Yes, it is time again for some more maths. In this Venn Diagram, the green represents places where the grass is green, and the pink represents places where the girls are pretty. Where they intersect we find Paradise City (oh won’t you please take me home, yeaaeaaah).
I dare you not to have this song in your head now.
Here’s the video in case you don’t know the song, or because of me you really want to hear it now. Or, if you are saying right now, “Oh I wanna go, I wanna go, oh won’t you please take me home”.
For my podcasting class, I made a skit with Gavin about a blind date that goes pretty horribly. I think it’s one of my funniest works! Tell me I’m right!
It’s 1/2 German and 1/2 English.
The idea is that if you are learning German then you would be able to listen to this as practice. I wanted it to be familiar enough that it would be fun for various levels of German. Zeth told me that he listened to it 3 times, and then he had it all figured out. I hope you like it too!
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I have to make another one, but I don’t know what the skit should be about! I can’t do a blind date again. What do you think? It has to be banter based, so that you can understand what’s happening from either language.
Hello all, I’m here today to talk to you about Maths. And Google Code. I’ve been playing around with Google Code, and have found that it allows me to create charts, as many charts in as many forms as I want. Oh, Google Google Google Google Google. Oh, we are going to have some FUN!
I now present you with a pie chart of my favourite bars, and a bar graph of my favourite pies.
Pretty cool, right? Anyway, if you’re every wondering what Gavin is up to, take a look at this list. If he isn’t using some social software right now to add things to it, he’s probably looking at it (I tease!). I’m sure this qualifies as the newest awesome tool for egosurfing.
I like sun-dried tomato pesto best on a sandwich, with steak strips. Last time we had it with sour dough bread and medium rare beef tenderloin. Basically, it tastes how I imagine heaven-food. We often eat this when Samuel is visiting, because the steak usually makes up for having a meat-free lunch (which, coincidentally happens often when he visits. Sam be man. Sam want meat. Meatless food not meal).
Not that I blame him I guess - - steak is GOOD. SO GOOD.
But back to the Pesto - this recipe is quite flexible. Go for the texture you want and taste, taste, taste! I’ve made it about 3 times with different amounts of this and that which I had on hand, and it has been good every time.
3/4 cup chopped pine nuts and or chopped almonds ( i did roughly half and half, but saved some pine nuts to throw in at the end so they would stay whole)
1/3 cup balsamic vinegar
1/3 cup red wine (experiment with the wine/vinegar, you might want like 1/4 cup of each if you don’t like tang or vinegar)
1/2 can or so of tomatoes.
1 cup olive oil
1 1/2 cups grated Parmesan cheese
Directions:
Place sun-dried tomatoes in a bowl and cover with warm water for 5+ minutes. Drain and pat dry.
Desperately wish you had a powerful fancy blender. Go and buy a mini chopper.
Discover that the chopper isn’t powerful enough to work on sun dried tomatoes anyway. Chop up the tomatoes as finely as you can with a sharp knife. (or until you’re bored). With a food processor/mini chopper/emulsion blender/regular blender combine all ingredients (except Parmesan) until it smooth-ish and well blended.
Then just stir in the Parmesan cheese. Also, if you planned ahead like me, add the rest of the pine nuts whole, because they are both yummy and pretty.
Taste it on something - baguette, pasta, steak sandwich.
Further Reading:
Apparently there is a small chance they you’ll get a bitter tasting mouth if you eat a bad batch of pine nuts. Thankfully it hasn’t happened to me yet!
Have an overwhelming supply of fresh tomatoes? Roast your own.
Pionner Woman cooks perfect beef tenderloin. Yum!
