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The word "cooking" implies that you heat things up. But how much? Clearly the temperature is important.
By comparison with other technical issues around cooking, temperatures are relatively straightforward. There's the Celsius scale (water freezes at 0° and boils at 100°), and the Fahrenheit scale (water freezes at 32° and boils at 212°). The obsolete Réamur scale and the technical Kelvin scale are not used in cooking. Celsius is still frequently referred to as Centigrade, since it has 100 degrees between freezing and boiling.
Fahrenheit gets on my nerves because I'm not used to it, but it's relatively easy to convert to Celsius: C = (F - 32) * 5 / 9. When I feel like it, I might include a conversion table here.
But how do you measure temperatures? In days gone by, you guessed, probably based on some related factor like surface colour or the length of time cooking. Both are not very good indications, but with practice you can get things right, at least until you change some parameter. If you need 50 minutes to cook a 2 kg chicken in the oven at a specified temperature marking (ovens vary wildly in the accuracy of their thermostats), how long do you cook a 3 kg chicken? Or how long do you cook it in a different oven?
Clearly there has to be a better solution, and there is: measure the temperature where you're interested in it, inside the food (usually meat), with a thermometer. There are two main issues with meat thermometers: the devices available, and how to use them: what temperature are you aiming for, and where? No object warms up completely evenly, and if you measure the right temperature in the wrong place, there's a good chance that the results won't be what you want.
Meat thermometers have been around for a while. The older ones are analogue, usually with a dial, though I've seen glass ones filled with spirits. Mercury is poisonous, and there's a danger of a thermometer breaking in the meat; that's probably one reason for the dial-type thermometers. The ones I have found in Australia recently have left much to be desired. Some are even made of plastic ("do not place in the oven"). The best I've found looks like this:
The scale is in Fahrenheit, with Celsius conversions (66, 71, and other unlikely values). The best thing about it is the warning at the bottom: Do not put in water. My old thermometer, made in Germany, does not have this inscription:
But at least this thermometer has a scale in Celsius, and it's relatively fine-grained (even if it is off by nearly 10°; but you can compensate for that sort of thing). It also has a much smaller sensor, which is good for the food:
Nowadays digital thermometers seem to be the way to go, but there are cautions there too. This is the first one I bought:
It's useful (and not overly expensive), but it's not easy to use. The temperature probe (in front) is coated with metal, and it is connected with a wire braid. I presume that the sensor itself is at the tip of the probe, but the metal cover is a good conductor of heat, and as a result it tends to show higher temperatures than you'd expect. That's why I've wrapped some stiff paper around it, to insulate it from the outside. A ceramic covered probe would be much better. It would also have avoided the fate of this particular unit: I put the probe in a barbecue with the lid down, and it fried the probe (presumably the cable). But I needed to find a better unit anyway.
The next one I bought was from IKEA. It looks quite similar to one illustrated in Bonniers Kokbok. Maybe it's a relatively common design in Sweden:
It doesn't seem to have the same issues as my first digital thermometer, and it has a magnet on the back that makes it possible to attach it to the fridge next to the oven. About the only issues I have with it is that the sensor is rather slow to react, and that you can't turn off the beeping it makes when you hit the set temperature.
What temperature should a roast beef be in the middle? Ask me and I'd say 58°. Ask others and they might come up with something else, assuming they know any temperature at all. The Americans seem to be particularly keen on higher temperatures— Wikipedia includes an "updated temperature" column which effectively redefines such terms as "medium rare" and "rare", apparently based on a "fact sheet" from the US Department of Agriculture. What good that does is beyond me. Possibly it's the US equivalent of our bad language. Other US sites are more reasonable, though for some reason it gives higher temperatures for lamb than for beef.
One important example where temperature control is cooking whole chickens. Underdo them and the thigh meat is still red, and it's difficult to get it off the bone. Overdo them and the breast turns to cardboard.
But what temperature? Where do you measure it? The canonical answer, and the one that I found in the only two cookbooks I have that mention such things, is in the thighs, where the chicken cooks the slowest. Bonniers Kokbok recommends a temperature of 70°. The other one (I forget which, but it was English or Australian as opposed to US American) specifies 75-80°. The about.com page recommends 165° to 175°F, or between 74° and 79°, but doesn't say where. The problem is that I've tried this before (in fact, going to 88°, which is what I recall from the charts on my old analogue thermometers), and I continually got underdone thighs.
I've decided that the real issue is the exact placing of the probe, and possibly the fact that it's not specific enough, and the thermometer is too influenced by the temperatures of the looser space around the bone, which gets cooked first. Today I decided to measure in the breast. There are a couple of reasons: first, it's larger, so the danger of incorrect readings is less, and secondly, it's the most likely to be overdone. I took it out at 82°, and the results were much better, but still not quite enough. I'll try 88° in the breast next time.
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Do as I Do!
Its not enough to say the right things to our kids we have to demonstrate them as well!
This term my kids and I have worked hard at our local martial arts studio, who share and follow the same 3 simple life values as us, and tonight achieved our gradings. I was so proud of my kids and they were super proud of me. We set SMART goals and achieved them together! This is what living an iKi Life is all about. To start your family on this awesome journey of Safe Respectful Learning - in all contexts - become an iKi SRL @ Home member TODAY!
What can happen when you try to BE EVERYTHING!
WARNING: This is what happens when you try and be everything for everybody all of the time!!
People often say to me "You're so organised, you are so good at everything, how do you do it all?"...
How can we ever be the true, fair dinkum, authentic, stable and sustainable models we wish to be for our children when we allow external influences such as social media, friends, social groups, blogs, books, magazines, tv and radio to rule our lives and how we perceive we should be.
All that does is leads us to a deep dark place where we can no longer function and find ourselves curled up in a ball unable to complete even the simplest tasks because our energy bucket is empty...we gave it all away... and to who? Not our children, or our family who matter most. Unfortunately in all our effort to be "the best" or "the perfect" - they actually quite often end up with the dregs.
So this morning as I sit here feeling overwhelmed again by the precedence Ive set myself and how Ill possibly keep up the "perfect" charade another day..I say.. Treat YOURSELF the way you would want OTHERS to treat THEMSELVES - with kindness, fairness, nurturing, realism, practicality and love. Listen to the advice you're giving others. If its good enough for them....
Give yourself a break, take heed, breathe and get back in touch with you and maybe drop a few of those balls you've got up there in the air. Otherwise you might end up looking like the crazy lady in this picture!! Xx


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At our hospital we offer dedicated paediatric and adolescent rheumatology services. We aim to maintain the function and independence of any child or adolescent with rheumatic disease and musculoskeletal problems by reducing disease activity, helping to prevent any disability, and supporting them to achieve their full potential socially, educationally and psychologically.
Why choose us?
Our multidisciplinary team is led by consultant paediatric rheumatologist, Dr Valerie Rogers and includes a paediatric nurse, physiotherapists, occupational therapists and clinical psychologists. Together they have the experience and expertise to help even the most complex cases, working with the young person and their family to help them manage their condition.
As a result of our expertise, we have become one of the accredited centres for training in paediatric rheumatology nationally. Dr Rogers and our specialist paediatric rheumatology nurse are both active members of the British Society for Paediatric and Adolescent Rheumatology (BSPAR).
What we offer
We provide diagnosis and management of rheumatic conditions and musculoskeletal problems in children and adolescents, which include:
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30th May 2005, 16:14
Bought Hyundai Getz Oct 04 previously owned hyundai accent both 1.3 engines. Have had no problems to speak of however like previous reviews the fuel consumption is not as good as I thought it would be and have now done 10,000 miles
I travel about 320 miles when warning light comes on. the accent was at least 340 miles before light came on yet the official mpg in the manuals show I should get more in my getz.
4th Nov 2005, 11:22
My girlfriend gets about 250 miles out of a tank and it's got over 3000 miles on it. Either it has a fault of the MPG reported by Hyundai are totally wrong. Hyundai customer service is very poor in my opinion. Took 5 months to get the MPG test done :- (
3rd Apr 2006, 05:19
My girlfriend loves her '03 1.1 Getz, but she too only get about 300 miles to a tank, sometimes less. I've worked her mpg out on a few tanks and she is getting about 34-36mpg average. This is very poor, considering Hyundais figures were, I think, 48-50mpg average. She drives carefully and not mostly in town, so she should be getting quite a bit more in my opinion.
Does anyone know what can be done about this? Will the Hyundai garage charge a fortune and do nothing? The car is still in warranty of course.
28th Sep 2006, 08:18
I have owned a Getz 1.3 GSI for about 18 months, and I have covered 15,000 miles. The only problem with it is an intermittent wheel vibration at around 70 mph. I'm sure it's just a wheel balance problem and I have never gone to get it fixed. Other than that it's fine. Fuel consumption is better than my previous 1.25 Fiesta Zetec. My problems with the car, and I disagree with people who have already written comments, is the styling is dated, the interior trim is no where near as good as a similar level Fiesta, and the handling is poor in the wet or icy conditions when cornering - again much worse than a Fiesta. Other than that the car is OK, I just find it a little boring.
4th Aug 2007, 00:46
I am nuts about my Getz. It's a great car and it is pretty quick. I'll be honest; I'm still not used to it, but I have been driving a 3.0 Ford Escape Limited for the past few years, so it's a huge change, but having said that, the Getz does hold its own.
I am pretty heavy with my foot, and have definitely experienced this gas consumption issue. Before I continue with that, let me say I was fully aware of this gas issue before I bought the car, but knowing how reliable Hyundai is, I said to myself and my wife "either we pay more for gas, and don't have to worry about pretty much anything else, OR we pay less for gas and spend a lot on fixing problems" (we were comparing to the Fiat Punto and Peugeot 206, which both have a lot of issues; there's also the Suzuki Swift, but it's not as nice looking and I just don't trust their cars).
Now about this gas issue; like I said, I have a lead foot and suffer because of it. I was going through 3 quarters in a couple days (I don't let the car go less than 3 quarters). I recently decided to try driving with a lighter foot, and it's about halved my gas consumption. If you keep your revs less than 3500-4000rpm, you're fine. Also know that this issue has been completely fixed in the newer models.
There are also loud vibrations at higher speeds (again fixed in the newer models) but it doesn't bother me too much; I think of it as a massage chair that only turns on at high speed (LOL).
Having said that, I love this car and everyone that I've let drive it now wants one too.
If you're not sure whether to get it or not, stop thinking about it and buy it already. You won't regret it, but if you don't get it you might regret that.
Come join the Getz family.
By the way, my car now has 93,000 km on it and still runs great.
P.s. please email me if you have questions or concerns
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Ballou PR (BPR), a European PR firm focusing on tech startups, just sold its US operations to MWW Group, a big PR powerhouse, we've just confirmed with BPR founder Colette Ballou.
BPR has offices in Paris, London and Silicon Valley and is well-known in European tech circles. BPR founder Colette Ballou, who is Franco-American, has a good network on both sides of the Atlantic—she's a "mentor" at 500 Startups, the VC firm ran by hyperactive Silicon Valley investor Dave McClure, for example.
But the firm has always been more Europe-focused and we imagine it's harder to break into the hyper-competitive US startup PR landscape. Ballou described the sale as a "nice liquidity event" and said Ballou PR is now focused on growing in Europe, and will serve its European clients' US needs through MWW.
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Creative hopes its Zen Vision: M will take on Apple's iPod video.
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LONDON, England (CNN) -- Almost 18 months after Creative first declared a marketing war against rival Apple, the company has launched a product to compete directly with the iPod video.
Creative chairman and CEO Sim Wong Hoo said the Creative Zen Vision: M was part of the "next generation" of MP3 players, which has a color screen "to display four times the co lour of competing portable video players."
Apple launched its iPod video in October. Creative is one of the first companies to follow suit.
"M stands for mini, micro, media -- whatever you want. We've taken the whole Zen Vision and squashed it smaller and put more features in," Sim said, speaking in London at the launch of the product.
Despite bearing a resemblance to Apple's iPod -- both in shape and size -- Sim said the company had purposefully avoided making the product too small.
"We've avoided the small syndrome. We believe you can have too small, too slim where quality is compromised," taking a swipe at Apple's Nano, which was plagued with stories of cracked screens, soon after its launch.
Instead, Sim said Creative had focused on putting extra features in the product, which included the improved color screen, an FM radio and a built-in microphone.
The Zen Vision: M will retail for $349 plus VAT, compared with Apple's iPod video, which costs $329 plus VAT.
In July last year, Sim declared a marketing war on the iPod, but the Singapore-based company has failed to play catch-up to Apple's dominance in the portable music market.
In a bid to improve its position, Creative embarked on a strategy of cutting prices, increasing advertising spending and offering retailers rebates for selling some its MP3 products.
In August this year, the company secured a U.S. patent, dubbed by the company as the "Zen Patent," for a user interface for MP3 players. This interface enables users to efficiently and intuitively navigate and select tracks.
Creative, which filed the application more than four years ago, now claims that many competing MP3 players -- including the iPod -- infringe this patent. The company has yet to file a lawsuit.
Despite a boost in sales, Creative reported an 85.5 percent drop in net profit in its first financial quarter to September compared to the previous's year's quarter.
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Community leaders, students and members of the public will come together next week for an annual service to remember Northumberland Suffragette Emily Wilding Davison.
As has become tradition in recent years, a moving service will be held at St Mary's Church in Morpeth to commemorate the campaigner as part of the celebrations for International Women's Day.
The service is held in recognition of the contributions of all women to society worldwide, but it has a particular focus on the Suffragette movement, and especially Emily Wilding Davison's commitment to the cause.
The Suffragette, who lived with her mother in Longhorsley, was a fervent women's rights' campaigner, who was not afraid to use militant tactics. She was jailed on several occasions, and after going on hunger strike in prison, suffered painful and traumatic force-feeding almost 50 times.
She made headlines across the globe when her protest at the 1913 Epsom Derby went terribly wrong and she was struck down by the King's horse Anmer after stepping onto the racetrack.
Emily never recovered from her injuries and died four days later in hospital.
She was brought to Morpeth by train, with crowds paying tribute all along the route. When she arrived at Morpeth Station thousands of people had gathered to watch her funeral procession to St Mary's, where she was buried in the churchyard.
During the women's day service students from King Edward VI School, Morpeth Chantry Middle School, Blyth Academy and the Duchess High Schools in Alnwick will share their thoughts on Emily and equality issues today.
Afterwards, Northumberland County Council Civic Head Kathy Graham will lead the congregation to Emily's grave to lay flowers on behalf of the people of Northumberland.
She said: "International Women's Day is an opportunity to reflect on, and celebrate, the contribution of women to society from all walks of life and the challenges they have often had to overcome in order to make their voice heard."
The service takes place at noon on Friday, March 6. It is open to the public.
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Send SMS Text Messages From Android Tablets With TexTab
Be it Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, Asus's Eee Pad Transformer or any other Android tablet, the concept behind such devices is to create a hybrid of laptops and mobile phones. That means tablets have the energy consumption and portability of a smartphone coupled with the superior processing power and better display of a laptop. But sadly, this fact also implies that some of the features might be lost in this hybrid that are taken for granted in the dedicated devices. One such huge utility missing from tablets is the presence of SMS. Don't you sometimes just get so lost in your tablet that you wish that it could act as your mobile phone too and you won't have to part with it for even a single moment? If that's the case then here's the solution for your worries, in the form of the newly released app TexTab!
TexTab has been developed by the renowned Cydia developer howettl, who has made the app useful as well as glossy. Working over Bluetooth, TexTab helps you send and receive SMS right from your tablet employing an interface just like a phone and optimized for Android Honeycomb.
So what do you need to do to be able to use this app?
First you have to have the .apk file downloaded to your tablet and phone. To download, follow the link here. Once that is done install the app on both devices (installation procedure is simple enough, like any ordinary app installation). Now that you have the app running on both of your devices, you are ready to run it.
Using The App:
Once inside TexTab you have some initial setting up to do. Pair up both devices by making them visible from the menu and then requesting connection from your tablet to phone or vice versa. All done. You will have a texting interface on your tablet which will allow you to use your tablet pretty much like a cellphone.
The app has a lot of potential, and the developer has promised to keep improving it. However, it must be noted that there are some device-specific bugs in the app. Luckily, only one generic and universal bug has been unearthed so far, that being the unreliability of the connection at random intervals. Otherwise TexTab should work just fine on almost any Abdroid tablet out there.
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I am not considered an artist or creative type. Rather I am more like a logical thinker and "math" guy. But for those of you who are "artists", there are lies that you may allow yourself to believe which will stifle your creativity. These lies create artificial boundaries in limiting your ability to engage and create.
Here are five believable lies that seem to be common from Todd Henry:
1. I am what I make. This lie tells us that our value as a team member - nay, as a human being, is dependent upon the perceived value of what we make. This one is a sinister little devil because most organizations are set up to reward those who live out this lie to the extreme. That makes it tougher to opt-out without
2. Why try? I'll never be as good as (insert accomplished artist here)… This lie tells us that unless we hit some invisible standard (and probably unrealistic) standard we've set, nothing is worth making. We fail to realize that (insert accomplished artist here) probably felt the same thing from time to time. 3. I'd might as well just give them what they want. This lie tells us that challenging clients or managers is useless because they're only going to tell us to do something "compromised" anyway. The assumption underlying this lie is that striving for our best work is only valuable if the work is accepted and praised. 4. Because of my abilities, I am entitled to (insert benefit, award, promotion, peer approval, etc. here). This lie causes us to turn inward and withhold ourselves from the creative process. It's a "my way or no way" kind of thinking that ultimately results in us eating our own heart. (Quick tip: except for your bookie, no one owes you anything.) 5. Risk is bad. Certainty is good. When a culture of fear emerges within an organization, whether it's fear of failure or fear of success, it squelches personal and organizational innovation. All brilliance demands risk. It is the novelty of the connection that is the very definition of brilliance, and the closer "to the expected" an idea is the less likely it is to be brilliant.
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Already released in Asia (Japan) Sony Xperia Z goes west reaching Russia where the smartphone received an official unboxing video from Sony Russia, while the other model Xperia ZL shows up in an Amazon Germany listing. According to Amazon DE the White Xperia ZL will be marketed in the country through retail at €625.
Although it isn't available yet, Amazon customers are able to reserve a unit and get it in time for the release date (which unfortunately it is not listed).
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Help me become a vegetarian!
So here's one of the last threads I ever thought I'd create.
I passed up free meat today because the thought made me want to vomit. I wanna be a vegetarian. I had an excruciatingly strange night last night. No long crazy story, just apparently, unbeknownst to me until it happened, it was time for me to Have A Bit Of A Fucking Think at 1 AM in the god damn morning.
The conclusion of that think was I don't wanna eat meat anymore. No fish or seafood of any kind included in that. Eggs and milk and cheese and stuff are still fair mainly because I realize the magnitude of this task and don't want to fail entirely.
Please Talking Time, help me not lose my fucking mind doing this.
It's not that I'm worried about craving meat believe it or not, it's more that meat has been a central part of my diet my entire life and so removing it while being able to bring an easy to fix lunch to work, or grab a quick snack from a drive through, or go out to eat in general, or grab this week's dinner groceries is going to not be hard to avoid the temptation of (that will be a lie in a week), but something I don't know how to do right.
So I ask you! What is good?
I'm mainly looking for advice on stuff I can make at home, but tips on what to look for as far as probably overlooked dishes at the good Indian place around the corner because it didn't have goat in it are also wanted! I'm not averse to much and allergic to anything, so give me your links, your cookbooks I can buy, your personal anecdotes, everything!
I would suggest approaching the change in stages. Cut one type of meat from your diet until you're used to not having it, then move on to the next. Find recipes that don't include the meat that you cut out. Incorporate them into a routine, and then phase them out when you're ready.
Decide where your line is. A lot of foods have animal products in them. Will you be cutting out gelatin? Soup stock? Suet? Fish oil? Make sure you have alternatives if you do or be prepared to cut them out. Which brings me to my next piece of advice...
Read. Learn about what contains what. Get to know what gets put into what you consume. When I was vegan I got into the habit of always checking ingredients for certain keywords. I still do it, but that's because I don't eat dairy, beef or pork.
As with any lifestyle change, there's a lot of habit-building and practice. Good luck!
i agree with all that, and i'm personally coming from an angle that, i've never cooked meat and have a pretty idiosyncratic cooking style i mostly learned from my mom so maybe i don't have a lot of very useful advice. like i can read almost any recipe and adapt it to work the way i'm used to doing things but that doesn't actually help unless you already cook like i do (which probably no one does at this point)
i generally find a lot of direct "meat substitutes" really unappealing, but i gather they're really effective for some people who are trying to get used to not eating meat. i remember thinking that some of the lunchmeat type stuff was fine for what it was ("turkey" slices and such that go easily on cheese sandwiches) and i'm pretty into certain things that aren't really designed to resemble meat but have similar uses. there's tons and tons of burger brands especially which are clearly just vegetable mashups. some of them are really good (and some are really not for me). at the very least some of this stuff might help you get started more easily while you start finding your footing. in a more comprehensively cooked meal (like a stir-fry or something) something like tofu or seitan is an easy replacement that works about the same mechanically (though tofu is WAY softer than meat and especially light on flavor, which can be a disadvantage or an advantage depending on how you use it).
cookbooks: from a practical standpoint laurel's kitchen is probably the most useful one i know. like, probably half the stuff that my mom and i make comes originally from it and it's our habit to go, "ok, wait, how do i make this?" and look it up there first. it even works for stuff we've never made, sometimes, like the first time i cooked minestrone soup a couple years ago. otherwise-and maybe this isn't very helpful-i tend to look up something i want to make (literally, type in "vegetarian/vegan [X]" on google), because i can compare like five different recipes and take the most useful/applicable/interesting aspects of each. as not-eating-meat has really picked up in america, you see people from every background trying to figure out the best ways to make whatever their favorite thing is, so you really can find recipes for anything at this point. and really, cooking vegetarian is so, so, so much easier i feel; if you have a vague idea of which vegetables take longer to cook than others you almost can't mess stuff up (and if you're not sure just be conservative and put in anything green that isn't like a pepper or something last)
You'd be surprised what you can make without meat. The trick is to change the way you think about shopping for food and what ingredients you can use to make a meal. Pasta, cabbage, spinach, and beans make good vegetarian staples but that's just to my taste.
This seems like yet another opportunity for me to plug Budget Bytes.
Here's a good starter recipe: http://www.budgetbytes.com/2012/02/h...n-quesadillas/
I recently had to change my diet for medical reasons and I've basically had to cut out red meat because of it. I'm still eating poultry and seafood, mind you, but I'll be honest: it was pretty easy.
However, I'll add a caveat: it was pretty easy if you make all of your food yourself. The second you become reliant on a restaurant or another person, then it becomes pretty hard.
I legit prefer firm fried tofu to meat in a lot of meat dishes (stir fry, pasta, curry, etc). It's not always a good substitute, but it goes a long way.
I love meat myself but I will say this. Don't limit yourself to making veggie versions of meat dishes. Call a spade a spade and embrace dishes intended as vegetarian from the beginning.
Also if you want protein staples you can just throw in a variety of dishes, in addition to tofu be sure to try out things like Seitan and Tempeh. You may end up liking one of them better, and some work better for certain applications than others.
and on that note, lentils own and are a good staple of a vegetarian diet. A big thing I try to do because 1. I'm a little lazy and 2. I have to have somewhat of a semblance of paying attention to macros is having huge slowcooker recipes of lentils, probably some decent protein-grain like black rice or quinoa or so, and seitan with whatever spices and sauces I want to use as a broth.
but whatever I'll suggest a couple of things. https://thegentlechef.com/ is pretty great for a relatively hardline vegan outlook, but you can still get some stuff from it even if you're ok with dairy and eggs and the like. a lot of what he does is about imitation though, but i never really expect it to come out as perfect mimicry, so it feels like it's a separate homage. Seitan and Beyond is pretty great, because even if you don't necessarily want to use it as just imitating meat-based dishes it has a lot of good ideas to get different textures out of it.
And yea tempah is also a great thing to build around. It's my number one sandwich filling. whatever grocery store you go to should have some packages in a fridge.
And just if you do get lazy there are plenty of pretty good frozen/packaged meatless meals. Idk about most of amy's stuff but i hear they're good (albeit expensive in comparison). gardein has some fun stuff or whatever, and the morning star and quorn veggie burgers/patties are pretty good fillers, though I don't really get them much anymore.
Anyway, I think as you may be expecting, the hardest part is just going to be when you're in a lot of places that are more or less surrounded by meat. I feel like vegetarian options are pretty well available most places these days. The real trouble will be going out to places if you decide to cut out dairy or eggs. Lots of "I'll take the ____ salad but hold the cheese and change the dressing" etc.
I cook vegetarian during the week largely as an environmental compromise. The site that I get the most vegetarian recipes from is The Minimalist Baker. I find she's great because she recognizes that food has to be filling and have some joyful element. I cook this vegan fried rice every two to three weeks.
Also, Taco Bell will sub refried beans for meat if you ask.
one of the main pieces of advice i'll give you is that you shouldn't try to replicate meat, or replace it with fakes. You'll never be happy that way, and it makes going veg that much harder. I encourage you to instead focus on foods that never needed meat in the first place, or on things that use tofu and stuff for their own virtues as opposed to being 'fake soyrizo' or whatever.
Indian food is super easy, as like half of the food is natively veg anyway. Thai food is also really good, as there is a long vegetarian culture in thai cuisine already.
You'll find yourself craving protein. Things like peanut butter and eggs help with that. Cheese sticks. You'll also find that you're hungrier sooner after eating. Vegetables get processed a lot faster than meats do, so you don't have that 'full' feeling as long. Eating rice/carbs and lentil/beans helps with this, but its just something you have to get used to.
If you live with someone else, I highly recommend Blue Apron. Hito doesn't like most fish, so we usually order 2 meat + 1 veg meals per shipment, and the vegetarian meal is usually our favorite. It's also usually the easiest meal to cook, since you don't have to wash your hands a dozen times due to handling raw meat. It's great because you don't need to plan meals ahead of time or find recipes or go shopping. It's very impractical if you're just cooking for yourself, or want to spend less than $10 on a meal. Also, their weekly meal choices are 2 meat + 1 fish + 3 veg, choose 3, so as a vegetarian you don't get as many options as someone who can choose from all 6.
My vegetarian roommate in college pretty much lived on quesadillas at home (just cheese + beans + hot sauce, basically) + vegetarian chipotle (avocado instead of meat) on the go + a fifth of hard liquor every other evening. Maybe don't do that last part.
Even though I'm not vegetarian, my go-to meals to cook for myself at home are all meatless, because I can't be trusted to either plan meals ahead or just buy meat in bulk without it dying of three years of freezer burn. That means cereal for breakfast, peanut butter sandwich for lunch, cold pasta salad or garlic rice for dinner, although I recently fancied the latter up by learning to make delicious kim chi fried rice since we have a whole bunch of homemade kim chi to get through. Obviously not very healthy or sustainable long term, but it's good to have a bunch of nonperishable staples on hand for when you're too lazy to go shopping (which, for me, is almost always).
Meat substitutes
Frankfurters = excellent.
Regular sausages = ok, depends on brand. Try a few.
Sausage rolls = better than meat (no meat scrapings!)
Chicken = no.
Mince = good
Bacon = no.
Burgers = got the taste, not the texture.
For chicken I recommend replacing it with veg, like mushrooms. My biggest problem with attempting going veg was when it came to lunchtime and I needed to buy sandwiches. Vegetarian sandwiches are cheese or ASS.
NB. I am not a vegetarian, I just like trying things.
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Say no to Tofurky. I cannot stress this enough.
I've been slowly taking meat out of my diet, similarly I've also been having more and more disgust towards animal products. I have no intention of going full vegan though; I love fish, and if someone hands me a cupcake I'm not going to question the ingredients because free cupcake.
I actually LOVE fake meat, but to be fair in most cases I have no experience with the meat version to compare it to. I adore fake sausage but I've never eaten a real one. Try some fake meat crumbles on nachos.
I like fake meat too, and so does my wife, who's been vegetarian for 18 years and says that it has improved by leaps and bounds during that timespan. I don't think of it as a substitute so much as its own thing, and a helpful texture agent. There's a fake ground beef that I like to use to give my ma po dou fu a nice, crispy consistency. I agree that Tofurkey is awful, though.
Same. I've even had several Tofurkey-branded things that were okay - just not, like, their actual "turkey".
But basically, opinions on meat-substitute processed veg protein products is all over the map, so there's really not much recourse but to try a bunch and see what you like personally. I've often just gotten whatever's on sale a given week to check it out.
Shivam is right about Indian food. Home-cooked is quite different from restaurant food and it will be hard to find a recipe that will serve fewer than 6 people (so be prepared to do a lot of proportion adjusting), but if you want a steady rotation of a variety of vegetarian food, it's pretty hard to beat.
Is there a term for someone who doesn't eat eggs or dairy, but does eat meat? Besides picky, that is. I've taken to calling myself an Arbitrarian.
I've spent the past few months as a pescatarian (vegetarian + seafood), and, as a lifelong carnivore, I've found it to be pretty easy to maintain with little to no meat cravings.
The key for me is a lot of food variety. I've been doing the Blue Apron meal kit thing for a few months and they have a lot of delicious and varied vegetarian recipes. If you PM me I would be more than happy to send some of the recipes your way, if you don't mind cooking.
tofurkey is great and y'all can go to hell
I made a crazy good veg soup that's in the crock pot and smells AMAZING.
2 cans rotel
1 med onion
1 lb carrots
16 oz white beans (i used great northern)
16 oz black beans
16 oz white corn
12 oz spicy veg juice (V8)
12 oz veg soup stock
1 clove of garlic minced (I used a big clove)
salt to taste
crock pot 8 hrs on low or 4 hrs on high
it is nice and spicy and i can't wait to eat it.
The nuggets they make are chillingly like the real thing, and come without the general unease of their origins.
Anyway I'll also say that beans are a huge staple in our house. Probably the easiest and most filling thing you can make without meat is Frito pie or nachos. Throw some beans in a pot, nuke a bowl of tortilla chips and cheese, then throw on a bunch of salsa, olives, sour cream, and the like.
But yeah, if you have local Indian or Mediterranean grocers, look for ghee. It will also be cheaper from them than buying it from Whole Paycheck or wherever.
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- The Cabin
- Ice Fishing
- Mall of America
- Gooseberry Falls, Walking on Lake Superior, and Fitger's Brewery
After leaving Duluth, we headed back to St. Paul. Once we arrived, we were hungry… again.
We parked and made our way to Great Waters Brewing Company. Are you seeing a trend?
We ordered a few appetizers.
We ordered the Black and Brew Pate. It was Black Bean Pate and Hummus (I LOVE HUMMUS!!) It was simple yet tasty. Huck was licking the plate.
We ordered the Bac-N-Beer Nuts. These were AMAZING! Really, Bacon, Beer, and Hot Spices… How can you go wrong?
And the Rasta Wings. SUPER spicy wings with a Dijon Mango Sauce. They were not lying when they said SUPER spicy!
Everyone agreed the beer was less than impressive. I struggled to finish mine.
After dinner, we went to Rice Park.
Huck's butt was cold!
Once we finished walking around the park, we headed to Buck Hill to do some Snow Tubing.
We were like little kids running around. Our passes were good from 9-10PM, so our goal was to ride as many times as we could. Luckily, there wasn't a line. We raced guys vs girls a few times. The girls won 2 out of 3 times! Innies WIN!!
After tubing, we went to fly a kite!
These pictures were taken at night. My camera is awesome!
After flying the kite, we went back to Chris and Lisa. I used some of the leftover fish to make Fish Taco. It was about 1230 when we had dinner, so I forgot to take a pictures.
I was going to try and finish my MN post, today, but it is just to long. I'll be back tomorrow with my last one. Promise.
Yes, my lunch was a little cheesy! But cute!! I got the idea for the carrots from Sophistimom. Mine didn't look as nice.
I'm embarrassed to admit this, but I like Campbell's Chicken Noodle. Sodium in a can! This is my Campbell's knock off! The appearance of Campbell's without all the sodium!
I hope everyone enjoys their V-Day. I woke up to a nice surprise!
These are some of the prettiest flowers I've ever seen! They have been on my desk all day! I love them. Now, we are off to see Identity Theft (Edit: It was hilarious!!! Huck and I both recommend it)
Chicken Noodle Soup
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Kung Hei Fat Choi
for the Year of the Horse!
My friends in Asia are excited for the Year of the Horse and
are all enjoying the major Chinese New Year holiday
which started Friday 31st January.
We too are excited, but for different reasons!
|Peace and good health in the Year of the Horse! (馬年安康, mǎ nián ān kāng)
Here is our horse, Little Miss Hussy.
She is a three year old racehorse,
who has two wins, one second, one third and a fifth to her name.
We own a small part - like a tail!
We are hoping 2014 is her year...
|Lucky/Auspicious Year of the Horse! (馬年吉祥, mǎ nián jí xiáng)
Do you know if you are born in the Year of the Horse?
Here are the years:
If you are born in one of these years they say you are clever, kind, animated and energetic. You might talk too much but you are cheerful, perceptive, talented and love to be in the centre of a crowd.
People born in the Year of the Horse
Chopin, Clint Eastwood, Nelson Mandela, Isaac Newton, Barbara Streisand, Oprah Winfrey, Paul McCartney, Rembrandt and Genghis Khan.
We recently went to visit Miss Hussy who has been out at grass all summer, following the disappointing 5th place in her last race. She has just come back into training and we were happy to see how much she'd grown on her holidays!
She is impossible to photograph, she is all snorts, pawing at the ground. You can see the swishing tail above. The day we stopped by, she was in the horse walker and was taken out to be shown to us. She was not best pleased, you could tell. She knows the routine, a stretch of the legs, followed by dinner. This 'show and tell' was an unwelcome interruption to her schedule...
|Take the lead upon the horse! (一馬當先, yī mǎ dāng xiān)
She is not interested in the grass, don't forget she's had that in unlimited supplies over her hols, but she chomps impatiently away on the dirt, happy for the minerals. We pay a shed load of money to ensure she has the finest oats around, and she is happy as a pig in mud chowing down on dirt?????
This reminds me of a Chinese saying which I like,
"A good horse never turns its head to eat the grass behind."
So, look ahead, not back...
|Instant success when the horse arrives! (馬到成功, mǎ dào chéng gong)
Here is Miss Hussy amongst her stablemates, she's blurred in the foreground.
Not still ever for a minute, it's the racehorse in her - ha ha!
Do you know what sign of the Chinese zodiac animal you are?
Are you a charming Snake, a witty Monkey or maybe like me a friendly Rabbit?
|Good Luck Little Miss H - Wishing you a prosperous and healthy 2014!
In the meantime wishing you a wonderful Year of the Horse
Kong Hei Fat Choi - May you be prosperous.
Now where did I put that lucky Horseshoe?
Linking with Blue Monday
Thank you Sally I hope you spotted the blue headcollar?
Thank you Sally I hope you spotted the blue headcollar?
Linking with Our World Tuesday
Thank you to all the hosts Arija, Gattina, Lady D, Sylvia, Sandy, Jennifer
Thank you to Eileen for the Saturday's Critters meme
PS If you would like to read more about Little Miss Hussy:
Cor Blimey - our Nag won!!! 17th April 2013
Proving she's not just a once in a blue moon horse... Tuesday, 30 April 2013
You win some... you lose some.... Monday, 13 May 2013
Cranbourne Barrier Trial - no trial, no barrier for Little Miss Hussy Thursday, 15 August 2013
Victorian Spring Racing Carnival - Feeling blue at the races. Thursday, 17 October 2013


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Professional Interior Redesign Interior design is no longer only for the select few. Good interior design is one of the most important investments we'll ever make. Our surroundings can not only have a pretty impact on our lives, but they can improve our quality of life. Consulting with an interior designer is not about imposing ideas and individual taste onto a customer.
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And they're all a ripoff, something no budget-aware consumer should ever consider signing up for.
T-Mobile, AT&T, and Verizon each have their own new upgrade plans, called Jump, Next, and Edge, respectively. They all work mostly the same, essentially letting you "rent" your smartphone from the carrier with monthly installments and then trade it in for a new one once you've made a certain number of payments. It's kind of like leasing a car.
While the idea of upgrading your phone once or twice a year may sound enticing to those who crave the latest and greatest gadgets, it's still a horrible deal once you break down the math.
Here's what you probably don't know about your AT&T or Verizon service plans for voice and data. They're so expensive because they have an extra fee baked in to help pay for your smartphone. Carriers don't have to tell you what that fee is, but the consensus is that it's about $20 per month.
That extra fee is why you can buy a top-of-the-line phone like the HTC One or iPhone 5 from your carrier for just $200 if you agree to a two-year contract. The rest of the phone's cost (usually a total of $600 or more for a top-tier device), gets covered over the course of your two-year contract as you pay your monthly bills. (You still have to pay that extra baked-in fee even after your phone has been paid off, but that's a whole other can of worms.)
With AT&T and Verizon's new Next/Edge plans, you're still paying that extra subsidy cost in your monthly plan, plus paying full price for your smartphone. That means your carrier is getting even more cash out of you over time.
T-Mobile's monthly plans are cheaper because it doesn't lock you into a contract when you buy your smartphone. Instead, you make a down payment and pay off the phone in monthly installments. But if you want in on the new Jump upgrade plan, which lets you upgrade twice a year, you have to pay an additional $10 per month.
Let's break it down, using Samsung's new Galaxy S4 smartphone as an example. If you're an AT&T or Verizon customer interested in trying Next/Edge, you're going to be paying a lot of extra dough for the right to upgrade to a new phone once a year.
The full cost of a Galaxy S4 (without the carrier subsidy) is $640. Normally, you'd pay AT&T or Verizon $200 up front for the Galaxy S4 and agree to keep it for two years. The remaining $440 will be paid off over the course of your contract with that baked-in fee in your monthly service plan.
But if you want to go with Next or Edge, you pay nothing up front, and instead pay off your phone directly with an additional monthly payment that's separate from your regular wireless service bill. Verizon makes you pay off 50% of your phone before you can trade it in using the Edge program. AT&T makes you complete 12 monthly payments on Next before you can trade your phone in for a new one.
So on Verizon, you'll still have to pay at least $320 for the right to upgrade to a new smartphone. You'll have to pay $384 on AT&T's Next plan. That's on top of the hidden (~$20 per month) subsidy fee both carriers still make you pay.
In the end, you're still much, much better off paying $200 for your smartphone up front and agreeing to a two-year contract with that baked-in subsidy.
T-Mobile's Jump upgrade plan is a bit different, but it's still an equally bad deal for just about everyone. With Jump, you're paying a monthly $10 fee just for the right to upgrade your phone every six months. However, Jump is a slightly better deal in that it doubles as an insurance plan in case you break your phone.
Bottom line: If you're buying a new smartphone this fall from AT&T or Verizon, you're better off sticking with the traditional subsidized plans over a normal two-year contract. With T-Mobile, you're better off skipping Jump unless you really, really need to upgrade your phone every six months.


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If you couldn't tell from our name, at Quest, we love questions.
Love them.
We're always looking for the hows, the whys, the why nots. So it is an honor, but no surprise, that we make an appearance in Amanda Lang's new book, The Power of Why. The book focuses on modern innovators and why it is important to remain curious. I haven't had a chance to read it yet, but I just bought a copy for my Kindle, so I'll let you know what I think later on, but judging by the success of the book launch attended by David, and it's current ranking at #22 on Amazon.ca's bestseller list, it has people talking.
Check out Amanda's interview with Peter Mansbridge below, and if you don't have time to watch the whole thing, Quest is mentioned at the 8:30 mark. I can't embed from the CBC, so you'll have to follow the link.
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Dubai TV interviewed Suqrat bin Bisher on location while he was filming his short documentaryDrop Outs (Silent Weapon). Although the interview was taped during 2012, it aired and was published on June 17, 2013. Drop Outs (Silent Weapon) was produced in collaboration with the Al Qasimi Foundation and was Suqrat's graduation project for his applied communications program at the HCT Dubai Men's College.
This interview is in Arabic; however, Suqrat talked about the lighting in his film and how he set up the stage. He also talked about his technique of using backdrop shadows. Suqrat's interview is the first in this episode of "Searching For," a weekly program by Dubai TV.


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By Chuck Baldwin
October 20, 2010
In the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson wrote, "Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies."
I would argue that we, like our patriot forebears, have also endured "patient sufferance." For at least a half-century, we have patiently endured the erosion and abridgment of our freedoms and liberties. We have watched the federal government become an overbearing and meddlesome Nanny State that pokes its nose and sticks its fingers in virtually everything we do. We cannot drive a car, buy a gun, or even flush a toilet without Big Brother's permission. We are taxed, regulated, and snooped-on from the time we are born to the day we die. And then after we are dead, we are taxed again.
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Intro – Nectar Mattress Review – Is This Foam Mattress Really Worth Your Cash? Leesa Mattress Review Vs Tuft And Needle
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Construction (quality and materials )
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Multiple layers
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The foundation layer – the 5.5-inch high density Coating features help to the body in addition to creating a lasting and sturdy base for the mattress.
Nectar mattress is one of the firmest foam Mattresses and thus it is suitable for a variety of sleeping demands and preferences. Its quilted covers are plush and soft, but provide an extra layer of service. The mattress also blends jointly comfort with support, courtesy of its ultra-firm bottom layers. Its firm yet comfy layers are slow reacting compared to those of foam mattresses available. Overall, Nectar mattress offers the right balance of stability and comfort.
Edge service
Edge service is essential especially if you Will be sharing the mattress with another person or your spouse, and in the event that you'll use the whole surface of the mattress. The mattress is meticulously designed to give support from its centre to the side. You may easily roll from one border to the other devoid of inducing an excessive amount of depression. Nectar mattress offers superior edge support in comparison to other traditional foam mattresses on the market.
Motion transfer and sinkage
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No obstinate odor
While new and directly from the box, the Foam mattress has a powerful smell that can last for as much as two days. However, the smell starts to dissipate following two weeks and there's hardly any noticeable smell after a week. Again, it's simple to get rid of the smell once the mattress is new. You just have to air it out for 2 days before sleeping on it.
Regulated heating
Most foam mattresses have been proven to sleep Somewhat hot. But the Nectar mattress supplies a regulated heating attribute. Its infused cover, coupled with its high gel memory foam helps regulate temperatures, thus keeping you comfy and cool throughout the evening. Concerning heat regulation, the Nectar mattress has the capability to regulate temperatures over any other foam mattresses currently on the market.
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Nectar mattress cost can vary between $500 to $900 depending on the size of the Nectar mattress you select, and if you choose extra accessories or not. The foam mattress is reasonably priced in comparison with other high-end foam mattresses that are available at a higher price. As such, Nectar mattress boasts positive consumer evaluations on price and so it is a wonderful choice for anybody looking for a reasonably priced foam mattress which can deliver on comfort and endurance.
Lifetime guarantee
Nectar mattress is the first foam mattress To offer you a lifetime warranty, something that makes it an exceptionally sought-after foam mattress one of mattress buyers. The lifetime warranty helps ensure the materials, durability and substances of the foam mattress indefinitely. On top of that, it serves as a solemn proof that the manufacturer of this high quality foam mattress has confidence in its materials, durability, reliability and structure.
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How to Communicate with Tact & Professionalism —
I've been in a training seminar two days this weeks with the below goal in mind.
"Become a polished, persuasive communicator and express your thoughts and ideas with clarity and diplomacy"
The diplomacy part likely occurred during my single restroom break,three minutes long, on the second day.
While I'll address the material covered by the class in a future post I have concerns with the intrusiveness of marketing within the curriculum.
Anyone that's read Professor Cialdini's book Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (Collins Business Essentials),or Rushkoff's Coercion may have been amused, as I was, that a seminar designed to teach you more effective methods of persuasive communication seemed to be using similar techniques to sell future conferences, audiobooks and training subscriptions.
I have no problem with selling during the breaks, displays within the room ,fliers in the course material. What I'd like is for them to restrict this solely to those areas. In what could be considered a mildly coercive environment the ethics of this practice are questionable. Cheaper dictionaries refer to coercion only in terms of physical force and I can see my usage of this term being confusing in that light.I'm referring to an environment that is engineered to trigger as many of the six principles of influence within the first few hours.
- Social proof.(people come forward to buy in breaks)
- Scarcity. (have to order by end of seminar)
- Authority (The obvious one:)
- liking. (Dr was likable, really good at what he does)
- Commitment and consistency ( writing in the prices, and additions to the advert in the same format the rest of the class takes)
- Reciprocation(Starts out with hey, schedule runs to 1630 but can get you out by 1600, next day 1530) To many that's doing them a favor)
I can live with all the above, I may even be misinterpreting the above weapons of persuasion. Twenty minutes were taken up with Evelyn Wood's speed reading course,and many other products,in the time preceding lunch on day one which to me seemed rather inconsistent with the stated goals.
Looks like I'm not the only one with this concern.
I seriously recommend both books to anyone that engages in commerce , eg every adult, in the USA.


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google maps assignment for digital media production
1. learn google maps.
2. create a google map with at least three pins. the content attached to those pins is entirely up to you. experiment heavily with the design and layout of the pins.
3. when your map is ready, tweet about it.
4. in class on thursday, be ready to demo your map.
5. finally, find a USF student who currently has an internship or service project in san francisco. be ready to discuss the internship/project in class on thursday.
keep in mind:
a. the main thing i am testing is your ability to learn google maps with zero instruction from me.
b. i am also testing your ability to design and deliver digital content in strategic and creative ways. don't settle on your first or second idea.
c. if you have no new content to demo on thursday, do not come to class.
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