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What Do You Eat To Recover From Food Poisoning?
After several days of severe food poisoning, we finally have the will to eat again. (Yes, this was the same weekend we were battling grain weevils – fun times!) A few nibbles of toast, a spoonful of rice ... it may be tough to get excited about food but it's important to nourish the body with something. What do you eat while recovering from food poisoning?
When food-borne illnesses lead to diarrhea or vomiting, one of the most important aspects of recovery is replacing lost fluids and salt. The National Institutes of Health recommends mild foods like broth, soup, fruit juices, soft fruits, vegetables, and liquid solutions like Pedialyte, and against eating foods high in dairy, fat, fiber, and sugar.
Another recommended course is the BRAT diet – bananas, rice, applesauce, toast. Bland foods like potatoes, crackers, and cooked carrots may also be gentle on the stomach. We often turn to plain congee, although this time the only thing we wanted was instant mashed potatoes (lapsed locavore alert!) and flat ginger ale.
Is there anything you prefer to eat and drink while recovering from food poisoning?
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I once had food poisoning for almost a solid month while outside the U.S. I love oatmeal with extra milk for an extra meal, and vitamin water so that all the liquid you can manage to get in also has some extra electrolytes and nutrients in it.
Also a good home remedy for food poisoning is to drink a shot of apple cider vinegar straight.
Congee and homemade chicken broth.
My mom always pushed gingerale during those times of recovery. Now I make ginger tea instead.
I crave saltines; something that I rarely have in the house anymore. :(
Nothing!!!! Once I am starting to feel normal again I resume regular eating...
when I had stomache flu, my husband was drinking soy milk, and I instantly thought- "want!"; (all other food was the opposite).
it did help.
so, my advice is to look at foods, see if anything appeals.
My guilty pleasure food of uber-processed, frozen chicken patties (Weaver is my favorite, but Tyson's are decent, and I haven't tried Perdue's yet) I have discovered is fantastic for when you can't eat anything else.
Also, Pennsylvania Dutch noodles with the tiniest bit of butter or margarine is good too. And yogurt! All that good bacteria will help you straighten yourself out.
I too want what's appealing last week when I was sick all I wanted was beer. I have no idea why but after a day of drinking gatorade and a cheeseburger I had a bottle of wine and felt great even the next day. Though now I'm battling an awful cold and cough combo but oh well maybe I need more wine!
I had food poisoning last year and did not eat at all for about a day, then I stuck with plain, good ciabbata bread toast for a day; then I just had to have vegetarian hot-n-sour soup. I crave it whenever I'm sick - stomach, head cold, whatever.
Ugh. So sorry for you. Okayu (Japanese version of congee, but even plainer), miso soup (for the salt), green tea, oranges. Very dull, very plain, very decent. I know it will get me back on my feet. I like my oatmeal sweet, and that doesn't seem to help at all.
One thing I've found to really help recover is Stabilized Oxygen drops. There are several brands on the market and most health food stores will have it. Once you start feeling like you can hold something down, then I pretty much agree with the congee and chicken broth post from earlier (ginger tea was a good idea as well). Slow and easy is the best rule to start back eating.
BRAT (bananas, rice, applesauce, toast) diet with plain yogurt to rebuild gut flora. assuming you don't have allergies to anything listed, it's the best option possible, really...
Agree with cmcinnyc above - congee aka rice gruel and falnfenix suggestion about yogurt for intestinal flora is a good one as well - although I have found that the flora pills that the pharmacy has in their fridge work better.
Congee has an appeal to me in a cultural sense - it probably fills more bellies worldwide each morning and any other food item.
BRAT the first day with some juices, ginger chews if I feel gacky after eating. Next day yogurt, pasta with butter, or pancakes with syrup to test the waters. Oh, and keep gas tabs or anise tea on hand to combat the GID that can result on the day your intestines kick back on...
Food poisoning is a total bummer. The lining of the gut needs to heal, so bland foods are best. It is also essential to avoid dairy for 72 hrs after the last "episode" of sickness because the damaged lining can't process it.
BRAT diet is good. You need some electrolytes too. There are online recipes for DIY gatorade or pedialyte for those who would rather avoid all the HFCS and coloring.
Feel better!
At least in relation to the treatment of diarrhea, the BRAT diet is no longer supported by medical research, as it's easy to miss out on needed vitamins and nutrients and shows no reduction in duration of symptoms. Skipping caffeine is the main research supported finding.
Best thing is to make sure you're well hydrated with electrolyte containing beverages and eat whatever will make you happier!
Homemade chicken broth, with or without egg noodles, depending on how the stomach is handling it. Purple Gatorade (horrible stuff, I know). Always some form of potato either baked or mashed.
Coconut water, nori rice cakes, yogurt, clear soups and broths. Then, when I'm feeling up to it, a veggie and cheese Publix sub.
I've never been poisoned food...
not that I know at least *-)
Ugh, what tragically perfect timing. I've been fighting a nasty stomach bug for the past three days. Finally feeling a touch better today but haven't held much down.
Yesterday all I wanted was Panda black licorice- it stayed down so I've kept eating it. I also had miso soup, and this morning toast with PB and honey and some Jelly Belly sport beans that I usually use for electrolytes on my long runs. Lots of water and club soda mixed with homemade ginger syrup.
I am all about the brown rice porridge made with green tea and nori when my stomach is feeling off. Homemade "instant" miso soup balls are another go to item for me when I can't be up and about long enough to figure out porridge.
The BRAT diet was recommended in the past because it helped stop diarrhea; that is because rice and bananas are both big constipators. Rice is so difficult to digest, it slows down your gut -- it's put me in the hospital twice with an intestinal blockage, which is why I know this (needless to say, I cannot eat rice, which makes me feel very deprived!!).
We eat plain pasta (well, no sauce, or anything too challenging), toast, applesauce, a simple broth with little pasta stars, yoghurt (the kind with fruit), cookies...
Don't know about food poisoning, but aftwer stomach flu, rice topped with plain yogurt, sprinkled with salt. This is also what we feed our dog when she is having intestinal issues, btw.
my go to meal is a thick piece of pre-buttered bread toasted in the toaster oven and a poached egg.
I just got over food poisoning, and after that, soup was my best friend. It took a long time for my system to recover, and I found that small meals of soup interspersed with other plain foods helped my stomach considerably.
I recently had some bad shrimp. Gruesome. When I was on the mend I had dry cheerios, rice in broth, a lot of applesauce because cold felt good. Bananas are gross. Also had gingerale, but only the Vernor's brand that you get in Detroit.
My husband and I had salmonella from a wedding once. It was the WORST food poisoning we've ever experienced. It hits like a giant wave about 24-28 hours after ingestion, and lasts between 5-7 days. On day 4, we were coherent enough to try and do a little web research and saw that yogurt is about the only thing out there that helps the salmonella get out of the system. Our neighbor (read: savior) went to the store to get us some, and within about 2 hours of eating a couple of cups each, we were feeling drastically better. I had major gut issues that I'm treated for, and even with my gut problems, it only took me another 24 hours to recover at the time. My husband was nearly 100% within about 12 hours of yogurting. Never would have thought yogurt would have SUCH an impact--we figured it would help get all that good stuff back in the system, but we certainly didn't think it would end up being a miracle cure.
For other general food poisoning issues, we stick to the brat/bland diet. It really depends on what kind of symptoms we're having. If we're throwing up a lot, obviously we stick to things that replenish our fluids. If it is just a back end issue, we eat things that are easy to digest, mild, and only eat small quantities at a time so we don't overload our system. With all my gut problems, I get sick about once a month with food issues, so we have a constant supply of broth, instant mashed potatoes (gasp!), and other standbys.
my mother always swore by the BRAT diet and pedialyte when we were kids; on the second day, when the toast and bananas were held down ok, she would serve us pastina (little teeney tiny pasta) with a little bit of butter. Pastina was always her answer for a wonky tummy, too.
saltines and gingerale. Once I start to feel a bit better I like to put honey on the saltines. Cinnamon toast, or minute rice cooked in chicken broth are also good options.
All I could eat was popsicles and I think they saved my life. At least my sanity.
Plain brown rice with a little bit of butter.
Vernors, a ginger ale from Detroit, nothing else will do - flat and warm. And either saltines or graham crackers
Chicken stock with tons of matchstick-cut fresh ginger and a handful of green onions. Lots of oolong and pu-erh tea. Salads composed entirely of citrus (slices of oranges, grapefruit, and a small amount of lime). Ginger beer.
I can't do bland after food poisoning. I know I should but I can't. :(
Oh how I miss Vernors!... I agree with the coconut water votes and saltine crackers. I start by adding a splash of coconut water to a glass of water and sip it. If that stays down, I keep adding more coconut to the glass, until it's half & half. It has isotonic properties that helps re-hydrate your body if your losing a lot of fluids (It's also great for hangover). Then I slowly move on to yogurt with it's culturally rich friends ;) and salty boiled or scrambled eggs but not necessarily at the same meal.
Last month I was invaded by some aliens... uggh *shudder* it was hideous. The only thing that helped was what I'm calling a Chocolate Banana Lassi http://theworldaccordingtoeggface.blogspot.com/2011/01/alien-invasion.html soy milk, banana, yogurt, pudding mix, and I added almond meal. It was thicker than a shake, thinner than pudding.
Congee with slivers of ginger.
Ramen, ramen and more ramen. I want the cheap kind, 10 packages for $1. The more MSG, the better. I figure as long as I'm eating something I can forgo my usual attempts to eat fresh only.
porridge or chicken noodle soup.
Basically nothing until you can even consider food. Then some bites of saltines and ice pops. Graduate to a poached egg on buttered toast. Cranberry juice mixed with 7up and a twist of lemon. Ugh. Food poisoning is the worst.
At my worst points I subsisted on apple sauce and Gatorade. Once I started to feel a bit better, some Pho was the first real food I ate. Then I moved on to pierogi, cheeseburgers, and fried egg sandwiches because they made me happy and helped me to gain back some of the ridiculous amount of weight I lost due to food poisoning.
Ironically enough, I just got over a nasty case of this about a week ago. When I did eat, it was mostly Gatorade, rice, and Easy Mac.
My mom used to take white rice and combine it with milk, raisins, and sugar. I made that dish the first time for myself since childhood...talk about COMFORT. FOOD. :)
Yogurt is the perfect formula.
Many times "food poisoning" isn't even that, it's just Noro virus which lasts about 24 hours and is spread easily via unwashed hands, or even through the air. To my knowledge I've never had actual food poisoning from spoiled food, knock on wood. Another thing, travelers often get diarrhea, again, not from contaminated food, but from dehydration (seems counter-intuitive) so staying properly hydrated and not drinking too much alcohol can help prevent supposed food poisoning. But like I always say, the worst day of diarrhea on vacation always beats the best day at work. But I digress... When I'm not feeling well I like gingerale with vanilla ice cream floating in it. And the juice of a young coconut is also soothing and full of electrolytes.
If you ever feel food poisoning coming on, try charcoal tablets. You can pick them up at a vitamin store or a grocery store. It absorbs all the gunk that you ate and prevents the mess of food poisoning.
It's saved me a bunch of times!!!!!
So I have food poisoning right now and wanted to share something that really helped:
Stewed plum with diced stem ginger and dollop of yogurt.
Recently had a bout--I try to space the episodes of food poisoning out every 25 yrs or so :-) My family swears by Propel (badly named, I know, but it works). Then I progressed to miso soup with some grated carrot, and yogurt for the probiotics. Uncrystallized candied ginger from Trader Joe's is my go-to digestive any time I have a GI issue. Felt nearly human by the 3rd day.


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Moving to Brazil! Cookbook suggestions?
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- OakTownHound Jan 15, 2008 03:48 PM
In about three weeks I'll be moving to Rio de Janeiro for about a year. After living in the Bay Area most of my life, I'll be leaving our mediterranean climate for the tropics, and I need to learn how to cook with a whole new set of ingredients and pantry staples.
I'm an experienced home cook, but my cooking really relies on the amazing fresh produce and meat that's available here in the Bay Area; also, my pantry is typically stocked with high-quality imported olive oil, anchovies, wine vinegars, whole spices, plus a lot of asian cooking staples like oyster sauce, fish sauce, curry pastes, tamarind pulp, palm sugar, etc. I imagine that I could find most of this stuff in Rio if I really searched, but it would probably be pretty pricey.
I'd love to learn to cook great, interesting food using the local bounty in Rio. Where do I start? Can anyone recommend a good Brazilian cookbook or website that will help kick-start my inspiration for cooking with the palette of flavors available in Brazil?
By the way, I speak portuguese, so a portuguese-language cookbook would be okay, although I'd probably have to learn a lot of cooking jargon.
I can't really answer your question, but my BF was married to a Brazilian and one thing he used to bring down for her family which they had never had was maple syrup. You might want to stock up on that commodity if you are fond of Sunday pancakes or waffles.
I lived in Brazil a loooong time ago, but would really like to hear what you come up with. I have a book by Dolores Botafogo, and another in the Time-Life series, but neither excited me much. Eu ainda falo portugues, so my request for your findings is not an idle one.
You probably are familiar with the bean stew called feijoada (means 'beaned', funny eh?). I could eat black beans and rice every day for the rest of my life. By the way, learn to cook rice the Brazilian way, which, it turns out, is essentially a pilaf/pullau. You precook the dry rice in oil (and maybe some onion) till it turns translucent, then add 2C boiling water for every C of rice, add salt, bring to a simmer, turn it down, cover and cook for 20 minutes. I hope that the Brazilian meats have not suffered the same fate as ours. I remember grilled pork loins, basted with a branch of rosemary dipped in salt water, juicy and tender and full of flavor.
Back in the day, we made coffee with a flannel sock: mix the finely ground coffee with hot water in a pan, then pour it through the tripod-supported sock. I suppose those things are curiosities now. I hope they still have the daily markets, or feiras. They were amazing, but I have a feeling they can't have survived.
Another treasure I enjoyed was a cannonball of provalone, salty and stringy so you could pull it apart, like mozzarella, but drier.
Finally, get into the fruit. Papaya with lime, mango off the tree in the back yard, jaboticaba picked fresh, sweet yellow loquats (we used to call them ameixas amarelas: yellow plums), oranges. Don't look back at what you'll have to do without, relish what you have. I didn't experience any of the african-derived dishes of the northeast, but that would really interest me now.
I think if I were going back now, I'd try to find someone's grandmother to teach me. Just a thought.
Have fun, and report back.
There's an expat group in Rio called the American Society. They publish their own cookbook that, while the recipes are no great shakes, are a combination of American favourites and Brazilian staples. The book also contains a two-way listing of ingredients, cuts of meat, etc. The recipes are in both Portuguese and English. A key idea for this book is that it can help expats communicate with their kitchen staff to get food they like. It's called something like "What's Cooking in Rio".
The expat group welcomes all nationalities - even Brazilians. Don't be put off by the "American" in the name - they are a very friendly lot.
In English, there's a cookbook called Brazil: A Cook's Tour that covers some of the local recipes, although as I recall it had quite an emphasis on Bahian food.
Once you are up to speed in Portuguese, there's a great cookbook you can get from the Dona Lucinha restaurant in Belo Horizonte that covers the gamut of Minas Gerais food.
Que legal, Oaktown! My impression is that Rio is a pretty global city so you won't have the same dining shock as you would if you moved to Belem, say, or even Salvador to some extent. In my experience, there's a big Portuguese/ European influence in carioca food (Whereas in Bahia it's more African and in the northeast more Indian). Others may disagree. These are subtle differences but I think they hold true.
Look into some Portuguese cookbooks, maybe. Lots of cod and fish stews--stuff like that.
Also, the food in Rio seems healthier than the food I usually eat in the Northeast. (And the people are skinnier-ha!) In Maceio, where my family is, there is SO MUCH fried food! Beware those salgadingos--they are everywhere.
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I lived in Argentina as a young girl and suspect that what you will do will be a combination of experimenting with local finds and comforting yourself with missed foods from home. Can't help you with the Brazilian part, but the plain old Joy of Cooking will help you with the comfort part. You may find yourself having to manufacture ordinary things you long for but have never thought of making at home. One problem abroad is identifying unfamiliar items and connecting them with a name and a use. Try googling "tropical fruits" for a picture index, but there will also be vegetables, fish, spices, etc that you don't have a clue about. Take your laptop---there will always be somebody to respond and say, "Oh yes, that thing you have in Rio, we had in Cambodia, and here's what you do with it."
You won't have any trouble finding interesting ingredients in Brazil -- even in a city as large as Rio, you can actually buy fish directly from the fishermen. Find your local feira, check out the big supermarket chains. Learn the meat cuts and shop around local butchers for meat prices as they vary. Buy bread locally (a lot of bakeries put out a new batch of "pao de sal" -basic french rolls, every 15 minutes or so day and night). It is a bit harder to find nice olive oil, coffee in beans (green coffee, though, is quite easy). Milk is usually the UHT variety, despite lots of local dairy. Cookware is lighter and stoves a bit under-powered (priced by the number of burners), hoods not so common, oven marks are usually numbers and not degrees. Grills often come with houses and are easy to buy from local stores, fridges have a space underneath the freezer for the tall beer bottles. Asian staples are certainly very available in Sao Paulo, but never looked much in Rio. It might help to go to the feira a few times with a native to help you understand the prices and bargaining. Also make sure you go to Feira Nordestina, check out some of the dishes and goods.
As far as the cookbooks, I would suggest going to FNAC in the Barra Shopping and looking around. Last time I was there they even had a huge display for the latest version of Brazilian Cooking in English by Margarette de Andrade. To use Brazilian language cookbooks you need to get used to the various measurements "caseiros" -- xicara de cha, colher de cafe, etc. The language used for cooking directions was never very hard for me, but the advantage of browsing the books is to find one with a comfortable level of detail -- like many foreign cookbooks, Brazilian books can be sparse on details especially compared with over-detailed American instructions. I had some difficulty getting the Dona Lucinha book, but have a brazilian regional cooking book, several from minas gerais which are comprehensive but not detailed, a northeastern (which has an english section, but I never used it), and an old version of the de Andrade.
BTW, a lot of Brazilians learn recipes from "Ana Maria Braga," so watching the globo program Mais Voce is a way to pick up new recipes, although not all of them are traditional Brazilian. Globo also has a weekly program on Minas Gerais and they post the recipes on their web site (its interesting enough that I am hoping someday to have the time to try out the recipes and post the results on a blog). Maria-Brazil.org has a decent set of starter recipes that are pretty easy to follow. In Portuguese the site Tudogostoso is pretty good, but all the portals have recipes too.


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Legendary guitar stylist Kid Congo Powers (The Gun Club, The Cramps, Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds) and long time cohorts, bassist Kiki Solis (Knife In The Water), drummer Ron Miller (Up The Academy), and guitarist Jesse Roberts (Sandrider, The Ruby Doe) are set to release a brand new album, 'Haunted Head', on May 7th (their third album for In The Red)! Jesse engineered and Ron mixed the album, at the now well-known Harveyville Project High School in Kansas. Waking from a nap in the swamps of outer space, Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds ride a geisterbahn into the hypnagogic, a place between sleep and consciousness also known as the "Haunted Head".
VietNam marks their long-awaited return with a new full-length album, an A.merican D.ream, to be released on Mexican Summer Feb 26th, 2013 and first single "Kitchen Kongas" out December 11th, 2012. Michael Gerner, the creative force behind VietNam, is back for the first time in five years with a new six-piece lineup laying down their renowned signature cocktail of apocalyptic street blues.
After taking a long break to explore his interest in ambient analog synth soundscapes on the West Coast (scoring films and recording with his project D.A.), Gerner has now made a bold comeback to both New York City and rock and roll with his best record to date – adding a new dimension to the instrumentation with a moog player and a violinist. aAD is a cinematic dark concrete ride that revs through demons and detours with greasy grace.
Throughout the 2000′s, vocalist/guitarist/songwriter Gerner and his revolving lineups spent years tirelessly burning up America's moonlit highways and releasing memorable records that include the critically-acclaimed self-titled debut LP on Kemado Records in 2007, three prior EP's on The Social Registry, and their debut, The Concrete's Always Grayer on the Other Side of the Street, on Vice Records in 2003. When the work, hopes, and dreams finally culminated in a crescendo of across-the-board success, Michael Gerner and VietNam disappeared without a trace…until now.
We here at Mexican Summer, are truly grateful for the reunion of an inspirational artist and original band, especially with being able to share one of VietNam's most powerful singles, this month.
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Kid Congo and The Pink Monkey Birds
Event Category: Live Music
When: October 21, 2013
Time: 9:30pm
Where: Mercury Lounge
Cost: $$12
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January 2012 PodCast: Staffing the Learning Organization - New Roles & Skills
During our first monthly call of 2012, we explored the roles and skills that learning functions might need as they innovate today to prepare for tomorrow. We featured two guest speakers: Larry Israelite, Vice President of HR Development for Liberty Mutual, and Jill Guardia, Director of Global Sales and Services Enablement for Symantec. With an eye to the future, both shared thoughts on how they would like to staff their own learning teams as well as learning functions in general. Member contacts from GE Healthcare, General Motors, Adobe, Fidelity, CNN and DTCC contributed their own ideas about what skills might benefit learning functions, including some that are "on the fringe" of what organizations normally look for.
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Great big marshmallow bunnies! Your choice of available flavors, the pictured ones are chili mango and double vanilla. The chocolate truffle is a neat nonfat take on the Easter tradition of chocolate rabbits, strawberry are fun and pink, vanilla is always a hit and matcha makes for a unique flavor the screams Spring. You get 1 of this big ol' bunnies - they're almost 6" tall. These guys come individually wrapped, too. Hurry, they'll be hopping away soon :)
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Ingredients: kosher gelatin, organic evaporated cane juice, water, organic Tahitian vanilla bean, natural sea salt
Do Chua - Quick Pickled Daikon
Continuing with the banh mi fixation - this is the stuff that is on the sandwich that gives it that sweet, sour, salty, crunchy awesomeness. It is made from daikon, which is a large mild type of radish is very rich in vitamin C (excellent during cold season) and very low in calories. And it is shockingly easy to make. This is how I made mine:
1 medium sized daikon (you can use part of a large one but they seem to have a lot less flavor)
1 carrot
1/2c rice wine vinegar
1/2c lukewarm water
2 tbsp raw sugar
2 tsp sea salt, divided
reusable container that can hold 2 cups, anything will work but I used a mason jar
Chop daikon and carrot into matchsticks, they must be small and uniform to pickle quickly. You should have about 1 1/2 - 2 cups. Pour one teaspoon of salt over the daikon and carrot, work the salt into them well and then let sit for 10 minutes or until they are noticeably smaller and flexible, this happens fast. Rinse well, place them into the container you're going to keep them in. In a bowl combine your vinegar, water, sugar and salt, mix until well combined then pour over your vegetables. Put the lid on your container, shake it a bit then sit it in the fridge for an hour. They're ready to eat. For some reason it reminds me a little of coleslaw, but they're super light, tasty and make a great side dish(or topping on sandwiches, of course). I'm still surprised at how simple and easy this is considering how amazing the flavor is! They will keep in the fridge for at least a month … if they last that long :)
Vegan Tamales - They're Easy
Tamales are a Christmas tradition for a lot of families, I know they are over here! They are, however, usually made with lard and meat broth in the masa as well as meat fillings and often butter. So this makes finding a vegan tamale troublesome. They are, however, very easy to make!
3c instant masa (this is found in many super markets now, it may say nixtamalized masa, usually says para tamales)
1/2c vegan shortening or pure coconut oil
1tbs baking powder
few cups of your favorite broth (I honestly have no exact measurement, just until the consistency is right) and any flavor will work though i love mushroom and veggie
Whip up your shortening until it's bit fluffier and very soft. Add the masa and baking powder and mix well … it will be very crumbly. With your mixer on medium-low, begin dribbling in your broth 1/4 cup at a time. Once your mixture looks like thick peanut butter it's done. I usually let it rest for at least an hour before making my tamales. Fillings are limited only by imagination, you can put anything you like in there.
For sweet tamales, instead of broth use some juice. Pineapple juice and apple juice work great and your filling ingredients can just be mixed right into the masa. Pineapple, walnuts and raisins is one of my favorites. My dad made some with cocoa powder in the masa and strawberries inside that were amazing! **edit: I just made some sweet tamales with pineapples, pecans and coconut milk in the masa - super, super delicious. So coconut milk makes a really nice, rich replacement for broth!
I'm not going to give tamale rolling instructions here, I figure you either know how to do that already or you can shuffle over to youtube and find some good video guides :)
Merry Christmas!
I Veganized the Cookie Dough Truffles
And they are still completely awesome.
1/2c vegan shortening(I use earth balance, love it's flavor) or coconut oil
1.5c raw sugar
1 tsp sea salt
1/2c tapioca flour
1/2c rice flour
vanilla (either seeds or extract)
a few teaspoons cold water
1/2 bag vegan chocolate chips
Cream shortening, sugar, salt and vanilla until lighter in color and fluffy. Add your flours and the mixture should come together slightly dry and crumbly, you can add a teaspoon of water at a time until it makes a solid dough. Add chocolate chips, mix until combined and then chill for at least an hour. Roll into truffle-sized balls. Melt the other half of your chocolate chips and dip your truffles. These are delicious and super easy. You can always use all purpose flour and real butter if you like, the results will be similar. For a peanut butter cookie dough variation omit the chocolate chips and use just 1/4c of shortening, adding 1/4c of peanut butter. :)
I'm updating my giveaway a bit ~
Since it has been made known to me that there are those that do not love tumblr as I do (shockandhorrorface), I am updating the rules for all of my nonbloggy friends ;)
Check out the giveaway page here, and please check out our new facebook page … there's a none-too-subtle box over on the left that I cannot figure out how to make less tacky. Boo.
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Random Vegetable Roundup
Colorful food seems to taste better. I have no idea what to call this, I just took all of these odds and ends that needed to be used up and threw them in a pan with garlic. They were all typical Italian ingredients so I figured they would go together okay and not be horrible. Then it tasted really awesome.
1 c crimini mushrooms, stems removed (I freeze the stems and keep them to use in soup)
1 zucchini cubed
1 large eggplant, or 5 little bitty adorable Indian eggplants which is what I had on hand, also cubed
4 cloves garlic, minced
handful of grape tomatoes
Start with olive oil and your garlic in a pan over medium heat, you want to cook the garlic but not brown it. Then throw in the mushroom caps and cook for 5 minutes or so, then add everything else and toss it a bit. Raise pan to medium-high heat and brown everything a little … I just waited until the tomatoes popped and declared it done. I threw parmesan on top. Really surprisingly delicious, and the bright red, purple, green and brown were very festive :)
Fudge fail
Well, sort of. It turns out I didn't have everything I wanted to make fudge. So I made some pumpkin caramel dip for the granny smith apples I'll be picking up at the co-op tomorrow.
1lb brown sugar
1/2 stick butter
1 c evaporated milk
1tsp vanilla extract
1tsp baking soda
pumpkin pie spice(to taste)
1/2 c pumpkin puree
Melt the butter in a medium, heavy saucepan. Add the sugar and spice then bring to a full boil, add milk and continue to keep at a boil while stirring. You can use a candy thermometer or you could be old school and use a glass of ice water like me … you dunk a drop of the mix in the water and if it forms a nice firm ball you're set(and so it is, har har). Once it has reached that point you toss in the baking soda and remove from heat, which will go poof so lets hope your saucepan was big enough. I don't know that there is any point to the baking soda honestly, I think we always just did it because it's fun to make your food explode a little. Add in your pumpkin and vanilla and stir really well. Pour into a bowl and chill. This is seriously delicious and will be an excellent dip for fruit. If you add a package of cream cheese and mix it makes a wonderful dip for parties, too.
Downside to making fresh marinara sauce
Waiting all those hours and having to smell that wonderful aroma. I'm drooling.
Who else has kids that squabble over who gets more green beans?
The same thing happened over the garlic mushrooms. While I'm glad they really do eat well I can't help but think "Man, my kids are weird".


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You could say Danny Ainge is the most successful basketball general manager currently employed by a franchise that plays at the TD Garden.
He's won a title, pulled off the Kevin Garnett and Ray Allen trades, drafted Rajon Rondo, all the stuff we know.
But there is another guy with NBA GM experience collecting a paycheck in Boston. And John Weisbrod was no slouch at the job, either.
In his one season as the GM of the Orlando Magic (2004) he drafted Dwight Howard and Jameer Nelson and signed Hedo Turkoglu. He pretty much built the core of the team that won the Eastern Conference title in 2009 and has returned to the NBA Final Four this year, doing battle with your Celtics as we speak. Not a shabby 12 months in charge.
So who is Weisbrod and what is his role today? Is he Danny's right-hand man, or serving in some sort of role with Ainge's Celtics? Well, to start with, his official title is "director of collegiate scouting." Makes sense, given the aforementioned '04 jackpot.
Now, here's where it might get a little confusing.
Weisbrod is director of collegiate scouting for the Boston Bruins.
Yup, you got it. The man who put together much of the team that knocked the Celtics out of the playoffs last year spends most of his days figuring out if a player is able to kill a penalty, not hit a jumper. And it's exactly where he wants to be.
"I'm a hockey guy," Weisbrod said Tuesday when asked how he became an NBA GM. "I was always a hockey guy at heart."
He's right. There were no days spent with Marty Blake or on an NBA bench before Weisbrod took over in Orlando. A four-year center for Harvard (winning an NCAA title in 1989), Weisbrod was drafted by the Minnesota North Stars with the 73rd overall pick in 1987. Injuries ended his playing career early, but he quickly landed a job as a scout with the Devils. From there he went to the IHL and the Orlando Solar Bears (getting closer now).
"I went to Orlando as the GM of the Solar Bears," Weisbrod said. "The Solar Bears were owned by RDV [who also owned the Magic]. They asked me to take over as COO [in March of 2000] for everything."
And when the IHL and AHL merged after 2001, Orlando found itself without a hockey team. You would have expected that Weisbrod with, you know, ZERO basketball history, would be looking for a new job. But RDV Sports (led by Richard DeVos) noticed something about Weisbrod. He had a sneaky habit of winning wherever he went. In college with Harvard. In the AHL with Albany (best winning percentage in the league and three division titles during his four years as VP and director of hockey operations). And two conference titles with IHL Orlando. So they decided to take a chance and stick with Weisbrod as COO.
"Suddenly I found myself running a basketball company," Weisbrod recalled.
But he was not the general manager. That title belonged to John Gabriel, who had held the job since 1996. Not being a classic basketball guy, Weisbrod was generally hands off when it came to the day-to-day operations of the club.
"I very much let the people in their positions do their jobs," Weisbrod said. "Gabriel was the GM and it was rarely that I would step in his way. He was really good at what he did."
So Weisbrod maintains that he "had to approve but can't say that I was involved" in a decision made by Gabriel in November of 2003. The Magic were 1-10 in the young season and it was believed that the players had tuned out the coach. Gabriel felt it was time for the head coach to be fired.
And that's exactly what happened to Doc Rivers.
"I don't think it was an indication of what anyone thought of Doc," claimed Weisbrod. "We all loved Doc and knew what a good coach he was and how good he was going to be. Coaches get into situations and find that they aren't as in control of the team as you once were. Gabriel didn't have a single negative thought about Doc, he just felt that group of players needed to hear a new voice."
Weisbrod is not surprised that Rivers (with whom he has not spoken since 2003) has gone on to Boston and become one of the elite coaches in the NBA.
"One of the things Gabriel and I talked about was the fact that even if he thought that a change was necessary that Doc was going to wind up somewhere else and be a high-caliber coach," Weisbrod said. "I don't think anyone was surprised at his success."
At the end of the 2003-04 season, Weisbrod replaced Gabriel as GM. The Magic won 21 games that season, a league worst, and wound up winning the draft lottery and the rights to the top overall pick (the last time the team with the worst record in the league landed the top pick).
According to Weisbrod, the fans in Orlando had their eyes on a shot-blocking big man with a limited offensive game but the ability to control the glass.
Which meant, of course, that they had no interest in Dwight Howard.
"Everybody knew [Emeka] Okafor," Weisbrod said, speaking of the UConn All-American. "They watched him on TV and in the Final Four. The fact that Dwight was coming out of high school was a big risk, Okafor was the stable pick."
But Weisbrod and the rest of the Orlando staff knew that they had a once-in-a-generation kind of prospect in Howard.
"Just a tremendous, tremendous athlete, one of those freak-of-nature guys," Weisbrod said. "Otis Smith, Dave Twardzik, those guys had seen a lot more drafts and scouted a lot more years, so they were more cognizant of how unique he was. You could see the athlete he was, but the turning point was meeting him. A real pure-hearted kid with a tremendous desire to see how good he could be."
So with Howard in the fold as the first overall choice (according to Weisbrod, the pro-Okafor crowd sent him "garbage bags full of hate mail" for choosing the high schooler over the polished collegiate star), the Magic needed someone to get him the ball.
"We took some heat on Jameer, because of his height," said Weisbrod. "That was actually a bigger risk [than Howard]. We traded a future first late in the round at the time we made the trade. Jameer was the only guy we wanted, and we had to live through six or seven picks before it was our turn. We were able to take him.
"Jameer was bumped down a bit because of his size. We thought he made up for it with quickness, basketball IQ, desire and leadership. He's a fantastic person and player as well."
Just one week after selecting Howard and Nelson, the Magic dealt Tracy McGrady to the Rockets (for Steve Francis, Cuttino Mobley and Kelvin Cato). This move shocked the fan base, as McGrady was the perhaps the most popular player in franchise history. Weisbrod also signed Turkoglu, capping off an extraordinarily busy offseason that set the foundation for the team that you will watch on Wednesday.
It would also prove to be Weisbrod's last offseason as GM in Orlando, as he resigned in May of 2005.
"Once we drafted Dwight and Jameer, it made a lot more sense to have a full-time basketball guy at the job. I had a desire to get back to hockey, my first love," he said.
(Note: I'm sure that's true, but to be fair, Weisbrod had received a lot of heat for the McGrady deal. We forget today, but in 2004 McGrady was still an All-NBA player and easily the most popular player in franchise history. So there was bad blood with the fans. A 2008 Orlando Sentinel column referred to Weisbrod as "the most polarizing figure in Magic history." In the same column, Weisbrod said that his "decision to get back into hockey was largely to get my head back on straight.")
So it was back to the pucks. After one year with the Dallas Stars, he joined the Bruins in 2006. He witnessed the B's blow the 3-0 lead to the Flyers and thinks it could happen in the NBA, maybe this year. Weisbrod wouldn't say that he was rooting for the Magic in the series but did mention that there are people still in the organization from his days that he has a "strong emotional connection" to. He's excited that the Bruins have a "real unique opportunity" to add a potential star with the second pick.
Thinking about that high pick got Weisbrod to again reflect on the game-changing choice of Howard in 2004 and how hockey played a role in the selection.
"That's why taking Dwight out of high school didn't intimidate me, coming from hockey when we draft high-school players all the time," he said.
Using hockey to shift the balance of power in the NBA.
Wonder if Danny ever thought of that?
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The Orioles seemed to have a lot of fun last night clinching the AL East. Buster said the biggest problem for Boston this year was the offense production dropping so dramatically in one year. Bogaerts, Pierzynski, and Bradley Jr. are the most obvious culprits. Also, Buster surmises that the Red Sox front office has to be a little uneasy with the fact that their best offensive player, David Ortiz, is in this LATE 30's.
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Mut and Villani are talking about whether the Red Sox will give Jon Lester the type of contract he is looking for, or whether they might be shopping him with rumors of the Red Sox scouting Cole Hamels.
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"Extra's" Maria Menounos caught up with Chelsea and former Pres. Bill Clinton in Phoenix for the Clinton Global Initiative Day of Action, where Chelsea opened up about the pressure she faces to have a child with husband Marc Mezvinsky.
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Traci Nobles is the latest to be named in the many online flirtations of Congressman Anthony Weiner, this one through Facebook.
The Athens, Georgia woman was outed by her roommate, who sent the Las Vegas Sun a screenshot of a private conversation on Facebook after Nobles inadvertently left her account open. The conversations took place last August and were not as salacious as some of the others that have gone public. The 34-year-old is the fifth woman named since the Weiner scandal, er, popped up last week.


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They stopped right in front of me and I heard a whispered 'oh God' as they surveyed my broken state. Determining the voice as female, I opened my eyes to slits as could see battered vans a few inches from my sodden school books. She bent to pick them up, allowing her blue and black tiger print skinnies to come into view, and a studded belt looped through them. I heard my bag open as she placed the books inside and then knelt beside me, helping me to an upright position. I met her large eyes and worried grimace with unease, I wasn't used to people helping me.
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WE CAN OFTEN LEARN more from failure than from success. That is a conclusion I've reinforced after viewing Everpix business intelligence on Github.
WE CAN OFTEN LEARN more from failure than from success. That is a conclusion I've reinforced after viewing Everpix business intelligence on Github.
Posted by Bernie Goldbach on January 14, 2014 at 04:36 PM in Analytics | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
SEVERAL TWITTER ANALYTICS tools can now be seen by the public in selected markets, which means you might be able to view more about tweets that are retweeted, favourited and replied to. I'm learning more about word choice and time of day through the screenshot above than by merely viewing the actions of those tweets using Boxcar on iOS.
The change was spotted by Christopher Penn, vice president of marketing technology at SHIFT Communications and one-half of the Marketing Over Coffee podcast team. Not all markets can see these analytics because advertising campaigns are not in place in every country. In Ireland, there's no payment mechanism accepted on the advertising dashboard.
Continue reading "Learning a Few Things from Twitter Analytics" »
Posted by Bernie Goldbach on June 10, 2013 at 03:02 PM in Analytics | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
IF YOU EVER NEEDED PROOF that St Patrick's Day is an occasion with global reach, look no farther than the hashtags connected to #StPatricksDay. You'll spot several strong clusters of sex memes connected to the celebration, proof-positive there's vibrant industry endorsement (or brandjacking) of Ireland's national holiday.
And if you follow the Technorati tag clusters below this blog post, you'll discover interesting food choices for an authentic Paddy's Day experience.
Posted by Bernie Goldbach on March 16, 2013 at 05:24 PM in Analytics | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
BIG DATA INTERSECTS Irish educators in several places like the Monday evening #edchatie discussions.
Inspired by Simon Lewis, I looked at who is most influential during those recurring discussions. At least two of the most influential plan to attend the annual ICT in Education Conference in Thurles. With a little prodding, perhaps more than half of the most influential Irish Twitter voices in education will meet up in May on the campus of the Limerick Institute of Technology in Thurles.
In the meantime, I have 30 Web Analytics students drilling into the #edchatie transcripts to document the share of the voices, engagement and impact of embedded placement in the cross-talk. And the Irish government is interested in making these kinds of analyses more sophisticated as funding comes available for big data programmes.
Posted by Bernie Goldbach on March 15, 2013 at 11:19 PM in Analytics | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
WE LAUNCHED PEN & PIXEL for our annual exhibition in the Limerick Institute of Technology and it immediately attracted more people on its first day (327) than I get on an average weekday (301).
The top three terms that attracted visitors to PenAndPixel.ie include all the high brow phrases (exhibition, creative work, 3D) that we hoped would represent a cross-section of graduate talent. It's still too early to draw any real conclusions from the analytics because it normally takes a few months and a few thousand visits to determine what's actually the big draw of a website. Plus the Pen&Pixel site is attracting a lot of ego surfers as they probe around and try to find samples of work.
During the same early February period, the top three terms referring people to my Inside View blog were people looking for the ugliest dog, real mermaid sightings in Ireland and pron.
Information from Statcounter.com.
Posted by Bernie Goldbach on February 07, 2012 at 06:49 AM in Analytics | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
REMINISCING TAKES ME into my personal archives once a week and part of that meandering uncovered the hundredth most-viewed image I have on Flickr. It's actually a shot of Ireland taken by the NASA Earth Observatory (hat tip to James Corbett) and two things are surprising about the image and the business intelligence about the views on my photostream at Flickr.com/photos/irisheyes. First, it's got fewer views than dozens of shots I've taken of Irish drivers doing stupid things. Second, it will remain thousands of views behind shots of gadgets because Flickr referrers prove that that people come looking for images of objects. They come from Google, Bing, and Yahoo! And they come in blocks of hundreds per week. I'll tuck the aerial view of Ireland away for Radio Kate, the woman in Audioboo Headquarters who hopes to get my Flickr view of Ireland while orbiting the earth.
Image from the NASA Earth Observatory. My most-viewed image on Flickr is Sam the ugliest dog with 128,000 views. I didn't snap that shot. It has attracted the most comments of any shot I have on Flickr. The most popular image I shot for Flickr is a tampon chandelier with 80,114 views.
Previously: "100th most viewed" on May 28, 2005.
Posted by Bernie Goldbach on May 29, 2011 at 07:28 AM in Analytics | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
I THINK IT'S NORMAL to scrape back everything and look at the basics. We do that with paint on walls and carpet in halls when we put brute force to projects and strip things to the raw surface. I'm doing that with my blog now and doing it with live traffic. As a result, when I remove all Javascript from my pages, I lose traffic count just like the accompanying screenshot shows. In the background, Typepad's counters keep ticking over, telling me that more than 800 people per day on average have visited my blog since Typepad started counting in mid-2003. I'm Twitterised now, so it's rare that more than 500 people per day read my blog now. That's down from a breezy 2000 page views per day in mid-2007, before either Facebook or Twitter got toeholds in Ireland. I think it's important to look beyond the numbers and to focus on conversions. In my case, I want to start converting Google advertisements into baby formula. For that to happen, I need faster-loading pages so I'm killing nearly everything that loads as Javascript and pushing most of the page intelligence out to cloud services where clever servers and API calls do the work. In the meantime, I'm flatlining my blog's visitor count and playing with templates to see get stuck into CSS and HTML 5 over the summer months. You should check back in August to see the final look. In the meantime, do you have anything to suggest that I keep on my blog?
I just noticed there are 4,230 instances of the word "analytics" on my blog. I should distill that knowledge into a more effective training course.
Posted by Bernie Goldbach on May 14, 2011 at 04:58 AM in Analytics | Permalink | Comments (5) | TrackBack (0)
IF YOU HAVE typing skills above 180 words for minute, you might have a future as a Google Autocompleter. In this clip, Michael the psychic explains why you should try to learn all the lyrics to all the songs on the planet.
Direct link to clip.
Posted by Bernie Goldbach on April 01, 2011 at 07:59 PM in Analytics | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
I'M LOOKING AT the kinds of images people viewed when seeking Irish content on St Patrick's Day. The task is part of a module in Web Analytics taught by Tipperary Institute in the Absolute Hotel of Limerick. It's interesting that my most findable Irish pub is located in Berlin. Perhaps it's time for me to promote authentic Irish pubs.
Photo Referrers on Paddy's Day
Posted by Bernie Goldbach on March 19, 2011 at 12:08 PM in Analytics | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
AS A LONG-TIME FAN of Newsweaver, I've embarked on a 14-week living analysis of its capabilities. In fact, I'll be using Newsweaver to power part of both the retention and web analytics dimensions of the Web Promotion for Business course, a special purpose award being run by Limerick Institute of Technology and the Tipperary Institute. A small group of 18 ex-Dell employees will begin this training in late February. Behind the scenes, Newsweaver will power a weekly newsletter written and analysed by the students in the course. In Tipperary Institute, another group of students will use Newsweaver to stoke interest in the Pen and Pixel exhibition in Clonmel and the annual Schools Conference in Thurles. By May, we'll have a case study that shows how training graduates to enter the smart economy is well-served when learning to leverage Newsweaver.
Bonus Link: "What content to readers want" from Newsweaver's Denise Cox.
Posted by Bernie Goldbach on February 14, 2011 at 07:26 PM in Analytics | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)


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