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Pushpa � Meenu kathi sandai poding � vaayaal kathi kathi sandai poding.[ Meenu's 5.5 kattai shruti pierced the powerful ear plug & srima's ear drum phanal.so naan enna ezhudhareno you have to believe & accept it . OK friends?] Puspa accuses Meenu , you bad mouthed about my darling daughter. Sambandhis last seen leaving from your house & going directly to Kutralam [ pavamga avangalukku karaikudi veyil yhangalayam ]. Meenu jumps up & down . How dare you say this , I consider Maha as my daughter. Who vathi vachufied ? Pushpa says , the news directly from horse's mouth � Malarthan andha horse. Meenu's BP peaks. Oho my dear naathi you believe that paNakkara horse & not me. Ungalukkaga so many days naan naaya peya uzhaithadhu ella sutha waste , must give myself chappaladi [ madam please please use high heel slippers , appothan adi nalla vizhum]. Meenu leaves vowing to see Malar two hand.
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Walked around mine ,looked at it and walked away with my head down ..a bad diff really upset me after all I did registering it , and trailering it an hour away just to turn around 20 mins later .
The diff is bad,the bearings wobble around and it was go na cost more than my funds allowed to get it fixed .so she sits again til I get money and a trans .
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Just got her back from cut and buff, now to put her interior back together and the rest of the trim on the outside and core support and grille.
Got blown off for the third time by someone trying to sell a trans, still looking for one, if anyone comes across this, looking for a trans for an 87 8v GTI. Other than that, wishing that my mechanical fuel injection stuff looked better in the bay, gotta pick up an engine stand to do a head gasket/valve cover gasket/degrease/paint engine tomorrow
My girlfriend and I may have broken up after three years, but then again, I have the MK2<3
If "87 8v" isn't pulling anything for you, try searching in the MKII and MKIII classifieds for "020", or asking around for transmissions from 90's 2.0L cars. You may even end up with better mileage depending on the gearset. 020's are nearly a dime a dozen, especially if you don't care about specific gear combinations, and just need one to work.
special delivery from my warehouse
Got to drive mine to work after nearly 2 years of wishin
Hopefully it passes smogg soon and Im not just driving on a temp!
Ordered this sticker.
Going to continue getting the mk2 gti ready for vr6 swap.
Mk2 jetta is going from 13' steelies to 14" teardrops.
That's when I get off work of course...
Race it, Break it, Fix it, Repeat.
I figured out that this...
Is the reason for this...
Volkswagens get CEL's like girls get there periods
1.8t Mk2 GLI project build
Had a decent mail day for myself. Cant wait to get the damn car back. Seems like forever!
Swapped out the blown dash speakers for some new ones. Also found out all that chirping from the engine bay is the water pump bearing going out Was replaced not even a year ago.
I bought a 1985 jetta with 60k for $1100, I'll post pics tomorrow in the day.
^^^^whoa, what the hell happened?????
Had the opportunity to drive it to work today. I love it Sometimes, I just wish it were a 4 door with all the creature comforts.....
well.. what you cannot see in the picture is the terrible running 8v and the cancerous rust that was tucked everywhere. I started doing work and gave up on it, sold it to my friend and he used alot of parts for his jetta then scrapped the rest.
This has been my project since I bought it off ebay back in July. It spent most of it's life in Texas, so totally rust free. I just put a party interior in it so will add pictures later. Will be adding euro side markers next. I'm waiting for my LED bulbs. Probably come in the mail tomorrow.
Can't figure out how to post photos. Sorry.
I shuttled around some wheels and tires for my roommate... haha
It made my car extra low though! My tires weren't a huge fan of this though, they screamed most of the way home
Put 15mm spacers on the rear and lowered it some more all round.
Speed bump in the apartment is not fun!


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This is for the International Download/Digital Version. Saved games from versions 1.5.04 - 1.5.09 will work with version 1.5.10.
This is for the International Download/Digital Version. Saved games from versions 1.5.04 - 1.5.09 will work with version 1.5.10.
An update addressing various issues encountered by testers. Updates the mod to v0.3.2
The second alpha release, should be completely stable for a full play through. Archived version requiring manual installation, all necessary instructions...
A showcase of what we have developed so far. Requires Clear Sky to be patched to v1.5.10, Manual Installation compatible with all releases of stalker...
this mod is great but a bit unbalanced. too easy,too much ammo ,health that destroys balance
Lol, I actually laughed at the system requirements. Did you look at performance charts, tested the mod on different hardware with FPS monitoring and hardware monitoring etc. ?
Or did you just think of the highest end stuff and place it in there? CPU, GPU and RAM aren't everything, you know. I'd 'suggest' you to look at the minimum system requirements and max. of the vanilla game.
This is not critique, it's just ... surprising. I mean, come on Pred. What game uses 16GB of RAM? None. No, not even friggin Starcitizen does. 8GB is more then enough for a game like stalker, hell, 6GB is enough. Also, Xray runs best at +3,4Ghz.
There's probably no desktop CPU that runs below 3Ghz if it's an i7 so that doesn't make much sense either. (taking into account you put a desktop icon next to it and didn't include the 'm' in the GTX variants depicting it would be a 'mobile' / notebook version)
Seriously though; Something like an i3/i5 that runs at decent speed, 6Gb of RAM and a GTX5xx or above will run this game, easily. It's dated from 2008, not 2012. It's when bad optimization comes into play you'll need a GTX770 to compensate for the developers flaws, but I take this mod is better quality than that.
"Lol, I actually laughed at the system requirements."
ok then..
"Did you look at performance charts, tested the mod on different hardware with FPS monitoring and hardware monitoring etc."
No, besides frame rate monitoring using my own system and the system of co-developers no major research was done. The setup I am running now can run the game at an average of about 70fps with the lowest being about 30fps and highest peaking to around 100fps @ 1680x1050 with almost everything on Maximum, DX10, no MSAA & No SSAO.
GTX 560Ti OC
I5 3.2Ghz
8Gb Ram
The system reqs were put into the flash front as a point of reference for anyone who was not sure what sort of hardware runs the mod nicely and on decent settings. The extreme specs stand as a reference to those who would like to run the mod at a stupiously high framerate @ 2560x1600 ; 4X MSAA ; High SSAO and Sun Rays and Injected sweetFX filter with SMAA.
Which I am sure someone out there may want to do...
You are right about this statement. Excuse me, then, Pred. I just thought you meant that for playing the mod at it's max settings @1080p res. If you'd like a constant flow of 120FPS, then I'd take the extreme setup indeed.
Well, cheers man, thanks for clearing it up :) I hope no hard feelings.
Thanks, I guess it wasn't really that front up descriptive, will tweak it when we update the flash front.
Dude chill out. I think that extreme setting is there as some sort of joke. Maybe to poke COD:Ghosts developers as they ststed that you will need at least 8 GB or more to even run their game (16 GB being rported as optimal).
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Hello Ariyans...back with a new part...back to back...i am in a crazy state today...so the result is this...
pls read and comment on it..
PS: its a crazy OS...so expect all crazy things before you start reading it...yes, thats a disclaimer...dont tell me that i didnt warn you...
Thanks to all who liked it and commented on it...
Part 10:
Arjun snapped her short and replied back casually "ek wahi nahi�.aise bohat saare baatein hai jisske wajeh se mujhe ghussa aatha hai�aur itna ghussa ke main saamne waale ko goliyon se udhaa bhi saktha hoom�..[looks up at her]samjhi ya samjhaavum?
Riya was stunned at his reply and immediately sank into the chair�.
He looked at her response and commented "that's better!"
She was scared by his threat and sat down before him but she couldn't keep her mouth shut�..aakhir Riya ki izzat ka sawaal tha�how could she give up and make him win so easily?�She spoke up in a slightly cracked up voice
"aap mujhe dhamki deh rahe ho?"
He didn't bother to look at her but just replied "tumhe aise lagaa?"
She felt a bit relaxed thinking that he is going to apologize and take back his threat but no, he didn't do that�instead he spoke up again "dhamki nahi sacch tha�.main sacch mein aisa kar saktha hoom�aur woh mera sabse badaa problem hai�.."
He looked at her to see her expressions and he liked what he saw there�.it was worth watching�..And as if answering to her unvoiced question, he replied "I was helping you Riya�.tum mere problems ki list jo banaa rahi thi na? isse sabse uphar dhaal dho�"
Riya smirked at his sarcasm and replied with a faking smile "ok sir"
He shook his head in total amusement and continued his work!
Though he would never admit, Arjun was beginning to enjoy her ever bickering self��She was indeed different from the others�..He knew that she already had an idea about his past and about the tragedy which haunts him till date�.even then, she doesn't behave sympathetic or try to empathize with him�..Right from the first day, she always behaves casual with him, pulls his leg, argues and fights with him for her stand!
Nobody who knew him and his past did that�..Though he had alienated himself from the rest, he was liking it when she behaved casual with him�.like peers, colleagues, like team mates! He had missed all that when she distanced herself and tried to avoid and ignore him�..And today, he had the perfect opportunity to get that back! So he forced her to sit there right in front of him! He was waiting to get his answers!
As he immersed himself into the report, she was busy smacking him mentally for making her sit there and making her hear all his sarcastic snide comments�.�..
Moreover, she had nothing much to do there except sit and wait patiently for his next order�..
She took the paper weight in her hand and was rolling it to and fro between her hands�She had this urge to throw it on his face and vent out her anger as she thought to herself "na jaane kya samajhtha hai apne aapko� khudko bhagwan samajhtha hai�jo woh sochtha hai wahi sahi aur baaki sab galath�..sab usski orders lo aur slaves ke tarah kaam karo�..dil toh kartha hai ke throw maar dhoom�.akdu kaheeka!!"
Her thought process and Mission-Bash ASR (of course all inside her own little heart) came to an abrupt halt when he voiced out sternly�.
"usse mere mooh pe maarne ki nahi soch rahi ho na?"
She stopped juggling the paper weight when he asked that but then replied with a sweet yet false smile "aap khaafi haddh tak saamne waale ke mann padh lethe hai, Impressive!"
Arjun put the file on the table and stood up and leaned closed to her with his hands on the table�.his face facing her��She wouldn't agree but yes she was frightened when he did that�..He replied back "sirf mann hi nahi�.bohat kuch paddh saktha hoom�.aur woh kya kya hai jaan na chahogi?" he finished it by raising his eyebrows!
She didn't speak up but just looked at him�..he added as he circled his index finger around her boundaries of her face "jaise ke tumaara yeh chehra�.isspe saaf saaf likha hai ke tum darr gayi! Am I right? Or Am I right?"
Without a reply, she just gulped thinking what was he intending to do�..the office was empty except for the 2 of them��None to help her if he even tried to kill or rape her!
Her screams for help would not even reach beyond the four walls of this cabin�..even if it did go out, there was nobody out there to help her! Damn!
All sorts of bad thoughts came running into her head!
Arjun's POV: It was good to get her to a state where she was searching for replies once in a while�..else she never shut her bak baks!
He always wondered how she managed to keep talking continuously�..definitely a talent he lacked, he used to smile to himself thinking that!
He really was enjoying this and smirked at her frightened facial expressions when she managed to voice out "dekhiye�aap aisa kuch matth karenge��.ek choti si galthi keliye itna badaa sazaa?? Its not fair, haan? Ghusse mein kuch karke phir patchtaane se koyi fayda nahi�..mujhe jaane dijiye�..plzz�."
He could understand where her thoughts were running to�The girl who had daringly dragged him into her room and taunted him was now pleading before him�.
No, he wasn't letting this go so easily�He decided to tease her a little�
He took his revolver and posed to wipe it and check the bullets sending a fright up her whole body��She tried to get up from her chair�..and was getting ready to run out of the room when he gestured with his revolver pointing to her direction��" beito�"
She had no choice but sit back reluctantly�..but she kept looking at the door and thought of all possibilities of an escape from there�..
He placed the revolver back on the table�."tum kahi yeh toh nahi soch rahi ke main tumhe goli maarne waala hoom�[when she didn't reply, he continued]daro matth�tumhe maarke mera kya fayda??��aaj kuch aur hi karne ka iraadha hai!"
Riya instantly thought the other possibility�..and shrieked out "nahi�.." and instantly sprinted to the door��
He was quicker�as if anticipating her move, he grabbed her back and pinned her to the wall right near the door��"kahaan bhaag rahi ho Riya�agar maine kuch socha hai phir woh karke hi rehunga�.."
[To be continued]
so how was it?? pls do reply!
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The Next Iron Chef: Super Chefs (Episode 3: "Lets All Go To The Lobby") [SPOILERS]
- ipsedixit Nov 13, 2011 06:59 PM
Tonight we're at the Orpheum Theater in Los Angeles where our chefs are asked to make one sweet and savory dish out of movie theater concession treats, e.g. chocolate raisins, malt balls, cinnamon candies, root beer, gummy candies, popcorn, etc.
Our hero from last time (read: winner), Chef Guarnaschelli gets the advantage and is allowed to choose which concession favorite she wants to cook with. Her choice? Chocolate raisins.
Our hero Chef Guarnaschelli also gets to dole out the other candies to the remaining chefs. You'll have to watch the show to figure out who gets what, but some highlights ... Anne Burrell gets root beer ... Hughes gets popcorn ... Zakarian those nasty oblong cinnamon candies ... Falkner is bequeathed those malt balls.
Apparently Zakarian is a control freak and cannot get the food processor to work -- even a Canadian can't help him out.
Guarnaschelli decides to make (what??) ice cream. Hmm.
Hughes is going to make (what else!) popcorn shrimp!
And I love, love the retirement home comment. Touché.
Onto judging ... and the reviews are in.
Judges love Burrell's riff on root beer desserts, as well as her inventive agrodolce.
Hughes makes a straight to Netflix dish with his popcorn shrimp -- "simply inedible" says one judge.
Malt balls in fish n chips? Why, yes! Falkner is Oscar-worthy, and her malt ball ice cream is said to be the "best thing I've eaten yet" by one judge. Yum.
How is Marcus going to compete? No duos for him, right? Meh.
Chiarello makes a lamb dish out of gummy candies and ... it works! His panna cotta? Not so much. "A funeral in my mouth" says one judge. Yikes.
MacMillan bombs with sweet and sour candy. Can't just hide an ingredient in garnish. Like trying to hide a $20M has-been, over-the-hill actress in a supporting role.
Chicken with cinnamon candy is a "winner" and "phenomenal". Zakarian is golden.
And last up is our hero from last time. Guarnaschelli makes friends with the lamb dish, but her ice cream is "off" and "grainy". Ick.
WINNER? FALKNER! (And she gives the judge a "food-gasm". Oy-ye-veh!)
Burrell and Zakarian are runner-ups.
LOSERS? MacMillan and Hughes.
Onto the Elimination Challenge! Secret Ingredient is ... tofu!
MacMillan makes (not a duo) but a trio?
Hughes stakes his claim on ... sauce? Yes, he does.
Well, looks like Hughes will have more "days off" than he had originally planned.
Lesson? Trio > duo!
Next week it's comedy night.
I liked the episode, though uneventful.I love how they help each other out, despite the time crunch. I wondered why Guarnaschelli didn't take a line from the Chopped chefs on the ice cream and add cream to thin it out. I'm happy Falkner won. I wish the other chefs would stop assuming she'll do great w/ dessert (or does great) just because she's a pastry chef. Does she automatically assume everyone will outperform her on every savory challenge? Does anyone ever say, "I knew xxx would perform well because he's a chef?" I'm not liking the British judge whose name has escaped me.
re: chowser
I'm not liking the British judge whose name has escaped me.
Simon Majumdar - he's definitely the villain of the three judges.
on the subject of judges, i'm not the least bit impressed by Judy Joo and i really wish she would stop with the foodgasm thing. Donatella may have been a bitch, but at least her comments about the food were insightful.
re: goodhealthgourmet
That foodgasm thing bothers me, too, Seriously, if you're not in a frat or sorority, it's time to grow up past that. I do prefer her to "Oh, the banana skin wasn't edible! That roasted hot pepper was spicy!!!" Donatell.
re: roxlet
I was hoping he'd stay - not just for the eye candy, but because he seems like a nice guy and had a good sense of humour throughout the whole thing. Didn't treat it like a life-and-death situation, you know?
re: piccola
I agree--a cutie with a fun personality. He had a really rough go of it that day :(
re: piccola
I thought he was a bit out of luck having to work with popcorn. Getting some of it stuck between the judge's teeth was somewhat predictable. But I do think he lost the cook-off fair and square.
Too bad, I would have liked to see him go further in the competition.
re: piccola
Agree he lost fair and square but too bad because I would have liked to see more of him too. Loved that he thought he was lucky for even being there, that he refered to himself as a cook and that parting shot was funny. To Chiarello who said he'd come to eat at his restaurant he said well as long as you can get a reservation I'd love to see you there.
I am somewhat surprised that Chuck Hughes apparently had never worked with tofu ever before and had made efforts to stay away from it before. Did he also say he had never eaten it?
I didn't think the cook-off was that close. It was MacMillan's battle to lose IMO as the cook-off progressed and his trio was risky by dividing his attention and efforts, but which he managed to pull together. Hughes' sauce did seem to be a throw-everything-Asian-you-can-think-of-together thing, as one of the judges said.
I'm really having trouble with that loud sliding door sound they use a each chef comes and goes for judging ... So distracting!
This challenge was too gimmicky for me ...
Disappointing since I enjoyed the first episodes but I am pay Faulkner is doing well.
re: Shrinkrap
I actually misquoted.
Someone in the background (Zakarian, maybe?) said, paraphrasing, "lets get going everyone, this isn't a rest home."
re: ipsedixit
Ok, thanks!
re: jmckee
I liked that chiarello laughed. He is NOT having any fun!
So let me get this straight: Spike gets kicked off because he broke the rules by making more dishes than asked for but then McMillan wins for that. Also I thought the choice of tofu was a little one sided given McM's experience with Asian cuisine.
re: junescook
No, Spike only made one scallops dish. Marcus Samuelsson made two and did better on them so he won.
re: junescook
Spike actually only did 1 dish. Samuelsson did a duo and was chastised for it but won anyway. The same thing happened with McMillan - he was admonished but won anyway.
re: junescook
...and why would you think that it is "one-sided" simply because McM had experience with "Asian" ** cuisine? Why was Hughes NOT familiar with tofu, even passingly? He's a high-level chef - his statement that he had never worked with tofu and had tried his darnedest to stay away from it did not speak well of him as a supposedly top-flight chef.
The "Chairman's Choice" of tofu would have been made before it was determined who were the bottom two chefs, I would imagine. It was Hughes' choice to shun tofu throughout his life but it was in no way 'one-sided' when he was presented with an ingredient that he had purposefully avoided in his career as a supposedly top-flight chef. An ingredient which is widely used by large swaths of the population outside of North America, and that includes many places outside of China & Japan. Why, are we to insist that the show canvass which ingredients the bottom two in each episode of TNIC were familiar with before selecting something for the cook-off?
**and by "Asian" do you mean Cantonese, or Szechuanese, or Japanese, or Indonesian, or Malaysian, or Turkish, or Persian, or Tamil, or Gujarati, or ???
re: huiray
If you don't like 'Asian', how would YOU (succinctly) describe the region of the world where tofu is widely used?
re: chowser
har har!
re: smartie
Though 'oriental' can also apply to the Near East, as in the Oriental Institute (of Chicago), and Oriental Express. And in some contexts it is regarded as perjorative.
I'm not aware of a convenient shorthand that covers east and southeast Asia, but not south (India) or west (Middle East). Taken in context, 'Asia' seems to be as good a term as any.
re: huiray
A Brit who strayed on to this thread would be confused by a lot more than this American (and Australian) usage of 'Asian'.
re: huiray
The fact that Chef Hughes has avoided tofu does not invalidate his being a top-flight chef. He doesn't like it and therefore has not cooked it. That's all. I've seen Tom Colicchio admit to not liking okra and I'm sure were it foisted on him he would not have known how to cook it despite his talents as a chef. Never mind that it is widely eaten by several people within the United States.
In any case, the success of his restaurant which he jokingly refered to upon leaving Kitchen Stadium is a testament to his talent. And, yes they don't serve tofu.
re: mtlmaven
Colicchio has not, as far as I know, said that he has never used okra. (Please correct me if I am wrong; in which case my estimation of him would drop a bit more) He has said he does not like it. That is different from saying that you have *never* worked/cooked with it, as Hughes said regarding tofu.
If you are a top-flight chef, I myself would expect you to have at least tried working with an ingredient so common as tofu. Or okra. You don't need to like it, or become proficient in using it, or serve it in your restaurants. It's not as if we are talking about an ingredient so obscure or rare that only specialized chefs in certain countries have worked with it.
re: huiray
There are probably lots of top flight chefs in American and Europe that have never used tofu. Top-flight to me doesn't necessarily mean they have to use ingredients common to other cultures. Reasonable people may have different opinions, which is a concept that you seem unable to accept.
re: Worldwide Diner
Not at all. You don't seem to be able to grasp that it is *my opinion* that you ought to have at least *tried* out tofu, even if at home, if I am to consider you a top-flight chef. I suggest you read my post above again.
re: Worldwide Diner
BTW I wonder if you have tasted or cooked with tofu yourself. Have You? I would hope that you, as a "Worldwide Diner" (as your moniker says) have done so.
re: huiray
I'm Chinese. I've eaten every form of tofu imaginable. I like certain forms of tofu but they're not something that I can't live without. Many people eat tofu as a healthy way of getting protein in their diet, not necessarily because they taste great. If someone doesn't like to eat tofu or even try tofu, I don't think they're missing out. I certainly don't think being a top flight chef means you have to go out of your way to cook some food from another culture that is more of a staple than a delicacy.
Let's say the best Chef in China has never tried foie gras or cooked with it, is he/she not a top flight chef?
re: Worldwide Diner
"I certainly don't think being a top flight chef means you have to go out of your way to cook some food from another culture that is more of a staple than a delicacy."
Your opinion. I think a top-flight chef in the western idiom ought to have **tried out** cooking with it, an ingredient so common nowadays everywhere, and it does not need to be even considered a delicacy. That does not mean they have to "go out of their way" to cook it. Oh, BTW, I'm Chinese. I eat a lot of tofu, just as many types you claim to, I suspect.
In my view, if the best chef in China - nowadays - has never tried foie gras, yes I would think less of him or her, so long as foie gras was available in China. In Hughes' case, tofu is ***all around him*** and is such a ***common*** ingredient in North America [note: that includes Canada and Quebec] that your comparison is not a balanced one.
re: huiray
So you don't think one can be a top-flight chef if he/she just cooks the food of one culture? If Eric Ripert never cooked tofu, then he's not a top flight chef?
re: Worldwide Diner
I would definitely think less of him if he said he had *never* worked with tofu at all, not even once in his whole life as a chef, not even at home, with this ingredient widely used all around him, in the sense I am talking about.
re: huiray
But what then does it mean to 'think less of him'? Do you retroactively reevaluate cooking at a chef's restaurant, which you once found extraordinary? Do you avoid his restaurant, now armed with the knowledge that he's not good at cooking the food he doesn't cook? Do you make sure whenever possible that the dude cooking your French fine dining also knows his way around Cantonese ingredients?
My point, I guess, is that it strikes me as inconsequential whether one thinks less of a chef for not being good at that which [s]he does not do. At the end of the day, a chef is a technician and a leader of men, not a professor or travelling academic. Plenty of great chefs are specialists.
re: cowboyardee
Let's see...
"Do you retroactively reevaluate cooking at a chef's restaurant, which you once found extraordinary?"
---> No. It's still extraordinary, for the food he serves at his restaurant.
"Do you avoid his restaurant, now armed with the knowledge that he's not good at cooking the food he doesn't cook?"
----> No. He cooks the food he's good at in his restaurant.
"Do you make sure whenever possible that the dude cooking your French fine dining also knows his way around Cantonese ingredients?"
----> No. He is not required to be proficient with Cantonese ingredients.
Look, I've been repeating myself ad nauseum in this subthread and yet everyone still appears to be unable to grasp my basic point:
If you are a top-flight chef - in North America - I expect you to have worked with tofu at least once sometime, somewhere, at home, wherever, in your life.
That does NOT mean:
• You are not still a great chef.
I, for myself, simply will have an asterisk besides your name indicating that you never even bothered to try out an ingredient so common around you and eaten by a billion or so folks, and that it is an omission on your part not to have done so.
• That you are required to be proficient in the use of tofu, a common ingredient in E/SE Asian cuisine and Chinese-American cuisine and available all around you.
I am merely bothered that you never even tried to use it for even one meal in your own kitchen, considering you are a chef of a high rank.
• That you are required to offer a succulent and delicious variation of tofu somewhere on your menu in your restaurant.
It's NOT your strength, and you are not expected to offer what you are not strong at in your restaurant.
It's PLAIN.FREAKING.TOFU, not Abalone, or Bird's Nest, or Fugu, or any number of other esoteric or expensive ingredients that one would need to make an effort to try it out. Hughes made.a.point of saying he had never worked with it and that he had gone.out.of.his.way to avoid it.
re: huiray
I suspect that at some point, possibly between revealing of 'secret' ingredient, and the start of cooking, the producers take the contestants aside and ply them with questions like 'what do you think of this ingredient?' 'Is this ingredient going to easy?', etc. During editing they pick, and clip, the most interesting ones - that is, the comments that heighten the sense of competition and challenge.
While the words are Chuck's, the emphasis might not be his.
re: huiray
I don't fail to grasp what you're saying. I just disagree.
"If you are a top-flight chef - in North America - I expect you to have worked with tofu at least once sometime, somewhere, at home, wherever, in your life."
That's only true in the sense that it's more likely than not. But it's clear from reading your posts that you mean more than that... that it's the responsibility of a top-flight chef to be familiar with common ingredients from cuisines that aren't necessarily applicable to his professional career. That's nonsense. A chefs responsibilities include making great meals so that his customers are happy, running a tight shift so his restaurant makes money, and keeping a restaurant supplied and operational. Making sure that some guy on the internet doesn't include an asterisk next to his name on an imaginary (right?) list falls somewhere around shining the nickels in the cash register on his list of responsibilities and priorities.
The popular media keeps on making out chef-dom as being all about one's overall mastery of food. That's just not so. A chef - even a great one - has to know HIS food, and he has to know the restaurant business.
Also let's be realistic. It was obvious from the episode that Hughes had some familiarity with tofu. You're taking his word more literally than he probably intended. He probably just disliked tofu, and hadn't worked with it extensively as he had the many foodstuffs that are actually applicable to his professional career.
re: cowboyardee
Our expectations about very high level chefs just differ, then.
As for whether Hughes really had experience with tofu - well, if he DID have experience then he simply should not have made that emphatic statement that he had never worked with it etc. If the editors manipulated the scenario - as paulj speculates - he ought to have realized that he could be grossly misrepresented if he uttered those words. Instead say something like "tried it once (or however many times), hated it, didn't do anything more with it" - something along those lines.
re: huiray
It struck me as a pre-emptive and over-stated excuse on his part (I guess it might not have been pre-emptive, given the way the show is shot and edited). But from the rest of the footage of the challenge, I think it's pretty unlikely that he had never tasted or worked with tofu at all. OTOH, his dipping sauce made it seem as though he is mainly familiar with East Asian cooking through North American mash-up fusion.
Whether or not he should have made that excuse... eh, it's a toss up, as far as I'm concerned. No offense, but I don't think many other people really care if he hasn't tried tofu.
re: huiray
And this is the statement with which I totally disagree: "If you are a top-flight chef - in North America - I expect you to have worked with tofu at least once sometime, somewhere, at home, wherever, in your life."
I do not think it is necessary for a top-flight chef to have worked with tofu. Any more than I think it is necessary that a top flight chef has worked with, say, Jerusalem artichokes or chitlin's or beef heart or durian.
re: jmckee
I agree, I don't expect them to have worked with tofu. That said, I expect an "Iron Chef" to be able to skillfully work with tofu, regardless of their past experience or lack thereof.
re: LurkerDan
"That said, I expect an "Iron Chef" to be able to skillfully work with tofu, regardless of their past experience or lack thereof."
That may be a useful distinction - tofu is very much the kind of thing that can pop up in a cooking competition. OTOH, on ICA contestants are notified of the possible main ingredients a while before the competition starts.
Still, it would have been smart for someone who knows he's going to be on TV in an off-the-cuff cooking competition like TNIC to familiarize himself with particularly common ingredients he hasn't work with much.
re: cowboyardee
But I don't think that the judges had a problem with Chuck's tofu prep. They thought the sauce overpowered the tofu. It looked and sounded delicious to me, though.
Beau's dishes were beautiful, too, though. Tough call.
re: bear
True, which is part of the reason I've said I don't buy that he had never tasted or worked with tofu before.
I can see why the judges voted in Beau's favor though - if you are charged to feature an ingredient and you bury its qualities and flavors in an overpowering sauce, even if the dish tastes pretty decent, then you're probably not going to score very well.
re: huiray
Huiray, You didn't mention French-Canadian. How come? I guess you don't like Hughes (or me), but do you really think that every ICA show starts with unknown and equally fair ingredients?
re: junescook
Often the ingredient on ICA (and on IC) has tie ins with the contestants (the challenger more so than the Iron Chef). Hughes got 'Canadian Lobster'. Tofu pitted Yeo against Morimoto.
re: junescook
No no, I have no reason to dislike *you*, junescook. I took issue with what you *said* about the cook-off being one-sided, that is all.
I'm not sure what you're getting at regarding my not mentioning 'French-Canadian'. If you are thinking of my mentioning of geographical locale, wouldn't 'North America(n)' cover 'French-Canadian'? ["North America" does not equal the oft-used "America"=USA]
I am aware that the unknown ingredients on ICA or IC are not "unknown" but the contestants do not know which one exactly (out of two or three or so) they would get on the day of battle. paulj mentions the skew towards one contestant in his post above. In this regard, Hughes is not yet an Iron Chef. ;-) In many cases, especially on the original IC, there have been ingredients that have seemingly confounded the IC - as presented in the show seen by the viewer - and they had flailed around a bit before going on to actually even win.
re: junescook
There isn't a rule about the number of dishes to make. But there is a strategic consideration. You are likely to be judged by the worst of the set, not the best.
re: junescook
I think all chefs have areas of expertise, but that comes out in the wash I think. One week its tofu, the next week it could be aubergines. The thing is, an Iron Chef needs to have an all around esthetic but no doubt will play to their strengths as required in a competition. So it really wasn't one-sided, I don't think.
re: chowser
...and the secret ingredient is.....SALT...
re: acgold7
It wasn't an actual "Battle Salt".
Challenger Hiroyuki Hakogi, "Sorcerer of Salt". The 3rd challenger from the "Ohta faction" in that long-running "feud" they had with Morimoto [over "preserving the sanctity of Traditional Japanese cuisine"]. :-D He and Morimoto faced off in "Battle Yellowtail" in which Chairman Kaga also had for them a special salt "harvested only under a full moon".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_... (episode 259)
Hakogi brought along with him a few other varieties of salt as well. Fun episode. Lots of chit-chat and reminiscences about Morimoto's early life as an aspiring baseball player too, with one of the judges a former boyhood rival.
re: huiray
I knew someone could clear that up for me. Thanks.
[Damn, I really miss the older dubbed versions of ICJ, before the rights to the "Backdraft" music lapsed.]
re: acgold7
Best of all were the subtitled versions shown on Japanese language TV in the SF Bay Area (and a few other places).
re: acgold7
WORD to the old JIC..anyone remember Battle Asparagus? The giggly ingenue Japanese actress...."hee hee hee you have offended my tastebuds hee hee hee"
Best. Episode. EVER. :)
re: freia
I guess you mean this one, between Masaharu Morimoto and Yasuhiko Habuchi... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoeTKk... (this is part 1 of 5). It seems to be Hosoki [the older female critic] who said that Morimoto's dish offended her taste buds. The giggly ingenue actress was Miwako Fujitani, who at one point when sampling the challenger's dish went off on a riff about floating above the clouds, gazing down on he dish (giggle) then exclaimed "What am I saying" (giggle giggle). :-) This was the second of three asparagus battles on ICJ.
The first one between Hiroyuki Sakai and Toshihiro Komine starts here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSUC8h... which became a sort of grudge match/"I'll show you what I can do" for Sakai.
The third one was the overtime battle between Chen Kenichi and Dominique Corby (Battle Foie Gras; which was a draw) which in turn ALSO ended in a draw. Kaga proclaimed both to be joint winners. :-)
re: huiray
Thanks for the links! I still remember the "you have offended my tastebuds" and I remember me and husband saying "oooohhhhh ...ouch...." ..that was for the asparagus coated and baked in salt. And I recall the asparagus boiled/cooked with lobster and THEY THREW THE LOBSTER OUT! Wanted to impart the flavor of lobster in the asparagus.
Thanks for looking all that up. I guess I was thrown by the giggly ingenue heeheeeheeeheeheee...LOL
re: huiray
BTW, do anyone notice how they pronounce "foie gras" on IC? FOIE-gre.
re: rteplow
Then there's Chairman Kaga's "AAHHH-SUUUU-paragas" as one commenter on Youtube pointed out. :-)
re: chowser
"Battle: salt anyone?"
Heh...have you ever seen Anne Burrell's show??
Here's my problem with The Next Iron Chef, and the way that the judges pontificate about how the Iron Chefs have to be inventive on the fly-- in point of fact, the Iron Chefs and guests chefs know ahead of time about the "secret ingredient." They are given two possibilities, and they are able to plan their dishes. Until the beginning of the show, they don't know which one it is, but they are not being given an ingredient like popcorn without having had the ability to plan and taste. I also truly dislike the solemnity with which the judges speak. It is so forced and overly serious for me. Chopped is the biggest example of this unappealing attitude. I'm kind of over Alton Brown at this point. He's turning into a nit picker in the worst possible way.
re: roxlet
yet you are still watching these competitions? :)
i wasnt a fan of this challenge. two very gimmicky challenges that were essentially the same back to back frustrated me. i would much rather see what the chefs can do with an ACTUAL ingredient.
re: mattstolz
I think tofu is an actual ingredient. To me, anyway.
re: huiray
second that...
re: kubasd23
Third it. It's no lesser than scallops as an ingredient.
re: chowser
Agreed. Actually, I think it's probably more versatile than scallops, and lends itself to more techniques. It's a good ingredient for a cooking competition for that reason.
re: huiray
After that amazing smoked tofu with beef drippings that Richard Blaise did on Top Chef in his first (?) season, there really is no end to what's possible with tofu. I think it was a great ingredient for a challenge.
re: huiray
I think he's referring to the candy in the challenge, not the cook off.
re: roxlet
Yes, you're right. Sorry mattstolz. I'd read the two gimmicky challenges as two in one episode, not in two consecutive episodes. I do think they had actual ingredients in the ball park round, I was surprised at all the food they found.
re: chowser
It's unclear as to whether he was talking about the tofu challenge or last week's baseball stadium food challenge. I'm thinking the latter is more likely, but I couldn't really say for sure unless he clarifies.
re: roxlet
Ah, is that right? OK, then.
But it did read as referring to two gimmicks in this single 3rd episode, as chowser also mentioned above, not as two gimmicks in consecutive episodes back-to-back. Wouldn't the cook-off also be considered as a challenge?
I also thought the ball park ingredients were 'real ingredients'. They were actual, real food items, and a lot of different ones at that.
re: mattstolz
Just curious as to why you don't think tofu is an actual ingredient...not being argumentative, just wondering about your rationale...:)
re: DGresh
You mean Judy Joo? She's Korean-American, actually; but is an Iron Chef on the UK show and currently lives in London. Born in NJ. She grew up watching her Korean mother cook lots of Korean food - which she presumably ate - including lots of tofu, I dare say. ;-)
I think her having little good to say by comparison with the other two judges was true regarding the cook-off. I wouldn't say she was off-base either. There was simply too much going on with both dishes - too much stuff in the sauce for Hughes' dish, too many ingredients for McMillan's dish. As someone who eats a lot of tofu myself, done in many ways, I could see where she was coming from - the tofu was "lost". Tofu *does* have a subtle taste to it, and certainly the texture of different kinds of tofu factors in greatly as well. Even though none of us here on the thread sampled the dishes, I could easily believe that one could still taste the tofu and the textures more with McM's dish, than with Hughes' dish where I suspect the sauce was practically all that one tasted. (...and I doubt the battle was that close in the end) My opinion. However, it did also seem to me all the judges said things along those lines, with AB at the end summarizing up that aspect by saying that Hughes tried to put all of Asia into one sauce.
(p.s. I just re-watched the cook-off part to check on what was said and to look again at the dishes)
(p.s.2. Simon Majumdar is also British)
re: huiray
I have no problem with tofu being a means to convey the sauce. I suppose if someone cooks up a great plate of mapo tofu, you'd complain that the sauce overwhelmed the tofu?
re: Worldwide Diner
Not at all. The use of tofu in 麻婆豆腐 is meant to be as an *adjunct* to the sauce, and when properly done one ***still*** tastes the texture of the tofu, and I think you *know* it. It is disingenuous of you to blithely consider otherwise. **Many** dishes in Chinese/Korean/Japanese cuisine dwell on the taste and texture of the tofu, others use it as a conveyance. You ought to know this yourself since you say you are Chinese.
re: huiray
Seriously, Huiray, do you really think that if your best Chinese/Korean/Japanese chef in Indianapolis came into IC battle with Batali with ingredients tomatoes, anchovies, basil, parm reggiano and mozzarella, the battle would be fair?
re: junescook
If the challenge was to cook classic, traditional & authentically Italian dishes straight out of Tuscany or Emilia-Romagna then, yes, the Chinese/Korean/Japanese chef is likely to be at a disadvantage. Although, who knows, perhaps he/she may have a previously unknown knowledge and experience with the cuisine. ;-) [I'm also assuming you are referring to Chinese/Korean/Japanese cuisines, rather than the ethnicities, although both can be the same]
If the challenge is not that, then if he/she is of Iron Chef caliber I am inclined to say he/she has a reasonable chance.
Naturally, Batali being Batali, that would skew it a bit; and that would be an issue with your set-up versus the one with Hughes and MacMillan. MacM has "Asian" experience but is not a Chinese/Japanese/Korean chef or a specialist in those cuisines. (Nor has he been proven to be an Iron Chef yet FWIW)
The food is judged on Inventiveness, taste and plating, not on "authenticity", unless a definite ethnic identity was specified as part of the challenge. After all, think of the battles in the past where ICs presented with a foreign ingredient still won over someone whose designated cuisine was more closely related to the ingredient.
BTW, Batali is half French-Canadian, Seattle-born. :-)
re: junescook
in morimoto vs wadi, i thought it was kind of a set-up in favor of morimoto when they had mackerel as the ingredient. (wadi is american from minneapolis, background palestinian, restaurant cooks upscale/contemporary middle eastern food). wadi was just 25 when he competed and lost by 5 points. . . so maybe it does happen.
re: huiray
Yeah, I was off-tangent due to the fact that she cooks on the British show. I just thought it was notable that (as I recall) in each case she went first, said something pretty negative, and the other guys seemed to (somewhat) contradict her.


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It is no worse than the crappola that lying Al Gore was spreading with his "Inconvenient Untruths" that by the way are not based on facts !!!
Posted 108 days ago.
It's a pitiful video greek. Real science isn't about trying to say what is good or evil. That one scientist at the end tries to make it out that way. There is fact or falsehood. None of those scientists offered any real evidence for their pov. They rely on the lack of knowledge to be their evidence.
Posted 108 days ago.
6. The video says that the Sun doesn't always shine and the wind doesn't always blow. Oy vey. I think the Sun shines a bit more quickly and wind blows a bit more than new sources of coal and oil are produced.
7. Then of course they have to go down the crazy by wondering what would happen if we quit using oil LIKE RIGHT NOW! Of course, no one has suggested that we quit using oil fully. It's only been suggested that we find other sources to slowly replace the finite energy source we call fossil fuels.
Posted 108 days ago.
3. They constantly confuse theorizing with claiming something to be fact. When a scientist puts up the theory that natural phenomenon can be effected by man-made climate change...that's what it is..a theory. They need to learn the difference.
4. They mock that a prediction that the ice caps would be totally gone but yet ignore the fact that the ice caps have shrunk.
5. And of course the video slides into politics by sloppily trying to divide the issue into Left Vs Right fight.
Posted 108 days ago.
Some problems with the video:
1. The claim of no rising temps. They ignore that the ocean temps are rising. They ignore that the past 18 years are hotter than the 18 years that came before it. The problem still exist.
2. I love the claim the narrator makes about the idea that the temp rise has not been widely publicized. Guess they don't listen to their own nutjobs very much. The reason you won't hear real scientists involved in climate change talk about is that surface temps being "flat" doesn't mean that global warming as a whole isn't happening.
Posted 108 days ago.
ht tp ://w w w.teapartycrusaders. com / international-news/global-warming-hoax-basics/
Great little 4 minute video on the climate change scandal.
Posted 108 days ago.
UNaffordable energy is definitely clean !
Posted 170 days ago.
What about China?
Posted 171 days ago.
U.S. energy-related carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in 2013 were 10 percent lower than 2005 levels, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA). Between 2005 and 2011, all four Census regions – West, South, Midwest and Northeast – had declines in emissions, with the Northeast experiencing the largest reduction. At the state level, Nebraska had a 20 percent emissions increase while Nevada showed a 33 percent decrease. The Midwest, West and South regions have more diverse state-level characteristics, which contributed to slower net emissions declines compared to the Northeast.
Posted 171 days ago.
This should help all those on fixed incomes in the USA:
Electricity prices are probably on their way up across much of the U.S. as coal-fired plants, the dominant source of cheap power, shut down in response to environmental regulations and economic forces. The Energy Department predicts retail power prices will rise 4 percent on average this year, the biggest jump since 2008. By 2020, prices are expected to climb an additional 13 percent, a forecast that does not include the costs of coming environmental rules.
WOW! NEVER SAW THAT ONE COMING! lol
Posted 185 days ago.
Sounds like to me the power industry lobbyists bought themselves some "representatives" to rig the system in their favor.
No surprise.
America for sale to the highest bidder.
Posted 219 days ago.
The Oklahoma House of Representatives passed a bill earlier this week that may add extra charges to utility customers who want to install rooftop solar panels or small wind turbines.
The House passed Senate Bill 1456 in a 83-5 vote. The Senate approved the bill in March.
The Oklahoma Corporation Commission (OCC) would create a separate customer class and monthly surcharge for distributed generation from rooftop solar or small wind turbines, according to The Oklahoman.
Posted 220 days ago.
Pffft! What we need is an atmospheric processor.
I hear Weyland-Yutani makes them.
Posted 222 days ago.
Seems you left this sentence out of post...
the fact that the UN is considering concepts like carbon vacuuming -- which the UN and other climatologists had turned their noses up to ;)
Posted 222 days ago.
International efforts to combat global warming are so broken that it's come to this: hoovering massive amounts of carbon dioxide out of the sky.
A body of scientists convened under the auspices of the United Nations is giving more weight to the idea that vacuuming vast stores of CO2 from the skies and burying it in the ground may be necessary to limit the temperature rise to the internationally agreed safe level of 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit above pre-industrial levels.
Disclaimer: I did not find this on April Fools day.
Posted 223 days ago.
I admit the old plants need to stop running. That is not what I mean here. I mean the stringent restrictions on everything else and no reasonable timetable to achieve the desired results without causing a power shortage where demand is higher than supply and the price goes UP... Like it did iin Jan.
Posted 258 days ago.
Bob B do me a favor and copy and paste this in the search bar of your choice.
epa war on coal
That way you can choose which one you choose to believe or not. Take your pick. Or do nothing and keep posting stupid stuff. Everyone knows the epa is trying to clean up the atmosphere and is probably supporting greenpeace and the sierra club too.
Posted 258 days ago.
ask - I can only speculate on that topic. Seems reasonable that preparations were needed. Bob B, yes there is and Obama said a corp could build a new coal fired plant but it would break them. Plus all of these stricter EPA regulations would choke down most any business that they were applied to.
Posted 258 days ago.
All they can do ole buddy is complain upfront. They have installed all kinds of scrubbers, SCR's, and other pollution control equipment on most of their plants. And the older units in this Mid Ohio valley are definitely old and out dated and dirty. Plus they are installing transmission lines to shift power where it is needed. I don't know if they are building any gas transmission pipes. I take offense to how they said over and over again that gas is cheaper than coal. It is sometimes, not all the time, and not by much. And there's not enough gas units anyway. They also never mentioned gas BASIS, the transportation problems, and how expensive gas was this winter, when it went from $3 to $100+ on the east coast and $30-60 around Chicago and $8 or whatever around here.That's not exactly cheap gas!
Posted 258 days ago.
Thanks Bigfoot. You are right. You have some sense about you. Some people cannot accept the fact that there are gonna be price increases and brownouts because they are he11bent on theirs, the EPA's and Obamas War On Coal...But what do I know?
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Bacon-Wrapped Cornish Hens with Raspberry Balsamic Glaze
Briskly simmer jam and vinegar in a small saucepan, uncovered, stirring occasionally, until glaze is reduced to about 1/2 cup, about 8 minutes. Cool to room temperature (glaze will thicken slightly as it cools).
Preheat oven to 450°F.
Cook bacon in batches in a large heavy skillet over moderate heat, turning occasionally, until some of fat is rendered but bacon is still translucent and pliable, 5 to 7 minutes. Transfer to paper towels to drain.
Cut out and discard backbone from each hen with kitchen shears, then halve each hen lengthwise. Pat hens dry and season with salt and pepper, then arrange, cut sides down, in a large roasting pan. Brush hens liberally with glaze, reserving remainder, and wrap 2 slices of bacon around each half hen, tucking ends under. Roast in middle of oven, brushing with pan juices and reserved glaze twice (every 10 minutes), until juices run clear when a thigh is pierced, 30 to 35 minutes.


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Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. January 15, 1970, Vol. XV, No. 3 Films in Focus by Andrew Sarris Every year about this time a large number of critics make up 10 best lists, an a smaller number write boring articles attacking 10 best lists. You do or you don't, I supp ... More >>
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The City Editor of a sleazy tabloid goes against his own journalistic ethics to resurrect a twenty year old murder case... with tragic results.
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Wonderful variety of antiques and collectibles: China,Sterling, Perfume Bottles, Doulton Figurines, Linens, Hat Pins, Sewing Items etc.We specialize in Tea Cups. We accept Paypal, Money Orders and also we accept Visa or Master Card.
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We carry a full line of antique costume and fine jewelry, vintage women's accessories, buttons, sewing paraphernalia, western collectibles, old kitchen items and cookbooks, linens -hankies our specialty, tins and toys.
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Selling antiques and collectibles including: porcelain, pottery, primitives, linens, glassware, kitchenware, metalware, vanity accessories, art, graniteware, bakelite, woodenware, biscuit jars, teacups, syrup pitchers, Oriental, and Victorian. We have it all!
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