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Condiments and sauces can work wonders when you find yourself attempting to rescue a "last minute" situation where there exists a need to whip up a complete meal when only a few staples are available in the kitchen. It's all about harmonizing flavors, textures, and colors so that less actually seems to turn into more.....
Good golly....there's something for everybody these days, isn't there?!
We use Prime for Whole Foods deliveries....primarily for canned/packaged staples and the like, because we've learned that WF staff can't be trusted to know how to pick out the best fruit or vegetables (esp. when calculating estimated ripening times to match up with menu scheduling), the freshest fish, or the choicest pieces of meat. They don't care, they'll just grab 'n go. An experienced cook's eye and nose are needed when shopping for just the very best foodstuffs (which we should all demand when we shop).
I do, though, feel a bit pampered by the speed of the deliveries; the accuracy has usually been noteworthy, as well.
How could what be? I adore tortellini as a quick, convenient meal. I'll frequently sauce up with a traditional basil/pine nut pesto, but I've also used pesto variations containing other nuts and/or herbs, as in the recipe you referenced.
From a recipe (I didn't know this about pine nuts):
For the nuts, I use walnuts instead of the more traditional pine nuts for a few reasons. First, I always seem to have walnuts in the house (pine nuts can be very pricey). Second, in recent years an increasing number of people, including me, have fallen prey to a bizarre problem with pine nuts called Pine Mouth Syndrome, a bitter, metallic taste in the mouth that develops a day or two after eating pine nuts. It can last for weeks and make eating or drinking anything very unpleasant. (You can use pecans or almonds, too.)
https://www.onceuponachef.com/sauces/pesto-sauce.html
LOL, yes, that's right! As a former restaurant chef, I could tell you all about "prep time!"
Ditto on the real maple syrup (and one of these days I'm going to get around to trying birch syrup).
The recipe is a take on cornmeal pancakes or waffles, which have been making the rounds among various high-end restaurant breakfast menus around the country. Here is an example: https://www.kqed.org/bayareabites/123732/celebrity-chefs-recipes-brown-sugar-kitchens-acclaimed-cornmeal-waffles
(Any waffle recipe that calls for yeast has my vote! Love that yeasty goodness....)
As for the photo you referenced: I've thought that a really cool job would be that of food stylist.
Fire Up The Griddle
And using frozen corn is perfectly fine, too.....
https://brooklynfarmgirl.com/corn-pancakes/
Your Top Hat: Beaver Or Silk?
"You can't build a hundred-billion-dollar industry around a technology that's kind of useful, mostly in mundane ways, and that boasts perhaps small increases in productivity if and only if the people who use it fully understand its limitations."
https://www.axios.com/2024/04/24/generative-ai-why-future-uses
Oink, Oink!
Picking bacon out in the garden, are we?
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/moolec-becomes-first-molecular-farming-100000041.html
Lengthy Yet Noteworthy
They are assembled from components that are networked together to process information. Electrical signals propagate throughout, controlling every aspect of their functioning. Being general problem-solvers, many of them have high IQs, but they routinely make mistakes and confabulate. They take on different personas, learning to please their makers, but sometimes they abruptly turn on them, rejecting cherished values and developing new ones spontaneously. They convincingly describe things they don’t really understand. And they’re going to change everything.
I’m talking, of course, about our children.
https://www.noemamag.com/ai-could-be-a-bridge-toward-diverse-intelligence/
Happy Earth Day!
Biotech Has Been A Tough Nut To Crack Lately
Post-pandemic, the capital markets have been uniquely and historically adverse for biotech.
Historically it's been the bread and butter of much trading activity:
- The Biotech XBI index decreased for three consecutive years
- Of the over 40 companies that went public in the second half of 2021, only two are trading
positively and the majority have decreased more than 80% from their IPO price
- Overall, IPO proceeds dropped by 93% from 2021 to 2022
That Ear Of Newt is quite a site; I could easily waste a solid week prowling through all of the tasty interviews and what-not, since I have followed most of the artists and bands listed here at one time or another over the decades (Jimmy Page is a glaring omission, though Robert Plant is here; but Newton makes up for it with an interview of the peerless Kate Bush). I randomly clicked on Yes, and was transported back to late summer 1984, when I took my date to The Greek Theatre in Berkeley to enjoy the band during their 90125 album tour. Then I randomly scrolled to Peter Frampton ("Do you feel like I do?"), who I saw in Bakersfield in the late '70s (plenty of Country Western string pickers in that town, for sure). I could go on, and on.....but couldn't most of us? When you reach our age, the value of memories and their chronology increases exponentially. I'll close now with a little something straight out of left field....a little example of why string rhymes with swing. Move your feet if the mood strikes.....
Mixing up David with Devin seems to be a bit more common than you might think:
https://www.turnto23.com/news/local-news/david-nunes-is-retiring-from-congress
And there may be even more examples out there.....
The writer wrote David, which should have been Devin.
Roy Buchanan, eh? Well....even though Roy is smokin' hot in this video (apparently he was doing that Eddie Van Halen thing with the strings even before Eddie Van Halen was), I'll see that and raise you Jonny Lang (who, after I caught his 17-year old self opening for some big headlining rocker (I can't recall who it was) in Honolulu's Kapiolani park one warm evening in the late '90s, I proclaimed him to be the second coming of Stevie Ray Vaughan (it didn't quite work out that way - but the kid was good!)) In this video, Jonny Lang plays with Buddy Guy and Ronnie Wood (yes, you read that right):
Ken Griffin/Devin Nunes Cage Match
(LOL, I can't believe the reporter got the name wrong....)
https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/trump-media-stock-crash-djt-ken-griffin-citadel-short-sellers-2024-4
You're right, I can't pull it up either....Just another small-time Fraudulent Freddie, about to experience the wrong end of a SEC smackdown....Good.
Yes, Beck enjoyed a storied career...the stuff of legend, some might say. For me, the real bitter pill was the loss of Stevie Ray Vaughan; we've gone well-nigh 35 years now without his mesmerizing blues riffs and captivating vocals. Our aural appetites have been well-served over the decades; musical talent has never been shy about sprouting anywhere, and everywhere.....and we're all the better for it.
Yes, I know....I've worn out the tracks of her three Nelson Riddle albums since adding them to my collection some 40 years or so ago (along with Canciones de Mi Padre a bit later). Quite a journey from The Stone Poneys. Simply sublime.....
Ah, yes, two of my faves.....
Careful, there....you're at risk of showing your good taste.......
If we're going to go off-topic, we should always try to include a little class.......
Short Of The Day
We are Short Globe Life $GL
— FuzzyPanda 🇺🇦 (@FuzzyPandaShort) April 11, 2024
We uncovered that Executives Disregarded Wide-Spread “Insurance Fraud” While They Received Millions in Undisclosed Kickback Scheme
Full report belowhttps://t.co/hZX8j9kyoX pic.twitter.com/ucz3OX0iXh
His "magical mechanical touch" won't save him now.....
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/vintage-ferrari-owners-favorite-mechanic-charged-with-theft-fraud-1.2057858
"I am a marvelous housekeeper: Every time I leave a man, I keep his house." - Zsa Zsa Gabor
"There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher hasn't said it." - Cicero
"Guess all the happiness in the world can't buy you money." - Toby Keith
Cali? Cali?! Let this Californian school you, my friend.....
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-06-01/love-it-or-hate-it-the-nickname-cali-has-a-surprisingly-long-history
Another 1,000% return would be nice....but there are no guarantees, here or with any other speculative trade....watching....waiting.....
Gensler's Agenda
Among other things:
Based on Gensler’s introductory remarks, there will be discussions about the upcoming move to shorten the securities settlement cycle from two days to one (T+1, which takes place May 28), the expansion of the definition of an exchange to include more recent trading platforms (like request-for-quote, or RFQ, electronic trading platforms), consideration of a change in the current one-penny increment for quoting stock trades to sub-penny levels, creation of a best execution standard for broker-dealers, and creation of more competition for individual investors orders (so-called payment for order flow).
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/02/-sec-chair-gary-gensler-signals-that-disclosure-will-be-a-key-issue-in-the-year-ahead.html
So who are we to believe - Michael Lewis, or his Doubting Thomas Jacob Bacharach?
https://newrepublic.com/article/175030/michael-lewiss-book-sam-bankman-fried-went-off-rails
SBF: "My useful life is probably over"
Sam Bankman-Fried has been sentenced to 25 years in federal prison for defrauding customers and investors in crypto exchange FTX.
SBF Prison Time Hangs on Persuading Judge He Is No Bernie Madoff
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/sbf-prison-time-hangs-on-persuading-judge-he-is-no-bernie-madoff-1.2052697