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Month: January 2008

[Recipe] Mediterranean Chicken

Posted on January 16, 2008 By admin

Ingredients

* 4 skinless, boneless chicken breast cut in half
* 1 large onion
* 1 red pepper
* 6-8 large mushrooms
* 2 sticks of celery
* 2 tins chopped tomatoes
* 1/2 cup white wine
* 2 tsp mixed italian herbs (oregano, thyme, bay, basil, parsley)
* As many chopped olives as you want (about a dozen is good)
* salt and pepper to taste

Directions

– Cut onion in half and slice into half rings.
– De-seed pepper and chop pepper into large chunks.
– Prepare mushrooms and cut in half.
– Slice celery into large chunks.
– Heat the oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Add chicken and saute about 4 to 6 minutes each side, until golden. Remove chicken from skillet and set aside.
– Saute onion in pan drippings for 3 minutes. Add all other vegetables except the olives and toss. Add tomatoes and bring to a boil. Lower heat, add 1/2 cup white wine and herbs. Simmer for 15 minutes.
– Return chicken to skillet and cover. Cook over low heat until the chicken is cooked through and no longer pink inside. Add olives to the skillet and cook for 1 minute.
– Season with salt and pepper to taste and serve.
– Serve with basmati and wild rice.

YUMMAY!

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Geek Meme!

Posted on January 15, 2008 By admin

Blame [info]elfs for this one. Create a faux “first album.” The rules are simple.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
The first article title on the page is the name of your band.
http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3
The last four words of the very last quote is the title of your album.
http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days/
The third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.

This is my entry:

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Sometimes, people just rock!

Posted on January 10, 2008 By admin 2 Comments on Sometimes, people just rock!

I'm going to Tokyo for 10 days in early February. 6 days for work, 3 days for fun (and I lose a day for travel). I'm mentally preparing myself for one hell of a culture shock and I'm hoping I won't have too many of those lost-in-translation moments.

One thing that was worrying me a bit was that the language barrier would be difficult to breach – which could have nasty consequences for my many food allergies. However, the lovely people who are organizing the workshop have come to my aid and produced this:

????????????

?????????????????????????????

– ????, ?? (???OK), ??, ????
– ??????? (???)
– ????
– ?????????????

???????????

It means, roughly translated,

I have food allergies.

Can you please ensure that my meal does not contain any of the following items:

– lentil, beans (soy is OK), sesame seeds, nuts
– above-derived products (such as oil)
– garlic
– fresh apple strawberry tomato

Thank you.

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The americanization of the British airwaves

Posted on January 8, 2008 By admin 3 Comments on The americanization of the British airwaves

It seems that every popular american TV show is getting a Brit counterpart: UK's next top model, Biggest Loser UK, Pimp my ride UK, Queer eye for the straight guy UK, The Apprentice UK, and the list goes on. Hell, there are even rumours of a Law & Order UK spin-off.

My favouritest US->UK program ever has to be My Super Sweet 16 UK though. Only there can you hear a public school boy say in his best home counties accent Fo' Shizzle, it must be said.

Gotta love it.

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What I did on my holidays

Posted on January 7, 2008 By admin

Today marks my first day back at the office, after close to 3 weeks off. I can't really say that it's been all fun and games. There were some good time, there were some truly bad ones. The only thing I can really say is that I'm going to enjoy a bit of routine for the next little while and it will only do me good.

Katy, her parents and I spent 12 days in Canada: 3 in Montreal, the rest at my parents' place. I won't go into all of the gory details, because it involves a fair bit of drama and I can't be bothered to write it all down now. The highlights include:

– Salon des Metiers d'Arts in Montreal
– Brunch at Eggspectation
– Weinstein & Gavinos with Sara
– Sushi at Bishoku Montreal with Michel and Isabelle
– Lots of very good mom-cooked food
– Food poisoning, closely followed by putting my back out while puking at the Museum of Civilization
– Spending quality time with the 'rents
– The little yellow dog and the big dumb one who violated Katy
– Sushi at Kinki followed by beavertails during a much-needed day out in Ottawa
– SNOW!

My unfortunate bout of food poisoning unfortunately derailed our plans to pamper ourselves at the Casino Hilton, but I've promised to make it up to Katy when next we go to Londondinium.

Katy's parents had a blast, which was good and I think mine did as well, which is also good. Katy's cold/chest infection made her feel miserable for a good part of it, but she did her best to not let it show – even though she was really feeling rough at times :( I did my best to keep her in good food and good spirits (and throwing in a few movies here and there).

The flights on either way were uneventful. Groundhog Day was playing on the return flight. I love the suicide scenes :) Made me giggle, anyway. We were dead tired the day we came back to the UK and it was a loooooooooooooooong day. By the time we managed to stretch the day out to 9pm, we'd been up for about 37 hours with only about an hour of interrupted sleep. Harsh. We had to prod and poke each other to keep awake until it was late enough to go to bed on UK time – otherwise jet lag would have been an even bigger bitch.

Jan 1st was a pretty slow day. Stu came over to the in-law's house for the big dinner and we had a generally fun day catching him up about the trip.

Jan 2nd was the day we drove up to Worksop to pick up Irina, our new toxic waste kitten. I'll write more on her later on.

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