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I have spent the last 2 days trying to take a portrait taken between 1950 and 1970 and printed on "Kodak extra life" photo paper made to resemble a canvas painting. I took several photos of this portrait using a Canon 60D EOS. Unfortunately, the portrait looks like it was literally printed on flattened bubble wrap. The Gausian blur can't do enough to help. Even when combined with ALL of the noise filters AND the sharpen, unsharpen masks. Curves and levels, hues and saturations, radius, inverting, working the image in RAW... I have tried all available forms posted on the web and I have even tried a few other things just to see what would happen. Gimp with fft failed right along with other programs claiming to be able to do this task. I spent the entire night recoloring pixels in an attempt to get this portrait to lose the bubble wrap and not be so blurred you could go cross eyed looking at it. Unfortunately, when you zoom in on the pixels you can see what could be random brush marks in the "Kodak extra life" paper printed portrait. I am stumped with this one and the web does not have a lot of info regarding this type of image. There are more people seeking an answer to this question than there are answers. The portrait belongs to a friend whose mom died. As they were going through her things they found this photo of her when she was younger than they can recall her being. It is the only one they found. It is stained and color faded, no problem to fix that part of it... I just need someone who is not squeamish to sit down and nibble on this one with me. I am not sure it can be transmformed from "bubble wrap" but I will keep trying until something can change it. I have ADOBE Photoshop CS5 running on windows 7. Any help outside of what I have already done would be appreciated. Thank you for your time and consideration and have a GREAT weekend!
That textured paper does discourage copying.
Something that might help is take some more images... You're seeing the texture because the light is falling on the paper from primarily one direction and causing light and shadow in the texture.
Assuming you don't have access to a light box that would diffuse the light all around, here's a technique astronomers use to average out image quality issues called stacking that could be helpful:
1. Try to set up so the image is lit primarily from the front (i.e., avoid strong sideways light). Maybe take it outside and let the whole sky illuminate it while you stand over it.
2. Carefully take a photo of the print 4 times from the same spot, each time rotating the print itself 90 degrees. What you're trying to do here is to get enough data with the shadows falling in different directions so that you can cancel out the light/shadow, leaving only the image. Take care not to overexpose any part of it.
3. Open all images in Photoshop as layers. You can use the File - Scripts - Load Files Into Stack function to help with this.
4. Set the layers' Opacities as follows:
Layer 3 25%
Layer 2 33%
Layer 1 50%
Thank you Noel... I took those shots, opened them as layers and gave them the opacities 3 different times with no luck. The original photo was taken with what I believe to be a large flash from a professional photographer back in its day. The glare is coming off of the "bubble wrap and it's shadowed all around it. I am thinking about using that idea for a watermark in my photos, ha! Those photo types are headaches! Thank you for your help!
I'm sorry that didn't work... I've actually done it several times with good results but I probably don't have quite the texture you're dealing with. Can you crop a small part of the image and post it here?
I removed the woman from the background and placed her in a trasparent file. I am using the healing brush to "pop" the bubbles, much like popping bubble wrap. I cropped and saved in jpeg the top of her head to show you what the entire image is like. I hope to be able to clean it up after I "pop" the bubbles. Our friend has asked for a large print out of the image. I do photography and large format printing. I do photo restoration also and this one is the worst I have encountered even torn up photos where hands and ears are missing have been better, ha. Keeping hair and skin textures in this specific image is very challenging as there is nothing I can copy from. I am sharing a snippett of her shirt and pearls also showing my "popping" of the "bubbles"... If it made that bubble wrap popping sound I could put in on the web and get them all popped fast, hehehehe. Thank you! Oh yeah, The image clips are at 100%
Wow, that even looks as though the color is darker/deeper in between the raised areas. No wonder you couldn't eliminate the pattern!
It looks like the photo was printed on bubble wrap! I have an 8x10 copy I am working from and while the bubbles are smaller the glare from them makes them stand out. Our friend went to Wal-Mart and used their imagery there to make copies. He got a 5x7 and the gaussian blur used to tone it down makes the image blurry. The portrait cleaned up nicely though.... I even tried working with that copy but I can't clean up the blur well enough for a 16x20 or larger print. I don't know what the "popping" I am doing is going to do to the image but I am at a loss of what else to try. It seems as if those bubbles are the last things to go any other way. They are bugger no doubt! Thank you and if you know anyone who loves a good challenge send em my way ha!!!! Right now I am trying anything I can think. I have paint sho pro and I tried to see what I could do with it there as a jpeg... I will be popping bubbles for a few days, I believe... Cross your fingers I am able to work with it from there as those bubbles are under, in and above the image itself, they wil render the image blank and still be shining through it!
Hard to tell without seeing the full size original, but perhaps noise reduction is a better point of attack than blur.
Here's what you need to establish: What scale is the smallest useful detail in the image? If the smallest useful detail is, say, 4 pixels, then you can safely run noise reduction at 3 pixel radius to kill everything at a higher frequency than that.
From the samples it seems there is no image detail at the same scale as the "bubbles".
Hi D Fosse and thank you for replying and helping me figure this thing out... There is detail in her face. I did the noise reduction a number of ways and the result is about the same. I can reduce the glare of the bubbles some but it blurs the details in her face. The camera used to take her portrait used a strong flash that caused whiting in her face and different tones in her hair. The challenge for this one is too great for me to walk away from it... I tried getting the blurring worked out of the image after removing the bubbles and I can remove them using a 10 in G blur... I am unable to clarify it much after though. I even took her hair from the blurred result and placing it on her head in the bubbled version and the blurring is strong. I could live with it outside of her face... Where I feel the most detail should be... I am thinking if I pop the bubbles maybe then I can go in and rebuild the image but again I worry about her eyes and lips the most... I would be happy to email the image to you if you would like to see what I speak of... Let me know what size to email it to you in as I have it in a resolution of 240 if I remember correctly. I am self taught via youtube with photoshop and I am sure there are other techniques that could be used... I have spent some hours trying to find them with what I know and think could work... At the least it's been a great learning experience for me but one that seems to be too big for me to figure out without direction. Thank you!
One of the best ways to remove texture from an image is done using a fast fourier transfom plug-in, deleting the "texture points", then removing the FFT:
http://www.tipsquirrel.com/index.php/2010/04/use-fft-to-reduce-texture /
http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/photo-restoration/30496-fft-filter-ph otoshop-cs4.html with many links.
I tried the FFT via gimp and another program neat something or other, neither did much with it. Perhaps I did something wrong... I went through each RGB layer as described via a video and I could not get any stars as they call it when using FFT. Thank you for the links, PECourtejoie, and I am off to give them all a try!
PECourtejoie, I have been to two of the sites you posted. The problems with the two is retouch, like many other sites, tell you how to use FFT. You can buy the program for 79.00 or pay them to fix your "scanned" images for you. My image is not scanned, I don't scan too many images anymore. Taking a photo of an image allows you to repair them better and make larger prints of them. The one site I haven't seen does offer links to the program and the program is 7 years old... Which leads to another problem... It won't work in 64 bit and you have to compress your image to bytes from 16. I am not sure why Gimp didn't give me any "stars" but it gave me the split lines yet saw nothing else. It took me a while to get Gimp to see the plugin as you have to copy and paste it to a specific folder and I am not sure why it didn't work unless the 64 bit processing has something to do with it. I did drop it down to 8 bytes but nothing would give me the "stars". I have not seen a plugin for photoshop in 64 bit. I would love to see what FFT can do for this image I just haven't found it. I did try to play with the RGB's in photoshop similar to the way the plugin is said to work but I got few results since FFT is an algorithm that is likely why I failed, I am not exposed to indepth math such as this, I wish I was as I think I could do this via the math without the plugin. Thank you so much for your help! I am going to see what I can do with the 2005 plug in, cross your fingers I can make it work! I will let you know if it does!
The texture is maybe too big?
Too bad the texture is irregular, one could imagine fixing it with the negative pattern set to dodge or burn according to the areas if it was the case.
Hi everyone... I got the FFT to work in photoshop standard not 64 bit. It will not work in 64 bit as I did try. It also would not work in 16 bit/channel ONLY 8 bit/channel The final to FFT is it did not work BUT... I tried it 3 different times doing it 3 different ways. The first time brought no change to the image outside of the background and there it is was minimal, the background is white. The second time I tried it, I flattened the back ground copy to the new layer and I got a negative which showed very little bubbles. I wish I knew how to build from a negative but I do not... Maybe I will try to learn... The 3rd time I unlocked the background and placed the lock on the layer... The end result for the photo was no change aside from darkening... When I unlocked the background and locked the copy layer I got a transparent image with the outline of the subject in it and NO bubbles... It's as if I have an image from the back looking through a light source void of color or something and if I knew how to color it in with detail I think I would have it.... I am off to see what I can do about coloring it in... Any thoughts, ideas and suggestions about the 2 different results I got?
You are way ahead of me Noel.. this is an area I have not been in before... I am disappointed that the bubbles are still there but they could possibly be removed... See how the flash from when she had it made is dominant? Her forehead is white... I had hoped to tone it down with some smoothing if I can ever get to a workable point with it. Would you tell me how you turned the image into a solid? I have been trying to find out how via "playing". Thank you!!!!
I just did an Image - Adjust - Curves operation and moved the black point to the right, so that the resultant levels would range from black to white instead of light gray to white.
I think the jpeg format I posted the clipping under gives you more freedom than I have in PSD format.I can't get it to change from the grays to blacks. There are hidden layers and if I merge them it turns the image back to bubbles and color... Thank you!!!!
I am slowly and one section at a time breaking down those bubbles. I am playing with everything until I find something that has potential and I like.. I have figured out a way to manipulate G Blur to work for me in the face. I am stumped on the lips and teeth for now as G blur does not do them justice... I would like to know what you think of what I have done so far and I am open to suggestions... As for the FFT, I emailed someone who created neat image and sent them a snip of the photo. I asked them if they believed their program could help or any FFT program for that matter. The reply was no... It seems like I am going to have to work with blurs a lot and find the right sequence in removing the bubbles and getting a good result... The sharpen tool worked great for the eyes even after blurring the bubbles out of them... I have hit another brick wall as I experiment on what to do about the lips and teeth and if you have any suggestions and ideas please send them to me. Thank you all for your willingness to help!
I really don't want to discourage you, but so far she's looking quite heavily retouched, probably because that gaussian blur is overly smoothing her skin. I'd be worried that her hair is going to lose all definition.
You said you had taken the image with 4 different rotations... Is there a way you could post a crop of the same part - say one of her eyes or her mouth from each of the 4 different photos? I'd like to experiment with those.
No, this clearly isn't going to work.
But I misunderstood this (or didn't read carefully enough): you do have the original print to re-photograph. I thought the file was all you had.
So what you need to do is reshoot under diffused lighting, but coming mainly from the front. Normally, of course, I would never recommend frontal lighting, but this is indeed a special case. What I would try is to set up a screen of diffusing material with a small hole for the lens. If the screen is fairly large you should be able to eliminate direct glare. Glare is an obvious risk, but OTOH glare is exactly 50% of your problem now.
You need to experiment a bit, and maybe widen the hole around the lens. Don't worry about the work involved, you have a lot of work now...
If you have a polarizing filter you can try that to reduce glare from the bubble edges (it only works around 30° angle).
Congratulations on getting the face looking as good as it does. As Noel has already said, it does look heavily retouched and blurry and I'm curious to see if he is able to get better results using the different photo rotations. If all else fails, have you thought of experimenting with a painterly look? Many people retouch their photos to look like oil paintings, especially for the purpose of printing them at large scale and hanging them on the wall. In that case details are blurred anyway. Just a thought...
Thank you Noel... Not discouraged in the least... I am impressed! It took that much blur to remove the bubbles and then I had to go back and smudge the brighter edges of the bubbles out of her face. I am impressed with the fact that after so much blurring and some smudging that her face looks that good! I forget that it's hard to realize the depth of the flash in that portrait. Then to be printed on something much like bubble paper... It's an accomplishment to salvage what I have so far. It's a challenge to salvage it all. Her hair would also look like porcelain which is why I left it alone and seek some other method. Just as her lips and teeth need as well as the dress and pearls she wears. I think I will leave the pearls bubbled as it may help them to look like pearls if left alone, ha! Here are the 8 snips of the four sides I shot after you advised me to do so. It was taken outside and the sun did not touch any of the shots neither did a flash. You can see the depth comes from the portrait itself. The texture is deep and I wish I had something to do with it as that would mean it could be undone without inventing ways to do so. I have also posted the two shots I was working with previously. I am interested to know as many options for addressing this type of problem in the futire... Although I likely wouldn't be doing this now if not for it's personal value to a friend.
The first 2 were not taken in the group you requested I take.
DFosse, I had the original over the weekend. It went back to the owner today. I was nervous having it as it's the only picture he has of his mom at a young age. I took some shots of as Noel advised but I didn't use a box or anything. I took it outside and let myself shade it, it was challenging to do and hold the camera still too, ha! I am considering giving it brush strokes and making it look like a painting. I believe that was the intention back in 1950 or 1960 something when it was printed on this paper. I have never seen anything like it. The textured papers I always see looked rather gauzy to me.... Anyway the glare is not coming from my photography, it is all in the original! Those bright spots of the bubbles are pink in most places then the grooves are dark... The centers of the bubbles contain splotches giving it some sort of 3D look.
Thank you acresofgreen... I don't hold out a lot of hope for this image, it's either going to be too smooth or too bubbly as there isn't a happy medium, I don't think,,, What woman does NOT want to have porcelain skin? I don't know of any who would pass up the opportunity, hehehehe...I am also a stickler for calibration as it is my job to sell large format prints and having them looking their best is my obsession.... I removed the bubbles from her face in sections.... For her hair I am working on smearing the bubbles and then adding strokes to it hoping it woill come out in some form of decent when the bubbles are removed.... At least I know how an image would look printed on bubble wrap! I think I need it for my watermark!!!!! This is the best potential for a watermark that I have ever seen!
All right...I'd love to get my hands on the original print, this could be an interesting lighting challenge. But I believe it could be done. And even though the lighting setup would have to be elaborate, it would still be less work than doing it in Photoshop.
LOL, D Fosse you like a good challenge too! I am not experienced with photos such as this one.I wish there was a away we could shift pixels around instead of destroy them. The lights and darks make up the bubbles. I am working on her hair and trying to remove the bubbles via changing the shades of the pixels. If I could write a program I would write one allowing the shift of every other number of pixels to offset the glare and shadows while leaving enough alone to keep it looking like hair. It's taken too many hours to do in photoshop and it's all experimental but in the end I will have to give our friend something. I know he will cherish it regardless... Me my reputation is built by what hangs on people's walls at home, work and businesses... I will be stringent about this one especially. I take photos of nature or people in natural settings and I print them in large format. I have restored photos for a long time but have never seen anything like this... Give me half a picture anyday as not having pixels to work with is good, especially after this and it's many pixels!
What I don't get, even though you rotated the image, is why the most illumination comes from the same side of the bubbles. the goal of the rotation is to make different areas of the bubbles illuminated, so that they could even out each other, right?
I am wondering if this is not why we need a frequencies plug-in in Photoshop, like the old KPT one.
PECourtejoie.... I do not understand what you are saying. I placed the original photo on the bistro we have on the porch. I took the photos in the morning and used myself to shade it from the sun. I took two shots from each angle... One pointed North, so to speak, one pointed south, one pointed East and one pointed West. I see illumination everywhere except for a spot in her hair and for some reason in the original photo that spot wasn't enhanced by the bubbles as the rest of the photo was... I will post one of the entire image.... Maybe it will help?
This is a copy of the original...
This is the one I am working on. I placed her in a transparent background and desaturated the image, then began working on the bubbles leaving clean up for last...
So you did not rotate the photo, but only the point of view of the camera?
If you look at the bubbles, they are all brighter in the top spot...
I thought that the multi-scanning / multi-capture process' goal is to change the angle of the light source (even if it is a diffuse one) on the photo.
But did you just change camera position, or did you rotate the print? I think PEC put the finger on it. Now that I look closer the light does indeed seem to come from the same direction in all of the shots. That defeats the whole purpose.
If you have four exposures, lit from N, E, S and W, it should be possible to stack them and cancel out the texture. I assumed that this was a four-directional light composite, and with the texture still visible I assumed it was very deep. But maybe not after all.
Either way, you have to reshoot. Then stack them and use either Darken or Lighten blend modes for the top three layers, and combine that with "Blend If" to target a specific tonal range per layer.
Edit: cross-post. - BTW, maybe a simple transparency distribution from bottom to top is enough.
PECourtejoie wrote:
What I don't get, even though you rotated the image, is why the most illumination comes from the same side of the bubbles. the goal of the rotation is to make different areas of the bubbles illuminated, so that they could even out each other, right?
Sorry, I had to sleep for a while.
As the others have said, the issue with the multiple shots is that you want the light coming onto the print from a different angle. If you did, indeed, rotate the print for each shot as compared to the direction the light is coming from, then I wonder if maybe the print is worn or dusty so that the little "bubbles" are all lighter on the top edges, instead of the issue being uneven illumination.
But thanks for posting the images. I'll experiment a bit with them, as I'm sure the others are already doing. I'm thinking maybe somehow a High Pass filter can be used, then the result subtracted from the image...
LOL Noel, I had the same dilemma, needed sleep... Then woke with a thumping headache. It's finally toning down. I took the photo and placed it on the table on the porch. The wind was blowing and the photo has a mild curl to it on the edges. I placed a pen, a lens cover, a lighter and some chap stick on each corner. I took a shot of the photo then rotated it and placed the things back on it to hold it down took the photo, rotated and did the same thing 2 more times.... What I didn't do is rotate myself. I stayed in the same spot to keep the sun off of the photo.
Here are 4 images that were rotated. I took them from the raw and they are unchanged aside from saving them for posting here according to format for this forum... Maybe this will help more... I don't know... It couldn't hurt anyway... As you can see from the placement of the items on the photo. I did rotate the image in 4 different directions... I can see differences in the shadows and lighting. I was asked to take the image outside to rotate the image 4 different ways and to shade the image from the sun with my body... I thought I was doing it right. It was hard to take these photos and shade it with my body and there are some photos where my "weights" didn't cooperate in the wind and I used my finger to hold it down in a spot make it even more difficult to photograph, hold and shade. I did this 3 times... I kept 2 of the rotations because in the first set the first 2 shots blurred... People don't all do things the way a specific person would. We can find fault with anything and everything... Please give me some credit for effort while I get chewd up for not doing it "right".
Using the single image you posted above in the small size, I was able to isolate the pattern pretty well and compensate for it. I feel as though it could be done a lot better if starting with a higher resolution image.
I used the High Pass filter and creatively combined the results back into the image, along with some banding noise reduction tools I've developed.
If you'd like, you can send me your original out-of-camera files for several of the porch shots. I'll combine them to eliminate the lighting differences and go through the pattern isolation process again.
WOW!!!! That's impressive! Especially in the time it took you! I am almost a week into this and have learned lots but nothing to do what you did!!! I am green with envy ... I tried to email you but I do not understand what the program is asking me for in regard to a link to a website to get the images... This is my first time ever asking for help with a photo and I am clueless to the programs to aid in getting help. The image sizes when transferred to smart object from RAW are: width 3456 pixels, height 5184 pixels, width 14.4 inches, height 21.6 inches and 240 resolution in pixels and inches... I am thinking that image needs to be transferred to the web somehow and then linked to you... I am clueless as to how to do this... Thank you for the hope I am smiling big!!!!
You can use a service called YouSendIt.com, I think, to send large files. It used to be free; don't pay if it is not free any longer, I'm sure there are other sites.
I got it for free as long as i send one file at a time... I am sending the RAW files and they are going to your website email... Thank you!!!! I like playing with and printing Hubble image photos... I am looking at some of your software for such images... Pretty cool!


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In October, Ken Atchison will introduce Naples and the U.S. to Pikolinos shoes, a unisex line of emerging eco-friendly footwear based mainly overseas.
The first store in the U.S. is expected to open Oct. 1 in The Mercato shops in North Naples.
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Pikolinos promotes itself as a business that aims for design, quality and originality. They boast "comfort fashion," rather than high fashion.
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"They give you another option other then the regular flip-flop," Caserta said. "They are comfortable and practical, and I think the price point is something that is approachable."
The shoes typically cost between $150 and $170, Atchison said. The shop in Mercato will carry more than 250 styles.
Pikolinos are sold in more than 60 counties. America is the next big focus. The company has already begun brainstorming other U.S. locations.
Shoppers can find select Pikolinos in Natural Comfort Footwear in Mercato. They are also available at Nordstrom department stores.
"It is part of our thought process for sure," Palazzo said. "Our product sells very well there."
Atchison was one of the first American accounts with Pikolinos. He has been suggesting the brand expand to the states for years.
"Our strategy is not to open our own stores," Palazzo said. Atchison pitched the idea of opening a one-brand store in Naples to Palazzo, who was convinced it was a good idea as soon as he saw Mercato.
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Atchison has been managing stores in Southwest Florida for 10 years. He owns several shops in Mercato and 5 Ave, including Sperry Top-Sider and Natural Comfort.
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Crispy Fried Brussels Sprouts with Honey and Sriracha
Author Notes: My husband and I love to go to The Vanderbilt in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn, on a weeknight, sit at the bar, which faces the open kitchen, and order a bunch of appetizers and nibbles. Nibbles are a Vanderbilt specialty. There's great homemade beef jerky and pickles, and blistered shishito peppers with dipping salt, but the undisputed star -- which we order every time we go -- is the fried Brussels sprouts. The sprouts arrive in a towering pile; the leaves are pulled apart and fried, with the sweet hearts tossed into the oil and cooked just to the point of tenderness. The crisp shards are then painted with a mix of sriracha, honey and lime juice, making the sprouts tangy, hot and sweet all at once. In an attempt to replicate these at home, I painstakingly peeled a pound of sprouts and got frying. Happily, I discovered that if you're willing to deal with a little hot oil, you can do a pretty good job of replicating these guys at home. I hope you enjoy them as much as we did! - Merrill Stubbs
Serves 2 to 4
- 1 pound Brussels sprouts
- 1 tablespoon sriracha (or to taste)
- 3 tablespoons honey
- Juice of 1 large lime
- Salt
- Vegetable oil for frying
- Trim the stem end of the sprouts and gently separate the leaves with your fingers, collecting them in a large bowl. When you reach the heart of the sprout (where it's tough to pry off the remaining leaves), add the heart to the bowl with the leaves.
- In a small bowl, whisk together the sriracha, honey and lime juice. Taste and add more sriracha or honey if you like. Set aside.
- Set about 2 inches of oil in a large, heavy pot over medium heat. Heat until a Brussels sprout leaf begins to sizzle and crisp as soon as you add it to the oil. Fry the sprouts in batches, using a screen to protect you from sputtering oil and keeping your face away from the pot as the sprouts cook. Remove the sprouts with a slotted spoon after 30 seconds to a minute, when crisp and brown. Drain them on a double layer of paper towels while you fry the rest of the sprouts.
- Once all the sprouts are fried, transfer them to a large bowl and sprinkle them generously with salt. Toss gently to combine. Working quickly, drizzle some of the sauce over the sprouts and toss again to coat lightly. Taste, add more sauce if necessary, and serve immediately, before they wilt!
- This recipe is a Community Pick!
Comments (43) Questions (2)
2 months ago Sirid
This is the first recipe I've ever tried that actually has me eating brussels sprouts for dinner and nothing else. Just a big bowl of crispy, salty-spicy-sweet brussels sprouts. MMMMMMMmmmmmmmm....
4 months ago bamavb2014
These were so good! I did think the sauce was a little too sweet. I would add more sriracha than the recipe calls for next time. Still amazing, though.
5 months ago diego
Coated in Olive Oil, cooked the hearts first in the broiler until crisp and tender, put in the warming drawer, then proceeded with the leaves. Much healthier. But I'll give you thumbs up on the sauce!
6 months ago Ashley Marie
Made these last night with some sweet pepper-encrusted cedar plank grilled salmon. They were exceptionally easy, especially considering my lack of experience with frying in oil deeper than 1/8th" (I usually just pan-fry anything). The sauce was a little hotter than we expected so instead of tossing them in it, we served it on the side for dipping - my boyfriend was in heaven with the sauce, I quite liked them just salted! Thank you so much for helping me switch up a rather mundane green!
7 months ago hb
Made this last night and it was a hit! I add thinly sliced carrots to the mix. Mos Def a new go to side. THANKS!
9 months ago Marsha Blair
Where do you find siracha?
8 months ago tt
Chinese stores TNT or other
9 months ago Dimply Dots
Where have you been all my life? This was so good, so easy (except all that peeling) and so satisfying its practically criminal. Wouldn't change a thing. Thanks so much for posting.
11 months ago Georgie
what is sriracha?
6 months ago Ashley Marie
Hot sauce!
about 2 years ago Onthecountof23
I've made this a number of times since I discovered it and I love the simplicity of it. Makes great lunch too!
about 2 years ago headdenw
That was delicious.
over 2 years ago Laurenzim
I took just sauteed in olive oil and it was incredible!! Thanks for the great recipe!!
over 2 years ago FoodandWineSnob
My husband and I are a fan of the brussel sprouts at the Vanderbilt and he's been bugging me to try to figure out how to make it. Well I stumbled upon this recipe and made it on the fly about 30 minutes ago. I have to say they were spot on! I didn't have a lime so I used a little fresh lemon juice. I also fried four strips of maple bacon and used some of the leftover oil from that to fry the sprouts. Oh and I dry roasted some sesame seeds to add in at the end. Super yummy! Now we don't have to spend every other weekend at the Vanderbilt :-).
over 2 years ago @SunnyApples
This was a fantastic dish! I love a sweet and spicy pairing, especially on a food that is traditionally very bitter. This bitter taste generally comes from glucosinolate sinigrin, which has a sulphurous odour. When in doubt - over cook em'!
almost 3 years ago loubaby
These were absolutely delicious...I only did 1 pound...ran out the next night and made another....so so good...my husband said they are the best Brussels sprouts he has ever had...thanks so much.
almost 3 years ago Thartge
I have no patience for frying, so I roast mine. Probably not as tasty (cause, really, nothing beats frying in fat), but super-good. And, since we ran out of honey, I've been using brown sugar instead -- adds a nice carmel note, though you have to stir the sauce like the dickens.
almost 3 years ago Renee & Ari's Kitchen Conundrum
We finally got around to making these tonight. We ate them so fast! YUM!
The sauce is delicious! Tangy and sweet with a bit of a kick. Perfect compliment to the slight bitterness of the sprout. Peeling the leaves were a pain, and really the hearts were the best part so definitely quartering may be better. Have to say, that even with the splatter screen there was a ton of oil everywhere! Will use the dutch oven next time for certain. Thank you for sharing such a tasty treat!
about 3 years ago EmilyC
I've had the fried leaves a few times, but never with honey and sriracha. This sounds so good -- thanks for sharing. Even though I don't own it and never will, I saw a recipe for fried brussels sprouts a few weeks ago from the new Modernist Cuisine cookbook. You peel off some of the outer leaves and blanch them, so they're bright green. Then you fry the whole sprout, and sprinkle the green leaves over them. Seems like you could combine the two recipes -- theirs for looks / different presentation, yours for taste! http://modernistcuisine...
about 3 years ago micook
Ok, these were delicious, but what a mess the kitchen was afterwards! Granted, I didn't have a screen to put over them, but I'm not sure it would have helped much because it's when they hit the grease that the splattering really takes off. Maybe a deeper pot rather than a frying pan?
about 3 years ago cheese1227
Totally agree with both your points. I made them again last night and only put about 2-inches of oil in my Dutch oven and had the lid at the ready to loosely place it over the bubbling oil right after I dropped each batch of sprout leaves into it. I lifted the cover after the initial popping stopped. Worked like a charm and it was easier to clean the lid than the entire stove top and the floor in front of it and the counters to the side of it....
about 3 years ago
Merrill Stubbs
Merrill is a co-founder of Food52.
Sorry you guys had trouble. Cheese1227, your method is actually exactly what I said to do in the recipe: "Set about 2 inches of oil in a large, heavy pot." You don't want to use a frying pan, or a lot of oil, or you will definitely have a big mess! And a splatter screen is a good idea.
about 3 years ago trefoil
Can't wait to try these. I've had something very similar at Nombe, a Japanese bar food restaurant in the Mission in San Francisco. Not with the leaves pulled apart but deep fried with a very similar sauce.
about 3 years ago lexilarkin
Wow these are so good! The sauce was simple and a perfect mix of sweet, spicy, and sour. My boyfriend and I really enjoyed these, thank you so much for sharing this recipe.


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So what gives? You do. You give till it hurts and almost nobody will publish the story.
Maybe this will help: Charlie Sheen went nuts because he sniffed overpriced gas. Somebody call FOX News.
Only six major categories are worthy of mass media attention: Sex, drugs, rock 'n' roll, murder, mayhem and rape.
Incensed over high prices while topping off his tank, Charlie Sheen ripped the top off a gas station attendant.
Unfortunately, it was a hairy guy named Bill. Damn.
Better luck next time.
The point is that gasoline price fixing is both boring and expensive. Four-dollar gas, combined with local, state and federal government budget cuts, will send us into the second half of Great Depression, Part Deux — no matter what Duke Boehner of Orange says to the contrary.
There is no chance that Congressional Demolitioncrats will have the courage to push for trustbusting like Teddy Roosevelt a century ago.
Indeed, the breakup of Standard Oil accomplished by TR and the Progressive Era has now largely been reversed and John D. Rockefeller's monster is back at full strength.
A long forgotten commentator came up with the best analogy during the Arab oil embargo of 1973: The oil companies are like the title characters in French novelist Alexander Dumas' "The Corsican Brothers," who could read each other's minds without saying a word.
Until the U.S. Justice Department or some ambitious state attorney general decides to screw with the oil companies, we remain screwed, condemned to pay permanently inflated prices by what in effect is a domestic cartel. They fix prices at whatever level they want and we are allowed to pay it if we can. Any politician who says otherwise does so at career peril.
The fight is fixed and American consumers roll over and play dead. We have become so conditioned to making choices where no real choice exists that we say it's hopeless and give up.
Ole John D. Rockefeller could not have engineered it better.
The winner is NV Energy boss Michael Yackira, who announced in 2008 that he was voluntarily freezing his pay but somehow still took home about $1.6 million extra over the past two years.
Meanwhile back on Planet Earth, the Nevada Public Utilities Commission sided with IBEW Local 1245 and ordered a full investigation into NVE's allegedly dangerous levels of understaffing — which is apparently evident everywhere but at the top.
César Chávez Day IX happens Thursday, March 31, at Circus Circus-Reno. Dinner is at 7 p.m. See CesarChavezNevada.com for details.
I invited Gov. Sandoval several weeks ago, but he has not responded.
Hope springs eternal.
Be well. Raise hell.
Andrew Barbano is a 42-year Nevadan, chair of the Nevada César Chávez Committee and editor of NevadaLabor.com. E-mail firstname.lastname@example.com. Barbwire by Barbano has originated in the Daily Sparks Tribune since 1988.


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Bountiful — As of Tuesday 23 October my cycle of life on this earth is now complete. Cancer scored some goals, but I won the shoot-out. I was named Richard Milton Cook (although I have never been fond of the Milton part. I don't know why my folks chose to name me that, except they wanted me to have the initials RMC, like my dad.) My father is Reginald M. Cook and my mother is Annis Barlow. I was born October 10, 1933 in Burley, ID.
My younger years were spent in South Davis County and Vernal, UT. Great memories of those days, playing with my cousins and working shoulder to shoulder with my uncles, who were great examples of hard work and honesty. I really liked going to school and have great memories of Stoker Elementary and Bountiful Jr. High.
We moved to San Francisco, CA at the start of my teenage years. I was blessed with great friends and we all grew up with great respect for our church, our country and our educations.
While serving in the US Army I discovered my great love of teaching, when I had the opportunity to be the Training Instructor for our unit. (The subject matter wasn't especially to my liking, but I faithfully taught from the manual).
I served in the Eastern States Mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. At the time I thought it was the hardest mission in the church. My buddies were reaping all over the world and I was sowing, daily sowing. By the end, I did have some baptisms and one very faithful convert to the gospel of Jesus Christ, myself.
I earned my wife and my higher education at BYU. I have a BE in Economics and a Master's Degree in Education. They have both served me well throughout my life. I worked for the Southern Pacific Railroad in order to pay for my education. I taught in the Church Education System and the Davis County Public Schools in order to support and raise my family. I think of Viewmont High School as my home away from home. The faculty, staff and the students I served were an extension of my family. Whether in the halls or on the soccer field, I was rewarded each day by students who were eager to learn and who were devoted and ambitious to living their lives with Viking Pride. I loved every day and don't remember ever feeling that I must go to work. I am a lucky man.
I married Karon Cunningham on May 29, 1962 in the Salt Lake Temple. I was late to our wedding, but she waited for me anyway. We met at BYU. I will always be grateful that she was willing to listen to my friends and give me a chance. We now have seven wonderful children and 22 grandchildren. I love them so much. They give me great joy. We moved to Bountiful on the 4th of July 1969. Bountiful is our home. We built our house on land first deeded to Israel Barlow, my great grandfather.
I am a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the Bountiful Ninth Ward is our ward family.
I have had many opportunities to serve and teach. Some of those opportunities took more time than others, but each has been rewarding and I was changed by each experience. Karon and I especially enjoyed the callings where we served together, like the Bountiful Temple and Legacy House.
I haven't done a lot of community service, unless you are willing to count two rounds of Handcart Days and supporting Karon and the Cub Scouts. I never was big on hobbies, hunting or travel. I am really a homebody. Most of my time was spent with my family, my Church, my friends and my Viewmont Vikings.
I have played every quarter and a few add on minutes, without a substitute. My old earth suit is all worn out, but I am just fine.
I was preceded in death by my mother, Annis Barlow Cook Gordon and my father, Reginald M Cook. I am survived by my wife, Karon Cunningham Cook, my children JuliAnn Cook, Michael (Tina) Cook, Sharilyn (Rick) Linn, John (Natalie) Cook, Carolee Cook, Melinda (Tyler) Jones, and Shalisa (Adam) Bingham. My legacy also includes 22 grandchildren and three great grandchildren.
I am grateful to all our loving friends, wonderful neighbors and incredible staff at the Jon M. Huntsman Cancer center.
Funeral services will be held at 12 noon, Monday, October 29, 2012 at the Bountiful 9th Ward, 585 East Center Street. A viewing will be held Sunday evening from 6 to 8 p.m. at Russon Brothers Bountiful Mortuary, 295 North Main and Monday morning 10:45 to 11:45 a.m. at the church prior to services. Interment-Bountiful City Cemetery. Online guest book at www.russonmortuary.com.


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The social media giant CEO recently posted on Facebook that "the talented team at Instagram will be joining Facebook". This after a deal from Instagram and Facebook has been reached to the tune of around one billion dollars ($1Billion) worth in cash and stocks. According to SEO companies and SEO consultants and social media managers that this move by Facebook is to maintain its dominance over the social media especially in the line of photo sharing among social media users, it is known that more than two hundred fifty million photographs are being uploaded by users via Facebook.
What is Instagram?
Instagram is a two year old company that is focused on providing photo-sharing services for its users. It is a diverse Photo sharing application that allows users to share Photos via different social media networks, although instagram is popularly used by many as a way of sharing photos via Facebook. Instagram was initially a mobile application for the iOS or Apple products but has later on provided availability of its Android version.
Instagram's worth
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[quote user="paul_pipkin"][:)] Anyone comes across the download of the Dubai final, I'd like to get it and keep this one. [H][/quote]
try this one, it's from the fans of elenaD from the wtaworld: http://www.wtaworld.com/...ead.php?t=182250&page=21
Elena D's calendar:
March 26 - April 05Sony-Ericsson Open - MiamiApril 14-20Family Circle Cup - CharlestonMay 05-11Qatar Telecom German Open - BerlinMay 12-18Internazionali BNL d'Italia - RomeMay 25 - June 08Roland Garros - Paris
from: http://eng.dementieva.ru/# [H]
Elena, the tenth seed at the Sony Ericsson Open in Miami, Florida, faces Kateryna Bondarenko in the second round--probably to be played on Saturday. [^o)] Well, she handily dismissed sister Alona in Dubai. Hope I can catch a stream. [H]
Should Dementieva win her second round, Francesca Schiavone, Yan Zi, or Dominika Cibulkova loom in the third round. She is 4-4 against the wily Italian and has never played against either Zi or Cibulkova.
The top ten seed she drew, Anna Chakvetadze, could meet her in the fourth round, if Tamira Paszek doesn't have anything to say about that. She leads Chakvetadze 2-1, but lost their most recent encounter in the '06 Moscow semifinals 75 36 60.
Key Biscayne, Florida (March 26): Elena Dementieva posed for photos with Willis McGahee of the Baltimore Ravens of the US National Football League after a friendly game of tennis.
[quote user="grammarfish"]Dementieva's got a decent chance in miami. i mean the way she booted ivanovic and kuznetsova at dubai was impressive.[/quote]
So Elena bageled Dominika in the first set in about 15 minutes and was on her way in the second when the damned rain interfered [st] Though they didn't stop playing for long, I think it threw Elena off. Then we got the double faults and all that and the next two sets (she dropped the second in a tiebreak) was one of those long, tedious battles over two hours. 60 67 64.
Hot, muggy, slow and tedious seemed the rule there today--which is Florida as I know it, plus it stinks of swamp & dead fish. [:P] As late as things have dragged on, I don't know if Chaki will get to play tonight or not.
Chaki is playing. She won't get off the court until after midnight Florida time.
Well, pfffff! Chaki lost. [:(] Crappy weather, endless delays--just a bad day all around. While most of the Russian girls got through, I think they all had difficulties. Anyway, Elena will then play Sabine Lisicki of Germany.
And dismissed Sabine forthwith: 63 62 with only four double faults--and that with some fairly problematic wind.[H] However, only 49% first serve percentage--need to bring that up to confront JJ. So now, thanks to the screwed-up system down there (which we're supposed to just accept) unless they figure they've gotta cover JJ 'cause their pet Serb lost, Elena is through to the quarters without being seen on TV one damned time! [:@] That's just wrong. Hey, FSN, ATP, y'all "masters" this! lol
Good luck also to Vera Z tonight, after which half the quarterfinalists would be Russian, yah, yah, yah.
Wish Elena good luck against Jankovic, feel so sorry that I could not see her,
Eurosport didn't show her .
I'm afraid they will show the Williamses.
i hope Elena will win vs JJ (actualy i hope she will win the tournament ;) ), i want to see this match.
c'mone Elena[:)]!
Good news, yall! Also posted on "Live Streams".
Stadium: 11:00 AM Start (Eastern time US) 1. Women's Doubles: Quarterfinals Lindsay Davenport (USA)Daniela Hantuchova (SVK) WC vs. Katarina Srebotnik (SLO)Ai Sugiyama (JPN) [2] Not Before 1:00 PM (Eastern time US) 2. Women's Singles: Quarterfinals Elena Dementieva (RUS) [10] vs. Jelena Jankovic (SRB) [4]
This is the time slot for FSN's LIVE daytime broadcast in the States. It is also 17:00 GMT and will be cast LIVE on Eurosport 2 . (Also on Eurosport Asia-Pacific.)
Stadium: 7:00 PM Start (Eastern time US) 1. Women's Singles: Quarterfinals Vera Zvonareva (RUS) [19] vs. Dinara Safina (RUS) [13]
This is the time slot for FSN's evening broadcast in the States. It will be replayed by regular Eurosport on Thursday in either the 10:00 GMT or more likely the 16:15 GMT time slot. (The 10:00 GMT slot will likely replay Elena's match.)


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I just purchased the 1/4" wrench for my RB-250 an it is spot on. It is a wrench which is impossible to source in Australia. Maybe Gibson don't consider we buy enough Master Banjos. Well done guys. Works heaps better than my home made job
This item does NOT fit ALL Gibsons. Watch out and measure twice.
I bought the 5/16" wrench for my 1993 Nighthawk Special - Vintage Sunburst (2 pickup model). It does not fit. To be fair, nothing else I tried fit either. I didn't want to spend big money for an original Gibson wrench as there was no guarantee that it would work so I just modified this one (see picture). You can read about the details at the Gibson forum. Otherwise, I do love StewMac products and their stellar customer service.
Good solution Zuma. We also enjoyed your detailed modifications of the wrench on the Gibson Forum, thanks for sharing!
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Fifteen commissioned works will premiere at Dance Umbrella 2012: Uncles and Angels, by Nelisiwe Xaba, in collaboration with Mocke J van Veuren and the Goodman Space at Arts on Main, looks at the annual Reed Dance and its impact on young women; Exit/Exist, a new work by Gregory Vuyani Maqoma, deals with his forefather, Maqoma, a chief of the Xhosa nation; Qaphela Caesar! by Jay Pather is a mixed media work based on Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and its relationship with postcolonial history. Mdu Mtshali, who attended the Crossings workshop in August 2011, will present a work called Imbokodo which looks at community life and jow Aids has affected it; Mari-Louise Basson has created a work called uncle stans jane and john doe, a work that studies child sexual abuse; Gates of Hell by Fana Tshabalala is the third work on this triple bill.
Alfred Hinkel, ex-JAZZART Dance Theatre artistic director, will present a work called dansmetdieduiwels, a story about Emmanuel Bugen, a young man who loved teaching young children, but was misunderstood.
Robyn Orlin will present her internationally renowned work, daddy, ive seen this piece six times before and I still don't know why they are hurting each other. This work premiered at the FNB Dance Umbrella 1998 and subsequently toured internationally to great acclaim. Its return to South Africa has been long awaited.
One Night Stand by PJ Sabbagha is a multi-media dance theatre piece reflecting on sex, pleasure and how it invades our lives; Athena Mazarakis, collaborating with German choreographer Hansel Nezza, presents Inter-Fear, an investigation of fear as a common human preoccupation. Mark Hawkins continues working with Moving into Dance Mophatong with a work called Dirty Laundry and Desire Davids reflects on her mixed race with, Who is This… Beneath my Skin.
Ex-PACT Dance Company dancer Melody Putu will be back home with a work called Faith, which he has created in Sweden with the Young Fuse Company. Moya Michael who now lives in Brussels, will present Out of this Body... For a Little While, which is a deconstruction of her identity and the bigger world with which she has to work. Michael is in South Africa with assistance from the Embassy of Belgium, delegation of the Flemish Government. Dada Masilo will create a new work called Death and the Maidens which is sure to be one of the highlights at Dance Umbrella 2012. The last commissioned work is Opera for Fools choreographed by Vincent Mantsoe, which looks at life in the townships during the 1970s and 1980s.
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