This is just amazing. And beautiful.
Have a #GRONKING Memorial Day!
If only it really did make explosion sounds when he spiked it.
Technically, this is not the first dinner I’ve cooked this summer. Two weeks ago I made pasta with roasted chicken and strawberry shortcakes. Nothing about that dinner was too out of my comfort zone, so I’m not really going to count it. This week, however, I went out of that comfort zone. I made a tomato, goat cheese, and onion tart. It was amazing. Turned out really fantastic, and I think if I were to use pizza dough instead of puff pastry dough, it’d make a pretty damn good pizza. You can find the recipe here: http://www.kayotic.nl/blog/tomato-goat-cheese-onion-tart It’s really easy to make.
The main event for tonight was tilapia with a purple potato crust and a chive rosemary oil. To begin with, I could not find purple potatoes, so I went with red ones. They were a fine substitute. On the Food Network website, this is rated as difficult. I couldn’t quite understand why because it’s a pretty simple recipe. Once I started cooking, I realized why it’s so goddamn difficult. This recipe requires the chef to break the laws of physics. You put the potatoes on the tilapia like they’re shingles, and then you’re supposed to put the tilapia in a pan, potato side down. How the fuck are the potatoes supposed to magically stay on the goddamn fish? They don’t stick to it. In fact, putting the fish in the pan and removing it required more difficult maneuvers than connecting a capsule to the International Space Station. I’d also like to add that in recipes that require two different uses for olive oil, that you specify the goddamn amount of olive oil one is supposed to use at a certain point in time rather than saying one is olive oil and the other is extra virgin olive oil.
Despite all the difficulties, I managed to cook the tilapia the right way. The chive rosemary oil is really simple, but good. Everyone liked the fish. Except for me. I realized that I don’t really like tilapia cooked this way. Also, it was pretty oily, but through no fault of my own. No, I’d like to blame Giada for that one. See, Giada is a lying asshole who doesn’t seem to understand the laws of physics, nor does she seem to realize that it’s helpful to tell the chef which amount of olive oil to use at which time.
Needless to say, I was pretty frustrated and unhappy that after working really hard to make it, I didn’t like my food. Fortunately, I drowned my sorrows in Ben & Jerry’s Chocolate Therapy, which certainly lives up to its name. It’s rich and amazing.
If anybody wants to try Giada’s fish recipe, here it is: http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/giada-de-laurentiis/tilapia-with-purple-potato-crust-and-chive-rosemary-oil-recipe/index.html
Hopefully, next week’s meal will be better. I’m making herb chicken sliders with a raspberry mustard and baked french fries. I’ll also try to post photos of it. I didn’t this week because the tilapia sort of broke apart when I was trying to deny the existence of gravity in removing the fish from the skillet.
Fucking Giada…
1.The merging Antennae galaxies. As the two galaxies smash together, billions of stars are born, mostly in groups and clusters of stars.
(Reuters / NASA)2.The massive star Eta Carinae in our Milky Way galaxy that experts believe might explode in a supernova at any time.
(Reuters / NASA)3.A giant star-forming nebula with massive young stellar clusters.
(Reuters / NASA)4.Supernova remnant 0509-67.5, located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small galaxy about 170,000 light-years from Earth.
(Reuters / NASA)5.Young, blue star clusters.
(Reuters / NASA)6.The four moons of Saturn passing in front of their parent planet. The giant orange moon Titan casts a large shadow onto Saturn’s north polar hood. Below Titan, near the ring plane and to the left, is the moon Mimas, casting a much smaller shadow onto Saturn’s equatorial cloud tops. Farther to the left, and off Saturn’s disk, are the bright moons Dione and the fainter Enceladus.
(Reuters / NASA)7.Interacting galaxies consisting of NGC 5754, the large spiral on the right, and NGC 5752, the smaller companion in the bottom left.
(Reuters / NASA)8.Remnants from a star that exploded thousands of years ago.
(Reuters / NASA)9.The Bug Nebula (NGC 6302) with impressive walls of compressed gas, laced with trailing strands and bubbling outflows.
(Reuters / NASA)10.The “Black Eye” galaxy, so named because an ancient cosmic smashup produced a dark ring and a roiling, conflicted interior.
(Reuters / NASA)11.The Eagle Nebula with a tall, dense tower of gas being sculpted by ultraviolet light from a group of massive, hot stars.
(Reuters / NASA)12.The Sombrero galaxy, with stars in a pancake-shaped disk along with a glowing central bulge of stars.
(Reuters / NASA)13.A comet-like object scientists believe was created by the collision of two asteroids, possible siblings of the rogue rock blamed for killing the dinosaurs millions of years ago.
(Reuters / NASA)14.The strikingly unusual planetary nebula, NGC 6751. Glowing in the constellation Aquila like a giant eye, the nebula is a cloud of gas ejected several thousand years ago from the hot star visible in its center.
(Reuters / NASA)15.A pair of gravitationally interacting galaxies called Arp 147
(Reuters / NASA)16.Images of Saturn, shown in a composite photo, captured from 1996 to 2000, depict the planet in different stages of its 29-year journey around the sun.
(Reuters / NASA)17.This double star cluster of stars, named NGC 1850, is found in one of earth’s neighboring galaxies, the Large Magellanic Cloud.
(Reuters / NASA)18.Star V838 Monocerotis’s (V838 Mon) light echo, which is about six light years in diameter.
(Reuters / NASA)19.Arp 148 is the staggering aftermath of an encounter between two galaxies, resulting in a ring-shaped galaxy and a long-tailed companion.
(Reuters / NASA)20.The Boomerang Nebula. This reflecting cloud of dust and gas has two nearly symmetric lobes of matter that are being ejected from a central star.
(Reuters / NASA)21.The first visible-light snapshot of a planet circling another star. Estimated to be no more than three times Jupiter’s mass, the planet, called Fomalhaut b, orbits the bright southern star Fomalhaut, located 25 light-years away in the constellation Piscis Australis, or the “Southern Fish.”
(Reuters / NASA)22.This Whirlpool Galaxy image showcases the spiral galaxy’s curving arms where newborn stars reside and its yellowish central core that serves as home for older stars.
(Reuters / NASA)23.Some stars aren’t born, they’re hatched from interstellar gas pockets called EGGS (Evaporating Gas Globules) at the end of vast tubes known as “elephant trunks.”
(Reuters / NASA)24.Jupiter’s trademark belts and zones of high- and low-pressure regions appear in crisp detail. Circular convection cells can be seen at high northern and southern latitudes.
(Reuters / NASA)25.The Cone Nebula, M17. As spectacular as the central subjects of the photographs are, the background is of critical importance to astronomers. What appear as jewel-toned pinwheels, ovals and diamonds on the blackness of space are actually faraway galaxies.
(Reuters / NASA)26.The nearby dwarf galaxy NGC 4214.
(Reuters / NASA)27.A large rare population of hot, bright stars inside the hub of the neighboring Andromeda galaxy.
(Reuters / NASA)28.A ghostly ring of dark matter in a galaxy cluster designated Cl 0024+17.
(Reuters / NASA)29.Several hundred never before seen galaxies are visible in this “deepest-ever” view of the universe.
(Reuters / NASA)30.a crater on an object called 8405 Asbolus, a 48 mile-wide chuck of ice and dust that lies between Saturn and Uranus.
(Reuters / NASA)31.The coil-shaped Helix Nebula.
(Reuters / NASA)32.A bizarre X-pattern of filamentary structures near the point-like nucleus of the object and trailing streamers of dust.
(Reuters / NASA)33.The black hole-powered core of a nearby active galaxy.
(Reuters / NASA)34.Glowing gold at its center and ringed by a purplish halo, a nearby galaxy holds a vast, stellar nursery with dusty and clean areas for newborn stars.
(Reuters / NASA)35.Mars 11 hours before the planet made its closest approach to Earth on August 26, 2003.
(Reuters / NASA)36.The Antennae Galaxies (also known as NGC 4038 and 4039).
(Reuters / NASA)37.ESO 99-4 is a galaxy with a highly peculiar shape that is probably the remnant of an earlier merger process that has deformed it beyond visual recognition, leaving the main body largely obscured by dark bands of dust.
(Reuters / NASA)38.The glowing remains of a dying, Sun-like star known as the “Ant Nebula.”
(Reuters / NASA)39.Massive baby stars, nestled in a cloud of glowing gases and shining as bright as 300,000 suns, are at the center of a galactic “family portrait.”
(Reuters / NASA)40.The Horsehead nebula.
(Reuters / NASA)41.A close-up picture of Jupiter shows the impact site of Fragment G of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9.
(Reuters / NASA)42.The Elephant’s Trunk Nebula, an elongated dark globule within the emission nebula IC 1396 in the constellation of Cepheus.
(Reuters / NASA)43.The tempestuous stellar nursery called the Carina Nebula, located 7,500 light-years away from Earth in the southern constellation Carina.
(Reuters / NASA)44.Fly around of the Hubble Space Telescope.
(Reuters / NASA)
Sorry for blowing up your feeds with this.
Man, that Deep Field photo gets me every time. Crazy stuff.
Not that I’m late to the show here, but I just can’t stand it anymore. I just don’t fucking get why gay marriage is a political issue. The only arguments against it are unconstitutional and wrong (the Bible argument) or completely irrational (it’ll lead to people having 20 wives or fucking turtles). How is this still going on? It’s pretty much the same thing we did to African Americans as far as denying a group of people civil rights, yet nobody really seems to recognize this. Come the fuck on, America. You’re better than this. At least Obama said he was for it. That’s probably a big step in the right direction.
Jim Henson || September 24, 1936 - May 16, 1990
my kids will read every single one, just as i did.
Holy shit, Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel is so amazing. I think I still have it. It’s an awesome story. Go read it. Now.
So, as promised, here are my general plans for the summer.
Reading List
- Finish The Magic Barrel
- Running the Books
- The Hunger Games
- Hopefully some kind of psychology book
- Finish other books I started last semester
- “The Grey”
- Other suggestions?
Food
- Eat healthier
- Learn to like fish
- Learn to cook a lot more stuff
- Try to cook often
- Cook a really fancy meal, like super fancy
- Recipe suggestions?
Exercise
- Exercise everyday
- Be able to do a reasonable amount of push-ups, pull-ups, curls, and such
- Be able to use the rowing machine for at least 30 minutes
- Go running more often
- Figure out if my tachycardia gets worse with exercise
And, of course, other things as they crop up over the summer. Hopefully I’ll be going on a couple trips and doing some other fun things like that. If things go as planned, it’ll be a great summer. If not, I’m sure it’ll still be pretty fun.
So, here’s the general plan for my day, in case anybody is interested.
Go to Stereotyping, learn about how people are really shitty to other people
Hopefully go to the Green Cart Deli
Give a presentation to my class, in which I basically bash an album I had to listen to and explain why I only liked about three songs on it
Write a paper for Dr. Stuber
Assuming I finish at a reasonable time, do whatever the hell I want
I assume dinner will be in here somewhere, but it’ll definitely happen.
Soon, I’m going to post some goals I have for the summer, so be sure to keep an eye out for that.
That’s intense.
