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Easy & Delicious Recipes to Impress a Date?
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Editor: Andrea, braised meat — especially braised beef — is foolproof, utterly delicious and can be made almost completely ahead of time. If you have a slow-cooker, it doesn't even have to heat up your kitchen. Beef shanks braised in red wine is a favorite in my household. I serve it over polenta:
A more summer-appropriate dish is steamed mussels, another easy and reliably tasty recipe:
The best way to cook confidently is to practice! If guests make you nervous, try to do as much of the work ahead of time as possible and make a recipe several times before cooking it in front of others. Good luck!
Readers, do you have any foolproof recipes to impress a date? Any advice for cooking more confidently in front of guests?
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I love a grilled steak with salsa verde. It tastes like it takes more effort than it actually does--just throw a steak on the grill and make the salsa verde by pulsing fresh herbs, capers or olives, and maybe a handful of nuts with olive oil together in a food processor. To make it more budget friendly split 1 steak between 2 people and serve over greens. You and your date will love it! http://www.strawberryplum.com/grilled-steak-salad-with-italian-salsa-verde/
It depends on the date. If your date has adverturous taste, I would suggest Martha Stewarts chicken in mole in the slow cooker. People think mole is very complicated, but it is super simple to blend up all the ingredients in advance and have it bubbling away in the slow cooker. Your house will smell amazing, you date will think you are wordly, and all you have to cook at date time is rice (and maybe make some guacamole as a starter so he or she can see you "cook" a little. Sprinkle some cilantro over the rice to make it pretty.
In general, I do suggest dishes that can be siommering rather than having to make it on the spot. Steak, while simple, I think is easy to screw up when you are nervous. Maybe beef bourginon or coq au vin with some nice crusty bread.
I just blogged about an easy recipe that is gorgeous and delicious: lettuce-tomato with beef.
(recipe here: http://thriftathome.blogspot.com/2013/07/lettuce-tomato-with-beef-and-lovely.html)
The only thing you would do in front of the date is stir fry the beef, cut up tomatoes and cucumbers, and arrange everything on the platter. Everything else can be made or prepped ahead of time (and if you don't mind refrigerating cut tomatoes and cukes, you could do that too - I like them fresh).
Any creamy dessert is a good follow-up (walk out for ice cream!).
I love the idea of cooking with your date! My favorite interactive date that's perfect for fumbles and isn't too fussy is gyoza making. This allows for an activity to ease conversation and takes a lot of the stress off you as a host. Don't be intimidated by the assembly of the dumplings as well, in the end they always taste good and you're both responsible for their looks!
Well I know for certain those mussels would impress my fiance. Keeping that recipe for later :)
Some good date meals I've made were mushroom risotto and chicken saltimbocca.
I like to do chicken piccata and salad. What is great about it is that you can do almost all the work ahead of time but you do the cooking and make the salad dressing when your date is there, which is fun. http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/ina-garten/chicken-piccata-recipe/index.html (but I cut down on the butter)
How about some baked pasta (entrée) which you can make ahead, so that when your date arrives, you could just put a salad (starter) together? And before sitting down for dinner, stir and mix the batter to pour over some cherries for a clafoutis (dessert), pop it in the oven as you take out the pasta.
Halfway through your pasta, just turn off the oven leaving its door slightly open, and dessert is ready anytime you want it.
More importantly, enjoy the company and just go with the flow. When you're feeling comfortable, you'll be impressive :)
Keep it simple, but use great quality produce. I would make steak, a simple green salad, a good bottle of wine, and a nice store-bought fruit tart.
I agree with the suggestion to do as much as you can in advance, that way you'll be able to relax and socialize with your date. A chicken roasted with potatoes and veggies is great served with a green salad, all of which can be made in advance. Try and time it so you're taking the chicken out of the oven around 20 minutes after your date arrives, approximately when you might be finishing a first glass of wine. Roast the chicken in a dish you don't mind doubling as a serving dish so you don't have to mess with it at all while your date is there, just take it out of the oven, let it rest while you take the salad out of the fridge and pour another glass of wine, and carve. (I would spatchcock the chicken and roast it in a cast iron pan because i think they make lovely serving dishes).
Once you're more comfortable with someone, cooking something new in the kitchen together can be an incredibly fun date. Make the whole meal together from choosing a recipe to finding and buying specialty ingredients and prep work. It makes the finished product very satisfying and romantic.
Honestly, I think that grilling a steak is kind of intimidating for a novice cook -- it takes some experience and attention to pull the steaks at just the right time so that they are properly cooked. And making gyoza? I am a serious cook and wouldn't attempt that with a date...too fussy and potentially frustrating....for me, at least.
My advice would be to keep it exceptionally simple with a one-dish meal. My favorite stress-free, no-fail dinner is from Gourmet magazine....Roasted Chicken with Vegetables and Arugula. You'd have to try hard to overcook the chicken thighs (I use only thighs, not legs) and you have everything in one dish....meat, starch, veg and even salad. With some attention to how you plate it up, and perhaps an attractive serving dish, it makes a pretty nice, if homey, presentation.
I have never served this and received anything less than stellar reviews. It takes very little last-minute work, feels healthy, and doesn't make you look like you're trying too hard. I have doubled and tripled the recipe successfully...makes great leftovers.
Probably bad timing with this heat wave, but I find that braised dishes are *always* foolproof and delicious.
I also like the ideas above- steak, salad, fruit dessert, wine (or sangria!). If you want a small appetizer course, maybe small cups of something like gazpacho or vichyssoise (seasonal and easy to make ahead)?
You'll likely feel less nervous and scattered if you can do as much of the work as possible in advance, while you have the time to yourself.
OH, and I second the Ina Garten comment above- I've never had a recipe of hers turn out badly. so she's definitely one of my go-to recipe sources when I want something new and fun, but can't afford to screw up and try again later.
Carnitas is pretty foolproof. Any kind of braised meat, really. Maybe a whole roasted chicken? That's pretty foolproof.
Shrimp and grits was always the first meal I made to impress a new man. It worked magic many times! :) Quick, decadent, down-to-earth! I use Hominy Grill's recipe (I think it's probably on their website). For looking good while cooking, I would say put out some wine/beer and little nibbles for the 2 of you to share while you're cooking. Gives him something to do other than watch you and gives you a way to alternate cooking, thinking about what you're doing, and interacting with him. And put on some music! Good luck!
I second cooking mussels. Actually, mussels with linguine is the first meal that I made my boyfriend when we first started dating. They take no time to prepare, taste great, and are extremely affordable.
I think this is the recipe I used: http://www.foodandwine.com/recipes/pasta-with-mussels
THIS! http://www.amuse-your-bouche.com/spinach-and-ricotta-dumplings/
I can't recommend this recipe enough. It was so so easy, so so delicious and I think it looks pretty impressive too!
Salmon filets with a Mango Chutney. It looks really pretty, tastes delicious, and you can make the mango chutney beforehand. So all you'd need to do pull a salad together while the fish bakes. Definitely keep notes during your practice! I've made the mistake before of not writing down what I changed in a recipe that made it turn out perfect, tried it again on date night, total failure :P (He still loved it and ate it all though)
My husband is always really impress when I make mussels -- somehow it seems like a "fancy" or special meal, even though it's incredibly easy and affordable to make. Just serve with good wine and crusty bread.
I love to roast a chicken-- it's hard to mess up and is impressive. Plus while it's cooking you could make a few sides/salads that take more time and effort and with a bottle of wine you've got a perfect meal!
I agree that a mussels dish can be easy, delicious, and look ten times more impressive than it really is. I also agree with previous responses about a good, roast chicken. With some roasted veggies and potatoes, it's a delicious but simple meal to make.
When my boyfriend and I first started dating, we often made dinner together on date night. Usually nothing super complicated-even an upscale tomato soup + fancy grilled cheese with a salad can be delicious. Making dinner together also takes some of the awkwardness away because you're both busy and working at the same time. I think it also creates a sense of shared vulnerability, which is kind of nice and puts you on equal footing at the start of the evening. And if the meal is a total flop...you can laugh about it and order pizza. :)
I like the idea of making the dish ahead.....that way nothing will go wrong during the date. Osso Buco is always considered a special dish but is so easy to make. Then the day of just reheat and make a starch & salad to go with it!
Chicken (or veal) cordon bleu - you can have them completely assembled and breaded in the fridge along with a nice salad of iceberg, red onion, mushrooms, alfalfa sprouts, grape tomatoes, cukes and whatever else you might like
Enjoy a glass of wine with your date and nibbles of cheese/crackers in the kitchen while you cook.
Unlike steak, it is nearly impossible to screw up cooking with the oil at the right temp 350 to 360 F) and removing the pieces when golden brown
Another meaty slow cooker recommendation, if your date is a meat eater:
Also, veal or chicken piccata comes together easily & quickly, is fun to make (pre-date jitters? hammer it out!), and has an elegance to it. Just a grain or mashed potatoes on the side, a very simple green veggie or salad, and boom, dinner.
However, I would also say: people enjoy being fed by a relaxed person, a lesson I'm still trying to learn for myself.
The first meal I ever made for my now fiance was a spicy cold asian-y noodle dish with grilled chicken. The dish takes some time to prep but isn't difficult; and then it chills overnight. All you have to do is grill or bake some chicken (or tofu, or shrimp) and add to the noodles.
Of course, this assumes that your date likes a.) asian food b.)spicy food c.) vegetables. I recognize that's not going to work for a fair amount of people, especially if you're unfamiliar with their tastes.
I got super lucky with my guy! :)
I would be wary of the beef braise recommendations... Heavy, saucy meats just don't scream date food to me (unless perhaps your dates end in a nap). However, they are great for general group entertaining and a good way to have total confidence in the kitchen!
This is a fabulous date recipe (from the kitchn!)-- it incorporates a braise, but uses chicken (lighter!) and lemon. It's so bright and lovely, and pappardelle is a really luxe touch. Cut the recipe in half, and add a few tablespoons of lemon juice right before folding the shredded chicken into the sauce. It's luxe, simple, and a nice presentation in a big bowl with the chopped parsley!
I've been making this rack of lamb for special dinners with my now-fiancee since well before I was comfortable in the kitchen. The portions are reasonable compared to a big steak dinner (buy 1 rack for two people, I can usually find one for under $15), but lamb is exotic and man-friendly! I would roast some halved fingerling potatoes on a separate pan while the lamb is roasting, and serve with a very simple green salad. The pesto is DELISH, and can be made in a cuisinart mini-chopper.
I gained kitchen confidence with a casual level of planning. Don't try to get two dishes in the oven at different temperatures for a single meal; make sure you don't have 3 dishes that all need last-minute attention; read your recipes in advance and envision where you would have time for a sip of wine. Considerations like these allow you to be a social cook and break away from that forgetful feeling. Invest in an Anthropologie apron. They're stylish and almost sexy, and who doesn't want to look like a cute chef for an audience?!
Trader Joe's has great pre-made pizza dough which you two can have fun together making. Just throw on some mozzarella, olive oil, and heirloom tomatoes and basil for a simple and delicious meal)
The last time I cooked for a date, I made risotto. I looked to find ingredients that were in season, such as asparagus (this was in the spring) and then splurged a little for morels to amp up the fancy factor. I made a simple kale salad as a side dish, and served pie (which I baked beforehand) with good quality vanilla ice cream for dessert. The rest of the food I cooked and prepped while my date was there--in fact, he helped me chop veggies, while we sipped some wine, and listened to music. Making it interactive is part of the fun, so don't feel like it has to be a show.
I would do a simple roast chicken served with salad. Most people like chicken.
The problem with things like mussels is that you have to be sure that your date can eat them - some people are allergic, others have religious issues with eating seafood, some plain don't like the idea.
I agree everyone about the roast chicken. So so simple and delicious.
Molten Chocolate Lava Cakes are an easy and impressive desert.
I have a fajita chicken recipe that is my go-to for guests / dates. Serve it with bell peppers and onions, spanish rice, and lettuce. Have the usual condiments like sour cream and salsa on hand. Light, easy to prep, and always a hit.
Chicken cordon bleu is another popular dish. I like to pair it with puff pastry zucchini pockets. Looks elegant but is surprisingly straightforward.
Thank you all so much for the comments and suggestions!! These recipes and dishes sound delish! My printer is going to be busy. ;)
I would go with Ina Garten's roast chicken. If you can swing it, I would make a nice white wine gravy with some stock and the drippings. I would serve either roasted or mashed potatoes with lots of butter and real cream and a vegetable like roasted carrots, sauteed asparagus, or a cold asparagus salad. If you want an appetizer, prosciutto and melon or caprese are great for this time of year.
Some have suggested risotto. I love it and make it regularly, but it is far from foolproof. I would avoid it if you aren't already good at making it.It took me a while to get a feel for it.
Another vote for the roast chicken or any kind of chicken dish in a dutch oven. One of my favorites: http://www.thekitchn.com/dinner-recipe-french-onion-chi-144744. Or Jamie Oliver's chicken in milk. I think the fancy grilled cheese idea is also really clever and pretty easy. Fajitas too.
I love mussels and have never dared to make them at home, but I think I will have to give it a try after reading these comments!


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Type of Home: 1920s deco studio rental
Color Inspiration: As an artist, there are many things that inspire me but mostly mundane things like the shade of a wet sidewalk. While designing my apartment, my main focus has been to bring attention to my paintings.
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Color Inspiration continued: Because I need to see true colors while painting, I kept the main room white. I have chosen my painting,"Blue", as the focus in the main room. The color of this piece has been carried throughout the space by painting small sections of wall, using a vintage chair, & my vintage bike. The entryway was inspired by my bike & Tide boxes. I've used the same blue in the closet, but because I added greens, it feels cool & balances some of the warmer colors used seen in the rest of the room.
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So lovely, I like white walls with colorful accents.
Just gorgeous! Great job!
I absolutely love this studio. The details are amazing. Great job!
Love the color choices. Love the stacked books in the fireplace. And love the over the mantel artwork!
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I like this because it proves that you can have a colorful room AND have white walls.
thanks guys!
Indeed, nice choice of color, what is the turquoise color, you don't list that but do list a gray but I love the two blues, the orange and the white in this space, it works very well.
I love how you used the accent colors to draw one's eyes around the room, like the turquoise in the entry for instance.
The overal design just works with the space and I love modern pieces mixed in with pre-war buildings.
I can also see going totally 70's mod in that space as well. :-)
actually, the turquoise & blues are all the same color (frosty in flat enamel). it's one of those colors that seems to change in light & according to what you put next to it. when i picked it out, i spent weeks, holding it (& countless other samples) in different light & putting it next to both warm & cool objects. it seems to work with everything.
Yes, please share that turquoise color! Yay fellow WVian!
I love the way the color pops in & out and framed color its like art on its own. I agree with redbeard's comment so true.
read the comment above yours. hehe i think i answered the turquoise question at the same time you asked it. :P
Fantastic. I really love it. The colors are brilliant and delightful, yet inviting. So much excitement in a such compact space.
Shelia G.
Beautiful colors and careful photos. I'm torn though, because it's hard to get a whole picture of the room in mind. I can't tell what it would be like to be in this place.
yeah, that's difficult with 5 photos. i just tried to follow the instructions & have a mix of wide views & vignettes. that considered, these show 3 of 4 walls. thanks!
Love your paintings! Do you see any of your work on etsy?
i have a shop under a diff name, but we're not allowed to give links to sites during the contest. if you message me after the contest, i'll give you info. i don't want to be deleted. :)
So pretty! Love it!
I love that fireplace. The colors make the tile look three dimensional. Great job and great color choices!
great job ! I love the warm and cool colour combinations, and it just seems like a room thats great to hang out in!
I love the way things tie in with what I assume was the existing fireplace tile. Also, adorable cat :-)
yes, the fireplace is original. i've seen the exact fireplace in a few of the buildings in the area from the teens & 20s. it must've been done by the same man. at first, they scared me b/c they are such a strong color. now, i love them!
Hope you make it to the finals!
Beautiful! Your hard work and talent are obvious, good luck to you!
lovely kitty.
yeah, this is the type of submissions that make the color contests inspirational :) thnx. upvoted of course.
in view of the recession & everything i just wanted to point something out. my apt is only $400 & nothing you see in these photos cost me more than $60 (usually way less).
you don't HAVE to have crazy amounts of money. for me, that's what i've always found inspirational about AT contests. & that's the main reason i submitted. ^_^
Just absolutely beautiful ... like looking up to the blues!
THis entry suffers from the fact that Marie-Gael's photos were taken/chosen by somone exercising an artistica sensibility, rather than someone documenting a room. It's like she's chosen two "vignettes" (as so many ATers call them) or views (as she discusses above), rather than showing us the room. That shifts our focus and changes the contest. Better to fully document the roonm.
first of all, you realize that when people look at your profile, they can see that you have trashed almost every place you've commented on, right?
second, i have chosen 3 wide views & 2 vignettes. if you were to enter, you'd see that when you pick your photos, that's exactly what you are supposed to do. that is not changing the contest. this is a contest about using color, not in showing the exact layout of a room. if it was, we would be required floor plans like in small cool.
third, when you live in a small studio, your shot can only be as wide as the room seeing as how you can't back up further than the wall behind you. since you're having trouble looking past my "artistic sensibility", i'll try to help you out.
in the first photo you are looking from 1 side completely to the other side.
the 2nd photo is looking at the wall directly across from the fireplace, & it is wide enough that you can even partially see into my kitchen. the kitchen is on the same wall as the bed.
the 3rd photo is a vignette to show how i've used color to bring attention to an odd corner & perk up the entryway.
the 4th photo is yet another wide picture showing the middle of the room, showing the space between the 1st & 2nd photo.
& the last is semi close up in which you can even see the other wall in the mirror.
if that confuses you, i'm sorry, but i'm going to take your insult as a complement even though we all can see plainly that you are flaming.
LOVE your color choices. also how you've incorporated contemporary art pieces, vintage accessories and furniture perfectly. and props for not being afraid of working with the colors in the fireplace. overall, perfect balance in a seemingly small space. really great job. you have my vote.
also - can you share where you got the white chandelier in the hallway (or maybe it's the bathroom)? have been looking for one just like it!
thanks, the art is all mine. & yes, it is a small space! hehe other than the bathroom & narrow kitchen, that's the whole apt! that bed is a murphy. lol living in a studio is a challenge, especially moving from a larger victorian, but i love that it pushed me to try new things & prioritize. i think living in a small space kinda forces you to get to know yourself.
the light in my walk through closet is from urban outfitters.
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love it as well
i got it in 2001 from pb clearance. i think it's discontinued.
& the magnet sorter thing is just an ikea knife magnet. i use it to sort mail as well.
Finally, one of the few postings (my view) in the contest of colour that really is representative of the contest. Wonderful use of colour combinations that make this room come together perfectly...not just a mishmash...well put together and beautiful to view!
I would love me a room with that tangerine-aqua combo. So vivid and, yes, icy-hot!
Wow. Very daring and original. What an eye you have.
thank you!
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Bake Sale for America's Future
Think about a really successful bake sale at your school. Maybe it brought in $500, $1,000 or even $2,000. Those are nice totals when the proceeds go for new books, art supplies, PE equipment or other relatively low-cost items. But how many cupcakes would need to be sold to keep our educators in the classroom and our school buildings safe and sound?
On Oct. 14, host a bake sale at your school, in your community or even in front of the local office of your member of Congress, and send a simple message: Our children and our communities need the American Jobs Act; they can't rely on bake sales.
Clearly, small-scale fundraising is not the solution to providing our children with the educators and modern facilities they need and deserve. Fortunately, President Obama has a proposal that will help meet those needs: The American Jobs Act will prevent the layoff of as many as 280,000 educators and will fund the repair and modernization of 35,000 schools.
Please register here to host a bake sale in your community on Oct. 14.


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TORONTO -- After a lockout spanning almost nine weeks, the only thing the NHL and NHL Players' Association are talking about is taking a break.
Commissioner Gary Bettman has suggested placing a two-week moratorium on stalled collective bargaining negotiations, multiple sources told The Canadian Press on Thursday night. The offer came after Bettman received a phone call from Donald Fehr on Wednesday in which the NHLPA executive director said he didn't know how the sides could proceed from their current stalemate.
Rather than providing an immediate answer, Fehr told Bettman he would need to bounce the idea off his membership before responding. The union has repeatedly taken the position that it would prefer to meet rather than having breaks during the labour dispute -- and suggested again Thursday it will continue to favour that position.
"We believe that it is more likely that we will make progress if we meet than if we don't," NHLPA special counsel Steve Fehr said in a statement. "So we are ready to meet. If indeed they do not want to meet, it will be at least the third time in the last three months that they have shut down the dialogue, saying they will not meet unless the players meet their preconditions.
"What does that tell you about their interest in resolving this?"
The potential freeze comes with talks already having fallen silent after a busy stretch of meetings last week in New York. By the time negotiations broke off last Sunday, it was clear that distrust and some bad feelings had made their way into the bargaining room.
The sides have been unable to agree on proposed changes to player contract rights and how to share revenue, and will also need to sort out how they pay for the damage of a lockout that reached 62 days on Friday.
"We are extremely disappointed in where we and the players find ourselves," deputy commissioner Bill Daly said Thursday evening. "And from our perspective, we have made repeated moves in the players' direction with absolutely no reciprocation. Unfortunately, we have determined we are involved with union leadership that has no genuine interest in reaching an agreement. Regardless of what we propose, or how we suggest to compromise the answer is "no." At some point you just have to say "enough is enough."
Pessimism has grown while losses have started to mount.
"I find it incredible that the union is suggesting that we are somehow 'close' to a deal," added Daly. "They have utterly refused to negotiate for months. They have made essentially one proposal - five times. They continue to request a 'guaranteed' players share as part of the next agreement and we repeatedly tell them maybe they should get a reality check. And in the mean time, maybe they can make their position clear to us on 50-50, on the make-whole and on player contracting issues."
On Thursday, players missed their third paycheque of the season while the league moved closer to making another round of game cancellations, prompting some to suggest the entire year could be in danger.
Asked about that possibility on Thursday morning, Daly replied: "I hope not."
"But I'm more discouraged now than I have been at any point in the process," Daly added.
The NHL is expected to start wiping games beyond Nov. 30 off the schedule early next week. There had previously been hope for a shortened 68-game season starting Dec. 1, but that now appears to be gone.
In total, the lockout has already forced the cancellation of 327 games, including the Winter Classic between the Maple Leafs and Red Wings at Michigan Stadium. The league's other big mid-season event -- the Jan. 27 all-star game at Nationwide Arena in Columbus -- is also expected to be formally cancelled in the near future.
Earlier this week, Steve Fehr indicated that he thought a new CBA could be finalized soon after a breakthrough was made in negotiations.
"One thing Bill Daly and I agree upon is that when the moment is right the deal could be done very quickly," he said Monday. "One days, three days or whatever."
It will likely be much longer before real traction starts being made in negotiations.
Instead, the sides will continue inching closer to a make-or-break moment. The 2004-05 season was cancelled by Bettman on Feb. 16, but it's strongly believed the league wouldn't put the decision off that long if the 2012-13 season was to meet the same fate.
A deal that saved a 48-game season following the 1994-95 lockout was signed on Jan. 11.
The NHL is currently enduring its fourth work stoppage in the past two decades. The league is coming off a season where it generated a record US$3.3-billion in revenue.
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onion, chopped
4 cloves
crushed garlic
(3/4 inch) thick pork chops
1/2 cup
1/3 cup
all-purpose flour
1 (14.5 ounce) can
fat-free chicken broth
1 tablespoon
browning sauce
This is a traditional southern dish that I grew up on in South Carolina. We always pan-fried the chops first, then removed them from the oil once they were brown. We then added the onions until they were carmelized threw the chops back in the pan and added the richness of a can of Cream of Mushroom Soup. Talk about intense flavor. Served over a bed of hot rice it is heavenly. Enjoy!!!
Awful. Now to be honest, I'm not the best cook and have yet to make pork chops that were "tender". I followed the recipe decreasing the flour to 1/4 cup (as suggested) and used Worcestershire, rosemary, season salt & pepper - also as suggested by reviewers. Cooked boneless chops a little less than 30 minutes. They were DRY. The sauce was VERY thin and had a "funky" taste to it and very little flavor. Now again, I could have made a mistake somewhere, but I double checked to make sure I didn't miss anything. These were NOT good. I will not make them again.
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Big hit. Based on the reviews and concern that it might be bland I did season the chops with seasoning salt and pepper before browning them. I also doubled the gravy, you can never have too much gravy in our house. It turned out wonderfully and went great with the mashed potatoes and green beans with blue cheese. Thanks for adding a great meal to our menu!
I made this for my family and everyone loved it! My 18 year old son said he had a "new favorite" meal! Great recipe and so easy!
This is a great way to make chops with a little less fat. A really good recipe!
Made these a couple weeks ago. They were fantastic!!!! Neither I or boyfriend have had smothered pork chops in years. Along with the green beans, garlic mash potatoes and homemade buttermilk biscuts...brought back a lot of memories. I will be making these again.
I followed this recipe exactly and we were all very disappointed. It was bland, with no flavor and I had to add a jar of gravy and seasonings to give it some kind of flavor. To be blunt, it was nasty. My 4 year old who eats anything and everything, wouldn't touch it after the first bite and I ended up having to make her a separate meal. My husband, who loves smothered gravy, asked me never to make it again and we ended up giving it to the dogs.
This was just ok. The gravy was too thick and not very flavorful. 1/3 cup of flour is just too much, I'm afraid. The pork wasn't very tender either. At the last minute I added a bunch of black pepper for flavor. I probably won't make this again.
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
Smothered Pork Chops
Serving Size: 1/6 of a recipe
Servings Per Recipe: 6
Amount Per Serving
** Calories: 187
** Calories from Fat: 47
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The lineup for this year's Jay-Z -curated Made in America festival has been announced, according to Billboard , and what a surprise! Beyonce is one of the headliners.
This is the second year for the festival, which will take place in Philadelphia over Labor Day weekend on August 31 and September 1. Billboard reports that unlike last year, Hov himself will not take the stage, but he's put together quite the eclectic lineup. In addition to his wife and his sister-in-law -- yes, Beyonce's sister Solange is on the bill as well -- fans will also see Imagine Dragons , Calvin Harris , Macklemore & Ryan Lewis , rappers Wiz Khalifa , A$AP Rocky and Kendrick Lamar , and alternative rockers Nine Inch Nails , Queens of the Stone Age and Phoenix.
A documentary inspired by last year's festival, directed by Ron Howard and co-produced by Jay-Z, will be released later this summer, before this year's installment.
American Express cardmembers and fans of the Budweiser Made in America Facebook page can buy tickets now through Tuesday, April 16. Public on sale begins April 17. Ticket sales will benefit the United Way agencies of Greater Philadelphia, Southern New Jersey and Lancaster County, PA. Last year's show grossed $5 million and attracted nearly 80 thousand fans, according to Billboard.
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Friday, April 19 at 6:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. – Playing for Keeps (2012) Starring Gerard Butler and Jessica Biel; Rated PG-13; 105 minutes; Closed captioned for the hearing impaired.
This romantic comedy follows a charming, down-on-his luck former soccer star who returns home to put his life back together. Looking for a way to rebuild his relationship with his son, he gets roped into coaching the boy's soccer team. But his attempts to finally become an adult are met with hilarious challenges from the attractive soccer moms who pursue him at every turn.
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Computer Architecture ACS Project Suggestions (2013-2014)
Please contact the proposer(s) by email if you are interested in any of the projects below.
Please check here again over the coming weeks for more projects. We would also be happy to consider any project ideas you have too.
- Optimal Heterogeneous CMP Core Selection
Contact: Timothy Jones
As we project into the future, continued increases in transistor counts, coupled with tight processor power constraints, will lead to increased specialisation of cores within a chip multiprocessor (CMP). However, it is still an open question as to what this heterogeneous CMP will look like.
This project will seek to answer this question by exploring the design space of heterogeneous CMPs. It will use the gem5 simulation infrastructure to run applications on a variety of cores and develop an algorithm to pick the best ones, given constraints such as power or area.
- Vectorisation in General Purpose Applications
Contact: Timothy Jones
Modern application processors now contain specialised instructions for operating on a vector of data. This is often called single-instruction, multiple data (SIMD) processing, and common forms are the SSE and AVX instructions in x86 processors, or NEON instructions in ARM. Making use of these instructions can provide significant speed ups.
This project will study the opportunities for vectorisation within general purpose applications, which are traditionally not suited to this kind of processing. It will analyse the loops within each application to determine the inherent vector operations and those that can be exposed through additional compiler transformations. The goal is to expose as many opportunities for vectorisation as possible and, if time allows, implement a vectorisation pass within a compiler to take advantage of these.
- RISC-V Implementation in Bluespec
Contact: Simon Moore Contact: David Chisnall
The University of California, Berkeley is developing the RISC-V open instruction set architecture to promote open source research into computer architecture, but their current implementations are simple, unproven, user-mode designs. At the Cambridge Computer Laboratory, we have been developing the BERI 64-bit MIPS processor which now has a mature design with register forwarding, branch prediction, a MMU, floating point, a dependable cache heirarchy as well as a mature system on chip.
This project would implement the RISC-V ISA instead of the 64-bit MIPS ISA using the BERI infrastructure. The base project would include user-mode, 32-bit instructions. Optional extensions, of which at least one should be attempted, include floating point instructions, 16-bit instructions, and full system support (which is preliminary in the specification). The resulting processor should be able to run code compiled with riscv-gcc from Berkeley. The student may also attempt or colaborate to develop an LLVM backend for the RISC-V ISA. This project will explore implementation implications of the experimental RISC-V instruction set as well as provide insight into the efficiency of the ISA when running compiled code.
- A Fast Cache Hierarchy for BERI
Contact: Simon Moore Contact: Jonathan Woodruff
The BERI processor, developed at the University of Cambridge, is a 64-bit MIPS processor which is somewhat mature and reliable, but has not so-far been optimised extensively for performance. One of the greatest shortcomings of the current design is cache performance, which only allows a single outstanding transaction.
This project would implement cache heirarchy for the BERI project that can saturate the bandwidth to DRAM for the Terasic DE4. The student would implement instruction and data L1 caches with a shared L2 cache as well as a traffic generator to test the heirarchy. The caches should be pipelined and allow at least 16 outstanding transactions and should run at a high clockspeed on the Terasic DE4. The caches should be parameterizable for size and possibly for line size and associativity. The traffic generator should be capable of both speed tests and complex patterns to test consistency in the caches. An optional extension would be to exend the caches to support coherency when more than one set of L1 caches is present. The final report should present cache performance with a range of parameters which trade off between area, clock speed, and performance.
Computer Architecture ACS Project Suggestions (2012 - 2013)
The following is a list of old projects from previous years that may provide inspiration for your own ideas.
- Application Scheduling for Heterogeneous Systems
Contact: Robert Mullins and Timothy Jones
As energy efficiency becomes the main driver for processor development, heterogeneous systems become attractive, since they allow applications to be scheduled on the cores that best suit their current requirements. Emerging heterogeneous systems include those with close CPU-GPU integration and ARM's big.LITTLE processors.
The goal of this project is to perform an evaluation of a heterogeneous multicore system using the gem5 simulation environment. It will consider a range of cores to determine the optimal system for a group of multi-threaded and multi-programmed workloads. There should not need to be a significant amount of infrastructure development, since gem5 already includes support for multiple, configurable cores. The results will be an analysis of the types of workloads that benefit from heterogeneity in the processor and how they can be successfully scheduled together.
- Speculative Guided Parallelisation of Application Binaries
Contact: Robert Mullins and Timothy Jones
With multicore systems now the norm across the computing landscape, and many-core systems on the horizon, it is important for applications to gain performance through parallel execution. However, a significant fraction of existing software is in single-threaded form, and rewriting it to be parallel would be a significant undertaking.
This project seeks to parallelise applications without needing to alter the program source code. Using dynamic binary instrumentation and rewriting, such as within DynamoRio, it will alter program loops as they execute to allow them to run in parallel. To avoid complicated analysis of each loop, it will employ a form of speculation to catch situations where the code must be executed sequentially. The loops to parallelise will be determined in advance.
- Acceleration of the Floyd-Steinberg dithering algorithm
Contact: Robert Mullins and Timothy Jones
Applications such as high-speed ink-jet printing need to perform image dithering at Gpixel/s rates. Highly optimised sequential implementations can today only reach ~200Mpixels/sec. This project will explore parallel implementations of the Floyd-Steinberg algorithm, either hand-coded or produced with the aid of an automatic loop parallelisation technique (called HELIX).
There is scope to extend the project to explore source-to-source transformations that could improve the performance of the HELIX technique.
[1] PT Metaxas, Optimal parallel error diffusion dithering
[2] Y Zhang, "Line diffusion: a parallel error diffusion algorithm for digital halftoning"
- Scalable Graphics Shader Engine
Contact: Simon Moore
Full-system research is becoming practical using FPGAs, and Cambridge is at the forefront with a full CPU and OS stack with a number of peripherals. However modern systems are not complete without an autonomous graphics processing unit with implications for system-on-chip data flow and prioritization, memory allocation and scheduling, and especially security.
This project would explore the implications of an autonomous graphics processing unit in a system-on-chip architecture. This project would design and build a compact, scalable fragment shader engine in Bluespec SystemVerilog which is able, at least, to apply textures to triangles in a framebuffer. We would recommend an internal 16-bit floating-point pixel format similar to the ARM MALI GPU to save area and improve timing.
Evaluation could include efficiency and performance as well as novel memory protection or sharing ideas when combined with the Cambridge CHERI 64-bit MIPS processor optionally running FreeBSD.
[1] ARM, MALI Shader Arithmatic


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A homicide suspect who fired at Kansas City police officers was found dead inside a Northland home, authorities said Thursday afternoon.
Officers say the cause of death is under investigation. He could have died after being struck by gunfire from officers or he could have committed suicide, authorities say.
The man had barricaded himself inside a Northland home after officers went to arrest him.
The man was suspected as being part of an effort to kidnap a man after a pound of marijuana allegedly went missing. During the attempted kidnapping on Sunday afternoon, the would-be kidnapper was killed in a struggle. A second man was in the basement tying up the homeowner, and that is believed to be the man that authorities are seeking. A woman who went with the two men to the Northland home was charged on Monday with second-degree murder.
Police say they went to the residence in the 5300 block of North Denver Avenue just before 10 a.m. in an attempt to arrest the suspect.
The suspect refused to exit the home initially. Officers officially called it an Operation 100 at 10:18 a.m., which means dozens of officers surrounded the home, tactical units were called in and an armored vehicle was brought to the scene.
Police said the suspect came out at 10:30 a.m. armed with a gun.
"After exchanging gunfire with officers, the suspect went back inside the residence," according to the news release. "No officers were injured during the exchange."
The man went back inside the residence. When officers were unable to reach him, they looked through a window and saw his bloody body on the floor.
Bill Bruley lives in the neighborhood. He said a flurry of activity erupted Thursday morning.
"All of a sudden, one of the police officers said, 'He's got a gun!' And that's when the shots went off," he recalled.
He said he heard up to 10 shots exchanged.
"This has been a quiet neighborhood and this is a shock," he said.
Police searched the home for clues.
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Damien Brunner had two goals and two assists as the Red Wings whipped the Vancouver Canucks 8-to-3 last night at Joe Louis Arena. Joakim Andersson had two goals while Henrik Zetterberg and Niklas Kronwall each posted a goal in the Detroit victory. Jimmy Howard posted 18 saves for the Red Wings in their second straight win. Detroit will take a 9-7-and-3 record into Wednesday night's game at Los Angeles.
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Dang yooo we smoked dem foilies till fo' in the mornin'!
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An Adjective used to describe alumminum foil.
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WICHITA FALLS, Texas -- Efficiency was the buzzword for Midwestern State Saturday night at D.L. Ligon Coliseum.The Mustangs systematically took apart Texas A&M-Kingsville to snap a two-game skid with an 83-62 Lone Star Conference win."This was a great win for us," MSU coach Nelson Haggerty said. "Kingsville was coming off of a great win over Cameron playing without their leading scorer (senior guard Rashad Basey)."Senior guard Monzaigo Williams attacked for a game-high 20 points and was nearly perfect by going 6-for-8 from the field including a 3-pointer while going 7-for-7 from the free throw line.Haggerty credited his leadership on the floor to helping the Mustangs shoot 46.4 percent from the field while going 8-for-17 from the 3-point line."We shot all the right ones and were really making plays for each other," Haggerty said. "Z's (Williams) leadership was great. He passed when he could have shot but he really got the ball where it needed to be tonight. He is becoming a more efficient leader."The Mustangs broke open a close game with a 10-2 run midway through the opening half spurred by 3-pointers by Xavier Blackburn and Cam Adderley as MSU surged to a 27-22 lead with 8:35 remaining until halftime.The Javelinas clawed back to within one before Midwestern stretched the lead out to 42-35 at the break.The Mustangs used another 10-2 run to extend the advantage into double figures again in the second half fueled by two field goals from Williams and Abiodun Adegoke as MSU led 60-46 on DeJuan Plummer's jumper with 9:50 to play.Plummer, who finished with 13 points in his first start of the season, gave MSU its biggest lead of the night when he connected on his second triple of the game for a 77-56 edge with 3:38 to play.Blackburn tacked on 12 points and grabbed four rebounds, while Adderley pitched in 10 points and pulled down eight boards.Junior forward Jordan Jahr poured in 22 points to pace Texas A&M-Kingsville, which fell to 6-12 and 1-5.Midwestern State plays host to Cameron Saturday afternoon at D.L. Ligon Coliseum. Tipoff is set for 4:30 p.m. The game airs live on Comcast Sports Network-Houston.
WICHITA FALLS, Texas -- Midwestern State delivered the good on its home floor Saturday afternoon at D.L. Ligon Coliseum.For the 1,289 fans in attendance, it meant free chicken from Raising Cane's, but for the team it turned into the biggest win in a 81-59 runaway over Texas A&M-Kingsville.The Mustangs claimed their second straight win to improve to 12-7 on the season while leveling their Lone Star Conference record at 4-4.Senior guard Dianna Jones matches a career high by dealing out 10 assists helping Midwestern blitz the nets at a 51-percent clip for the night including a 58.3-percent run (14-of-24) in the second half.Junior guard Lisa Hampton splashed in four treys in the opening half including two in the final 80 seconds as the Mustangs pushed out to a 42-33 lead at the break.Senior forward Andrea Carter took over the second half by going a perfect 7-for-7 from the field on her way to matching a season high with 21 points while pulling down six rebounds and swiping two steals -- all in 24 minutes of court time.Carter ran off MSU's first eight points of the second half by converting a traditional three-point play and bombing in a triple from the top of the key to help the Mustangs push out to a 56-41 advantage less the four minutes into the final frame.Midwestern would lead by as many as 26 points in the second half.Hampton finished with 12 points on 4-of-7 shooting from the 3-point range, while junior guard Shatoia Gober pitched in 12 points and eight rebounds off of the bench.Senior guard Kirsti Degelia and Taylor Dowd pitched in nine and eight points, respectively.Texas A&M-Kingsville's Lindsey Mahone had 14 points and 10 rebounds to lead the Javelinas, who dropped to 7-10 and 2-5.Midwestern State returns to action Saturday night against Cameron at D.L. Ligon Coliseum. Tipoff is set for 6:30 p.m.


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In October 2003, 77 million persons used a computer at work. These workers accounted for 55.5 percent of total employment.
About 2 of every 5 employed individuals connected to the Internet or used e-mail while on the job. (These two tasks will be collectively referred to as "Internet use.")
Women were more likely than men to use a computer and the Internet. Computer-use rates for women and men were 61.8 and 49.9 percent, respectively; the Internet-use rate for women was 45.1 percent, compared with 38.7 percent for men.
The greater likelihood of women to use a computer at work is due largely to their concentration in occupations in which computer use is most prevalent. For instance, nearly three-fourths of employed women are in management and professional and sales and office occupations; the computer-use rate for women in these two occupations combined was very high (74.8 percent).
In contrast, nearly two-fifths of men hold natural resources, construction, and maintenance and production, transportation, and material moving jobs. For men, the combined computer-use rate in these two occupational categories was 26.0 percent—30 percentage points lower than the rate for all workers.
This information is from a special supplement to the October 2003 Current Population Survey. Find more information in "Computer and Internet Use at Work in 2003" news release USDL 05-1457.
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Do we have an opinion about everything? If not, should we?
The ideas, questions and debates discussed here on the TED platform allow us to share opinions, answers and lots more.
What is it that makes us form an opinion? Is it something we do through choice? On what level of consciousness are opinions formed?
I chose the "Gotta Share" video as it was the last video I watched before I thought about this. Perhaps its the sharing with others that makes us opinionated? How we make our identity?
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Apr 3 2013: As I grow older there are less and less stuff I have strong opinions about and in most cases I tend to keep them to myself. There are very few things (like racial and gender equality) only which I would fight for pretty hard... Most of the things are super-complicated so it is not so good to have strong opinions about them.
Apr 5 2013: Hey Tibor,
Thanks for the contribution.
I agree that certain topics will have priority over others in our lives, thus our opinions are likely to follow the same order.
Here's a question for you... As you said that "most of the things are super-complicated so its not so good to have strong opinions about them" would that suggest IF you had a greater understanding of the topic you should have an opinion, or can you sit on the fence still with no opinion even though you have great understanding?
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The chamber's board voted to endorse the proposal – which would let cities and counties implement a temporary sales tax increase via a voter referendum – on Thursday just before Fischer appeared before a legislative committee in Frankfort to discuss the idea.
In Louisville, the tax would likely be used for improved public transit, Fischer said during the hearing.
The proposal would amend the state constitution to allow cities and counties to implement a temporary sales tax of up to 1 percent to pay for local public projects. The extra revenue would be dedicated to a particular project or a set of projects, and the tax would go away once the projects were funded unless reauthorized by the local government's voters.
The proposal faces steep hurdles: a constitutional amendment requires approval by super-majorities of the Kentucky House and Senate and then by voters in a statewide referendum.
Once those steps are taken, city councils and county commissions could come up with projects, which their voters would be asked to approve in a local referendum.
The proposed tax elicited mix opinions among lawmakers at Thursday's hearing of the joint interim Appropriations and Revenue committee.
State Sen. Ernie Harris of Crestwood said the tax might find "broad support" – especially now with the endorsement of the Kentucky Chamber – if it were coupled with a weakening of the state's prevailing wage laws that set minimum pay for construction and trades workers on public projects.
"This looks like a great thing, to tie them together," Harris said.
Fischer demurred when Harris asked his opinion on prevailing wage laws. He said prevailing wages are a separate issue and that local governments will abide by whatever standards the state sets.
Rep. Tom Buford of Nicholasville pressed Fischer on whether the 83 smaller cities in Jefferson County would have the power to enact their own sales taxes under the legislation, and what would happen if a county and a city within each wanted to implement sales taxes.
Fischer said the intent is not to have "stackable" taxes and said the language would be clarified to be prevent it. He also said the smaller cities in Jefferson County would have to seek Metro Council approval to get a local sales tax on the ballot, making it unlikely to happen.
Rep. Jim Wayne of Louisville, one of the General Assembly's most liberal members, said he doesn't support the proposal because sales taxes hit the poor harder than they do the wealthy.
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This book absolutely was astonishing. This comes from a perspective of a 16-year-old boy who is to write 500 words/week as a part of his restraining order to stay away from his now ex-girlfriend, whom he (Nick) hits. He was to start from the first time he saw her to the time when he got to court for the restraining order, and to also attend abuse sessions with other men whom have beaten their girlfriends as well. This book is in the prespective of the present, the after affects of the court sentencing and when he is writing in the journal about his relationship with his girlfriend, Caitlain. Don't be so quick to judge the main character with this book if you are thinking that he is a terrible person, should be given the worst punishment for abusing his girlfriend, or "Poor Caitlain!", etc...until you read this book in its entirety. This is not just about the fact that dating violence has happened and a sentence has been carried out. This is not about who was right and who was wrong and who should be punished. This is about the development of people by their actions to life the only way they may know how and seeing things not just from their eyes, but from someone else's tale of the same story that should be mentioned and brought to view that could bring great revelations and a new life to follow.
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I thought this was an incredible story about a 16 year old boy who had an abusive father and got that trait passed down to him. Once his girl friend takes him to court he starts to write in a journal, where he realizes what kind of person he was. I definately rate this 5 stars! It was an extraordinary book!
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I loved this book! Its about a boy(nick) who got a restraining order from his girlfriend for physically abusing her. His father is an abusive parent and the court orders him to attend special classes about physical abuse. At first Nick didnt realize that he was abusive but as the story progresses he discovers that he is like his father.
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Major upgrade to Microsoft's Web site, intranet, and collaboration platform offers numerous and significant improvements for end-users, IT professionals, and developers
Backup is improved. The backup and restore capabilities built into SharePoint 2007 were blunt instruments. In SharePoint 2010 you can be more selective about restores by browsing an unattached content database, locating the sites or lists you need, saving them, then restoring them to the production database.
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On a SharePoint server with many custom controls and large lists, one site that hogs CPU, memory, or database requests can damage the performance of all the sites on the server or even all the sites using the database. Throttling and list controls in SharePoint 2010 allow an administrator to control this per Web application.
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BENTON, Tenn. (AP) - The body of the last of 3 people who went missing after a canoe tipped in Polk County's Conasauga Creek has been found.
West Polk Fire and Rescue Chief Steve Lofty told the Chattanooga Times Free Press searchers found the body of Nick Alley on Friday afternoon.
Alley had been in a canoe with his five children when it tipped in the rain-swollen creek three weeks ago.
Three children swam to shore. Rescuers discovered the body of 6-year-old Lazarus Alley on Jan. 24, and 7-year-old Halana Alley's remains were recovered five days later.
Lofty praised the rescue personnel and community members who turned out day after day to help in the search. He said they wanted to bring closure to the family.
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