Monthly Archives: February 2011

Soup #8 Red Lentil Soup with Bacon and Parsley Sauce

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Red Lentil Soup w Bacon and Parsley Yogurt Sauce

This week’s soup was going to be Chicken Little Noodle Soup but my gal put in a request for lentil, which wasn’t a bad idea either. Of course, she wasn’t talking about plain old grayish green lentils. She wanted red lentils, which I’ve never cooked with and you can’t find at the nearest grocery store. Well, I can’t anyway.

Red lentil’s aren’t really red lentil’s by the way. They’re actually yellow lentil’s with their shell’s milled off to show the red inside. As a result, they’re a fast cooking legume, ready in minutes. Continue reading →

Ern’s Reads February 2011

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Reviewing is itself a guilt-ridden pastime. Not because you’ve the power to ruin a writer’s reputation…because well, you don’t. At most you’ve the power to connect a few readers with books they might like, but that’s about it. No the guilt is all about keeping up. First you suffer from reading pile guilt, then you get to enjoy un-reviewed-book guilt. Not that I’m complaining. Ok, a little. We’re in it for the access to new books and authors and having to provide some sort of value is totally reasonable. Not only that, but most of us really enjoy writing reviews…it’s just that being naturally lazy, it’s easier to open up/download the next book on the stack and be off in a distant corner of the galaxy/realm/backyard fighting aliens/zombies/corporations/demons because we’re the only one that can save the day. Sigh. Continue reading →

Soup #7 Lobster Bob and the Tails Go Bisque-O

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Lobster Bob and The Tails were a rockabilly band out of Portland, Maine that broke up in the 60s but got together for another shot at stardom with a Bisque-O album in the 70s. It didn't pan out, and they returned to their lives, wives, and lobster pots.

In keeping with my notion of food holidays, Valentines Day comes hard on the heels of Super Bowl Sunday, which may be because it takes about a week for guys to realize they’ve been neglecting their gals during the entire football season. Of course, if that’s the way it’s been, a fancy dinner probably won’t put you back in her good graces, but it’s a start. Especially if you make a fancy lobster bisque like this.

First off, I did some research to see what I could steal. Here are some of the more promising links I found. Continue reading →

Print me a Stradivarius

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The new issue of the economist is here featuring a section on 3D print manufacturing. They claim the violin on the cover was printed and plays beautifully, though I suspect it was just the body. For me, the problem with this technology is the texture. Like all digital processes the earlybstages have low resulotion, leaving the output grainy and unpleasant feeling. Ultimately that will be a non-issue, but it needs to be overcome.

Print me a Stradivarius
http://www.economist.com/node/18114327
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THE industrial revolution of the late 18th century made possible the mass production of goods, thereby creating economies of scale which changed the economy—and society—in ways that nobody could have imagined at the time. Now a new manufacturing technology has emerged which does the opposite.