Beware Hot Sauce

Ingredient 

Habaneros (or Scotch Bonnets or any other hot chile I guess). Cover Habs with enough vinegar to cover (redundant?) and boil until the chiles turn to mush.

Drain chiles, but reserve vinegar which now has a life of its own. Puree chiles and add back enough vinegar to make it the sauce consistancy you prefer.

Add spices: ground cumin, ground coriander, ground black pepper and
garlic. That's it!

He (the cook) didn't give me portions on the spices 'cause he was making five gallons at a time, which didn't translate to my home kitchen.

Uncle Steve's HOT Oil

Recipe By: Steve Nearman ~ usHOTstuff.com

Ingredient
2.5 cups peanut oil
.5 cup walnut oil - added flavor
1 cup sesame oil
6 cloves garlic quartered
2 tablespoons smoked-dried Habanero powder
or 4 tbs. crushed Chipolte
4 tablespoons rosemary leaves crushed

Place oils in a small sauce pan over low-medium heat.

Add remaining ingredients, simmer and stir occasionally for 15-20 minutes. Do not over heat oil! If finished product is very dark, you over heated the oil. Cook until the garlic has stopped fizzing/bubbling (this indicates that the moisture has been cooked off).

For extra flavor and beauty add a large sprig of dried rosemary into an old clear wine that has been cleaned in boiling water. (This acts as a reminder to help identify what is in the bottle)

Filter oil (while still hot, it flows faster) through a milk or coffee filter into the hot, clean bottle. We use a filter lined sieve set on a funnel. If the process is taking what seams as forever, replace the filter with a new one. Try not to pour any sediment into the filter until the end (it will clog the fine filter). Let sediment sit in filter and drip out over night.

Can be used immediately, but better after a few weeks.

Spicy Island Hot Sauce

Recipe By: Unknown Internet Poster

Ingredient
1 papaya* coarsely chopped
1 medium onion coarsely chopped
2 medium garlic cloves minced
4 habanero peppers* stemed and seeded
1 inch ginger root chopped
1/3 cup dark rum
1/3 cup fresh lime juice
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 1/2 teaspoons honey
1/8 teaspoon cardamom
1/8 teaspoon anise seed
1/8 teaspoon clove
1/8 teaspoon turmeric
1 pinch nutmeg
1 pinch cinnamon
black pepper

Combine all ingredients in blender and puree just until smooth, or about 1 minute (taking care not to overblend and aerate). Pour into a saucepan and bring to a boil, then simmer gently, uncovered,for 10 minutes. Remove from heat and allow to cool before bottling. Refrigerated, the sauce will keep approximatly 6 weeks. Makes 2 cups.

Home-Style Inner Beauty Hot Sauce

Recipe By: Unknown Internet Poster

[I like the mango and mustard combo, plus 12 habaneros!!]

Ingredient
12 habaneros
1 mango
1 cup yellow mustard use cheap
1/4 cup brown sugar, packed
1/4 cup white vinegar
1 tablespoon curry powder
1 tablespoon cumin
1 tablespoon chile powder
1/2 teaspoon salt or to taste
1 teaspoon black pepper

Seed peppers as your wisdom guides you. Cut up and put in food processor with chunks of peeled, pitted mango. Process until uniform but some small hab pieces remain. Mix in a bowl with other ingredients. Recipe says it should keep in fridge forever in covered container.

Sounds good!

Hey Alex, that's really cool. Let's save it for Vol. 9, though. I just asked Pheck to do the cover for Vol. 8. Sound good?

alex barrett said:

Ok, took me a while, had a bunch of illo work these last few weeks, but here's a sketchfor Vol. 8. It's just a rough thumbnail from my sketchbook, the final art would be as clean as any of the artwork I have posted on my profile. For the title, I was thinking "Garage Monsters", but I just realized that there is already a band by that name. So, maybe "Teenage Mutant Garage Monsters" or "Garage Beasts" or something? Also, I plan on drawing a lot of stuff in the background: tires, pin-ups, spiderwebs, etc.

Let me know what you think!

Looks very rad man!! BEASTS OF THE GARAGE! Arrrrr! Love it dude!

Orange Tofu and Broccoli

Ingredients

* 1 tablespoon cornstarch
* 1 tablespoon warm water
* 3/4 cup orange juice
* 1 tablespoon finely grated orange zest
* 1/4 cup soy sauce
* 3 tablespoons rice vinegar
* 3 tablespoons honey
* 1 teaspoon hot chili sauce or sriracha
* 3 tablespoons vegetable oil
* 1 pound firm tofu, weighted, drained, and cubed
* 3 cloves garlic, minced
* 1 pound broccoli florets

Directions

* In a bowl, whisk cornstarch and warm water. Add orange juice and zest, soy sauce, rice vinegar and hot chili sauce. Reserve.
* Steam broccoli for 2-3 minutes until broccoli turns bright green but is still very firm.
* Heat oil in a very large nonstick pan or wok over medium-high heat. Add tofu to pan and cook, browning on all sides, about 6-8 minutes total. Add garlic and cook for 30 seconds. Add broccoli and orange sauce and stir to combine. Cook until sauce begins to bubble and reduces slightly, an additional 2-3 minutes. Divide among 4 bowls and serve with rice.

Roasted Poblano Vinaigrette

ingredient list

Makes 1 1/2 cups

* 1 poblano chile
* 1/2 cup sherry or red wine vinegar
* 1/4 cup agave nectar
* 1 small shallot, coarsely chopped (2 Tbs.)
* 1 small clove garlic, peeled
* 11/2 tsp. smoked paprika
* 1 tsp. Dijon mustard
* 1/4 cup orange juice
* 1 Tbs. grated orange zest
* 1/2 cup vegetable oil

Directions
1. Roast and peel poblano, then seed and chop. Place chopped poblano, vinegar, agave, shallot, garlic, paprika, mustard, orange juice, and orange zest in blender or food processor, and blend until smooth.
2. With motor of blender or food processor running, add oil, and blend until mixture is smooth and emulsified. Season with salt and pepper, if desired.

Creamy Chipotle Dressing

ingredient list

Makes 2 cups

* 1/4 tsp. whole coriander seeds
* 1 cup prepared salsa
* 1 cup vegan mayonnaise
* 1 chipotle chile in adobo sauce, drained and diced
* 1/4 tsp. black pepper

Directions
Blend coriander seeds in blender until coarsely ground. Add salsa, mayonnaise, chipotle chile, and pepper, and blend until smooth.

Yeah, John, EC reprints aren't exactly showing up at the grocery stores and drug stores, but the Portland library has several of the hardbound reprints. Hopefully, major cities' libraries are doing the same...

While the actual comics are hard to spot, their effect on Hollywood (Creepshow, Tales From The Crypt, etc) and the minds of young film-makers can't be overstated.

And that's just their horror and sci-fi titles. What about Mad, Frontline Combat and Shock SuspenStories?

Today I see some great comic companies (Dark Horse, Fantagraphics, Drawn and Quarterly-West Coast Rocks!), but noone has come close to cornering the market with high-quality talent since then.

Marvel? Don't make me laugh! DC's Vertigo imprint is mostly top-notch, but DC itself not so much.

Hey Mardy, found this, maybe it's useful? Seems pretty straightforward...

Here is a recipe for making sushi rice. Japanese rice is short grain rice and gets slightly sticky when it is cooked. Long grain rice isn't proper for sushi because it is drier and doesn't stick together.
Ingredients:

3 cups Japanese rice
3 1/4 cups water
1/3 cup rice vinegar
3 Tbsp sugar
1 tsp salt

Preparation:
Put the rice in a large bowl and wash it with cold water. Repeat washing until the water becomes almost clear. Drain the rice in a colander and set aside for 30 minutes. Place the rice in rice cooker and add water. Let the rice soak in the water at least 30 minutes. Start the cooker. When rice is cooked, let it steam for about 15 minutes.

Prepare sushi vinegar (sushi-zu) by mixing rice vinegar, sugar, and salt in a sauce pan. Put the pan on low heat and heat until the sugar dissolves. Cool the vinegar mixture.

Spread the hot steamed rice into a large plate or a large bowl. Please use a non-metallic bowl to prevent any interaction with rice vinegar. It's best to use a wooden bowl called sushi-oke. Sprinkle the vinegar mixture over the rice and fold the rice by shamoji (rice spatula) quickly. Be careful not to smash the rice. To cool and remove the moisture of the rice well, use a fan as you mix sushi rice. This will give sushi rice a shiny look. It's best to use sushi rice right away.

Has anyone got a fool proof way to do Sushi rice?

Get sippin' - start trippin!

Shhhh, don't talk about it, haha ;)

The NSA has become the largest, most covert, and potentially most intrusive intelligence agency ever.

Article here.

Electricity will come from the center’s own substation built by Rocky Mountain Power to satisfy the 65-megawatt power demand. Such a mammoth amount of energy comes with a mammoth price tag—about $40 million a year, according to one estimate.

The Pentagon is attempting to expand its worldwide communications network, known as the Global Information Grid, to handle yottabytes (1024 bytes) of data. (A yottabyte is a septillion bytes—so large that no one has yet coined a term for the next higher magnitude.)

Hm, well, sure the Muslim countries are most repressive, there was just a news item about a muslim girl committing suicide after being forced to marry her rapist (!!). but I think that Russia's best period is still 89/90 with the Velvet Revolutions happening.

And I've gotta say, 2-party systems are old, as you said in an earlier post, we're as fucked as the UK now with our lose/lose candidates.

And to bring things full-circle, if those women had been Muslim here in the States, they would have had an awfully hard time, so does this mean that we're worse than the Muslims now?

Food for thought...

I agree for the most part but I think Russia gets wrongly put into that category of most oppressive regimes. Murdered journalists is a problem but there is still a free press by and large and I doubt that those women would be alive if they had tried the same thing in Iraq. I think the narritive over Russia in the West is rather slanted and doesn't take into account that although Putin's regime is corrupt and nasty, it is the best that Russia can hope for at the moment. So although they are brave it would be like a punk band telling us (again) that the two party systems are stale and old.

Let's be honest, imagine those women were muslims and causing a similar fuss on a public building in the USA, would they get treated any better?

I see what you mean, Mike, but I dunno, in Russia they still murder journalists. I can easily see someone like Putin hiring some thugs to murder those young girls simply because they're a nuisance to him.

It's true America is still mostly pretty accepting of punks, but elsewhere in the world, say the Middle East, being in a Western-style band is still seen as a threat to religion and culture.

'Heavy Metal In Baghdad: The Story Of Acrassicauda'

I just think it's inspiring to see bands outside of Europe and North America making loud, sweaty rock n roll.

There's a similar article in the Guardian today. I'm not sure what to make of it all, I mean in each of those countries there is something different going on. Kids getting murdered in Iraq for being emo isn't even special for a repressive regime rather the way it's handled, but I don't think they are defying anything rather than just trying to express themselves. Thank god it doesn't happen as often in Britain due to the rule of law but unfortunately dressing like a punk or goth can be enough reason to be murdered by thugs. 

Murdered goth

Maybe in Burma or Indonesia dressing like a punk is making an actual political statement. But I don't believe that's the case in Russia, the same sort of thing could happen in Britain or the USA with a noisy and not very good punk band protesting against a one or two horse race.

Story here

What an unbelievable crock of shite. Goes hand in hand with how Google have started treating all our data, but this is an epedemic in society where we believe we can get what the hell we want for free. The powers that be want to come down hard on Joe Public for watching or listening to something for free made by people like Universal, yet move like snails when those same companies making cash off our intellectual property. Total Bullshit.

Well, what's good for the goose and all that. Now I think I'll go and "claim ownership" of that Gretsch Falcon I've had my eye on.

YouTube's problem goes beyond their content-matching system. They also let some companies walk all over people in claiming ownership of content published there, and it has nothing to do with copyright infringement. There are companies that will actually claim ownership of your videos, and YouTube lets them! IODA is one of them. This just happened to a friend of mine recently with two videos that he shot, edited, and published entirely himself with the artists' consent and everything. IODA claimed and received ownership rights from YouTube! Once the claim is filed, YouTube gives them the option to either take the video down OR put ads on it and make money. IODA never takes stuff down. So a video that you posted will then have an ad running on it, and IODA makes the money from that ad. Look what happened to this guy:

http://consumerist.com/2012/02/youtube-user-i-received-copyright-violation-notice-over-bird-sounds.html

Unbelievable. YouTube fucking sucks.

By Cory Doctorow at 8:14 am Saturday, Jan 28 [via boingboing]

An unsigned rap group called After the Smoke couldn't post their song "One in a Million" to YouTube because every time they tried, it generated a YouTube content-match error saying that Universal Music owned their song.

It turned out that UMG had laid claim to a leaked video that had a UMG artist performing the unsigned band's track in it, and this effectively gave Universal the power to censor the unsigned band's song.

YouTube's content-matching system has a lot of problems, as archivist Carl Malamud discovered when corporations started to claim that they owned the public domain US government videos he posted, threatening to cost him his YouTube account. And Universal attained notoriety for abusing content match by claiming to own the song that MegaUpload commissioned from major artists criticizing Universal and other rightsholder groups for their copyright stance.

What are your favorite iphone/ipad games?  I have this awesome game on my iphone called Beat Hazard Ultra.  It uses your music to power an asteroids type space ship game.  Each song on your iphone is a "track" that you need to clear.  Your firepower pulses to the beat of your music and you can get powerups that will increase the volume of the song.  So much fun...