Escaped for 3 More Years

Well, I didn't even get to the Voir Dire process. It took them 4 hours to let me go.

Yay!

Escaped for 3 More Years

Well, I didn't even get to the Voir Dire process. It took them 4 hours to let me go.

Yay!

Countdown to T-Day!

I'll be in Cambridge for the Thanksgiving week-end, staying at the Marlowe, near MIT campus. Ironically, I've been in C'bridge at least 100 times since I left, and haven't been back on campus. I may and visit the new CSAIL building.

Then I get to cook for lots of people. Rawk!

Things I may make (raw notes from my cooking journal.. it may not make sense to any of you, but *I* know what it means):

Firsts:
amuse bouche: raw fish... arctic char/salmon (good olive oil, lemon, grey salt, pepper)

local oysters on the half shell, with a mignonette (white wine, sherry vinegar (reduce to half volume), shallot, s&p) and perhaps red caviar (smelt roe).(from the cape)

Sides roasted:
Roast hazelnuts
parsnip
carrots
brussels sprouts

Sides, other:
stuffing (brioche, turkey/chicken stock, apples. what about panattoni.. did it last year, and it was great ++sausage to cut sweetness )
peas (mushy??) with panchetta??
garlic mashed potatoes (avec skin, cream, butter, S&P).

Soups:
roast butternut squash
potato leek
mussles/saffron bisque (carrots, zuchinni) (a la Melli Mello)
White bean

Main
Turkey, roasted and brined
stuffed with citrus, fennel



I don't envy the dish washers.

Countdown to T-Day!

I'll be in Cambridge for the Thanksgiving week-end, staying at the Marlowe, near MIT campus. Ironically, I've been in C'bridge at least 100 times since I left, and haven't been back on campus. I may and visit the new CSAIL building.

Then I get to cook for lots of people. Rawk!

Things I may make (raw notes from my cooking journal.. it may not make sense to any of you, but *I* know what it means):

Firsts:
amuse bouche: raw fish... arctic char/salmon (good olive oil, lemon, grey salt, pepper)

local oysters on the half shell, with a mignonette (white wine, sherry vinegar (reduce to half volume), shallot, s&p) and perhaps red caviar (smelt roe).(from the cape)

Sides roasted:
Roast hazelnuts
parsnip
carrots
brussels sprouts

Sides, other:
stuffing (brioche, turkey/chicken stock, apples. what about panattoni.. did it last year, and it was great ++sausage to cut sweetness )
peas (mushy??) with panchetta??
garlic mashed potatoes (avec skin, cream, butter, S&P).

Soups:
roast butternut squash
potato leek
mussles/saffron bisque (carrots, zuchinni) (a la Melli Mello)
White bean

Main
Turkey, roasted and brined
stuffed with citrus, fennel



I don't envy the dish washers.

Cthulhu. Leather. Yes.

http://community.livejournal.com/octopi_party/26743.html

Cthulhu. Leather. Yes.

http://community.livejournal.com/octopi_party/26743.html

This Government is FUCKED

Ganked from jwz

FBI Hoped to Follow Falafel Trail to Iranian Terrorists Here

The FBI sifted through customer data collected by San Francisco-area grocery stores in 2005 and 2006, hoping that sales records of Middle Eastern food would lead to Iranian terrorists.
The idea was that a spike in, say, falafel sales, combined with other data, would lead to Iranian secret agents in the south San Francisco-San Jose area.

The brainchild of top FBI counterterrorism officials Phil Mudd and Willie T. Hulon, according to well-informed sources, the project didn't last long. It was torpedoed by the head of the FBI's criminal investigations division, Michael A. Mason, who argued that putting somebody on a terrorist list for what they ate was ridiculous -- and possibly illegal.

A check of federal court records in California did not reveal any prosecutions developed from falafel trails.

This Government is FUCKED

Ganked from jwz

FBI Hoped to Follow Falafel Trail to Iranian Terrorists Here

The FBI sifted through customer data collected by San Francisco-area grocery stores in 2005 and 2006, hoping that sales records of Middle Eastern food would lead to Iranian terrorists.
The idea was that a spike in, say, falafel sales, combined with other data, would lead to Iranian secret agents in the south San Francisco-San Jose area.

The brainchild of top FBI counterterrorism officials Phil Mudd and Willie T. Hulon, according to well-informed sources, the project didn't last long. It was torpedoed by the head of the FBI's criminal investigations division, Michael A. Mason, who argued that putting somebody on a terrorist list for what they ate was ridiculous -- and possibly illegal.

A check of federal court records in California did not reveal any prosecutions developed from falafel trails.