Gonna pimp the shut out of this cheap ass pizza
Honest.
RECIPE TIME! (cc: @jazzbakescakes)
After last night's Cantonese expedition, I found myself with a bit of leftover pork and duck that the restaurant helpfully packaged up. Feeling peckish after a couple of pints, I knocked up a rather tasty hot and sour noodle soup with the meat. Probably the best I've made in years.
Ingredients (serves 1, should scale up)
Leftover pork, chicken or duck
1 x spring onion
1 x garlic clove
1 x small spicy chilli
1 x teaspoon of olive oil
400ml of water
1 x stock cube (or pot)
1 x teaspoon of Chinese 5 spice
1 x bunch of noodles
Dark Soy Sauce
Chopped coriander
1/2 a lime
Method
- Chop the onion, garlic and chilli
- Add the onion, half the chilli, and half the garlic to a pan with the oil and stir fry for a couple of minutes
- Add the water, bring to the boil, add the five spics, and add the stock. Stir to dissolve.
- Add the soy to taste. This takes away the need to season.
- Chuck in the noodles (you could use pre cooked here). Cook for a couple of minutes.
- Add the meat. As much as you like really.
- Cook for another minute
- Serve in a bowl, and top with the chilli, onion and coriander. Squeeze in the lime.
- Stir. Eat.
- Done.
You can add or subtract pretty much any ingredient from this. It's not rocket science, but it tasted awesome.
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Move. Learn. Eat.
I really like these videos.
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Good or Shit?
Last year, I threatened to start a new twitter account which would allow me to rate X-Factor contestants as being either a) Good or b) Shit. The twitter account would allow me to tweet IN REAL TIME making the whole viewing experience OH SO EXCITING.
And so, here it is. Do give it a follow.
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The Rub
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TODAY IS RIB DAY. After taking some inspiration from here I'm embarking on another journey in my quest to fully master the art of ribs at home. Now, due to both space and weather issues, there won't be any smoking or outdoor grilling, but I'm following the method of dry marinating then cooking long and slow in the oven, before finishing with a basting of BBQ sauce and throwing under the grill.
Here's the rub recipe. Would work nice with any cut of pork, chicken, or beef.
Ingredients
Equal measures of:
- Dried Rosemary
- Dried Oregano
- Dried Thyme
- Salt
- Pepper
- Smoked Paprica
- Cayenne Pepper
- Garlic Powder
Method
In a pestle and mortar, grind the rosemary into a coarse powder, then add the oregano and thyme (with another quick grind). Add the other ingredients and stir together.
Lightly oil the meat before adding the rub, and then leave it for an hour or so before cooking.
That's kinda it. Go wild.
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All is not lost. But really, it is.
MEME OF THE MOMENT ALERT! BLOGOSPHERE MELTS!
Yep, hang on to your trousers, because viral masters OK GO are back with another ONLINE VIRAL SENSATION. In a move bolder than bold itself, the one trick ponies have teamed up with INTERNET OVEREVILZ Google to make a "snazzy" HTML5 "fingy" that only works in Chrome.
Yes, Chrome.
Chrome-y Chrome-y Chrome Chrome Chrome.
Chrome.
It reminds me of days past, like 1995, when stuff would launch and only work in Netscape. Or Compuserve. Or on a CD-ROM. That's right OKGO fans, your favourite band are the modern musical equivalent of a CD-ROM.
Waste some time this morning by visiting and putting in naughty swearwords like FUCK or BOLLOCKS, or MY DADS BALLS. Or stuff like that. AND HERE IT IS -> http://www.allisnotlo.st/
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My Dad is going to #sascon. Be nice to him.
This is my Dad. He's a lovely chap from Dudley who, very recently, as a rather special 60th Birthday president from David Cameron, was made redundant from his role as Marketing Manager for Corporate Property at Dudley Council. After 34 years, he's being cast into the wilds of normality, and is now faced with having to find something to do with his time. So, in a great display of pluck, he's decided to come to Manchester and attend SASCON tomorrow where he's hoping to learn a little more about the whole search and social media lark. He's a bit interested see. So, if you see him, say hello, and feel free to impart any wisdom you have that can help.
Oh yeah, his name is Bill, and you'll find him on twitter as @_billgrant.
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#gettwittertoMCR - Why we're all too late
1) We're too late
Let's face it people, we're just too bloody late to be campaigning to get Twitter to Manchester. Yes, Manchester has great connectivity, great facilities (like Media City) and a massive Twitter community, but it seems we've all been a little slow on the uptake. On the Twitter Jobs page, positions for the UK have been advertised for at least the last month, and all state that the roles are based in London. But even if this campaign started then, we'd still have been too late to make a claim.
2) The Prime Minister intervened
Much has been made of George Osborne's obsession with digital. As it happens, it's been reported that he was the main digital force during the Conservatives campaign. He did a tour of Silicon Valley and met with many CEOs and product managers, and was even spotted wearing a Mozilla tee on a cycling journey prior to election. Now, the Tory's digital campaign was actioned by others, but it was Osborne's desire to emulate President Obama's successful use of social media.
Since coming to power, the Tory's have made no secret about their mission to attract big business to UK shores. While David Cameron has professed to not knowing a bloody thing about Twitter, and not wanting to appear a "twat", he pursued Twitter in a way akin to a randy teenager chasing the class slag at a school disco. Last December, he invited Twitter to number 10 to personally appeal to establish their base in good ol' London Town. If anything, he was massively scared by Ireland, who's low taxation saw the arrival of Google UK and European Operations. He couldn't allow Twitter to slip through his fingers.
We could have we been better organised. We could have produced a great little web app, where we could all voice our support with a hashtag. We didn't though, mainly because we didn't know it was happening. We also need to pick our battles. Taking the government to task over their "hey Twitter, meet London" approach could result in us lacking the ability to lobby for other concerns in the digital ecosystem.
3) The wider problem
Manchester and the North West has one of the most vibrant digital and creative workforces in Europe. Yet, somehow, we sometimes get overlooked. The PM announced in November last year how the Shoreditch Roundabout (he read about it in Wired) would become the UKs Silicon Valley (I'm sure we've heard that before). The problem is that Manchester has the right infrastructure to support digital expansion. We've got high speed internet. We've got a digital community. We're seeing start ups and businesses build on this, but we need to position ourselves better on the world stage. Until we learn to stick up for ourselves, our best people will be sucked away, and we worry that we won't be attractive to big, successful corporations like Twitter. Unless we can find a way to promote our wares to a wider audience, our buoyant community could be facing a decline in skills, as we all know that the Beeb is starting to hoover up talent.
4) Sort it out Manchester Digital/NWVM/Creative England/Whoever-bloody-else
We need someone, anyone to make sure our interests as a region are protected. We work hard to make the NW an exciting place to do business, and we all know that we're working at the bleeding edge of technology. But we need more support, investment, and education to keep us ahead of the pack, or at the very least, in the line of sight. We then might not need a hashtag to persuade a business to come to us, because they will already know what a great environment we have for the best in the digital industry.
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