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I start to move more SFTBY and lesser YHOO because SFTBY will not sell BABA and Sprint (S) stocks going up.
up 2.35% right now in Japan.
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Enterprise Value (Sep 7, 2014)3: 155.39B
Enterprise value of $155.38B is too much and this may already price in BABA IPO.
Between $40 and $45.
$44 at the end of week.
No one knows what will be in future. Even guru can not time the market.
Both long and short just need a luck and be careful.
Buy more YHOO and less SFTBY and why?
Because SFTBY has too much total debt of more than $80 B.
Within 10 days after BABA IPO, BABA will hit $100.
The charts say so.
YHOO is on the way to $50 and above this time.
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Total Cash Per Share (mrq): 8.37
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Current Ratio (mrq): 1.20
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"I feel good about putting some of my money in the company which is at the vanguard in the effort to stop the carnage." is a great heart.
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Work Successfully with Difficult People
- Friday, April 06, 2012
Decide whether or not to stay in your current job. If you choose to stay, know why you're choosing that, and also know your limits and set up boundaries accordingly. Think about how you might alleviate some of the tension (such as taking a sabbatical or changing positions within the same company). If you choose to leave, leave with dignity and express gratitude for the experiences you've had there.
Refuse to define yourself by what others say or do to you. Your worth isn't based on other people's reactions to you; it's based on the reality that God loves you completely and unconditionally. Don't allow difficult people to control your confidence. Instead, ask God to help you see yourself as He sees you.
Cope well with stress in your workplace. Even though stress can make you feel out of control, the fact is that you do have the power to do something about your stress. Identify what situations, events, or people trigger stress in you while you're working. Then plan specific steps to take to eliminate as much stress as you can and cope with what remains by relying on God's guidance to deal with it. Invest in your life outside of work so you'll have healthy relationships with friends and family to turn to after work, which will reduce your stress levels. Don't let your job overtake other areas of your life; regularly ask God to help you keep each area of your life in the proper balance, centered around Him.
Manage your emotions well. Your emotions have only the amount of strength that you give them. Don't let you emotions guide you; let God guide you. God will empower you to deal successfully with even the most emotionally troubling circumstances at work when you place your trust in Him rather than in your emotions.
Give and receive forgiveness. Rely on God to help you through the process of forgiving the people you work with who have hurt or offended you. Ask people who you have hurt or offended to forgive you for your mistakes.
Communicate wisely with difficult people. Combine careful words with kind actions as often as possible when communicating with difficult people at work. Keep in mind that they may misinterpret your words, but they can clearly read your body language. Sandwich comments about a negative behavior that they need to change between positive comments to make it easier for them to listen to you.
Handle bias against you carefully. Deal with prejudice against you in the workplace quietly, without rancor. Document interactions that show bias and remain calm as you go through proper channels (such as human resources) to deal with it.
Learn how to work with people of different generations. Some of the problems you experience getting along well with others may be due to generational differences. Focus on what you can learn from people of another generation, and be willing to help them learn from your perspective.
Adapted from Working Successfully with Screwed-Up People, copyright 2012 by Elizabeth B. Brown. Published by Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group, www.revellbooks.com.
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Factors that make it difficult to assign costs for infrastructure research support to the different areas of research include the use of animal colonies by several disciplines for research, overlap of funds for research and infrastructure, development of databases that all disciplines may draw upon, and uncertainty in classifying new linkages to existing sources of information.
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Animal colonies Based on the cost in the Pepper Centers of $375,000 per animal colony per year (Office of Geriatrics Branch, Biomedical Research and Clinical Medicine Program, NIA), not adjusted for inflation, the estimated yearly costs of animal colonies at the 10 proposed geriatric research centers are $3.75 million; adding 10 animal colonies at other university centers engaged in gerontological research brings the total cost to $7.5 million per year.
Laboratories There are no comprehensive data on the cost of laboratories for basic biomedical and clinical research. Apart from laboratories at centers, funds are necessary to support noncenter laboratory needs in age-related basic biomedical and clinical research in other institutions. For example, three sophisticated laboratories for cell biology research to serve as regional resources for basic biomedical and clinical scientists would cost $3 million per year to staff and maintain (G.M. Martin, University of Washington, personal communication, 1989).


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- Tuesday, August 05, 2003
Jerusalem (CNSNews.com) - Washington is considering cutting loan guarantees to Israel by the amount Israel is spending to build a controversial security fence between Israel and the West Bank, reports said on Tuesday.
The U.S. granted Israel $9 billion in loan guarantees to help the nation obtain lower interest, longer-term loans for infrastructure projects, which are intended to boost the Israeli economy. Israel has never defaulted on a loan.
Israel and the U.S. are at odds about the construction of the barrier - part fence, part wall - which Israel hopes will block the entry of terrorists into Israel. But Palestinians complain that the path of the barrier cuts across farms and isolates villages from Palestinian cities.
Washington is concerned that the fence will impede progress on the "road map" peace process.
According to an online report from the Israeli financial magazine Globes, the Bush administration is considering cutting the loan guarantees - plus another $1 billion granted to Israel to help with additional expenses incurred during the war in Iraq - as a penalty for building the fence.
In 1992, the administration of former President George Bush extended $10 billion in loan guarantees to Israel to help with the absorption of some one million immigrants from the former Soviet Union.
But Congress authorized a formula, whereby the U.S. would deduct (dollar for dollar) money spent on settling Jews in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Quoting an unnamed official in an Associated Press report, Globes said the the current Bush administration might apply the same formula to the current aid package in regards to the fence.
The fence - about 90 completed so far - could be 370 miles long in the end, at a cost of about $2 million a mile.
On Tuesday, the Finance Ministry said it had not been notified of any such arrangement.
"We know nothing of it," said a spokesperson at the ministry. Finance Minister Binyamin Netanyahu was instrumental in obtaining the guarantees, which his ministry handles.
The spokesperson said the ministry had read the reports but had not heard anything official from Washington.
However, the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv indicated that such plan could be considered.
"We have seen these reports," an Embassy spokesman said. "Our views on the separation wall are well known," said the spokesman, who asked not to be named.
"As Secretary of State [Colin] Powell stated [recently], 'The fence is a problem if it is constructed in a way or continues to be constructed in a way that takes additional Palestinian land, prejudges what might be left for a Palestinian State, or if it complicates our discussions going forward,'" he said.
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How to Do a Running Streak Without Killing Yourself
Today marks a big first for me: I ran four days in a row. For all you veteran runners out there, I know this isn't such a big deal to you. But it is a big deal to me, because a year ago running four days in a row would have been unthinkable.
Four days is not going to become five days. My hip feels a little stiff and I don't want to risk a re-injury. Not so close to my first 5k! So my mini-streak is going to stay just that–mini. I will take Friday off, and the weekend (I rarely run on weekends anyway due to the lack of child care), and will pick up again on Monday.
But I think maybe, after the 5k, I would like to try a mini running streak again. To prepare, I read everything I could find on how to do a running streak without injuring yourself. Here's what I found.
1. Don't go downhill too often–the next day, that hurts more than going uphill. (No Meat Athlete)
2. Mix in low-mileage for rest days. (Source: Women's Running)
3. Streaking is not for total newbies. A base of at least six months of regular running is recommended. (Source: Runner's World)
4. Don't go overboard with other forms of exercise at the same time. (Source: The Improbable Runner)
5. Stop if it doesn't feel right. (Source: Common Sense)
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Oh my gosh I LOVE your blog and this post. Congrats on your mini-streak and very smart to not overdo it so close to your 5K! Good luck with the remainder of your race training. I'm excited to hear how it goes for you!
I did a run streak around the holidays that ended up going for 61 days. Most days I just got in a mile or two to keep it going. It was a lot of fun, even though I think that was the beginning of my tendonitis (a little pain in my ankle is what got me to stop).
That sounds like a nice streak! I was doing pretty well with the running and 5ks last year but I've really been slacking off lately (so many excuses), and my first 5K of the year is in just two weeks. Could be brutal!
You're doing great. Yes, downhill is hard (I learned that during the Warrior Dash last year, way scarier than going UP).
That's a great running streak! I like to take a day off every two days or I start to feel very tired. Today I had a 20-miler which I know sounds insane but it was the last long run before the SLC marathon. I'm dead tired and have a giant blister on my baby toe – wah! It's good to find moms who run – thanks for the great info above. I am trying to "Chi" run with that little bit of forward lean to stay off the heels. I wear Newtons which are light and push me forward a bit.


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text: On Jan 25, 2007, at 2:17 PM, Adele de Maisieres wrote: > Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius wrote: > >> Uh, no, actually. I didn't get that sense at all. Mostly it's about >> how haggis has changed, and why. It does include some opinions from >> various people about how some version are considered nasty and what >> people have done to change that impression, and it also covers >> American variants based on difficulty in obtaining things like lungs. >> But none of it is expressed as value judgement on the part of the >> author of the article or the paper. >> >> >> > No, indeed, it's not expressed as a value judgement on the part of the > author. But the article is pretty well focused on how various people > make haggis with very little of the traditional ingredients. Actually, one of the people quoted specifically mentions that the "traditional" ingredients are somewhat fluid, and if you look at non- Hieland recipes, or any from outside the window of the Highlands of the 18th and 19th centuries, these may appear non-traditional in many respects (for example, do they call for suet or not, or what spices do they use in addition to black pepper -- mine uses pepper only, and invariably gets raves). I think the thrust of the article is about how haggis has changed, and also how some people are reacting to the change -- both those shocked at the break with tradition, and those pointing out that "traditional" is a pretty tight and not-always-traditional window. For a similar effect talk to me about chowders sometime. > And there > are some weird statements about the taste (like liver pate, > according to > one commenter) and about haggis being an acquired taste. Not from the author. He's a reporter, not an evangelist. I don't see this as being either part of the solution or part of the problem. Rather, it acknowledges a problem, explores some possible reasons for the problem, and explains what some people are doing about it. As with the guy from Cameron's in Kearney (whose product I buy once a year and find, if not as good as homemade, adequate), I can't get sheep lungs, so I have to improvise. I find a small amount of pork spleens (Italian and Chinese butchers, as well as serious French butchers, sell these, sometimes calling them "milts") makes a good substitute to give greater dimension than you'd get by simply omitting the lungs. > And the author > _does_ lard the article with comments about haggis's "august > reputation > for repulsiveness" and the like. See above. This is not the same as active criticism, and, unfortunate though it may be, and as much as we'd like to change it, haggis _does_ have a pretty bad reputation in many parts of the world. I'm glad to have made the converts I have. > Now for a few remarks based on my personal experience: > Good haggis, well-made with the traditional ingredients is delicious. > It tastes nothing like pate-- if anything, it's a bit like a meatloaf > with a coarse, crumbly texture. I aim for a texture somewhere between a moist pilaf and a hash, myself. > Many people who try it like it > immediately, and, conversely, it mainly has a bad reputation amongst > people who have never tried it. Not unlike garum and the films of Kevin Smith in that respect. No argument there, and I don't think the author of the article would say otherwise, either. Adamantius "S'ils n'ont pas de pain, vous fait-on dire, qu'ils mangent de la brioche!" / "If there's no bread to be had, one has to say, let them eat cake!" -- attributed to an unnamed noblewoman by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, "Confessions", 1782 "Why don't they get new jobs if they're unhappy -- or go on Prozac?" -- Susan Sheybani, assistant to Bush campaign spokesman Terry Holt, 07/29/04


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"Salute To Our Olympians - Paralympians - Gerard Moreno"
Gayle Anderson was live in Los Angeles to continue our series of reports, SALUTING OUR LOCAL OLYMPIANS AND PARALYMPIANS. Today's spotlight features Paralympic Fencer, Gerard Moreno. Mr. Moreno will travel to London to take part in his fourth Paralympic Games. He has also competed in the 2008, 2004 and 2000 Paralympic Games as a member of the U.S. Paralympic Fencing Team.
Mr. Moreno was paralyzed in 1981 as a result of a gunshot wound during a home invasion robbery. Although he fenced on the Epee Team for Cal State Los Angeles before his injury, he was reintroduced to fencing 15 years later when his brother informed him about wheelchair fencing. An active athlete, who plays wheelchair basketball as well as an off-road racer, Mr. Moreno also mentors newly injured spinal cord patients, performs fencing demonstrations and participates in wheelchair basketball clinics for junior athletes with the L.A. Clippers Chairmen.
The 2012 Paralympic Games are in London from August 29 - September 9. The idea for athletic games for people with disabilities is credited to Dr. Ludwig Guttmann, a doctor in Stoke Mandesville Hospital in Aylesbury, England, who strongly believed in using sports therapy for people who were injured or wounded during World War II. In 1948, Dr. Guttmann organized the International Wheelchair Games to coincide with the 1948 London Olympics, hoping to establish a worldwide sports competition for people with disabilities to be held every four years like the Olympics. His dream became a reality in 1960 when the first Paralympic Games were held in Rome, Italy, featuring 400 athletes from 23 countries.
Like the Olympics, the Paralympic Games are held in two seasons: winter and summer. Athletes with disabilities have been competing in the Winter Games since 1976 when Sweden hosted the first Winter Games, which included 12 countries competing in Alpine and cross-country skiing events.
Although only wheelchair athletes were originally invited to compete, the Paralympic Games have grown to include six major classifications of athletes with disabilities. Within Paralympic sports, classification is intended to ensure fair competition. As each sport of the Paralympic Games requires different skills and competencies, the impact of impairment on the performance of the athletes varies, which is why each sport has its own unique classification rules.
Remember our athletes rely on donations to compete. Donations for the U.S. Paralympic Team can be made online at:https://secure3.convio.net/usoc/site/Donation2?idb=124750661&df_id=2420&2420.donation=form1
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Eris?? Goddess of chaos strife and discord?? more like Goddess of animated hairporn jesus lord just look at it.
I need to watch this again
And the progress thing.
I think I'll leave this now and do something else…
I am a fan.
High Tide- Animation Short
Hawkeye takes down Iron Man- early Avengers animatic.
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Deathigner - short film
..In which the children of the gods of Death attend reaper-school.
Look at this ADORABLE short film.
WATCH THIS. This is so fucking cute that I started to cry
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Salvador Dali & Walt Disney, Destino, 2003
Destino was storyboarded by Disney studio artist John Hench and artist Salvador Dalí for eight months in late 1945 and 1946; however production ceased not long after. The Walt Disney Company, then Walt Disney Studios, was plagued by many financial woes in the World War II era. Hench compiled a short animation test of about 17 seconds in the hopes of rekindling Disney's interest in the project, but the production was no longer deemed financially viable and put on indefinite hiatus.
In 1999, Walt Disney's nephew Roy E. Disney, while working on Fantasia 2000, unearthed the dormant project and decided to bring it back to life. Disney Studios France, the company's small Parisian production department, was brought on board to complete the project. The short was produced by Baker Bloodworth and directed by French animator Dominique Monfréy in his first directorial role. A team of approximately 25 animators deciphered Dalí and Hench's cryptic storyboards, and finished Destino's production.
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↳Hellfire (The Hunchback of Notre Dame, 1996)Don't let this siren cast her spell, don't let her fire sear my flesh and bone.
Destroy Esmeralda and let her taste the fires of hell
Or else let her be mine and mine alone
Dark fire
Now gypsy, it's your turn
Choose me or your pyre
Be mine or you will burn
More Muscle Car Wonder Woman with Extra Rolling Skating Giganta
I hope you got a chance to see the full version of the Robert Valley Wonder Woman short on DC Nation last weekend. If you did, you know it was awesome. And the good news and that there is more this weekend.
Here's a preview of Saturday's upcoming DC Nation short on Cartoon Network. The short will star none other than Wonder Woman herself and was written and directed by Robert Valley - a phenomenal artist and a major contributor to the character design team for Disney's Motorcity.


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Just a few resources I used during these couple of weeks.
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A fab powerpoint which provides many opportunities for quality discussions. I would use this.
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Peppered Tuna with White Bean, Fennel, Mint & Roasted Cherry Tomato Salad
Time to indulge in this healthy, sustainably managed, full of omega-3 fish. Team it up with this delicious white bean salad with crisp fennel, mint, rocket & roasted cherry tomatoes.
Nutritional Fact: Both Cannellini & Butter beans are low in fat, high in protein, high in fibre, minerals, iron, magnesium, folate & B vitamins, not that you needed anymore reasons to test this recipe out. Enjoy!
- Serves: 4
- Prep time: 20 minutes
- Cooking time: 15 minutes
4 x 150g portions of Tuna loin
Cracked black pepper
3 Tbsp rice bran oil
1 can cannellini beans, drained & rinsed
1 can butter beans, drained & rinsed
1 small red onion, fi nely chopped
2 punnets cherry tomatoes, halved
1 Tbsp reduced balsamic
1 fennel bulb, fi nely sliced, soak in salted water for
15mins, then drain & rinse with cold water
100g baby rocket
2 Tbsp crème fraiche
Zest & juice from 2 medium lemons
2 Tbsp EV olive oil
Salt & pepper
1 cup fresh Italian parsley, roughly chopped
½ cup fresh mint, fi nely chopped
1. Pre heat oven, 200°C fan bake.
2. Roast the halved cherry tomatoes with a little drizzle of olive oil, reduced balsamic, salt & pepper for 10 minutes, remove from oven to cool.
3. In a large bowl add the cannellini beans, butter beans, red onion, roasted cherry tomatoes, soaked fennel & rocket, toss.
4. In a jar add the dressing ingredients and shake well, toss with salad.
5. Pre heat a large frying pan with oil for the tuna, big enough to hold all 4 pieces.
6. Coat the tuna with freshly cracked pepper and a little salt.
7. Place the tuna on the preheated frying pan and leave for 3-4 minutes, turn the steaks over and cook for a further 3-4 minutes. The tuna should be cooked
medium rare.
Fennel is a wonderful vegetable, great for salads. Soak the fi nely sliced fennel in salted water for 10-15 minutes then drain and rinse with cold water. This removes the bitterness and leaves you with crisp slightly sweet pieces.
To Serve
Place a couple of large spoonfuls of the bean salad in the middle of 4 plates. Place the tuna steaks on top and squeeze lemon juice over with a drizzle of balsamic reduction.
Recipe by: Christa Boardman


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Metrics for Success: You Have the Data, but What Does It Mean?
How to disseminate and use your metrics data
Think about the context of our colleague's focus: management wants a deeper dive on risk. Consider how Security's unique, almost singular, perspective on risk can engage, advise and integrate its programs with the enterprise risk management strategy.
George Campbell is emeritus faculty of the Security Executive Council (SEC) and former CSO of Fidelity Investments. His book, "Measures and Metrics in Corporate Security," may be purchased through the SEC Web site. (www.securityexecutivecouncil.com). The SEC is a problem-solving research and services organization focused on helping businesses effectively manage and mitigate risk. It provides research, services and tools to help security leaders initiate, enhance or innovate security programs; build leadership skills; and bring value to their organizations. The information in this article is copyrighted by the SEC and reprinted with permission. All rights reserved.
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Please help with my story and results.
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sero-negative?In one post you stated "One study found that P24 antigen test couldn't identify 75 of infected sero-negative blood donors." What does this mean? What is sero-negative? Does it mean that if recently exposed and the antibodies have...
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Columbia University's Health & Related ServicesSeronegative means that no HIV antibodies are present, or detectable as measured by an antibody screen. A person can be seronegative, yet still be infected with HIV; this is why testing after the window period (at least three months) is crucial.The... Read more »
Seronegative AIDSDear Dr. Holodniy,It has come to my attention that a post of May 4, 1999 (http://www.thebody.com/cgi/viralload_ans/18870FOR.html) asked about the value of combination HIV testing. The subject of urine positive/serum negative HIV tests referred to...
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False-negative and false-negative tests?I work for an AIDS service organization answering HIV-related health questions. This one has stumped me:A woman called to report that she first tested HIV-positive in December 1999 after having a negative test in May 1999. She had two viral load and...
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Stanford University, School of Medicine1). Unlikely. Not that I am aware of, particularly on 2 separate days.2). Maybe and possibly. But did you test him, or is this by verbal report? Female to male transmission is less likely, but it may be warranted to do a VL or DNA PCR test in this... Read more »
sth about false negativeIn Oct.2011,I had only one protected sex with a prostitute in Sanya, China in my life. I get tested at 66 days and 122 days with negative results, but they are all antibody test(third generation). Are there many false negatives? If there are only 25...
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University of North Carolina - Chapel HillFalse negative HIV antibody tests are very rare and repeated HIV testing, as you have done, can be considered conclusive. Plus your sex was PROTECTED, meaning no risk if you used a condom.Do not get an HIV RNA test. You are not infected.DW... Read more »
HIV-1 Seronegativity in a Child With Proved Perinatal HIV Infection on HAARTThe researchers conducted a case study to report the unexpected absence of HIV-1 antibodies and provirus in the peripheral blood of a four-year-old with previously diagnosed perinatal HIV infection. The study included a review of clinic and... Read more »
Mental Health in HIV Seronegative and Seropositive IDUs in South Florida"Injecting drugs are a primary vector for HIV transmission," and approximately one-third of HIV-infected people in the United States have a history of injection drug use, according to the study authors. In South Florida, urban injection drug users... Read more »
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I tore out my metal framed shower door.
My lousy dimpled glass shower doors were attached with aluminum trim on the front ceramic tile walls, and the screw holes might be easily patched with white tile grout.
Then the spots are visible.
Tile grout will not work with a fiberglass shower. There are patching compounds, such as Bondo, made for boat and auto repairs that could be used to make a waterproof, permanent seal for the screw holes.
Or these plugs might do you well:
I ended up using the little buggers, fairly successfully.
Whether you can "realistically" do a good job depends on a number of factors.
If the fiberglass shower walls are not the exact same white as the dried epoxy patch or Bondo, matching the patch may be impossible.
If you want the old screw holes to be completely invisible, your best bet might be to hire a bath refinishing company to patch and resurface the whole shower.
A cheap (IE $5) solution is replacing the screws holding the shower door trim with slightly longer, ovalhead, stainless steel screws, each with a small rubber grommet (washer) to seal the hole.
This is one of those times when a trip to a local hardware store and a discussion with people who know the difference between ovalhead, roundhead and flathead screws about what you are trying to do will produce an inexpensive, simple and permanent fix for the screw holes.
Take along one of the old screws to make sure the replacement screws are long enough to fill the old screw holes and are about the same diameter so that you do not crack the fiberglass with a "fatter" screw. Yup, my wallet holds a lot of screws. I don't think there is any change in there...just screws.
A number of slightly off-color patches would bother me as much as my inability to clean my old glass shower doors, which drove me to rip them out.
But if you don't mind the color and condition of your current shower stall, redoing the whole thing redone to cover a handful of screw holes seems a bit excessive.
Filling in Screw Holes After Shower Door Removal
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Anonymous asked: I recently quit my job without having anything lined up (stupid but it was mentally destroying me & I couldn't take it) and, although I have a good amount saved up where I could live for about 3 to 4 months completely unemployed, the guilt of using that money and the depression of not having a job is becoming particularly unbearable. Any advice or just general kind words from someone who has been where I am right meow?
There's such a stigma attached to quitting a job for your reasons but I think if ANYONE can get out of ANY situation that is mentally destroying you, then the best thing you can do is run as far away as fucking possible. It sounds like you already took the biggest, most important leap for you to be able to move on, and that's really fucking fantastic of you.
Being unemployed is a really fucked up, difficult thing to go through. It's the first time I've ever been through a situation where I consider myself not living my life. Like nothing will be normal or ok or good until I find that fucking job, so why bother doing anything else at all because nothing matters when you don't have a job.
Having that daily habit of going to work and earning a living totally vanish from you is really sad and lonely.
I'm not sure just how deep your depression has gotten, but now that I'm feeling a little better I can say that it took a bunch of really fucking teeny tiny steps to feel better - steps that normal people with jobs never even think about because it's such a regular habit for them.
So for example, that period where I didn't leave my house for five weeks ended with me saying ok you lazy ass, you need to get up and just go for a god damned walk. So I started walking around my neighborhood, pretty aimlessly, maybe a couple of times a week. Eventually that expanded to me saying ok, I have to leave my house every single day, even if it's for ten minutes, just to get the fuck out. Like, this is a stupid, small, tiny thing, but it's something to make me feel somewhat normal.
Then there was the showering thing…I think I'd go like a week at a time without showering (because this is the period where i was sleeping like 16 hours a day and being generally miserable). So then when I started getting out of my house a little more I was like ok, it's time to act like a Normal Human and shower every day as if I'm going to work. It's amazing what those normal every day habits due to your mentality when you just stop doing them.
I also started setting my alarm again to wake up in the morning instead of waking up mid-afternoon when most normal people's days are already halfway over.
Then I realized I needed to stimulate my brain in some way, any fucking way, so I started reading the news again, reading books, reading whatever, sometimes just a few minutes a day, but daily, to make sure my brain wasn't dissolving into nothing.
All of these things are so RIDICULOUSLY mundane and stupid, but it's amazing how much they have helped me feel less shitty.
I think the hardest part was (and still is) trying to communicate with people. I mean, I avoided all social networks, stopped hanging out with friends, and essentially ex-communicated EVERY SINGLE PERSON from my life because I was so depressed and I just couldn't deal with the thought of interacting with people when everything you have to say is terrible.
I think it's really important that you talk to someone, anyone, about anything, and it doesn't even have to be about this if you don't want to talk about it. Just try to engage with someone on any level (this tumblr ask is a great step) because interacting with people is absolutely crucial, maybe even the most important part, in coping with depression.
You're gonna come out of this on top. It might take awhile, but at some point you will find that awesome job and you will never look back and it will be glorious. Holler if you ever want to talk ok!!
This is just my own personal sob story that isn't worth posting, however, I've been a really shitty friend over the past few months (ie being totally nonexistent) so all I can do is try to explain myself.
So, depression sucks. Trying to explain it to people who haven't experienced it is a waste of time because they'll never understand, and trying to explain it to people who have experienced it is a waste of time because they already know.
BUT - I think I might be able to describe what managing depression is like because I was (fairly) successful with that for a couple of years. If being depressed is like drowning in a tepid bath, managing depression is sort of like walking on a frozen lake. You're out there, you're alive, you're surviving, but one stupid fucking crack in the ice and it's over and you're drowning and freezing to death at the same time.
A less dramatic way to look at it would be like experiencing a caffeine addiction. Prior to caffeine, you exist in a very specific way. You start drinking coffee and you get a nice buzz. Months later, you're addicted and you're no longer experiencing that buzz, but you continue to use it because it's just helping you survive. If you decide to quit caffeine, you go through withdrawals, and you feel ten times more fucked than before you started consuming it. Once you have a falling out with your depression after you've been managing it, for some reason you feel even more depressed than before you had a handle on it.
So, at the end of November, I lost my job. I told most people that I quit but in reality I was laid off. To me, being laid off was the equivalent to being fired and I was so ashamed. I'm so used to being totally independent that it just seemed easier to gloss over it and make it seem like I had the upper hand. I just didn't want my friends and family to be disappointed in me. It was really difficult to deal with, as I had been with this company for over five years and it was my first ~grown up~ job. I went from making $21/hr to $8/hr on unemployment.
To make things shittier, losing my job meant losing my insurance, and losing my insurance meant losing all access to mental health support. I had been on a cocktail of prozac and adderall for a couple of years. I had also been seeing a psychologist regularly, and the combination of drugs and therapy had made a hugely positive impact on my life. It all disappeared so quickly.
To make this a trifecta of a disaster, in December I found out that I was pregnant. I had started dating this dude in October, he got me pregnant, and turned out to be the most amazingly unbelievable asshole about the whole situation (I've got some examples of his atrocious texts on twitter). As this was happening, I was more concerned about how he was treating me than I was the procedure. After the abortion, everything got really fucking weird.
When I was 16, I decided that I didn't want to have kids and I never really thought about it again. Even with serious boyfriends, the concept of children never entered the picture…..until I had an abortion.
I feel like this is some weird story for Catholic Charities or something, like I Had An Abortion And Now I Regret It. I certainly don't want it to be that way, but I can say with certainty that right after the abortion, I realized that I actually really want to have children. At first I thought that it was just the aftershock of having an abortion, that many women feel this way and that the feeling would subside. The feeling never subsided. It just grew stronger. There is no doubt whatsoever that I want to have kids. The question I've asked myself ten billion trillion infinityillion times is this: if I knew then what I know now, would I have gone through with it? I'll never know the answer but the question will inevitably plague me for lordt knows how long.
SO, at this point it's mid-January. No job, no insurance, no medicine, no therapy, just had an abortion. We have now entered shutdown mode. When I say shutdown, I mean Shut The Fuck Down. Avoid Friends. Avoid Family. Avoid Texts. Avoid Social Networks. Avoid Life. Like honestly, why talk to people when every single thing I have to say is negative and there isn't a single person on this planet I can relate to??
I think I went something like 5 weeks without leaving my apartment. I was sleeping upwards of 16 hours a day. I bought cat food online and I managed to live on the ten types of rice and quinoa I stocked up on when I actually had a job. Man, I can't even tell you the last time I had a vegetable. December? I honestly have no idea how my body is still functioning?????
I started to return to normal in April, which, go figure, is when my unemployment ran out. I thought going from 21/hr to 8/hr was bad…but going from 8/hr to 0/hr is indescribably horrifying.
A few days ago I asked twitter for money. I felt pretty fucking awful about it cos it was something I swore I'd never have to do. I've been really fucking independent for my entire life so asking for help is one of the most humbling, humiliating, eye opening experiences I've ever been through.
When I did it, I figured that I'd get a really tepid response. I mean, I disappeared for four months, I was CLEARLY a terrible friend, and I just assumed folks had forgotten about me OR that it seemed really disingenuous for me to just show up on twitter out of the blue and be like HEY I NEED MONEY PLZ HELP.
When people actually responded, I was shocked. Like, how fucking selfless can you be? No matter what you give, that money isn't falling off of trees. That shit is earned. You are working for some period of time, often times at a job you hate, and you're just giving me money? Jesus christ.
In this moment, I feel overwhelmed with appreciation. There is no way that I will ever be able to properly thank you for helping me because you legitimately saved me. I would have been evicted if it weren't for you and there is NOTHING I can do that will ever express how much that means to me. Oh god dammit, I'm tearing up just typing this shit because it's just so…nice. You are so nice and I love you so much and I really hope that at some point soon, I'll be able to thank you properly, ie with baked goods, cards, money, porn, etc.
So where does all of this leave me?
Full disclosure, I've received enough money from twitter to pay my rent for the month. There was some extra, and I used that to buy enough cat food so that my cats will be set in the event of an apocalypse.
I had three interviews this week, and I aced all of them. I have a fourth on Monday, so I'm really hopeful that by some point next week, I will have an offer, a job, and will finally begin to rebuild my life.
With that said, thank you for everything. I'm so sorry that I've been such a bad friend, but I fucking GUARANTEE that I will make this up to you.
Thank you for not abandoning me.
I love you.
my charmed life
In March of 2012, I was robbed at gunpoint.
I was at a club just across the river in Illinois. I had driven separately from my friends because I hadn't planned on drinking and I knew I'd get tired and want to leave earlier than everyone else. The clubs in Illinois are depressing as hell cos they're open 24 hours and consist of nothing but desperate folks trying to get laid. Plus, beers are like six bucks and lol at that mess. They get HUGE crowds though because that's where everyone in St. Louis goes if they still want to ~party~ once all of the bars here close. Thinking back, this was a club I went to on my 21st birthday, and it was the first (but certainly not the last) time I had ever made out with some random man in the middle of the bar. Oh, sweet memories.
The night that I was robbed, I had decided to leave earlier than the rest of my friends. I didn't even think about asking anyone to walk me to my car because the parking lot is super crowded, really well lit, and there are loads of security guards wandering around. I open my car door, get about halfway in, and before I even realize what's happening, this guy shoves me the rest of the way in my car, slams the barrel of a gun on my cheek and tells me to give him my purse. Before I could process what was happening, he just grabbed my purse and ran away. I immediately got out of my car and started screaming as loud as I could that I had just been robbed, hoping someone could chase the dude down. After that i just sort of crumbled to the ground where I remained sobbing hysterically for about 20 minutes.
The security guards who drive a truck managed to get wind of this in time to chase his vehicle off the property and get the license plate number. They couldn't apprehend him though, cos once you're off the club's property, the security guards can't do shit.
It turned out that about 30 seconds before he robbed me, he did the exact same thing to another woman. I wonder if he had been running to his car and I just happened to be conveniently in his way.
A police officer came, took my report and a few pictures of my bloody gross face (he shoved the gun in my cheek so hard that it actually made a bloody indentation of the gun barrel), and left. The security guards went into the club and found my friends, I cried into their shoulders for a few minutes, and then went home.
About an hour after this happened, my robber tried to use my ATM card at an ATM machine at one of my bank branches. I don't think he's very bright. The camera at the ATM got some lovely footage of his face. After that failure, he attempted to use my card at two different gas stations, but by then, I had already deactivated it.
A few days later, I received a call from a detective. Based on all of the information he received from the case, he figured out who the robber was. He came to my work, had me look at pictures of a bunch of dudes, and I made a positive ID on the robber. He got a warrant.
A week later, the dude was found passed out in a gas station bathroom in OKLAHOMA, high on oxycodone. I guess he was on the run. The detective from Illinois drove all the way down to Oklahoma, picked him up, and brought him back. He's remained in jail there ever since. Since armed robbery is so absurdly common, I was told that it'd be likely that this thing would never go to court and he'd take a plea bargain.
Fast forward to now. The guy refuses to plead guilty even though the amount of evidence is absolutely overwhelming. A few days ago I received a subpoena to appear in court as a witness. This is real shit, like there's gonna be a jury and a judge and the whole deal. I guess I should be thankful that I'll be able to tell this story, but I'm mostly just sad that I have to see this dude's face in a courtroom and relive that awful, shitty memory.


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What would YOU do with 40 lbs of hierloom tomatoes?
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- gimlis1mum Aug 18, 2011 04:18 PM
So. Our CSA lets us order some items by the case. The last 2 years I've gotten a 20-lb box of field tomatoes (seconds) for a song, made a nice batch of sauce, and canned it.
This year I decided that 20 lbs just wasn't enough and I went ahead and ordered two boxes. Today was the pickup and I prepared for massive sauce-making, then went to the depot...and was handed two 20-lbs boxes of mixed heirlooms, instead of field tomatoes for sauce. Apparently, I misread the order form. YIKES.
They sure looked pretty in the box, all those shapes and colors. I've segregated them and there are some small round orange ones; some small round red-and-green striped ones; some small round yellow ones; some small round pale yellow, almost white with a dusky look ones; and some BIG, multi-lobed, red-on-the-bottom-and-green-or-yellow on the top ones.
I need to preserve as much of them as possible - my kids don't like fresh tomatoes (but they eat sauce ahppily) and the hubby can't have raw tomatoes right now. I can only eat so many pounds before these bad boys go bad...Has anyone made tomato sauce w/ yellow or orange tomatoes? Does it freeze well? I have the most of the pale yellow and the big multi-lobed varietites...I cut open of the of multi-lobed ones and it has a thick shell with a lot of space between the shell and the seeds. The seeds are clustered around the central stem and so I don't think it would make a good slicing tomato.
Other ideas for using them up? I've made saurkraut and kimchee before, never tried fermenting tomatoes though, I'm thinking it might not work b/c of the acid.
They certainly make a lovely gazpacho which leads me to believe they might be more versatile than you might think. The reason I don't make sauce from heirlooms is the cost. But heck, you have already paid for them! If I were you,
I would take a few pounds, make a sauce and see what you think. Perhaps juicing some if the kids enjoy tomato juice. Either the sauce or juice would freeze well. Tomato juice ice cubes for bloody Mary's. Just a few thoughts.
re: smtucker
Fresh pico de gallo will use a bunch of tomatoes and keeps well in the refrigerator.
re: escondido123
I'll second the vote for oven-roasting....almost any tomato is lovely roasted (in winter I drain big cans of plum tomatoes and roast them and they turn out wonderfully). Just cut in half, drain a bit, put them cut-side up on a big pan (with sides), drizzle w/just a bit of olive oil, salt, and just a bit of sugar. Roast at about 225 degrees for at least 2-3 hours (if they are big, it may take much longer). When they seem to be shrinking a bit and getting much darker in color, flip them over (skin side up), sprinkle on some chopped garlic or oregano, and roast another half an hour or so. I put them in jars or ziploc bags in the freezer and use them all winter in pasta, on pizza, on bruschetta...(or out of the jar with a fork). I would think that a variety of colors & shapes might make for a particularly attractive bunch of roasted tomatoes. We don't seem to be having a very good tomato year around here...I envy you.
re: tonifi
I tried this today, and you were right - the mix of colors is beautiful. I hadn't had good luck with slow-roasting in the past, and had switched to high-temp for my roasted tomato needs, but these came out great. Sprinkled them with a blend of herbs and sea salt that we got as part of our late-season CSA share last fall and have been needing an excuse to use, so that made me happy too.
I used a mix of the small round maters- orange, yellow, near-white and stripey. Beautiful and so delicious, it's now packed away in the freezer for later this year when DH can finally eat tomatoes again.
That's a lot of tomatoes. Maybe check out how they use their surplus in Bunyol, Spain, in their annual "La Tomatina" tomato fight?....:)
Last year, here's what I did with extra tomatoes from the garden:
I sliced them, dried them at the lowest temp on my oven for a few hours for a sundried tomato effect, packed them in ziplock bags with EV olive oil to cover, and froze them. Since them I have had no shortage of sweet, tart dried tomatoes or flavored oil to thaw and use as I see fit. One major upside (at least for me) is they don't take up much space this way.
Of course you could also can them, though that would require a pressure canner.
This is a family recipe. I grew up in NJ farm country in the sixties/seventies before the state got paved over. We always made it alternating very ripe red tomatoes and green ones but I think you could adapt it for your heirlooms. If you're not into making pastry a store-bought pie crust works just fine.
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9-inch unbaked pie crust
4 cups sliced red and green tomatoes
1-1/2 tsp salt
1/8 tsp black pepper
1/3 cup mayonnaise
1/3 cup grated parmesan cheese
1 clove minced garlic
Brush pie shell lightly with milk. Bake at 45o degrees for five minutes and remove from oven. Cool for a couple minutes.
Reduce oven to 35o.
Fill shell with sliced tomatoes alternating colors.
Combine mayo/ parmesan/garlic and spread over top.
Bake for about forty minutes.
re: pasuga
I'm going to add your recipe to my tomato pie file. I was going to suggest trying to freeze some tomato pies, but thought I should read all the replys first. Glad I did; you already said it.
re: visciole
I do the same. I sauce all tomatoes. I also cut them in half and can them (seeds removed) with garlic and basil for a bruchetta topping.
They will make excellent, if decadent, sauce.
A couple of years ago I was gifted a case of over-ripe heirlooms, they made the best sauce ever. This year I am doing dry-farmed Early Girls for my sauce for the winter, but if I find a good deal on bruised/seconds of heirlooms, that will be some good sauce.
Eat what you can fresh, or in gazpacho, put up the rest and enjoy.
2 summers ago when my tomato bounty came in all @ once I had a mix of tomatoes, tigerellas, purple prince many others all diferent colors sizes and shapes I canned tomato jam. I don't recall the exact recipe but it was the same as for low sugar fruit jam (no need to worry about pectin or pressure canning since some sugar and tomatoes have acid but I would add a little extra to be safe lemon juice or vinegar) . I added hot peppers and ginger. I suggest googling for specific ratios but it was great and I am hoping enough of my tomatoes ripen at once this year to do again. It was great on meat, crackers with roasted garlic and cheese a nice combination of sweet and savory that also could serve as a hostess gift. I quickly dropped the tomatoes in boiling water to remove the skins before making the jam for a smooth texture but the seeds were not a problem. A second idea is homemade BBQ sauce. Good luck!
re: debmykar
Someone correct me if I'm wrong about the specifics:
To can without pressure, you need a pH of 4.5 or below. Generally speaking, tomatoes aren't acidic enough for this, Adding acid will work if you add enough, but you're best off testing the pH of anything you decide to can without pressure. Safe is better than sorry, especially where botulism is concerned. Botulism is seriously bad news.
re: cowboyardee
Yeah, the official Ball canning Bible says to add 1/4 tsp Citric acid per pint jar, or 1 tbsp Bottled (not fresh) lemon juice, to get to safe acid levels for regular water canning. Double that for quarts.
re: cowboyardee
Well I hope someone would look up an actual recipe for canning as I said I did not remember one off hand but rather was offering ideas and did mention adding sugar and acid but it is something that can be made in a water bath as opposed to a pressure canner. Sorry for the confusion. I didn't imagine a home canner not doing this or a first time canner not looking it up it was meant as a general "hey try tomato jam" and since it is a little off the norm (as opposed to bbq sauce) here is a little info on it to guide your search. Next time I will include disclaimers and warnings ;)
re: debmykar
No worries - I have canned a few pints of tomatoes before :-)
Thanks for your suggestions.
I bought 75 pounds of bulk "seconds" at my farmers market and made 35 or so quarts of marinara. Some with basil, some with pancetta and some plain. Nothing beats opening up one of those puppies in the winter.
I concur with using them for pasta sauce. They work as well as field maters. One year I made a dinner of spaghetti with fresh tomato sauce that played fast and loose with colors: yellow cherry tomatoes, halved...garlic greens...red onions...red bell peppers. Traditional taste but lots more eye appeal.
Slice as thinly as you can and dry in the oven on parchment or silpat-lined sheet pans. Then grind into powder to be used in breadings, dressings, toppings. Ruth Reichl showed how it is done on Diary of a Foodie on PBS.
re: greygarious
That sounds really pretty...my garlic chives are sending up their blossoms,maybe i'll incorpate some into the sauce. I'm burning through the garlic from my garden pretty fast...
You have all convinced me, I will make another batch of roasteds and then sauce the rest of them. I'm feeling like a tomato wuss anyway since a friend in Northern VA told me she's getting 20 lbs every 3 DAYS from her 13 tomato plants...!
re: gimlis1mum
Wow, that's a lot! DH and I have a running bet on whether or not we'll get ANY tomatoes off of the potted tomato plants we buy every year.
This year our grand total is 0.
re: gimlis1mum
I just want to be perfectly clear that the dish I made with the yellow ones was not a long-cooked sauce - just a quick saute only long enough for the onions and peppers to be soft and sweet. Any longer and the individual colors and shapes would have disappeared.
I would:
- oven roast as mentioned already but preserve them in marinating feta cheese and herbs
- make pasta sauce as mentioned
- make tomato sorbet
- make tomato jam - made a big batch last year
- make ketchup
- make barbecue sauces
- make tomato and goat cheese tartlets
- make Calabrese salad
- make salsa (mentioned)
re: chefathome
Chef at home could I get your tomato jam recipe please?
re: JEN10
I did tomato jam using the recipe from here last year and it turned out really well. I actually ended roasting the tomatoes first, though.
re: mollyomormon
Thank you Molly
re: ipsedixit
I like to make frittata's with fresh tomatoes, basil, and mozzarella.
I can't even *imagine* 40# of heirloom tomatoes but what I'd start doing is roasting pans of them. I'd whirl some of the roasted tomatoes into the base of soup and freeze it in ziplocks or vacuum packed bags of a couple cups apiece for finishing through the tomato-less portion of the year.
I'd also pack some in jars of olive oil and put them in the back of the fridge for sandwiches and cooking through the cold months. Pack and water bath some in attractive presentation jars for gifts.
Did another batch of slow-roasted, mixed small tomatoes today, now have 9 pints in the freezer. Took the big multi-lobed ones and blanched, peeled and chopped them (with the help of my 5-year-old, I'm so tickled that he wanted to help), them simmered 'em for about three hours, to yield 3 quarts of the best-tasting plain old cooked tomatoes I've ever met.
But since I still don't have a stash of my usual tomato sauce yet...I ordered another 20 lb box for Tuesday :-)
I like to melt 'em down http://www.saveur.com/article/Techniq... and freeze them. I'm just finishing up last year's crop and am eager to gather some new batches.
you might like this website since there are often recipes for more"exotic" recipes
they had pickle eggplant eggplant yesterday and would probably be a good resource for you.Koreans make kimchi out of all kinds of hings- I have only done the usual suspects, cabbage carrots onions but I am thinking that fermenting tomatoes could be possible...I have a book that does it but it is very wishy washy on the details some oil some salt...please post if you do it
re: debmykar
Well, I tried it. And I learned two things:
(1) keywords do make a difference. A search for 'tomato kimchi" yields almost no hits, whereas "fermented tomato" yields lots, mostly for lacto-fermented salsa recipes.
(2) there is probably a reason that there are no hits on tomato kimchi. It doesn't taste bad, but it doesn't taste exactly right, either. It tastes a lot like, well, salsa.
Here's what I did:
3 ½ lbs mixed tomatoes – small round green striped and red ones
Blanch and peel, coarsely chop
Add salt – 5/8 T per lb of tomatoes. Assume some loss due to cores and seeds,go with 2 T total (instead of 2 1/8 T as calculated for 3 ½ lbs)
Place in earthenware bowl, cover with a plate, let sit overnight
Next day (mid-day), drain toms and taste. Saltiness level is good.
Add the following:
2 scallions, sliced and chopped
¼ c minced garlic chive blossoms and stems (from my garden)
1 clove of garlic, grated on microplane (a trick I've used for kimchi before)
1 T Korean red pepper powder
Stir well and transfer to glassjar
Add enough liquid to cover the veggies
Cover jar with a square of cheesecloth and a rubber band
Leave at room temp for 3-4 days
I transferred the kimchi to a fresh quart jar and put it in the fridge sooner that normal b/c it started to develop a bloom and I didn't want to deal with removing it everyday. It's been in the fridge for a few days now and I just tasted it again...it really does taste like salsa. I used the korean pepper powder b/c I wanted more of that kimchi flavor, but I'm guessing that the acidity of the tomatoes is masking the subtler flavor of the red pepper? Also, I can't really taste any of the nice remented/sour flavor, though it's possible that it just needed more time at room temp and it's not really fermenting yet.
The recipes I found online for lacto-fermented salsa generally use whey as a fermentation aid, and I didn't add any to the kimchi. So maybe that would have helped with the fermentation.
On the positive side, before I put it in the fridge I did notice that the tomato bits themselves still tasted very fresh - the texture was preserved. Now that it's been in the fridge it tastes like refrigerated salsa.
Anyway, it was fun to try it.
The 3rd box of heirlooms that I ordered had a lot of big, multi-lobed toms that were yellow on the bottom, turning to slightly red and then green on the shoulders. I blanched, peeled, and stewed, and canned them, and have 7 pints of the most beautiful yellow tomato sauce...and just now i sent in another order for one more box of paste tomatoes. So at long last, I will get around to making my usual red sauce. It's gonna be a tasty winter :-)
Oh, and thank you for mentioning Food in Jars, I do like that website!
I have made pasta sauce and cooked tomato salsa with all kinds of tomatoes and frozen it to great success. And also roasted tomatoes with garlic, olive oil, and thyme. For sauce, I like Hazan's butter sauce or Patricia Wells' sauce with onions, fennel seed, and orange zest. sometimes I peel, sometimes I strain, sometimes I puree. I just freeze in ziplocs, flat, in one and two cup increments. The salsa I made last year turned out really well, although unfortunately I can't recall what recipe I used! it was a chipotle salsa that was canned with just hot salsa to cause the seal, so I froze them anyway.
This year, Seattle's weather has been very unfriendly for growing tomatoes. Rather than jars of red and green salsa and bags of sauce, we will be likely to more than ten red ones. and there are very few green ones to begin with. it is most disappointing.
re: cocktailhour
I made and canned salsa a couple of years ago, and while it was good, it really did taste a lot like Tostitos and the equivalent store bought varieties. I think the recipe called for a few cans of tomato paste and lots of vinegar, to get the pH in the right range...might work better if I tried to freeze it, then I wouldn't need all that vinegar.
Don't let that big yellow one get away.
Put the pasta water on and start the pasta when it boils.
Prep of the sauce will take less time than the pasta
Saute in olive olive oil:
roughly chopped tomato
chopped green onions
Wow, that's amazing. I actually love Francis Lam's tomato recipes. (Full disclosure: He's a friend!) But his ratatouille is the best I've ever had: http://www.gourmet.com/food/2007/09/r... and this 5-minute pasta with a crudo tomato sauce is Amazing & you might even be able to get the kids to eat it-- it's even good the next day as a room-temp pasta salad. http://www.gilttaste.com/stories/1063... Then there's the Franks' Sunday Sauce, which is wonderful and would likely freeze well. Good luck! http://www.amazon.com/Frankies-Spunti...
re: alexvb
Wow, that ratatoullie sounds amazing (and was great fun to read...I've had my supper and then some, but now I'm HUNGRY). I did make a few batches of a much-less-glamorous rat with some Ichiban eggplants and garlic from the garden, peppers and zucchini from our CSA.
And to update on my overall tomato progress: I did finally make a plain 'ol red sauce with the box of paste tomatoes. Canned 7 pints and had a few toms left over, which got roasted, squished and cooked with onions and breakfast sausage from our meat CSA (I know, it's not the right sausage, but it's too spicy for the kids to eat as straight sausage), now frozen for a couple of quick meals later. So that's 80 lbs of tomatoes processed and I still think, do I need more? :-)
The tomato kimchi still tastes like salsa. So I had some on a quesadilla today for lunch, and it's pretty good with eggs for breakfast. But I didn't have the nerve to ask my Korean friend to taste it!
OM-gosh! I would love to have 40 lbs of heirloom tomatoes right now! :-) Ours are done for the season and the weather and insects have been so weird the late summer tomato plants that we planted didn't do anything. Usually we do salads for a while until nobody wants to look at another raw tomato. The following items are all canned: tomato chunks, tomato chunks w/oregano & other herbs, pizza sauce, pasta sauce, salsa (different varieties), stewed tomato, whole tomato, sometimes tomato jam, green tomato chutney, yellow or orange tomato jam. I did sauce once but didn't have much use for it. I also dry the tomatoes every year and add to soups or any dish that calls for sun dried tomatoes. That's all I can think of for now.
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Would you share your pizza sauce? Is it similar to pasta sauce but just cooke dlonger to thicken it?
I put 3 heirlooms in the garden last May (we're in zone 6) and they were all slow to set fruit. But now I have lots of toms hanging on to dying vines and it's almost time to bring them in.
I had great timing with the heirlooms that I bought: we got them right before the hurricane hit and stopped tomato production for a few weeks. Now I am hoarding all that stuff I made until winter hit and i need a bit of sunshine :-)
Late to the show, but no one mentioned dehydrating them, so I will. Set slices on cooling racks in a sheet pan, and give them several hours in the oven at the lowest temp you can achieve. If need be, you can wedge a wooden spoon into the oven door to cool it down even more. You're shooting for about 150-160 here. Of course, if you already own a dehydrator, that's even better. Dried tomatoes put up very well, and you can store then reconstitute them for a pretty long time.
Set aside enough to enjoy fresh for a few days. Make sauce out of the rest ... or stewed tomatoes ... or tomato juice ... and freeze or can. There's no way to preserve tomatoes for the long term in anything like their fresh condition. Another option is to dry them in the sun or in a very low oven. The advantage of that is it's less work than canning and less of a storage problem than reducing to sauce and finding freezer space for so much. Canning tomatoes is relatively easy because they are high in acid and you don't have as much risk as when canning other veggies. But it's still a lot of work, and you may have to invest in a mess of Mason jars with fresh lids, a canning kettle, etc. Also, canning tomatoes usually means many hours, during warm weather, in a hot, steamy kitchen. Or, since they are more desirable than the average tomato, you could give most of them away to friends while they are still fresh and yummy.
I'm on the run and haven't read through all of the responses (yet) but all I can say is that I was in a similar tomato situation a few years ago, and I used a good portion of them to make a good ol' pasta sauce.
The heirlooms made an EXCELLENT and distinctive sauce and there's no reason not to use at least some of them for that purpose if you run out of other ideas. I ripened mine in paper bags for a few days to encourage every bit of succulent sweetness out of them, then ran them through the tomato mill to separate the seeds and skins from the juice. I no longer belong to the co-op that supplied these heirloom tomatoes...and frankly it's the main thing that I miss!
me+40lbs of heirloom tomato=happy.
especially if there is fresh mozz, balsamic, and basil present