This is a fantastic talk. Growing fish in natural resources.

I think an important part of that conversation he hit at the end. Teaching people to feed themselves through natural ways and teaching farmers relationships.

It’s a topic I’ve thought about for years. There are many countries who have starving people. Non-profit companies then ask people for money to send them clean water and food. Another Tedster discussed the creation of a water filter that would clean dirty water. I like this idea, too, about feeding hungry countries but not only sending food, but sending seeds, cattle, and more. Let them learn how to feed themselves.

Teach a man to fish…

I got through obsessions a lot. There’s a subject or topic that I pick up that is something I will read and study and try to perfect until I know the ins and outs of everything.

This time, it’s cooking healthy. But there’s a catch. The food has to be good, because I’m a picky eater. The food also has to be filling. If I bother to cook or prepare food, I’m not about to go hungry doing so.

It also means being a bit frugal. I’m actually scouting for coupons, checking out grocery deals, and buying the sale products, too.

And I’m learning about Chinese cooking, and how to eat healthy on a Chinese diet. It’s actually going pretty well. I found great recipes for General Tso’s Tofu, which was fantastic. I also tried stir frying and I soon want to try different sauces and mixtures of vegetables and rice. I have a few noodles for this week.

Random comments on this recipe:

This was ABSOLUTELY THE BEST recipe I’ve found on this website so far! I’ve never had the real thing, but DANG!

Next time, I’m doubling the sauce, and adding all the veggies I can get my hands on!

Wow! This is the best recipe from Vegweb I have gotten so far, and I am always impressed with the stuff I find here. I did make some extra sauce, as someone recommended, and I was so glad. That sauce is amazing. I kicked myself for not picking up the shiitake mushrooms I was eyeing at the store, but the snow peas and green pepper were a lovely addition to the recipe. I used SG brown rice for the bottom. Man oh man, this stuff is pure heaven. I could go on for hours…

Photo by Climb3rChick

I completely agree. I made a double sauce one day, without making the tofu, just to top on rice. It was great and lasted in the fridge for about a week. I bought shiitake mushrooms for this recipe and forgot to use them. Maybe next time.

So you may be hearing a lot from me about cooking, the way Chinese and Japanese people eat, healthy food, frugal shopping and more.

One book I’d like to recommend is: Why the Chinese Don’t Count Calories by Lorraine Clissold. It’s a great book with recipes and secrets to how the Chinese eat, and why they are so healthy all the time. It does make a lot of sense to fill up on rice and noodles, eat soup at meals more often, and to center meals around vegetables, not meat. Let the meat flavor the veggies, not the other way around.

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Big website updates planned for this weekend. Which means the front page will be fixed up, this blog will be straitened, and new content and more added.

Yay!

Yeah, I’m tired of looking at weird stuff and the ‘construction happening’ nonsense on the front page, too.

Anyway.

Trim it down to size with a high priority device

I love finding all of these great recipes online. I found one today that we made over here. It’s called The Ultimate Brownie Recipe.

The Ultimate Brownie is my absolute favorite brownie. It is tall like a cakey-brownie, but is dense like a fudgy-brownie. I’m sure it will be one of your favorite brownie recipes too.

Text and Photo by Carroll Pellegrinelli

I have never made brownies from scratch before, but these are just fantastic. We didn’t have a blender. (Why do some recipes assume everyone reading them has a blender?) But we just stirred by hand and viola. Worked great.

They even made a separate ‘photo blog‘ of the process on making brownies. How awesome is that?

But what makes for a great brownie recipe? Here’s my idea. I like a big batch, like the one produced here fills a 9 by 13 inch pan. I also like fudge-like brownies, but not so bad you can’t open your mouth after a few bites. Cake ones are OK, but if I wanted cake, I’d make cake.

There’s also a chocolate frosting I’ve had before, other people have made them but I haven’t found that recipe yet. I like to drop some powdered sugar all over my brownies. I’m not big on nuts. I like plain brownies, or ones with chocolate chips in there.

If you have a better recipe to challenge this one, leave a comment. I’d love to do comparison batches. What’s the best recipe for brownies online?

It was a great win tonight when the New Orleans Saints won the Superbowl. Right? What a great game.

And now a little video about Demand Studios:

It is true. Demand Studios has issues. No consistency with their editorial team, not a lot of help from the ‘fan kids’ in the forums there. It’d be better if DS and the people admitted that there were problems. Being that there are many, many people working there, there’s going to be problems. Hiding their head in the sands is lame. They should step up and admit to the issues and try to work on solving it.

They’re banning talk of this video on their forums, I’m hearing. That’s really sad to know that they’ll basically prohibit people’s ideals and comments. It’s no wonder people feel the need to express their frustration with the company and the people who brown nose the moderators, editors and bosses.

If you like the company, if you enjoy the work, that’s cool. Nothing wrong with that. Can’t someone who enjoys the work still have ideas for improvement or wish for better?

If they feel the need to limit the freedom of speech in their forums, I’m glad I’m not a participant of those forums.

Check this out. I love chocolate chip muffins. Love them. I used to eat them a lot.
I found a pouch at the grocery store yesterday for Betty Crocker chocolate chip muffins where you just add water.

Low Calorie Enough To Enjoy!

The pouches looked to be the best. You just add water, pop them into the oven and presto. Muffins.
Not to mention only 130 calories per muffin. I can eat that with some fruit in the morning and it’s prefect for breakfast.

No more guilt for wanting to eat a chocolate muffin for breakfast. I found these pouches at Walmart for about $1.00 each.

I compared them with other chocolate muffins on the shelf, most came out to around 200 calories each. So these are much better if you want fruit or cereal along with your muffin.

There was also a way to make cookies out of these muffins, which will probably be lower calorie, too.

How’s that for a non-diet food that’s still low in calories? I’m always looking for things like that, ways to eat fewer calories but not give up my favorite foods.

By the way, if you’re a coupon mongrel. (I need to work on the coupon thing. ) Betty Crocker usually has plenty of coupons on their website.

This is a supplement to the Samsung Exclaim Personal Ringtone article I wrote. There is more information at the article about how to do this, so go there to read and if you need the video, that is now provided. Thanks for watching and let me know if you have any questions.

This is how to make video ringtones, which is how you make ringtones for the Exclaim. This should also work for the Samsung Rant, as it should have the same software that is provided by Sprint.

Remember that you are trying to upload the video ringtone that you make to your memory card. That’s the one you want to do. You may need a memory card reader to hook up to your computer in order to do this right.

I had one of those embarrasing movie moments yesterday.

I saw this guy walking his dog yesterday. My string of thoughts were the following.

So at that point I’m just staring. Probably really creepily too as my mouth was part open and like I was totally just bug eyeing him.

So he says hello.

And I croak, “Hi–”… Yes, I never get to the “I” because I’ve already choked on it.

Total movie moment. Yeah. I’m so embarrased. I walked on and then went through all the flutterings of embarrasment. I’m sort of shy about walking that way again. That was so funny though.

Honestly, why would you even want to pay an extra $50 or more a month just for television? If you have high speed Internet access, everything you need is online. Plus more! And I can pause and fastforward and rewind and all that fancy stuff that TiVo owners can do, too.

1. YouTube – Many of the video makers at YouTube are very talented and are just as entertaining as a lot of shows online.
2. The Guild/Dr. Horrible – You can get online for free. Nuff said.
3. Hulu – Free TV shows, nice quality, watch at any time, and limited commercials.
4. Netflix – They are now getting many TV shows and movies hosted on their service online, so you can watch instantly. No commercials, and anything they don’t happen to have online right now they will send you the DVD for.
5 – 10. Every other video website on the Internet. Srsly. There’s a ton. And you couldn’t go through all of them in a life time I bet. More are added every day.

The Guild

If you get through all of those, and you still have free time… get out of the house, dude/babe.

+5 to Sexterity!