| Dear old people of America: Please Die :( |
[Apr. 28th, 2011|04:19 pm] |
Dear old people of America: Please Die :(
I don't ask that rashly or anything, but I ask that you do so for the best interest of America. I get that you're old, and you see brown people everywhere. I get that you grew up in the America of white privilege. I'd be lying if I said I hadn't benefited from it. But please, die. Aside from my family, I'm done with you. I mean I'm done w/ my family's politics too, but I'll cut them a few years of exception because of blood.
The birther thing? Shut up. Tea parties? Shut up. Immigration? Shut up. Health care? Shut up. Complaining about the deficit incurred by 2 wars when you went in feet first under a hawk President? Shut up. Defense of Marriage? Shut. The. Fuck. Up.
I hate you. You're killing America. Please die. |
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| Recipe time: Kale and eggs, pu-pu platter skewers |
[Jan. 11th, 2011|11:49 am] |
For those who like to cook, I have recipes for you. One is kinda vegetarian (fried egg and kale), one is for the carnivores. Neither are difficult at all, which makes me kind of embarassed to write them up but whatever.
First is fried egg with kale. It's really just a better for version of toad in the hole. De-vein some kale, then chop it up. Now, toast. Yeah, toss some toast in the toaster. We'll come back to it. So now saute the kale with some garlic (1 clove per person?) and some lemon juice. The recipe didn't call for it, but I thought some balsamic vinegar was nice too. Scoot that to the side of the pan and crack an egg, so it's sunny side up. Wait for the egg to cook and plate it on the fresh toast and kale. You could add some meat on there too if you like, but you'll be surprised how hearty the kale is. Makes me actually not feel like I have to eat a dozen eggs in order to be full.
The beef is super simple. Get a skirt steak, ie fajita meat. Now tenderize the hell out of it. I've got a Jaccard (a punchy-stabby thing that looks like leftover from Alucard's inventory), which I use before beating it with a meat tenderizer too (belts and suspenders dontcha know). After that, slice it like thick beef jerky. Next, the marinade:
2 parts soy sauce
1 part seasoned rice vinegar (also used in making sushi rice for sushi, which everyone should try to see how easy it is)
2 cloves garlic, crushed, sliced
2 tsp grated ginger (don't use powdered or picked or placeboed or whatever ginger. Every cook should have a root chilling in their freezer, they cost like $2, last forever, can be bought at any generic american chain grocery and have tons of uses. Zero good excuses)
Mix it up, put it and the sliced beef in some tupper ware and let sit. Fortunately this isn't one of those marinade overnight things, 30m-60m will do (though by all means, marinading all night isn't bad).
Soak some skewers 15m ahead of this and then pierce the beef strips so they're all stretched out. Now grill. They don't really take long at all, crack a beer and flip them when you're halfway through it. You could probably do oven or the broiler or heck even fry them or whatever. But personally I'll take any opportunity to grill in the winter. Now you have the recipe for pu-pu platter beef skewers. Not hard but shockingly (or not?) crowd pleasing.
So, made anything good lately? |
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| Chicago! |
[Nov. 5th, 2009|01:22 am] |
Headed off to Chicago for my... 4th time? Going with the OSU glass program and presenting this at this. My cousin Jasmine is being rad enough to let me crash with her, other people are driving and I'm pretty excited to have a vacation-y sort of trip where there's very little burden of travel effort. Makes me think about travel and hope for the 3C Rail Corridor.
This is my first big 'thing' with the glass program. It's weird, I've been at OSU so long and I think this is the academic environment I was looking for. People are working hard, doing good stuff, but aren't assholes nor obsession workaholics. I think it kind of lynchpins upon a key faculty member, but I'm impressed to see it at all.
A bit sad to be away from my girl for a bit, but I feel better that it's something I'm excited for versus her last professional trip which she was not exactly bursting at the seams with enthusiasm for. Hey maybe it will sell me on the city more? We've talked about Living Places Not Columbus, but I've always weighed pretty much on the nay side for Chicago purely upon it's winter but... I'm of few truly permanent opinions. I save those for brussle sprouts.
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| Artzzz |
[Sep. 15th, 2009|11:58 pm] |
I believe Alicia and Gary have stuff for this show, but I finally un-lazied and put my pieces up too. They're okay.
<a href="http://cnoteartshow.com/fall2009/node/268">Jeff's C-Note Page</a>
If you want to go pump the vote like 50 times or something, you know I won't stop you. The show is the weekend after this, go, it'll be fun and interesting. |
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