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January 22, 2008
Why has no one ever told me about sunchokes?
I had sunchokes (Jerusalem Artichokes) for the first time at a Restaurant Week visit to Circle Bistro. They look like fat ginger root and taste like mild artichoke hearts. A and I located some at Central Markup. We tossed them in olive oil, lemon juice, salt, pepper, sage and garlic powder and roasted them for ~30 minutes and they were delish. Turns out they're basically the root of a sunflower and grow like weeds in the Northeast; so I'll be adding them to my garden as soon as I can figure out when they should be planted (you can cut up a sunchoke and plant it like a potato.
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January 06, 2008
Pomegranante: Just a Good Idea
This week has been a week of adding pomegranate to things. Glazes, reductions, berry syrups. It's good. Thus far:
*A pinot noir/balsamic vinegar/pom glaze reduction with sauteed savory-spiced (salt, garlic salt, lemon) portabello mushroom slices (sautee the mushrooms with olive oil and spices until tender, then add some wine, vinegar, and pom glaze and reduce until damn yummy)
*Just plain pom glaze on fish
*added to orange or teriyaki-sh chicken
*1 tbsp each of wine, pom glaze, honey, sugar, and balsamic vinegar with ~8 mashed blackberries makes a really nice dessert topping for a lemon cake of vanilla ice cream.
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January 02, 2008
Resolve 2008
Yeah yeah. I've had at best mixed results with NYE resolutions, but I like to keep posting them to keep me in check.
-Expand my DC friend set
-Network more with local DC ICT/development types
-Write more blog entries at my professional blog
-Write at least one entry a month at OLPCNews and get the OLPCLearningClub wiki off the ground
-Fish my resume around and hopefully find an international development centric position (that pays)
-Move further and further away from Microsoft; set up virtualization or good emulation for when I need XP-only programs, find viable alternatives to as much as possible
-Continue going to the gym regularly, as I get closer to my target weight shift more and more to strength and endurance training
-Get back into dancing (so rusty!) and even take some classes
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