Salsa

Topic: Recipe
Cuisine: Mexican

Made with Jim's tomatoes.

2 cups chopped tomatoes
1/2 cup chopped red onion
1 jalapeno pepper... to know if you're buying a hot one give it a smell... you should be able to smell the spiciness.
1 lime
tablespoon balsamic vinegar
1 teaspoon kosher salt. if using regular salt go with a half teaspoon.
1 1/2 teaspoon sugar
1 1/2 teaspoon ground coriander
A small bunch of chopped cilatro leaves.
1 clove garlic.

Mix... let sit for half hour.

Pic Time

So... I wouldn't mind living here:

, but I live here

I used to live here

and before, here.

But when I think about it... this is STILL FREAKING AWESOME.

Damned sequels

I forget if I bitched about sequels lately but I'll bitch again. The Transporter was a pretty sweet movie. The eurotechnoesque hong kong movie with white people was amusing and violent. Obviously someone felt that a sequel was fitting but someone went up and said...

HEY. YUEN BIAO INFLUENCED THIS MOVIE A LOT SO LET'S MAKE THIS EVEN MORE LIKE A HONG KONG MOVIE! LET'S TURN THE COOL FRENCH DETECTIVE DUDE INTO A BUMBLING LOSER GUY REMINISCENT OF JACKIE CHAN'S UNCO!

Oh and they were obviously running out of budget towards the end of the movie with the shitty ass plane crash.

There was the everpresent lame ass melodramatic music.

Gah it was bad. Just plain bad. Not even in the so bad it's great sense. GRARG.

Mussels / Clams / Steamers Appetizer

Topic: Recipe
Cuisine: Continental

Kevin asked and I responded.

1 batch of your mollusks (about a dozen)
1/4 cup white cooking wine
2 cloves chopped garlic
1 tablespoon olive oil.... or butter.

french bread for dipping

clean the mollusks under cold water with old toothbrush / scour thinger

heat a large pan to medium high heat... big enough so that the mussels don't stack... if you don't have one that big just use the widest thing you have that'll hold them all.

saute garlic in the oil a bit then put in the mollusks. pour in wine. cover.

these cook pretty fast so keep an eye on them for when they open. if they're stacked a bit stir them around so that the unopened ones on the bottom can open.

filter the juice if you think it's needed (if there's sand). Take 4 roasted garlic cloves and sautee with the juice. You can thicken this up a bit with some cornstarch or flour.

These are my friends

HengzhiZhong: You need to decorate the place!
frkncrzyazn: Buy me some paintings!
HengzhiZhong: you don't want to hang naked anime guys

Fried Dried Fish Pieces are NOT Clam Strips!

Red Robin:

Side Salad was actually not very good.
Burger was not that good.
Yeah and the Title Part.

Dude I don't think I'm going there for a long while.

Holy Crap

You know your manager's manager is bad ass when he grows FREAKING LEMON THYME in his back yard.

Rub of Bad Assness.

Topic: Recipe
Cuisine: Continental

BAD ASS RUB.

1/2 cup Paprika
3 Tblspn Kosher salt
1/4 Black Pepper (freshly ground is best)
2 Tblspn Dried Basil
3 Tblspn Garlic Powder
2 Tblspn Onion Powder
1 Tblspn Oregano
1 Tblspn Cayenne Pepper
2 Tblspn White Pepper
2 Tblspn Ground Thyme.

Taken from Rub Recipe website with less salt and oregano. let Cayenne Pepper too.

Rib Eye (medium rare)

16 oz Rib Eye.
8 Oz Mushrooms
Some Beer
A bit of Butter
Tablespoon Cooking Oil

Let the Rib Eye sit to room temp.
Rub on the meat (not ALL the rub... just enough to coat) on all sides.
Heat oil on medium heat. Sear one side of meat for 5 minutes. Second side for 3 minutes. Place on plate and cover.

Add the butter and mushrooms to pan with a pinch of salt. Stir to coat in oily goodness.
Add some beer to just cover up to half the mushrooms and reduce the liquid in the mushrooms til... just just a bit remains.

Pour on the steak.

EAT with the remaining beer :)

Green Chili Onion Dip

Topic: Recipe
Cuisine: Uh... Continental I guess?

Not as good as Anna's but I'm not allowed to make it. :P

8oz sour cream
1 Tablespoon Green Chili Powder (Can replace a teaspoon of Cayene Pepper instead)
1/2 Teaspoon Salt
1 Small onion chopped.
1 Tablespoon Olive Oil
Cracked Black Pepper
1 Teaspoon Garlic Powder
1 teaspoon balsamic vinegar (don't worry if you don't have this.)

In small saucepan on medium heat stir onion in oil to coat the onion. Let sit until it starts caramelizing and stir occasionally until the onion pieces are brown. Let onion cool and stir in vinegar.

Mix the remaining ingredients together then stir in the onions. Serve with chips.

Ko Fusion, Champaign

A Better Miko with White Food.

BETRAYAL

Dude... when I walked into a place called "Rolly Polly Sandwiches," I was thinking fat sandwiches or something. Subs in particular. I was in a serious mood for an Italian sub.

BUT NO. IT'S A WRAPS PLACE.

Don't get me started on non-fresh wraps... damned preservative filled shit.

The meat sucked in my "italian wrap."

Wrap had that nasty aftertaste (the preservatives, damnit!)

So going to go to Jimmy Johns tomorrow.

Antipasta

Topic: Recipe
Cuisine: Italian

This is a relatively light pile of stuff that keeps well in the fridge. It's rather refreshing during the day and even better if you're a fan of olives.

12oz of Rainbow Rotini (or any other noodle that you think that would work)
1/4 lb salami, sliced
1/4 lb provolone cheese, sliced
1/2 cup olives (I usually put in crap loads more)
1/2 small onion, sliced (not rings)(it's really easy to put too much in)
2 roma tomatoes (seeded and slice lengthwise.)
3/4 cups italian dressing (I like the good seasons dressing)
Cracked black pepper to taste

Cook the pasta (you seasoned the boiling water with salt, right?)
Add all the stuff and combine. Everything is in slices because it's easier to eat things when things are the same size/shape. (Se-4 Xiang-1 Wei-4 Zi-1 Quan-2) Go Kevin's Mom for setting it straight that I WAS RIGHT ABOUT THE ZI.

Let this sit for a couple hours. Overnight is even better. If you try it immediately it won't taste so flavorful. However if you're in a rush, add some more italian dressing and some salt.

Too... Many... PROVERBS!

Ghost in the Shell 2 is amazingly beautiful. If not for the story watch for the animation. Holy crap.

There were crap loads of scenes that seemed totally pointless to the movie but I guess they actually were vital in telling the audience just kind of world Ghost in the Shell sets itself in and allows us to view our own under a slightly different light.

Oh yeah and there was like a proverb to ponder every 5 minutes. It was sort of odd but it's just one of those Jap movies... what can you do.

Could totally watch this movie again. DVD worthy? I dunno. I'll have to watch the first one again.

Oh yeah and this isn't a total mindfuck as one would think. So go watch it :P

AMERICA

AMERICA! fuck YEAH! Coming again to save the motherfucking DAY YEAH.

Alright so I'm an immature bastard who's had that song stuck in his head all week. Holy crap such a bad movie in the most offensive sense.

Random pitch for Boeing: Boeing's having the X-45c full size model present at the premiere of STEALTH. Keep an eye out for it on Headline news or something because ALLAN is working on the TRAINER for that thing. So if it ever goes rogue it's Allan's fault. But in all seriousness... how silly is the premise. It's like:

if (struck by lightning)
{
go rogue and take shit out with a bad ass rotary rocket launcher.
}

I dunno I can see this movie taking a whole Asimov-esque twist.

Oh and kevin sent this video link which is pretty hot: http://bisqwit.iki.fi/nesvideos/movies.cgi?id=380
But it's a bitch to play so if you're nerdy check it out.

Once Upon a Time in the West

Dude. Still one of the best movies ever. EVER. Go watch it. If you're a fan of Kurosawa, westerns, or GOOD MOVIES, you'd like this movie. This is NOT for the ADD viewer. This movie is all about setting the scene. If you come to my place and if you haven't seen it yet, you're watching it.

Batman builds a house for the needy at UIUC while watching anime and eating Dim Sum at Lu Lu's.

Batman Begins: BEST BATMAN MOVIE EVER. A Good movie? Eh.... it's pretty good :P It's obviously setting precedence for a sequel (durhur... "Begins") and it was pretty slow and needed to wrap up things quickly to avoid a movie that's way too long. Alas. But you really got to start worrying when you're thinking that you'd rather see a movie set up into 26 episodes ><

Habitat for Humanity: Good exercise. Learned some stuff. Did some good for decent people who deserve help who need a break. Got a warm fuzzy when being thanked by the lady getting the house... but was pretty damned tired afterwards. Would I do it again? Prob not. I'm a horrible bastard.

UIUC: Holy crap campus and campustown is shit loads better than it used to be. Damnit. Bully for my html skills.

Yakitate: Right now the anime that I anticipate the most for its next episode is Yakitate! Japan. How sad is that. I think I'm gonna try that bread recipe with Anna's rice cooker.

Dim Sum: Alas... crazy people who aren't used to eating funky chinese food and worry too much about prices... Cool people. Wrong lunch place to bring them to. Note to self: Stick to wings and beer.

Lu Lu's: The place where we had dim sum. QUALITY DIM SUM. Just don't go there with a group of five. You'll totally get shafted in the table wait and it'll be stuck in the corner where the waitresses can't see you. Will definitely go again if I can ever convince anyone else to go. They're supposed to have a lot of other good chinese dishes as well but you can tell it's trying to cater to the White folk with loads of pictures in the menu. A nice touch. They're supposed to have an "unwritten" menu that so many other places have as well.

Cream of Mushroom Soup

Topic: Recipe
Cuisine: Continental

Modified from the recipe by Christopher Desens.

This recipes makes a LOT of soup so be prepared for leftovers or make this for at least 4 people.

4 oz Butter
4 oz Yellow Onion, chopped.
5 cups water
1 bouillon cube (chicken or vege)
6 oz Finely Shredding Smoked Gouda. Regular Gouda works just as well.
4 oz diced Celery. Sometimes grocery stores sell celery sticks at like the salad bar.
4 oz. flour
2 cups heavy cream.
1 clove Minced Garlic
1/2 cup Madeira. This wine is a pretty good wine for cooking. It has a sort of woody rustic flavor. Good with cheese too.
1-2 Tbsp Chopped Fresh Thyme. Must be fresh or else it just doesn't taste as good.
6 oz Shitake Mushrooms sliced. If you get the ones from the Asian grocery store you can use the stems too so long as you cut them pretty finely.
Some shitake mushrooms for garnish. Usually just the leftover shrooms you have from when you bought them packaged.

1 tspn Salt.
Cracked black Pepper.


The Shitakes and the Thyme can be replaced with Portobellos and Parsley. Of course it's not the same but it tastes just as good and it's a hell lot cheaper and easier to find. Fresh Shitakes are best bought at asian grocery stores. Other "specialty" grocery stores tend to have pretty lame ass shrooms that are pretty dried out. I'm sure the Asian ones were set in water before packaged but at least they're not all bruised and crap. The Asian grocery stores sell them for a lot cheaper too.

Melt Butter in a large pot on medium heat.
When the butter starts to bubble add the garlic, celery, onion, and shrooms. Season with salt and saute until cooked. No need to brown the onion unless you like it like that.
Sprinkle flour while mixing to make a roux. Stir for about 5 minutes to coat all the ingredients and the roux has a relatively dark brownish grey color.
Stir in the bouillon, madeira, and thyme.
Add the water and then gradually stir in the cheese. Finally, stir in the cream.
After the cheese and cream has been added, be careful not to boil the soup or you're get some skin on top or stuff stuck at the bottom. If you're worried about bacteria and crap, before adding the cheese and cream, bring the soup to a boil. Then turn the heat down to a simmer and add the rest.

Use a hand blender to blend well and simmer until the it's a thick smooth consistency.

Saute the leftover sliced shrooms with a pinch of salt to taste and garnish the soup with a couple slices. Of course with vege bouillon it's vegetarian and it actually works. Stupid vegetarians. Here's your damned soup.

Jade Empire

Jade Empire. Awesome game. But what's happened to games with clear saves? I must have played through MGS 5 times and FFVI two times. Do you know how freaking long FFVI is to REPLAY? That's cuz they had clear saves. Anyone want to play Jade Empire with ALL fighting styles maxed out? That would be pretty sweet. It would be a lot easier with a clear save. Add SOMETHING to make it cooler to play it again. Keep all your styles? Keep any style that was maxed out? SOMETHING. GRA. I'll prob play this again if the 360 gives faster load times.

Yeah I don't know what to call this one.

FrknCrzyAzn (4:21:50 PM): k0w0y (4:20:53 PM): at least with girls bathroom, there is mostly pee that contaiminates the stall
k0w0y (4:21:02 PM): but you know it's all fecal bacteria in the guys
...
k0w0y (4:21:25 PM): oh, god
k0w0y (4:21:25 PM): ew


SibladeKO (4:23:00 PM): please stop sharing this conversation or i'll kill you

Good ole Spaghetti Sauce

Topic: Recipes
Cuisine: Italian

This is just put together so that Anna would have something to follow.

1 jar spaghetti sauce
1/2 lb of lean ground beef
1 small onion, chopped
2 cups mushrooms, chopped
1 tspn garlic powder
1 teaspoon italian herbs
1/4 tspn salt
cracked pepper
1 tblspn olive oil + 1 tblspn

mix garlic powder and at least 2 good grinds of pepper with meat.
In a small pot heat oil to medium high. Brown meat. Remove. Heat other tblspn of oil and saute the mushrooms and onion with salt. Cover to speed up the cooking process but later cook uncovered to let out the excess water. Add italian herbs and beef. Mix. Add the sauce. Let simmer for at least 30 minutes. You can further thicken with corn starch paste.