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Many businesses will regrettably come across a part of their building that requires a repair of some kind. Unfortunately, unless you are skilled in building refurbishments, it can be difficult to identify a well qualified and reputable contractor.
In this article, I will discuss 5 things that you should take into consideration before you commit to a contractor and work begins with regards to onsite spray painting.
1. Quotations
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3. Why onsite spray painting
Onsite spray painting is certainly a great alternative to traditional painting methods. The reason for it's growing popularity is simple. As well as being a money saver, it is a lot cleaner and easier to use than traditional painting methods. Spray painting uses machinery that is "loaded" in simple terms, with specific paint. This is usually decided before the work commences and the rest is history really. It is jet powered onto a surface using intelligent Shopfront Respraying Dalton equipment, reducing drips and puddles within the work area. Unlike traditional painting methods, the chances of spills are greatly reduced.
4. Your Goals
It's worth asking yourself what you want to achieve. In most cases, onsite spray painting is usually used during a repair or refurbishment. If you business has undergone significant repairs, the application of paint using a spray painting contractor can massively decrease the visibility of any previous repair or fault.
5. Does it need to be painted?
Agreed, new surfaces can be incredibly dense and come across boring. Adding a little colour can add some personality to your project or work area. However, is it absolutely necessary? If it's not needed, then why go ahead with it? It will only cost you and your business money in the short-term.


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Autumn is the perfect time of year!!!It is an inbetween season where it is not really cold and not really warm. The air has that certain woodsy fragrance with a little nip to bite your nose early in the morning and my world is seen through multihued glasses of red and russet. If you haven't already gathered it is THE season and my favourite by far!!!!! I love to bring the warm cozy blankets and sweaters out of hibernation and sit curled up on the couch in front of the fire with a book...or better yet a cookbook.
So in the theme of comfort I am submitting this delicious soup to this months vegetarian blogging event No Croutons Required . The founders of this event are the talented duo Holler of Tinned Tomatoes and fellow Canadian Lisa of Lisa's Kitchen. Each month they are looking for our vegetarian soups or salads
with the theme for this month being HEARTY VEGETARIAN SOUPS. Both of these ladies follow a vegetarian and healthy lifestyle which is evident in each of their feature stories. They have heard me say this before but they are both such sweeties that I have to participate in their event as often as I can...and I will say it again!!
This recipe is based on one I found from Jamie Oliver. He says his inspiration was a cross between Laksa which is a kind of brothy noodle stew made with chicken and coconut milk and Mulligatawny which is made from rice, curry sauce and minced meat. This is a vegetarian event so we will omit the meat. This even goes one step further being Vegan as I mentioned earlier. If you're feeling a little bit theatrical, like I was, feel free to take the lid off the pumpkin, scoop out the flesh, and serve the soup in the pumpkin shell. Serve the soup in warmed bowls or pour it back into the pumpkin shell. If you're going to do this, put the pumpkin shell into the oven to warm it through first. It's a great show-stopper for dinner parties. Finish sprinkled with the coriander leaves, or some extra sliced fresh chili, or grate over some fresh coconut if you have it.
2 cloves of garlic, peeled and finely sliced
2 pieces of fresh ginger, peeled
3 sticks of lemongrass, outer leaves removed
a large handful of cilantro
1 teaspoon five-spice powder (cinnamon, ground pepper, cloves)
1 teaspoon ground cumin
olive oil
1 white onion, peeled and finely sliced
565ml/1 pint/4 cups vegetable stock
100g/1/2 cup basmati rice ( I used wild rice)
1 (400mL) cans coconut milk
sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
juice of 1 or 2 limes
1 fresh red chilli, sliced (optional)
fresh coconut, grated (optional)
To make the fragrant soup base chop or run through the food processor the chilies, garlic, ginger, lemongrass, cilantro, five-spice powder and cumin. Remove any stringy bits that may remain in the pulp. Put this fragrant mixture into a pan with a little oil. Add finely sliced onion and cook gently for about 10 minutes to release the flavours. Add the pumpkin and the stock to the pan. Stir frequently.
Bring to a boil, then reduce the heat and simmer with the lid on for about 15 minutes. Add the rice and stir well. Continue to simmer with the lid on until the rice is cooked, then remove the lid. Add the coconut milk, stir again, taste and season carefully with salt and pepper. To give it a bit of sharpness add the lime juice - the amount will depend on how juicy your limes are.
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I know, I know…no pictures of Lisa's wedding cake yet, at least not today….One reason is that I have been saving this wonderful Poire D'Eve cake for a week now and another reason is that I have hundreds of pictures to go through from the wedding and a few other attendees have graciously allowed me to use their shots too so I am working on a little montage. I actually started writing about it yesterday and this morning tons of little details came rushing to my mind so I need to "sit" on it a couple more days to do it justice.
I can't tell you how much your visits and excitement over this past week have meant to me and I promise to tell you all about it. As ubber critical me, I did find faults until both Lisa and Wayne decided to smear some cake on their noses, but I guess that is normal when you bake for such a dear friend…under the watch of other foodies….Thank you Kelly and Lisa for staying up late, talking to me while I was "spatulating" (new word) the same corner over and over again. Thank you K. for not taking that same spatula and knocking me over the head with it although your look was screaming "put that thing down….Now!!"
Allright, I will give something away about this cake. It was a three tiered square cake which bottom layer was Lisa's mom favorite carrot cake filled with cream cheese frosting, the middle layer was Lisa's favorite pumpkin cake with butterscotch filling from Marcel Desaulniers, and the top layer that the two lovebirds have kept and froze was Lisa's Mothership Chocolate Cake adapted from Orangette. The whole cake was covered in her favorite Italian meringue buttercream from Jacques Torres. I don't know if it was the near freezing temperatures, the beverages flowing a plenty or just good appetites, but at the end of the night there was just about half the carrot cake left…and I had made the cake for more than the accounted number of guests….I like when people are not shy to eat cake 🙂 Now that your teeth are shattering and your stomach growling, I hope you can wait until the weekend for the recap!!
In the meantime, let's share a slice of this pear cake, shall we? I forgot to mention the other day that the Chai Persimmon Tatin was inspired by one of my pastry heroes, Hidemi Sugino from his The Dessert Book that Inne graciously sent me last year and even though the recipes are translated, I tend to get inspired by the pictures and the dominant flavors and then change it around. This Poire D'Eve is also inspired by one of his creations, the Pomme D'Eve cake in his other book. Now, this one was given to me by a Japanes exchange student I met a couple of months ago and when we started talking about Japan, I mentioned Sugino and she had her mom send it to me….in Japanese. Needless to say, I once again looked at the picture of his mousse apple cake sandwich between sheets of caramel mousse, apple mousse, vanilla and chocolate genoise and decided to develop a recipe for its cousin, the Poire D'Eve.
I know, Eve ate an apple, not a pear…but if she had had a Forelle pear poached in spices such as star anise, cinnamon, cloves, vanilla and folded with a light bavarian cream, she might have changed her mind. I liked the original apple cake mixing apple, caramel, chocolate so I decided to use these flavors in different texture contrast and medium for this cake. Like Eve and her apple, Forelles are my guilty pleasure when it comes to pears. It is similar in size to a Seckel pear and grows mostly in the Pacific Northwest. When I saw them popping up at the grocery store, I immediately bought a case. They are the perfect snacking pear, both in size and flavor since they remain firm and not milly for a long time. They fit in your pocket, purse or pocket and have this absolute tantalizing fragrance. I bought the case right before my trip so I did poach a bunch of them and preserved them in their poaching syrup. For this recipe I used some I had poached that day so I wrote the recipe accordingly.
The base is a milk chocolate feuillantine topped with a salted butter caramel mousse and a vanilla bavarian cream with diced spiced poached pears throughout. Before applying a glaze made with the poaching syrup I gave the cake some brush strokes with some yellow pearl dust mixed with a bit of water. The finished cake got the two thumbs up from B. who is not that big of a pear fan and commented that the caramel and chocolate complimented the fruits very well. Trust me, he does not only say that because I cook him dinner….he is really my most severe critique!!
Do not be afraid at the term "feuillantine". It is a entremets or cake base usually made with crushed "crepes dentelle" cookies but I was out (ate too many with ice cream) so I substituted crushed corn flakes and added a bit of chopped hazelnuts to enhance the mousses and it worked like a charm. I used the same caramel mousse as the one used in The Translatique, minus the chocolate. The bavarian cream is as easy as 1-2-3 if you have a little patience since you start by making a creme anglaise, adding some gelatin and once cooled, folding in some whipped cream and the poached pears. The spices and strokes of gold dust were the touches that have me in full blown holiday mood right now!! As always, be reassured that you can prepare this step over a couple of days (my head is more scattered than ever these days so any "time" help is welcome)
Poire D'Eve
Serves 8-10
For the poached pears:
4 small pears, Forelles or Seckels, skinned, cored and left whole
3 cups of water
1/2 cup sugar
4 star anise
2 cinnamon sticks
one whole nutmeg
1/2 vanilla bean
4 cloves
Over high heat bring the pears, water, sugar and all the spices to a boil (leave the nutmeg whole). Reduce the heat to medium low heat and let the fruit simmer for 30 minutes or until just about fork tender. Remove the pears and put the liquid back on stove and let it reduce down to half its volume. Remove from the heat and strain all the spices. Reserve the liquid for the cake glaze.
For the Feuillantine:
5 oz (150 gr) milk chocolate
4 Tablespoons (55 gr) butter
1 cup (30 gr) corn flakes
2 oz (60 gr) toasted and skinned hazelnuts
Line a 8×8 square pan with aluminium foil and set aside (use a square pastry frame if you have one). Put the cornflakes and hazelnuts in a small freezer bag, close the seam and roll your rolling pin over it until finely crushed (do not run the mixture in the food processor, you want to keep some rough pieces). On top of a double boiler set over medium heat, melt together the chocolate and butter until they come together. Remove from the heat and stir in the cornflakes mixture. Immediately pat the mixture with your fingertips or the back of the spoon at the bottom of the line pan. Set aside while you prepare the mousses.
For the caramel mousse:
1/2 cup granulated sugar
2 Tb water
2 Tb salted butter, room temperature
1 cup heavy cream, divided
Measure 3/4 cup of cream and refrigerate, this portion will be used to make whipped cream so keep it well chilled. In a microwave or small saucepan, heat the 1/4 cup remaining until it is fairly hot. It will be added to the caramel and by being hot it will prevent the caramel from seizing on you and clumping up. In a heavy bottomed saucepan, add the sugar to the water over medium high heat and cook, without stirring until you get a dark brown caramel. Take the pan off the heat and add the butter and 1/4 cream. It will bubble like mad but it will not run over….if the butter and cream are not cold the bubbling will be minimal and short lived. Stir with a wooden spoon to smooth the caramel if necessary. Let it cool to room temperature Whip the remaining heavy cream to soft peaks in the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the whisk attachment. Fold 1/3 of the whipped cream to the caramel to loosen it up and then add the remaining whipped cream. Spread over the feuillantine base and refrigerate until completely set.
For the Vanilla Pear Bavarian Cream:
4 poached pears (see above), chopped in small dices
4 egg yolks
1/4 cup (50 gr) sugar
1 cup (250 ml) whole milk
1/2 vanilla bean
1 Tb powdered gelatin, sprinkled over 3 Tb water
1 cup heavy cream
In a large bowl, whisk the egg yolks with the sugar until very pale. In the meantime, in a large saucepan set over medium heat, bring the milk and the vanilla bean (split open and scraped over the milk) to a boil. Slowly pour the milk over the yolks, whisking constantly. Pour the mixture back into the saucepan over medium low heat and cook until the cream coats the back of a spoon (as if making creme anglaise). Add the softened gelatin and stir until melted completely into the cream. Let cool to room temperature.
Whip the heavy cream to soft peaks and fold it into the cooled cream base. Fold in the pear dices. Pour the mixture over the caramel mousse until set.
At this point you can skip the painting and glaze but it makes it all the more festive.
For the paint, mix some gold dust with water to make a "paint" and brush in small strokes over the cake. Freeze the cake before applying the warm glaze, do so even if you skip the painting so your mousse won't melt.
Pear Syrup Glaze:
1/2 cup reserved poaching syrup
1 1/2 teaspoon gelatin, sprinkled over 1 Tablespoon water
Bring the poaching syrup to a boil, add the gelatin and stir until completely dissolved. Let cool to room temperature (if the mixture gels, warm up over low heat until barely melted again). Pour it over the frozen cake and let set in the fridge.
Cut through the cake with a knife dipped in hot water to prevent breaking the glaze instead of slicing through it.
Note: I have terrible manners as I keep forgetting to thank Cenk from Cafe Fernando and the DMBLGIT judges for awarding the Toasted Coconut and Berries Charlottes the overall first place in last month event. I am truly honored and thrilled!


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Massive Christmas Light Display Impresses Internet, Annoys Neighbors
Last year the 56,000 light Christmas display which adorned Jan Stewart's Fountain Valley, California home went viral, with a YouTube video of the lights in action garnering close to 500,000 views.
This year she went even further, attaching an additional 10,000 LED lights, a few lasers and a fog machine. Total cost: $50,000 and a month of prep time.
For her efforts, which come courtesy of lighting expert Damion Rodriguez, she has another hit on YouTube. And, because of the notoriety, more and more people are driving over to her Orange County neighborhood to get a look at the show with their own eyes.
And that isn't sitting well with some of her neighbors.
"It's more appropriate for the Las Vegas Strip. It's not that we're opposed to Christmas, it's just too much," said Joe Flannigan, echoing a sentiment expressed by some, although not all, of Stewart's neighbors
So far the town has fined Stewart for the loud music that goes along with the display, and in response she has turned it down.
What do you think? Can a Christmas light display go too far? Check out Stewart's yuletide efforts from last year and this holiday season below, and decide.


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The fiction work of Soviet-era writer Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky never saw the light of day in his own time. He was known mostly as a theater, music and literary critic, but he also wrote fables and fiction for more than 20 years, none of which appeared in print until 1989. Well, a new volume of that work called "Autobiography of a Corpse" has just come out here in the U.S. It's translated from the Russian by Joanne Turnbull, and Alan Cheuse has our review.
ALAN CHEUSE, BYLINE: You've probably never heard of this Ukrainian-born writer with a difficult-to-pronounce name who wrote fiction in secret during some of the darkest times of Soviet life. I hadn't heard of him until a few years ago a small New York reprint house began to issue his work in translation. But if you think of Gogol's most fantastic tales like, say, "The Nose" or a Malamud story like "The Jewbird" or Kafka's best work, you'll have some idea of what to expect of the best of Krzhizhanovsky. He's that good.
Read "The Runaway Fingers," in which a concert pianist's right hand takes off on a keyboard and then absconds to the street to spend the night outdoors, or "In the Pupil," about a tiny figure who lives in the eye of a woman and causes all sorts of alarm for her lover, or in the title story, "Autobiography of a Corpse," which gives us the dilemmas of a new Moscow resident whose tiny room comes along with a manuscript from the late tenant that changes the man's life.
Many of the other pieces read less like stories and more like finely composed studies for the isolated human mind in an era when the only freedom a writer could know was to invent in private. They resonate with the fine-tuning of a comic mind in exile from itself, recording every tiny shift, twist and turn of consciousness of a soul in a world without redemption. Does that sound like Samuel Beckett at work, also?
So hey, let me along with Gogol and Malamud, invoke Beckett, too. If you love any of these writers, you'll love the work of Krzhizhanovsky.
SIEGEL: The book is "Autobiography of a Corpse." It was reviewed by Alan Cheuse, who teaches writing at George Mason University. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Barbara Ehrenreich is known for her books and essays about politics, social welfare, class, women's health and other women's issues. Her best-seller Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America, explored the difficulties faced by low-wage workers. So fans of Ehrenreich's writing may be surprised at the subject of her new memoir — the mystical visions she had as a teenager.
To make her new book an even more unlikely subject, Ehrenreich describes herself as a rationalist, a scientist by training, and an atheist who is the daughter of atheists. Living With a Wild God: A Nonbeliever's Search for the Truth About Everything draws on her journals from 1956-'66, and on the extensive reading she's done in the past decade about the history of religion. She never discussed these mystical experiences before writing the book — and she suspects she's not the only one keeping such things to herself.
"People have these unaccountable mystic experiences," Ehrenreich tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross. "Generally they say nothing or they label it as 'God' and get on with their lives. I'm saying, 'Hey, no, let's figure out what's going on here.' "
Interview Highlights
On the first time she had a mystical experience as a teenager
I was just staring at the woods ... [when] something happened. It's like a layer peeled off the world, the layer that contains all the meanings, the words, the language, the associations we have. Yeah, I was looking at trees, but I no longer could say I knew exactly what a tree was, with all the knowledge and experience that goes into our notion of a tree.
I didn't find it scary ... I guess it is for some people, because I have since, many years since, read about people who suffer from something called dissociation disorder and have this happen to them occasionally, and they seem to hate it. I just thought, well, this is pretty interesting. ...
What if there is a world underneath what we perceive? We're usually in a world of shared "reality." You and I agree on what we see if we're together, we have similar explanations for it, and so on. To leave that behind and just see things without any of those human attributions, well, that's very, very strange, but I wanted to know more. ... I couldn't tell anybody. I had enough sense to think that this would be seen as crazy.
On the second vision she had in Lone Pine, Calif.
The only words I can put to it after all these years is ... that the world flamed into life. Everything was alive. There was a feeling of an encounter with something living, not something God-like, not something loving, not something benevolent, but something beyond any of those kinds of categories, beyond any human categories. I don't know how many minutes this lasted in its full intensity.
On why she's writing about it now
The book contains things I never said to anyone, never talked to anyone about. ... I have been a journalist and a writer for most of my life now. ... I think I have a responsibility to report things, even if they're anomalous. Even if they don't fit whatever theory I had in my mind or most people have or anything. It's in that spirit that I take this risk.
On researching many different religions to make sense of her experience
It helped that in the intervening years, here, I spent a great deal of time learning about religion, and learning, for example, about the varieties of religion that preceded, and many survived, well into the age of monotheism. There's almost no creature that hasn't been a deity for some sort of people somewhere on Earth at some time. ... There was apparently a lot of experiencing the world as alive in a way that we do not see it now. If you think of animism ... it's considered the most "primitive" religion, but what it is is people seeing the world as a living presence, every part of it, and that rings true with my experience. So I think I was ready after learning a whole lot to come back to this subject with a much more fertile imagination.
On the difference between belief and knowledge
Why believe when you can know? I don't believe in extraterrestrials; I am really curious. I want to find out. I'll say I don't believe in evolution; I'm more or less convinced by the evidence. I would like to put the whole idea of faith and belief away. Let's try to find out things. ...
The religions that fascinate me and could possibly tempt me are not the ones that involve faith or belief. They're the ones that offer you the opportunity to know the spirit or deity. ... I think most readily of West-African-derived religions which involve ecstatic rituals where people actually apprehend the spirit or the God or whatever that they are invoking and that they are trying to contact — I have respect for that. But don't ask me to believe anything.
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Animal Control Dramatically Breaks Window to Rescue Dog Locked in Hot Car [VIDEO]
A video gone viral shows animal control dramatically breaking a window to rescue a dog that was locked in a hot car for at least 35 minutes.
Facebook user Sarah Worden uploaded the video that has been shared over 60,000 times showing the dramatic moment when the glass of an SUV was shattered in order for Animal Control to save the animal.
According to Worden's Facebook post the animal was locked in a vehicle parked in the Truckee Community College parking lot for at least 35 minutes. According to the weather history on that day (July 2), the high temperature was 86 degrees.
It only takes five to 10 minutes on a hot day for a dog to end up with severe organ damage, or worse—dead.
Worden also uploaded another video before the rescue upon finding the dog locked in the hot car. Upon the animal's rescue she and another woman are heard rejoicing as the animal is taken away to safety.
Hopefully this will serve as a reminder that animals face the same risks -- if not worse -- than humans when it comes to being left in a locked car on a hot summer day.
There is no official word on the condition of the dog after being rescued, but hopefully he is okay.


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RICHMOND, Va. — A Food and Drug Administration review concludes that menthol cigarettes likely pose a greater public health risk than regular cigarettes but does not make a recommendation on whether to limit or ban the minty smokes — one of the few growth sectors of the shrinking cigarette business.
The federal agency released the independent review on Tuesday and is seeking input from the health community, the tobacco industry and others on possible restrictions on the mint-flavored cigarettes.
The FDA evaluation concluded that there is little evidence to suggest that menthol cigarettes are more or less toxic or contribute to more disease risk to smokers than regular cigarettes. However, there is adequate data to suggest that menthol use is likely associated with increased smoking initiation by younger people and that menthol smokers have a harder time quitting, the review said.
There's also evidence indicating that menthol's cooling properties can reduce the harshness of cigarette smoke and that menthol cigarettes are marketed as a smoother alternative, the review said.
"Menthol cigarettes raise critical public health questions," Mitch Zeller, director of the Center for Tobacco Products, said in a conference call with reporters.
Zeller said there's "no holdup" on the FDA proposing restrictions on menthol but that there are still "some important questions" that need to be answered. The agency is commissioning further research.
A 2011 FDA advisory panel report, which was mandated under the 2009 law giving the agency the authority to regulate tobacco, made many of the same findings, and said that removing menthol cigarettes from the market would benefit public health and highlighted greater use among minorities, teenagers and low-income people. Panels like the tobacco committee advise the FDA on scientific issues. The agency doesn't have to follow its recommendations, but often does.
Meanwhile, a tobacco industry report to the FDA acknowledged that all cigarettes are hazardous but said there's no scientific basis for regulating menthols differently. The industry also has raised concerns that restrictions on menthol would lead to a black market for the cigarettes.
Menthol cigarettes are one of the few growth areas in a shrinking cigarette market. The percentage of U.S. cigarette smokers using menthol brands grew from 33.9 percent in 2008 to 37.5 percent in 2011, according to a study by the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, with more significant growth among younger smokers.
A menthol ban or other restriction on the flavored cigarettes would fall heavily on Lorillard Inc., whose Newport brand is the top-selling menthol cigarette in the U.S., with nearly 38 percent of the market. Lorillard, based in Greensboro, N.C., is the country's third-largest tobacco company.
CEO Murray Kessler said in a statement Lorillard looks forward to participating in the regulatory process and reiterated its long-held belief that menthol cigarettes shouldn't be treated differently.
The move comes ahead of a Wednesday deadline for the U.S. to respond to the World Trade Organization's findings last year that the FDA's ban on manufacturing, importing, marketing and distributing candy-, fruit- and clove-flavored tobacco breaks trade rules because it exempts menthol cigarettes, most of which are made in the U.S.. The investigation was launched following a request from Indonesia, which claims more than 6 million of its people depend on the production of clove cigarettes — a staple of the country's smoking culture.
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Can You Actually Be Scared … to Death?
The next time you think it would be funny to scare the living daylights out of someone, you might want to consider this: medical experts say that an intense fright can severely stun the heart, enough even to kill a perfectly healthy human being.
This phenomenon of dying from fright is commonly referred to as the "broken heart syndrome," which quite literally causes the heart to stop moving after events like receiving terrible news ... or a really good scare.
Experts say that these types of occurrences happen more in women than men, as "they account for about 90 percent of reported cases", according to Dr. Martin Samuels, chairman of the neurology department at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.
Interestingly, this type of sudden-death occurrence is not as rare as you might think. Dr. Samuels says that at least one death per day in nearly every major city results from stress cardiomyopathy (broken heart syndrome). He also goes on to say that statistics show that those numbers slightly increase about a week after a tragic event like an earthquake or terrorist attack.
So, what exactly causes broken heart syndrome? According to Dr. Samuels, it is likely triggered by an uncontrolled activation of the sympathetic nervous system, which is responsible for the body's "fight or flight" function. "Sympathetic storming, as it's referred to, produces a rush of stress hormones." said Samuels. "This can work to our benefit much of the time, but in the case of stress cardiomyopathy, the exaggerated response can damage the heart."
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QUINN KLINEFELTER, BYLINE: In a hallway outside the tax assessor's office at Detroit's City Hall, Lerand Jacobs fidgets on a bench. He just got a tax bill from the city. But he's out of work and has been for years.
LERAND JACOBS: Oh, yeah. I've received letters, you know, that I owe back taxes and things like that, but hey, you know, you can't get water out of a rock. Pt it that way.
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JACOBS: You can't get any services anymore, you know, whether it be water, it be tree removal, you know, police department, fire department. You know, I mean, it's like this - you're on your own.
KLINEFELTER: Delivering services has grown increasingly difficult as Detroit's tax base eroded. The city lost a quarter of its population during the last decade alone. In 2010, Detroit Mayor Dave Bing launched the first in a series of tax amnesty and collection efforts to convince those left in the city to pay up.
MAYOR DAVE BING: We are owed a lot of money. We got some outstanding receivables. We went to the outside and we got a collection firm, quite frankly, that went out and collected. We thought we were going to get three million and we got almost seven million.
KLINEFELTER: But it has not been enough. A recent investigation by the Detroit News found in 2011 only about half of property taxes in the city were paid in full. But officials who deal with Detroit's tax problems say the city also shoulders blame.
DURENE BROWN: These are people that have to stand in line to beg the city to collect their money.
KLINEFELTER: Ombudsman Durene Brown says many Detroiters are taxed on property they no longer own, or never receive a tax bill at all. With Detroit forcing workers to take an unpaid day off every two weeks, Brown says she gets thousands of calls from residents trying to pay their taxes, like a downtown restaurant owner.
BROWN: He was furious. The finance office was closed because it was a furlough day. He left a check for us for $25,000. We're not even a revenue-generating department.
KLINEFELTER: Police say some inside City Hall are working Detroit's antiquated tax collection system to their own advantage. About $300,000 disappeared over a five year period from city hall cash registers, where residents pay taxes. When Michigan's governor appointed an emergency manager over Detroit's finances, Kevyn Orr found an income tax system that has been grossly mismanaged for many years.
KEVYN ORR: What shocked me was the tolerance for this behavior for decades. This has been going on for a very long time, and to say the least it is at best unorthodox. I know a lot of people are outraged at my appointment. My take - I wish there had been a lot more outrage over the past 10, 20 years.
KLINEFELTER: At a Detroit bus stop, Betty Waters says she and many others here know that financial calamity has been brewing for decades.
BETTY WATERS: This has been going on since 1960. It's not just beginning. With the different mayors we had, they tried to cover it up but they couldn't do it anymore.
KLINEFELTER: Waters says the lack of tax revenue trickles down to her.
WATERS: It was a time when the streets was clean. You didn't see no snow. Everything was clean off the street. Now you come down here, you have to have a cane to hold you up to keep you from falling with the snow on the sidewalk.
KLINEFELTER: Emergency manager Orr says Detroit needs more than $80 million just to fix its IT department - including the computerized tax collection system -- and he wants to pump millions more into improving public services over the next decade. But Orr won't be organizing that. It's Detroit's future leaders who will have to collect taxes and provide services residents believe are worth paying for. For NPR News, I'm Quinn Klinefelter in Detroit. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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This month's hosts were Debyi of Healthy Vegan Kitchen & Lori of Lip Smacking Goodness. They challenged us with tamales, something I've never made before & kind of always assumed were really hard to do. It turns out I was so wrong. Once you have the filling & the masa paste made they really go together quite quickly.
I used the Basic Tamale Recipe we were given for the masa paste though I used chicken stock instead of water of vegetables stock because its what I had. I also didn't bother to heat my stock because it was at room temperature, I had read that you have to be careful not to add stock that was too hot or it would cook the masa flour. I ended up making a half batch of the paste (actually I made two 1/4 batches two different days) which made about 24 tamales all together.
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We were allowed to pick any fillings we wanted for a tamales. I love the sweet corn tamales that I get locally at La Loma & since sweet corn is in season I knew I wanted to make those. Matt, on the other hand, likes a pork filling with a little spice. So we decided to go with two fillings.
(Tamale with pork filling)
The corn filling is super simple with the only cooking required being to cook the corn. Other than that its just some chopping & you are ready to start filling.
Corn & Cheese Tamale Filling
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1 c corn kernels (I cooked one large ear of corn & then cut the kernels off it)
1/3 c onion, chopped
1 jalapeno, seeded & chopped
1 1/2 c grated Monterey Jack
2 T heavy cream
Mix everything together. Use right away or refrigerate for 1 day.
Makes enough for 12 tamales
The red chile & shredded pork filling took a little more time because the pork needs to braise for about an hour & a half. The red chile sauce was so fragrant & tasty.
Red Chile & Shredded Pork Tamale Filling
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Red Chile Sauce
2 1/2 oz whole dried ancho chiles
boiling water to cover chiles
1/2 t ground oregano
1 T onion, chopped
1 clove garlic, peeled
1 c chicken broth
1/2 T vegetable oil
1 t flour
1/4 t salt
Remove the stems & seeds from the dried chiles while rinsing them under cold water. Place the chiles on a skillet that has been preheated over medium-high heat. Toast the chiles for about a minute until they are aromatic. Place them in a bowl & cover them with boiling water & soak for about 10 minutes. Drain the chiles setting aside the liquid for later use.
Place the chiles, oregano, garlic clove, onion & stock in a blender, process until smooth. Add more liquid if its too thick.
Heat the vegetable oil in a saucepan over medium-high heat. Add the flour & stir constantly until golden. Add the chile paste & salt then reduce the heat to low. Stir often & cook for about 10 minutes.
1 T olive oil
1 - 1 1/4 lb boneless pork butt (we actually used country style pork ribs & they worked perfectly)
1 garlic clove, peeled
2 bay leaves
10 peppercorns
In a large pan with a lid heat the olive oil over medium-high. Add the meat & sear on all sides.
Add the water used to soak the chiles for the sauce. Add more water if needed until the meat is almost but not quite covered. Add the whole garlic clove, bay leaves & peppercorns. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat & cover. Allow to cook for about 1 1/2 hours until the meat is extremely tender & can be easily shredded.
Allow the meat to cool & shred it with your hands or a fork. Mix in as much chile sauce as you'd like. We didn't want the filling too runny so we used about half the sauce in the meat.
I added another 1/4 cup of the sauce to the masa paste when I was making the pork tamales & it was fabulous.
(Tamales with red chile sauce in the masa paste)
Fills about 12 - 15 tamales
Making the Tamales
Before you can start making the tamales you have to soak your corn husks. We soaked ours in hot water for about 1/2 hour. Then we rinsed them to make sure there was no corn silk left. We kept them in a pan of warm water while we worked.
(I found a pan lid helped keep the husks in the water while they soaked)
Putting together the tamales wasn't that hard once we got the hang of it. Using a knife or your fingers (my preferred method) you spread some masa paste on the the corn husk starting on the wide edge. We spread it about 2/3 down the length of the husk & left about an inch on the edge. Matt did this right in the palm of his hand, I found it easier to do on the counter. Then we added filling down the center of the masa paste. Finally the whole thing was rolled from the side with the masa to the inch that was left empty & the bottom was folded up over the seam.
We steamed our tamales vertically but putting them in a steamer basket inside a large pasta pot. I put a ball of tin foil in the center to help them stand up since they didn't quite fill the basket. We let them steam for about 45 minutes, refilling the water about halfway through. Then we had finished tamales for dinner.
(This pot wasn't tall enough & I ended up switching to a bigger pasta pot)
They turned out pretty good & the batch I made the second day was better. I think I was going a little heavy on the masa & a little light on the fillings for the first batch. Matt really liked them with some green salsa on top & I like them just plain.
We freeze them in the corn husks in packages of two. When we want to eat them we just open the bag for a vent & then microwave them on high for 3 minutes. They come out perfectly steamed & ready to eat.
I think both Matt & I are really happy we got to try our hand at making these. We have a lot of corn husks & masa flour left so I'm sure we'll be doing this again.
33 comments:
- Megan said...
Oh my goodness. I have never made tamales either...but you make it look so rewarding and easy.
Megan of Bit of Nutmeg - August 27, 2008 at 8:24 AM
You have made a really delicious looking dinner here & the stages photographs make it look so easy too!
- August 27, 2008 at 8:35 AM
- Nikki @ NikSnacks said...
Yum! For real! I've never made tamales. I've only eaten them in restaurants. Whenever I go to buy flour, I brush the bag of masa, but decide that it's too big, and I'll never use all of it before it spoils. Maybe I'll rethink this...
- August 27, 2008 at 9:25 AM
- vanillasugarblog said...
Do you know how many of these I would eat? Not just two, noooooo. These look so darn good. I love food that has it's own cover, an adventure of sorts.
- August 27, 2008 at 10:14 AM
- Temperance said...
Your pictures are wonderful! And You definitly made me rethink doing a sweet corn filling, I just wasn't sure how it would turn out, but yours look nummy.
- August 27, 2008 at 10:26 AM
- Lori said...
Nice job, they look beautiful. They are yummy arent they?
- August 27, 2008 at 11:26 AM
Your tamales look great!!!Fantastic job. I'm so glad you enjoyed them.
- August 27, 2008 at 11:34 AM
- Neen said...
Very cool. I had no idea how they were made! And I really like the idea of a savory Daring Bakers. Maybe once I get a handle on school, I'll join as well!
- August 27, 2008 at 12:17 PM
- eatingclubvancouver_js said...
I love tamales! I've only had them a few times ever though since they're not really available around here.
These look delicious! - August 27, 2008 at 1:00 PM
- Maria said...
I have never made tamales, but I love them. I just had some killer ones at the Ferry Building...I have been craving them ever since. I will have to attempt making them. Yours look so good!
- August 27, 2008 at 1:33 PM
- Beth (jamandcream) said...
Ive never made tamales either. They look fab. Will have to attempt some day...
- August 27, 2008 at 1:39 PM
- MadMama said...
WOW! I have to say your blog is the BEST out there! The pictures are fantastic and the food looks absolutely yummy! I'm getting ready to make the bread right now! Yeah! I can't wait to see what you post next. Thank you again!
- August 27, 2008 at 3:28 PM
- Christine said...
Making tamales was a first for me. I loved the sweet corn filling we used roasted pork. Your pictures are fantastic, great job!
- August 27, 2008 at 7:46 PM
- Leslie said...
Ohhhh the corn filling. I used to get it at Mexican place her in Tampa..YUM!!!
- August 27, 2008 at 8:25 PM
amazing... thanks for sharing a very clear step by step procedure of making this wonderful dish... i hope i can be courageous enough to make this... :)
- August 27, 2008 at 9:22 PM
- Heather B said...
wow! Great job! I'm going to have to try the corn and cheese filling!
- August 27, 2008 at 9:45 PM
- Joe said...
Love tamales! Glad to find another food blogger in the Minneapolis area!
- August 27, 2008 at 10:20 PM
- jenniferhoiyin said...
Your photos are fabulous. I agree, tamales are a keeper recipe (especially because of all the leftover resources!)and they store so well.
Great job! - August 27, 2008 at 11:42 PM
Oh my goodness! Your photos are incredible! And that fresh Minnesota sweet corn is making my mouth water...what a great filling! Nice step by steps, too. :)
- August 28, 2008 at 2:14 AM
Beautiful looking tamales! I'm going to try the corn filling next. :)
- August 28, 2008 at 3:17 AM
- grace said...
good heavens to betsy! you really went all out, and rightly so! i'm not sure which filling i'd enjoy more, and it'd take at least three of each for me to decide. :)
- August 28, 2008 at 4:23 AM
- Dharm said...
This looks great! I'm glad I dropped by! never heard of tamales before though... sometimes we are all so sheltered from what is out there!
- August 28, 2008 at 4:59 AM
- Lauren said...
they look lovely- i'll have to try that filling. welcome to the group!
- August 28, 2008 at 7:51 AM
- Deborah said...
I've always wanted to make tamales. The corn ones look so good! And it's good to know that they freeze so well.
- August 28, 2008 at 11:29 AM
- DocChuck said...
I loved your post because homemade tamales are so important to our culinary lifestyle.
My wife is a native of San Antonio (from five generations of San Antonio Texans, and a relative of Sam Houston).
However, we moved to Maryland so that she could earn her medical degree from Johns Hopkins University.
Believe me, there are NO tamales in this area worth eating, so she has to make (despite her crazy busy schedule) our tamales.
Her recipe is somewhat different than yours, but we REALLY appreciate the fact that there are other folks out there who appreciate homemade tamales.
Thanks for the great post! - August 28, 2008 at 3:32 PM
- Nate @ House of Annie said...
The kids love tamales (ah, who are we kidding, we love them too). But we've been too chicken to do them ourselves. Thanks for doing this!
- August 28, 2008 at 5:04 PM
I love tamales and order them often when I go to Mexican restaurants. Yours look yummy!
- August 29, 2008 at 9:47 PM
- Andrea said...
I love eating tamales but like so many others that commented above, have not made them myself. I have thought about it many times, but havent done it yet. I loved the pictures you included with the instructions. I am a picture kinda gal when it comes to trying new recipes, I like to see what it "should" look like first. Thanks for sharing, I am going to try these out in my kitchen!
- August 30, 2008 at 8:42 AM
- Marija said...
Beautiful eclairs. Great job!
- August 31, 2008 at 1:04 PM
- Robyn said...
Your tamales look great!
- August 31, 2008 at 7:33 PM
- DocChuck said...
What I forgot to mention is that I was born and raised in Minneapolis.
On Harriet Ave near Washburn High School (WHS Class of '54, to be exact).
Which makes it even more amazing that I have embraced the cusine of my much younger wife and her family.
Though I am PROUD to be a Yankee, I have fallen in love with the food of the South and Southwest.
Cheers, Chuck Treuter - September 2, 2008 at 10:19 AM
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- September 10, 2008 at 4:10 PM
I've been making tamales for the past 6 months, but I kind of have a slight short cut. Living in Los Angeles area we can get freshly mixed masa. I tried your corn filling, added cilantro, and boy did they turn out great. Another great filling is red, yellow, and orange sweet peppers,with onions and cheese. Thanks for the great recipe. COOK ON!
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