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Purple Yam Fudge (Halayang Ube)
There are, I think, close to a dozen arguments on how to make the best Halayang Ube throughout this country. But all I wish to divulge is how I make mine.
- You have to buy the best looking purple yams with the most intense purple colour, which can range from bright lavender to Barney purple to really deep dark purple (almost verging into blackish in colour).
- You can either boil or bake the purple yams, skin still on (this way none of the gorgeous purple colour bleeds out of the root vegetable) until very tender. Finely grate the yams using a fine grater, or for your modern-day convenience, use a food processor- cut the boiled (or baked) and peeled yams into medium dices. Fill the food processor tub half full (for each batch) with the yams and blitz/puree.
- The amount of milk (both condensed milk and evaporated milk) is as much as important as the amount of purple yam is. The creaminess and richness of the milk should compliment and enhance the starchy quality of the purple root veg.
- Use a large non-stick (teflon coated) pan to cook the mixture. I do recommend using a big and sturdy silicone (very heat resistant) spatula to stir the mixture, and also by using a silicone spatula instead of a wooden spoon, you can conveniently scrape all the sticky mixture away from the base of the pan preventing scorching or burnt bottom.
- And finally, patience is really the key element in making this decadent confection. For the amount of purple yam fudge mixture in this recipe, you have to cook and constantly stir it for 3-3 1/2 hours on a stove top over medium heat or until the fudge when stirred, can be lifted off the pan like a dense dough. The best characteristic of a very good Halayang Ube is that is it chewy and dense and rich and toothsome.
2 kilos finely grated purple yams, prepared*
*(boiled or baked with skin still on until fork tender, then peeled and finely grated or blitzed in a food processor)
4 cans condensed milk
2 cans evaporated milk
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
1/2 cup melted butter + 2 Tablespoon softened butter (to lightly coat the moulds the purple yam fudge will be poured to be moulded and set)
1 teaspoon salt
Prepare moulds- coat the base and sides of dish moulds with softened butter.
- In a large non-stick pan or even teflon coated wok (much suggested and preferred) , combine all ingredients and thoroughly mix until homogenised.
- Place pan over medium heat. From this point, you only have to stand in front of the stove and your pan of purple yam mixture for the next 3- 3 1/2 hours- constantly stirring, making sure the bottom of the mixture doesn't get scorched and burnt.
- After working the hours stirring the fudge, it becomes chewy and much like a very heavy and dense dough, and you can see that the mixture easily lifts itself off the pan. At this stage, turn off heat.
- Divide purple yam fudge into prepared moulds/dish. Smoothen the surface of the fudge with an offset or regular spatula lightly coated with softened butter (this will make the surface shiny). Cool completely and let it set.
- Slice according to preference.
Makes about 3 kilos
Maple and Almond Nut Tarts
Sweet Dough (tart shell)
2 1/3 cups unsifted all-purpose flour (*spooned gently into measuring cup, do not tap or shake cup when measuring)
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup (1 stick) butter, cold and cut into cubes
1 whole egg
- In a food processor, pulse all sweet dough ingredients together until the dough comes together.
- Wrap dough in cling film, and chill for 30 minutes inside the fridge.
Maple and Almond Filling
2 large eggs
3/4 cup dark brown sugar
1/2 cup maple syrup
1 teaspoon cinnamon powder
2 teaspoons vanilla
2 tablespoons melted butter
4 cups coarsely chopped almonds (or you can also use slivered almonds)
- Mix all filling ingredients together and set the mixture aside.
- Preheat oven at 350'F
- You will need 4 mini (12-mould) muffin pans.
- Take the dough out of the fridge and scoop 1 tablespoon of dough into each mini muffin mould. Press dough and create a cylindrical indentation to hold the filling.
- Spoon filling in each prepared unbaked shells.
- Bake tarts for 20-25 minutes or until light golden brown.
- Lift tarts from moulds 5 minutes after taking the pans out of the oven. Cool tarts on wire racks.
Makes 48 mini tarts
Empanada Pastry:
4 cups all-purpose flour
1/3 cup sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup (1 stick) cold unsalted butter
3/4 cup beer (light beer)
1 egg, beaten (for the pastry)
1/2 cup all-purpose flour (for dusting the work surface and rolling out the pastry)
1 egg, beaten (to use as an eggwash to brush the Empanadas with before baking)
Chicken Filling:
1 whole (uncooked) chicken breast, cut into small chunks
1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
1/2 teaspoon coarse salt (not table salt)
1/2 teaspoon white pepper
2 cups par-boiled mixed vegetables (small diced carrots, sweet corn kernels, string beans, and broccoli florets separated into small pieces)
4 cloves garlic, finely minced
1/4 cup unsalted butter
2 tablespoons flour
1 cup evaporated milk
small pinch of nutmeg
1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
salt and white pepper according to taste
1 1/4 cup grated gruyere cheese
For the Chicken Filling:
1. Marinate chicken pieces in Worcestershire sauce and season with salt and white pepper. Let it marinate for 15 minutes inside the fridge.
2. Melt butter in a large saute pan over medium heat. Gently saute the garlic.
3. Once the garlic is soft, add the chicken into the pan and saute for about 5 minutes or until the chicken is cooked.
4. Add the 2 tablespoons of flour and cook for about a minute just to get rid of the raw flour taste. Add the evaporated milk, Dijon mustard and a small pinch of nutmeg and stir the bechamel sauce.
5. Mix in the par-boiled vegetables and cook in the sauce until tender and finally add the grated gruyere cheese. Season with salt and white pepper according to taste. Turn off heat and set the pan aside.
For the Empanada Pastry: Pre-heat oven to 375'F.
1. Sift together the 4 cups of flour, sugar and salt.
2. Cut the cold butter into the flour mixture.
3. When the butter is well incorporated into the flour (mixture resembles fine bread crumbs), add the beer and pre-beaten egg.
4. Gather and form the pastry mixture into a ball of dough. This dough does not require resting.
5. Turn out the dough onto a well floured work surface and divide the dough in halves. Form each halve into a fat cylinder and cut and divide into 4 pieces (8 Empanadas for this recipe).
6. Roll out and flatten each piece of dough into 1/4 inch thick disk.
7. Put about a heaping serving spoon of chicken mixture on the half side of the rolled out pastry. Fold the other half over and run your fingers around the folded dough, and over the mound of filling to seal the dough together and get rid of air pockets inside the pastry.
8. Using a rolling pastry cutter, trim the edges off the Empanada. Then using a fork, crimp the edges to totally seal the pastry pocket.
9. Place the empanadas onto a parchment lined baking sheet and brush with an eggwash. Using a fork, prick the surface of each piece once to create an air vent.
10. Bake empanadas in a 375'F oven for 40-45 minutes or until these pastries are golden brown.
Makes 8 6-inch Empanadas
(Source: goddessofscrumptiousness)


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I wanted to take a look at this team and see how it is managed. From a Player Personnel standpoint. And hold the Office of Player Personnel accountable.
Week 1
Carlos Dunlap Dre Kirkpatrick Jason Allen Bernard Scott Richard Quinn Ryan Whalen , Donald Lee
Really, nothing could be said bad about the inactives here or who started. Thomas Howard was still starting - so no need to bring up Lamur from PS. Lee might still have been able to go. And most of the other guys were injured. Only thing I could see bad was not activating Whalen and inactivating either Binns or Tate. Another bad thing - going with Faine at Center instead of Robinson. Faine hadn't been near football for 6 months and was probably out of shape. Robinson had been with the team the entire time. I could see getting another center as insurance policy but they should use the game to see who would be the long term answer.
Week 2
Carlos Dunlap Bernard Scott Jason Allen Dre Kirkpatrick Donald Lee Ryan Whalen
Pretty much the same inactives as the previous week. BJGE and Faine did pretty well the first game. This probably gave the coaches a false sense of confidence in their abilities. Howard was injured. Here is where the shit hit the fan. Howard is your best coverage LB. Lamur was on the PS and he IS our best coverage LB. Instead of bringing up Lamur to WLB, they moved Burfict from MLB to WLB. Muckelroy was signed.
Week 3
Dre Kirkpatrick Donald Lee Leon Hall Richard Quinn Ryan Whalen Marvin Jones Brandon Thompson
Coaches became even worse and inactivated BOTH Whalen and Jones in favor of Tate/Binns. Doubled down a very crappy hand.
Week 4
Dre Kirkpatrick Nate Clements Jason Allen Leon Hall Ryan Whalen Roddrick Muckelroy Bernard Scott
Donald Lee finally let go.
Week 5
Jason Allen Dre Kirkpatrick George Iloka Brandon Thompson Marvin Jones Ryan Whalen Richard Quinn
More of the same. Bernard Scott is injured here. Bobby Rainey still on Ravens PS. Trade deadline is still weeks away. We do nothing and rely on BJGE as our feature back.
Week 6
Dre Kirkpatrick Richard Quinn Ryan Whalen Jason Allen Mohamed Sanu Brandon Thompson George Iloka
Guess coaches decide to bench Sanu instead of Jones and hope that is the spark?
Week 7
Dre Kirkpatrick Brian Leonard Armon Binns Richard Quinn Jason Allen Dontay Moch Brandon Thompson
Binns is injured and has been for a while, so they finally activate Whalen. All he does is lead the team in receptions. Then he will be back to being inactive.
Week 9
Marvin Jones Richard Quinn George Iloka Brandon Thompson Jason Allen Roddrick Muckelroy Ryan Whalen
Moch put on IR. Lamur FINALLY gets signed to the roster. And activated. And STARTS! TWO days before the game. And is our best coverage LB. Jones and Whalen still inactive. Jones is injured. Whalen isn't. Tate and Binns both still suck.
Week 10
Jason Allen Armon Binns Marvin Jones Reggie Nelson Richard Quinn Devon Still Brandon Thompson
Muckelroy released to make room for Pat Sims. Whalen and Sanu finally both activated. Binns is injured and inactive, much like how Tate should be. Our two rookie DTs are inactive.
Now, you look at the weekly inactives and the PS and whoever else is available - and you ask yourself: "are we really playing the best guys?" I would rather sit a guy like Dennis Roland or Dan Skuta or Vinnie Rey rather than Devon Still and Brandon Thompson. I would rather have Faine inactive and bring up that healthy center off the PS rather than a gimpy and bad Faine, just in case Robinson goes down.
These are the guys who I believe should be inactive:
Binns, Tate, Quinn, Faine, Allen, Roland, and your choice of Lawson/Skuta/Vinnie Rey
I made this post very fast. Am sure there are some errors.

subset: commoncrawl


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In psychoanalysis, there's a concept known as "repetition compulsion" wherein patients unconsciously attempt to achieve mastery over a past trauma by revisiting the original emotional scene of the crime in the hope that this time the situation will turn out differently. If you are anxious or stressed, here's a nifty way to replicate this remedy, but at a remove: Watch a scary movie. "These films allow you to tackle upsetting issues from the safe distance of allegory," says Constance Pittman Lindner, a writer and health researcher in Boston. "This permits a safe confrontation of real fears disguised in conquerable, metaphorical form.
Here's how it works, according to Charles Goodstein, MD, clinical professor of psychiatry at New York University Medical Center. "The stressful situation depicted on screen is related unconsciously in feeling and tone to your own stress, but at the same time because it is a film, you are psychologically distant from it," he explains. "You have, in small doses, a very frightening experience, yet you're in control of it, as you aren't in real life. Even if the movie ends disastrously for the characters in it, you're always aware that you will leave the theater alive and well. So this emotional journey can be a useful way to discharge stress."
It Worked for Her: When Melanie Votaw, 48, of Brooklyn, New York, was recuperating from a serious car accident, she discovered that Speed, Jurassic Park, and Jaws became her favorite movies to view again and again. "There was something cathartic about watching them, like it let me let go of the stress," she recalls. "I felt that it physically removed the trauma from my body -- I think because I was able to relive it in a make-believe setting."
In today's confessional culture, we're constantly encouraged to share our feelings. Let it out! Don't repress! Well...not always. In fact, denial can be a terrific coping strategy. If the stressor is something over which you have no control, simply pull a Scarlett O'Hara and tell yourself, "I'll think about it tomorrow."
No one, it should go without saying, is advising you to ignore serious issues that demand immediate action (a breast lump, for example, or a depressed teenager). But sometimes denial can give you a little breathing room. "Temporarily denying or avoiding unpleasant facts won't change a situation," observes J. Michael Bostwick, MD, associate professor of psychiatry at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, "but it can prevent you from being overwhelmed and give you time to get acclimated." The idea behind this strategy is to suppress whatever is stressing you out until you're able to deal with it in a more appropriate manner. Moreover, every once in a while, if you ignore it, it actually will go away.
It Worked for Her: Pushing life's mute button is easier said than done, of course, but here is a method that really does work. When Martha Kaminsky, 55, of Ithaca, New York, feels overwhelmed, she writes down all her worries on a piece of paper, hides it away, then tells herself, "It's out of my hands." A few months later, she'll revisit the list and, nine times out of 10, the majority of those once-critical concerns have resolved themselves while she was officially in denial. The concerns that are still valid, in turn, become easier to deal with because by then Kaminsky has cooled off and is able to approach the problems in a more rational, objective way.
Health experts routinely recommend 30 minutes of moderate exercise daily to relieve stress. In a recent study at the University of Missouri-Columbia, moderate-intensity exercise was shown to have that effect, but high-intensity workouts packed a much bigger and better antistress wallop. Different women were monitored for half an hour doing no exercise, moderate exercise, or high-intensity exercise. While the groups who exercised showed a decline in anxiety (as measured by a standard test called "state anxiety inventory"), the sharpest decline was among the women in the high-intensity group. Additionally, that group's anxiety continued to drop significantly at 30-, 60- and 90-minute marks, while the other groups' levels remained stable.
There are several possible explanations for this result. Intense aerobic exercise strengthens the heart and lungs, and these two vital organs (especially the heart) bear the brunt of the body's physiological stress response. It follows, then, that the more you exercise, the better these organs will respond under stress within reason, says Richard Cox, PhD, one of the study's authors. Another hypothesis is that high-intensity exercise requires all of your concentration, limiting your ability to ponder weightier matters, the way you can when you go for a bike ride or take a brisk walk. Finally, there is the belief that high-intensity exercise ups the release of endorphins, the feel-good hormones. The harder you exercise, the bigger the release.
It Worked for Her: When Nicole Wise, 48, of Stamford, Connecticut, was going through a painful divorce, many people advised her to do yoga. "I couldn't stand the slow pace," she says, "and it gave me way too much time inside my head -- one place I really didn't want to be." Instead, Wise, who was already a jogger, decided to train for a marathon. "The sheer physical demands of training took all of my focus and gave me a total rush. Plus, so much of my life was out of my hands that setting a nearly impossible goal, and then accomplishing it, gave me a gratifying sense of control over my own destiny."
Never mind that a veritable cottage industry has been created out of exactly the opposite advice. When you're hit with a major stressor -- a bad medical diagnosis, job loss, or a monster project at work -- looking at the big picture can immobilize you. "The entirety of a situation can be overwhelming, which may mean you won't be able to take the necessary steps to strategize your way out of it," says Dr. Bostwick. "But if you break the situation down into component parts, addressing what you can do immediately and temporarily neglecting the rest, then you can get a handle on the stress."
It Worked for Her: When Lynn Morley, 34, of Belton, Missouri, is feeling so swamped by work that she barely knows where to begin or which project to make a priority, she simply jumps in and tackles one task at a time. This method helped save her when she was involved in a budget approval process for the first time. "I had never even seen a budget before," she says. "I didn't have a clue how to begin and thinking about how to put the whole thing together was just making me more stressed. But I've learned that most projects don't have to begin at the beginning, so I did what had worked for me in the past: I focused on one particular piece of the pie that I had all the information for. I just worked around that point until it was complete, and everything else started falling into place."
Laughter is a known stress reliever, but it turns out that anticipating a laugh gets the job done, too. In a recent study from Loma Linda University, in Southern California, participants who were told they would see a funny movie within three days showed a significantly greater sense of well-being than those who received no such promise. Participants' blood was drawn right before the movie; those who'd been expecting the hilarity had 27 percent more betaendorphins in their blood. "These biochemical compounds are the body's own morphine," explains study leader Lee S. Berk, DrPH. "I call them 'happy juice.'"
While Dr. Berk has not specifically examined whether anticipating any pleasant occasion will alleviate stress, he admits that it would be logical to conclude as much. "If your biology interprets an event as pleasurable," he says, "then anticipation of it would probably have a similar calming effect." So pencil in a screening of Blazing Saddles, make a date with a funny friend, or take the latest David Sedaris book to work for lunchtime reading. Even if any or all of them end up being canceled, you'll have reaped some stress relief.
It Worked for Her: "I'm Miss Celebration," says Melany Farr, 46, of Las Vegas, Nevada. "I'll throw a party for anything, even Groundhog Day, because I like looking forward to good times. Then, if something negative happens, I tell myself, 'Oh well, I have this really fun thing coming up,' and that helps me get through it."
Think the gentle, New Age strains of Yanni will soothe the savage beast that rages inside? Only if he happens to be your favorite musician. You're better off with the Rolling Stones, Shakira, Maroon 5, a John Philip Sousa march, or the Rent original-cast album -- in short, whatever lights your fire. And blast away as loud as you like. The stress relief lies not in the nature of the music itself but in the fact that you've chosen it. In a recent experiment, Karen Allen, PhD, a research professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo, found that the classical instrumental songs on a CD called Stressbusters -- which had been selected especially for their supposed stress-relieving qualities -- were less effective in reducing blood pressure and perceptions of stress in subjects asked to perform a difficult task than was music chosen by the subjects themselves. Even the ethereal "Pachelbel's Canon" was less calming than the subjects' own picks.
Two factors are most likely at work here. First, the subjects made their own choices, and second, they were hearing music that was pleasing and familiar to them. "Self-selected music may have made them feel better able to perform the stressful task because of the music's past association with positive performance," says Dr. Allen. In addition, a 2003 study at the California Institute of Technology showed that listening to favorite tunes activated areas of subjects' brains associated with rewards or pleasure. So if the Stones are what bring you satisfaction, play them long and loud to get those stress levels down.
It Worked for Her: When the going gets tough, Liz Holzemer, 40, of Highlands Ranch, Colorado, blasts Van Halen, Aerosmith, and Lynyrd Skynyrd. "To purge my stress, I want to raise my heart rate and pump my adrenaline," Holzemer says. "Hard rock lends itself to that better than anything else I know."
Originally published in Ladies' Home Journal, September 2007.


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Twenty-three-year-old Taylor Gibson was flying a single engine piper from Sylvania, Georgia to Fort Myers, Florida.
Authorities say his engine failed and he was forced to make an emergency landing Wednesday afternoon. The plane went down on a dirt road near Highway 177 in Fargo, which is east of Valdosta.
The plane received some body damage and the landing gear collapsed from the force of the landing.
Luckily, a C-130 from Moody Air Force base was training in the area and able to assist the pilot.
Deputies with the Clinch County Sheriff's Department say they kept him on the radio and were then able to located him and inform authorities of his location.
Gibson was not injured in the crash.
Authorities with the Federal Aviation Administration are now on scene looking into what caused the plane's engine to fail.
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