from grandteuton.blogspot.com
What to do with all those peppers this year? In an odd twist of agriculture, hot peppers of various varieties were nearly the only thing that grew well in our garden this year. Eggplant and yellow squash were fairly productive, but the banana, serrano, and cayenne peppers were the stars of the season.
Well, roasted chile peppers are great, so we have roasted a bunch of them, but then the question becomes what to do with the oil that had been on them while they roasted.
Aha! Make an emulsion with some decent Cabernet, and marinate a top round steak for a while. What a nice combination of heat and semi-sweet.
After a good long soak, the steak gets a quick sear on each side, then back in the bath with a bunch of sweet onion wedges for some time in a moderately slow oven (275F or so).
A batch of rice and some corn slathered in butter and it was a very nice meal.
Oh, and as a bonus, the now-cooked marinade becomes a tasty - and spicy - sauce to perk up the steak and rice.
Very tasty, if I do say so myself (and I just did).
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Monday, October 10, 2011
Happy Thanksgiving
to all my Canadian friends.
We here in Detroit are happy to offer you a bonus Detroit Lions Thanksgiving Day football game.
No, really, it's all for you. Enjoy.
from grandteuton.blogspot.com
We here in Detroit are happy to offer you a bonus Detroit Lions Thanksgiving Day football game.
No, really, it's all for you. Enjoy.
from grandteuton.blogspot.com
Thursday, October 06, 2011
RIP Steve Jobs
Well, I've never owned any of them, but I've still benefited from the relentless pursuit of simple and elegant that Steve Jobs brought to his Apple products.
I don't know anything about him as a man, but he did do some good work, and will be missed in the tech industry.
I don't know anything about him as a man, but he did do some good work, and will be missed in the tech industry.
Monday, October 03, 2011
Saturday, October 01, 2011
I Wonder How Many Others
noticed that National Coffee Day was the day after Drink Beer Day.
I have one thing to say to those who set up these days: "Well scheduled, well scheduled indeed."
I have one thing to say to those who set up these days: "Well scheduled, well scheduled indeed."
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Projects Update
from grandteuton.blogspot.com
Well, it's been far too long since I posted anything here.
I don't know if anyone is actually interested, but I have almost completed the first draft of my second novel, and I'm pretty happy with it, really. The good part is that it's pretty well finished and the plot and scenes hang together well; the bad part is that I hate rewriting.
I don't mind revising paragraphs and sentences - I'm pretty well able to accept that the first choice of words that came to my mind isn't necessarily the best.
I don't like wholesale re-writing, however. If I wrote a scene, I generally like it, and I will resist removing it from the finished product. I'm better at adding scenes where things simply don't flow properly, or where I've left out something that the reader needs to know.
I haven't gotten back to the two cookbooks that are in my writing / editing pipeline, but I have at least collected most of what needs to go together, so I'm at the point where I can get things going pretty quickly.
The interesting thing is that November is coming soon, and we all know that's NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month). I really don't think they like to count revisions as writing - that's kind of the antithesis of the "write, write like the wind!" fever of getting 50,000 words done in the course of those 30 days. I have my doubts that I can both revise / rewrite one book while pouring out another 50K words as the basis of another.
I also have to go through a thorough revision of my Mass setting. I seem to have a bunch of projects backing up right now. Better that than no idea of what else to do, I suppose.
Well, it's been far too long since I posted anything here.
I don't know if anyone is actually interested, but I have almost completed the first draft of my second novel, and I'm pretty happy with it, really. The good part is that it's pretty well finished and the plot and scenes hang together well; the bad part is that I hate rewriting.
I don't mind revising paragraphs and sentences - I'm pretty well able to accept that the first choice of words that came to my mind isn't necessarily the best.
I don't like wholesale re-writing, however. If I wrote a scene, I generally like it, and I will resist removing it from the finished product. I'm better at adding scenes where things simply don't flow properly, or where I've left out something that the reader needs to know.
I haven't gotten back to the two cookbooks that are in my writing / editing pipeline, but I have at least collected most of what needs to go together, so I'm at the point where I can get things going pretty quickly.
The interesting thing is that November is coming soon, and we all know that's NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month). I really don't think they like to count revisions as writing - that's kind of the antithesis of the "write, write like the wind!" fever of getting 50,000 words done in the course of those 30 days. I have my doubts that I can both revise / rewrite one book while pouring out another 50K words as the basis of another.
I also have to go through a thorough revision of my Mass setting. I seem to have a bunch of projects backing up right now. Better that than no idea of what else to do, I suppose.
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