181

UFO / Re: The Communication Problem With Contacting An Alien Race

« on: April 04, 2016, 06:49:18 AM »

Odd that I was mentioning fighting cancer by sending the medicine to kill it directly to the cells using nanotech. Today I read this using molecules instead of nanotech.

Researcher synthesizes hybrid molecule that delivers a blow to malignant cells

182

Food / Re: A new frying pan

« on: April 04, 2016, 02:12:37 AM »

I've a set of these I use a lot. Along with what is known as a 'dutch oven'. The trick is to keep the seasoning in the pan in good condition. Under normal use, over time, a black coating develops, which is the seasoning. It reduces sticking and is the original non-stick ware.

Today most skillets come preseasoned. However one of the things they no longer do is to smooth the pan, so you have a lot of pits in the metal. Back in the days of the beginning of the Industrial Age, practice was to grind and sand it smooth as part of the manufacturing process.

Since cast iron never really wears out, you can go into some of the used shops and some times find earlier examples of this for sale. You won't find them for sale new this way.

As long as you don't drop them or shock them with going from hot to cold, they will last you a lifetime.

There's lots of ways to take care of them and to help seasoning along. One of the ways I learned was to just wipe them out, without putting them into water. Next time you cook with it, it destroys  any bacterial that might be in it. It allows the seasoning to build up faster. You can also do the seasoning through other methods that speed up the process. I've used the food consumption type flax seed oil before to do this. You wipe the oil in but not thick, put it in the oven  and set it at around 250 F until the oil dries out.

One of the main reasons not to use water for cleaning is the water gets in those pores. This is turn creates a condition for rust to develop. If you must wash in water, then don't let it dry out on a dish rack. Instead, put it on the stove again to dry the pores out and then wipe a light coat of oil over it to prevent rusting.

183

Food / Re: Baked Tilapia

« on: April 04, 2016, 02:02:05 AM »

The majority of Tilapia here is farm raised. Don't get to far into healthy as the fish are fed excrement as part of reducing feed costs though it's not widely known and the industry does it's best not to tell the public about it.

184

Other topics / Re: Vehicles

« on: April 04, 2016, 01:54:42 AM »

I remember reading about the compressed air car. Was at one time being considered to be made in the US. Only there were issues with passing the National Safety Standards. So instead I believe I read India was to make them.

185

EARN MONEY / Re: Buy house thread

« on: April 03, 2016, 09:56:36 PM »

Here, houses are expensive. The housing bubble helped that happen.  So much so, that now rents are outrageous as people have to live somewhere. It was always recommended that you spend no more than 1/4 of your income on housing. That's not possible due to the competition for rentals.  According to a survey there is no place in the US where you can work one minimum wage job at full hours and meet that no more than 1/4 of your income.

Personally I haven't rented in a long, long, time. At least 30 years or more. I've owned rather than rented. I just couldn't see putting money into rent with no return at all beyond having a roof over one's head.

186

Other topics / Re: Vehicles

« on: April 03, 2016, 07:12:12 PM »

It's one of the major costs of an electric car. Expensive is one way of describing it.

Another issue here is traveling. Most of your usage of a vehicle is under 30 miles a day for work. Once in a while you need to take a trip and this is where the problem comes in for a car that doesn't charge itself, such as hybrids do. The infrastructure to support electric charging stations isn't wide spread yet. So you are limited to within 300 miles of the recharge stations with no way to return on it's own power. Less than 150 miles round trip to and from a charge station. 

https://www.teslamotors.com/supercharger

My understanding is at present there is no standard configuration for the plug in. Telsa has offered it's design, free of charge, for any company that might want to adopt it for their own vehicle manufacturing. But standardization is not yet locked in. So you may arrive at a recharge station only to find it won't work for your car if you are driving another make vehicle, such as Ford or Toyota.

Cost of a Leaf Battery here. Leaf is not as an expensive a car as the Telsa makes. But it should get you in the ball park of the costs.

187

Food / Re: Baked Tilapia

« on: April 03, 2016, 06:46:49 PM »

Used to do a variation of this when I didn't want to do dishes and wanted something to eat fairly quick.

Take a couple of paper plates, one on top of another, lay filet on them and put in the microwave. Cook about 1/2 done. Look at at the whiteness of the meat to determine when 1/2 cooked. Normally fish are partly translucent when raw. Fish will cook from edges inwards. So the white ring around the fish is that already cooked.

At 1/2 cooked remove filet from microwave. In a paper coffee cup, mix 2 or 3 tbs mayo, 1 tbs Parmesan cheese. Stir to mix, butter top side of filet, return to microwave to finish cooking.  Depending on the thickness of the fish, the whole filet should be cooked in a matter of 5 minutes or less depending on the wattage of the microwave and your altitude.

188

Food / Baked Tilapia

« on: April 03, 2016, 04:45:31 AM »

Baked Tilapia

Ingredients

Tilapia

2 tilapia filets (8 ounces each)
2 teaspoons butter or margarine
1/2 fresh lemon

Lemon-Parmesan sauce

1/2 cup mayonnaise
1/2 lemon, for juice
1/2 cup grated Parmesan cheese
3 tablespoons fresh green onions, chopped fine
1/4 teaspoon seasoned salt
Black pepper to taste

Garnish

1 lemon, sliced
1/2 teaspoon fresh parsley

Directions

Rinse tilapia in cold water. Lay filets in single layer on buttered baking dish. Top with butter and lemon juice. Bake at 350 degrees for 15 to 20 minutes. Mix mayonnaise, Parmesan cheese, green onions, seasoned salt, black pepper and lemon juice in a small bowl. Spread mixture on fish and bake for another 5 minutes, or until golden brown.

189

Food / Re: Burgers

« on: April 03, 2016, 04:40:36 AM »

Normally I stay away from the fast food joints here. I find the cost to be more than the food is worth. I find that most have far too much grease and far too little taste.

The sauce put on the Big Mac is there to hide the dryness of the meat. The meat to me has little taste.

I'd rather do my own on the grill. That usually comes out moist without needing more of something else to hide the fact it's dry. Normally I grill them, at the last, I put around 4 slices of jalapeno peppers on top, then lay a slice of cheese over the top and wait for it to start melting. The cheese takes out most of the heat of the pepper but you still get the taste of the peppers.

It took being on the road so I am not at home to fix my own to realize how good a cook I am.

190

Other topics / Re: Vehicles

« on: April 03, 2016, 04:31:35 AM »

You wait 3 years and buying one of these Telsas used only costs around ⅓^rd the cost if you just must have one. Folks dump them when it comes time to replace the battery pack.

191

Other topics / Re: What are you doing right now?

« on: April 01, 2016, 05:14:23 AM »

192

Food / Re: Bean Toss Salad

« on: March 31, 2016, 12:25:12 AM »

Some of my recipes may well be on line. I've traded, swapped, copied, and even transposed from images, to get the recipes I use. Personally those I post, even if they are on line, is not where I obtain them from.

The occasional recipe for some part that might be called for in a recipe I will often use on line for because they are easier to locate than hunting through the collection I have.

Recipes age well. They become invalid when you can no longer buy the ingredients required. So some of those from the Middle Ages won't be good for much other than as trivia, or those that came before refrigeration. Somewhere I have some of those as well.

So providing what you most often can't find on line has always been one of my hallmarks in posting recipes. Sooner or later, old must make way for new. Old ones get harder and harder to find until in essence they are no longer found. This as much as anything makes those I post more valuable.

193

Food / Crab Lasagna

« on: March 31, 2016, 12:14:30 AM »

Crab Lasagna

Ingredients

3 cups garlic cream sauce
1 cup ricotta cheese
1 cup Parmesan cheese
1 cup mozzarella cheese

Crab Stuffing

20 lasagna noodles
2 tablespoons fresh basil, shredded
2 tablespoons fresh parsley, chopped
2 tablespoons green onion, sliced
3 tablespoons jumbo lump crab meat
4 peeled and deveined jumbo shrimp

Directions

In a baking pan, ladle four ounces garlic cream sauce into bottom and spread evenly. Lay uncooked lasagna noodles on top of sauce, overlapping slightly to cover bottom. Ladle four ounces garlic cream sauce on top. Spoon on crab stuffing, one inch thick. Sprinkle stuffing with 1/2 cup Parmesan cheese. Spread one cup of ricotta cheese on top. Lay more noodles on top of cheese. Ladle four ounces of garlic cream sauce on top and spread. Spread on another one-inch layer of crab stuffing. Sprinkle with 1/2 cup Parmesan. Sprinkle with one cup mozzarella. Ladle four ounces of garlic cream sauce on top. Cover with noodles. Smear top with garlic cream sauce.


Bake at 350 degrees F for 45 minutes. Cool and cut. Top each with mozzarella and Parmesan cheese and bake until hot and cheese is melted. Top with jumbo lump crab meat, shrimp sauteed with basil, butter, parsley, green onions and white wine.

194

Philosophy / Re: Words of wisdom, wise quotes, inspiring words...

« on: March 31, 2016, 12:07:21 AM »

The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself. ~ Mark Twain

Television is a medium because anything well done is rare. ~ Groucho Marx

Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired. ~ Mae West

Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today. ~ Herman Wouk

All my life, I always wanted to be somebody.  Now I see that I should have been more specific.  ~ Jane Wagner

'I have kleptomania. But when it gets bad, I take something for it.' ~ Ken Dodd

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid. ~ Benjamin Franklin

195

Food / Re: Vegetable Soup

« on: March 30, 2016, 04:32:53 AM »

Mixed herbs usually refers to those that are tried and true, not just what you can come up with in your 'experiment'. An example of this mixed herbs can be found in the recipe called Herbs de Provence. There are many others of like nature.