Based on this recipe: http://www.chowhound.com/recipes/chicken-tortilla-soup-30472
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Based off this BBC food recipe: http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/230609/feelgood-fish-cakes
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Ingredients
Method
Cook the potatoes in boiling salted water until tender, about 15-20 mins. Meanwhile, coarsely mash the sardines in a bowl (remove bones). Mix oregano, lemon zest and juice.
Drain the potatoes, then mash until smooth. Gently mix into the sardine mixture. Shape into 6 fat fish cakes, then dust with breadcrumbs.
Heat half the oil in a non-stick frying pan and fry half the fish cakes for 3-4 mins on each side until golden and crisp. Keep warm; repeat with remaining oil and fish cakes.
Great with avocado!
Followed this recipe: http://nomnompaleo.com/post/83239952327/cantonese-egg-custard-with-minced-pork
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Wonderful with soft cooked rice!
]]>Wanted to make a healthy, carby snack to help little guy power through his afternoons and adapted from a couple of different recipes for apple banana muffins. Found the existing recipes to be too sweet so adjusted accordingly.
Method
Makes about 16 regular sized muffins.
Two summer trips to Lake Tahoe, one in June/July and one in August/September
Mono Lake & Tuolumne Meadows
Peach Picking in Brentwood & Olallieberry Picking in Pescadero
Angel Island Day Hike
Visit the Albany Bulb
Weekend in Mendocino and Orr Hot Springs
Flower Walk at Jepson Prairie Preserve and Tule Elk on Grizzly Island
Day Trip or Overnight to Wilbur Hot Springs
Palomarin Trail to Alamere Falls
Weekend: Beach Hopping from Half Moon Bay to Santa Cruz + Day in Santa Cruz
Visit the Mission Inn in Riverside over the holiday season
Explore Northern California
I totally just made a fangirl collage. Definitely the best story of the six in 'Cloud Atlas.'
A very random post from davidian of old Xanga days made me super nostalgic and reminded me that I haven't been writing in a long, long time. There was a time when I wrote, a LOT, and often. These days all the writing I do is crafting that perfectly, politically balanced but effective e-mail to my team at work. And maybe sometimes the Facebook post that quips just so (yet strangely feels like no one really cares what I ate on Sunday night, or who with).
I can't believe it's been more than TEN YEARS since I first discovered and picked up Xanga as a medium for self expression. Back then I always wondered how long I'd be able to keep it up, and whether I would still feel the need/urge to blog ten years into the future. I guess I have my answer now.
That said, I was reminded also of my yearly to-do list and first things first - gotta check in to see how I'm doing on this year's list. 2012 has been infinitely better than 2011, so I'm already pretty happy about that. Here goes.
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2012 To-Do List
Journal/talk to God at least once/day, even if it's just 1 sentence about how the day went. [FAIL]
Stop using meaningless words in everyday conversation [FAIL]:
Stop cursing [EXTRA BIG FAIL]
Take better care of myself [I think I get a 'C' on this.]
Join an fellowship group and go to church at least 2x/month [FAIL]
At least 1 outdoorsy activity/month [Pretty sure I've stuck to this]
Tackle 2-3 major organization projects until the whole house is in order
Rebuild the pieces of my digital life - since my hard drive was stolen in July. Back it up in the cloud.
Travel [This is the one area we've been doing pretty well on]
People/Activity
Buy
Check out 2011's to-do list here.
2012 To-Do List
Well-Being
Journal/talk to God at least once/day, even if it's just 1 sentence about how the day went.
Stop using meaningless words in everyday conversation
Stop cursing
Take better care of myself
Join an fellowship group and go to church at least 2x/month
At least 1 outdoorsy activity/month
Tackle 2-3 major organization projects until the whole house is in order
Rebuild the pieces of my digital life - since my hard drive was stolen in July. Back it up in the cloud.
Travel
People/Activity
Buy
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That is all. Special thanks to Wendy for the crown muffin pans!
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It's been so long since I've cooked regularly. We roasted ruby fingerling potatoes from Berkeley Bowl with garlic and rosemary, sauteed fresh asparagus with hen-of-the-woods mushrooms and shallots, and pan-seared wild coho salmon and smothered it in this lovely giant white bean and tomato tapenade-y thing from TJ's.
I can't remember the last time I baked on a weeknight. I had this almond butter to use up in my fridge, so of course I had to make almond butter cookies. Used this recipe from sweet & natural. They were a leetle bit dry - maybe next time I'll try adding an egg. That should do it - otherwise it was just sweet enough and very almond-y :)
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The challenge was to design a vertical structure on the island of Cotonduba that in addition to serving as an observation tower would become a symbol of welcome to newcomers in Rio either by sea or by air once it has been host city of 2016 Olympic Games.
Designed by RAFA firm headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, it is called Solar City Tower, chosen in response to the initial proposal and it has the potential to generate enough energy not only for the Olympic city, but also for part of the city of Rio. Its design makes it store solar energy during the day, while the surplus energy produced is piped to pump sea water within the tower giving the effect of a waterfall outside. This water is reused simultaneously by turbines which are designed to produce energy during the night. These characteristics give it the epithet tower generator which is intended as a continuation of some of the resolutions taken during the Earth Summit United Nations in 1992 that took place in Rio and also promotes the use of natural resources in energy among these people.
The tower also has an amphitheater, an auditorium, cafeteria and shops accessible on the ground floor where you can take an elevator that leads to various observatories and a retractable platform for the practice of bungee. At the top of the tower, it will be possible to appreciate the scenery around the island where it will be erected and its waterfall will become a benchmark for 2016 and the city of Rio de Janeiro.
I guess I must have been living under a rock, but I just found out that Matthew Vaughn will be helming the next installment of X-Men, one of my favoritest superhero franchises evar. At long last, this super talented director may finally get the kind of marketing treatment he so richly deserves (I blogged a while back about how his other excellent movies have had the unfortunate fate of terribly inappropriate marketing).
The first Sunday of the month, the pastor at Cornerstone Church said a few things that made me think. It was about the importance of starting the new year off well, and even the importance of how that first week could set the tone for the rest of the year. While it's taken me some time to put my 2011 list together, I still think it's still a worthwhile exercise. Some nuggets of wisdom from the sermon:
I dislike vague new year's resolutions like 'drink more water' because I think it's harder to keep them/easier to rationalize them. I prefer to write down very specific things I'd like to do/accomplish in a year, things I can check off. But I also want to be sure that each thing I'm committing to paper reflects how I'd like to be living my life beyond the progress I've already made in the last few years.
Travel
Spiritual/Personal Growth
Health/Wellness/Lifestyle
Style
A Tumblr that enumerates the many, many reasons we HATE restaurant websites. I'd say this also applies to really uppity, high-fallutin brand retail websites.
From Thrillist:
The incomparable Kina Grannis, of course. If only Katy Perry didn't have such an awful voice - the songs are actually pretty good.
