy Dream the best, and it's very creamy. But I also like homemade hemp milk sometimes. Soy and hemp milk are also top of the list in terms of protein and other nutrients. I also like the taste of Almond Breeze (Update: and So Delicious Coconut Beverage) and I use them for some recipes, but they contain only 1 g of protein per cup, so I don't depend on them for nutrition.
2. What are the top 3 dishes/recipes you are planning to cook?
Skillet-seared edamame; Spaetzle with Butternut Squash and Mushroom Cream Sauce (veganized, of course! And made with my vegan whole grain spaetzle); Root Vegetable Stew with Herbed Dumplings ( veganized of course, again, and using Tofurkey Veggie Italian Sausages). (Update-- so far I have only tried the last one, and it was good!)
3. Topping of choice for popcorn?
Salt; sometimes engevita yeast or homemade vegan bacon salt.
4. Most disastrous recipe/meal failure?
I remember making a fancy meal (pre-vegetarian) for my father (a gourmet, but not a cook!) when I was about 18, in my tiny kitchen. I had recently purchased a blender (this was in the 60's) and decided to use it to make mashed potatoes-- some gourmet French variety with tons of cream, etc.--not knowing, as I do now, that beating potatoes too vigorously will turn them to glue!
" Gluey or gooey mashed potatoes are caused by vigorous over mashing, as anyone who has tried to make the side dish in a food processor can attest. When potatoes are boiled, their starch granules swell. If those granules are broken too vigorously, the cells release copious quantities of starch, resulting in a potatoes with the consistency of wallpaper paste. NEVER use a blender or food processor to make mashed potatoes. There are starch packets inside the potato cells and the blender blades rip right through them, releasing the starch and this makes the potatoes into library paste. The cells of the potato flesh contain a very fine starch. Mashing gently leaves most of the cells intact. Processing in a blender or a Food Processor acts like a cell homogenizer and releases all that starch into the liquid. Adding any liquid early just makes the process more efficient."
Back to that horrible meal, in addition to the potatoes, I had not learned to time things properly, so NOTHING was ready at the same time. The whole meal was NOT a success (though my father didn't complain). I did learn many things from that meal, though-- #1, not to attempt a complicated menu without trying everything beforehand! Sometimes you have to learn the hard way.
5. Favorite pickled item?
Green beans or asparagus, I guess. I'm not a huge pickle fan.
In several way. I do use my own cookbooks, so, of course, many old favorites are in my books. Old recipes not in my books that I wrote on cards in pre-computer days (some of you may not recall such a time!) are in card file boxes. Some of those have also made it into recipe files on my computer. I bookmark internet recipes, too. But, since my office is downstairs and I don't want to have to run down to the computer whenever I'm looking for a particular recipe (although that IS good exercise!), I have printed out recipes that I use alot (from my blog, or from manuscripts—maybe recipes that didn't make it into a particular book—or from other sources) and sorted them into binders under different categories. I keep these binders upstairs with my cookbooks.
7. Compost, trash, or garbage disposal?
Trash and compost (and recycling).
8. If you were stranded on an island and could only bring 3 foods...what would they be (don't worry about how you'll cook them)?
Oh, what a challenge!! Pasta, tomatoes, beans, I guess. They always taste good together. Does salt count as a food? 'Cause you'd need that, too! That's a hard one because anything would get boring after eating it all the time.
9. Fondest food memory from your childhood?
I have a lot of food memories—I remember many food details from a very young age. But, one fond memory-- my older brother Tim (almost 10 years older than I am) used to babysit for my sister Karin and me, and he'd make us homemade French fries, which my mother never made.
I also remember when we spent 3 months in Peru (I was 6 yrs-old) with my father's family, everyone would have their siesta in the afternoon (really!). At 4 PM everything would get lively again and my father would take us to a café where he would have seviche, and we would have some sweet cake or pastry while he chatted with the other men. At home, my mother seldom made sweets, so this was a real treat. (My mother was a great cook, BTW-- she just didn't make many desserts, nor did she deep-fry.)
10. Favorite vegan ice cream?
We don't have a lot of choice around here, as far as places that sell their own dairy-free frozen treats, or in the brands available to us. Hot Chocolates (a chocolate, pastry, and ice cream shop in
11. Most loved kitchen appliance?
I couldn't live without my food processor!
12. Spice/herb you would die without?
13. Cookbook you have owned for the longest time?
That's a hard one because I have been cooking for over 45 years—well, over 50 years, really, because my mother said I started cooking at a very young age. (I got in trouble once when I was about 11 yrs.-old for cutting recipes out of my father's Gourmet magazines!) I think the oldest cookbook that I bought for myself that I still own is the Sunset Cook Book of Breads, circa 1977, very tattered and worn. I must have had Joy of Cooking, but I don't have the first copy I owned anymore.
14. Favorite flavor of jam/jelly?
President's Choice "Twice the Fruit" Peach & Passion Fruit
15. Favorite vegan recipe to serve to an omni friend?
My Lasagne ala Bolognese, from my book Nonna's Italian Kitchen.
16. Seitan, tofu, or tempeh?
Tofu and seitan I love equally (if the seitan is made properly). I like tempeh, but my husband hates it, so I don't serve it very often, and I can live without it. The other two are more versatile.
17. Favorite meal to cook (or time of day to cook)?
Dinner is my favorite meal to cook. Breakfast is my least favorite to cook, though I can do interesting, fancy breakfasts for company if necessary. (My husband often does breakfast when we have company.) On ordinary days DH and I make our own breakfasts. (People tend to be picky about how they like their oatmeal, etc., so it's easier that way. Also, he gets up very early.) Lunch is usually leftovers or a pot of soup I've made for that purpose.
18. What is sitting on top of your refrigerator?
Some platters that won't fit anywhere else; some rolls of duct tape, packing tape, etc.; the little receptacle from my husband's manual coffee grinder—he grinds his coffee for the day into that and leaves it up there with a spoon in it.
19. Name 3 items in your freezer without looking.
1.) Soy Curls® (dry ones—I keep them in the freezer because I buy them in bulk and, since they are made from the whole soybean, they can go rancid if left out for longer than 6 months, I find); 2.) homemade bread; 3.) edamame.
Bulk Soy Curls®-- I bag them in zipper-lock bags for freezing.
20. What's on your grocery list?
We went shopping yesterday. We bought (as near as I can remember):
21. Favorite grocery store?
My husband and I shop together. We live on an island so we only do a major shop every 2 weeks. We mostly shop in Courtenay, on
22. Name a recipe you'd love to veganize, but haven't yet.
I actually have a whole list of Peruvian recipes I want to veganize (my father was Peruvian). I have veganized about 30 Peruvian recipes so far.
23. Food blog you read the most. Or maybe the top 3?
My friend, Julie Hasson's blog.
24. Favorite vegan candy/chocolate?
Denman Island Chocolate—hazelnut or espresso are my favorite varieties, but they have orange, mint, and raspberry which are yummy, too. This is a local product, but sold all over
25. Most extravagant food item purchased lately?
Fairtrade extra-virgin olive oil at $20 for 500 mL.
26. Ingredients you are scared to work with?
#1) Natto, the slimy, sticky, stinky fermented soybeans in Japanese cuisine. My friend Matsuki was eating it with rice one day and, honestly, I couldn't even watch him put it in his mouth!
14 comments:
- Vegan Epicurean said...
Wow, and I thought I had a long list of recipes to veganize. You certainly drive right into the deep end of the pool. Can't wait so see some of your results.
- Thu Oct 08, 05:28:00 PM PDT
- Debra said...
Loved reading this! and the food pics were awesome too!
- Thu Oct 08, 05:42:00 PM PDT
- kittee said...
i had fun reading this, bryanna, even if you don't like kombucha! guess what? we checked out julie's new cart today, it was awesome! i had her mississippi bowl, which was bbq soy curls with coleslaw over rice. very good stuff.
- Thu Oct 08, 06:12:00 PM PDT
- Amanda said...
I loved reading this too! Yum..I need to find some Denman Island chocolate!
- Thu Oct 08, 07:21:00 PM PDT
- Liz said...
Thanks for taking the survey, Bryanna! LOVE hearing your answers. One correction, though:
I created this survey in 2007- But it's been long passed around and lost any link back to my blog. Happy it's still alive!
- Thu Oct 08, 07:22:00 PM PDT
- Liz said...
Whoops- forgot the link!
- Thu Oct 08, 07:23:00 PM PDT
- Spice Island Vegan said...
Hey Bryanna,
How about Cau Cau, Peruvian dish that we like to order from the restaurant in our area? Wow, I can't wait for you to veganize all those Peruvian dishes. I love their dishes.
- Thu Oct 08, 07:45:00 PM PDT
- Bryanna Clark Grogan said...
Liz, I will fix that right away and give you credit!
Debbie, I have veganized that already-- I'll post the recipe soon!
- Thu Oct 08, 07:46:00 PM PDT
- ceci said...
Hey Bryanna,
I'm super excited about your venture to veganize all those peruvian recipes. I'm peruvian and for several years I've been trying to get my dad to eat some of my vegan meals for his health. He doesnt like vegetables :( but he loves peruvian food obviously. I can't wait either.
Thank you sooo much,
- Fri Oct 09, 10:05:00 AM PDT
- Søren said...
Great interview, Bryanna. I'd never heard of Natto before ... let's just call it "interesting", hee hee!
- Fri Oct 09, 11:22:00 AM PDT
- shado said...
Re Natto
Yes it's as disgusting as it looks/sounds. I have eaten lots of things in my previous omni life and I thought it couldn't be that bad. Trust me, it is.
- Sat Oct 10, 08:46:00 PM PDT
Bryanna, that's too funny about natto! I feel the same...It's one of those things I wanted to like because it sounds interesting and nutritious, but can't get past the nauseau it causes by just looking at it :^)
Hugs and Cheers!
- Tue Oct 27, 12:54:00 PM PDT
I've been following your blog for quite a while and enjoying your wealth of good recipes. When Foodista announced that they are going to publish the best food blogs in a full color book that will be published by Andrews McMeel Publishing Fall 2010, I naturally thought of you. This recipe would be a good submission! You can enter here: http://www.foodista.com/blogbook/submit
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- Tue Dec 22, 03:03:00 PM PST
- in2insight said...
I have just tried the Anticuchos and they came out fabulously.
Great recipe. Thank you for sharing.
- Fri Apr 16, 05:08:00 PM PDT


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How sad. I log in to my blog's dashboard so infrequently these days that it doesn't even remember who I am anymore. But! That doesn't mean nothing's going on. Oh, there's plenty going on.
Happy Anniversary, Baby
I completely missed the fact that A Dash of Bitters turned five last month. I normally spend some time at my blogiversary looking back at the previous year and forward to the year ahead. But oh man, the last year was one of some major churn. I seem to recall that I was, albeit briefly, actually behind the stick in 2010, working my ass off, climbing a steep learning curve, and generally having a great time, and I'm still just like wha? That happened?
More exciting was the presentation I led at Tales of the Cocktail, which now seems like a million years ago, on the topic of introducing basic mixology to rookies. I was pleased to have one of the foremost experts on the subject at my side that day, Robert "Drinkboy" Hess, along with Adam Lantheaume, proprietor of the Boston Shaker, a wonderful Massachusetts shop that sells drink paraphernalia and teaches cocktail classes for newbies.
What I never expected was that the Cocktail 101 idea would become a thing that I write about every week, but thanks to my editor, Maggie Hoffman, and the other fine folks at Serious Eats and Serious Drinks, that's just what's happened.
But now for the looking-forward part, and if you thought I was giddy with excitement last year, you ain't seen nothing yet.
One Dead Rabbit
If you follow me on Twitter or Facebook, you already know the biggest thing that's happening around here these days: my wife and I are expecting our first child this year, in September.
This has meant a few changes to our drinking rituals, as you can imagine. Jen is abstaining entirely right now. We've yet to decide whether rare, small portions of beer or wine are safe, later in the pregnancy (and that choice will probably remain entirely our business at any rate), but she's off spirits and cocktails–not just through the pregnancy but while she's nursing, as well.
For me, it's also meant changes, and that will probably be a post in itself at some point. I tend to drink more when I have a drinking buddy, and now that my main one's off the market, I've found myself slowing down. However, I'm also perfectly happy to drink an Old Fashioned (or two) every evening, which isn't exactly interesting to write about.
So to keep things moving along, I'm planning to feature a new drink a week here, starting next week. Since I'll be whipping up NA cocktails for Jen, expect some of my drinks of the week to be mocktails.
I also have some product reviews to work on, and I hope to feature those each week as well. I want to tackle new projects, such as milk punch. Erik Ellestad has several recipes up at Underhill Lounge. Honestly, I was skeptical about milk punch, but then Misty Kalkofen served us some at Drink one night, and I was hooked.
I want to sample new ingredients, whether that's spirit categories that are somewhat new to me, or just bottlings I've never tried. And, finally, Ad of the Week will probably come back in some fashion, although I haven't decided how yet.
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