Steamed Tilapia, Danny Style

It's not my best work, but it provided sustenance for Thursday evening (and Friday afternoon).

Covered in a green blanket of cilantro

Starring: Whole Tilapia, Cilantro

Guest Appearances: Green Onion, Ginger, Soy Sauce

Mistakes/Lessons:

• never use frozen fish for steaming.  Always use fresh, especially if you plan on cooking it the night of
• whichever type of fish you use, pay the extra $0.20/lb to have the fish cleaned at the supermarket.  They might not get all the scales for you, but you don't have to do the bulk of it (mostly scaled, fins clipped, guts removed).  And if that night isn't garbage night...say hi to the raccoons for me!
• don't put the cilantro until the last possible second.  The dish is tastiest when the cilantro/green onions/ginger/etc. practically raw, because the flavour doesn't get steamed and watered out

Fried rice, Danny style

Was thinking, "Instead of constantly adding a bunch of recipes to the fridge (I'm running out of magnets), why don't I just put'em here!"  Let's see how long I can keep this up, :P

So here's my first frankenstein, Danny's fried rice.

Not your run-of-the-mill shrimp fried rice!

Starring:

• leftover breakfast sausage (yum!)
• shrimp
• scallops
• white mushrooms
• straw/enoki mushrooms
• green peppers
• tomatos
• scrambled eggs
• rice (duh)

Guest Appearances:

• green onions
• garlic
• sesame oil
• rosemary
• salt 'n peppa
• veggie oil (to soften up the eggs)

Steps:

• take ingredients
• send them to me (I'll take care of the rest, ;)

Ha! Joke's on you msn/wordpress!

with the difficulty of the live.com blogs had with displaying code format, I was looking at creating a wordpress account and somehow linking the live.com with it.  This just saved me from a lot of work.  Maybe this'll translate into more posts/blogs...lol

Government salaries: the chicken and the egg

Recently stumbled upon documents/articles about government salaries.  I had always believed politicians are overpaid, but then I see these documents and find out how many others within goverment are making six figure salaries -- makes me start to think that politicians are underpaid...

 

and then this hypothetical argument pops in my head:

politician: we deserve a raise, look at how much these other government workers are getting

other government workers: we deserve a raise, look at how much these politicians are getting

me: WTF?!  Look at what everybody else is making!  Give me back my money!

 

I'll update this post w/ some links later...

No Fear

A life lived in fear, is no life at all.  I would rather live a short life as a free man, than survive an eternity as a slave...