I Heart Puppets

Just when I thought I couldn't be more into puppets than I already am...Vietnamese Water Puppetry!

The puppets are made out of wood and then lacquered. The shows are performed in a waist-deep pool. A large rod supports the puppet under the water and is used by the puppeteers, who are normally hidden behind a screen, to control them. Thus the puppets appear to be moving over the water. When the rice fields would flood, the villagers would entertain each other using this form of puppet play.

Gold 4 Cash

Abu Dhabi's Emirates Palace hotel has an ATM that dispenses gold. You feed in cash, it emits lumps of gold, using an exchange rate updated every 10 minutes.
http://www.boingboing.net/2010/05/13/gold-dispensing-atm.html

Yay or nay?

Brie and Basil Grilled Cheese on Chocolate Bread
http://paninihappy.com/brie-basil-grilled-cheese-on-chocolate-bread/

Dinner success

 At the moment, we're poor. Living on eggs, sad pasta, more sad pasta, and stale matzoh leftover from passover.  Tonight...we eat like kings!!!!!

Beer Battered Chicken
2 boneless chicken breasts
1 cup of beer (i used blue moon, still left over from our wedding in Sep. 09)
1 cup of flour (i used self-rising cause that's all we had)
1 cup olive oil (didn't have a full cup, used a smidgen of corn oil to make up the difference)
2 eggs beaten
Splash of milk
(all the following to taste)
Roasted Red Pepper Flakes
Paprika
Salt
Pepper
Celery Seed
Thyme
Chives
Oregano

Step one: Slice boneless chicken breasts into one inch strips
Step two: Mix flour with the various herbs, salt, pepper
Step three: beat two eggs in a bowl with a splash of whole milk and one cup of beer
Step four: Add flour/herb mixture to egg mixture and mix well
Step five: Heat oil until smoking hot
Step six: Dredge chicken strips lightly through flour and then into beer/egg/flour/herb mixture, allow to drip and add to pan
Step seven: have a few sips of beer, you deserve it
Step eight: turn chicken in oil after 2-3 minutes, should be golden brown
Step nine: brown other side and remove to a pan lined with paper towels
Step ten: serve with sauce of your choice, ours was honey mixed with sambal olek(pictures), chopped basil, a tiny splash of lemon juice, salt & pepper
yummy yum yum yum.

Accompanied by green bean/onion saute and instant (but real!) mashed potatoes

I'm scared but I like it...

Introducing a new concept that would have city folk of the future carrying a device around so that they may latch on to a system of steel wires to transport them around town.
http://gothamist.com/2010/05/12/video_zip_lines_for_city_of_the_fut.php


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Happy Mother's Day

Roasted Radishes

"...roasting a bunch of halved radishes in a hot oven with plenty of butter and lemon juice...Instead of spicy, crisp and crunchy, these radishes were sweet, succulent and mellow, vaguely like turnips but with a softer bite."

                                            (Andrew Scrivani for the NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/12/dining/12appe.html

How to Make Giraffe Pancake

http://www.jimspancakes.com/2010/05/easy-to-make-giraffe-pancake/

Let's Go Celtics!

Rajon Rondo for President! 29 points, 18 rebounds and 13 assists

Monkey News!

A London-based advertising agency in Soho is offering British citizens a wacky way to cast their ballot: free pick-up and delivery by a monkey.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/2010/05/03/2010-05-03_ballotmonkeyorg_offers_to_send_monkey_to_pick_up_and_deliver_ballots.html#ixzz0nTUGVZVw