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Andy Hawbaker is Sierra Trading Post's blogger, and as part of that work, he's taking on an incredible challenge. He'll be writing about an epic backpacking trip on the John Muir Trail. He and Sierra Trading Post videotographer, Chris Martin, join independent vlogger John Charlson and bloggers Paul Osborn and Adam Nutting on Saturday, July 13. The social media duo was asked to join this trek through the Sierra Nevada mountain range of Central California months ago. On the trip, they'll pass through Yosemite, Kings Canyon and Sequoia national parks. They estimate spending about 13 days traversing the 200-mile trail, averaging more than 15 miles each day … and at altitude!
Have you ever done a trip like this before? If so, where? When? How long was that trek?
No. Honestly, I've never done anything like this before. I am really into long day hikes and full-day mountaineering trips that may include over 15 miles of hiking and a great deal of elevation gain, but rarely do I ever get up and do it again the next day. I've done a few trips that involve backpacking in and setting up camp in order to climb a peak the next day and I've done a couple two-night backpacking trips with friends where we were mostly just hanging out. Hiking 200 miles in less than two weeks is new territory for me.
How have you prepared for this journey? Have you started training with a loaded pack?
With a full-time job, two kids and my wife's business that requires some of my attention, finding time to train is difficult. I've committed to squeezing in one 8- to 10-mile hike each weekend as well as one 5- to 6-mile hike one evening after work. In addition to that, I'm running 4 to 5 miles on two additional evenings each week in an effort to get into shape. I haven't been carrying a lot of weight yet. I've always been all about keeping it light and easy for day hikes so it's hard for me to carry things I won't need. I'm slowly easing into it and will start carrying heavier loads in the coming weeks. I've blogged about my training progress so far, and Chris put together a video for that post.
Aside from hiking, what else have you done to prepare your mind and body for this trip?
I've been reading a lot about the trail, researching backpacking meals and just thinking about it all of the time. Beyond that I guess I'll have to be flexible and see what happens.
Can you tell me a little about your work with this trail crew? How did you meet them?
Besides Chris, who I work with on a daily basis, I've never met these guys in person. The cool thing is that my first week working at Sierra Trading Post, I met Paul and Adam. They were both active with comments on the Sierra Social Hub and through Twitter. I eventually followed them on my personal account and got to know them by swapping stories about the outdoors. I remember Paul asking me to join him on the John Muir Trail. I said no. I figured there was no way I'd be able to do it. As time went on, he asked again so I thought about it and decided to figure out how to do it.
What's the thing you're most looking forward to on this trip?
I'm looking forward to the adventure. I'm ready to step away from my day-to-day life to truly live in the moment for two whole weeks. This is an opportunity that most people never will get to experience. Also, I've never spent any time in the Sierra Nevada Range, and I think I'm just going to love the scenery on the trail.
What's the thing you're most nervous about today?
I'm a little worried about food. It's going to be hard to eat enough calories each day to stay energized, and we are limited in the space we have for food since we are required to carry bear canisters. With scheduling food drops, preparing the meals way in advance and making sure I have enough food, not to mention fuel for the stove, there's a lot to think about.
To some people, a trip like this sounds like a huge undertaking, and I know you've experienced some anxiety about this trip. That's natural, of course. How have you kept yourself motivated to train?
This is truly a dream trip for me. I've always wanted to do something like this. While it is a stretch beyond my comfort zone, and it requires a lot of planning and training, I know it is going to be a lot of fun and I'll be telling stories about this for many years. It's easy to stay motivated when the end prize is a trip of a lifetime. If I'm not prepared it won't be as much fun. That's all the motivation I need.
What kind of content can we look forward to during and after your trip?
We'll be sending photos and quick stories back as often as we can while on the trail. After the trip, we'll share a lot of helpful tips about the trail, about the gear we used and hopefully we'll have some fun stories to share. Ultimately, we want to share our experiences – good and bad – to help our viewers, readers, customers, friends and family find their way to the outdoors and incredible adventures.
I think you're looking forward to it as much as we are, Andy! Good luck!
Thanks Juliette!
You can follow Andy's Twitter feed, check back to the Sierra Social Hub for updates or find out more about this trip here: John Muir Trail 2013. You can also follow along at the JMT Page.
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Another big jump in geography last week as I left Bangkok for London. On the way I had a 14 hour layover in Helsinki where I stayed over night. It was my first time in Finland, but it was one of those visits that wasn't really a visit. Technically, i was in Finland. I got my passport stamped and spent stayed there overnight, but I never even got to see daylight while I was there.
My very brief impression of Finland based on my trip from the airport to the hotel is that it is expensive, clean and very nice. The meter in my cab started at €7.70 ($9.85)! Sort of reinforced my general rule that you should avoid taking a taxi in Europe.
I definitely intend to return to Finland someday to explore the country properly.
My arrival in London also marked the end of my 40 day circumnavigation of the globe. Since late September I've crossed every line of longitude on Earth. My route was: BCN –> YYZ –> DEN –> LAX –> NRT –> SIN –> BKK –> HEL –> LHR.

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IRISH music is less popular than ever with American audiences - with new bands such as Westlife failing miserably in the United States.
US music publications have warned that the golden period once enjoyed by The Pogues, Sinead O'Connor and The Chieftains is officially OVER as Ireland's top bands suddenly tumble out of favour with their once devoted American audiences.
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Today, January 13, 2016, Sheriff David Reynolds announced the official launch of the Porter County Sheriff's Office App for mobile devices and smart phones.
The Porter County Sheriff's Department completed seat belt and impaired driving enforcement for the Safe Family Travel campaign. The Blitz 84 period was from November 13th and ran through December 6th.
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The hot topic of virtualization has developed into a must have for any vendor's portfolio: following Oracle, Sun has now announced its own virtualization and management platform titled xVM.
Both were presented at the Oracle Open World fair (see the separate news item here). Just like Oracle, Sun's server-based solution relies on the free Xen hypervisor. And just like Oracle, Sun's focus is on integrating its own technologies. Sun's Solaris 10 operating system is supported besides Linux and Windows. There is no need to do without Sun's Predictive Self-Healing if you run Solaris 10 as a guest operating system, and Sun promises ZFS support for Linux and Windows.
Administrators can use the "xVM Ops Center" as a tool to manage virtual and physical components. The hardware underpinnings can be 64 bit systems or SPARCs. AMD and Intel suggested their 64 bit Opteron and Xeon CPUs as perfect candidates. And the powers that be at MySQL AB and Quest Software made similar recommendations for database and management products.
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Lyme Disease in TexasLyme disease is the most common vector-borne disease in the U.S. Since the year 2000, the number of reported cases in Texas has ranged between 50 and 100, with probable cases (those which do not meet the strict CDC reporting criteria) at twice that number. For the past two years, TXLDA has received between 600 and 900 requests annually from patients seeking medical care for Lyme disease symptoms. Many diagnosed cases are not reflected in official statistics due to restrictive reporting criteria. Lyme is largely unrecognized in Texas so it is often misdiagnosed by doctors who are not familiar with its clinical presentation. Currently, there are thousands of Texans who must go out of state to seek treatment for Lyme Disease.
The causative agent of Lyme disease, Borrelia burgdorferi, was first identified in Texas in 1984. Lyme disease is now known to be endemic to Texas. A study published in Parasites & Vectors in 2014 found the causative agent of Lyme disease in 45% of Ixodes scapularis (black-legged deer ticks) collected. This tick was found to be widely occurring in East Texas and into Northern parts of Mexico in a continuous region along the Gulf Coast. Read more
Dr. Kerry L. Clark of the University of North Florida has found the DNA of different strains of Borrelia burgdorferi (sensu lato), Borrelia andersonii, and Borrelia americana associated with Lyme-disease like signs and symptoms in patients in the South. His study suggests that human cases of Lyme disease in the southern USA may be more common than previously recognized and may also be caused by more than one species of B. burgdorferi sensu lato. Other research, published in Geospacial Health in 2014, has found a significant discrepancy between the location of Lyme cases reported in Texas and the suitable habitat for Ixodes scapularis ticks, suggesting that other vectors of Lyme disease may be possible. Further study is needed on transmission by other species of ticks and other vectors. Patients with Lyme disease reside in each of the 11 public health regions in Texas. Texans are at risk of Lyme disease both from native sources and those brought in by migrating birds and animals, as well as from travel to other endemic areas. Visitors to any undeveloped countryside are at considerable risk of being bitten by ticks that carry the Lyme disease bacteria. Ticks may also be picked up in high grass, on golf courses, school playgrounds, greenbelts, farms, ranches, and in private yards. Anyone who engages in outdoor pursuits may be exposed to Lyme disease and should take proper precautions. Additionally, pets can bring ticks into the home, placing household members at risk.
Tick-borne illnesses can be extremely debilitating and even deadly. Failure to diagnose and treat aggressively leads to disability, which can be comparable in intensity and effect to that caused by congestive heart failure.
There are six reportable tick-borne illnesses in Texas: babesiosis, ehrlichiosis (including anaplas- mosis), Lyme disease, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, tularemia, and tick-borne relapsing fever. Additionally, a Lyme-like illness known as STARI (Southern Tick-Associated Rash Illness), transmit- ted by the Lone Star Tick, is reportable as Lyme disease. Failure to report these diseases is a Class B misdemeanor under the Texas Health and Safety Code, Section 81.049, but this provision is rarely, if ever, enforced. Texas is a passive surveillance state, and it is likely that there is considerable under-reporting of tick-borne illnesses. The U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that only ten percent of Lyme disease cases in the U.S. are reported.
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Best Female Athlete (2010)
Anonka Dixon, Miami Caliente
If you think women can't play football, you've never seen Anonka Dixon. She's part owner of the Miami Fury, the 11-on-11 women's franchise, but it's as quarterback of the Miami Caliente, South Florida's lingerie football team, that she completely dominates. At 33 years old, Dixon is the best player in the Lingerie Football League. She led the LFL in every passing category and accounted for about 70 percent of Miami's touchdowns. With lightning speed; the ability to plant either foot, pivot, and reverse field in a blink; and a right arm that can launch a perfect spiral 60 yards, she's the female version of Peyton Manning, Kurt Warner, and the good parts of Michael Vick all rolled into one. (And yeah, she's also gorgeous.)
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In Asia, an eclipse. And Jupiter gets smashed
The longest solar eclipse of the century swept over Asia and the Pacific Ocean on Wednesday. Day into night, that kind of stuff. The event lasted more than six minutes in some parts.
In other celestial news, something, maybe a comet or an asteroid, smashed into Jupiter. No estimate of damage from the Jovian authorities. But whatever hit the giant planet was about the size of Earth. An amateur astronomer from Australia spotted the spot and alerted real astronomers.
An interesting story, meanwhile, from the New York Times. The newspaper reports that Target, of all places, has become a tastemaker in the world of books. It seems that it has been able to take books written by unknown writers and turned them into best-sellers through clever placement and marketing. So, if you have a manuscript waiting to be sold, it appears the place with the red logo is the place to hawk it.
In Washington, or at least on Fox News, there is a controversy brewing. It seems host Neil Cavuto ran a segment on Tuesday suggesting that the new surgeon general, the nation's top medical officer, is too fat. That would be Dr. Regina Benjamin. Cavuto, who can be seen on WITI-TV (Channel 6) doing business briefs, says Benjamin is obese.
ABC later weighed in on the topic as well. We don't remember C. Everett Koop looking svelte, but perhaps we're wrong.
As it happens, this is not the only controversy involving a member of the Obama administration. The story about President Barack Obama not being born in the U.S. has surfaced again. You can read more about it here.
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Op, I would just keep an eye out and express to your Dh how it makes you feel. If he's usually a nice guy and always making new friends that's one thing. If this is a rare occurrence and they get to close to quick I would put a stop to it quick.
Always save a mystery dildo. Always.
Why isn't any of his things available to you at all?
Some men are like lottery tickets. You got to rub alot of losers before you get a winner. --lovemyfamily1979
Having said that, I think it's so disrespectful for a married man to sleep in bed with another woman. I don't even know how you could possibly be ok with this even if nothing happened. I know I'd be pissed. I feel that sharing a bed is only something me and SO whould do. Not him and another woman. Everybody has their own comfort levels when it somes to relationships though.
OP: have you asked hubby for the passwords? Have you asked him to show you the text messages? Do you share a phone plan and if so, have you checked the statements online to see just how often these two are texting? If he has nothing to hide he would have no problem giving you the passwords and letting you read the texts. Do not be afraid to ask, you are his wife. I'd still check the statements though to make sure the number of texts match up. If not, then he's deleting some which would be a red flag.
Not "allowed" to use his phone for anything????? Uh oh....ABORT ABORT ABORT! Thats not even cool!
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Have you asked for his passwords? If he is super protective of his phone that is a huge flag for me. What would be his motivation to be protective of his phone with his wife? None of the answers IMO are good ones. That builds a wall of secrecy between you two which is extremely harmful to a marriage. Are you able to view the statements online or is the phone completely on it's own plan?
Some men are like lottery tickets. You got to rub alot of losers before you get a winner. --lovemyfamily1979
Well that would send anyones cheater alert off. Sorry but this is starting to sound really bad.
Some men are like lottery tickets. You got to rub alot of losers before you get a winner. --lovemyfamily1979
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'Immigrant' at home at Seven Angels
|Rita Markova, left, and Sarah Knapp perform during a dress rehearsal for 'The Immigrant' at Seven Angels Theatre in Waterbury. The musical is a true story about a young Jewish man who fled from Russia to America in the early 1900s. The play runs through April 21. Erin Covey / Republican-American.
Move over, Tevye. Haskell Harelik has arrived in America and he likes it very much.
Yes, he, too, is pushing a cart at the beginning of the show, but it's a cart full of bananas and he isn't pushing that cart at the end of the show. A true story about Jews and Christians living together at the turn of the 20th century, this story is specifically Haskell's as written by his very talented grandson, Mark Harelik, music by Steven M. Alper and lyrics by Sarah Knapp.
Haskell fled Czarist Russia in 1909, arrived in America by himself, and found welcome in Hamilton, Texas, a small rural Christian community. This musical is about the people who made America the great country that it is. It is as much about Christians and Christian traditions as it is about Jews and Jewish traditions. It is about generosity in a deep, meaningful, and uplifting way.
When a Christian couple offers Haskell a room in their home, the audience sees how generous Christians can be. When they found out that he was a Jew, they did not turn him away. People can and do come together even when they believe differently about religion and politics, as they do in this play. The trick is that it requires acceptance and an open mind.
At times, some women in the audience had tears trickling down their faces, especially when the women characters recalled their own family histories. Some of the men swallowed hard, especially when the babies were born. It is a very moving story without being sentimental. On the other hand, there are times when everyone in the theater couldn't help but laugh out loud.
While the music is truly fine, the voices are sensational. They are pitch perfect, clear as a bell, and so rich that it's worth the price of the ticket just to hear them sing.
However, this four member Equity cast has a lot more to give than just their remarkable voices. Each performance sets the bar for anyone else attempting to play these roles.
Max Bisantz plays Haskell with as much charm as sincerity. In the playbill, he thanks his family "both Yids and goys alike." Evidently, Haskell's family practiced what it preached. Sarah Knapp, who wrote the beautiful lyrics for this show, actually performs the role of Ima, a devoted Christian woman. No wonder Knapp's heart and soul are in her performance. Knapp's real life husband, Steven M. Alper, composed and orchestrated the music for this show and is the musical director for this production. It doesn't get much better than this.
Paul Blankenship plays Milton, Ima's husband, a banker who does not go to church, but is more than generous in spirit. Rita Markova plays Haskell's wife Leah as fragile as fine crystal, but when push comes to shove as strong and protective as a mother hen with her chicks.
While the lights designed by Joyce Liao, the sound design by Matthew Martin, and the costumes perfectly designed by Jimmy Johansmeyer all deserve high praise, no one deserves it more than Semina DeLaurentis who directed this show with precision, inspiration, and skill.
If you liked "Fiddler on the Roof," then you'll love "The Immigrant: An American Musical." If your ancestors were immigrants, then you'll also love this musical. In other words, this is a musical for everyone. Don't miss this one.
Joanne Greco Rochman is an active member in the American Theatre Critics Association, and covers art and culture in a blog for CBS and CBS-CT. She welcomes comments. Contact: jgrochman @gmail.com.
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Scottish Literary Review
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Translation of works by Liz Lochhead started as early as 1983. By 2010, ninety of her poems, performance pieces, and plays had been translated into eighteen languages and published in twenty countries on three continents. The two target languages in which the largest number of Lochhead texts has appeared are Italian and German. In all, there are almost 150 translations, but they seem to be virtually unknown. It is this gap in Lochhead research that the present bibliography is intended to fill. However, given the difficulty of locating translations that are not listed in the standard sources, the bibliography will necessarily be provisional.
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The commander-in-chief, leader of the free world, president of the United States, and overall "The Man". He's going to be in office for nearly a decade people; get over it. Oh yeah, I'M LOVIN IT!!!!! ;D
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Proof that voting in America can be rigged. Instigated the 9/11 attacks with his illogical foreign policies, and made the world hate America even more by starting an illegal oil war in Iraq. He has also succeeded in turning America from a once prosperous nation into a debt-ridden chaos.
Way to go, Dubya.
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only man alive to make Forest Gump look smart
Mama always said stupid is as George W Bush does
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A political puppet of large companies whose main goals in life are getting rich and destroying the planet in the process.
That's not a president, that's a prostitute!
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See village idiot.
George W Bush is America's greatest village idiot.
by Stoneur August 09, 2003
Perhaps the worst, most hypocritical, idiotic president the U.S. has ever had in office (and anyone who supports him and his war effort in the Middle East needs a foot broken up into his/her ass and his/her facts straightened out).
George W. Bush is a dick!
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|So happy to find a good deal on lemongrass!
Thursday, September 19, 2013
Slow Cooker Recipe for Easy Thai Coconut Soup with Lemongrass
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I love this type of soup; sounds great!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous21/9/12 12:31
I love it that your recipes are healthy as well delicious and easy! Most slow cooker recipes use too many processed foods and canned creamy soups instead of wholesome real food. Thank you.ReplyDelete
We eat this soup regularly, but I've never made it in a crockpot, that would be really good, and give the flavors a chance to blend, too. I'd love to have you link up at our ongoing link party on my new site: http://utahtopia.com/updates/entertainment/utahtopia-link-party Thanks!ReplyDelete
Kalyn, it really is a great soup! Yum!ReplyDelete
This soup sounds amazing!! I love Thai soups andway!!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous30/9/12 09:51
I just discovered your recipe websight, and I must say it is fantastic! The pictures, reviews and recipies are absolutely wonderful! You get the best recipe websight award! Fabulous!ReplyDelete
Thanks Meg! You made my day :)ReplyDelete
Really looking forward to trying this soup! What size slow cooker did you make this and your other recipes in? I have a 6 qt but I'm about to get a 4qt as well.ReplyDelete
I used a 3 quart slow cooker for this recipe. If you have the choice, I would use the smaller size! good luck and thanks for looking at my blog :)
So, how much lime juice would you say you actually put in this recipe? I used the juice of 2 limes and the result was so acidic that no one would eat it. I didn't measure what came from the limes, but it was somewhere around 1/4-1/3 cup.ReplyDelete
Btw, not trying to be rude! Just hoping for your input.ReplyDelete
So sorry Carrie! That makes me sad that it didn't turn out. For me it was just perfect. I probably had about 3 Tbsp of lime juice. Maybe mine weren't has ripe or something. I guess I should change the recipe to say "lime juice to taste".ReplyDeleteReplies
I just tried this soup and used 3 tablespoons (which was a little less than what I had squeezed out of two limes). It was perfect!Delete
Thanks for your reply! I easily had twice that amount, if not more. My limes must have been super juicy!ReplyDelete
Do you think I could double this recipe and put it in a 6 quart pot?ReplyDelete
Beth, yes you could easily do that!ReplyDelete
Okay thanks. Cooking time the same? I've made this soup twice, by the way, and my 2 year old eats it up! I couldn't find lemongrass so I got the paste. More expensive but it will last for a few more soups. I love recipes that are short like this and have such good flavor!ReplyDelete
Beth, yes, same cooking time. I used the paste once too. It's easier to find for some reason. It tasted the same to me both times!ReplyDelete
This was wonderful! I doubled it for my 6qt, then added another can of c. milk (making 3 altogether), and since I already had rice stick noodles inn the pantry, I threw some of those in there, too. THANK YOU! I will be making this again for sure!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous1/1/13 17:27
I was really excited to try out my first crockpot with this recipe and I don't know what I did wrong but my soup came out completely curdled:( I used the light coconut milk... could that have done it? I alsoput my chikcken pieces in partially frozen... Any ideas on what I did wrong to make it turn out so terribly?ReplyDelete
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Did you happen to put the juice from the limes in with everything else while cooking?Delete
I'm sorry it didn't turn out!
I have no idea why it curdled. I have only used full fat coconut milk so maybe that is why...I always use frozen meat, so that wouldn't have been it. Sorry I can't be more help!
- Anonymous18/2/13 14:17
Hi Karen,ReplyDelete
When do you put in the chicken? I have the chicken breasts frozen, should I drop them in whole frozen? Or should I defrost and chop before I put them in?
Thank you!
Frozen is fine! Just add at the beginning with the rest of the ingredients. Cut up once cooked through and serve!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous25/2/13 01:47
How much lemongrass paste would you recommend using? I'm really looking forward to trying this!ReplyDelete
- Bebe
I don't exactly remember how much paste it was. I want to say the paste container has enough to make the soup 3 times. Look on the back of the container..maybe that will help you out. Karen
Any ideas about nutritional value? I need it for my app trackerReplyDelete
Here is a site that will calculate it for you!
Sorry that I can't be any more helpful than that.
- Anonymous22/9/13 11:17
Do you use green or red curry paste?ReplyDelete
- Anonymous22/9/13 13:57
Came out perfect! Just like in my favorite thai restaraunt!ReplyDelete
I used one third of lemon grass tube and juice of half a lime. Yum!
I love coconut soup, and I'm trying to use the crockpot more so I'll be happily trying this recipe. Just a heads up. I bought some lemon grass fresh, that had it's base still on it. You can stick that in water and within a week or so it will grow roots and put off quite a bit of growth at the top. You can then plant it in your garden. Mine's still growing strong after 6 months.ReplyDelete
Mindy, Wow! I did not know that about lemongrass. Thanks so much for the heads up!ReplyDelete
I use red curry paste!ReplyDelete
Well I used the green Thai curry paste because I made the recipe 1 day before you posted that it was red.... This was the tastiest dish I have ever cooked in my crock pot and the best dish I've had in months. Thank you so much for such a wonderful meal and the house smelled amazing for hours. I also used the lemongrass tube.ReplyDelete
Mangojh2, so glad that it worked out for you!!!!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous1/10/13 13:14
Made this last night and my husband absolutely loved it! It was delicious and tasted just like they make it in restaurants. I doubled up on the mushrooms and also used a third tube of lemongrass paste. Next time I will add scallions also!ReplyDeleteReplies
Excellent idea, scallions were a tasty addition.Delete
Would this freeze? Trying to decide how much to make. Looks absolutely amazing!ReplyDelete
I'm making this tomorrow and I'm so excited about it! The owner of the Asian market where I bought the lemongrass said to also add some galangal slices and a kafir lime leaf. Fingers crossed!ReplyDelete
Paty, I bet it will be fantastic!!ReplyDelete
Hi Karen! I was thinking of making this soup but adding vegetables instead of chicken! I was thinking of adding yellow, red and orange peppers, any suggestion on quantities?! So excited to make this dish!! :)ReplyDeleteReplies
That sounds great. I bet if you added half a pepper of each kind it would be plenty. Let me know how it turns out!Delete
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Would it be possible to make this recipe vegetarian? The chicken broth would be easy enough to substitute, but in place of the chicken, would tofu work? If so, could I just add it into the pot at the beginning like you would with meat, or should I hold off and add it in a little later?ReplyDeleteReplies
I'm sure that it would be possible. I am really not sure about tofu. I've actually never cooked with it before, so I'm not familiar with it. Let me know what happens!Delete
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I have a couple of questions. First, should the chicken broth be low sodium, or do you use regular? Second, you say to cook the chicken breasts first, and cut them up at the end, but would it still work if I cut it up before I cooked the soup? Would the chicken dry out? I want to make this soup pretty much exactly as the recipe says the first time I make it, although I am considering adding the salt and pepper at the beginning before the soup gets cooked, instead of at the end.ReplyDelete
I had this soup at a Thai restaurant with my mother and I absolutely loved the tart, lemony flavor! It is one of our favorite soups and I am excited to make it for us!Replies
Hi Tasha, I just use regular broth. You can always salt and pepper to taste at the end too. You could definitely cut the chicken up before if you want. It won't dry out the chicken because it will surrounded in broth.Delete
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Man this was delicious. Added scallions like someone else mentioned and a bit of chili powder as I wanted a little more spice to it. Thanks!ReplyDeleteReplies
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We decided we would like it just as much without the chicken and we would prefer chopped green onions on top over the cilantro.
Definitely ad lime "to taste" at the end
Pinterest won't let me pin this recipe, any idea why? I'd like to save it to try later!ReplyDelete
I made this soup last year, and it was awesome. We are now trying a vegan diet, and I am wondering how you think tofu would sub for chicken in here? I would love to make this again.ReplyDeleteReplies
I don't really know since I'm not familiar with tofu at all. But I bet you could do it.Delete


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What's not to like about Christus Spohn Health System's plan to spend $325 million in this community? It's not a trick question. We really don't know what's not to like.
We've learned that Spohn plans to upgrade beautiful Christus Spohn Hospital Shoreline into a Level 2 trauma center, build an outpatient ambulatory health center on the grounds of Memorial hospital and demolish Memorial because it's deteriorated, inefficient and increasingly irrelevant to the best, most modern health care delivery practices.
All of these sound to us like good ideas. And, we'll add for emphasis, refraining from tearing down Memorial until all of its functions have been transferred sounds like good management.
Most of what we've learned came from the investigative reporting of our own Rhiannon Meyers. A little more was learned Tuesday at a meeting of the Nueces County Hospital District. Spohn operates Memorial, which is county-owned, through an agreement in which Spohn provides the county's indigent care services.
Hospital district CEO Jonny Hipp told the district board Tuesday that most of the $325 million would be spent at Spohn Shoreline ? based on what Spohn has told him. And hospital district attorney Gary Eiland said the demolition of Memorial would be the final step ? according to what he has been told by Spohn. Note these odd attributions.
What's puzzling to us is that every bit of this news sounds like something Spohn would want to shout from a rooftop. It's no cause for modesty or reticence. Taking pride in announcing big investments, upgrades and modernizations is the corporate way.
If ever there were need-to-know news, this is it because Spohn is the region's dominant health care system and Nueces County's indigent care provider. Yet, Meyers had to dig up information we'd have expected to be announced at a special-announcement event. And hospital district officials were in the awkward position Tuesday of briefing board members on what they had heard from Spohn. Officials from Spohn attended the meeting but left early.
So, as excited as we are about the plan, we're not fond of Spohn's wall of silence. Neither are hospital district and county officials. Spohn agreed to conduct public meetings in July, but only after those frustrated officials beseeched Spohn.
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Spohn has given no indication whether the meetings in July will be anything other than informational, or whether public reaction might influence final decisions by Spohn. But what are the downsides to making the community feel like a partner?
One thing that's clear from interactions with Spohn officials is that they are antsy about how the public will react to Memorial's demise. It's too big to hide under a 325-million avalanche of dollars, and any attempt to do so won't be credible. Spohn would serve itself and the community best by addressing the demolition issue directly.
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