8417 - etcetera

[scottobear]

Last Night's Din-din is even better as breakfast (due to it self-marinating) Lazy bachelor recipe, but here it is.

Tasty bean salad

3 cans black beans
2 cans of corn
1 can garbanzo beans
red and green onion, chopped
fresh cilantro to taste
sliced mushrooms
1/2 tsp. cumin
pinch of cinnamon
pepper to season
juice from a lemon
1/2 to 1 cup balsamic vinegar
1/4 to 1/2 cup olive oil
salt
pepper
cayenne

Drain everything that comes in a can and put it in a big bowl. Chop all of the veggies and add them in. Mix the olive oil, vinegar and lemon juice in a separate bowl, then stir it in. Add the seasonings and adjust to taste.

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How they reworked Brando into the new Superman movie. Pretty nifty!

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Free Movies, Cartoons & Documentaries

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Keen perspective art in the subway

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Japanese War Tubas only a few decades ago were the very pinnacle of modern technology and your best bet for locating an enemy in the distance or in the dark (that's Hirohito on the right).

Brings Overture to "Die schöne Galathee" by Franz von Suppé (mp3) to mind, for some reason.(I really like the Pygmalion scene)


Acoustic location was used from mid-WW1 to the early years of WW2 for the passive detection of aircraft by picking up the noise of the engines. It was rendered obsolete before and during WW2 by the introduction of radar, which was far more effective.

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via graypumpkin -

Pre-eminent scientist, inventor, and respected mixologist Doctor Bunsen Honeydew reveals and demonstrates (with the help of his trusted assistant, Beaker) the amazing combinant power hidden behind movie theater concessions stands across the globe.

Regardless of the very real threat that terrorists might find a way to use this frighteningly accessible technology against us on our own soil, it gives us some comfort to know that when we find ourselves trapped and alone, fighting for our lives against the Gorn on a desolate alien planet made of nothing but Diet Coke and Mentos, by god, we'll know what to do.

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I'm back to playing turn-based pente online. Anyone who'd like to challenge me, the name's scottobear there.

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Keeno druid pocketwatch.

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1 year ago - GP & Batman, magic waffle pixies, yubnub, google maps, Lore, grasshoppers, awesomedome, journal scraped

2 years ago - Summertime, silliness, doodleboard, rage icon (since added), extreme heat warning, wifi bike, earbags, pudding pop poll

3 years ago - newt pic, dialects, sacred texts, monkfish, fold up robots, William Marshall RIP

4 years ago - Tope/taupe, cookie puss rap, Francesco ups the rent due to tile, bigbrother time clock installed at FMM, bird pee, random 5, lj virus

5 years ago - Bateman’s smoking cat, communion with dip, W's approval rating (pre 9/11) & quiz, languor, evil news, mushy thoughts

6 years ago - time poem

Comments

[weezeroni.livejournal.com]

Nice recipe, and those fountains were so cool! makes me want to purchase some diet coke and mentos and got nuts!

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

mentos + diet coke = crazy delicious.

[weezeroni.livejournal.com]

Gives a whole new meaning to playing with your food. And I just reread my answer. "got nuts" is different than "go nuts." Whoops!

[acoolsecretary.livejournal.com]

Love the recipe. wow! Thanks for the free-movie URL...bitchen!

I have got to try that mentos and diet coke thingey!!!

Playing Pente sounds fun...why O why don't I have the time??!!

I know a few folks who'd love the watch and it is reasonably priced too.

cookie puss rap??? wait...I don't want to know.

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

My pleasure to serve!

most of the pente games I'm in do one move a day... but on is only done every sunday.. the game's been on for 6 weeks now.

[graypumpkin.livejournal.com]

Cool Recipe that seems like a fair bit of oil though!
You mentioned Pad Thai the other day and I looked this one up online. Haven’t tried it out yet, but it looks tasty though it has lot oil too.
Looks easy enough to modify into vegetarian version.

Serves 4 as a noodle course or 2 as a main course
8 oz Thai rice noodles
1/4 cup tamarind paste
1/4 cup warm water
4 oz skinless, boneless chicken breast
4 oz fried tofu
6 tbsp roasted unsalted peanuts
3 tbsp fish sauce
2 tbsp sugar
2 tbsp lime juice
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1 tsp chopped garlic
8 large shrimps, shelled and deveined (50 oz)
2 eggs
1 cup bean sprouts
2 stems green onion, cut into 1-inch pieces
1/2 tsp roasted chilies
Strips of red pepper
Fresh coriander leaves
Wedges of lime
1. Soak noodles in plenty of cold water for at least 1 hour.
2. Combine tamarind paste with a 1/4 cup warm water in a small bowl and let soak for at least 15 minutes.
3. Slice the chicken into 1/4-inch strips. If you find it difficult to cut thinly through fresh meat, leave it in the freezer for 15-20 minutes to harden slightly and then slice. Reserve.
4. Slice the fried tofu into 3/4-inch cubes. Reserve.
5. Blend or process peanuts into coarse meal. Reserve.
6. Return to your reserved tamarind paste in its water. Mash it and transfer the mud-like mixture to a strainer set into a bowl. Mash and push with a spoon, forcing liquid to strain into the bowl. Scrape off the juice that clings to the underside of the strainer. You will have about 5 tbsp of tamarind juice. Add to it the fish sauce, sugar and lime juice. Beat to thoroughly mix and reserve. Discard the solids left in the strainer.
7. Heat oil in a wok (or large frying pan) until it is just about to smoke. Add garlic and stir, letting it cook for about 30 seconds. Add chicken and stir-fry for 1 minute. Add tofu and shrimps and stir-fry for 1 more minute. Break eggs into wok and let them fry without breaking them up for 1-2 minutes.
8. While eggs cook, quickly drain the noodles and then add to wok, giving them a quick fold, stir-frying for 1 minute from the bottom up. Add reserved tamarind juice, etc. (from step #6) and continue stir-frying, mixing everything together for 1-2 minutes. Your noodles will have subsided to half their original volume and softened up to al dente.
9. Add about 2/3 of the reserved ground peanuts and stir. Add about 2/3 of the bean sprouts and all the green onion pieces. Stir-fry for 30 seconds and take off heat.
l0. Transfer noodles to a serving dish and sprinkle with roasted chilies. Top with the rest of the ground peanuts, the rest of the sprouts, some strips of red pepper and fresh coriander leaves. Stick a couple of lime wedges on the side and serve immediately.

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

That's true, I could probably scale the oil back, considerably. (I tend to throw it todather, and adjust as needed.. 1/4 cup of oil generally does the trick.)

the pad thai looks yummy... just toss out the chicken and shrimp, double up on tofu, and it should be good to go!

[mental-circles.livejournal.com]

or you could, you know, skip the tofu all together and invite me to dinner :D. i always end up with pad thai with broccoli, skip all the meat and other weirdness...bean sprouts *gag*

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

Well, far be it for me to not invite someone over to have a tasty nosh!

Let me know if there's a day you want to experiment, and we can give 'er a shot!

[legal-beagle555.livejournal.com]

I didn't know the Japanese were into oompah bands on such a big scale!

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

Hirohito loved him some Sousa!

[ilenebook.livejournal.com]

I'm always looking for easy recipes, thanks!
I listened to the horns while writing the receipe.
You are so cool Scotto!

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

sweet!! toot toot! thanks!

[mental-circles.livejournal.com]

as usual, i can't see the mentos/diet coke footage, but the subway art kicks! i need to move somewhere with a good subway system.

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

The florida subway system requires an aqualung.

[graypumpkin.livejournal.com]

Aqualung my friend --
Dont start away uneasy
You poor old sod, you see, its only me.
Do you still remember
Decembers foggy freeze --
When the ice that
Clings on to your beard is
Screaming agony.
And you snatch your rattling last breaths
With deep-sea-diver sounds,
And the flowers bloom like
Madness in the spring.

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

Taking time
The only way he knows.
Leg hurting bad,
As he bends to pick a dog-end --
He goes down to the bog
And warms his feet.

story of my life.

[phillykat.livejournal.com]

they went thru a lot of work to bring brando into the new movie in a fresh way. it was eerie but in a way i liked it. it's like a good memorial. i wish this could wash away the image of his dr.moreau character. what a blemish.