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Richard Racioppi / Lancaster Gourmet Bread
Specialty Food
Hometown: Staten Island, NY
Charlene Randolph & Nancy McIntosh / ClayFormed Artworks
Hometown: Windsor Mill, MD
Charlene and Nancy's creative partnership beganin in the mid-2000's when Charlene enrolled in Nancy's pottery classes at the Columbia Arts Center in Columbia, MD.
Charlene ran a brick and mortar store in Ellicott City for many years so she sold some of Nancy's ceramics and hired her to teach pottery classes at the store. After the historic flood in 2016, Charlene sold her shop to do craft shows full time. She makes functional and decorative fused glass and pottery pieces richly textured and often bearing her original stamp designs.
Nancy exhibited at Sugarloaf Crafts Festivals in the 1980's then taught pottery making in public schools for many years. Now retired from full time teaching, she creates slow-fired stoneware and decorative raku for art and craft shows. Both Nancy and Charlene teach part-time between shows.
Adriana Rangel and Phillip Houser / WOVEN DREAM DESIGNS, LLC
Textiles / Clothing
Hometown: New Hope, PA
Mary Louise Ravese / Bella Vista Photography
Hometown: Waterford, VA
As a nature and travel photographer, Mary Louise Ravese captures the wonder of the outdoors, offering a snapshot of natural beauty for all to see. Using both film and digital equipment while refusing to "touch up" any of her images, Mary Louise has spent more than 20 years traversing across the U.S., Europe and Japan in search of the perfect outdoor photos. With subject interests that include country landscapes, wildlife and architecture, her work often has a painting-esque feel, using lively colors, textures and shapes to offer her unique perspective on a fleeting moment of time.
Through her company Bella Vista Photography, Mary Louise's work can be found in collections throughout the United States, and has also been used in a number of calendars, books and websites. The Virginian also is a regular instructor for photography classes and workshops, and serves as a competition judge for clubs around the region. If you're looking to add wonder to your home, come and visit Mary Louise the next time you're at a Sugarloaf festival and see how amazing fine art photography can truly be.
Dennis Ray / Nature's Creations
metal / sculpture & collectibles
Hometown: Rockville, MD
From leaves to flowers, the beauty that's found in nature is unmistakable. At Nature's Creations Jewelry, Dennis Ray creates natural botanical wearable art and sculpture using a unique copper electroforming process that preserves the original item for eternity. This room temperature process layers copper over the cuttings without destroying them. By covering botanical items in copper, then finishing them with precious metals or colored patinas, they make custom, handcrafted pieces of art. As a result, each customer owns a truly individualized piece of jewelry where no two are exactly alike. "My art has been my sole vocation and my passion. Every year, I travel around the world on a mission to collect samples from nature — historic trees, vineyard leaves, noteworthy plant cuttings — and return to my studio, where I capture them in copper. Often finished with lush patinas and accent paint, each piece I create is one of a kind — just as in nature."
Kara Raymond / Kara Raymond Studio
jewelry / gold & silver
Hometown: Doylestown, PA
Artist Kara Raymond began working with metal in high school when she was introduced to jewelry making. Years later, she trained to be a jeweler and metalsmith, taking classes at jewelry schools, art centers and local colleges. Today, Kara works out of her home studio where she makes each piece of jewelry by hand. She pays close attention to shape, texture and movement, revolving her designs around those three concepts. Her two series, Japanese Mokume Gane and Siena, give her the flexibility to work with two very different styles. Mokume, the ancient Japanese technique of metal patterning, features a variety of organic textures, while her Siena series is focused on simplicity and uses pearls, stones and classic metal work. So whether you're looking for an expressive piece, or something a bit more understated, stop by Kara's booth and peruse through her selection of beautiful jewelry. Her earrings, necklaces and pendants also make wonderful gifts.
Don Rea / Don Rea Designs
metal / sculpture & collectibles
Hometown: Damascus, PA
The imagination that goes into handcrafting any work of art is incredible. This is certainly true with the quirky sculptures crafted from metal, wood and other materials created by Don Rea and his Don Rea Designs collection. Find sculptures to suit just about any interest, whether it be a student, musician, bartender, golfer or cyclist. The possibilities are only limited by Rea's imagination. Rea crafts sculptures and figures from metals such as copper, aluminum and tin. He inserts humor and whimsy into each shaping of the material from spiral-twisted legs to bright colors to provide life to a grasshopper riding a penny-farthing cycle. His work is imaginative and thoughtful, and you might think some of his sculptures will make the perfect gift for someone you know.
Sarah Read / ReAdapt
textiles / Accessories
Hometown: Baltimore, MD
Chiara Reading / My Wildest Dreams Studio
Leaded Glass
Hometown: Mount Laurel, NJ
After Chiara and her husband devoted one of their monthly date nights to a stained glass course, she soon found herself with an expensive but wonderful new hobby. Within a couple of years, she left her executive recruiter position to be a full time artist.
Chiara finds stained glass to be the perfect medium to express her passions for gardening, scuba diving and the ocean-related. She loves to feature the nautilus shell in her stained glass designs because it reminds her of the Fibonacci sequence, one of nature's miraculous patterns favored by artists and architects for centuries.
All her stained glass pieces are made with eco-friendly lead-free solder. Chiara is enjoying her new career immensely and says her success as an artist is beyond her wildest dreams!
Rosalyn Rego-Sharpe / Designs by Rego
Hometown: Mount Airy, NC
Lesley Reich / Pottery Mountain
pottery & ceramics
Hometown: Hurley, NY
Lesley Reich participated in her first crafts show in Ann Arbor, MI in 1972. She made $100, the equivalent of her clerk typist salary, and she was instantly hooked on craft shows.
She makes hand thrown porcelain vases, bowls and other vessels with hand lettered messages on themes of love, family, friendship and philosophy. All her pieces are lead-free and dishwasher, oven and microwave- safe.
Lesley started writing messages on her pottery while making a piece for a friend to give as a wedding gift. She began with a handful of quotations about life, sisters and friendship. Her daughter pointed out that she didn't have message about daughters so Lesley created one. She added more over time and now she has about a dozen daughter-themed messages and many others!
Soon pottery with hand written messages became what she was known for. She has handcrafted bowls for the FDR Library Gift Shop, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the Baltimore Aquarium and ornaments for the White House Christmas tree.
JJ Reichert / Goldyfish by Jessica Joy
textiles & fashion design / handbags
Hometown: Bellefontaine, OH
RJ Reichl
Hometown: Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD
RJ Reichl practiced photography as a hobby until he joined the army. He served in the U.S. Army as a Combat Surveillance Photographic Equipment Repairman, including time in Vietnam. He also served in the MD Army National Guard as a public affairs photographer while continuing to learn and improve his photography skills. While there he formed relationships with many other photographers and photojournalists.
Since retiring from the Army, RJ has decided to pursue photography full time. Though he admires many artists, RJ has found particular inspiration in the work of Ansel Adams and Christopher Burkett.
Check out his work at Sugarloaf Crafts Festival and chat about any special commercial or personal projects in need of a talented photographer!
Heather Reid / Heather Reid Designs
textiles & fashion design / clothing
Hometown: Greenwich, NY
Heather Reid, the head of her eponymous clothing brand, Heather Reid Designs, uses her creative eye to craft handmade clothing from hand dyed, hand painted fabrics. Working with cotton, wool and fleece she designs outfits and single pieces that are as eye catching as they are comfortable. Tops, jackets, pants and other clothing pieces come in a muted color palette that is conducive to mixing and matching to curate outfits that are ready for work, ready for going out, or ready to just look fashionable on the weekend. Reid's love of nature is captured in many of her hand painted fabrics. Leaves, branches, birds and blooms are often her prints of choice. Reid uses the finest quality pigments, dyes, and natural fibers and typically paints in a casual, freestyle manner. High-low hemlines, contrast stitching and relaxed silhouettes add to the natural, carefree vibe of the line. Living in Greenwich, NY, Reid often exhibits her designs at area venues including the Sugarloaf Craft Festival.
Laura Rhode / Knob Hall Winery
Specialty Food
Hometown: Brookeville, MD
Knob Hall Winery sits at the base of Fairview Mountain in the Cumberland Valley of Western Maryland. Using sustainable agriculture practices, Knob Hall makes award-winning wines with grapes grown on their 43-acre vineyards.
Their grape varietals, all carefully selected for compatibility with the terroir of the region, include Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Chambourcin, Malbec, Merlot, Petit Verdot, Albarino, Chardonnay, Pinot Gris, Traminette, Vidal Blanc and Viognier.
Knob Hall won three Gold Medals and Best in Class in the Maryland Governor's Cup Competition and scored gold medals in several other events too.
At their estate in Clear Springs, MD, Knob Hall hosts music festivals, fundraisers, wine tastings and private events. They invite visitors to tour their vineyard and winery.
Daniel Riccio / Riccio Artifacts
metal / sculpture & collectibles
Hometown: East Hampton, CT
Born in the Bronx, Daniel J. Riccio cut his teeth in the New York City art community throughout the 1970s. Now based in East Hampton, Conn., this imaginative artist doesn't tend to favor one medium. He crafts one-of-a-kind paintings, sculptures, jewelry and metal designs that are united by their intricacy and detail. He also offers an interesting collection of three-dimensional design and spiritual work honoring Christian and Jewish traditions, including hand-crafted dreidels, menorahs and Noah's Ark figurines.
Riccio's Artifacts collection is one of the most favored among his collectors, especially his variety of tiny objects inspired by his background in biology. These tiny carved figurines are minute but impactful, with an impressive level of detail accounted for in each and every piece. Sugarloaf Craft Festivals is proud to welcome Daniel J. Riccio artwork at some of our annual juried art shows throughout the Mid-Atlantic. Make sure to connect with the artist to see which Sugarloaf events he'll be attending this year.
Sabra Richards / Sabra Richards Steel & Glass
glass / fused glass
Hometown: Worton, MD
Award-winning glass maker Sabra Richards currently designs sculptures made from kiln-formed glass. She cuts sheets of fusible glass and builds the design while the glass is in the kiln. Sabra fuses 16 individual pieces of glass into a solid block and then puts the block into the furnace where she turns and heats it until it becomes flexible. Then she "pulls" it into the cane to finish her work. Her sculptures range in size from less than 20 inches to 10 feet high. Sabra designs wall pieces as well as free-standing sculptures and is able to custom build a sculpture to meet your color and size specifications. Her work has been exhibited at the U.S. State Department: Collections of Heads of State installation; IBM Atlanta; Ann Arbor Public Library; Northwest Airlines Terminal in Portland Oregon, and many other displays. We're thrilled to have her as part of the Sugarloaf Crafts family.
William Richardson / Suffolk Shaker Shop, LLC
Wood Boxes
Hometown: Suffolk, VA
Crafted using single sheets of marbleized and richly-grained wood, William's Shaker-style wares are created using thin strips of wood which are bent, wrapped, and braided. His decorative boxes, jewelry chests, trays, and baskets are instant Americana heirlooms.
Courtney Richie / Courtney B Designs
jewelry / glass
Hometown: Gallipolis, OH
Courtney B Designs is a Gallipolis, Ohio-based maker of flameworked glass and artisan jewelry. Owner and maker Courtney Richie is a glass artist and metalsmith who creates each piece by hand in her home studio on her farm in rural Ohio.
Courtney of Courtney B Designs has more than 14 years of experience flameworking glass, but she's always trying out new techniques, experimenting with unique designs and learning to incorporate metalworking into her designs. Courtney B Designs' jewelry features spherical shaped pendants with tiny nature scenes inside, glass cremation jewelry that allows the wearer to remember their deceased pet and dangling earrings with twinkling star designs reminiscent of the night sky. Taking her inspiration from the natural world around her, Courtney B Designs creates jewelry pieces that are true works of art.
Melissa Ricks / Wild Hare Fiber Studio LLC
Textiles Mixed Media
Hometown: Front Royal, VA
Russ Riggle / Possum Products, LLC
Wood Toys, Puzzles & Games
Hometown: Newcomerstown, OH
Melissa Rioux / Lakonia Greek Products
Specialty Food
Hometown: Saco, ME
Lakonia Greek Products is run by the mother and daughter team of Daphne and Melissa Rioux. They offer the finest unfiltered Extra Virgin Olive Oil, oil infusions, olives, wild herbs and teas. All of their oils are produced from olive trees grown in the Lakonia region on the Aegean Sea, a perfect climate for growing olive trees.
During a visit to her homeland in the late 1980's, Daphne Rioux discovered the extraordinary quality and robust taste of olive oil made in Lakonia. Realizing it was higher quality than most olive oils in the United States, she bought land in the region with an olive grove and began producing her own oil and harvesting kalamata olives.
She started selling Lakonia Greek Products at farmers markets in Saco, ME in 2006. The next year, Melissa graduated from college and jumped right into growing the family business.
This mother and daughter team travel to Greece regularly to participate in the olive harvest and learn all they can about growing olives.
Ossi Rioux / Ossi Hats, Etc.
textiles & fashion design / hats & accessories
Hometown: New York, NY
New York City-based Ossi Hats, Etc. is the brainchild of textile artist Ossi Rioux. Her unique, hand-crafted hats are the cornerstone of her portfolio. Rioux actually developed her very own nontraditional hat-making technique, which features a soft block method for shaping, a heat transfer method for dying and custom-made patterns on her hand-selected fabrics. Ossi Hats are constructed with some of the most desirable materials, including wool, cotton, velvet, satin, silk and grosgrain.
Each and every hat made by Rioux is hand-planed, cut and sewn by the artist in her New York City studio. Not only does Rioux create one-of-a-kind hats, but she also makes standout scarves and quilts using a fascinating blend of textured fabrics and trim. Sugarloaf Craft Festivals proudly hosts Ossi Hats, Etc. at many of our annual Mid-Atlantic juried art and craft shows. For more information on where to find Rioux's original creations, check our schedule to see which artists will be at which events.
Kevin Ritter & John Rymer / Mungo Key Designs
Mixed Media
Hometown: St Petersburg, FL
Kevin Ritter and John Rymer create tropical-themed paintings of shoreline wildlife native to Central Florida. They paint with alcohol ink which produces vibrant colors and creates a watery bubbly effect. Their business is named for the tiny island of Mungo Key near St. Petersburg, FL. Kevin says, though the island is not his physical home, he considers it his spiritual home.
Prior to painting, Kevin and John made and sold clay work for about 25 years. After the crash of 2008-09, many of the galleries that bought their work went out of business. They felt ripe for a change of medium and took up painting.
When not traveling to art shows, the pair enjoy living in eclectic, artist-friendly Gulfport, FL.
Debbie Roberts / Circle D Metal Art
metal / sculpture & collectibles
Hometown: Capitan, NM
Karen Roberts / Karen Roberts Stained Glass
glass / leaded glass
Hometown: Teaneck, NJ
Hailing from Teaneck, NJ, Karen Roberts Stained Glass brings a unique collection of stained glass to Sugarloaf Craft Festivals. Roberts' original stained glass artwork is as narrative as it is beautiful, with each one telling a story in glass and light. Roberts typically employs the Tiffany Method of stained glass making (also called foiling), where the edges of each piece are wrapped with copper foil tape. This allows for a stronger and more intricate design.
Roberts is also known for creating some unique functional stained glass pieces, including stained glass key racks, mirrors and more pieces that double as one-of-a-kind artwork. Sugarloaf is proud to position Karen Roberts Stained Glass along a community of glass artists creating stained glass, fused glass and blown glass. Our Mid-Atlantic juried art show has been inviting the country's best artists and crafters to come and display their work since 1975.
Beverly Robillard / Michele Gingerich
Mixed Media
Hometown: Charles Town, WV
As a child, Beverly Robillard observed her father making various woodworking projects. She learned how to use many woodworking tools by watching him and peppering him with questions.
He passed away before she started turning wood herself, but she thinks of him often when she is turning.
All of her work is one-of-a-kind since she likes to constantly explore new designs. She gets a lot of her raw material from trees downed in storms. More intricate designs are made from pre-cut planks of wood.
Stop by during Sugarloaf Crafts Festival for a peek at her original designs.
Latarsha Robinson / Southern Sisters
Specialty Food
Hometown: Goose Creek, SC
Timothy Robson / Me & My Dog Pet Bakery
Specialty Food
Hometown: Jamison, PA
The husband and wife team running Me & My Dog Pet Bakery makes hand-rolled gourmet pet treats using all natural ingredients such as top quality meat stocks, fresh fruit and veggies and Land O'Lakes eggs.
Your pets will be snacking as happily as their humans when they chomp on these treats filled with fresh bananas, celery, carrot, sweet potato and apples.
All their products are free of sugar, salt, artificial flavors and preservatives.
At Sugarloaf Craft Festivals, you're encouraged to pick up and sniff these treats to examine their freshness yourself. They recommend refrigerating the treats after purchase to maintain freshness.
Me & My Dog Pet Bakery rotates their recipes to ensure their 4-legged customers enjoy a wide spectrum of treat flavors.
They're treats are so good, they've been featured on the Martha Stewart show!
Gabriel Rodriguez / Mexica Crafts
leather / shoes & accessories
Hometown: Woodstock, NY
Gabriel Rodriguez of Mexica Crafts is the talent behind his collection of exclusive handcrafted leather mocs, boots, purses and more. From his Woodstock, NY location, he meticulously creates one-of-a-kind pieces from supple leather that exude comfort and style. His creations are reminiscent of the Native American culture and are available in a range of hues, including browns, greys, greens, red and more. The leather develops a rich patina over time, adding to its appeal. In an era when it's often said that "they don't make things like they used to," Mexica Crafts reminds us that artisans are still crafting quality products. Crafted by hand with attention to detail, many of the items are embellished with fringe, braiding details and contrast stitching. Rodriguez describes his designs as having great energy and a connection with the earth. "They are unique pieces, just like each individual." Customers often say that his leather creations are beautiful art to wear and that there's spirit and personality in each piece.
Gina Romano
Jewelry - Gold & Silver
Hometown: Summit, NJ
Robert Rossel / Symmetry Tile Works
Mixed MEdia
Hometown: Epping, NH
Robert Rossel served a two year Master Apprenticeship in Japan in preparation for opening his own pottery studio.
He creates custom tiles for home installation such as kitchen backsplashes, heat plates, tile floors, patios, shower walls, swimming pools and wall art. His tile designs reflect the wondrous symmetrical patterns found in nature.
Rob personally harvests much of the Queen Anne's Lace, thistle, sunflowers and gingko leaves used in his tile designs. After each image is glazed, it is layered with crushed recycled glass and fired in a kiln.
He and his partner, Kerstin, conduct in-depth Artist in Residence programs for New England school students. Hundreds of their tile murals, incorporating artwork by the students, appear in schools throughout the region.
Brian Rosenbarker / Homestead Leather
Hometown: East Petersburg, PA
Brian Rosenbarker is the artisan behind Homestead Leather, a small leather company in East Petersburg, just outside of Lancaster PA. Rosenbarker designs and manufactures leather bags, belts, accessories and notebooks using the finest quality American cowhide and hardware available. Each piece is made by hand and finished to perfection, giving them an heirloom quality.
"I strive for excellence in my leather work. I use the best quality materials I can find; I do not believe in cutting corners by using cheap leather or hardware. I use fine American Oak-Tanned leather in my products. This combination of leathers gives my products a unique style that you will find nowhere else. I use solid brass or stainless steel hardware and strong nylon thread. Because I care about the quality of my work, I guarantee everything I make for life against defects in materials and workmanship. With proper care, my products will last decades."
In addition to his Pennsylvania leather shop, Brian Rosenbarker's work can be found at many area fine arts and crafts shows such as the Sugarloaf Craft Festival as well as his online Etsy store.
Clay Rosenbarker / MacClay Leather Design
Hometown: East Petersburg, PA
Clay Rosenbarker started leather working with a friend in the summer of 1972. The pair opened a leather goods shop together soon after. In this and three other retail ventures, Clay's original designs outsold other available leather products.
Clay started showing his leather designs in prestigious juried craft shows in the early 1980's while still operating his retail outlets. In 1985, he sold the stores to focus solely on leathercrafting. Today he works with a small team of skilled crafters in his East Petersburg, PA studio.
He begins by sketching each design with a paper sketch, and from there, he creates a pattern. His buttery soft leather bags and purses are made from the best quality American cowhide and lined with durable, water resistant nylon.
Stop by at an upcoming Sugarloaf Crafts Festival and admire their rich, soft leather goods!
Sharon Rosenthal / Sharon Rosenthal Design
Non-Precious Jewlery
Hometown: Philadelphia, PA
Raymond Ruggeri and Milton Harrison / Rediscover Handbags
Miscellaneous / Accessorries
Hometown: Chicago, IL
Agustin Ruiz / A. Ruiz Designs
Fabric Bags
Hometown: Middle Island, NY
Agustin Ruiz was raised in Ecuador's Andean Mountains in a family of artisans, weavers and sewers. Initially he started crafting leather shoes, experimenting with different combinations of textured and dyed leather to create interesting original designs.
Later he transferred his sewing and design skills to making tapestry fabric bags and vests. He mixes and matches various fabrics, pairing several colors, patterns and textures to create fashionable, one of a kind bags that are durable enough for daily use.
His fabrics are hand cut to ensure the seams match up and the end result is balanced and attractive to the eye. Each seam is secured with a heavy duty serger sewing machine for long lasting handbags, purses and duffel bags.
For a classy finishing touch, Agustin accents each bag with handpicked palm tree tagua nuts or polished seeds.
Felicia Ruskin
Hometown: Millstone, NJ
Irina Russell / Inside Custom Art
Glass Mixed Media
Hometown: Nashville, TN
James Russell / James Russell Goldsmiths
jewelry / gold & silver
Hometown: Rockport, MA
Nothing shines like hand-wrought silver and gold. Designs from James Russell Goldsmiths are simple yet elegant, and well within your reach. The collection includes earrings, necklaces and pendants, bracelets and rings. The jeweler creates designs in his Rockport, Massachusetts shop. The quaint harbor town provides the perfect inspiration for the shiny accessories. While elegant, many of James Russell Goldsmiths' designs are perfect for accessorizing everyday wear, while others might be reserved for special occasions.
James Russell Goldsmiths exhibits at many Sugarloaf Craft Festivals, where you can see — and purchase — their exquisite creations. His designs fill up the booth, when is then filled up by admirers of simple silver loops and teardrop-shaped silver earrings and other bobbles to take home for oneself or to be used as gifts.
Carrie Rutherford / Dragon Folk Studios
Hometown: Forest City, NC
As the daughter of two children's book illustrators and authors, Carrie Rutherford inherited a strong artistic streak and a love for storytelling. As a child, she lived near the Appalachian Mountains in northern New Jersey where an abundance of natural materials inspired her early sculptures.
Carrie began Dragon Folk Studios in 1990 as a single mother of 3 young children. Her deep love for the forest, her vivid imagination and storytelling abilities all come together in the creation of her magical forest creatures.
Using clay, crystals, wood, paper and other materials, she sculpts and carves candle holders, incense burners and business card holders in the Dragon Folk motif of other worldly dragons, wizards, unicorns, mermaids and fairies.
In addition to her sculptural work, Carrie wrote and illustrated "Legends of Dragonfolk" to enlighten and inform newcomers to the enchanted worlds where her creatures abide. She also makes pet and human portrait sculptures as requested.


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Five Fruit Marinated Salmon
Serves 4
- 2 tbsp Hawkshead Relish Five Fruit Marmalade
- 1 tbsp rice wine vinegar
- 1 tbsp soy sauce
- 1 tsp chopped garlic
- 1tsp chopped fresh ginger
- 1 tsp sesame oil
- 1 tsp olive oil
- 1 small red chilli chopped finely (omit if you wish)
- Pepper (salt is not required as soy sauce salty)
- 4 salmon steaks
- Chopped walnuts
- 1 orange peeled and sliced
Take a small bowl and add the Five Fruit Marmalade, rice vinegar, soy sauce, garlic, ginger, sesame and olive oils and the chilli if required.
Blend with a hand blender to mix but not too much (not as a paste)
Coat the salmon with the mixture on both sides and cover with Clingfilm and allow to marinate for a few hours in the fridge, if you are short of time try and leave it for at least 30 minutes.
Heat the grill or cook on the BBQ
Using a double wrap of tin foil, sprinkle a little oil on it and then add the fish, keeping the marinade to one side.
Wrap the fish in the foil, I would do one each but you can do them all in one if you wish. You just may need to cook them a wee while longer.
Cook on the grill or BBQ for about 6-8 minutes depending on the size of the fish, it should be just opaque in the centre when they are done, better to under than overdo them,.
Whilst the fish is cooking put the rest of the marinade in a pan and heat through adding just a little water if needed.
When the fish is ready to serve cover with the glazed marinade and serve with a fresh green salad dressed with sliced orange and sprinkled with chopped walnuts.


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PUN BIRDSVibe Bredahl
13. oktober – 29. oktober 2005
Martin Asbæk Projects presents drawings from Vibe Bredahl's artist book PUN BIRDS. The book is released in connection with the show.
In her visual interpretations of proverbs and phrases Bredahl displays a subtle poetic word game.
If any, proverbs and phrases can be described as verbal stereotypes. Therefore, in an odd way there is something daring about Bredahl's project. It simply seems too banal for a contemporary artist to engage with.
However, one will immediately see that the project is not a simple matter of illustrating clichés.
In fact, PUN BIRDS is about the relation between word and image.
How words eventually lose their significance when turned into standard metaphors - and how they are being brought back into life by drawings adding new or different meaning to worn out words.
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However, the scale differs from most children's drawings – some measuring up to 120 x 200 cm.
In spite of its playful nature, PUN BIRDS deals with heavy existential topics such as loss, death and unreturned love.
PUN BIRDS is a mixture of words and images, different languages, phrases, proverbs and birds all over. Nothing is steady and meanings constantly change.


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Appearances of Reincarnation
Ian takes arguments for reincarnation and views them through a Swedenborgian lens. He changes the question from 'does reincarnation exist?' to 'how could one's experience appear like reincarnation?' -Editor
According to Emanuel Swedenborg, we only live once on earth. After death we live in a spiritual world and move eventually to a permanent place that depends on the spiritual nature we created by our actions on earth. We are not reborn or reincarnated again on earth, to have another attempt to do better next time.
Historically, however, there have been many stories about reincarnation, notably the "transmigration of souls" (metempsychosis) that Plato describes in the Republic. Reincarnation has been an essential part of Hinduism and Buddhism. It is interesting to see when it became popular in the west. We might assume it came with the great interest in spiritualism in Europe and America that started in the 1840s, which lead to a great many scientists becoming interested in it, with the formation of the learned societies of psychical research in the period 1850-1900. But it did not: there was no hint of reincarnation among those beliefs. Instead, it came through the books of theosophists like Annie Besant and was imported into western thought from the early 1900s. It has subsequently become rather widespread among spirit communicators, and it is especially dominant in the "channelled works" written under dictation from spirit sources that claim higher knowledge.
Wondering about the inspiration for this article? Look up the New Church, which is based on the theological writings of Emanuel Swedenborg.


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I find it difficult to Sleep here Because people hunt animals at night and the sound reminds me of Liberia.
James Dennis, Kola Refugee Camp, Guinea
Benetton commissioned me to photograph some of the 17 million people that the World Food Program (WFP) feeds. The images from the famine in Ethiopia in the early 80's had a big affect on me while growing up, but since then we seem to have become desensitized to images of poverty- their worlds seem so far away from ours in the west.
I decided to take my mobile studio- and take away the exotic backdrops and present them as people. Also interested in how the WFP uses food to get people to change their lives, I traveled to Sierra Lione, Afghanistan and Cambodia.


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Weather condition and different types of icing
Weather condition and different types of icing
There are different types of ice. Atmospheric icing is classified based on two different formation processes (S. Fikke et al., 2007). These are precipitation icing and in-cloud icing (S. Fikke et al., 2007). Precipitation icing is ice that form due to wet snow or freezing rain (Cattin, 2012). "In-cloud icing" occurs when super cooled liquid droplets (SLD) like clouds collide with a structure or object and freezes on the turbine blade. The physical properties and appearance of the ice accretion will vary on the variations in meteorological conditions during the ice growth. Parameters such as compression and shear strength for instance would be used to describe the nature of accreted ice. Other important factors would be for example humidity, temperature and the duration of the ice accretion (Ethiopian Standards Agency, 2001). The main preconditions for significant ice accretion are the dimensions of the object exposed and its orientation in relation to the direction of the icing wind (Cattin, 2012). Figure 6 gives an indication of the parameters controlling the major types of ice formation (Cattin, 2012). The density of accreted ice varies widely from low (soft rime) over medium (hard rime) to high (glaze).
Figure 1. Type of ice as function of wind speed and air temperature (Ethiopian Standards Agency, 2001).
Glaze is the type of icing that has the highest density, and is caused by freezing rain, freezing drizzle or in- cloud icing (Energy & Systems, 2012). It causes smooth evenly distributed ice accretion. The surface temperature of accreting ice is near freezing, and as a result, liquid water may due to wind and gravity flow around the object and freeze on the leeward side (L Tallhaug et al., 2009). The main factors in determining the accretion rate for glaze is rate of precipitation, wind speed and air temperature (Ethiopian Standards Agency, 2001).
Wet snow
Wet snow is able to stick to the surface of an object because of the occurrence of free water in the partly melted snow crystals. The accretion occurs when the air temperature is below the freezing point (Rindeskär, 2010). When the temperature decreases the build-up of wet snow will freeze (Ethiopian Standards Agency, 2001). The density and adhesive strength vary widely with the fraction of melted water, wind speed and other factors (Ethiopian Standards Agency, 2001).
Rime is the most common type of in-cloud icing and often vanes on the windward side of linear, non-rotatable objects. Icing on small linear objects is the cross section of the rime vane triangle with the WOP angle pointing windward nut as the width (diameter) of the object increase the ice vane changes its form (Ethiopian Standards Agency, 2001). Distributed ice can be formed by in-cloud icing when the object is a nearly horizontal "string" which is rotatable around its axis. The accreted ice on the windward side of the "string" will force it to rotate when the weight of ice is sufficient. The mechanism will continue as long as the ice accretion is going on. This may result a cylindrical ice accretion around the string. The most severe rime icing accrue on freely exposed mountains(coastal or inland), or where mountain valets force moist air through passes and consequently both lifts the air and increase the wind speed over the pass (Baring-Gould et al, 2009). The rime mainly varies with the dimensions of the objects exposed, wind speed, liquid water content in the air, drop size distribution and air temperature (Ethiopian Standards Agency, 2001).
Hoar frost
Hoar frost is caused by direct phase transition from water vapor into ice, and is common at low temperatures (Rindeskär, 2010). Hoar frost has low density, low strength and normally does not result in significant load in structures.
Effect of icing
Cold climate site affects the design of a wind turbine. Ice, rime and high air density at low temperatures will affect the aerodynamics. Thus the loads and power will further impact on the construction of the turbine (Seifert, 2003a). The control system can be affected if temperature and high masses of ice on the structure change the natural frequencies by high amplitude vibrations (Seifert, 2003a). Resonance and mass imbalance between the blades of wind turbine components may change the dynamics behavior of the whole turbine (Parent & Ilinca, 2011). Frozen and iced control instruments give faulty information to the supervisory system of the turbine. Extremely low temperatures will require special materials; for example, normal steel will become brittle at those temperatures (Seifert, 2003a).
There are health and safety restrictions in each cold climate operations and they have to be taken under consideration, for example large ice pieces falling down and ice fragments thrown over large distances may cause injury to humans and animals or damage objects. The turbine may also be affected by heavy unbalance due to unsymmetrical icing, because of changed natural frequencies of components exceeding the designed fatigue loads (Seifert, 2003a).
Low air density can increase the loads and maximum power output (Seifert, 2003b). If the turbine does not automatically react, the windings or transformers can burn, and gearboxes may be overloaded. Overloading may reduce lifetime of components and further damage the turbine, if it does not automatically react (Seifert, 2003a). Higher air density related to low temperatures and airfoil modification can lead up to 16 % overproduction in the wind turbine (Parent & Ilinca, 2011). In icing conditions the measurement errors of the wind speed can be up to 30%, maximum error of 40% for an ice-free anemometer and 60% for a standard anemometer during icing event (Parent & Ilinca, 2011). There are chances for lower production of energy due to increased vibration (higher load) and too low temperatures around the wind turbines. If the turbines are lightly iced, you will experience production loss even while the turbines are in operation. The reason for low production is that the ice changes the airflow across the air foil and creates turbulence, resulting in lower rotation, caused by a loss in aerodynamic lift and an increase in drag (Andersen, Börjesson, Vainionpaää; Silje Undem, 2011). The biggest production loss is caused by ice accretion on the tip of the rotor blade (Seifert, 2003a). The effect on power production will be approximately the same if the outermost 5% of the rotor blade is iced up as when about 75-95 % of the rotor blade is covered in ice (Andersen et al., 2011). Electrical failure may be caused by snow infiltration in the nacelle, and extreme temperatures may also lead to condensation in the electronics (Laakso et al., 2003a).


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John Oliver, Founder and Conductor Laureate
This season at Symphony Hall, the Tanglewood Festival Chorus joins the Boston Symphony Orchestra for performances of Mahler's Symphony No. 3 (January 18-20) and Schumann's Nachtlied and Neujahrslied (February 8-10) under BSO Music Director Andris Nelsons; Grieg's incidental music to Peer Gynt under BSO Associate Conductor Ken-David Masur (October 19-24); Berlioz's The Damnation of Faust (October 26-28) and Ravel's complete Daphnis et Chloé (February 15-17) under Charles Dutoit, and Leonard Bernstein's Symphony No. 3, Kaddish, under Giancarlo Guerrero (March 15-17). Members of the chorus also participated in this season's all-Bernstein program on Opening Night. Originally formed under the joint sponsorship of Boston University and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the all-volunteer Tanglewood Festival Chorus was established in 1970 by its founding conductor John Oliver, who stepped down from his leadership position with the TFC at the end of the 2014 Tanglewood season. Awarded the Tanglewood Medal by the BSO to honor his forty-five years of service to the ensemble, Mr. Oliver now holds the lifetime title of Founder and Conductor Laureate and occupies the Donald and Laurie Peck Master Teacher Chair at the Tanglewood Music Center. In February 2017, having prepared the chorus for that month's BSO performances of Bach's B minor Mass led by Andris Nelsons, the British-born James Burton was named the new Conductor of the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, also being appointed to the newly created position of BSO Choral Director.
Though first established for performances at the BSO's summer home, the Tanglewood Festival Chorus was soon playing a major role in the BSO's subscription season as well as BSO concerts at Carnegie Hall. Now numbering more than 300 members, the ensemble performs year-round with the Boston Symphony and Boston Pops. It has performed with Seiji Ozawa and the BSO in Hong Kong and Japan, and with the BSO in Europe under James Levine and Bernard Haitink, also giving a cappella concerts of its own on the two latter occasions. The TFC made its debut in April 1970, in a BSO performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with Leonard Bernstein conducting. Its first recording with the orchestra, Berlioz's La Damnation of Faust with Seiji Ozawa, received a Grammy nomination for Best Choral Performance of 1975. The TFC has since made dozens of recordings with the BSO and Boston Pops, with James Levine, Seiji Ozawa, Bernard Haitink, Sir Colin Davis, Leonard Bernstein, Keith Lockhart, and John Williams. In August 2011, with John Oliver conducting and soloist Stephanie Blythe, the TFC gave the world premiere of Alan Smith's An Unknown Sphere for mezzo-soprano and chorus, commissioned by the BSO for the ensemble's 40th anniversary. Its most recent recordings on BSO Classics, all drawn from live performances, include a disc of a cappella music led by John Oliver and released to mark the TFC's 40th anniversary; and, with James Levine conducting, Ravel's complete Daphnis and Chloé (a 2009 Grammy-winner for Best Orchestral Performance), Brahms's German Requiem, and William Bolcom's Eighth Symphony for chorus and orchestra (a BSO 125th Anniversary Commission). Besides their work with the BSO, TFC members have performed Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with Zubin Mehta and the Israel Philharmonic; participated in a Saito Kinen Festival production of Britten's Peter Grimes under Seiji Ozawa in Japan, and sang Verdi's Requiem with Charles Dutoit to help close a month-long International Choral Festival given in and around Toronto. The ensemble had the honor of singing at Sen. Edward Kennedy's funeral; has performed with the Boston Pops for the Boston Red Sox and Boston Celtics; and can be heard on the soundtracks of Clint Eastwood's Mystic River, John Sayles's Silver City, and Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan. TFC members regularly commute from the greater Boston area, western Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Maine, and TFC alumni frequently return each summer from as far away as Florida and California to sing with the chorus at Tanglewood. Throughout its history, the TFC has established itself as a favorite of conductors, soloists, critics, and audiences alike.


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|Xenopus, Bovine, Chicken, Mouse, Pig, Rat, Sheep
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|Antigen Region
|759-785 aa
|Gene ID
|Other Names
|Integrin beta-1, Fibronectin receptor subunit beta, Glycoprotein IIa, GPIIA, VLA-4 subunit beta, CD29, ITGB1, FNRB, MDF2, MSK12
|This ITGB1 antibody is generated from rabbits immunized with a KLH conjugated synthetic peptide between 759-785 amino acids from the C-terminal region of human ITGB1.
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|Integrins alpha-1/beta-1, alpha-2/beta-1, alpha-10/beta- 1 and alpha-11/beta-1 are receptors for collagen. Integrins alpha- 1/beta-1 and alpha-2/beta-2 recognize the proline-hydroxylated sequence G-F-P-G-E-R in collagen. Integrins alpha-2/beta-1, alpha- 3/beta-1, alpha-4/beta-1, alpha-5/beta-1, alpha-8/beta-1, alpha- 10/beta-1, alpha-11/beta-1 and alpha-V/beta-1 are receptors for fibronectin. Alpha-4/beta-1 recognizes one or more domains within the alternatively spliced CS-1 and CS-5 regions of fibronectin. Integrin alpha-5/beta-1 is a receptor for fibrinogen. Integrin alpha-1/beta-1, alpha-2/beta-1, alpha-6/beta-1 and alpha-7/beta-1 are receptors for lamimin. Integrin alpha-6/beta-1 (ITGA6:ITGB1) is present in oocytes and is involved in sperm-egg fusion (By similarity). Integrin alpha-4/beta-1 is a receptor for VCAM1. It recognizes the sequence Q-I-D-S in VCAM1. Integrin alpha-9/beta-1 is a receptor for VCAM1, cytotactin and osteopontin. It recognizes the sequence A-E-I-D-G-I-E-L in cytotactin. Integrin alpha-3/beta- 1 is a receptor for epiligrin, thrombospondin and CSPG4. Alpha- 3/beta-1 may mediate with LGALS3 the stimulation by CSPG4 of endothelial cells migration. Integrin alpha-V/beta-1 is a receptor for vitronectin. Beta-1 integrins recognize the sequence R-G-D in a wide array of ligands. Isoform 2 interferes with isoform 1 resulting in a dominant negative effect on cell adhesion and migration (in vitro). When associated with alpha-7/beta-1 integrin, regulates cell adhesion and laminin matrix deposition. Involved in promoting endothelial cell motility and angiogenesis. Involved in osteoblast compaction through the fibronectin fibrillogenesis cell-mediated matrix assembly process and the formation of mineralized bone nodules. May be involved in up- regulation of the activity of kinases such as PKC via binding to KRT1. Together with KRT1 and RACK1, serves as a platform for SRC activation or inactivation. Plays a mechanistic adhesive role during telophase, required for the successful completion of cytokinesis. Integrin alpha-3/beta-1 provides a docking site for FAP (seprase) at invadopodia plasma membranes in a collagen- dependent manner and hence may participate in the adhesion, formation of invadopodia and matrix degradation processes, promoting cell invasion. ITGA4:ITGB1 binds to fractalkine (CX3CL1) and may act as its coreceptor in CX3CR1-dependent fractalkine signaling (PubMed:23125415, PubMed:24789099). ITGA4:ITGB1 and ITGA5:ITGB1 bind to PLA2G2A via a site (site 2) which is distinct from the classical ligand-binding site (site 1) and this induces integrin conformational changes and enhanced ligand binding to site 1 (PubMed:18635536, PubMed:25398877). ITGA5:ITGB1 acts as a receptor for fibrillin-1 (FBN1) and mediates R-G-D-dependent cell adhesion to FBN1 (PubMed:12807887, PubMed:17158881). ITGA5:ITGB1 is a receptor for IL1B and binding is essential for IL1B signaling (PubMed:29030430).
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|Cell membrane; Single-pass type I membrane protein. Cell projection, invadopodium membrane; Single-pass type I membrane protein. Cell projection, ruffle membrane; Single- pass type I membrane protein. Recycling endosome. Melanosome. Cleavage furrow. Cell projection, lamellipodium. Cell projection, ruffle. Cell junction, focal adhesion. Cell surface. Note=Isoform 2 does not localize to focal adhesions. Highly enriched in stage I melanosomes. Located on plasma membrane of neuroblastoma NMB7 cells. In a lung cancer cell line, in prometaphase and metaphase, localizes diffusely at the membrane and in a few intracellular vesicles. In early telophase, detected mainly on the matrix-facing side of the cells By mid-telophase, concentrated to the ingressing cleavage furrow, mainly to the basal side of the furrow. In late telophase, concentrated to the extending protrusions formed at the opposite ends of the spreading daughter cells, in vesicles at the base of the lamellipodia formed by the separating daughter cells Colocalizes with ITGB1BP1 and metastatic suppressor protein NME2 at the edge or peripheral ruffles and lamellipodia during the early stages of cell spreading on fibronectin or collagen Translocates from peripheral focal adhesions sites to fibrillar adhesions in a ITGB1BP1-dependent manner. Enriched preferentially at invadopodia, cell membrane protrusions that correspond to sites of cell invasion, in a collagen-dependent manner. Localized at plasma and ruffle membranes in a collagen-independent manner
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|Isoform 1 is widely expressed, other isoforms are generally coexpressed with a more restricted distribution Isoform 2 is expressed in skin, liver, skeletal muscle, cardiac muscle, placenta, umbilical vein endothelial cells, neuroblastoma cells, lymphoma cells, hepatoma cells and astrocytoma cells Isoform 3 and isoform 4 are expressed in muscle, kidney, liver, placenta, cervical epithelium, umbilical vein endothelial cells, fibroblast cells, embryonal kidney cells, platelets and several blood cell lines. Isoform 4, rather than isoform 3, is selectively expressed in peripheral T-cells. Isoform 3 is expressed in non- proliferating and differentiated prostate gland epithelial cells and in platelets, on the surface of erythroleukemia cells and in various hematopoietic cell lines. Isoform 5 is expressed specifically in striated muscle (skeletal and cardiac muscle)
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text: On Thu, 8 Jan 2009, Scott Silva wrote: >> on 1-8-2009 1:28 PM Warren, Eucke spake the following: >>> Is there a process for finding status updates to open bugs >>> within Centos? -- view it in a web browser, and optionally 'monitor' it so emails of updated state are received -- offer to buy support from the the project or person it is assigned to, if really important [not likely and really CentOS is not interested in competing with the upstream] -- buy enough upstream subscriptions to get assigned a TAC [and watch the report get triaged down to irrelevance ;) ] >>> I do see the manual fix for it and will be testing that >>> shortly. I am, however, dealing with a fairly rigid >>> internal legal department that may not welcome a "fix" >>> that's not "official". official from centos means: http://mirror.centos.org/centos-5/5/os/i386/EULA Have fun watching legal and finance fight. > It must be of a low enough priority to not get a lot of attention. Also, anyone who is on the upstream anaconda and kickstart mailing lists has seen this issue reported and debated, and more importantly knows that anaconda is tailored to each major release upstream. Frankly, it is generally not worth fixing nor materially addressing with upstream without lots of TAC interest and firepower, as the patches be ignored, and will rot like fruit in the hot Sun (or be refactored away as it is so closely tied to the then underlying Python's quirks) ;) -- Russ herrold


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Your resume is often your first point of contact with a potential employer. In mere seconds, it must convey who you are and pique the interest of the hiring manager or else face being consigned to the recycling heap. General wisdom suggests that resumes be as concise as possible, but job seekers must be careful that they don't leave out important details. Eliminating critical information can be as damaging as a resume that just rambles on and on. In this slideshow, Heather Huhman, writing for Glassdoor, has identified seven items your resume may be missing.
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Mike Fisher has joined the Envoy Mortgage branch office in Grand Junction as a senior mortgage banker.
Fisher brings to his new duties more than eight years of experience in the mortgage industry.
"Mike is not only a great mortgage loan originator, but his ability to recognize and meet his client's needs is uncanny," said Lonnie Knob, manager of the Envoy Mortgage branch office in Grand Junction. "He cares about the individuals he serves, and his successful track record is proven by this. Mike fits the Envoy mold perfectly by putting others first and always doing what is right."
Founded in 1997, Envoy Mortgage has grown to become one of the 50 largest retail lenders in the United States. The company is licensed to operate in 40 states and has topped $1 billion in funded loan volume in each of the last two years. In Grand Junction, Envoy Mortgage operates offices at 1114 N. First St. For more information, call 424-5588.


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Seasonal transitions are awesome. They're filled with nostalgia, weather friendly activities, and of course a few new additions to the wardrobe.
As the weather grows colder, it becomes increasingly more difficult to roll out of my toasty bed for my morning run or PureBarre class. To help avoid the chill and motivate me to get moving, I am on the hunt for a cute jacket.
Usually my budget friendly hunting methods are successful, however in this particular search everything I like is rad… and priced accordingly.
In no particular order, the contenders are:
Left to Right: Athleta Prevail 2 , Karma San Suu , NorthFace Calentito , Karma Debi
Nike Bomber , Nike Windrunner , Karma Adelaide Pea
Lucy Energize Zipper , Zella Trinity
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You know when you're stuck in traffic on a particularly uninspiring stretch of motorway, it's raining moggies 'n' doggies outside and Coach Trip's due to begin? You're about to unleash an Anglo Saxon expletive entirely for your own benefit, but then... then... an absolute cracker of a tune you've never heard before comes on the radio and instantly lifts your spirits.
You do? Good, because 'Happiness' is precisely that kinda song - and not just because it begins with the singer trilling about "this traffic making me sick". Produced by Stargate, it's a tale of romantic regret, realisation and ultimately exultation built over a breathmint cool-deadmau5 instrumental, creating a club pop throbber that's classier than Joan Collins's best crockery. If your mate told you that the vocalist - soulful, sexy, full of yearning - was an 18-year old former child soap star who reached the semis on America's Got Talent four years ago, you wouldn't believe him. But he'd be telling the truth.


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James D. Fogarty, D.O. is one of the only physicians in the four county area who is board certified in Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery. This sub-specialty certification, previously referred to as Urogynecology and Female Urology and Voiding Dysfunction, is one of the few certifications jointly accredited by the American Board of Urology (ABU) and the American Board of Obstetrics & Gynecology (ABOG).
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Sweet and sticky, this melt in your mouth beer braised pork belly is simple to make and incredibly flavourful. Served it with potatoes, noodles or rice. East meets West comfort food right there!
Whenever I go to the market and pick up a pork belly, I often think it's going to be turned into a simple bacon or some form of crackling something but this time was different. I was bored with the same old thing and decided to go a more saucy route so I opened my fridge and brainstormed.
There it was, staring me in the face – a can of dark beer. Today is going to be a good day.
Is this super traditional? Nope – the traditional Chinese braised pork belly recipe doesn't usually have garlic and onions and most definitely not beer but caramelized garlic and onions add another dimension of flavour which go fantastic with pork belly. The final dish has a sweet, sticky and flavourful dish with hints of bitterness from the beer to offset the sweetness.
For this Beer Braised Pork Belly (Chinese Style), most ingredients should be available at your local grocery store.
The Chinese rice cooking wine and dark soy sauce might be slightly trickier to find but can be found at your local grocery store or online – here and here.
Can you omit the dark soy sauce? Yes, but you won't get that glossy dark colour.
For the beer, I used a dark beer but that is only because I enjoy the hint of bitterness to it. If you prefer something less bitter, you can use a light beer for this recipe as well.
Update 08/29/18: A few people have made this with dark beers (stouts and porters) and found it incredibly bitter. Since beers have different IBU (International Bitterness Scale), I recommend using a beer that you enjoy drinking or a light or medium beer – unless you enjoy the bitterness of dark beers.
For the sugar I used Chinese yellow rock sugar because it gives the meat and sauce that glossy sheen. It cooks down almost syrupy which is one of the traits of a good braised pork belly. This can be substituted with regular sugar.
Traditional vs. Non-Traditional
Remember I said this is not the traditional method of making this? This recipe is slightly simpler by omitting the blanching of the pork belly. Traditionally, we would blanch the pork belly to remove the impurities for a 'cleaner' looking dish however I found that omitting that step allowed for a better browning since it gave it more 'bits' to scrape off the pan right before braising. Flavour.
There's nothing to this recipe! 🙂
- Slice up the ginger and roughly smash the garlic.
- Cut the pork belly into 2cm x 3cm chunks. Don't cut them too thin or it will melt away and there won't be much to eat!
- Brown the pork belly. Add in the onions, ginger and garlic to brown as well as this will give it even more flavour.
Note: When you brown pork belly it splatters – a lot. I'm pretty sure I have splatters of grease on my ceiling – occupational hazard right? To alleviate this issue I had to literally hold up the lid like a shield against the pot and deflect the oil splatters away from me. If you foodies out there have a better method, give me a shout! 🙂
- Add all the braising liquids and spices into the pan and set the stove to high and bring everything to a vigorous boil and boil everything for 15 minutes.
- Once it has boiled for 15 minutes, reduce the heat to medium low and braise for 1 hour and 20 minutes. A lot of fat will render out of the pork belly, skim off the fat before serving.
- Serve it up with white rice, plain noodles or roasted potatoes\mashed potatoes (Yep, potatoes! We liked it with fries!)
Saucy om nom nom!
Beer Braised Pork Belly (Chinese Style)
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 90 minutes
- Total Time: 1 hour 40 minutes
- Yield: 4 Servings 1x
- Category: Main
- Cuisine: American, Chinese
Sweet and sticky, this melt in your mouth beer braised pork belly is simple to make and incredibly flavourful.
- 2 lbs pork belly
- 1 onion (sliced)
- 4x4 cm ginger (sliced)
- 2 cloves garlic
- 1 cup beer
- 3 cups beef broth
- 3 tablespoons soy sauce
- 2 tablespoons rice vinegar
- 2 tablespoons dark soy sauce
- 1 tablespoon Chinese rice cooking wine
- 1 teaspoon Chinese five spice powder
- 2–3 small Chinese yellow rock sugar (or 3 tablespoon of regular sugar)
Toppings (Optional)
- green onions (finely chopped)
- toasted sesame seeds
- Slice the ginger and onions and roughly smash the garlic
- Cut the pork belly into 2cm x 3cm chunks. (Don't cut them up too thin else they will melt away into nothing!)
- In a skillet or heavy bottomed pot, set the heat to medium and add in the pork belly to start browning it. (Be careful at this point. Pork belly splatters a lot! Use a lid as a shield to deflect some of that hot oil away from you :))
- When you have browned the pork belly halfway through, add in the onions, garlic and ginger to brown them as well.
- Once all the pork belly has been browned, add in the five spice, beer, rice vinegar, broth, soy sauce, dark soy sauce, shaoxing cooking wine, sugar.
- Set the stove to high and bring everything to a vigorous boil and boil it for 15 minutes
- Once everything has boiled for 15 minutes, set the stove to medium low to low heat. You want the braising liquid to be doing a low rolling boil. Braise 1 hour and 20 minutes.
- You'll know it's ready when the sauce is syrupy looking and the liquid should have reduced by almost half the amount you started with. If it hasn't reached that syrupy consistency, continue to cook it for another 5-10 minutes.
- Serve with white rice, plain noodles or roasted potatoesmashed potatoes (we liked fries! 🙂 )
- IMPORTANT UPDATE: Update 08/29/18: A few people have made this with dark beers (stouts and porters) and found it incredibly bitter. Since beers have different IBU (International Bitterness Scale), I recommend using a beer that you enjoy drinking or a light or medium beer – unless you enjoy the bitterness of dark beers.
- During the simmering process a lot of the fat will render out of the pork belly. Skim off the fat so there isn't a layer of grease before serving.
- Pork belly splatters a lot during the browning process! Use a lid as a shield to deflect some of that hot oil away from you
- An alternative to pork belly that this also works with is pork ribs or pork hocks! 🙂 Cut up the pork ribs into individual ribs and use the same directions.
- Serving Size: 1 Serving
- Calories: 1299 kcal
- Sugar: 11 g
- Sodium: 1523 mg
- Fat: 120 g
- Carbohydrates: 18 g
- Protein: 23 g
Keywords: braised pork belly
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!calgary !college Well, I think I just aced the Projects final, including the rather weighty bonus. If that's true, then that would bring my current grade up to 100.27%. And I still haven't finished one of the labs. || I'm not going to finish it, either. I already have over 100%. I don't really need more %. Unless I can transfer it from my Projects mark to Mech, which I'm still a little shaky on. And by shaky, I mean I might only get an A, or even an A-.
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All or muffin! Safe Comic Relief bake sale
Employees of Safe 'rose' to the occasion when Emma Ratcliffe organised a charity bake sale, inspired by 'The Great Comic Relief Bake Off' (BBC). The event took place at Safe's head office in Leicester, on Monday 9 March. Keen bakers produced a variety of cakes and goodies, which were available to buy throughout the day with a grand total of £231.04 being raised for the Comic Relief charity.
Comic Relief, one of the UK's most high profile charities, celebrates its 30 years of fund raising in 2015. The charities two big annual fundraising events 'Red Nose Day' and 'Sport Relief' have raised a total of £1 billion since their inception. Funds raised are directed globally towards making 'real and lasting change' to the 'root causes of poverty and social injustice'. Read more about Comic Relief by visiting http://www.comicrelief.com/about-us/how-we-operate.
Speaking after the event, Emma said 'I was so pleased with all the bakers that got involved to help make it happen', adding that 'it was good fun to prepare and extremely rewarding, Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood would be proud!'
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Our lead poisoning lawyers have filed more cases for children with elevated blood lead levels than any other law firm in Michigan. In the past, most lawsuits were filed against past and present landlords due to paint and dust hazards in rental homes. Now, new cases are being filed for children exposed to tainted water containing lead in the Flint Water Crisis.
Medical exams and health department records show an increase in the blood lead levels of children in the City of Flint since the change from the Detroit water source. Doctors and medical experts believe that the tainted water is responsible for the higher lead levels in Flint children. The timeline of the change in the water source establishes that higher lead levels are most likely the result of this bad water.
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Lionsgate has released this 'eye-popping' poster for Saw VII 3D. Click the above image to see it in full over at Bloody Disgusting or click over the jump to see an even cooler motion one-sheet which tries to replicate the 3D effect.
Saw VII 3D hits theaters on October 22, 2010, and will be going head-to-head against Paramount's "Paranormal Activity 2".
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Search topic and filter results by topic, geography, series, and/or producer
- ICPSR's Thematic Collections Click on "Health and Mental Health" then one of:
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Bar Refaeli in Passionata Lingerie 2012 Photoshoot
Passionata presents a photoshoot with Israeli supermodel Bar Refaeli. "The shoot is playful, yet not too playful, sexy and we love the overall setting with colors, sport, all while keeping it very classy as well." In the shoot, Refaeli can be seen getting into character with each piece such as a fisherman, tennis player and sailor.
Check out the full Bar Refaeli Passionata Lingerie 2012 Photoshoot after the jump.
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I have had the pleasure of working with this family a few times and every time I love them more and more! I looked forward to this session so much because Mom is a Pinterest-ista and always has great ideas for shots (the feet shot was her idea!). These sweet kids are full of personality and it is obvious how much big sister adores her baby brother. It is never hard for me to get her to snuggle her brother which is awesome for me as a photographer! The whole family are super affectionate with each other and full of joy and laughter. And I'm not even going to mention the obvious: they are all ridiculously beautiful. Mom is the quintessential Charlotte girl– blonde, fresh-faced, no need for makeup and a smile that starts deep within and spreads to everyone around her. As lovely as she is outside, she is inside as well! I cherish my time working with them!
Thank you Y family <3