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Food / Tex-Mex Chicken For The Microwave

« on: March 27, 2016, 05:54:52 AM »

Tex-Mex Roasted Chicken For The Microwave

Ingredients

1 teaspoon ground cumin
1 teaspoon chili powder
1/2 teaspoon basil
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon white wine vinegar
1 (3 pound) broiler, skinned
2 cups coarsely chopped zucchini
1 1/4 cups unpeeled, seeded and coarsely chopped tomatoes

Directions

Combine first 6 ingredients; stir well and set aside.

Remove neck and giblets from chicken and discard. Rinse chicken and pat dry. Rub outside of chicken with spice mixture. Place chicken, breast side down in a deep 3-quart casserole. Cover with wax paper and microwave on HIGH for 8 to 9 minutes.

Turn chicken breast side up and microwave, covered with wax paper, on HIGH for 8 to 9 minutes.

Remove chicken to a serving platter. Reserve drippings in casserole. Let chicken stand covered for 15 minutes.

Add vegetables to drippings, tossing to coat. Microwave on HIGH for 3 to 4 minutes or until crisp-tender, stirring halfway through cooking.

Arrange vegetables around chicken.

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Food / Breakfast Bread

« on: March 27, 2016, 05:50:06 AM »

Breakfast Bread   

Ingredients

2 cups all-purpose flour
2 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
2 tablespoons fresh chopped thyme
2 tablespoons fresh chopped chives
1/3 cup chopped red peppers
9 eggs
1 cup soft butter
3 tablespoons mustard
1 1/2 cups chopped ham
2 cups Gruyere cheese
1/2 teaspoon ground pepper

Directions

Prep all your ingredients before hand, this will help to make sure things move quickly and to be sure you have all the ingredients. In a bowl combine the flour, thyme, chives, baking powder and red peppers. Mix together, in a separate bowl combine the eggs, soft butter and mustard. Mix till well blended. Add in the freshly ground pepper and stir. Pour the wet ingredients into a large bowl. Pour in half the flour mixture and mix just till blended. Add in the chopped ham and the cheese. Mix together. Add in the rest of the flour mixture and stir just till mixed. Do not over mix. Pour into 2 greased medium 8x4 loaf pans.

Bake in a 375F oven for 30 - 35 minutes. Allow to cool for 10 minutes then remove from pans.

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Other topics / Re: Art

« on: March 27, 2016, 04:19:40 AM »

There was method to my madness in showing the results of the Apophysis program. In this image the background was originally one such that I've run through a photoeditor to create.

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Social network | SEO - Social network / Re: North Korea News

« on: March 26, 2016, 06:53:09 AM »

Artillery has some very nasty stuff. I originally trained as an artillery man. So I got first had experience in what it can do and what it can put out. I didn't stay in artillery as I went on to go through jump school to learn to abandon perfectly good airplanes in mid air. Artillery is limited to weight when it comes to flying it in or dropping it out.

It is my understanding that DPRK is overflowing with artillery units.

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Food / Bean Toss Salad

« on: March 26, 2016, 06:44:54 AM »

Bean Toss Salad

Ingredients

1 can cut green beans
1 can red kidney beans
1 green pepper, sliced thin
1 Tbsp. vinegar
1 cut yellow wax beans
1 onion, sliced thin
1/2 cup Italian Salad Dressing
1 Tbsp. Worcestershire sauce
1 tsp. celery seed
Salt & pepper

Directions

Drain beans thoroughly and combine with salad dressing, Worcestershire sauce, vinegar, celery seed, salt and pepper. Marinate 24 hours, stirring occasionally. Half hour before serving, toss with onion and pepper rings.

Note:

This particular recipe comes from New Orleans, served in one of their restaurants. Used to be I collected recipes from the local newspaper many years ago. They ran a feature, where various restaurants and chefs provided the readership with signature dishes you could do at home. I have a good many of these, though most all are not vegetarian based.

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Food / Re: Crab Casserole

« on: March 26, 2016, 06:34:35 AM »

Very nice looking. I hope you enjoyed it.

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Food / Re: Cajun Boiled Potatoes

« on: March 26, 2016, 06:33:35 AM »

Personally I would not buy a red onion just for this. To me an onion is an onion in taste, so what you are really buying is eye candy. As always it's your choice. Eye candy might be important to you for photos.

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Drinks / Re: New beers

« on: March 25, 2016, 12:56:37 PM »

The monastery and the surrounding walls were of stone.  The keystone over the archway entering the chapel was dated in the 1600's. The snows in the winter up on the mountain walls were something else. They tended to get deep. About 16 K's from there was the best guilder flying in all of Europe, or so it was claimed. I know I never spent a day there the wind wasn't blowing.

In the winter when the ice and snow hit, it was not uncommon to see the icicles hang parallel to the ground on those hurricane wire fences. It also got really cold there. I don't know how cold cause we never saw thermometers. I know I caught frost bite, after two weeks out in the field without heaters. Those tracks are like big deep freezes without the heater. We couldn't get heaters, being on the tail end of the supply system. We'd order them but they would never show up. Some one would snatch them before they ever made it to us.

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Drinks / Re: New beers

« on: March 25, 2016, 01:15:47 AM »

Used to be, when I was in Germany, I'd take a bike on the weekends and pedal up to the monastery on the other valley wall mountain. In the spring and summer, it was a tourist destination and these scenic buses would stop there and let the passengers go wander in the monastery.

The monks there ran a rescue service in the winter with St. Bernard dogs, complete with the cask strapped to the neck. The dog had to be hefty in order to break through the snow, so they added beer to the food from the time the dog was a puppy, through out it's life to give it mass so it could push through.

In the spring and summer, the monks ran a sort of tourist stop, with stalls out in the open like a small festival. They also did beer brewing, using modern stainless steel equipment in the brewery. You could stand outside and look through large glass windows at the brewery inside.

They had a place there where you could order one of their beers, in an earthen ware mug. Either 1/2 liter or a whole liter. Also for sale were large pretzels. You'd buy the mug of beer of your choice and pay a deposit on the mug. Use the mug as long as you were there and then turn it back in for the refund along with a plastic chit so they knew you got it from them.

Didn't take much beer to knock you on your butt. High alcohol content for beer.

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Food / Cajun Boiled Potatoes

« on: March 25, 2016, 01:00:58 AM »

Cajun Boiled Potatoes

Ingredients

1/2 gallon water
2 lbs red potatoes, cut in half
2 tbs black pepper, whole
2 tbs kosher salt
2 oz liquid crab boil
12 toes garlic, peeled
1/2 large onion, sliced
1 stalk celery, sliced


Directions

In a small saucepot, add all ingredients. Bring to a boil and then simmer. Cook about 25 minutes, or until potatoes are soft. Cool down to stop cooking. In a small saucepan, heat two tbs of butter. Add potatoes and saute until brown. Season to taste with salt and pepper.

Crab boil

2 parts dried bay leaves; broken into small pieces
2 parts fine ground cayenne pepper
4 parts celery seeds
4 parts dried coriander seeds
8 parts dried brown mustard seeds
2 parts dried whole black peppercorns
1 part dried whole allspice berries
1 part dried whole clove buds
2 parts dried crushed red pepper flakes
2 parts dried thyme leaves

Combine all ingredients and put in a sealed jar. When ready to use, put in a fine mesh cloth pouch. This is so you don't have to try and separate the spices out once cooked. You can just remove the bag and the spices never get mixed in with the potatoes.

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Food / Vegetable and Hamburger Casserole

« on: March 25, 2016, 12:55:33 AM »

Vegetable and Hamburger Casserole

Ingredients

1 med. sliced onion
2 sliced bell peppers
2 c whole grain corn
4 sliced tomatoes
2 hard boiled eggs
1 lb hamburger
1/2 c soft bread crumbs

Directions

Brown peppers and onions. Add meat and mix throughly. Add seasoning. Place layer of corn in baking dish, followed by layer of hamburger, then a layer of tomatos, repeat till all are used. Cover top with bread crumbs. Dot with butter. Bake 35 minutes at 375 F. Top with sliced eggs.

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Food / Re: Crab Casserole

« on: March 25, 2016, 12:48:39 AM »

Sometimes crackers work, sometimes they don't. I've a recipe somewhere for a baked bean casserole that uses crackers as the body in the recipe and that one turns out fairly good. Others, like you mention, might depend on the cracker type as well as to how fine the they are crumbled. Even then, sometimes they don't work.

Still you never know till you try it.

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

« on: March 23, 2016, 05:15:45 PM »

“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.” ~ Albert Einstein

"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.” ~ Bil Keane

“We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.” ~ Mother Theresa

“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” ~ Confucius

Vegetarian is an old Indian word meaning bad hunter ~ Texas adage

"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire." ~ Winston Churchill

"I remember meeting a mother of a child who was abducted by the North Koreans right here in the Oval Office." ~ George W. Bush, June 26, 2008

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Internet / Re: Computer games

« on: March 22, 2016, 02:38:44 PM »

This was my old graphics computer motherboard that I ruined.

This is my present one I replaced it with.

The nice thing about graphics is the same things you need to game with are the ones you need to do graphics with.

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Stars / Re: Bruce Lee

« on: March 22, 2016, 05:57:02 AM »

Love these images you guys keep bringing in. Fantastic.