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Conchiglie with yoghurt, peas & chilli pg 111 UK edition
This was delicious. Tasty, filling and refreshing. It's a perfect summer weather pasta dish. This is definitely a keeper and the husband has request that I put it on 'the rotation'. It's a very quick to make so can easily be a weeknight meal.
Yoghurt, peas, garlic and olive oil gets processed. Cooked pasta is added to this sauce, some more cooked peas, feta, basil, salt and white pepper are then added and gently tossed.
Finally pine nuts and chilli are fried and poured on top (some wonderful sizzling here). I had my husband cooking the pine nuts as I was assembling and tossing the salad so when it got to our plates the yoghurt sauce was still warmish from the pasta.
We did make a couple of alterations. We halved the amount of garlic as it's raw in the dish and we didn't want to be too pungent on a weekday. Secondly we doubled the amount of pine nuts and chilli (and a bit more oil for frying them) as they sounded so delicious we wanted extra on our plates.
re: Frizzle
(Pasta rags) with Yoghurt, Peas & Chile, page 111, US edition.
Last night Mr. NS grilled lamb chops that I had marinated in harissa and preserved lemon. Thanks to Frizzle's report, and beautiful photo, this dish sprung to mind as the perfect side. I had the usual ragamuffin pasta scraps leftover from cutting ravioli, so I used that in place of the conchiglie. I followed Frizzle's lead, and added extra pine nuts and chile (I used Urfa biber).
This was delicious, and different. A perfect accompaniment to the spicy lamb. It could easily stand on its own for those of us who don't need meat with every meal.
re: L.Nightshade
I'm glad you like it. Your photo looks wonderful. We had this again last night, my husband is obsessed with it now I think. This time I used a low fat yoghurt in and attempt to be healthier and the sauce (unsurprisingly) was a lot more watery than with full fat Greek yoghurt.
We can't get many different types of chili here in Australia due to strict bio-security rules. No aleppo even. So I use some very generic chili flakes with the addition of smoked paprika as suggested by the book.
re: Frizzle
I think the chile flakes with smoky paprika sounds like a great solution. Urfa biber is a bit smoky, and the smokiness really does add something to the dish.
I didn't realize it was so hard for you to get the variety of chiles there! But I have an old friend who started a Mexican food and salsa company in Australia, and I do recall that she has to grow all her own chiles!
re: L.Nightshade
This is another dish I've had in Turkey a lot. It sounds wrong but is lovely.
re: greedygirl
My father used to attempt to replicate his Syrian mother's version of the pasta and yoghurt combo and still laments that he can't get it tasting quite right. He recalls eating it cold from the fridge on a hot day rather than having it warm like this recipe. I'm going to email him this version to try to see if we can't get him closer to the flavour of his mothers.
re: Frizzle
This recipe for pasta and yogurt with chiles and peas had piqued my interest particularly because I also love the macaroni bil laban that your father seems to crave.
re: JungMann
He used macaroni too - I wasn't sure if it was because that was the same pasta as what his mum used or if it was because there was limited choices of pasta styles in New Zealand in the 80s. I think he just mixed crushed garlic into the yoghurt with s&p. Maybe some olive oil. If you have a recipe that differs to this I would love to get it to pass on to him.
re: Frizzle
Macaroni (with allowances for different pronunciations) is the generic Arabic word for pasta so both your father's elbows and my rotini can be called macaroni bil laban. The sauce for the dish consists of nothing more than full fat strained yogurt with garlic paste and salt. It is important to crush the garlic in a mortar or mash it with salt to get a smooth sauce. Toss your pasta with the garlic yogurt, drizzle with beurre noisette (not olive oil) and top with Aleppo pepper (or your closest approximation) and serve. If you want to gild the lily you can add dried mint, parsley and/or toasted pine nuts. If you chill the pasta overnight, the flavor of the raw garlic will mellow out so you may want to add another clove depending on your taste preference.
re: JungMann
Thank you JM!
re: Frizzle
Fusilli with Yogurt, Peas and Chili
Made this tonight and loved it. This is a fantastic weeknight meal for a few reasons. 1. It is super fast - everything comes together in the time it takes to boil water and cook pasta. 2. It is actually satisfying as a one-dish meal. You really don't need anything else with it except for maybe a simple salad, and even this would just be for the sake of textural variety in the meal. 3. With hothouse basil and frozen peas this dish can be made year round with great success. If you skip the basil it would still be good and is a total pantry meal.
The tangy, garlicky yogurt and feta are so good in the pasta and the sweet peas and herbal basil offset it nicely. Crunchy pinenuts on top add good contrast. Yum.
re: Frizzle
Conchiglie (Macaroni) with yoghurt, chilli and peas, UK iBook edition
This is a very easy but satisfying one dish meal. It's very toddler friendly too (if your little one only eats pasta, fritters and eggs). Because everything is mixed in at end, the toddler got a serving without chillied pinenuts. If yours younger, you can also the salt in the yoghurt sauce for the baby.
I substitute the Turkish chilli flakes with Indian chilli flakes and a pinch of smoked paprika. I will also make more of the chilli pinenuts next time as they are really moreish. Also I wasn't organised enough to have defrosted frozen pea for the yoghurt sauce. So I cooked the entire amount of peas required in water and used cooked peas for the sauce.
It is more suitable as a summer dish as the pasta is stirred into cold yoghurt and feta, but it's ok today as it isn't too cold.
re: Frizzle
Rotini with yogurt, chilli and peas
As everyone else has stated, this is quite a satisfying, easy to assemble, one-pot meal. Yogurt and pasta is an Eastern Mediterranean favorite of mine, but several things set this recipe apart. Firstly though the recipe is simple, the interplay is really quite complex. There is sweetness from the peas contrasted against the heat of the chilli and pepper which is tamed by the cool flavor of the basil. The toasted nuts (I used almonds) add textural interest while the feta adds a briny element that keeps the dish from being too one note. I can imagine that made with fat summer peas, this will be a very popular supper to pull from the fridge on the weekdays.
re: Frizzle
My turn on the Conghili with yogurt, peas and chili. Big hit with all of us - so much better than it sounds. But I have to say - awfully rich. So rich that I doubt I'd make again. Still and all, delicious.
re: LulusMom
Is it rich taste wise? Or do you mean it's very high in fat? Would it help if you switch to low fat or 0% fat greek yoghurt?
re: LulusMom
What could be so "rich" about this dish, LLM? Yogurt, peas, pinenuts, feta, chilies... I'm making this tonight. Yup, I am. Using left over macaroni too. JungMann used almonds instead of pinenuts and I like that idea. I'll let you know how it all turns out...
re: LulusMom
Yes, used full fat yogurt (someone upthread had mentioned that it wasn't as good with nonfat; should have gone half-fat). Then there is the feta, and the olive oil that the nuts are cooked in. Absolutely delicious, but I paid for it in the middle of the night.
re: LulusMom
Ah yes. Full fat yogurt. The second time Frizzzle cooked the the recipe she used nonfat yogurt, that's what I'm going to do but I'll drain it first to reduce the liquid. It's a shame you were distressed after the meal, LLM...
re: LulusMom
I can't think of anything that's better with the low fat version. But sometimes we just have to!
re: lilham
Exactly - especially with so much of it (and the cheese, and the oil).
re: LulusMom
I forgot to post that I made this pasta dish as well. I used 0% fat greek yogurt from TJs and I thought it tasted delicious. I also added a head of kale in with the pasta cooking water so that probably cut down on the richness as well. We really enjoyed this, esp the pine nut/chile flake oil part. This would be a great dish in the summer when my basil is in full bloom.
The problem I have with dishes like this is that I need a more solid protein. I'm blanking on what I served this with though. Maybe a roasted chicken? No clue whatsoever.
re: beetlebug
0% fat Greek yogurt from TJ's... That's exactly what I have!! (I have a little every morning w a small drizzle of local honey.) perfect. Thanks for posting BB...
re: Frizzle
Conchiglie with Yogurt, Peas and Chile, Pg 111, US Edition
At long last. We made this recipe last night. I borrowed from each of the people who made it before me. Used Trader Joe's 0% fat Greek yogurt and Israeli feta, almonds, reduced the amount of oil. I'm probably forgetting other adaptations but those are incidental anyway, and nothing was substituted.
My husband is still raving about it. He Loved everything about the dish. I liked the combination of ingredients and didn't think it was too "rich". However, it didn't thrill me for some reason. Expectations are so high for these COTM recipes that when we finally get to taste the end product if there isn't instant wow-ness we - read I - feel let down somehow. Silly I know but there it is.
We were able to have a warm not cold dish so perhaps that took something away? There's some left in the fridge that I'll taste later today and see if I feel differently. The side dish was Gordon Hamersley's sweet and sour cabbage. The dishes didn't play off each other as I had wished but it was a solid satisfying meal.
re: Frizzle
I made this with fusilli - I also screwed up and blended all the peas into the yogurt, so the sauce was pretty soupy. Used Aleppo pepper so the spice was pretty mild. We enjoyed it - I'm not generally a big pasta fan but this was different enough that I'll make it again.
re: Frizzle
After months of ogling this recipe (and doubting it could taste as good as claimed) I finally made it for my meat loving family of teenage boys. And they liked it. And husband and I loved it! Used low fat 2% Greek Style yoghurt and loved the pale cool green of the pea yoghurt puree, the creamy crunchy spicy warm pine nuts, salty feta and fresh basil. It seems to me that like many Ottolenghi recipes it's best to include the ingredients as he specifies or the tastes might not come together as well as intended.
Fava Bean Kuku (half recipe) pg 39
Happy New Year, everyone!
I kicked off the NYE celebrations last night by delving deeply into Jerusalem's mezze-style dishes, and this lovely frittata/tortilla-like dish was the first to catch my eye.
To start, barberries are briefly soaked in a simple syrup. I haven't yet gotten to the Persian market, so used the suggested chopped dried sour cherries, soaking those as well, tho perhaps I shouldn't have as they were sweet-ish already and I've heard that the barberries are quite tart and perhaps need that treatment more than the cherries.
A cream/water mixture is heated with saffron and left to infuse with flavour for 30 mins. Meanwhile, onions and then garlic are cooked and then blanched fava beans get tossed in to the blend. I could have sworn that there was a bag of fava beans in my freezer, however I was only able to locate edamame--same coloured bag. Oops. Edamame kuku it was.
Eggs are beaten with flour, baking powder, mint, a good-sized handful of dill, s&p and the saffron cream, the barberries and then the cooled onion/fava mix. All this gets poured into a pre-heated oven-proof nonstick pan and cooked until eggs are just set.
Since this was a half recipe, I didn't have the right sized non-stick pan, so I wet and crumpled up some parchment to fit my (8 inch) hot pan and poured the egg mix over it. This seemed to work quite well and prevented that browned bottom that I so dislike with egg. Reduced the cooking time accordingly.
I really enjoyed this dish. I was concerned that the dill would overwhelm the other flavours but it really mellowed out, mingling with the mint and letting the other components sing. There was a surpising sweetness to the kuku, from the cherries no doubt, perhaps not so much with the original ingredient, but I liked it just the same. Served this at room temperature cut into wedges. Well recieved by all. A great introduction to this book!
re: Allegra_K
Broad Bean Kuku (aka Fava Bean Kuku) - p 39 (UK ed)
It's back-to-school day here, and I wanted to give the geeklings something healthy and substantial for lunch to help encourage their brains to get back into learning mode. This dish fit the bill.
Please refer to Allegra_K's summary above on how to make this dish.
In spite of soaking the barberries in a sugar/water syrup as instructed, they were still extremely tart and really dominated the flavours in the kuku. I should maybe have done a better job ensuring they were evenly distributed in the pan, but because you pre-heat the pan in the oven that means when you pour in the mixture it immediately starts cooking, and I didn't want to mess with it too much. This resulted in some sections of the kuku with lots of barberries, so they were quite sour. A big dollop of greek yogurt helped to tame the sourness (not to mention the extremely potent garlic flavour -- I only used 3 cloves, but this was still REALLY garlicky! Not a problem for us but I feel badly for Mr Geek when he comes home from work, haha.)
Also, for the broad beans, I used frozen beans in the pods. The recipe doesn't specify whether you should pop them out of their skins after you blanch them. I decided to go ahead and do this. They really lost a lot of their texture by the time they made it onto the plate - to be honest, they were kind of mushy - and I would like to try this again with fresh beans to see if they might be a little more toothsome.
On the whole this was an interesting dish and made a lovely hot lunch but I would definitely make some changes next time to create a more balanced flavour profile.
re: Allegra_K
Fava Bean Kuku Pg. 39 (UK ed)
I seem to be playing catch up with some of my reviews these days. I made this recipe a few days ago and I am just getting around to posting about it now.
Overall it was pretty good, but I have to say I was a little underwhelmed. It may simply be the result of user error on my end, and I am glad to see that both Allegra and Geekmom enjoyed the dish, but for us it was a little ho hum. There is quite a bit of onion, garlic, and dill, plus you have the barberries to punch up the tang, but for some reason when you put it all together it seemed like there were far too many fava beans, so much so that it was almost a fava cake lightly bound with egg. While I like fava beans, I found they dominated the recipe, and not in a good way.
My other quibble with the recipe is the saffron infused cream, which again due to the amount of fava beans you really can't detect. Saffron is a lovely, and very pricey ingredient, when I use it I expect it to contribute at least some colour if not some flavour to the the dish, but in this case the dominant colour was the pale green of the favas with flecks of crimson from the barberries, and again the flavour of the saffron was lost.
It is entirely possible that the lack lustre results were my fault. While I did try my best to execute the recipe correctly by weighing the ingredients and following the directions closely, we all know user error could also be the issue.
re: delys77
I agree about the saffron flavour, actually, and forgot to mention that yesterday. In our case it was the very potent garlic flavour that was the dominant taste so I couldn't really taste either the beans or the saffron. I really have a hard time judging how much garlic to use because the Red Russian garlic that I get from the farmer's market is so damn potent.
Did you leave your broad beans in their pods?
re: geekmom
Yes I did leave them in their pods as he didn't instruct to do otherwise. In the Meatball with Fava and Lemon recipe he did provide instructions to do so, therefore I assumed that since he hadn't specified in the Kuku recipe that it wasn't necessary.
I suspect that it might help as the it would cut the volume of the beans in the recipe quite a bit.
Garlic wise I used the standard hard neck garlic and it wasn't overpowering, but I do recall getting Red Russian Garlic from the Okanagan last year, and it was quite potent indeed.
re: delys77
Now I wonder if I would have liked it as well as I did if I didn't use substitutions. It looks wonderful, though!
re: Allegra_K
Thanks, it did come out nicely! I definitely think Ottolenghi and Tamimi do a good job of creating recipes withe excellent visual appeal.
Pureed Beets with Yogurt and Za'atar p.53
Never having had the yogurt-beet combination before, my taste buds were in for a pleasant surprise! This shockingly hued dish certainly added some vibrant colour to the mezze spread with a taste to match.
Roasted beets get processed to a smooth paste with garlic, chile, and greek yogurt, and then mixed with olive oil, salt, date syrup, and za'atar. Garnish with green onions, chopped hazlenuts and crumbled goat cheese (which I omitted).
This comes together very quickly, especially if one roasts the beets the day before as I did. I love the way this is served: smeared out on a plate and sprinkled with various colourful toppings, then drizzled with additional olive oil. It looked absolutely beautiful. Tasted great, too! It was sweet with just a hint of heat in the background, slightly tangy from the yogurt and musty from the za'atar. I served this with plenty of flatbread for hearty dunking. My spouse really loved this dish and declared it the winner of the evening.
re: Allegra_K
How do you think this would be without the date syrup? I wouldn't mind this less sweet, I think...
re: roxlet
I made this beet dish too and liked it. I did not use date syrup because I did not have it then but now that I do have and love it, I think date syrup will add another amazing layerof flavour. The dish was great without it but next time date syrup is going in for sure!
re: roxlet
I found that maple syrup is a good substitute for date syrup.
re: Allegra_K
Pureed Beets with Yogurt and Za'atar p.53
This dish was ok. It was very pretty but it didn't do much for me and I'm a beet lover. My version was more watery so it didn't seem like a dip. I'm not sure why that happened but I may have over processed the dip in the food processor. My beets were cooked but maybe should have cooked longer since the dip wasn't smooth. I could see bits of it everywhere.
I'll likely revisit this dish because I do love beets and yogurt. I make the one from Wolfert's Arabesque in the summer and it's refreshing.
re: Allegra_K
I made a salad version of this recipe, basically chopped the beets and used the other ingredients for the dressing. Didn't use goat cheese. Used maple instead of date syrup. Fantastic, though if I make it as a salad again I will reduce the amount of yogurt a bit.
re: bunnylicious
What a great idea! I think beet salad would go down better than beet purée. In making the dressing, did you follow the proportions as given by YO?
re: Westminstress
I followed the recipe as written minus the goat cheese. Combined everything as a salad dressing for the beets. Worked out great but I would reduce the amount of yogurt.
re: bunnylicious
I just boiled beets today for dinner tomorrow night. I'm definitely going to make the salad version of this.
re: cheesecake17
Update... We loved it! No cheese, since I also made a mushroom and cheese tart. The dressing was delicious. Definitely will be repeated
re: cheesecake17
Glad you liked it :)
re: bunnylicious
I've been eating it for a week now! I actually prefer the dressing with Pom molasses, the sweet tart flavor is delicious
re: bunnylicious
Just checking in to say that I finally got around to the salad version of this dish tonight. We LOVED it! I could not get over this fantastic combination of favors - wow! One of my favorites from the book. I followed the recipe as written except I cut the beets into small cubes. Also I skipped the garnishes. I didn't have hazelnuts or goat cheese, and I skipped the scallions bc my garlic was pretty potent. Oh and for the chili I used my chopped salted chilies (love those!)
re: Allegra_K
Pureed Beet with Yogurt and Za'atar p. 53
PSA: Do not try to make this dish in a Vitamix.
This was one of those times when I thought I was being clever, but really just prove that I'm a blockhead.
I had made hummus in my (brand new) Vitamix for a casual dinner party with friends. Frustrated with not being able to get the last couple tablespoons of hummus out of the Vitamix, I was thinking about if I could make another spread type thing that wouldn't mind a little hummus mixed in. Remembered the beet spread from Jerusalem and figured a little chickpea and tahini would go unnoticed in the final product. Luckily, I had some cooked beets in the fridge as well as all the other ingredients on hand. Threw it all into the Vitamix and let 'er rip. Of course, in no time flat, it completely liquified into beet soup. No way you could spread it on a plate. It also turned a very mauve color, not the vibrant red of the book.
I decided to serve it anyway though, without the cheese and hazelnuts as they would have just sunk to the bottom. It tasted pretty good, although it was in no way a "hit." Live and learn.
re: greeneggsnham
You have no idea how many COTM blockhead moments I've had, GENH, so thanks for this warning.
re: greeneggsnham
Very definitely NOT a blockhead. (Or at least, if you are, so am I.) I've had my Vita-Mix for more than a year now and I'm still underestimating how powerful it can be. A couple of weeks ago I was making the Thai Vinaigrette to accompany the Quick-Sauteed Squid and Bacon Salad in "Smoke & Pickles" and without thinking, followed his instructions to "blend on high until well combined." It was "well combined" all right. It was Thai mayonnaise. Live and learn indeed.
re: greeneggsnham
I'm glad it tasted good genh...as you say, live and learn. Better it happen when it's a casual dinner party rather than a high stakes event.
re: Breadcrumbs
Yes, I was certainly glad it was a casual affair. And it turned out our guests were Vitamix owners as well, so we got to share our Vitamix hits and misses.
re: greeneggsnham
I did scape pesto in Vitamix recently and though not a disaster it certainly tastes better when made in FP. Basil pesto turned out nice though.
re: greeneggsnham
Sorry, Green, have not stopped by the thread earlier. I think some "pestos" are better as a condiment than a paste and this is the case with scape pesto for me. My daughter who loves it on anything did not like it as much either. When done in FP, a certain amount of texture remains and the mouthfeel is more pleasant. That could be also because this is how I've always done it in the past :) Somehow basil pesto is just fine as a paste. I would do arugula/chives in the FP again because of the texture. VM for me is great when I want to liquefy everything: tomato soup, fresh tomato pure for freezing, kale smoothie, etc. There is a booklet, almost a book that come with it - many good ideas there that I have not explored. Wonder if there is a thread on VM somewhere - would it be useful?
Let us know how your pesto turns out!
re: herby
Thanks, herby. I ended up doing my pesto in the vitamix (I have the vitamix fever in a bad way). It was very smooth and paste like, almost creamy mouthfeel. I used hazelnuts (allergy to other options) as well as 2/3 arugula and 1/3 chives and we really enjoyed it. My husband loves arugula and the peppery bite really came through. I used it to dress pasta and the texture was great we thought in that application.
Will continue the experimentation and seach for a vitamix thread to stop high jacking this one!
Spiced Chickpeas & Fresh Vegetable Salad p.56
Haphazardly threw this salad together after realizing that it would go perfectly with the falafels and pita on the new year's eve mezze table, and that nearly everything else was heavy and fried. I am so glad I tried this one, as it was a welcoming and refreshing addition to the party.
This is a gloriously crunchy fresh salad consisting of chopped tomatoes, radishes, cucumbers, red pepper, and red onion topped with a generous amound of cilantro and parsley. A tangy dressing is made up of olive oil, lemon zest and juice, sherry vinegar, garlic, and sugar, and tossed with the veg.
Cooked chickpeas (I had some pre-cooked ones sitting in the freezer) get tossed with a heady mixture of warming spices -cardamom, allspice, and cumin- and fried lightly with olive oil for a few minutes. The chickpeas get served alongside the vegetables, with the option of spooning some greek yogurt over the top.
Even though this was so simple, it was one of my favourites of the evening, and made me long for summer and all of its wonderful produce. This would be even better with sun-warmed, perfectly ripe vegetables. The chickpeas were nice as well. I did enjoy the spices mixed with them, but in the future it will be the salad I crave and not the legumes.
Despite the fact that I made a half recipe and we (a family of four) picked at this one all night, I have a pile of leftovers, so keep that in mind.
re: Allegra_K
Just a quick addition here to say that the salad holds up surprisingly well the next day. There is a bit more liquid on the bottom, as would be expected, but all the veggies retained their addictive crunch and it was still very good.
re: Allegra_K
I made this tonite to go with grouper with veracruz salsa-
a cross cultural dinner
re: Allegra_K
I made the Fresh Vegetable Salad portion of this recipe and really enjoyed it. The radishes were a surprise delight in this salad for me. I am not terribly fond of radishes in general, and usually omit them. But I decided to pick some up ( trusting the source) and I was happy I added them. The salad really benefited from their slightly water crunch.
All in all a winner and I suspect I will make this again, maybe even with the chickpeas.
re: Allegra_K
[Spiced Chickpeas and] Fresh Vegetable Salad, Pg. 56, US Edition
The vegetable salad without the spiced chickpeas is the suggested side dish for the Kofta B'siniyah on page 195 which was our main dish. It consists of chopped tomatoes, radishes (I used a daikon), cucumbers, red pepper, and red onion. I had to omit the cilantro but did include parsley and substituted apple cider vinegar instead of sherry vinegar in the dressing. We thought the variety of vegetables combined with the mildly sweet yet tangy dressing was a perfect foil for the very well seasoned koftas as each taste sensation enhanced the other.
re: Allegra_K
I made this today for lunch and everyone thought it was wonderful. I loved the combination of the warm chickpeas and the cool salad. The vinaigrette was really nice and well balanced.
This salad is a nice change of pace from our usual Arab salad that doesn't have chickpeas but includes chopped lettuce ( Claudia Roden's New Book of Middle Eastern Food). I really wanted to add fresh mint, since that is usual for me, but I stuck with the recipe since it was the first time making it.
As a chickpea fanatic I see myself adding the spiced chickpeas to other salads I make.
I made the whole recipe and there was maybe one serving left after the three of us gobbled it down lol.
Baby Spinach Salad with Dates & Almonds (page 30, US edition)
This wonderful salad has already been reviewed a number of times in both the original "Jerusalem" thread and on the main thread, so I'll just report my experience with it.
Other than halve the recipe (which is very easy to do and served one for dinner) and use a whole wheat pita, I made this as directed. Unlike some others, I had no problems with the thin pieces of pita becoming soggy; they remained crisp until the salad was finished. Nor did I think the vinegar marinade at all too strong. The quartered dates were too much sweetness in a single bite for me so next time I make this I'll either slice the dates more thinly or perhaps even chop them so they are more evenly divided throughout the salad. Also, when the recipe called for "chile flakes," I automatically reached for my regular medium hot crushed red pepper. I don't know whether I didn't stir it into the pita/nut mixture well enough or whether I thought it just too powerful, but I'm making a note to go with crushed Aleppo chile next time. This is a great salad, one I'm sure will be in regular rotation for many of us for years to come.
re: JoanN
Baby Spinach Salad with Dates and Almonds, Pg. 30, US Edition
Stunningly delicious, this salad. Like JoanN I halved the recipe, used whole wheat pita which did not get soggy, and used the white wine vinegar which we didn't think was too strong. Unlike Joan I used my "regular crushed red pepper flakes" but didn't think they were too hot.
I served the Shakshuka on page 66 along side. These two dishes convinced me that Mr. Ottolenghi is a genius when it comes to combining flavors.
re: Gio
Baby Spinach Salad with Dates and Almonds Pg. 30
This salad was so interesting, and so flavourful. I have to say it is likely one of the best salads I have had in a long while.
There are some very strong flavours in the dish with the sumac seasoned nuts/pita that have been toasted in oil and butter (I let my butter go a bit so that the pita/nuts would have a slight brown butter taste), and the pungent pickled onion offset by the sweet dates, all coming together with the tender greens. Great balance, great flavour, interesting texture, a winner all around.
The picture below is of the salad and the turkey burgers which I served alongside.
re: JoanN
Baby Spinach Salad with Dates & Almonds - page 30.
I made all components of the salad to serve for dinner tonight with regular spinach since my produce storedidn't have baby spinach. I am making the whole recipe and strted my marinating slivered dates and sliced red onion in vinegar but there 1t specified wasn't enough to even moisten date/onion mixture. I added another T and there was nothing to pour off after 20 min.
My next issue is with frying pita pieces and almonds together. Almonds were done but pita (I used fat white pita) was nowhere crisp and golden-brown. So I had to fish the almonds out (not an easy task!) and continue with pita.
All looks and smells delicious and I can't wait to taste it. Did anyone had similar issues?
re: pikawicca
The salad was incredible - everyone loved it! I'll put a bit less pita next time - I didn't weigh pita and sure that I used more that the recipe calls for. My almonds were slivered and I cut dates into a similar shape. Marinating added a lot to change taste of both, dates and onion, in a good way. Vinegar mellowed onions taking the raw edge off and dates became almost savoury - worth while doing, IMHO.
re: JoanN
Baby spinach salad with dates & almonds, p. 30 (US ed.)
Not much to add to the previous raves for this salad. I loved it, and I am not the biggest fan of dates. It's so well balanced. I chopped the dates up to roughly the size of the almonds. I didn't use the pita because I didn't have it or an equivalent, and so I cooked the almonds, sumac, and (Aleppo) pepper flakes in 1 T butter only, and used 1 T olive oil when I mixed up the salad.
re: Caitlin McGrath
This is good news! I have all the ingredients for this salad except the stale pita and I've been holding off on making it for that reason. I'm sure I'd love the pita but good to know the salad works without it -- I'm going to go ahead and make it without.
re: JoanN
So glad I'm finally getting around to this book (and here it is the last week of the month). I made this salad last night to go with the turkey and zucchini burgers and loved it. Thanks to JoanN's discussion about the dates I cut mine up very small (like Caitlin, probably about the size of the almond slivers) and probably didn't use the whole amount. None of us are big on fruit in our savory. But I thought the date parts worked really well (cut up - I wouldn't have wanted them any bigger), and we absolutely *loved* the pita croutons. I used Aleppo pepper. Not much to add - just another "wow, this is a great salad."
re: JoanN
Baby Spinach Salad with Dates and Almond, page 30.
This may be my new favorite salad! We loved it. I had no trouble cooking the almonds and pita together; they both came out toasty brown at the same time. I was surprised at how the hot pan sizzled and smoked a bit when I tossed in the sumac. The flavors in this salad are so nicely balanced and complementary.
I served the salad with the turkey burgers, as others have done. It's a perfect paring.
re: L.Nightshade
Lovely presentation!
re: delys77
Why, thank you delys! Those rectangular plates make it easy.
re: L.Nightshade
I normally really dislike the mouth feel of raw spinach (kind of squeaky), but this salad has made me a believer. I loved it. Glad it was a hit for you too.
re: JoanN
Baby spinach salad with dates & almonds p.30
This was a great salad as everyone before me has proclaimed. An inspired combination of tender greens, crispy pita, crunchy nuts. spice elements from sumac & chile flakes, sour notes from lemon juice and sweetness from dates (which I slivered smaller as was suggested). I will definitely make this again. I served it with Roasted butternut squash & red onion with tahini & za'atar on p.36.
re: JoanN
Spinach Salad with Dates and Almonds
Finally got around to this salad tonight, and it was just as wonderful as everyone promised. I left out the pita (and cut back a bit on the butter and oil) and it was fine. Heeding advice here, I chopped the dates so they were similar in size to the almonds. Delicious. I haven't used this book much since January, it was fun to be reminded how truly wonderful it is, and I have a few more recipes I want to try in the coming weeks.
re: JoanN
This past weekend, I made a big bowl of the spinach salad to serve a dozen or so people, and it was a huge, huge hit. While all the dishes at this dinner were appreciated, this salad, with its unexpected and fabulous combination of ingredients, was the thing nobody could stop talking about.
Because I needed to prep all the components much earlier in the day, I ended up using only olive oil to fry the almonds (I didn't use pita), because I was afraid the butter would congeal as the mixture sat. Otherwise, made as written save for chopping the dates smaller.
re: Caitlin McGrath
Baby Spinach Salad with Dates & Almonds (page 30, US edition)
Agree. This salad is a total winner. I made this for a casual dinner party with friends and it was the stand out of the night as well.
This one has definitely earned a place in the permanent repertoire.
re: greeneggsnham
Every time this thread pops up I am reminded about this salad and it makes me want to make it again. So thanks to everyone who tries it and puts it back into my mind. Really great salad.
re: greeneggsnham
Wow, there are so many fantastic reviews from this recipe I can't believe I still haven't tried it yet. Thanks for putting it back at the top of my list!
re: Allegra_K
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On the Job: College Catalog Cover
Even after putting 30 years in at the media factory, I still like getting the cover. It must be an ego thing, because it certainly isn't the money.
This is Lenore Alford, an organist, conductor and generally all-around smart woman. I photographed her for the College of Marin, where is she teaching a class on Nadia Boulanger and the American School of musical composition in Paris — heady stuff, indeed. The college needed a a tall vertical for its community education catalog cover and Alford was the perfect subject.
The picture was made in the Mill Valley living room of one of Alford's friends. The piano, a baby grand, was crammed into the corner and up against a set of large, bright windows that flooded the room with morning sunlight.
I didn't want to shoot into the windows, fearing the backlight, so at first I tried shooting away from them and toward the wall behind the piano, lighting Alford with a ProFoto D4 head into a small box. The background, though was too messy to put type into and I couldn't blur it because I couldn't get her far enough away from the wall.
So, I embraced the windows, deciding to blow them out and use their avalanche of light for the background. I changed Alford's position, took down the ProFoto, and set up a Nikon SB800 on a boom, attached a small softbox, turned the power way down (about 1/16th) and inched the light to within two feet of her head. The sunlight provided fill and tossed in some rim light as a bonus.
There is nothing technically complicated about this picture or, dare I say, artistically unique, but it is something that's part of my daily life in my third or fourth or fight career (who's counting, anyhow?) and might be interesting to those of you who wonder what photographers who aren't Annie Leibowitz or Chase Jarvis do all day.
The hardest part of the shot was deciding on the lighting, not once but twice, and making those changes while Alford, the art director and the homeowners looked on — and making everyone feel not only like I knew what I was doing but that were being included in something fun.
The whole thing, from walking in the door with the gear to schlepping it back down the drive to my car took less than an hour, a normal shoot here in the shallow end of the photography pool.
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The Little Reading Room by Dave Walker
At the last minute he dived to one side.The car swerved, attempting to keep Peter in its path and crush him under its wheels.
James' eyes were glued to the page.
With a screech and flurry of dust, it went out of control. It teetered on the edge of the cliff before plunging down the mountain, bursting into .......
"James! Come on. Everyone's waiting for you."
"Coming Mom."
...flames on its way. Peter breathed a sigh of relief. He was shaking from head to toe. Thank You, Lord. That was ...
"Come on, James. Aren't you finished yet?"
"Won't be long."
"Have you got a book in there?"
...a near thing, but You came through just in time, as You always do. As Peter scrambled back onto the road, he took stock of the situation. The people in the car almost certainly died in the flames. That just left those at the hideout in the city. He had to get.....
"James! My iPad is missing. Have you been at Revelation Books again?"
"Faithwriters bookstore have good, wholesome Christian e-books to download, Mom. And some that you won't find anywhere else. You said so yourself." Now where was I? Oh, yes
He had to get back as soon as possible before they shipped the children to another place. Lord, please send a guardian angel to give me a lift.
He had no sooner...
"But not to be read in the loo. Will you please come out. Jenny is wriggling around and trying to cross her legs at the same time. She's bursting."
"Just think, Mom, downloading from this site is helping spread the gospel world-wide. Aren't you glad I'm using it? And the site benefits upcoming Christian writers. You are so clever to deal through Faithwriters." Back to my place..
.....finished his prayer when a truck appeared on the horizon. He waved it down and it ground to a halt beside him. "Need a lift, fella?" A burly truck driver leaned out of the cab....
"Stop trying to butter me up, James. You know that I think Faithwriters is the best place to buy Christian books. And to sell them, too. Why do you think I sell my Christian e-book there? With over 400,000 hits a month, and advertised site-wide in at least four sites, what better place for a Christian author or reader? But GET OUT OF THERE!"
.... Wow, You sure sent a giant-sized angel, Lord. He looked up at the driver. "Yes, please. I'm in a hurry. There is a group of traffickers who are about to ship some children out of the .....
"James, please! I'm bursting! If you don't come out I'm going to wet my pants."
"O.K., Jenny, I'm coming."
"At last! What were you reading that you couldn't even put down to get off the loo? Now, please give me back my iPad"
"That's why I didn't want to come out, Mom. I knew you'd want your iPad, and then I couldn't finish my story."
"Well, you're right.. I do enjoy browsing Faithwriters Bookshop to see what books are there."
"How'd you find this great author?"
"He wrote an article on their website that I really liked, so I looked up his profile and found his list of books."
"Is that how you promote your book?"
"Yes. My profile as a Christian writer is on Faithwriter's site for all to see, and lists any books that I've written. Plus they have something called Free Reads for Reviews, where someone can include my book amongst free e-books they download if they review it on Amazon and Faithwriters. What's more, if anyone wants a hard copy, the link is there to Amazon and ChristianBooks.com."
"Cool! No wonder you keep telling us how good Faithwriters is. That's why I got your code and downloaded this amazing book. Can I finish it now?"
"James! Where are you going with my iPad? James! Come back here."
"Please, Mom. Peter has to catch the traffickers before they ship off the children. I can't leave him now."
"Oh, O.K. You can finish the story in your room. But remember, that iPad is mine. I want to browse through Faithwriters for my next e-book. And I'm changing my password!'
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Downloadable Books for Dinosaurs by P.J. Baker
"Mom, can I buy a book for Callum's birthday? One about Jesus, or dinosaurs?" said my son, Justin.
"Sure honey, we'll look for one about Jesus first," I say. We jump into the car and I drive to where our local Christian bookstore is. Or was. There's a huge red sign in the whitewashed window saying "Closing Down Sale: Over."
Justin starts to laugh: "have you heard of the internet? You can buy ANYTHING on it. (Whispers) Dinosaur!"
Only 6 years old, and he already thinks he's smarter than Mom. I hide my smile as we turn around and head home.
An hour later, thanks to Justin, the laptop and Google, we have discovered ebooks. faithwriters.com, a website that sells Christian books.
"Christian ebooks?" I read from the screen. "Umm…"
"Cool! We can download it onto his iPad."
"IPad? OK. Buying from here supports the development of Christian writers around the world AND we can buy from Amazon at best value prices… Justin?... Justin?" Justin has disappeared but I read on, relentless.
"I can also sell my Christian ebook through the faithwriters ebook store… over 600,000 page reads a month, WOW…great value with a platinum membership… I must tell Susan…and…free ebooks!"
I click on Free Reads for Reviews, and I'm downloading the latest Christian Fiction to review when Justin returns.
"Hey, this is Callum's iPad," he says. "It's like a laptop without keys." He opens the case but struggles to unlock it.
After a few minutes, I take it and unlock it in a second. I smirk. "Guess I'm not the dinosaur anymore!"
He laughs. We find Callum a book about Jesus, and within a minute it's paid for and downloaded onto his iPad.
"Can't wait to show Callum the website!" says Justin, running off with the iPad.
"Hey, tell him it's changing its name to RevelationBooks" I shout after him. But Justin is gone, and I'm on my own. Perfect.
I re-fill my coffee, relax into my armchair and flick to page one. If only everything in life was this easy!
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Christian books on Potty Training?!... Well, Maybe Not. by Nicole C. Calhoun
"My little "big boy" went potty and washed his hands. This time he spent an extra amount of time to clean his hands (he likes the bubbles)... Yep he is growing up.
Well… It turns out…he put all of the towels in the toilet. The adventure never ends…"
These are not the words within a Christian book but something I shared during a week long blog series called Potty Training Adventures. Yep, I wrote a blog on a Christian blog site about potty training. Oh, you had better believe I had a great deal of inspiration for this one. Our two year old son has made this milestone a very interesting one. I thought that sharing it would at least give others hope while tackling this milestone themselves. Hey if nothing else, maybe they would experience a good laugh.
Sure the blog is geared toward Christian women. In fact, the blog is intended to share the wonderful nuggets of wisdom for everyday life; those things the Holy Spirit reveals while we are in study. However this time I wanted to blog about this quirky experience we have endured in potty training. Hey this is everyday life right? Well at least it is for the mothers of young children.
Leave it to me to use a Christian blog to write about something so offbeat, but I would venture to say that I am not alone. I wonder how many other people are as peculiar; come on, who else would choose to write Christian books about everyday life?
Guess what I found out? Christian writers do write about all kinds of subjects. I am normal and do not stand alone!
I found out about Revelation Books, an online bookstore of FaithWriters.com. This online bookstore offers tons of Christian books that cover an extensive array of subjects related to the practical Christian. There is of course both Christian fiction and Christian non-fiction. There are books of poetry, devotionals, special interests and humor. Hmm…I wonder if my potty training adventure blogs would be considered humorous. I guess it depends on who you ask.
In any case, this site is also great because they are helping to promote Christian authors who are just starting out; people like me.
The parent site, FaithWriters is a site that encourages and helps the Christian author by providing opportunities for inspiring authors to post articles. Do you know what this means? It means that someone looking to sell their books on the Revelation Books would also benefit from the article traffic.
Revelation Books has books that can be purchased on Amazon and ChristianBooks.com, as well as titles that are exclusive to their bookstore. They also offer free ebooks. This is like a one stop shop when it comes to finding Christian books.
The best benefit of purchasing or selling your Christian books on Revelation Books is that FaithWriters.com serves as an avenue to spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ worldwide. I would say this is wonderful because as Christians, this is our entire goal.
I still didn't find a Christian book on potty training but I would still agree that Revelation Books is a great place to look for your next Christian book.
Nicole C. Calhoun
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Is anyone else getting lots of network errors since the last build ??? My GW2 keeps crashing and says something about a Network error .
Is anyone else getting lots of network errors since the last build ??? My GW2 keeps crashing and says something about a Network error .
2 times now, and now I get "transaction in progress" lol and I was using all my mats, 250 of all lol
Yeah I have same thing, game client crashed with that error and now won't log on.
I'm pretty sure it's... 'intended' if that's the right word to use. All of my other friends are also crashing - the new build just needs some time to properly deploy. Just wait a bit, it should become stable soon enough.
back up now
it usually takes 20min-60min.. or that's at least what they say.
hope TP still works :s
GPU: Asus DCII 2x SLI 780 @ 1228 / 6700 CPU: i2500k @ 4,7 Ghz Motherboard: P8Z68-VPRO PSU: Corsair TX 850W
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hmmm i cant log on right now for some reason :/
was doing quest with my friend and we werent able to see together in party ( i tried to join his party which wouldnt let me) so i logged out and tried to log in but now im stuck hmmmm
it says the game client is unable to gain access to the log in server at this time. blah blah tunr off firewall and ect :/
http://oce.op.gg/summoner/userName=dw+soul+roc in oceanic now Lol
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Hello I had a problem aswell and got Network error pretty much all the time. Made a support ticket and this is what the told me to do and it works perfect now!
1. Navigate to your Guild Wars 2 installation folder.
2. Right-click on GW2.exe and select Create Shortcut.
3. Rename this shortcut to Guild Wars 2 Port Test.
4. Right-click on this shortcut and select Properties.
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Note: Please make sure /clientport 80 is outside of the quotes
Correctly Formatted Example: "C:\Games\Guild Wars 2\GW2.exe" /clientport 80
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6. Once completed, click OK to save your changes.
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Governor Baker Signs Fiscal Year 2016 Budget
Governor Charlie Baker signed the Fiscal Year 2016 budget into law, reflecting the administration's priorities for responsible, smarter government and better communities, schools and jobs for Massachusetts. The $38.117 billion spending plan, which holds growth to a responsible 3% over the previous fiscal year, solves a $1.8 billion structural deficit without new taxes, makes critical investments in local aid, education and transportation, and gives the administration many new tools to fix the troubled MBTA including the creation of the MBTA Fiscal Management and Control Board and the three-year suspension of the Commonwealth's anti-privatization law.
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Heading to San Diego Comic-Con? Be Sure to Bring Your Photo ID
Attention, everyone who's registered for this year's San Diego Comic-Con International 2012: You won't be able to share your badge with friends this time around - and you might want to ensure that you're carrying a photo ID with exactly the same name as is on the badge at all times, just in case. Yes, Comic-Con


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GNU Telephony
From GNU Telephony
Free Software Foundation's Working Together for Free Software fund supports the work of GNU Telephony.
Visit our IRC-channel #gnutelephony on freenode.
GNU Telephony is a project to enable anyone to use free as in freedom software for telephony, and with the freedom to do so on any platform they choose to use. We also wish to make it easy to use the Internet for real-time voice and video communication, and in fact for all forms of real-time collaboration. Finally we wish to make it possible to communicate securely and in complete privacy by applying distributed cryptographic solutions. Our goal is to enable secure and private real-time communication worldwide over the Internet that is free as in freedom, and is also free as in no cost too!
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Packages for Debian 7.x Wheezy are available by adding
to your /etc/apt/sources.list. To install these signed packages, you need our public key. You might like to review GNU SIP Witch configuration after installation.
By participating in Debian Popularity Contest, you can automatically give us feedback about the number of installations - thank you!
We are running a generally open wiki for this project. Once you login you can edit any page on this site to correct and improve it. For information on editing, see the MediaWiki User's Guide. You can also help by creating domain calling networks bottom-up, by testing and use various deployment models, and by helping us document basic sipwitch use cases better. You can help by contributing code to the community and communicating freely using free software.
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GNU SIP Witch is a secure peer-to-peer VoIP server that uses the SIP protocol. Calls can be made peer-to-peer behind NAT firewalls*, and without needing a service provider. GNU SIP Witch supports using secure telephone extensions, for placing and receiving calls directly over the Internet, and intercept-free peer-to-peer audio and video extensions. GNU SIP Witch also is being introduced as a desktop VoIP mediation service to enable the construction of participatory bottom-up secure calling networks and to enable replacement of Skype with free software and published protocols. As a desktop mediation service, GNU SIP Witch can solve issues like NAT* in one place for all user agents, and offer new ways to route and redirect VoIP much like gstreamer does for desktop media. We have chosen to adopt Friendica in GNU Telephony, to work on extending it to offer realtime secure voice and video with GNU SIP WITCH and ZRTP enabled clients, and to make it formally part of the GNU Free Call Roadmap. (* Work in progress.)
GNU Bayonne is the telephony server of GNU Telephony and the GNU Project. The production release of GNU Bayonne 1 is 1.2.15 and has a long history in production telecommunication environments. GNU Bayonne supports IVR scripting using hardware from Voicetronix, Dialogic, Aculab, CAPI drivers, and Quicklink drivers under GNU/Linux. GNU Bayonne 1 can integrate perl and python applications, and has been commercially deployed in production use for several years. Future releases of GNU Bayonne will be based on ucommon and will further explore it's role as a Telephony integration server.
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I've been reading of the (surprising) fact we are uncertain on whether there is nuclear fission in the center of the Earth or not (yet we know so much detail on structures at the other end of the Universe), and I wonder, was Earth radioactive at its early stages? And if yes, would that affect abiogenesis in positive ways?
There is no uncertainty at all that there are huge quantities of long-lived radioactives in the deep Earth.
The neutrino flux from the uranium and thorium chains have been measured (by Borexino and KamLAND) as totalling around 24 TW thermal energy (out of a total around 44 TW). Potassium is unmeasured but significant.
These same measurements have strongly ruled out a central reactor model of the Earth (though I've read a arXiv posting proposing some valients for which I have not seen calculations).
Furthermore the natural radioactivity of the Earth typically contributes roughly one quarter of the basic background radiation dose that we are all getting all the time (mean is about 1 mrem per day). Potassium 40 is common in many building materials and in high potassium food such as bananas, carbon 14 is ubiquitous in the biosphere, and radon outgrassing can contribute more than cosmic rays in a improperly vented structure over granite formation (which can be so deep the residents aren't ware of them).
Yes, the Earth was radioactive. That's why there's hot inside.
Radiation should ionize atoms and dissolve molecules which might allow more chemical activity and more possible chemical compounds to be tried out, yet I don't think it could affect production of big and complex molecules, it could harm and dissolve them instead. I'm no expert though.


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Chalet Alpaca in Plan Peisey, Les Arcs has four bedrooms all with full en-suite facilities. There is seating around a glass-fronted fireplace in the comfortable open plan lounge and dining area. From the Chalet Alpaca dining area a door opens on to a South and West facing balcony with lovely views towards the Vanoise National Park and Montchavin in La Plagne. Chalet Alpaca is 150m from the ski hire and other shops of Plan Peisey. You can ski back to the Chalet Alpaca via the blue run. There is a new chairlift just 50m from the chalet. The Plan Peisey ski school, high-speed 6-seater chairlift taking you up to 2100m for skiing in Les Arcs or the Vanoise Express across to la Plagne are 400m away.
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That morning on the way to work, I was eating something and suddenly bit into something hard. I spit it into my hand, and sure enough, there lay my filling. I called the dentist and they said they had a late appointment that same afternoon and could fit me in late if I could make it. I said that would work great and went on to work.
I showed up at the dentists office around 5:30 and walked in the door. Standing in the empty lobby I called out "Hello!?"
The dentist came around the corner and lead me into the dentist chair. He apologized that there was no one else in the office but said his assistant had had an emergency at home and had left just a few moments before I got there. I said I didn't mind and showed him where the filling had fallen out. He left me in the chair to go get the instruments he needed and said he would be right back. I told him he'd better hurry because I might fall asleep! He laughed and told me it wouldn't be the first time someone had fallen asleep in the chair.
He came back several minutes later with a tray full of instruments and proceed to give me several shots of Novacane and left me there to get numb.
I felt myself getting sleepy and figured I would doze until he came back in to start drilling.
Next thing I knew the dentist was waking me up and telling me he was finished with my tooth and I could go and he would have the receptionist send me a bill later.
I left the office and headed toward home feeling kind of oddly sore but figured it must have been from exercising the night before.
Later that night I went to bed and had the weirdest dream I'd ever had. In the dream, the dentist had come back into the office after the Novacain had kicked in with his face mask, a lamp on his forehead like miners wear and another tray of instruments. He took the cover off the tray of instruments and picked up several plastic zip ties like you use for garbage bags. He reached beside me and unfolded an armrest similar to the fold up type at the movies or on airplanes. He pulled the one on the other side of me out and then took one of my arms and lifted it onto the arm rest and proceed to secure my arm to the arm rest with one of the ties. This move scared me and I tried to pull my arm out and get out of the chair but for some reason I could not get my arms or legs to do anything when my brain told them to. He then folded out stirrups on both sides of the seat, pushed my skirt up around my hips and raised my hips up to pull my panties down around my ankles and then off completely. He then placed each of my feet in the stirrups and zip tied them down too. Now I was really scared and could not figure out why I could not move anything and could just lay there watching what he was doing to me.
He then pulled my hips down so they were perched on the edge of the chair, pushing on the pedal on the floor and raising the chair up higher. He then stood up and reached over the the tray of instruments again and picked up something that I could not see. He proceeded to pull his stool over between my legs and sit down. I could feel him insert something into my pussy and screw it open, it felt like the scapula the OBGYN doctor uses for pelvic exams. I felt my pussy being pulled wider and wider open until I did not think it could possible be opened any further without tearing. He then reached over and picked up something else and proceed to do the same thing to my ass.
Next he put rubber gloves on both of his hands, and turned the light on the he had on his forehead. He then proceeded to take things off the tray one after the other and insert them first into my ass and then into my pussy pushing them as far into me as he could sliding them in and out rotating them and putting his face as close as he could to observe what he was doing. I could feel his breath on my pussy when he would lean close to get a good look at whatever he was doing. He started out with small things and progressively inserted larger and larger items slowly sliding them in and out and observing what he was doing very closely. The larger the items got, the more he got turned on and I could hear his breathing getting faster behind the mask and I could see beads of sweat forming on his forehead and running down his masked face.
As scared as I was with what he was doing, the larger the items got and the more I could feel them filling me and touching the stretched walls of my pussy and ass, the more I was beginning to be turned on too, though I fought not to show it and not to let him know.
He got up and left the office for a minute and came back wheeling a small square bucket into the room. He had not spoken this whole time but now he spoke and told me he was bringing out the jumbo items and he knew I was trying to hide how hot he was making me feel, and he was going to make me scream. He pulled out a medium sized yellow squash from the bucket and I felt him slid it slowly into my ass. He said that it fit very well but he wanted to make sure I was full, so he pulled that out and reached back into the bucket pulling out a small cantaloupe. He started to work that into my ass but it was bigger than he had stretched me open. It hurt and I moaned in pain. He left the room briefly again coming back with a tube of lubrication and he squirted it all over my pussy and into my ass. He then picked up the cantaloupe again and started slowly working it back into my ass. Tears sprang to my eyes and rolled down my cheeks as he continued twisting it and pushing it into my ass until he finally got it all the way in. He then unscrewed the scapula so my ass closed over the cantaloupe and held it tightly inside me. By this time he was panting and moaning and he leaned forward and put his face up against my ass and breathed in deeply and then licked my ass.
Next he went to work on my pussy in the same way he had done to my ass inserting a cucumber, then a small squash and then replacing each one with a larger one. By this time the pain in my ass had somewhat subsided and I was kind of enjoying how full it felt. I could not hide any longer that what he was doing to me was getting me excited and I could feel my pussy juicing up and start running down my legs. I was breathing just as heavy as he was. He had finally gotten a butternut squash up inside me small end up to where the squash flared out.
At this point he stopped and took the scapula off of my pussy and let me pussy close tightly around the squash. At this point he stood up and pushed his stool back and pulled his dick out of his pants. His dick was hard as a rock and he stepped forward and shoved his face between my legs and started to lick up and down my clit, alternating licking and sucking on it roughly. It was only a matter of minutes before he had me cuming and he stepped back quickly and started roughly yanking on his dick and jerking his hand up and down his shaft as he watched me bucking and shaking, my pussy and ass squeezing the items he had shoved into me. Moments later he stepped forward again and I felt him shoot huge hot globs of cum all over my stomach and my thighs.
His dick was still hard at that point and he reached forward and slowly worked the butternut squash out of my pussy. He then raised the chair up a couple of inches more, reached forward and slid me forward more so my ass was barely still on the seat and then grabbed my thighs and plunged his dick into my pussy roughly the head of his dick feeling like it was all the way up into my stomach. He fucked my this way for several minutes practically holding me in the seat. His dick was so big and so long every time he shoved it all the way in I could feel not only his balls slapping against my ass still full of cantaloupe but I felt the head of his dick hitting something deep inside me too. He then reached his thumb up and pulled the hood away from my clit and started to vigorously rub it back and forth almost roughly. It moments I was cuming again and he pulled out quickly and shot his cum all over me again.
He then carefully worked the cantaloupe out of my ass, got a rag and washed me up and then undid the ties and dressed me again. Then in my dream I was so exhausted I went to sleep and then next thing I knew he woke me up to tell me he was done with my tooth.
I woke up the next morning feeling vaguely uneasy and trying to determine if it was just a dream or if it had really happened. I finally decided that I had just had a weird dream and moved on.
I do have to say though, every time I go back to the dentist, it sometimes seems like he looks at me with a weird gleam in his eyes......
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PACT is a service-delivery model that provides comprehensive, locally based treatment to people with serious and persistent mental illnesses. Unlike other community-based programs, PACT is not a linkage or brokerage case-management program that connects individuals to mental health, housing, or rehabilitation agencies or services. Rather, it provides highly individualized services directly to consumers. PACT recipients receive the multidisciplinary, round-the-clock staffing of a psychiatric unit, but within the comfort of their own home and community. To have the competencies and skills to meet a client's multiple treatment, rehabilitation, and support needs, PACT team members are trained in the areas of psychiatry, social work, nursing, substance abuse, and vocational rehabilitation. The PACT team provides these necessary services 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year.
How did PACT begin?
Now in its 26th year, the PACT model evolved out of work led by Arnold Marx, M.D., Leonard Stein, M.D., and Mary Ann Test, Ph.D., on an inpatient research unit of Mendota State Hospital, Madison, Wisconsin, in the late 1960s. Noting that the gains made by clients in the hospital were often lost when they moved back into the community, they hypothesized that the hospital's round-the-clock care helped alleviate clients' symptoms and that this ongoing support and treatment was just as important - if not more so - following discharge. In 1972, the researchers moved hospital-ward treatment staff into the community to test their assumption and, thus, launched PACT.
What are the primary goals of PACT?
PACT strives to lessen or eliminate the debilitating symptoms of mental illness each individual client experiences and to minimize or prevent recurrent acute episodes of the illness, to meet basic needs and enhance quality of life, to improve functioning in adult social and employment roles, to enhance an individual's ability to live independently in his or her own community, and to lessen the family's burden of providing care.
What are the key features of PACT?
Who benefits from the PACT model?
The PACT model is indicated for individuals in their late teens to their elderly years who have a severe and persistent mental illness causing symptoms and impairments that produce distress and major disability in adult functioning (e.g., employment, self-care, and social and interpersonal relationships). PACT participants usually are people with schizophrenia, other psychotic disorders (e.g., schizoaffective disorder), and bipolar disorder (manic-depressive illness); those who experience significant disability from other mental illnesses and are not helped by traditional outpatient models; those who have difficulty getting to appointments on their own as in the traditional model of case management; those who have had bad experiences in the traditional system; or those who have limited understanding of their need for help.
What is the difference between PACT and traditional care?
Most individuals with severe mental illnesses who are in treatment are involved in a linkage or brokerage case-management program that connects them to services provided by multiple mental health, housing, or rehabilitation agencies or programs in the community. Under this traditional system of care, a person with a mental illness is treated by a group of individual case managers who operate in the context of a case-management program and have primary responsibility only for their own caseloads. In contrast, the PACT multidisciplinary staff work as a team. The PACT team works collaboratively to deliver the majority of treatment, rehabilitation, and support services required by each client to live in the community. A psychiatrist is a member of, not a consultant to, the team. The consumer is a client of the team, not of an individual staff member. Individuals with the most severe mental illnesses are typically not served well by the traditional outpatient model that directs patients to various services that they then must navigate on their own. PACT goes to the consumer whenever and wherever needed. The consumer is not required to adapt to or follow prescriptive rules of a treatment program.
Is there a difference between PACT and ACT?
There is no difference between the PACT (Program of Assertive Community Treatment) model and the ACT (Assertive Community Treatment) model. Not only does NAMI use PACT and ACT interchangeably, but PACT or ACT is also known by other names across the country. For example, in Wisconsin, ACT programs are called Community Support Programs, or CSP. In Florida, ACT programs are called FACT (Florida Assertive Community Treatment); in Rhode Island and Delaware ACT programs are called Mobile Treatment Teams (MTT), while Virginia uses PACT for its assertive community treatment teams.
While the official name that a state, county, or locality uses for ACT varies widely, there is only one set of standards that NAMI sets forth for all programs of assertive community treatment.
How do PACT clients compare with those receiving hospital treatment?
PACT clients spend significantly less time in hospitals and more time in independent living situations, have less time unemployed, earn more income from competitive employment, experience more positive social relationships, express greater satisfaction with life, and are less symptomatic. In one study, only 18 percent of PACT clients were hospitalized the first year compared to 89 percent of the non-PACT treatment group. For those PACT clients that were rehospitalized, stays were significantly shorter than stays of the non-PACT group. PACT clients also spend more time in the community, resulting in less burden on family. Additionally, the PACT model has shown a small economic advantage over institutional care. However, this finding does not factor in the significant societal costs of lack of access to adequate treatment (i.e., hospitalizations, suicide, unemployment, incarceration, homelessness, etc.).
How available are PACT programs?
Despite the documented treatment success of PACT, only a fraction of those with the greatest needs have access to this uniquely effective program. Only six states (DE, FL, MI, NJ, RI, TX) and the District of Columbia currently have statewide PACT programs. Many more states have at least one or more PACT programs in some parts of their state. In the United States, adults with severe and persistent mental illnesses constitute one-half to one percent of the adult population. It is estimated that 10 percent to 20 percent of this group could be helped by the PACT model if it were available.
Click here to go to the ACT section of the NAMI website, and to learn more about Assertive Community Treatment.
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By Chaim Topol, One Egg is a Fortune
These poached balls of minced fish are also known as gefilte fish.
Quenelle Mixture
2 tablespoons oil
Poaching Broth:
3 white onions
Dill Sauce:
3 cups mayonnaise
Red Pepper Sauce:
3 cups mayonnaise
Make Poaching Broth:
Dill sauce: Blend all ingredients.
Red pepper sauce: Blend all ingredients.
Place two quenelles onto individual serving plates. Pour dill sauce over one and red pepper sauce over the other, so that they are both well coated.
Serves 12
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High winds only serve to exacerbate the problem of wildfires due to its unpredictability and the fact that wind supplies oxygen to fuel the fire, further dry the fuels and push the fire to spread across greater distances. Did you know that wildfires alone can produce winds that are ten times stronger than the winds surrounding them? For this reason, fires are a formidable force.
Not only do high winds promote fire growth, the presence of a fire can actually increase wind speeds. These winds can throw embers into the air and spread them causing "spotting." Not only that, but strong gusts can hurl the embers into tree tops creating a "crown fire." For example, the Las Conchas wildfire in New Mexico is currently running, crowning and spotting up to a half mile from the head of the fire.
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