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Inorganic Materials (Neorganicheskie Materialy) was established in 1965; the journal contains reviews, original papers, and news about chemistry, physics, and applications of various inorganic materials including high-purity substances and materials. The journal discusses phase equilibria, including P–T–X diagrams, and the fundamentals of inorganic materials science, which determines preparatory conditions for compounds of various compositions with specified deviations from stoichiometry. Inorganic Materials is a multidisciplinary journal covering all classes of inorganic materials.
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bowling and baby food
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exclusively breast feed for how long???
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Green Smoothie Testimonials, part 3
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GreenSmoothieGirl on Babies and Moms Radio
Dear GreenSmoothieGirl: I heard you on the Babies and Moms radio podcast recently, where the host Nancy was talking to you about me and how I am trying to lose weight to have a baby next year with green smoothies. Is it possible to use carrot tops/greens and turnip greens in green smoothies? Do […]2 Comments • Continue Reading →
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An Unsolicited charter for the Very Large Organization
A guest post by Javier Arbona, written to accompany the opening of Very Large Organizations, an exhibition by Jordan Geiger, at Studio-X NYC.
Outside of the purity of cultural scripts that we might regard to be politically authentic are rapidly mutating political scripts that may be the most immediate tools in the world's urgent situations, despite their lack of national pedigree and reference to political theology. These are the dirty tools and techniques of an extrastatecraft that might be tilted toward many different political aims. (Keller Easterling)
1. Very Large Organization (VLO). The name itself, coined by Jordan Geiger, conjures an imagery of bubbles, air, foam, and inflatables filled with helium. The VLOs hover above us, They are atmospheric; orbital, even. Make no mistake about it, they need solid ground and touchdown points. They require earth-based networks of human communications, both digital and not. They must have a calculable, perpetual motion in order to ensure economic growth.
2. The bizarre, hidden architecture of the VLO is a mash-up of legal rights, aerial spaces, entrepots, and credit ratings. Under the burnished surface of its sheathing lies a fierce competition for finance, favor, advantage, and immediacy.
3. Internally, VLOs operate like a motion reel that's loaded with a transparent film, except at the scale of a seemingly eternal airport movealator—yes!—the VLO as moving sidewalk that scoops people up and takes them on a placid tour. Externally, VLO's bulge, heave, grow, sprawl, and hover over territories—territories where a veritable red carpet is laid for them, woven with infrastructure, services, processed foods, and hyper-fertile industrial crops.
4. The VLOs workings are unnoticeable to the naked eye, while sloping and curving towards an ineffable outcome. One may be skimming along on the automated surface without realizing it, all the while enjoying a suave movement that feels effortless' until…a crash.
5. Is there a complex equation of movement to the VLO? Perhaps. But VLOs seem to enjoy an unaccountable oversupply of motility—soaring, navigating, sailing, coasting—all the while transporting certain individuals within them for given amounts of time. But who? Not clear; a buzzing hive of workers, planners, architects, executives, health experts, motivational speakers, life coaches, personnel, human resources, flexible employees, commuters, e-lancers, and so many more.
6. The transportative exuberance of VLOs is matched, inch by inch, by a global shortage of mobilities for many more people, stuck in limbo. The outsiders don't fit our obsolete notions of the split between urban and rural, or the formal and informal. The interfaces between all this unevenness—blurry insides and outsides—demands architectural inquiry. In other words, architecture must open spaces for outsiders by interrupting the accustomed spatial imaginaries of the VLO.
7. Intercept, stall, disconnect, decelerate, chart, detour—these might be some of the operative terms needed for an architectural vocabulary that scopes the VLO, subjects it to scrutiny, documents it, and determines points of intervention.
8. Open architectures, open systems, open data, the reproducibility of things, transparency, trust, the ability to copy: these qualities run through the discourses of the VLO, almost as if the flow of information were an air lift. As necessary as information is, the internal contradictions of VLO's give rise to another discourse: a "tragedy of the commons" that calls for parcelization, enclosure, and checkpoints.
9. For a citizenry, the VLO offers a seductive info-pastoral, but the cultural citizenship of the VLO often brings with it an unexpected surprise: a crushing market discipline. This tension between the open and the closed misses a key question: Does the VLO impose on itself the same logics it imposes on its citizens?
10. A key working lesson might be, then, the need to make visual and spatial the inherent discrepancies of VLOs. In other words, use architectural devices (views, axes, corridors, promenades, connections, openings) to expose the inner workings of VLOs—open its own internal information.
11. Geographical imaginaries of the VLO can run the risk of mirroring the pastoralism of an idealized digital nomad. Therefore, a question on architecture's role: how to challenge dominant imaginations that skirt democracy, or raise the difficult questions of collective rights, benefits, and opposition? Where do these citizenship rights become spatial, or put differently, in which spaces are rights ensured?
12. VLOs exploit their own (mis-)representation. Meet them at their own game by relentlessly drawing the conditions of their spatio-temporal construction. At the same time, the VLO is not a "thing;" it's a development process that continues to chew-up and spit out places and spaces. Rote diagramming may fail. What architectural operations might thus apply? Architecture "houses," "shelters," "preserves," and "remodels." These can be practices that take back from the VLO, challenging its authority, packaging it for redistribution, appropriating it, reclaiming that which it ruins and then, restoring it.
13. VLOs tend towards massive growth, becoming absurdist Leviathans, to borrow from Keller Easterling; yet, they become cankerous, rupturing internally, bursting at points of clogs caused by capital shortages, credit downgrades, hoarding, and dispute.
14. For architecture, the internal ruptures are moments for problematizing—the inflection points at which a critical memory is necessary. What might be the political memorials that recover orphaned histories of the VLO? What spaces might be unfolded in order to live a human life contrary to the temporal speeds demanded by credit, hoarding, monopolies, and legalese?
15. The central problem of the VLO is the problem of information. VLOs thrive on an economy of open information, and yet this historic rise of data is matched by a voracious appetite to close it up—hiding fees over fees—carried out by battalions of IP lawyers, private mercenaries, and national police forces. They seek to possess "innovation." They happen to leave dead bodies in their wake, quite literally: suicides, homelessness, poor health, hunger, and so on. The role of architecture, it would seem, can't remain at the level of a silent humanitarian service that merely wipes up after the mess is left. Acts like drawing, writing, visualizing, and building must deal with invoking a world where human innovation can be protected from the Leviathan.
16. The infrastructure of the modern world is simultaneously a patchwork of jurisdictions that thrives off of a certain vocabulary of interconnections. It's a continual negotiation between the border and its border-crosser. A fundamental question for architecture is how to scramble these normative notions while defying existing social relationships and unevenness between jurisdictions.
17. Very Large Organizations begin with very, very large financing, which often plays the actual role of designer more than anyone else. Start-up capital comes from government coffers, private lenders, or nebulous entities. Sometimes all three at once. The characters are often interchangeable, seeking to launder each other's trustworthiness. Architecture has traditionally operated to monumentalize—to make symbolic capital out of other forms of capital, to borrow an idea from Bourdieu. A new role for architecture can be invented; that is, subvert the expected symbols of these forms of capital.
18. It remains an imperative to take on much more, beyond the scope of this charter of the VLO: energy, scale, finance, secrecy, privatization, cronyism, governance, infrastructure, monuments, and so on. What are emergent notions of publicness, or lack thereof? Who's left with the bill for that which is "too large to fail," yet often does? The role of architecture is, in one sense, to inquire into the material dimensions of these questions. Architects can expand our notions, imaginations, and representations of the presence of the VLO in everyday life, multiplying possibilities for appropriation. But that can't be all. The VLO scrambles social expectations of home, travel, privacy, work, and health. The most important act begins with drawing the first line.
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When I was a child my somewhat eccentric parents invited foreign exchange students staying at Buckly Airforce Base east of Denver for Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner. Why they were staying there I don't know, but I remember going to the base to pick them up. Through this exchange I met someone from the Phillipines, and Nigeria. There were one or two others but I forget where they were from. The guy from the Phillipines showed my mom how to make adobo which we all liked very much, and instilled a love for the dish that has lasted a lifetime. The meat of choice was doves as dove season was the previous month and we had many of the tasty birds in the freezer.
The guy from Nigeria was interesting because of his family. My mom casually asked at dinner, "what does your father do", and the answer was, "he is the ruler" which shocked my mother. It's not every day you have someone for dinner who's father is the king of a country so that gave my parents something to talk about for years to come. For me the guy was fun because he indulged me with some archery in our backyard as I had just received my first bow and arrow set for Christmas that day. Apparently I thought at that young age, I think I was eleven years old at the time, that men from Africa knew how to shoot an arrow. Pretty funny in retrospect as we were both rather bad at it.
Over the last twenty years my wife and I have had only one foreign house guest and he was a chaperone from Japan assigned to a bunch of middle school aged kids visiting Denver. It was fun and I would have liked to do more hosting. In June of this year I saw a home made sign announcing "20 Spanish students need host families" and called after getting approval from my wife. We ended up with a great kid from Burgos, Spain who at the ripe old age of sixteen speaks very good English and is a great addition to our household.
Turns out he is a natural cook. Even though his mother does almost all the cooking in his home I found out that he has significant talent in the kitchen. His first homework involving food was to prepare an American dish for a competition in class on Tuesday. I helped him select the dish to prepare and he made shepherds pie with virtually no help from me. Then that night he cooked us two traditional Spanish dishes for dinner. He made a Spanish tortilla and a gazpacho soup. For those of you who have never had a Spanish tortilla it's nothing like what we see in Mexican restaurants. A Spanish tortilla has potatoes, onion and eggs in it and looks like an omelet.
Both dishes Manuel made for us were excellent but I really liked the gazpacho, and since I have a lot of tomatoes getting ripe lately I wanted to make another batch the next day. Manuel didn't use a recipe but I took notes and tried to copy his gazpacho. The results were good but it took some more testing to come up with the recipe I share with you here. It's fast and simple as well as healthy. If you have an abundance of garden tomatoes like I do it's a great way to use them up. With these hot summer day upon us give this a try and see if you agree with me that this is one great Spanish cold soup.
Gazpacho Soup with Heirloom Tomatoes
3 pounds heirloom tomatoes, cored and cut into quarters
1/2 yellow onion chopped, about 1/2 cup
1 cup peeled and diced cucumber with seeds removed
1 cup diced green bell pepper
1 medium sized apple peeled and diced
1 clove garlic minced
5 tablespoons olive oil
2-3 tablespoons good quality apple cider vinegar, I like Bragg's brand best
1 slice of bread cubed, about 1 cup
1 teaspoon salt
Soak bread in water for five or more minutes to soften. Drain water off before adding to the blender.
If using a blender instead of a food processor put tomatoes in first to facilitate faster blending. Then add rest of the ingredients.
If it won't all fit blend for thirty to sixty seconds and add rest of ingredients.
Blend thoroughly for two to three minutes, depending on the strength of your blender. There should not be anything larger than a sesame seed for best results.
Best if chilled for and hour or two, but can be eaten right away if needed.
Serves eight.
I tested this with both a blender and a food processor. The food processor I have held all the ingredients but was a bit slower to blend thoroughly. The blender did a good job blending but didn't hold all the ingredients at once and I had to add the rest after a minute of blending reduced the volume.
Hello Spring!
Due to a heavy travel schedule the last three out of four weeks and a computer crash I haven't posted my usual once a week recipe. I'm glad to say the computer has been fixed and I'm up and running at full speed again!
I just came home from a lovely ski vacation in the Colorado Rockies Sunday night, and it's great to be home in time for Spring! Never mind the fact that it was snowing when we landed in Baltimore as I'm sure it's time to plant the garden and welcome in the warmer weather that is forecasted this week. While on vacation I had time to read the book Grain Brain by Dr David Perlmutter. It's a very interesting book about how gluten messes with our brains by causing surges in blood sugar which in turn causes inflammation in the brain. That inflammation in turn causes Alzheimer's and Dementia according to the good doctor.
Now I don't know if the good Dr. is right on with his findings, but it does make for an interesting read. What is really interesting is his view on low fat/high carb diets. He promotes a diet low in carbs and fairly high in healthy fats like:
olive oil
He also says eggs are healthy to eat often. This seems to go in an opposite direction from current health guidelines, but then this morning on national public radio I heard a story on the low fat/high carb diet being unsuccessful in combatting heart disease. The story:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/03/31/295719579/rethinking-fat-the-case-for-adding-some-into-your-diet featured an interviewed with Walter Willett from the Harvard school of public health. Willett's study was submitted for publishing but not accepted because it flew in the face of popular thinking at the time.
The story went on to say the healthy fats are butter, olive oil, nuts, and avocados. There seems to be a trend reversal in the works for our diets. You never know for sure with these kind of stories though. After all it has to stand the test of time, but it does confirm what Dr Perlmutter is saying about healthy fats and carbs. So in the interest of science yours truly is testing Dr Perlmutter's diet plan to see if I feel any better on this diet. Not that I feel sick mind you but I am interested to see if the diet brings about any positive changes in my health. Especially the mild to moderate headaches I have had for years several times per week.
So far the gluten free diet plan that includes many things I have eaten sparingly previously has gone well. I have been eating eggs two to three times a week instead of oatmeal and toast for breakfast. I have brought butter back into my diet more than once a week, and have eaten a bit more meat than usual. I have noticed a decline in the occurrence of headaches and digestion has been better with a few exceptions.
It does help that gluten free products are gaining space in grocery stores so I'm not having much trouble staying gluten free. The only time I ate any gluten I know of is at dinner in Denver last week on of the items on my plate was cauliflower with a bread crumb topping that I was able to scrape off mostly.
In the near future I'll be posting gluten free recipes that I aim to make attractive to those who need to avoid gluten as well as those who don't. It will be interesting to see how far this gluten free diet goes as research uncovers the truth about gluten in our diets. After all you can't believe everything you read. Remember when margarine was healthy!
To start out my gluten free recipes I give you a cream of asparagus soup that even if you can tolerate gluten you will love this simple yummy soup. It came out great in testing using 2% milk, but if you use whole milk it's even more rich and tasty.
Gluten Free Cream of Asparagus Soup
1/4 cup chopped onion
3/4 cup chopped celery
2 cups water
1 cup 1/2 inch diced peeled red potato
14 ounces fresh asparagus cut in 1 inch lengths, see note
1 1/2 cups milk, 2% or whole
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon ground white pepper
optional, 1 vegetable bullion cube, or chicken bullion
In a 2 1/2 to 3 quart pot sauté onion and celery in 1/2 cup of the water for seven minutes stirring once or twice. If you have never done this water method of sautéing, don't worry as it's easy.
Add the rest of the water, potato, and salt/ bullion if using and bring to a boil. As soon at it reaches a boil reduce heat and simmer for seven minutes covered.
Add asparagus, and white pepper, cover and cook for ten to twelve minutes covered stirring once halfway through.
Turn off heat and add milk. If using a tabletop blender, carefully add soup and blend in two batches if necessary. I prefer to use an immersion blender and blend it on the stove top. If eating soon, reheat to just a simmer and serve.
Serves four.
One pound of asparagus with the tough end cut off will yield about 14 ounces of tender asparagus.
If using a vegetable bullion cube or chicken bullion cube cut salt in half to 1/4 teaspoon.
Here is another fast and healthy recipe from my kitchen to yours. It must be Spring because daylight savings time kicks in tonight. Not to mention it's sunny and warm out today too! Pretty soon us vegie gardeners will be outside planting lettuce, beets, kale, peas, cabbage, and broccoli. Broccoli is one of my favorite healthy green vegetables to eat. I like it in stir frys, salads, casseroles, just steamed, and in soup. I have been thinking of making up a recipe for a gluten free cream of broccoli soup for all the gluten intolerant folks out there to enjoy. Most cream of broccoli soups contain roux, which contains flour. I figured that if I cooked potatoes with the broccoli it would thicken the soup quite well. So into the Fast and Furious test Kitchen I went and developed this gluten free cream of broccoli soup that so many gluten free folks can eat. You don't have to be gluten intolerant to like this soup. The rest of you can give this a try too! It's fast and easy, as well as healthy. You can try it with coconut milk to make it a Vegan soup, or lowfat milk to make it low fat and healthier. Please leave comments so I can continue to improve my recipes. Without your input I don't know how well the recipe works in your kitchen.
Cream of Broccoli Potato Soup
1 1/4 pounds fresh broccoli
1/1/4 pounds russet or Yukon Gold potatoes
2 1/2 to 3 cups vegetable stock
1 3/4 to 2 cups milk
1 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon ground white pepper
Optional, 4 ounces of grated colby or mild cheddar cheese
Cut potatoes into 1/2 inch cubes and put in a bowl of cool water until needed.
Trim broccoli and stems. Cut tops into golfball size florets and chop the stems.
In a 4-5 quart pot with a lid bring potatoes to a boil in vegetable stock. When it comes to a boil reduce to a simmer and cook for 10 minutes covered.
Add broccoli stems and cook for 4 minutes covered simmering.
Add broccoli tops and cook 4 minutes. Stir and cook 2 more minutes or until potatoes and broccoli are just tender.
Remove from heat and add salt, pepper, and lesser amount of milk and blend in a table top blender or use an immersion blender.
Taste and add milk, salt or pepper if needed.
Return to heat and bring it to a simmer just before serving.
Top with grated colby or mild cheddar.
Serves four.
Vegetable stock varies a lot, and you might not need to add any salt depending on how salty your stock is. I used a recipe from the Moosewood cookbook for my vegetable stock.
Chicken stock can be used also.
This can be a very thick soup or thin depending on how much stock and milk you use.
I am but the conduit from which many chefs and cooks speak through me in the language of great food. Yes it was great learning old school cooking from my mom, grandmother and aunt, but I really put together my cooking skills when I worked at over thirty restaurants. I am so fortunate to have some natural ability with food, and cooking but the most important aspect of my culinary journey is my passion for learning more about cooking great food. Without all the great cooks and chefs that have taught me over the years you would not benefit much from my writing as I could not have done this on my own. Unless that is all you wanted to read about was scrambled eggs, and hamburger recipes. That is not to say I was a pushover when working as a young cook! I was a young lad of 27 when I worked at the famous Brown Palace in Denver. It was there that I told the sous chef I thought the head chef's mornay sauce sucked. He jokingly asked me if I'd tell that to the head chef to which I replied "of course". Mind you this was a kitchen where to get to sous chef status you had to be working there for about 25 years back then in 1982, and the chef had been there for over 40 years.
I continued to move around the restaurant world and ended up working at the Trans Alpen a restaurant no longer in business where I cooked with a couple of young chefs from the CIA(Culinary Institute of America). One of them went to the New York State school, and the other went to the Napa, California school. These two chefs were constantly in a friendly competition to see who was better. I learned so much from these fun yound chefs while working there. Lessons like every main course needed a sauce of some type to bring life to the plate and palate. The visual as well as the taste factor must be considered before devising our specials for the night. I still remember well some of the dishes we cooked there.
For learning soups my best teacher was the US Coast Guard where I was required to make a soup from scratch every day for over two years. When you live with a crew of 30 guys day in, and day out you don't give them the same soup too often. I learned that soups should change with the seasons, and I cooked up hearty soups and stews for the cold winter months, and lighter soups for summer. After more than two years of this soup journey I felt like I could make soup in my sleep! Along the way I became enamored with soup and it's ability to make people happy on a cold day. With this very chilly winter we are having I have developed more new soups than ever to add to my original recipes database. This sweet potato soup is already one of my favorites this winter. It's fast, simple and healthy as well as delish! I hope you give it a try and please leave comments on how it turned out.
2 tablespoons olive oil oil, or garlic infuse olive oil
1/2 cup minced onions
1 cup chopped celery
1-2 4 inch Portabella mushroom caps with the stem removed
2 pounds sweet potatoes peeled and cut into 1 inch cubes
2 1/2-3 cups water
1 1/2- 2 cups milk, or coconut milk for Vegan
1/4 teaspoon thyme
3/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon ground white pepper
optional, omit salt and use 1 1/2 teaspoons Better Than Bullion chicken base
Sautee onions in a 3 1/2 or 4 quart cast iron pot on medium low heat for 5-7 minutes in 1 tablespoon of the oil then add celery and cook for 5-7 more minutes stirring often.
While onions and celery are cooking using a checkerboard like pattern lay the mushroom cap gil side down on a cutting board and cut the Portabella mushroom into 1/4 inch pieces. They will be about an inch long, but that's ok.
Sautee mushroom pieces in a saute pan with a bit of salt (1/4 teaspoon), white pepper (a dash), 1 tablespoon oil, and thyme if using. Stir mushrooms every 2-3 minutes and cook until well done, and a little crispy. This takes about 12-15 minutes.
When celery and onions are soft add sweet potatoes, 1/2 teaspoon salt, 1/4 teaspoon white pepper and water. Increase heat to medium high and when it comes to a boil, lower heat, cover and cook at a simmer until sweet potatoes are soft(about 15 minutes).
When potatoes are soft turn heat off and add milk. Use the full 2 cups if you want a thinner soup. Blend with an immersion blender or tabletop blender until nicely pureed.
Stir in Portabellas and taste to see if it needs more salt, or pepper. If it's too thick just thin it out with some more water or milk.
Serves four.
Note: 1/2 cup chopped carrots added with the sweet potatoes are a nice addition.
Grocery list
2 pounds sweet potatoes
fresh celery
yellow onion
1-2 portabella mushroom caps
milk, either cow's milk or coconut
Optional, Better Than Bullion chicken base
'Tis the Season to Eat Smarter
Here we are at the start of the new year and already the television and radio campaigns are hitting us with weight loss, exercise commercials and stories. I heard a story on the radio this morning on bariatric surgery for those who just can't seem to lose weight. That is one serious way to try and lose weight stapling your stomach! Surgery is not something to take lightly. I have watched the television show The Biggest Loser enough to have seen interviews with some of the contestants that had this type of surgery to lose weight. It didn't work for any of them or they wouldn't be on the show.
I was over weight(topping out at 190) for about ten years towards the end of my twenty year cooking career and was lucky to be able to figure out what worked for me without having to try something as radical as surgery. I'm no expert on nutrition, but from my experience I can tell you it's not rocket science to eat healthy. I dropped most of my thirty pounds in 60 days from eating a low fat, low sugar diet of my own design, and ate that way for the next two years. I kept off the weight and felt great!
I'll share the key points of my current eating and exercise program with you to see if it can help those of you who might want to lose weight and feel better.
Eat three meals a day at the same time each day.
Eat low fat, low processed foods, or non processed foods.
Don't eat past 6 pm, or whatever time is four hours before going to bed.
Exercise at least thirty minutes per day six days per week. Walking or bike riding is great!
Eat enough that you don't feel deprived.
Have a splurge meal once every week or two, or splurge snack.
Eat lots of vegetables and beans.
Eat an apple a day.
Consult with a doctor, and or nutritionist.
See yourself as being thinner, and enjoy the ride.
After I got off this strict way of eating about twenty years ago I gained some of the weight back, but kept refining my eating habits until just three years ago fine tuned my eating to where I don't have to worry about gaining weight again. Now I eat a diet of about 80% vegetarian/vegan meals to 20% meals with meat. Most of the meat I eat is wild salmon from Alaska, a sustainable healthy food source. I also eat chicken, and lamb two to four times per month.
Most of the recipes I have developed here on my blog are to reflect what has worked for me. I believe they are simple, healthy recipes that will work for you too. After all, the recipes reflect 42 years of cooking experience! What's most important after the fact that they are healthy is they taste great too! Give it a try and see if this is the year you start eating healthier, and feeling better using my Fast and Furious Cook recipes.
Here is one of my favorite soups for you to start the new year right. It's a black bean soup recipe I developed that takes about 25-30 minutes start to finish that tastes great and is good for you too! Please give it a try and leave your comments. Feel free to share with family and friends too.
Fast and Furious Cook's Black Bean Soup
1 tablespoon olive oil, or water, see note
1/2 cup yellow onion diced small
1/2 cup celery diced small
1-2 teaspoons minced fresh garlic
1 teaspoon ground cumin
2 cups chicken or vegetable stock
2 cups cooked black beans
salt and pepper
In a two quart pot saute onion, celery and garlic on medium low heat stirring often for five minutes.
Add cumin and continue cooking on medium low heat for three more minutes stirring often.
Add stock and increase heat to medium high while stirring well. Bring to a simmer and continue cooking for five minutes.
Add beans and simmer for five to seven minutes.
Using an immersion blender puree the soup, or a tabletop blender will do.
Taste the soup and add salt and pepper if needed.
Serves two but is easily doubled.
For a lower fat version use 1/4 inch of water instead of oil when sauteeing the onions, celery and garlic.
Top with a bit of steamed rice or quinoa if you like. I used a quarter cup of cooked quinoa in mine.
Thanksgiving is upon us, and definitely one of my favorite holidays. After all how can you not love a holiday that is about family and friends gathering to share good food and conversation? I am always amused by the many new recipes for Thanksgiving standards that come out each year, however I usually stick to the same old roast turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy, green bean casserole, sweet potato casserole and cranberry sauce. Why do I stick to the usual? Because I only eat this specific meal once per year and I know from over twenty five years in a row of cooking Thanksgiving meals what taste best to me.
That is not to say I don't appreciate some new ideas for Thanksgiving favorites, because I do. I just cook up the new recipes I find afterwards, or for Christmas dinner. But to each his/her own and by all means learn new recipes for your holidays if that's what churns your butter.
What I plan on blogging about over the next several weeks is the healthy meals you should be eating in between these big, rich meals that are coming at us for the next five weeks. I too will be eating the good stuff when it comes my way at parties and family get togethers, and will want to eat light healthy meals in between so I come out the other end of this five week food fest feeling good.
One of my favorite meals growing up in Colorado was a good leg of lamb, and the stew that usually followed the next day made from the leftovers. It qualifies as comfort food in my book. Today I give you my original Fast and Furious Cook lamb stew recipe that is very easy to make, delicious, and fairly healthy too. I have tested it this last week to be made in the crock pot and it came out great! During the next five weeks when you need a hearty, healthy easy to cook stew I hope you give this one a try and please leave comments on how it turned out.
Have a great Thanksgiving!
1 oz dried mushrooms, chanterelles or morel
2 cups water
1 pound lamb stew meat
1/3 cup flour
1 tablespoon oil
1 medium sized yellow onion chopped
3 stalks celery sliced into 1/2 inch pieces
1 clove minced fresh garlic
1 8 oz package white button mushrooms, sliced
1/2 cup of dry red wine(Cabernet Sauvignon)
1 carrot sliced into 1/2 inch pieces
1-2 teaspoons Lawry's seasoning salt
1 teaspoon dried thyme, optional
*Soak dried mushrooms in water for at least 10 minutes.
Dredge lamb pieces in flour and set aside. In a saute pan or enamel cast iron pot cook onion, garlic and celery in half of the oil on medium heat for five minutes stirring often. Add fresh mushrooms and cook stirring for another five minutes. Pour into crockpot, then wipe pan/pot clean and brown lamb in remaining oil on medium to medium high heat. Add lamb, wine, mushrooms, seasoning salt and carrots to crockpot and cook for 4-5 hours on high, or 6-8 hours on low heat. If you are able to stir it halfway through the cooking time it is helpful but not necessary.
Serve over a cup of steamed brown rice, or your favorite pasta.
Serves four.
Dried mushrooms vary in the amount of grit hiding in the nooks and crannies. One way I have found to reduce the grit is to soak the mushrooms in a 2 cup pyrex measuring cup and stirring them gently before using them to allow the grit to settle on the bottom. I then take the floating mushrooms from the top of the water and add them to the dish I'm cooking and carefully pour the mushroom water into the dish leaving the last couple of tablespoons of liquid on the bottom to throw out with the grit that has settled there.
You can skip the fresh mushrooms and double the amount of dried mushrooms if you like.
If you can't buy dried mushrooms in your local grocery store consider ordering them online as they don't cost much to ship and at $5.99 for one ounce of chanterelles most people can afford that price. Here is a link to my favorite source: http://www.thewoodlandsatphillips.com/dried-mushrooms-1/
It's good to be back home and in the groove. My 10 days in Spain gave me many ideas for recipe development that I'll work on in the weeks to come. One of my favorite dishes was the ever present breakfast and or tapas dish the "tortilla". It's a simple preparation of potatoes and eggs served at room temperature or warm. What I like about it is that you can add so many ingredients to this base recipe to come up with your own favorite way to eat it. At the resort where I was staying they served it with a side of a nice tomato garlic salsa that went great with it. I don't plan on eating this sort of thing every day, but would like to incorporate it into a special weekend type of breakfast food in the near future.
With the holiday upon us I will mainly focus on healthy recipes to counterbalance the good stuff most of us will indulge in during this feast a plenty few weeks. I do believe in eating healthy most of the time and splurging during Thanksgiving, Christmas, birthdays, etc. I tested a recipe from the Moosewood Restaurant Favorites cookbook I bought while visiting Ithaca, NY last September. For those of you not familiar with Moosewood they are a collective of owners running one of the best farm to table, mostly Vegan, and Vegetarian restaurants in the US. They have been around for forty years, a feat that is difficult to say the least, putting out inventive meals for those who love to eat healthy delicious food.
The recipe I tried out last night was the Navajo Stew, a lovely stew of sweet potatoes, onions, bell peppers, beans and tomato seasoned with ground cumin and coriander.
I don't own many cookbooks or use them much, but this one is fast becoming one of my favorites.
I actually followed the recipe closely, and only deviated a bit when adding Korean sweet potatoes to come up with four cups total as I was a little short using just regular sweet potatoes.
The result was a wonderful tasting, quite filling stew that was served with a side of whole grain baguette that satisfied and warmed us on a chilly dark night. I suspect one could use delicata, or butternut squash in this stew in place of sweet potatoes with good results. For those of you that want meat in a stew like this I believe it would be easy to add chicken, beef or pork at the beginning while sauteing the onions.
Navajo Stew
2 T olive oil
2 cups chopped onion
3 garlic cloves minced
1 t salt
1 red or green pepper seeded and chopped
1 T ground cumin seeds
2 t ground coriander seeds
4 cups peeled and cubed sweet potatoes(1 inch cubes)
2 cups water
one 15 oz can diced tomatoes
2 T canned chipolte peppers in adobo sauce
1/2 cup chopped cilantro
1 1/2 cups black or red beans rinsed and drained
1 cup fresh or frozen corn kernels(optional)
Warm the oil in a covered soup pot on low heat.
Add the onion, garlic, and salt, and cook about 10 minutes.
Stir in the bell peppers, cumin, and coriander and cook for a couple of minutes. Add the sweet potatoes and water, cover, and bring to a boil.
Reduce the heat and simmer for about 10 minutes covered or until the sweet potatoes are tender.
Meanwhile, puree the tomatoes, chipoltes, and cilantro in a blender.
When the vegetables are tender, stir in the tomato puree and the beans. Add corn, if you like.
Bring to a simmer, stirring occasionally.
Serving and menu ideas.
Top each serving with Cilantro-Yogurt Sauce(page 310), plain yogurt, or sour cream, or shredded Monterey Jack or cheddar cheese. Serve this stew with cornbread(see pages 283 and 284), flatbread, or tortilla chips. Also nice on rice.
Thanks to Moosewood for letting me share this great stew recipe.
Moosewood Inc copyright 2005 from Moosewood Restaurant Simple Suppers, published by Clarkson Potter.
It got down into the mid forties here last night and that means it's officially soup season. Even though I had to make soup every day for almost three years in the US Coast Guard I still love to make and eat soup. It's high on the list of comfort foods in taste and ease of cooking and re-heating. It invokes memories of mom's making soup for their children home from school sick watching TV with a tray to hold the soup and crackers close by. And memories of coming in from the cold to a steaming bowl of mushroom soup, or cream of tomato soup. Tops on the list of soups is chicken noodle soup, a soup that really does help cure a cold according to many.
There are so many types of soup from the chunky to the bisques, and creamy to clear.Or made from chicken, beef, and other type of stocks. There are soups made to start a meal, and soups made to be the meal. When it comes down to picking a soup that is hearty enough to make it a meal almost nothing beats chili. Served with crackers, tortillas or bread this is an American favorite. When I was living and working in Frisco, Colorado back in the 1980's I worked at The Moose Jaw and loved their chili recipe. I would eat a bowl of that great chili at least once per week in the winter time while at work. BTW, they are still open and celebrating 40 years in the same location, and run by the remaining member of four owners who bravely bought the place so long ago.
Fast forward to the present and there is a movement to make chili healthier, and with less meat. When the good folks at Phillips Mushrooms asked me to develop a recipe blending mushrooms with meat into a new kind of chili I was up to the task. After all I love mushrooms and chili so why not mix the two? This recipe is super healthy due to less meat and no added oil or fat. It is started by sauteing the onions, garlic, meat and mushrooms in water. If you have not tried this method of sauteing it's worth a try. With recipes like this most people would never guess it was made without sauteing in oil.
So when it gets cold where you are give this easy, healthy chili recipe a try and don't forget to pass it on. If you like it or have something to add please leave a comment.
Portobello Mushroom and Beef Chili
1/2 yellow or white onion diced
2-3 cloves fresh garlic minced
1/2 lb ground beef
1/2 lb portobellos cut into 1/2 cubes
1 15 ounce can tomato sauce
1 15 ounce can diced tomatoes
1 15 ounce can black beans
1 15 ounce can kidney beans
1 4.5 ounce can chopped green chilies
1 jalapeno minced, optional
2 teaspoons chili powder
1 teaspoon paprika
1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
1 teaspoon salt
Cook onions in a 3 12 quart cast iron enamel pot, or other heavy pot in just enough water to cover bottom by 1/2 inch on medium heat for 5 minutes stirring often.
Add mushrooms and beef and cook on medium high for 5 minutes, then reduce heat to medium cooking 5 more minutes.
Add tomatoes and sauce then stir in spices and salt. Add beans and bring to a simmer cooking for 20 minutes stirring about every 5 minutes uncovered.
Serves 4-6.
I use about a quarter cup of water to rinse the tomato cans with then pour into the chili so as not to waste what doesn't come out of the can easily.
Chili powders vary in flavor and spiciness so feel free to add or reduce accordingly. I used McCormick's chili powder for this recipe.
I like it hot and will add red pepper or jalapeno powder to kick it up.
I remember those days that I would spend hours cooking up some complicated recipe in restaurants or at home that would inevitably turn out well. Whether it was a classic French cake, or deboned and stuffed chicken hind quarters, with gravy made from home made chicken stock that cooked for 8 hours or more. I did not shy away from recipes that took a lot of time, but now it's a wonderful thing to embrace simplicity in cooking especially when you don't sacrifice taste in doing so. In this phase of my 42 years of cooking I love finding the simplest ways to prepare foods that taste great. It's not that I don't have the time to cook the complicated stuff. It's just that I have so many other things to do rather than spend hours cooking a meal that should only take 30 minutes.
With asparagus season in full swing here in the Mid Atlantic I have been cooking the lovely stalk once thought to be from the lily family often and in many ways. I've stir fried it with rice. I've simply steamed it. I've baked it with garlic infused olive oil, salt and pepper. And it's made many an appearance in green salads. My favorite invention of all my newly developed recipes has been the dairy free, chilled asparagus soup made with unsweetened almond milk. This one is so yummy, simple and so easy to make. Gone are the times where I would have used home made chicken stock for the base and half and half for creaminess. This soup needs no heavy calorie additions. The almond milk gives it a nice texture and the asparagus if treated right will hit you with it's distinctive wonderful fresh green flavor. You still have a few weeks of asparagus season so get to your local asparagus place, whether it's a farm stand or grocery store and give this one a try.
3 cups water
2 teaspoons salt
2 cup fresh asparagus cut into 1 inch lengths
1 1/4 unsweetened almond milk
1 tablespoon fresh oregano
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon Spike, optional
1 tablespoon chopped fresh chives, optional
In a 1 1/2 quart pot bring 3 cups water and 2 teaspoons salt to a boil. While water is heating wash asparagus and trim off the bottom tough part until you have about 2 cups cut in 1 inch lengths. Cook simmering for about 5-8 minutes depending on thickness of the asparagus then drain and rinse briefly in cold water. Add almond milk, oregano, salt and Spike, if using. Blend well in a table top blender or use an immersion blender. Chill for about an hour then serve with chopped chives on top.
Serves two but can doubled if needed.
Note: If you want a bit of a kick add 1/4 to 1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper.
I bought one pound of asparagus and ended up with a little over 2 cups after trimming the tough part off.
* You could probably use whole milk instead of almond milk and this would still turn out well.
Can't say that I have ever woke up with them bullfrogs on my mind, but I did wake up with butternut squash and Rory Gallagher the Irish blues legend on my mind today. And why did I wake up with these two completely different things on my mind? Bullfrog Blues was on my mind after a chat with my friend Bobby in Alaska who called me to hook me up with some Rory G songs on the internet. If you need a taste here is a link, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33Jaodra7AY&noredirect=1. This is a good morning maniac music type song to get you going.The butternut squash was on my mind due to a visit to the Home and Garden show in Timonium, Maryland yesterday where I sat through a 30 minute demo of Kitchen Craft cookware. I usually wouldn't do such a thing however it was at a point where my wife and I had seen just about everything, and had some time to spare to see what this whole "cooking without water" thing was about. It was very interesting especially the presenter's claim that you lose 70% of the vitamins and other good stuff when you cook vegies in water. The presenter made some good points on why to get rid of your aluminum cookware, and especially your teflon cookware. Not that I believed everything he said, but it's probably a good thing to dump the aluminum, which I have been doing in stages for about 15 years anyway. But I digress. The reason I had butternut squash on my mind was because the presenter made a good point on why to include it in your diet often, and I had a lovely butternut hanging out on my kitchen counter just waiting for inspiration on what to do with it. So today is the day it gets prepared, but before I get into that here's some good info on the nutritional benefits of butternut squash from www.wholeliving.com:
Nutrition Breakdown
Per 1 cup cooked, approximately 205 grams
82 kcal
Fat: 0.2 g
Vitamin A: 1,144 mcg = 163 percent* of DRI**
Vitamin B6: 0.3 mg = 20 percent of DRI
Vitamin C: 31 mg = 41 percent of DRI
Folate: 39 mcg = 10 percent of DRI
Potassium: 582 mg = 12 percent of DRI
Percentages are for women 31 to 50 years old who are not pregnant ** DRI, Dietary Reference Intake, is based on National Academy of Sciences' Dietary Reference Intakes, 1997 to 2004
You can probably see that it is full of good stuff for a body, but the best part is all the ways you can prepare it. I love butternut squash soup, or oven roasted butternut squash. It cooks up well with so many different types of herbs and spices from onion and garlic to cinnamon and ginger. You can cook it seasoned with Indian Curry, or your favorite steak seasoning. I will admit it is a challenge to peel a butternut squash, but most grocery stores sell it already cut into cubes for fast and easy preparation. For todays post I decided to do Butternut squash 3 ways using a 1 pound 2 ounce organic specimen. To make it a bit more interesting I'm going to make it in 3 ways that I have never seen or had before today so hang on, here we go.
#1 Curried Coconut Butternut Squash Soup
#2 Butternut Squash with Walnut Oil and Sage Tossed in Penne Pasta
#3 Butternut Squash and Celery Salad
I'm back at the laptop and done with the whirlwind Butternut project and quite pleased with the results. For the pasta and salad dish I oven roasted the squash all at once sparing me some time. While cutting up the squash I decided to try a new idea on roasting the seeds so I put the seeds from the squash in a small baking dish prepped with a quarter teaspoon of walnut oil and seasoned them with ground dried chipolte pepper powder and Lawrey"s Seasoning Salt. They came out great! The pasta dish was good, but would be better with the addition of mushrooms, or Italian sausage. I liked the way the salad turned out and will try it with dried tarragon next time to see if that's a better herb.
The soup however was the best of the bunch. It came out thick and rich tasting with just the right amount of curry. For you my dear readers since I usually only post one recipe per post I'll give you the soup recipe here today, and the rest will be re-tested for addition to my cookbook project. For you brave souls that try the Butternut Squash Soup please leave your comments. Bon Appetit until we meet/eat again.
Butternut Squash Soup with Coconut and Curry
1 tablespoon walnut oil, or canola oil
1/4 cup minced yellow onion
1/4 cup minced celery
1 cup sliced carrots
2 cups water
2 cups cubed butternut squash
1/2 teaspoon curry powder
1/2 teaspoon turmeric powder
1 can of coconut milk,(14 oz)
1 teaspoon Better Than Bullion Chicken Base, or 1 vegetable stock cube
salt and white pepper to taste, about 1/4 to 1/2 teaspoon each
Saute minced onions, and celery with oil in a 1 1/2 to 2 quart pot on medium low for 5 minutes stirring occasionally. Add carrots, squash, curry powder, turmeric, chicken base and water. Increase heat to medium high and cook covered until it starts simmering. Turn it down, stir, and continue to cook simmering until squash is cooked, about 12 to 15 minutes. Add coconut milk, salt and pepper then cook for about 3 more minutes. Turn off heat and blend with an immersion blender or table top blender until smooth. Serve with roasted squash seeds on top, or a small sprinkle of nutmeg.
Serves 4-6.
* Low fat coconut milk can be used.


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One of the most widely read modern poets, Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) first became known and respected with the publication of The Book of Hours, when he was in his twenties. He is now most famous for his Letters to a Young Poet, published during the same time, which continues to inspire generations of writers.
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i love tear it down im in that scene
i love jonas and demi, and introduncing me is realy cute but we have to admit the songs are not that got and in some cases camp rock 1 songs were better tanh camp rock 2
hehe That song is so adorable. I know it's cheesy, but his voice is so sweet in it and that's all that counts. xD haha
wouldn't change a thing, you're my favorite song, brand new day, introducing me and different summers.
Is Introducing Me sped up or is it supposed to be like that?
I like Introducing Me. I don't know why but it's cute.
"And if you wanna know, here it goes, gonna tell you. There's a part of me that shows, if you're close, gonna let you see everything."
i like it !
Like all of demi's and jb song hate Meghans mdots whatever his name is
haha he sings introducing me like he's f*cking nervous.
But i Love The Songs of this movie. They're better than the last one.
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I love them
"otherwise it smells like feet to me."
What lyrical genious wrote that?
dude, that part is funny.
hate it.
but absolutely LOVE demi lovato and jonas brothers. they are amazing , i love those people. so talented,funny and unique
nick has thing for feet. moon looks like a toenail. lol


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MOORHEAD (KFGO-AM) Former State Representative Morrie Lanning of Moorhead is pleased but not surprised that Minneapolis landed the 2018 Super Bowl.
As chief House author of the Viking Stadium bill two years ago, Lanning was a key player getting the legislation passed. He says while it was never a sure thing, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell told legislators that a new stadium would give Minneapolis "an inside track" for recruiting the Super Bowl.
Lanning, who retired after the 2012 session, said at the time that his reputation as a diplomatic leader was never more tested as he led the campaign to get the stadium bill okayed. He was threatened by e-mails and phone calls, criticized on blogs and snubbed by members of both parties.


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Part of Unit: Engine Fundamentals
Lesson Plan Overview / Details
This lesson is designed for entry level students to understand the four strokes of an engine and how a 4 stroke engine functions.
Lesson Time
- One class
- 55 Minutes
California's 2008 CTE Standards
- T.C.C3.1 Understand the operating principles of internal and external combustion engines.
- T.FS.11.0 Demonstration and Application
California Academic Content Standards (Reinforced)
Objectives and Goals
Students will understand the operating principles of internal and external combustion engines.
Activities in this Lesson
- Smoking tail pipe Hooks / Set
After the students are seated, ask the question, "Has anyone ever wondered why a car smokes?"
The lecture will be on intake, compression, power and exhaust, which are the four strokes of an engine and what happens in each stroke. The diagram shows all four strokes. The importance of each step will be tied in.
Resources and Materials
- 4 stroke cyl.gif [ View Image ] [ Download Original ] Here is a picture of an engine with the pistons moving within all 4 strokes.
- smoking car.jpg [ View Image ] [ Download Original ] Hare is a picture of a badly smoking car.
- 4 stroke cycle Lecture
This lesson is designed for entry level students to understand the four strokes of an engine and how a 4 stroke engine functions.
The engines of cars actually have multiple cylinders. The movement of the piston from the top of its travel to the bottom of its travel is called a stroke. Each cycle required to the air-fuel mixture has 4 strokes.
During the intake stroke, the piston is pulled down by the turning of the crankshaft, creating a vacuum above it.
The piston moves back up in the cylinder on the compression stroke, compressiing the air-fuel mixture. As the piston approaches the top of its travel, a spark ignites the mixture.
During the power stroke the burning fuel expands rapidly, forcing the piston to move back down in the cylinder. The exhaust valve opens as the piston approaches the bottom of its travel. This is so that burning gases can escape before the piston begins to move upwards in the cylinder again.
During the exhaust stroke the piston moves back up forcing any remainding exhaust form the cylinder through the open exhaust valve. As the crankshaft rotates, the piston goes back down in the cylinder as the 4 stroke cycle repeats itself.
- Students working Projects
The student is allowed to explain step-by-step the four strokes of an engine.
Students will be evaluated on their performance test in which each student is given 2 minutes to explain the four strokes of an engine.
Individual students will be directed through a step-by-step process. Actual practice will come after the demonstration.
Resources and Materials
- Teacher uses this picture to demonstrate all the functions of the 4 stroke engine,including the functions of the intake and exhaust valves, pistion and spark plugs.. [ View Image ] [ Download Original ]
- Students will use the handout as a guide to explain in detail the concept of the four stroke engine. [ View Image ] [ Download Original ]
- Assessment Types:
- Projects, Demonstrations, Observations,
Re-emphasize the importance of a step-by-step process. Students are put in groups of 4 to allow for peer teaching. Students in groups are asked to explain to each other how the 4 stroke engine works and to tell the difference with each stroke. After this is done I inform students that the next lesson will be on the cooling system.


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Rotonda Villa Rental Photos and Description
Villa, 3 Bedrooms + Other (See Description), 2.5 Baths, (Sleeps 6)
As soon as you walk through our front doors you will say 'Wow'. That's what happened to us. We would like to share it with you.
Entering our villa you will immediately experience the open feeling of the high ceilings, brightness, space and airiness. Furnishings are light and bright Florida Style and comfortable. Immediately the Great Room greets you and welcomes you to walk in and look through the sliding glass doors to the huge Lanai and pool. There are no pillars to spoil the view.
Back inside, the formal dining area is another bright spot by the window, to the left of the entry doors, and seats 6 comfortably.
Beyond the dining area is the huge kitchen with loads of counter space, including a large center island, and loads of cabinets containing everything you need in a kitchen. A Double Wall oven, separate cooktop, large fridge/freezer with ice-maker, and all the small appliances and utensils you want are there. There is plenty of room for more than one cook at a time !!
Adjacent to the kitchen is the 'nook' or casual dining area with table and 6 chairs. The Nook has sliding glass doors to the Lanai/pool also.
Beyond the nook is the Living Room which is comfortably furnished and has a large flat screen T.V. for your viewing pleasure. The Living room has sliding glass doors to the Lanai/pool area.
The Lanai is very large and has a table and 4 padded chairs as well as 2 reclining chairs with ottomans and 2 sunloungers. A gas barbecue is for guests to use to enjoy the outdoors for cooking as well as relaxing. The pool has solar heating and also optional electric heat for the few cool times of the year. The lanai is surrounded by shrubs and offers privacy. Enjoy the tranquility the villa offers inside and out.
The 2-car garage with remote controlled doors contains 2 adult bicycles, beach chairs and beach umbrella for your use and plenty of room for your cars. Door from garage leads in to the utility room where you will find a large capacity Washer and Dryer as well as a sink. Iron and Ironing board available there too.
The Master bedroom is beautiful with high ceilings and is light and airy with sliding glass doors to the Lanai/pool. It has a King size bed and flat panel T.V
The Master bathroom is next to the bedroom beyond the walk -in closets. It has a Roman Shower, separate tub, two separate vanities and separate toilet.
Bedroom 2 is on the other side of the house and is furnished with a Queen size bed, flat panel T.V., dresser, bedside cabinet and is tastefully decorated.
There is a walk-in closet in this bedroom.
Bathroom 2 is next to the bedrooms 2 and 3. It has a large shower and single vanity.
Bedroom 3 is furnished with Twin Beds and also has a flat panel T.V., and a dresser and bedside cabinet. A walk -in closet is in this bedroom too. All bedrooms have ceiling fans.
Bathroom 3 is accessible from the pool area and also from the Master bedroom. It has a vanity and toilet. All bathrooms have hairdryers.
Our management company offers up-to-date guides full of ideas for good dining, shopping, events, beaches and places of interest to everyone.
The Rotonda offers tennis courts, 6 golf courses, safe walking and biking and abundant wildlife. Enjoy the lakes, canals and the relaxing atmosphere all around you.
The villa has wireless internet, cable T.V. and free nationwide telephone.
Keywords: Luxurious and Comfortable Villa First Time Available
- Suitability:
- Minimum Age Limit for Renters
- pets not allowed
- wheelchair accessible
- non smoking only
About HAZEL AT PLACE IN THE SUN, ENGLEWOOD, FL
We are New Englanders. We love the Northeast in the summer and Fall but not in the Winter !! Florida is our second home and offers us (and you) the warmth and sunshine we crave. Originally from England, sunshine is very high on our list of vacation 'musts'. We are new owners of this lovely villa and are happy to share it with you and know you will fall in love with it too.
HAZEL AT PLACE IN THE SUN, ENGLEWOOD, FL purchased this villa in 2011
Why HAZEL AT PLACE IN THE SUN, ENGLEWOOD, FL chose Rotonda
As soon as you walk into our home you will say 'Wow' ! That's what happened to us and is why we decided to buy our dream home in Rotonda in Southwest Florida. The area is so superb in all ways. The climate, the people, so much to do and see and enjoy or just do nothing at all. We have travelled considerably but this is the best we have found.
What makes this villa unique
It is relaxingly quiet, unless you want more. And more is all around you within easy reach. Beaches are the best you can find in Florida and not crowded. We are close to Sarasota for theater, shopping, shows, arts, restaurants and events. Fort Myers less than an hour away. Easy day trips to islands, nature preserves, orange groves, cattle farms, shopping malls, island hopping, waterfront dining, etc., etc.


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While hiking down a volcanic mountainside in the Ometepe islands, an ecological jewel in Nicaragua, I ran into a pig staring at me in the middle of the dirt road. It first smelled me and then walked towards me. I walked backwards, and it came forwards. I started running, and it started running after me. How odd it was. Locals, who saw me struggling with this pig, pulled it away from me. They also told me that women who got bitten by pigs became permanently infertile. They thought that the pig, which chased after me, was a male with erupting hormones. As a kid, I had been chased by my Mom and by dogs, but I'd never thought I would be chased by a pig in my life. That pig must have been quite a social animal. If I had refreshingly appealing aromas, I may have attracted a large enough number of pigs to feed a whole community in the Ometepe islands. Thinking of my "pig magnet" time in Nicaragua, I am making aromatic Nicaraguan citrus chicken with mint leaves in my California kitchen today.
First, I preheat some extra virgin olive oil and sauté 4 garlic cloves and 1 onion. Then I add 8 pieces of drumsticks to the pot and brown them. Next, I add 6 chopped roma tomatoes (about 2 cups) and juice of 2 oranges and 2 limes. Then, I add 2 cups of rice and 2 cups of water and bring it to boil. Subsequently, I season with 1 Tablespoon paprika, 1 Tablespoon sea salt and two dozen mint leaves. Then, I simmer with the cover until chicken and rice are cooked. Before serving, I accentuate the dish with some mint leaves and lime.
I am pairing it with a 2010 Sobone Estate Old Vine Zinfandel from Amador county in California. A blend of 97% Zinfandel and 3% Petit Syrah, this young wine was aged in old French and American oak until Fall of this year. This full-bodied dry red wine is jammy and has soft tannin like beaujolais nouveau. It is a wonderful choice for braised chicken and rice intensely flavored with citrus, mint and paprika. Good acidity and roundness of the wine makes it great to pair with the refreshing and tender Nicaraguan chicken dish, just like mint and lime softens the flavor of rum in mojito. Enjoy the recipe and wine pairing. Happy cooking.


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Acadia National Park is a National Park located in the U.S. state of Maine. It reserves much of Mount Desert Island, and associated smaller islands, off the Atlantic coast. Originally created as Lafayette National Park in 1919, the oldest National Park east of the Mississippi River, it was renamed Acadia in 1929.
The area first was inhabited by the Wabanaki people.
In the fall of 1604, Samuel de Champlain observed a high-notched island composed of seven or eight mountains rising to bare-rock summits from slopes of birch, fir, and pine. Over four centuries later, the area remains essentially the same.
The park is home to some 40 different species of mammalian wildlife. Among these are red and gray squirrels, chipmunks, white-tailed deer, moose, beaver (Castor canadensis), porcupine, muskrats, foxes, coyote, bobcats, and black bears. Many other marine species have been observed in the surrounding area and waters.
Excavations of old Indian sites in the Mount Desert Island region have yielded remains of the native mammals. Bones of wolf, beaver, deer, elk, Gray seal (Halichoerus grypus), the Indian dog, and the extinct Sea Mink (Neovison macrodon), as well as large numbers of raccoon, lynx, wolf, muskrat, and deer. Although beaver were trapped to extinction on the island, two pairs of beaver that were released in 1920 by George B. Dorr at the brook between Bubble Pond and Eagle Lake have repopulated it. The large fire in 1947 cleared the eastern half of the island of its coniferous trees and permitted the growth of aspen, birch, alder, maple and other deciduous trees which enabled the beaver to thrive.
Species that used to inhabit the island include the mountain lion (or puma) and the gray wolf. It is thought that these predators have been forced to leave the area due to the dramatic decrease in small prey and proximity to human activity.
What is the origin of "Acadia"?
Acadia probably stems from a name given to the area by the explorer, Giovanni Verrazano, when he sailed by in 1524. The shoreline reminded him of a part of Greece named Arcadia. *NPS
Trails & Sites
Bass Harbor LighthouseAcadia National Park
Beech Cliffs LoopAcadia National Park
Beech Mountain Loop 1Acadia National Park
Beech Mountain Loop 2Acadia National Park
Beehive Trail via Bowl TrailAcadia National Park
Cadillac Mountain North RidgeAcadia National Park
Cadillac Mountain South RidgeAcadia National Park
Cadillac Mountain Summit LoopAcadia National Park
Cadillac Mountain West FaceAcadia National Park
Canada Cliff LoopAcadia National Park
Champlain Mountain North RidgeAcadia National Park
Champlain Mountain South RidgeAcadia National Park
Gorge PathAcadia National Park
Gorham Mtn Trail via Cadillac CliffsAcadia National Park
Great HeadAcadia National Park
Jordan CliffsAcadia National Park
Jordan Pond LoopAcadia National Park
Ocean PathAcadia National Park
Ship Harbor Nature TrailAcadia National Park
South Bubble via Bubbles Divide TrailAcadia National Park


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Collection The Library of Congress Celebrates the Songs of AmericaShow Featured Items
El beso! = The kiss
Sheet Music. print | 1 score | From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1820-1860 (Microfilm M 3106) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (Additional Physical Form). In ...
- Contributor: George Willig - Blessner, Gustave
- Original Format: Notated Music
- Date: 1842


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