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Goodbye 2006
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Lopsided Cat says: So long, 2006. You were mighty tasty. Indeed it was, Lopsided Cat. Indeed it was. You now have less than 24 hours left in 2006. There are many ways you could be spending this time. In front of your computer shouldn't be one of them. Scoot. See you next year.


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For as long as I can remember, I've always loved Mexican food. Good chips and salsa is definitely a weakness for me, no matter how much junk food I gave up, I don't think I could give up chips and salsa. When I don't know what to make for dinner and I need something fast, we inevitably have tacos. If I'm in a bad mood, my husband often suggests we go out for Mexican and I start to feel better. So it should come as no surprise that my experimenting often leads to Mexican-inspired flavors. I love adding spicy peppers, garlic, lime juice, cilantro, cumin, and other Mexican flavors to dishes.
I love ordering tequila lime fajitas when we go out to dinner so I thought I would make my own at home. Of course I decided this while inviting friends over for dinner when walking around the grocery store at 4:30 pm on a Saturday. So I picked up some chicken, some garlic, limes, and a couple of jalapeno peppers. We didn't end up making it into fajitas that night but ate it with a salad and some grilled potatoes but I turned the leftover chicken into fajitas a couple nights later and it was fantastic with a little avocado, grilled bell peppers and onions and warm tortillas. You're going to want to make extra so you have leftovers of this - grill out on Sunday, make double and you're 90% done with a weeknight dinner.
One more thing while I'm talking about chicken - I'm not sure about your grocery store, but whenever I buy boneless, skinless chicken breasts, the pieces are always huge. I generally remove the tender and butterfly each breast, so I have 2-3 pieces from each one. They cook up much faster and more evenly on the grill, so you don't end up with dried out chicken waiting on the middle to be done. It also helps make it easier to gauge one serving which is 3-4 ounces rather than a whole chicken breast.
Tequila Lime Chicken
4-5 pounds boneless, skinless chicken breasts
1/4 cup tequila
1/4 cup lime juice
1/4 cup honey
2 jalapeno peppers, chopped
3 cloves garlic, minced
1 T ancho chili powder
2 tsp ground cumin
1/4 cup cilantro, roughly chopped
1 tsp salt
In a large ziploc freezer bag, combine all ingredients, except chicken. Shake to combine. Add chicken, making sure to distribute marinade over the chicken. Refrigerate about 1 hour.
Preheat grill to medium heat. While grill heats, remove chicken from refrigerator and let stand at room temperature about 15 minutes. Spray grill with grilling spray or rub lightly with vegetable oil to prevent sticking. Add chicken and grill about 5 minutes on first side. Turn chicken and grill about 5 minutes more until cooked through. If chicken is sticking when you try to turn it the first time, give it another minute or so, it probably just isnt ready. Once cooked through, remove to a plate, cover tightly with foil and let stand for about 10 minutes so juices re-distribute.
Serve as is or use for fajitas, in enchiladas, tacos, chicken rollups or for sandwiches or salads.
Friday, April 30, 2010
Tequila Lime Chicken
For as long as I can remember, I've always loved Mexican food. Good chips and salsa is definitely a weakness for me, no matter how much junk food I gave up, I don't think I could give up chips and salsa. When I don't know what to make for dinner and I need something fast, we inevitably have tacos. If I'm in a bad mood, my husband often suggests we go out for Mexican and I start to feel better. So it should come as no surprise that my experimenting often leads to Mexican-inspired flavors. I love adding spicy peppers, garlic, lime juice, cilantro, cumin, and other Mexican flavors to dishes.
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Lemon Poppy Seed Bread
Well I'm finally getting around to posting the last of what I made for the Bake Sale a couple of weeks ago. The Better Homes and Gardens Cookbook was a great resource for me in preparation for the bake sale. The multitude of simple and quick recipes were what I needed since I had so many different desserts to prepare in a short time. Since we were starting pretty early in the morning, I knew I wanted to do some things that could be breakfast or dessert. This lemon poppy seed bread fits into that category nicely. It works with a cup of coffee for breakfast or serve it as dessert, maybe fancied up a bit with a blueberry coulis or powdered sugar glaze.
As I've said before, quick breads are one of my favorite things. They come together in about 5 minutes and there are so many options. This could also be made into muffins very easily. Don't skip the glaze on this recipe as it really gives the bread a nice pop of lemon and adds some moisture as well. I had to tent my bread for about 10 minutes in the oven to prevent the top from over-cooking. If you use 2 smaller loaf pans instead of 1 large loaf pan to bake this, that probably wouldn't be necessary.
Lemon Poppy Seed Bread
Recipe adapted from Better Homes and Gardens Cookbook
1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 2/3 cup flour
3/4 cup buttermilk
Zest of 1 lemon
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 tsp baking soda
1 T poppy seeds
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray a 8" x 4" loaf pan with baking spray. In a mixing bowl, combine sugar and butter and beat about 3 minutes until light and fluffy. Add eggs, 1 at a time, mixing after each until incorporated. Add flour, buttermilk, lemon zest, salt and baking soda, mixing until just incorporated. Stir in poppy seeds.
Pour batter into prepared pan and bake about 40-45 minutes until a skewer or knife inserted in the center comes out clean. It may be necessary to tent with foil for the last 10-15 minutes of baking time if the top is becoming too brown. Cool in pan about 10 minutes and then turn out onto a wire rack covered in wax paper to cool completely. Glaze with lemon glaze below. Wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate if not serving immediately.
3 T lemon juice
1 T sugar
Whisk together until sugar is dissolved. Use a large pastry brush to brush onto bread.
Strawberry Oatmeal Scones
Need a good breakfast or brunch recipe for Mother's Day? These scones come together incredibly quickly and they can even be made in advance and frozen so all you have to do is pop them in the oven the morning you want them. Freeze them and bake them a couple at a time for a small breakfast or make it easy for yourself when you're hosting brunch.
You can easily substitute raspberries, blueberries or blackberries for the strawberries and frozen berries will also work, so use whatever you prefer and whatever is in season. I couldn't resist the fresh strawberries that are everywhere in the grocery stores right now.
Strawberry Oatmeal Scones
Adapted from Joy the Baker, originally from Baking: From My Home to Yours by Dorie Greenspan
1 egg
1/2 cup buttermilk
1 2/3 cups all purpose flour
1 1/3 cups old fashioned rolled oats
1/3 cup sugar
1 T baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
Pinch of ground nutmeg
3/4 cup fresh strawberries, chopped
1/2 cup plus 2 T unsalted butter, cold, cut into small pieces
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees and line a baking sheet with a Silpat or parchment paper.
Whisk together the egg and buttermilk and set aside. Combine the flour, oats, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, salt and nutmeg in a mixing bowl. Add the cold butter pieces and cut in with a pastry blender or your hands, until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Pour in the buttermilk mixture and stir with a stiff wooden spoon until just incorporated. Gently mix in the chopped strawberries. The mixture will be very sticky.
Turn the dough out onto a lightly flour surface and gently knead 8-10 times and press the dough into a disk about 1 1/2 inches thick. Portion the dough into about 12 wedges or balls and transfer to the baking sheet. Bake for approximately 20 minutes until golden brown. Transfer to a wire rack to cool about 10 minutes before serving.
Make Ahead Note: If you want to make these ahead of time, prepare the dough, scoop into balls and transfer to the prepared pan. Freeze until solid and then wrap with plastic wrap or transfer to a freezer storage bag. Bake directly from freezer, increasing baking time to approximately 22 minutes.
Sunday, April 25, 2010
From Invitations to Dessert: Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Cupcakes
Today, I want to introduce a new feature: From Invitations to Dessert. I'm pairing up with Nikki from Doodle Dog, a design shop out of the Dallas area, to bring you monthly blog posts featuring a dessert matched with an invitation. We'll show you ways to carry your party theme from invitations to dessert, picking up design cues throughout, whether it's a wedding, company party, a birthday extravaganza or a shower of some sort.
First, let me tell you a little about Nikki and her company. Nikki created Doodle Dog in 2008, and focused primarily on commercial advertising (logo design, web design, etc.) but after many requests to create invitations for parties and weddings, she decided to add that service to the mix. From there, the rest was history; now invitations, announcements and other fun party favors have become a part of her repertoire, and as she says, "I have the dream job, I work with expecting moms, excited brides and party planners on a daily basis and I get to make them smile." Check out her blog here for more pictures.
We started with the chocolate chip cookie dough cupcake. From there, Nikki created an adorable invitation, matching the cupcake colors and tying in the vintage charm that the dessert evokes. Cupcakes work perfectly for a casual wedding; either in place of the cake or packaged as a favor. Replacing cake with cupcakes is a great way to add a unique element to your wedding and save a little money. These particular cupcakes bring a classic flavor that everyone loves. Arrange them on a large cupcake tower or several vintage cake pedestals. Add a small round cake for the bride and groom to cut if you don't want to forgo the tradition.
The invitation would be perfect for a casual, vintage outdoor wedding and reception. For the invitation, Nikki used a heavy ivory linen stock with a textured chocolate brown backer. The details really make this piece unique and give it a vintage-casual feel. From the playful font, to the unique printed belly band and Love emblem attached to each piece, the invitation is memorable and personal. The whole suite ties together perfectly and helps set the tone for what will be a night to remember with the soft ruffled ivory ribbon and the patterned envelope liner.
neckties: http://www.billyreid.com/men/mens-neckties.html bride and groom: http://www.stylemepretty.com/2009/10/08/vintage-wedding-with-handmade-details-ii/ flowers in a bucket: http://www.stylemepretty.com/2009/10/08/vintage-wedding-with-handmade-details-ii/ car: http://www.stylemepretty.com/2009/10/08/vintage-wedding-with-handmade-details-ii/ barn: http://www.brides.com/planning/receptions/gallery/3158
Nikki put together this inspiration board to show you how to pull the look together. Little details are important to carry out the look and feel of a wedding reception. Brown and cream striped silk ties for the groomsmen with khaki suits bring in a more casual feeling than a traditional tux, the classic striped tie works perfectly with the vintage theme. The barn becomes casually elegant when draped ivory curtains and strung with white twinkle lights. Tie wheat sheaths with ivory ribbon or raffia and paint pumpkins ivory for centerpieces for a fall wedding; add cherry blossoms in ivory pails and pale pink or ivory peonies for a spring wedding. Add in the perfect classic car to make a grand exit instead of a limo and your theme is complete from invitation to exit.
Click here to see more pictures on Nikki's site.
Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Cupcakes
Recipe adapted from Annie's Eats
1 ½ cups unsalted butter, softened
1 ½ cups light brown sugar, firmly packed
4 eggs
2 2/3 cups all purpose flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
Pinch of salt
1 cup whole milk
2 tsp vanilla extract
1 cup chocolate chips (I used milk chocolate)
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Line 2 muffin pans with liners. Combine the butter and sugar in mixing bowl, beat on medium-high speed until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes. Add the eggs one at a time, beating after each addition. Scrape the sides of the bowl with a rubber spatula as needed.
In a separate bowl, combine the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Stir together vanilla and milk in a measuring cup. Add 1/3 of the flour mixture to the batter, mix at low speed. Alternate adding flour mixture in 3 parts with ½ of the milk; beginning and ending with the flour mixture. Mix each addition until just incorporated. Fold in the chocolate chips. Scoop the batter evenly into prepared cupcake liners, filling each about 2/3 to ¾ of the way full. Bake about 18 minutes, until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool in the pan about 5 minutes and then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely before frosting.
1 ½ cups unsalted butter, softened
¾ cup light brown sugar, firmly packed
3 ½ cups powdered sugar
1 cup all purpose flour
½ tsp salt
3 T whole milk
2 ½ tsp vanilla extract
Extra chocolate chips for decoration if desired
Beat the butter and brown sugar until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes. Mix in the powdered sugar, mixing on low speed, until smooth. Add in the flour and salt and beat on low speed until incorporated. Add the milk and vanilla and beat until smooth.
Transfer the frosting to a piping bag fitted with a large star tip and pipe frosting on to cooled cupcakes as desired. Sprinkle chocolate chips on top if desired.
Saturday, April 24, 2010
Cinnamon Crunch Coffee Cake
Mother's Day is coming up quickly... do you know what you are doing for your mom yet? Are you hosting a Mother's Day brunch for your family? Put together a mix of 3-4 savory and sweet breakfast items, brew some coffee and crack open a bottle of champagne for mimosas and brunch is ready to go. The best part about brunch is that most of the recipes can be made in advance. This low maintenance cinnamon crunch coffee cake can be baked the day before and makes a great display on a pretty cake stand.
The cake is baked in a bundt pan and has a ring of cinnamon streusel baked into the middle. It's iced with a simple powdered sugar and milk glaze just poured over the top.
This would be perfect served with an egg and bacon or ham strata, a light, fresh fruit salad (try this one with poppyseed dressing) and add some hashbrowns or home fries to finsh the meal.
I baked this in a bundt pan but if you don't have one, it can also be made in a 9x13 pan, just add all the batter at once and top with the streusel mix instead of adding it to the middle and reduce the baking time by about 10 minutes.
Cinnamon Crunch Coffee Cake
Recipe adapted from Better Homes and Gardens Cookbook
2 1/2 cups all purpose flour
1 1/2 cups light brown sugar, firmly packed
1/2 tsp salt
2/3 cup unsalted butter
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp nutmeg
1/4 tsp ground ginger
2 eggs
1 1/3 cups buttermilk
3/4 cup pecans, chopped
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Butter and flour (or spray with baking spray) a bundt pan. Add pecans to a dry skillet and toast over medium-low heat, about 5-6 minutes, tossing frequently. Watch them carefully so you don't burn them, you'll be able to tell when they are done as they will become very fragrant. In a large bowl, combine flour, brown sugar and salt. Cut in butter, using a pastry blender until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Scoop out 1/2 cup of mixture and set aside. Add baking powder, baking soda, 1/2 tsp cinnamon, nutmeg and ginger to remaining mixture.
Beat eggs and add to buttermilk in a large measuring cup. Pour into flour mixture, stir until just mixed. Add half the batter to the bundt pan. Combine remaining flour mixture, toasted pecans and remaining cinnamon and sprinkle over batter. Top with remaining batter.
Bake for 40-50 minutes or until a wooden skewer inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean. Cool in pan 10-15 minutes on a wire rack. Cover with cake plate and invert carefully to transfer cake. Cool completely and top with glaze.
1 cup powdered sugar
1/4 cup heavy cream or milk
1 tsp vanilla extract
In a medium bowl, add powdered sugar, 1/2 the milk or cream, and vanilla. Whisk until smooth. Add remaining milk or cream as necessary to reach desired consistency. You want a syrup-like consistency that can be poured over the cake without running everywhere.
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Spicy Shrimp Mango Salad
Whenever the weather warms up, instead of craving pasta and chili, I want grilled chicken and salads and fruit. At least its a good change in my eating habits. As I've said before, frozen shrimp is a great choice for weeknight dinners. It can be thawed very quickly, doesn't require a lot of time to marinate, and cooks in just a few minutes.
Fruit and salads don't belong together in everyone's mind but if you haven't tried it, give it a chance. The sweet and spicy goes great together. This particular salad was one of my favorite seafood dishes, grilled mahi mahi topped with mango salsa. The Caribbean jerk marinade for the shrimp works great in this salad because it has a bit of heat but the marinade is also a little sweet. The marinade looks like a lot of ingredients, but its mostly pantry staples and comes together very quickly.
Spicy Shrimp Mango Salad
3 cups romaine lettuce, chopped
3 cups baby spinach
1 mango, diced
18-20 medium shrimp, marinaded (see below)
1/2 cup black beans
1/2 cup corn kernels
1/4 cup cilantro, finely chopped
Heat a large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Add shrimp to pan and cook about 3 minutes, turn over and cook on remaining side 1-2 minutes just until opaque. Remove shrimp to a plate and add reserved marinade, black beans and corn to pan. Cook about 3 minutes until hot and sauce is slightly thickened. Add to shrimp and mango and top with cilantro. Add lettuce and spinach to a large bowl or divide among plates. Top with shrimp mixture and serve. (Add dressing if desired, with the reduced marinade, I didn't need one but I'm not a big dressing person to begin with. A simple honey lime vinaigrette would be perfect.)
(Note: I would also have added some diced jicama to this but my husband is not a fan and I don't use enough of it to buy it just for me but it goes perfectly with this if you like it.)
1 jalapeno, finely diced
2 cloves garlic, minced
2 T brown sugar
1 tsp allspice
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp ground cloves
1 T fresh thyme
1 tsp salt
Juice of 1 lime
2 T olive oil
1 T dark rum
1 T orange juice
Mix all ingredients together in a plastic bag or shallow bowl, remove 2 T of marinade and set aside. Add thawed shrimp. For a milder marinade, remove ribs and seeds from jalapeno; to make it spicier, leave the seeds and ribs in. Toss to coat and refrigerate for about 20-30 minutes.
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Pecan Pie Bars
When I was thinking about what to make for the bake sale last weekend, I had a couple of qualifications. I needed to be able to make it in advance and it needed to be easy to transport. In general most bar cookies meet these requirements. I was originally going to make some blondies or brownies but I wanted something that didn't have chocolate in it since I had already made the chocolate-covered Dulce de Leche Cheesecake Bars and was also making Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Cupcakes. I had a big bag of chopped pecans in the pantry as well, so when I came across this recipe for pecan pie bars in my Better Homes and Gardens cookbook, I decided to try them.
As is true for most recipes in the BH&G cookbook, this one is easy to prepare and will be in the oven pretty quickly. One thing that will make it much easier is a pastry blender. If you don't already have one, mine looks like this...
A pastry blender is really helpful when making a pie crust or a crumble. You mix the dry ingredients in a large bowl and then cut in the cold butter pieces. It allows you to mix the dough without your hands warming the butter so the little pieces remain, which is what helps make the pie crust nice and flaky.
Pecan Pie Bars
Recipe from Better Homes and Gardens Cookbook
1 1/4 cups all purpose flour
1/2 cup powdered sugar
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 cup unsalted butter, cold
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a 9x13 jellyroll pan with aluminum foil. Combine flour, sugar and salt in a mixing bowl. Cut the cold butter into cubes and add to flour mixture. Toss and use a pastry blender to cut butter into flour mixture until mixture resembles crumbs the size of peas. Pour mixture into prepared pan and press into a smooth crust. Poke several holes in the crust with tines of a fork. Bake about 18-20 minutes until light golden brown.
2 eggs
1 1/2 cups chopped pecans
1/2 cup brown sugar, firmly packed
1/2 cup light corn syrup
2 T unsalted butter, melted
1 tsp vanilla
In a large bowl, beat eggs and add sugar, corn syrup, butter, and vanilla. Whisk together until smooth. Stir in pecans. Pour filling into pre-baked crust. Return to oven to bake for about 20 minutes until filling is set. Cool on a wire rack until completely cool. Use foil to lift bars out of pan and cut into squares.
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Orange Creamsicle Cookies
Sure most people don't ever really get sick of chocolate chip cookies, but I like to experiment and find new things to make. So even though there is no reason to mess with a perfectly good cookie, I decided to add some orange zest to chocolate chip cookie dough.
Then as I was getting the ingredients together, I remembered a recipe I had found in the Magnolia Bakery cookbook. Instead of chocolate chips, it used vanilla chips or white chocolate chips (which are much easier to find around here at least) and combined with the orange zest, makes a cookie reminscent of an orange dreamsicle pop from an ice cream truck. They are just as easy as traditional cookies, but offer something unexpected.
Orange Creamsicle Cookies
Recipe from The Magnolia Bakery Cookbook
Makes about 3 dozen cookies
2 1/4 cups all purpose flour
3/4 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 cup unsalted butter, slightly softened
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar, firmly packed
1 egg
Zest of 1 orange
1 cup white chocolate chips
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line cookie sheets with Silpats or parchment paper. In a large bowl, combine flour, soda, and salt. Stir together and set aside.
In a large bowl, cream together butter and sugars until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes. Add egg and beat until combined. Add flour mixture and beat on low speed until well incorporated. Add orange zest and beat to distribute. Stir in chips.
Use a cookie scoop or tablespoon to drop in rounded spoonfuls on cookie sheets, leaving plenty of room between cookies to allow for some spreading. Bake for about 10 minutes until light golden brown. Cool about 1 minute on cookie sheets and then transfer to wire racks to cool completely.
Monday, April 19, 2010
Dulce de Leche Cheesecake Bars
If you don't know what dulce de leche is, you need to find out... now. Its a dark, thick, creamy, caramel-y sauce made from sweetened condensed milk that takes these cheesecake bars from good to oh.my.god.good. There are methods for making dulce de leche yourself; I've tried it before without success. I've heard about boiling, baking, and even crockpot methods, but it's much easier to do the "buy it in the grocery store" method. You might not be able to find it at every grocery store but most large stores carry it. Try either the baking aisle or the Mexican/International foods aisle (this is where it is at my store) and it comes in a small can like sweetened condensed milk. Make sure it actually says dulce de leche as I've seen the same brand of sweetened condensed milk in the baking aisle but it was just the ordinary stuff.
These cheesecake bars have a classic graham cracker crust, the dulce de leche filling and are topped with a chocolate glaze. They work perfectly baked in a 9x13 pan, a jellyroll or regular baking pan both work well. Make sure you also have a larger pan to put the 9x13 pan inside of so you can bake the cheesecake in a water bath. Baking the bars in a water bath prevents the cheesecake from cracking. Also make sure not to skip lining the pan with foil. This helps with almost any bar cookie; just lift out the whole pan of bars using the foil and it is so much easier to cut and serve.
Dulce de Leche Cheesecake Bars
Recipe adapted from Annie's Eats
1 1/2 cups graham crackers (about 1 package in the Honeymaid box)
3 T sugar
5 T unsalted butter, melted
Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Line a 9x13 pan with aluminum foil, making sure there is at least an inch overhang on all sides, preferably a couple on both ends. In a food processor, process graham crackers to fine crumbs, add sugar and pulse several times to combine. With processor running, add melted butter and process for about 15-30 seconds more. Press crumbs onto the pan in an even layer. Bake for about 10 minutes and cool in pan on a wire rack.
1/3 cup whole milk (I used skim milk and just replaced a little bit with heavy cream)
12 oz cream cheese, softened
3 eggs
1/2 tsp salt
1 can dulce de leche
Beat softened cream cheese with mixer on medium-high speed for 2-3 minutes until smooth. Add in the eggs, one at a time, beating and scraping the bowl after each egg. Add the milk and salt and beat on low until smooth. Add the dulce de leche and beat on low speed until smooth. Pour over the crust and smooth with a rubber spatula. Set pan inside a larger pan and add hot water to the larger pan until water is about half way up the sides of the cheesecake pan.
Bake for about 35-40 minutes until filling is just set. Cool on wire rack for about 2 hours and then cover and refrigerate for at least 6 hours more.
Chocolate Glaze:
3 oz bittersweet chocolate
4 T unsalted butter, cut into 8 pieces
2 tsp light corn syrup
In a large measuring cup, add chocolate pieces, butter and corn syrup. Microwave on low powder for about 1 1/2 minutes, stirring every 20-30 seconds until almost melted. Stir until smooth. Pour glaze over chilled cheesecake, tilt the pan or use an offset spatula to smooth the chocolate up to all the edges. Chill at least 30 minutes more.
Use excess foil to remove the bars from the pan, peel foil off the back, and transfer to a cutting board. Using a large sharp knife, cut into squares and serve.
Friday, April 16, 2010
Bake Sale
Tomorrow is the 1st Annual National Food Bloggers Bake Sale, part of the Great American Bake Sale organized by Gaby Dalkin of WhatsGabyCooking.com.
Funds raised from the bake sale will benefit Share Our Strength, an organization dedicated to ending childhood hunger in America. All across the country, food bloggers have joined together to host bake sales in more than 25 locations on Saturday, April 17th. To find a location near you, click here to see the list of sites. Tomorrow, I'll be joining Melissa from My McDonald Meal to help with a bake sale in Georgetown, Kentucky at the Georgetown International Kite and Culture Festival at the Cardome Center so if you are in the area, stop by and get some delicious baked goods between 10 am and 2 pm.
For tomorrow's bake sale, I'm making:
Dulce de Leche Cheesecake Bars
Orange Creamsicle Cookies
Pecan Pie Bars
Lemon Poppy Seed Bread
Cinnamon Crunch Coffee Cake
Homemade Granola or here
Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Cupcakes
Check back over the next few days for all the recipes!
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Dijon Chicken Club Sandwiches
By the time I get home from work, I often don't feel like cooking a big meal. But if I've done some of the prep work in advance, it becomes really easy. This is pretty much my weekday plan. If I didn't do this, we would end up eating out a lot more often, or making frozen pizzas. When ever I grill chicken, I make a couple extra pieces so that I have leftovers for salads or sandwiches during the week. If I'm making a meat sauce for pasta, I like to double the meat and put half of it away to make a pizza or tacos later in the week.
This is really the only way I will eat leftovers. If its the exact same meal again, its probably not going to happen, but as long as I use the leftovers to make a different meal, I'm happy again. This is what saves me during the week because if I can't make it in less than 30 minutes of prep work, it's probably not going to happen. I just don't have the time or the patience.
What's your strategy for quick and easy weeknight cooking?
For these Dijon chicken club sandwiches, I grilled the chicken on Sunday afternoon and wrapped up a couple pieces for sandwiches on Tuesday night. On Sunday, I served the chicken breasts with pasta salad and fruit for a barbecue; on Tuesday when I handed this sandwich to my husband, he had no idea it was really leftovers.
Dijon Chicken Club Sandwiches
4 slices whole wheat bread
2 slices smoked mozzarella cheese
4 slices bacon
2 pieces of Dijon chicken (See below)
2 tsp Dijon mustard
Preheat a large skillet over medium high heat. Add bacon and cook until crispy. Drain on a paper towel. Remove bacon grease and wipe out pan with a paper towel, return pan to stove and reduce heat to medium. Thinly slice chicken breasts against the grain. Lightly butter one side of bread slices, spread mustard on non-buttered side of one piece of bread. Add one slice of cheese, 2 slices of bacon, cut in half, and half the chicken to each. Top with remaining slice of bread and place buttered side down in the skillet. Cook 3-4 minutes until golden brown and flip. Cook about another 3 minutes until cheese is melted and sandwich is golden brown.
Dijon Chicken Marinade
1/3 cup Dijon mustard
2 T apple cider vinegar
2 T honey
1T lemon juice
1 tsp dried thyme
1 tsp smoked paprika
1 tsp black pepper
1/2 tsp salt
Combine mustard, vinegar, and honey in a small bowl and whisk until smooth. Add spices and stir. Prepare chicken breasts and place in a large plastic storage bag. Pour marinade over the chicken, close bag and shake bag gently and squeeze to evenly coat chicken. Refrigerate one hour. Preheat grill, oil lightly and add chicken over medium heat. Cook 5-6 minutes and turn (if chicken sticks, give it another minute or so), cook about 5 minutes more until cooked through. Transfer to a plate and cover with foil for about 10 minutes to allow juices to redistribute.
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Cucumber Tomato Bites
The hardest part of this recipe? Hands down, finding the phyllo cups. They seem to be something that not all grocery stores carry - in fact I had to go to three different stores. I found them at Meijer but I know that I have seen them before at Kroger, but of course not when I'm looking for them. You can find them in the freezer section, look in the area where the pre-made pie crusts, puff pastry, etc. can be found. Once you've found a couple of packages, you're only 10 minutes away from being done.
These would be a great appetizer for a bridal or baby shower, spring party or brunch since they are nice and light. I found this recipe on Brown Eyed Baker, she created it as 1 part of a 3 course menu for Breakstone's Triple Churned Challenge. Go vote for her menu (but hurry as tomorrow is the last day) and you have a chance to win $300! Click here to vote!
Cucumber Tomato Bites
Recipe from Brown Eyed Baker
1 cucumber, seeded and finely diced
1 tomato, seeded and finely diced
1/2 small red onion, finely diced
1/4 cup sour cream (I used reduced fat)
3 T cream cheese, softened (I used 1/3 less fat)
2 T lemon juice
2 T chives, finely chopped
2 T parsley, finely chopped
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 tsp fresh ground black pepper
2 packages phyllo cups
Let phyllo cups come to room temperature while you make the filling. Add the sour cream, cream cheese, and lemon juice to a medium bowl. Mix until well incorporated to make a dressing. Add the cucumber, tomato and onion and toss with the dressing. Add chives, parsley, salt and pepper and toss to distribute evenly. Spoon the filling into the phyllo cups and refrigerate until ready to serve.
Friday, April 9, 2010
Chicken Parmesan Burgers
A sandwich version of an Italian classic. This is perfect for summer when you don't want to heat up your kitchen using the oven or stove. Just put these on the grill and serve them up with a light Caesar salad. This requires very little prep time so it's perfect for a weeknight meal too.
Chicken Parmesan Burgers
Recipe adapted from Elly Says Opa
1 pound ground chicken
1 egg, lightly beaten
1/4 cup flat leaf parsley, finely chopped
1/4 cup Italian breadcrumbs
1/4 cup Parmesan cheese
2 cloves garlic, minced
1/4 tsp crushed red pepper flakes
4-6 slices mozzarella cheese
1/4 cup marinara sauce
4-6 hamburger buns
1 T butter
1/2 tsp garlic powder
Transfer ground chicken to a large bowl, add bread crumbs, egg, parsley, Parmesan and minced garlic. Work together until add-ins are distributed but do not over work. I find its easiest to mix with my hands. Divide the meat into 4 - 6 equal pieces, depending on how big you want the burgers to be. Form into patties, making a slight indentation in the centers so when they plump up the burgers will be even. Transfer to a plate and set in the freezer for about 15 minutes while the grill preheats. (If you are in a hurry, you can skip this step, but I think it helps the patties hold together better and not get misshapen when transferred to the grill.) Preheat the grill and grease lightly with oil (I like to use Pam for Grilling).
Grill burgers for about 6-8 minutes per side until cooked through. Add cheese slices for the last minute or so of cooking to melt. Meanwhile, spread buns with butter and sprinkle with garlic powder. Toast lightly on the grill. Assemble burgers and top each with marinara sauce and a sprinkling of crushed red pepper flakes.


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CHICAGO -- In a stunning ruling that could revolutionize college sports, a federal agency said Wednesday that football players at Northwestern can create the nation's first union of college athletes.
The decision by a regional director of the National Labor Relations Board means it agrees football players at the Big Ten school qualify as employees under federal law and therefore can legally unionize.
"Based on the entire record in this case, I find that the Employer's football players who receive scholarships fall squarely within [federal labor law's] broad definition of 'employee,' " Peter Sung Ohr, the NLRB regional director, said in his 24-page decision.
While not a party to the proceeding, the NCAA is disappointed that the NLRB Region 13 determined the Northwestern football team may vote to be considered university employees. We strongly disagree with the notion that student-athletes are employees.
An employee is generally regarded by law as someone who receives compensation for a service and is under the direct control of managers. Players argued that their scholarships are compensation and coaches are their managers.
The Evanston, Ill-based university argued college athletes, as students, don't fit in the same category as factory workers, truck drivers and other unionized workers. Immediately after the ruling, the school announced it plans to appeal to labor authorities in Washington, D.C.
Alan Cubbage, Northwestern's vice president for university relations, said in a statement that while the school respects "the NLRB process and the regional director's opinion, we disagree with it."
The specific goals of the College Athletes Players Association, or CAPA, which would take the lead in organizing the players, include guaranteeing coverage of sports-related medical expenses for current and former players, ensuring better procedures to reduce head injuries and potentially letting players pursue commercial sponsorships.
But critics have argued that giving college athletes employee status and allowing them to unionize could hurt college sports in numerous ways, including by raising the prospects of strikes by disgruntled players or lockouts by athletic departments.
For now, the push is to unionize athletes at private schools, such as Northwestern, because the federal labor agency does not have jurisdiction over public universities.
Outgoing Wildcats quarterback Kain Colter took a leading role in establishing CAPA. The United Steelworkers union has been footing the legal bills.
Colter, whose eligibility has been exhausted and who has entered the NFL draft, said nearly all of the 85 scholarship players on the Wildcats roster backed the union bid, though only he expressed his support publicly.
CAPA attorneys argued that college football is, for all practical purposes, a commercial enterprise that relies on players' labor to generate billions of dollars in profits. That, they contend, makes the relationship of schools to players one of employers to employees.
In its endeavor to have college football players be recognized as essential workers, CAPA likened scholarships to employment pay -- too little pay from its point of view. Northwestern balked at that claim, describing scholarship as grants.
The NCAA has been under increasing scrutiny over its amateurism rules and is fighting a class-action federal lawsuit by former players seeking a cut of the billions of dollars earned from live broadcasts, memorabilia sales and video games. Other lawsuits allege the NCAA failed to protect players from debilitating head injuries.
NCAA President Mark Emmert has pushed for a $2,000-per-player stipend to help athletes defray some of expenses. Critics say that isn't nearly enough, considering players help bring in millions of dollars to their schools and conferences.
During the NLRB's five days of hearings in February, Wildcats coach Pat Fitzgerald took the stand for union opponents, and his testimony sometimes was at odds with Colter's.
Colter told the hearing that players' performance on the field was more important to Northwestern than their in-class performance, saying, "You fulfill the football requirement and, if you can, you fit in academics." Asked why Northwestern gave him a scholarship of $75,000 a year, he responded: "To play football. To perform an athletic service."
But Fitzgerald said he tells players academics come first, saying, "We want them to be the best they can be ... to be a champion in life."
An attorney representing the university, Alex Barbour, noted Northwestern has one of the highest graduation rates for college football players in the nation, around 97 percent. Barbour insisted, "Northwestern is not a football factory."


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The new MacBook Air gets torn down (and not built up again), Thunderbolt is striking some machines with lightning, and the machine will no longer go Ping. The remainders for Tuesday, June 12, 2012 are not dead yet.
MacBook Air 13" Mid 2012 Teardown (iFixit)
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Photo of the Day - Newfoundland Icebergs
Locked in the heart of the longest, coldest winter I can remember in the twenty years I've lived in the Canadian Rockies, my thoughts naturally turned to snow this morning when I saw yet another fresh skiff on the front steps. So when I started thinking of what today's Photo of the Day should be, my thoughts first turned to snow again...but I figured that was too easy. Snowy, wintery shot, blah, blah, blah, boring! So to spice it up today I have turned to snow's close cousin, ice, and to really step outside of the box, I've posted a couple that I thought told an interesting story from my trip in 2009 to Newfoundland to photograph icebergs (yet again, this is what happens when you're two years behind in editing, you start to think that shots from 2009 are 'current' and 'Photos of the Day' because, well, they
photos that I'm working on
The reason I thought these two photos were interesting is because they were taken mere minutes apart with one small difference.
Twin icebergs along the northeast coast of Newfoundland
The first shot is a 30 second exposure at f22 at ISO 50 with my 17-40 mm lens set at 21 mm. I have it at 21 mm to avoid vignetting because I've got a polarizing filter and a 5-stop neutral density filter on (these filters show vignetting on the 17-40 at 17-19 mm) to maximize the length of the exposure and bring out the subtle late afternoon colours on an otherwise cloudy, colourless day. I was also hoping to smooth out the wave action of the surf hitting the shoreline, which this long exposure really did well.
Then I began wondering what my long-lost blue-gold polarizer would look like in this situation. I used to use the blue-gold quite a bit back in the Velvia film days to add colour to scenes and to help me feel more like I was creating art rather than just capturing exactly what I saw in a scene. Unfortunately, digital cameras don't quite see and interpret the blue-gold filter the same way as film did, so the filter has been relegated to the back shelves of my filter bag over the past six years, rarely used and rarely needed.
Icebergs on the north coast of Newfoundland photographed with a blue-gold polarizing filter
I put the filter on and to my surprise, it rendered what looked like a rich, reddish image (30 second exposure at f13) on my camera's LCD. Sure enough, when I was going through my edits yesterday, this image stood out in the batch of otherwise drab images from that sunless day. And while I still really like the original without the creative red colouring, this is easily one of my favourites of the trip. It certainly uses a bit of creative licensing, but then again, that's what landscape photography is often all about!
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George W. Bush Administration: Statement onRenewal of Syria Sanctions
(May 8, 2007)
Section 202(d) of the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1622(d)) provides for the automatic termination of a national emergency unless, prior to the anniversary date of its declaration, the President publishes in the Federal Register and transmits to the Congress a notice stating that the emergency is to continue in effect beyond the anniversary date. In accordance with this provision, I have sent to the Federal Register for publication the enclosed notice, stating that the national emergency declared in Executive Order 13338 of May 11, 2004, and expanded in scope in Executive Order 13399 of April 25, 2006, authorizing the blocking of property of certain persons and prohibiting the exportation and reexportation of certain goods to Syria, is to continue in effect beyond May 11, 2007.
The actions of the Government of Syria in supporting terrorism, interfering in Lebanon, pursuing weapons of mass destruction and missile programs, and undermining United States and international efforts with respect to the stabilization and reconstruction of Iraq pose a continuing unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States. For these reasons, I have determined that it is necessary to continue in effect the national emergency declared with respect to this threat and to maintain in force the sanctions I have ordered to address this national emergency.
May 8, 2007.
Sources: The White House


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Floating Lanterns memorialize those that have passed away. As the sun sets in the background, small boats with Buddhist monks and church volunteers help to launch and shepherd the small armada of lanterns ships.
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A graduate of San Francisco Theological Seminary, Dwight K. Morita's ministry is at the intersection of spirituality and the photographic enterprise (taking photos, viewing photos, editing, etc.) Dwight served as photographer in residence at McCormick Theological Seminary in Chicago and he has won a number of awards and recognition for his images. Currently he is located on the island of O'ahu where he is engaged in ministry with Nu'uanu Congregational Church, The Institute for Human Services, Inc, Family Promise, Faith Action for Community Equity (FACE), and other non-profit organizations.
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KING, JAMES, businessman and politician; b. 18 Feb. 1848 in Saint-Antoine-de-Tilly, Lower Canada, son of Charles King and Sarah Murray; drowned 21 June 1900 in Lac Matapédia, near Saint-Pierre-du-Lac, also known as Cedar Hall (Val-Brillant), Que., and was buried 23 June at Sainte-Anastasie-de-Nelson (Lyster), Que.
James King's father, an Englishman by birth, settled in Saint-Antoine-de-Tilly in the 1830s and carried on a lumber business in Lotbinière. The planks produced by his sawmill were sold at Quebec. He also worked with Hans Denaston Breakey and Breakey's son John on a development along the Rivière Chaudière (commonly called the Rivière Bruyante) in Saint-Augustin concession (Sainte-Hélène-de-Breakeyville), building a sawmill that served the Chaudière basin in the early 1850s.
Since colonization and lumbering were moving ahead rapidly in the outlying townships, Charles King shifted his operations up the Rivière Bécancour to Mégantic County. He signed numerous contracts to supply producers and acquired timber licences and tracts of land, mainly in the townships of Nelson, Inverness, Ireland, and Thetford. Having set up a sawmill near Sainte-Anastasie-de-Nelson and the Grand Trunk railway station, which had been built in 1852, he settled permanently in the area around 1861. The following year he bought lots and a sawmill at Saint-Pacôme on the Rivière Ouelle, and began lumbering on a large scale in that region.
In the early 1870s Charles King's sons began officially to take over his functions. John had already been given responsibility for his father's interests in the operation at the Rivière Chaudière, which Henry later assumed. James, the youngest, after studying at Bishop's College in Lennoxville, where he received a ba in 1867 (and an ma in 1873), also joined the family business. In 1870, along with his brothers John, Edmund Alexander, Frederic, and Charles Jr, he founded King Brothers to manage their father's lumber business. The deaths of John and then Frederic altered the firm in 1875 so that it now included only Edmund, resident in Saint-Pacôme, Charles at Sainte-Anastasie-de-Nelson, and James in Lévis. Henry also died around the same time, and James began looking after the interests of Henry's young children. Then, in 1876, Charles Sr died. King Brothers took possession of his properties and, increasingly under James's control, continued to expand. In 1871 the company had bought the Deschaillons seigneury from the Saint-Ours family for $37,266; the Rivière du Chêne ran through this property which comprised, among other things, nearly 90,000 arpents of ungranted land. The firm acquired the seigneury of Lac-Matapédia, some 40,000 acres, for $35,000 in 1881 and operated a mill there. It also owned timber limits and a sawmill at Grand-Pabos in the Gaspé region.
King Brothers went into mining in the late 1870s, following the discovery in 1876 and 1877 of asbestos deposits in Thetford Township, where the elder King had bought 5,000 acres in the fifth and sixth ranges for $2,500 from Thomas Allen Stayner* of Toronto in 1860, and a substantial part of the fourth range in a bankruptcy sale from David Burnett in 1866. Asbestos was found on the King properties (especially lot 26 in the fifth range), which were adjacent to the lots where the mineral had been discovered and were thus ideally situated for the coming development. In 1878 James also obtained from the crown for $274 (a dollar an acre) full title to lot 26 in the sixth range, where the King mine was opened that year. As well, King Brothers benefited from the creation of the mining village of Kingsville (renamed Thetford Mines in 1905), which was largely built on its land, subdivided into lots. However, in 1890 Honoré Mercier's government had a mining law passed with a clause entitling the crown to repossess sub-soil rights to mining properties sold before a mining law of 1880. James King opposed this clause and joined the asbestos mine owners in the battle against it. Not only was he a leader in the Quebec Mining Association, which was formed that year, but he also won a seat in the Legislative Assembly as Conservative member for Mégantic on 8 March 1892, mainly in order to fight this measure. Having achieved his objective, he did not seek re-election in 1897.
Although King Brothers' activities in the mining sector were of some importance, especially during the 1890s, they still were secondary to lumbering. The complex arrangements settling the estate of James's brothers and father give some idea of the scope of the whole enterprise. Valued at $50,000 in 1877, the real estate in total was worth $300,000 twenty years later, at the incorporation of King Brothers Limited, which had activities and property extending over most of the province and credit that remained strong. To this total must be added the movable property. These estimates appear, nevertheless, to be lower than the real value – witness the $187,500 paid for the seigneury of Lac-Matapédia when it was sold in 1902. At his death in June 1900, James King, a bachelor, left a sizeable fortune to his brothers, sisters, nephews, and nieces, and a natural daughter; to his managers and advisers; and finally to Bishop's College and the Church of England. King Brothers continued in business for a few more years and then divested itself of its main lumber and mining assets.
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Intel wants to take on Google's Tensor Processing Unit and Nvidia's GPUs in machine learning computing with improvements to its Xeon Phi mega-chips.
The company will add new features to Xeon Phi to tune it for machine learning, said Nidhi Chappell, director of machine learning at Intel. Machine learning, a trendy technology, allows software to be trained to do tasks like image recognition or data analysis more efficiently.
Intel didn't disclose when the new features will be added, but the next version of Xeon Phi will come by 2018. Intel's already behind chip rivals in machine learning, so it may have to speed up the next Xeon Phi release.
Intel released its latest Xeon Phi chip called Knights Landing — which has up to 72 cores — last week. The chip is still being tested for machine learning, but the company believes it can outperform GPUs in certain machine-learning models.
Xeon Phi can be a primary CPU or a co-processor, but for now, it is designed more for supercomputing than for machine learning with its vector processors and juiced up Atom cores.
The Xeon Phi reduces the need to offload machine learning to co-processors, Chappell said. Many machine-learning tasks are performed today by GPUs. Google announced its TPUs in May.
Xeon Phi can be packaged with a speedy interconnect to speed up machine learning, Chappell said. Intel is trying to link its Xeon Phi with the OmniPath interconnect, which allows for blazing fast movement of data between servers.
Intel will also add support for more open-source machine-learning software, Chappell said. Intel is building machine-learning models around Caffe, an open-source package. Xeon Phi chips could ultimately support TensorFlow, Google's open-source machine learning software.
Intel believes it chips could be used in areas like medicine and image processing, where learning models can help make sense of data. For example, the chip could help identify a disease, or it could help classify an image by analyzing pixels.
The goal is to reduce the time it takes to train a specific model and make calculations faster, Chappell said.


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Cartoon Network announced today that it has picked up an untitled kids sketch comedy series from entertainer Nick Cannon. The series is a live-action, half-hour, sketch comedy show rooted in raw mischief, high energy and slapstick humor. You'll never know what will happen next! Some of the silliest kids you know will make up this wild comedy troupe led by teen stars Jeremy Shada (Adventure Time), Shameik Moore (Joyful Noise), Brandon Soo Hoo (Enders Game, Tropic Thunder), Shauna Case (American Horror Story) and Chanelle Peloso (Level Up).
"Nick Cannon has created a contemporary take on sketch comedy that will launch the next generation of Cartoon Network stars," said Rob Sorcher, chief content officer for Cartoon Network.
"Cartoon Network is the absolute best home for this series and I am thrilled to be working with them. As someone who was given an opportunity in this business at a very young age, I am always looking for ways to help shine the spotlight on up and coming young comedic talent and this show is the perfect platform for these future stars," said Nick Cannon.
Cannon will bring the funny as creator and executive producer along with executive producers Michael Goldman and Scott Tomlinson. The series is being produced by Cartoon Network Studios in association with NCredible Entertainment.
Nick Cannon made his television debut as a teenage sketch comedian on the series All That where he was also a writer, making him the youngest staff writer in television history at the age of 17. Cannon catapulted onto the big screen in 2002 where he appeared alongside Will Smith in Men in Black II before landing a leading role in Drumline. He then hosted Wild 'N Out, a show that he created and executive produced for MTV, which was the network's highest-rated comedy series in its history and aired new episodes for four consecutive seasons. In the fall of 2006, Cannon was featured in the film, Bobby, where his performance earned him a 2007 SAG nomination as well as being the first African American actor to be honored at the world renowned Cannes Film Festival with the "Breakthrough Actor of the Year" award. Most recently Cannon can be seen as the host of NBC's top-rated talent competition America's Got Talent as well as a series regular on Up All Night, which earned him recognition at this year's 2012 NAACP Image Awards for "Outstanding Supporting Actor."
Cartoon Network (CartoonNetwork.com), currently seen in 99 million U.S. homes and 168 countries around the world, is Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.'s ad-supported cable service now available in HD offering the best in original, acquired and classic entertainment for youth and families.
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NEW YORK — Valentina Sampaio has become the first openly transgender model hired by Victoria's Secret nearly a year after a top company official was pressured to apologize for implying trans women are off brand.
Sampaio, a Brazilian, has been posting from behind the scenes of a VS Pink campaign to the delight of celebrities who include Laverne Cox.
Cox who is also transgender, posted on one of Sampaio's photos: "Wow finally!"
Last November, marketing officer Ed Razek of parent L Brands Inc., said in a Vogue interview that the annual Victoria's Secret angels TV special would never include "transsexuals" because "the show is a fantasy." He apologized after outrage ensued.
Sampaio was not hired for the show, and the company is rethinking having one at all after ratings sagged last time around.


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The last few weeks there has been a lot said about Nintendo and its products. It seems every analyst out there is keen on sharing his doom scenario. Most of them seem to think that Nintendo could solve all this by simply moving their software over to other platforms (mainly mobile) and some seem to indicate that Nintendo should drop hardware all-together.
As a developer who has been exclusively developing on Nintendo platforms for over four years now, I can tell you these are all ridiculous solutions. Not only will they not fix the real problems, they will decrease Nintendo's chances significantly.
The real problem at hand is not that the Nintendo Wii U or Nintendo 3DS are bad products. Quite the opposite, they are well made products with a lot of opportunities. Dropping great products (and thus moving out of hardware) is not going to help Nintendo, it only limits their options.
The real problem is communications and services. And when I say communications I mean both to consumers AND developers.
Let's start with consumers. By now most hardcore gamers understand that the Nintendo Wii U and 3DS are completely new products. This was not the case when the Nintendo Wii U got unveiled at E3 2011. Early news posts and tweets talked about a new tablet-like controller. But it was unclear if this was a new console or a add-on for the Nintendo Wii system. Only later it became clear it was in fact a new console.
This issue never got resolved. To mainstream consumers it is still not clear that the Nintendo Wii U is a different platform. The name itself did not really help the situation.
The same issue is also true for Nintendo 3DS (although admittedly less than with Nintendo Wii U). The appearance and shape of the handheld and name is very close to Nintendo DS.
With Nintendo releasing new iterations for the Nintendo DS system over the years (Nintendo DS Lite, DSi, DSi XL), it is no surprise that some consumers are mistaking the Nintendo 3DS for yet another iteration of Nintendo DS.
A good solution for this problem should be a well made marketing campaign. Show consumers that they are different products and what is exciting about them. This seems like a obvious solution. But nothing like this has happened until now.
The next problem with communication is towards developers. I feel like Nintendo is targeting the wrong group. Nintendo Wii U is a very different machine compared to Xbox or PlayStation. Fans will quickly point out that the hardware capabilities of Nintendo Wii U are equal or in some cases better then Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 consoles.
While that might be true, under the hood the Nintendo Wii U works very differently. For Triple A developers it will be hard to add Nintendo Wii U capabilities to their current Engine, Framework and pipeline. Simply because things have to be processed differently if you want to make a game shine on Nintendo Wii U.
Which means that developers have to heavily invest extra time and money if they want their games to run on Nintendo Wii U. Couple this with the bad Wii U sales figures to see why developers are not very keen on this.
Having the CEO of EA on stage telling the world Nintendo Wii U is great, is not really helpful unless EA actual decides to makes some games.
So instead of targeting those big developers that clearly are not interested, they should focus on smaller developers. Let the smaller ones make software that will compliment the special features of the Nintendo Wii U.
Nintendo should go after companies like Mojang instead of EA. Get a game like Minecraft on Nintendo Wii U. Looking at the features of the GamePad and the target audience, I think that could be a huge hit.
The game industry has matured. Indie games have matured. If Nintendo would pick up a few games like Minecraft, games that are smaller but matter, they could outweigh a big fish like EA.
Bringing software onto other platforms, or more specifically mobile, is not going to help. Nintendo will not be able to bring over enough new consumers from mobile to their own hardware for companies like EA to suddenly care or consider making games. With the release of PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, hardcore gamers have better platform options for those games.
Going over to mobile also does not magically solve the communication problem Nintendo is having towards their consumers. For example it will be hard for mainstream consumers to spot the difference between 'New Super Mario Bros. Wii' and 'New Super Mario Bros U'.
This does not mean Nintendo should ignore the mobile platform. Instead they should expand their services towards mobile as well as PC. Some services are already accessible through a web browser.
This should be done to more services, like the Nintendo eShop. Although speculation indicates that Nintendo has plans for this, as of yet it is still not possible. Making it easy for consumers to buy software for Nintendo systems should be a high priority.
Nintendo is currently in the process of learning how to create and maintain good services. It took some time for their competitors to learn this as well. However, Microsoft and Sony were learning this at the same time. Now that these competitors have good services on their systems, it seems all more apparent that Nintendo has not (yet).
As an example take the Nintendo Network ID. I own multiple Nintendo handhelds (3DS,XL,2DS), but I cannot share one unified Nintendo Network ID account between those systems. Instead I have to juggle three accounts, one for each system.
This affects my decision when I buy games. I mostly buy retail games because I can swap out the cartridge and put it into any of my three systems. While a downloaded version of the game can only be played on the system I bought it on.
About Nintendo's future. Is Nintendo going to be doomed this year? Honestly, I expect them to make major progress on the above issues. I think 2014 will be a very positive year for Nintendo.
We are going to see some amazing games from Nintendo themselves (Mario Kart 8, Smash Bros.) as well as a bunch of great indie games (Shantae, Shovel Knight).
These games will increase hardware sales.
And of course my own indie game Tappingo, which I personally expect to do really well in the Nintendo 3DS eShop. Looking at the sales figures I have from various sources, those little games are really starting to thrive in the eShop. I expect this to only get better when (and I'm sure they will) Nintendo improves their services.
Improved services such as the eShop will make it easier for consumers to buy and access software on their system. In turn this will lead to more software sales, which will get developer's confidence up!
Communication between developers has been improving in a big way in the past year. Where in 2012 I barely talked to Nintendo, I had almost weekly conversations in 2013.
I hope Nintendo will increase their focus on smaller developers opposed to bigger developers. Let the smaller studios make games that truly appeal to the Nintendo audience and make the Nintendo systems shine, instead of convincing the big companies to put out weak ports.
I'm very positive that, if given a chance, smaller developers will prove that they are capable of filling the void bigger developers left in the software library.
For this to happen Nintendo systems should be easily accessible for developers. We saw major improvements in this area for Nintendo Wii U. Most notably the web SDK and Unity support (free of charge!).
The Nintendo 3DS is still a relative closed system, with expensive devkits. Hopefully those positive improvements on Nintendo Wii U will also transcend to Nintendo 3DS this year.
For 2014 I hope all these improvements will line up and drastically change the future for Nintendo in a positive way. Their systems certainly deserve it.


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By herrwibi · PostedI've attached a small bit to the rock as the tank is currently cycling that had the crystal reds in it . I've always been torn between blue bolts and shadow pandas but blue bolts always wins. I never thought about taking some from my other tank and using them a tester but that is a good plan, saves me getting some blue bolts and then all of a sudden i have a big issue again. Hopefully not . That's why i am glad i have the bigger tank and also any of the lighter blue bolts can go into the bigger tank for culling. I've attached a few more favourite. My favourite shrimp which i think this is correct is an extreme bkk . I've also got a photo of one of my many red wines. https://ibb.co/BVhDMMK https://ibb.co/42Q3ZYc https://ibb.co/gTD403T
By sdlTBfanUK · PostedIt may be worth holding off on the subwassertang as when you set up the new tank you can then use it in there? I think I could see a few red wine, if they aren't full size, could just have been the light though! There are 3 half size white shrimp with a red head between the large crs in the third photo of the sponge (about half way down), they are beautiful also .They may just be crs but the photo looks redder than those, but may again just be the light! My overall favourites are blue bolts also. I would use some of the crs though for about 3 months as a tester before getting blue bolts for the re-setup tank, you can then remove the crs. You have lots of the crs and you know they are healthy so it makes sense to use them (free) to 'test' that all is ok first, before getting the blue bolts! It will help mentally also, just think how devastated you would be if for some reason the blue bolts died because there is a problem (you won't know with them whether it was the shrimp or the setup), whereas you would still be upset with the crs dying but not as much - they were free and you have plenty of others in the other tank. If you want blue bolts only in the tank you may well get offspring of other colour/pattern depending on the genes of the parents, but then they can be moved to the other tank. ie Blue bolt mother and blue bolt father may create something not blue bolt, depending on the genes etc.
By herrwibi · PostedThank you, i enjoy a simple scape although i really need to try and take both sections of subwassertang out for a trim. They have just gone mad. Things are doing great in this tank, i love my red wines as well bit couldn't find any at the time of taking a photo. There is but i'm not sure they would breed true, i suppose it could be a project for me to breed them true but wouldn't know where to start. My other project i was thinking is just blue bolts in that tank , i love the colour. I also suffer from slow breeding in winter although i've never had so much success with my taiwans/mischling that i hope it continues.
By sdlTBfanUK · PostedThat is a fabulous tank, is it built into a wall or partition. Love the simplicity of the layout, you can see lots of shrimp - I tend to overcrowd mine with plants so don't get to see so many shrimp. Great to hear that this tank is doing well and you have quite a few shrimp in there! Especially like the panda and blue bolt in the photos. As you have so many crs in this tank you shouldn't need to buy any more for your reset tank so that will be great and you know the shrimp are good quality and healthy, and that will make a bit of room in this tank for the next generation at the same time? You may experience the slowing down or stopping breeding for winter, though not everyone has that? Thanks for the photos!
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