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Thursday, March 8, 2012
Parkenstein! Explains Perfection
36 comments:
- Samantha Dugan said...
Denis de Menis....dude, where do you come up with this shit?! Nearly horked my coffee.
- March 8, 2012 at 9:51 AM
- Ron Washam, HMW said...
If I knew the answer to that question, I'd probably stop writing.
Coincidentally, I almost called him Denis de Merde. - March 8, 2012 at 10:28 AM
- Thomas said...
Yes, Denis de Menis is quite good...it's also funny...and you forgot to include the...
Sometimes...being serious is quite funny...too..."I score wines exactly as I have always scored wines—whimsically, and without any reproducible method."
That was...serious...right? - March 8, 2012 at 11:08 AM
- Ron Washam, HMW said...
You know as well as I that satire is deadly serious.
I wanted to chime in on Parker's nymphomaniacal ratings of the 2009 Bordeaux, but in my own way. It is the topic of the week on blogs, but I like the challenge of speaking to the issue in an original way, or as original as I can be. I read Parker's introductory essay to his ratings on his website and decided I would just mock that. It's hilariously egotistical, though I'm sure Parker himself could never see that.
As I said over at Charlie's blog, it is wonderfully funny that the man who imposed the 100 point scale on American wine writers, who all now vigorously and hilariously defend it, is now singlehandedly making a mockery of it. Parker is now self-parody, and I'm a happy man because of it. - March 8, 2012 at 11:58 AM
- Thomas said...
You...satire...me...sarcasm...and...sometimes...irony. - March 8, 2012 at 12:11 PM
- Ron Washam, HMW said...
Yes, I understood all of those things from your words, but your comment gave me an excuse to further pontificate with my usual emptyheaded negativity.
So thanks for that.
...sarcasm...irony... - March 8, 2012 at 12:17 PM
Mr Parkenstein, sir, a moment of your time?
I'm changing over to a new database, and I'd like some idea of your thoughts for 2010.
Do I need to allow for four places in the "Score" column, or can I stick with 3? Specifically, will you be giving the 2010s 100+ or do you think you will stick with something more traditional, like 101?
Thanks so much for all that you do, Mr. Parkenstein. You're just the best.
M.F. - March 8, 2012 at 2:46 PM
Mr. Parker is intentionally destroying the validity of the 100-point rating system so that no one will use it after he has gone.
Dead people can do that. - March 8, 2012 at 3:33 PM
- Ron Washam, HMW said...
Those initials scare me.
I can't speak for Parkenstein--well, actually, I do--but I shall be using the Million Point Scale, which means you will need SEVEN places in your spreadsheet.
For example, I rated the 2009 Chateau Lafite 986,435. Though I haven't tasted it. Experience and my authority tells me that's an accurate number.
As I said, Parker is, unintentionally, I think, making a mockery of the 100 Point Scale, which certainly deserves it. I think maybe he's in his King Lear phase, ranting and raving in the face of the storm. - March 8, 2012 at 4:13 PM
- Marcia Macomber said...
"And my poor fool is hang'd!
No, no, no life!
Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life,
And thou no breath at all?
Thou'lt come no more,
Never, never, never, never, never!"
Parker? Lear? All sounds the same to me.
I do like Dennis de Menis. I'm with Samantha on that. - March 8, 2012 at 7:04 PM
- winebookgirl said...
Also love Denis. Plus "The other five proved to be the Greatest Subscription Boosters Ever, and must, therefore, be considered extremely important."
- March 8, 2012 at 9:01 PM
- Thomas said...
You appeal to such a literate crowd--what are you a leftie liberal or something? - March 9, 2012 at 6:58 AM
- Ron Washam, HMW said...
Marcia Love,
Not bad, but I was thinking more along the lines of this from "King Lear:"
"I never gave you kingdom, call'd you children,
You owe me no subscription: then let fall
Your horrible pleasure: here I stand, your slave,
A poor, infirm, weak, and despised old man:"
And, of course, I get to play the Fool.
Nope, not a southpaw. I hurl my screwball right-handed. - March 9, 2012 at 8:33 AM
El Maestro de la Manguera...ya gotta forego using the "fat" monicker. It's getting old, and besides, nearly everyone ITB knows what the donkey-butt in question looks like. Keep the jackass part. Definitely.
- March 9, 2012 at 9:08 AM
- Ron Washam, HMW said...
Hey David,
Well, you have a point. I shouldn't demean my four-legged jackass friends.
Other than that, when did you get so P.C.? "Fat" is a perfectly lovely word, and, in the comedic sense, helps the phrase scan better. I might have used "corpulent," but, really, not so funny.
Hey, I hear you're making wine down near, or in, Temecula now. Send me some! Or was I misinformed?
Nice to hear from you, David. - March 9, 2012 at 9:45 AM
Parkenstein-san! You say "For one thing, you're not Chinese, and they're the people buying these overblown caricatures of wine." OK, but how about Japanese? Where to find these too much to blow characters of wine? Four Seasons Tokyo?
- March 9, 2012 at 9:46 AM
- Thomas said...
"Hey, I hear you're making wine down near, or in, Temecula now. Send me some!"
You see, all these bloggers want is free wine. - March 9, 2012 at 12:35 PM
- Ron Washam, HMW said...
Amen, brother. Mr. Vergari makes nice wine. I have no pride. I think that's apparent.
And you'll send me some of your messed up Riesling, right? - March 9, 2012 at 1:49 PM
- Thomas said...
Only the messed up portion of it.
- March 9, 2012 at 3:53 PM
- Dean Tudor said...
RON: No matter how cynical I get, I can never keep up with you...
- March 9, 2012 at 6:22 PM
- Ron Washam, HMW said...
Oh, keep trying, you'll get there.
But it's cynicism in the service of laughter, which is the only good it ever does. - March 9, 2012 at 6:39 PM
Your semi-meaningless ramblings rate a certaing je ne se quois but are lacking in bouquet. Overall, while I see promise in the vintage remarks, the freshly laid asphalt on a French country road scent is only fleeting and diminishes as you continue to ramble. Therefore, I must, quite humbly, pronounce, that this piece is not perfection and, perhaps only on a par with the 87 or 94 vintage...
- March 9, 2012 at 10:54 PM
- Mockingbird said...
I thought the line was:
"Keep searching.... keep searching.... you'll find it..." - March 10, 2012 at 1:27 PM
- TWG said...
Parker as King Lear is likely, but your writing is more Jonathan Swift than Shakespeare
- March 11, 2012 at 1:01 PM
- Ron Washam, HMW said...
Thank you. While I'm most certainly no Shakespeare, I'm also not very Swift. On a good day, maybe Shecky Greene. - March 11, 2012 at 7:03 PM
PC...me? Fuggedaboutit Maestro. BTW, didja hear about the contest to come up with the best description of PC...where the winning entry defined its advocates as those who maintain that "it's entirely possible to pick up a turd by its clean end"? My point was that the perp's physical apprearance is a blinding glimpse of the obvious. I mean, look at damn mug shot! I'd write more about his lame pony-tail but let's not engage in mission-creep.
- March 12, 2012 at 10:44 AM
- Ron Washam, HMW said...
He just has the pony tail so people focus on that and not the puncheon strapped to his abdomen.
But, OK, enough. Though I still think it's funny how Parker's ethics issues vanished from the discussion the minute he discovered 19 perfect wines... He does know how to use his power. - March 12, 2012 at 6:22 PM
- Gerry Dawes said...
This reads very much like someone is blowing smoke up Darth Vadar's (I refuse to use the RP D.O. Monkton, MD ref anymore) ass. My the farce be with you. And God bless you my son.
- March 14, 2012 at 4:49 PM
- Gerry Dawes said...
"I wanted to chime in on Parker's nymphomaniacal ratings of the 2009 Bordeaux, but in my own way. It is the topic of the week on blogs, but I like the challenge of speaking to the issue in an original way, or as original as I can be. I read Parker's introductory essay to his ratings on his website and decided I would just mock that. It's hilariously egotistical, though I'm sure Parker himself could never see that.
Suggested correction here: Ron, Did you mean nympho-onanistic-maniacal by any chance? Just asking. ;-0 - March 14, 2012 at 4:54 PM
- Ron Washam, HMW said...
Parker continues to be the satirist's dream, the Sarah Palin of wine critics. This stuff writes itself. I just really hope, somehow, some way, he reads HoseMaster...
Yeah, right. - March 14, 2012 at 6:50 PM
I am tasting the big '10s today - in bottles (not from a thief...though that may be a point of discussion) but before official bottling.
I imagine everyone will be changing their recipes by adding 100 points though I am not sure what that would entail except for mixing with what was left from the '09 spittoons or the Languedoc.
So, I expect whatever I taste today will have no relevance to what appears after they Parkerize. (Coca Cola and Pepsi aren't the only ones messing with their secret recipes).
Oh my...I just looked up Parkerize and the secret is out!
"The process involves "submerging [tongue] into a phosphoric acid solution whose key ingredient is often zinc or manganese, with varying additional amounts of nitrates and chlorates and copper. ...[tongues] that are Parkerized turn to a light greenish-gray color within a few years, as the coating ages..." Wikipedia
So there you have it.
P.S. Fantastic subtle (and not so) lines here today. And using the particle "de" was brilliant. - March 14, 2012 at 11:06 PM
- Ron Washam, HMW said...
Was that "Parkerize" you looked up or "Pulverize?" I'm guessing the Great Man's palate suffers from the latter.
Tasting the '10's already? I haven't even tasted the 2000's yet. But I know it's the Greatest Vintage Ever. - March 15, 2012 at 9:12 AM
- Unknown said...
Having just tasted all the 2010 Bordeaux wines imported by Kurniawan Cellars, I can unequivocally state that it is without a doubt the Greatest Vintage Ever! (I'll be right there, Officer!) These wines are overflowing with gobs of hedonistic fruit and a few stray shots of ink-jet spray. (Good to touch base with you again - you can thank Dan Berger for putting us in touch!) - March 16, 2012 at 8:16 AM
- Ron Washam, HMW said...
I'm hoping Parker gives at least 25 wines 100 points in the 2010 vintage, though, unless there's more controversy he wants to deflect, I doubt that he will. He'll go back to four or five. Show folks he hasn't lost any power or clout. In other words, no one cares what you think about Bordeaux.
Are we acquainted? Send me a PM if you like. As for Berger, I hear he said kind things about my piece.
Thanks for contributing. Come on back and hang around. - March 16, 2012 at 9:32 AM
- Eduardo Machado Araujo said...
Is just amazing the way you wrote it.
I had the chance to taste some of this wines in an event held by the "union des grand crus" and I can see they are great wines but it's a different world to have two dozens "perfect wines" (also, 99+ wtf?).
When he released the so called definitive scores I though, he was making funny of his own system.
And, now, reading your explanation, it makes sense. I'm laughing at the way you put it in words...
great stuff! - March 17, 2012 at 6:09 AM
- Ron Washam, HMW said...
Thanks, Eduardo.
Sometimes Parker just makes my job way too easy. - March 17, 2012 at 9:53 AM


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"I have my confidence back and I just got to go out there and perform." - Travis Browne
Ask UFC heavyweight contender Travis Browne if he had any problem wearing an apron recently, and he doesn't hesitate to say "None at all."
The way he sees it, that's part of gig in the acting / comedy pool, one he dipped his foot in during a recent commercial spot for one of his sponsors, SafeAuto.
Teaming up with fellow fighters Bart Palaszewski and Martin Kampmann, along with former Saturday Night Live favorite Norm MacDonald, Browne showed a nice bit of comedic timing in the spot, which he described as "fun and a good time."
As for working with MacDonald, Browne appears to have made an impact on the popular comedian.
"It was fun because with my part I had him cracking up probably six or seven times," recalled Browne. "Every time I would do my part he'd start laughing, so we'd have to cut and redo it. The guy has my kind of sense of humor, and I find him real funny."
It was a nice change of pace from Browne's day job as a mixed martial artist, and an especially welcome comic break following the first loss of his pro career last October against Antonio "Bigfoot" Silva. In that fight, the 30-year-old Browne tore his hamstring early in the first round, and without the use of his leg, he became a sitting duck for Silva, who stopped him with strikes at the 3:27 mark. Six months later, Browne is philosophical about the defeat.
"Realistically, life isn't fair all the time," said the Honolulu native. "Maybe I could look at it as I helped Antonio keep his job. What if I would have beaten him? He wouldn't have gotten the shot against Alistair (Overeem) and he wouldn't be fighting for the title (in May against Cain Velasquez). He might have got cut. So for whatever reason, it happened, and at the same time, I have to move on. There's nothing I can do about it, it's over with, and in the next fight I have to come out and fight like I've never lost before. I have my confidence back and I just got to go out there and perform."
To his credit, Browne didn't look for the exit door after suffering the injury, which he would have been well within his rights to do. But given the fighting spirit seemingly possessed by all competitors from Hawaii, Browne assumed that he would find a way to win, so he pressed on.
"At that point, my mindset was, you can either quit and say I don't know what's going on, my leg's jacked up, or you can go on and try to win a fight, which is what I had been training so hard to do in the first place," he said. "And I made the decision to put my head down and try to finish the fight, get through it, and fight like a champion. You can't sit there and give up when something like that happens. I prepared and did everything I could do for that fight, and something you can't prepare for happened to me. I don't want people feeling sorry for me; it's not anything like that. It is what it is. It's a sport and that's the kinda stuff that happens."
And with it, the pressure of having that "0" in his loss column is gone. But as he explains it, being unbeaten was never a concern for him.
"I think people that buckle under that kind of pressure are weak-minded, and I've never been that kind of person," said Browne, now 13-1-1. "I never worried about my zero. At the end of the day, when that cage door closes, it's one man against another, and the one thing that this sport will teach you is that records don't matter. Someone is leaving with a loss. Fighters that focus on that kind of stuff, if you're worried about that, it shows that you have a chink in your armor. When you're an athlete at the top level of this sport, and especially in this sport, you know that momentum means very little because it only takes one shot to change the momentum of any fight. And I think anybody at our level knows that."
It's the mindset he is bringing into Saturday's bout against former world title challenger Gabriel Gonzaga. For Browne, a big win over the Brazilian veteran puts the Silva fight far in his rearview mirror and gets him back on track for a return to the title picture. But Gonzaga, who has won three straight, including two in the UFC, has his own sights set on getting back to the top, and the way Browne looks at his opponent, "Napao" is showing the best form of his career.
"I see a very dangerous Gabriel," he said. "He's back in old form, and when I say that I don't mean a one-dimensional Gabriel where he's just a grappler, or when he tried to come out and just stand up with people. He's come out with a great understanding of the standup game, but he's getting back to his roots in the jiu-jitsu and submitting them. But he's using his standup in order to get people to the ground. He makes them respect his standup and then he takes them down and he submits him. That's what he should have been doing a long time ago. But the fight game's funny like that; it will trick you into thinking certain things and I think he's just as dangerous now as he ever has been before."
From the sounds of it, Browne is feeling pretty dangerous himself heading into this pivotal bout, especially with the spring holding plenty of intriguing heavyweight matchups that could directly impact the winner of this Saturday's fight. "Hapa" admits to having looked at all the various puzzle pieces in the division before training camp began, but at the moment, he's focusing on the fight and will resume the What If game on Sunday morning.
"When I wasn't getting ready for a fight I'd try to play all the What Ifs," he said. "But right now, I'm focused on Gabriel. After this fight, it depends on how the cards play out. There's Silva and (Cain) Velasquez; Overeem said he'll be ready to fight this summer, so he'll need a fight. Then you have (Junior) dos Santos against (Mark) Hunt, and there are some interesting matchups. You have (Cheick) Kongo against Roy (Nelson) and (Rodrigo) Big Nog (Nogueira) against (Fabricio) Werdum. So there are a lot of fights happening right around my fight, and I think it depends on how things play out before I can determine my next opponent."
It's the mature and humble attitude Browne has sported since entering the sport, and likely the one that has made his stock remain high despite the loss to Silva. That's an appeal that can't be underrated, and Browne is appreciative of the fans he has and the support he's received.
"It helps solidify that I'm doing something right and that there's a fanbase behind me and that a company like SafeAuto would want to use me in one of their commercials," he said. "It goes past whether you win or lose. You want to be part of a winning team and everything, but at the same time, when you start to like the person for who they are, I think that's one thing that the general public can respect. I'm pretty real. I don't put on a façade, I don't act like a rock star, and I'm a down to Earth person. I'm a father first, I've always said that, and I think people can respect that and that's what they like about me."
But what about a career in comedy after this fighting thing is done?
"Possibly," he laughs.
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"Run away from all your boredomThe feeling of constantly running and wasting your existence for others is even stronger when it is impossible for you to make the most of those oh so precious, yet hilariously rare free days. Then, taking a break is a little bit of a torture as you are trapped in your rabbit box apartment and sentenced to not going out of a perimeter of a few kilometers around your domicile as taking cars, trains or aeroplanes is definitely not in your budget. So, in a way you feel trapped, deprived and like in a jail since you cannot escape your village, town and canton in order to get some fresh air. Money really determines the size of your cage, so to speak.
Run away from all your whoredom and wave
Your worries, and cares, goodbye
All it takes is one decision
A lot of guts, a little vision to wave
Your worries, and cares goodbye
It's a maze for rats to try
It's a race, a race for rats
A race for rats to die
It's a race, a race for rats A race for rats to die..."
- Excerpt taken from the song "Slave To The Wage" By Placebo
Don't get me wrong, though. I love to spend quality time between my four walls and if I had more resources, I would not be the kind of person who would travel frenetically and never be able to take some time out to relax at home. I am quite a tranquil and domestic "animal" who doesn't like to get stressed around or run like a maniac just for the sake of going away. Such tiring activities are not for me. They leave me empty and depress me. It is just another grind and I don't need that as I already have a plateful of this monotonous treadmill called modern life.
Tourist trap legolands, prefabricated and ugly hotels, phony paradises that all look the same wherever you go, people-crammed destinations, sanitized/sterile activities and accomodations (Western food, four-star beds, luxurious resorts, comfy trips, etc...) that don't disorientate you too much, yet just let you get a secure but not too mind-boggling glimpse of the exotic country you are "visiting" (most individuals don't want to a too drastic change of scene although they want to set foot on the other side of the globe), mindless and soulless quickie holidays that leave you feeling barren as well as drained or demented quests for things to boost about in front of your colleagues, family or friends repulse me. Instead of that, I'd rather see nothing else than my usual environment as I believe that if you go far afield it should have a purpose and be an enrichening as well as bewildering experience!
Why would one want to endure a long and exhausting journey, pollute the air we breathe and throw their savings earned from their hard labourship out of the window for a shellless vacation? What the point in getting into so much trouble just to export your safe way of living abroad?
In my opinion, travelling is synonymous of discovery, astounding enlightement, indelible memories, stepping out of your comfort zone, enjoying the beauty of different and learning about other civilizations/traditions. In absence of that, I prefer to have fun without skipping latitudes and to play the tourist in my own district, thus rediscovering my city as well as the countryside surrounding. In fact, that's what I do every time I go out for a walk. I try to see the things I know in a totally new fashion...
It is to be said that blogs are a marvelous medium for journeying on a trip without leaving your seat. They open you up to other cultures, patterns of thinking and offer you a highly pleasurable visual stimulus. Quite a voyeuristic way of living through others, but so soul-uplifting when you are in need of some serious daydreaming in order to flee your tedious and not so glamorous life for a short while.
Cooking gives you the means of fantacizing and freeing yourself from your shackles too. I cannot recall how many times my mind has wandered to distant lands while having a amazing meal. Food is really a world in itself.
Last week, for example, I prepared two foreign dishes that transported me to wonderful climes. Eating "Moussaka" and "Lime Rabbit" has helped me catch a sight of sunny Greece with its beautiful and deserted Peloponese beaches, turquoise sea, goat and sheep covered mountainous regions, lovely terrace coffees, amazing, atmospheric and rugged landscapes, olive tree filled valleys, friendly natives, ancients ruins, and stunning gastronomy as well as get a peek of the Antilles and its Caribbean blue waters, verdoyant nature, colorful vegetation and houses, exhuberant inhabitants, heavenly scenery and its exquisitely spicy cuisine. Very refreshing.
This is why, today, I wish to share with you my take on an Italian classic and make you forget that your children are going back to school very soon and that hot weather amusements as well as frivolity have sadly come to an end with the closing of the holiday season.
My Sicily-inspired "Cassata Cupcakes" will surely make you remember those deliciously lazy moments you spent while reading a book on your longchair, idly sitting on a restaurant patio, lethargically sleeping on the living room couch, gullibly sipping on a glass of frozen cold rosé, shamelessly faking boredom, fervently admiring the sun setting in the crimson horizon, flirting with the waves and effortlessly loitering around the streets of an unknown village or metropolis.
Of course, considering the fact that I am a person who likes to be creative, always itches to change recipes and to add her personal touch to them, it was out of question for me not to invent my own version of this gorgeous entremet. So instead of preparing a big cake, I baked cupcakes. Nonetheless, I decided to stuff them with a traditional filling and decorate them with rolled green marzipan as it is done in Sicily.
This is a fresh, refined, spicy, lightly boozy and divine summer sweet treat that is perfect for afternoon teas or parties with friends and is the ideal Sunday family lunch/dinner dessert. Just try it, you'll be ravished by its heavely taste.
~ Cassata Cupcakes ~
Cupcake recipe adapated from Amy Sedaris' "I Like You: Hospitality Under The Influence" and ricotta filling by Rosa Mayland 2011.
Makes about 12 cupcakes.
Ingredients for the "Cupcakes":
3/4 Cup (90g) Unsalted butter
3/4 Cup (158g) Castor sugar
1 Egg (~63g)
1 Tsp Pure vanilla extract
1/3 Tsp Orange zest paste (or orange essence)
1 1/4 Tsp Baking powder
1/4 Tsp Salt
1 1/4 Cups (160g) Plain white flour
5/8 Cups minus 1 1/2 Tbs (130ml) Milk
Ingredients For The "Ricotta Filling":
1 Cup (250g) Ricotta cheese, strained (see instructions here)
1/2 Cup (60g) Confectioner's sugar, sifted
3/4 Tsp Ground cinnamon
1 1/2 Tsp Pure vanilla extract
2/3 Tsp Orange zest paste (or orange essence)
4 Tbs (60g) Chocolate (60%), finely chopped
1 Tbs Whisky
Ingredients For The "Decoration":
200g Green marzipan
Whisky, to taste
Method For The "Cupcakes":
1. Turn the oven on to 190° C (375° F).
2. In a medium bowl, mix together all dry ingredients (salt, baking powder and flour). Set aside.
3. In a big bowl, cream the butter until smooth.
4. Add the sugar and cream again until the mixture is white, light and fluffy.
5. Add the 2 eggs, one at a time while beating/mixing well until blended.
6. Add the vanilla and orange zest paste, then the dry ingredients and the milk, alternatively, while mixing well, until all ingredients are totally combined (homogenous batter).
7. Pour into individual baking cups, until they are about 2/3 full.
8. Bake for 20 minutes or until golden brown or until a toothpick inserted in the middle of one cupcake comes out clean.
Method For The "Ricotta Filling":
1. In the bowl of your electric mixer, beat the ricotta until smooth and creamy.
2. Add the confectioner's sugar, cinnamon, vanilla, orange zest paste and blend until homogenous.
3. Stir in the chopped chocolate and whisky.
4. Chill until firm.
Method for "Putting The Cupcakes together":
1. Cut the cupcakes in two (horizontally).
2. Brush the insides with a bit of whisky.
3. Spread 2 tsps ricotta filling on the bottom part of the cupcake and assemble.
4. Roll the marzipan between two sheets of plastic film and cut rounds about the size of a cupcake, then cover the top of each cupcake with them.
5. Serve.
The cupcakes can also be made in advance and frozen for up to 3 months.
The filling can be made up to 24 hours prior to filling the cupcakes. Just cover and keep refrigerated.
Serving suggestions:
Serve those cupcakes as a teatime treat or for dessert with a good cup of coffee or some sparkling wine (Champagne, Prosecco or Clairette de Dille).
~ Cupcakes Façon Cassata ~
Recette pour les cupcakes adaptée de Amy Sedaris "I Like You: Hospitality Under The Influence" et recette pour la garniture à la ricotta par Rosa Mayland 2011.
Pour environ 12 cupcakes.
Ingrédients pour les "Cupcakes":
60g de Beurre non-salé
160g de Sucre cristallisé
1 Oeufs (~63g)
1 CC de d'Extrait de vanille pure
1/3 CC de Pâte de zeste d'orange (ou d'essence d'orange)
1 1/4 CC de Poudre à lever/cake
1/4 CC de Sel
160g de Farine blanche/fleur
130ml de lait
Ingrédients Pour La "Garniture A La Ricotta":
250g de Ricotta, égouttée (voir instructions ici)
60g de Sucre en poudre, tamisé
3/4 de Cannelle en poudre
1 1/2 CC d'Extrait de vanille pure
2/3 CC de Pâte de zeste d'orange (ou d'essence d'orange)
60g de Chocolat (60%), finement haché
1 CS de Whisky
Ingredients For The "Decoration":
200g de Massepain vert
Whisky, selon goût
1. Préchauffer le four à 190° C (375° F).
2. Dans un bol moyen, mélanger tous les ingrédients secs (sel, poudre à lever et farine). Mettre de côté.
3. Dans un grand bol, battre le beurre en pommade.
4. Ajouter le sucre et battre jusqu'à ce que le mélange devienne blanc et mousseux.
5. Ajouter les oeufs, un à la fois, tout en battant bien après chaque ajout afin d'obtenir un mélange homogène.
6. Ajouter la vanille et la pâte de zeste d'orange, puis les ingrédients secs, tout en alternant avec le lait et en mélangeant bien afin d'obtenir une pâte homogène.
7. Mettre la pâte dans les caissettes et remplir seulement au 2/3.
8. Cuire pendant 20 minutes, jusqu'à ce que les cupcakes soient dorés et que la lame d'en couteau en ressorte propre.
Méthode Pour La "Garniture A La Ricotta":
1. Dans le bol d'un batteur électrique, battre la ricotta jusqu'elle soit lisse et crémeuse.
2. Ajouter le sucre en poudre, la canelle, la vanille, le zeste d'orange en purée et battre à nouveau afin que le mélange soit homogène.
4. Ajouter le chocolate et le whisky.
5. Mettre au frigo afin que la garniture se rafermisse.
Méthode Por "L'assemblage Des Cupcakes":
1. Couper (horizontalement) les cupcakes en 2 parties égales.
2. Peindre chacune des deux parties intérieures avec un peu de whisky.
3. Etaler 2 CC de garniture à la ricotta sur la partie inférieure du cupcake.
4. Rouler le massepain et découper un rond de la taille du cupcake, puis recouvrir le dessus du cupcake avec.
5. Servir.
Si vouls le désirez, il vous eat possible de congeler les cupcakes (3 mois au m aximum).
La garniture peut être préparée 24 heures à l'avance et gardée au frigo.
Idées de présentation:
Servir ces cupcakes l'heure du thé ou comme dessert, avec un bon café et un vin mousseux de qualité (Champagne, Prosecco ou Clairette de Dille).


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When you're 33 years old with nearly eight years as a professional mixed martial artist under your belt, it's likely that you are who you are when the bell rings on fight night. Antonio "Bigfoot" Silva doesn't buy into that logic.
"UFC fans have not seen my best yet," said the heavyweight contender. "I'm improving every day, I'm correcting my mistakes and I'm looking to improve everything."
That attitude allowed Silva to rebound from a devastating May 2012 defeat against Cain Velasquez and roar back to hand rising star Travis Browne his first pro loss last October. To have such a wide swing in success within a five month span was nothing short of spectacular, as well as a testament to the Brazilian's talent and positive outlook.
Now all he needs to do is repeat the performance he delivered in the Browne fight against an even more imposing foe this weekend at UFC 156: former Strikeforce heavyweight champion Alistair Overeem.
"Overeem's standup is quite dangerous," admits Silva. "He's quite technical and is also very strong. But in no way do I feel intimidated by his size. I believe in me, I believe in my standup game, I believe in my jiu-jitsu and I don't fear him at all. I respect him as a professional but I don't fear him."
Why would he? Sure, Overeem is an imposing figure, both physically and reputation wise, but Silva's resume includes the names Tom Erikson, Ricco Rodriguez, Fabricio Werdum, Andrei Arlovski, Daniel Cormier, Velasquez, Browne, and Fedor Emelianenko. It was in the Emelianenko fight in February of 2011 that Silva announced his arrival among the elite, and his second round TKO win made it clear that there is no mountain that can't be climbed if you have the talent and desire to climb it. The next mountain is Overeem.
"Overeem will see the best of Bigfoot," said Silva. "Not only can I defeat Overeem, I will beat Overeem. I don't care about the title shot now. My focus is on Alistair and I want to fight him. I waited for this fight for two years and my focus is 100% on him. After February 2, I'll think about other fights."
In many ways, this is Antonio Silva's title fight. If he loses, then the Browne win will be seen as a fluke, and he will have lost three of his last four bouts. If he emerges victorious, it won't be enough to get him a return match with Velasquez, but it could possibly put him one win away, and that's good enough for him at the moment.
"For me, everything is at stake in this fight," said Silva. "This fight will put me among the UFC's elite."
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Baseball reflects on HOF pair Weaver, Musial
One was born in St. Louis, the other became a star there.
Aside from that, Earl Weaver and Stan Musial were about as different as two Hall of Famers could be.
''Talk about your odd couple,'' said George Vecsey, the longtime sports columnist for The New York Times who wrote a recent biography of Musial.
Weaver was a 5-foot-6 rabble rouser whose penchant for quarreling with umpires belied a cerebral approach to managing that has stood the test of time. Musial was a humble slugger with a funky batting stance who was beloved by Cardinals fans and respected by pretty much everyone else.
Saturday began with news of Weaver's death at age 82, and by the end of the night Musial had died, too, leaving baseball to reflect on two distinguished careers rich in contrasts.
''Earl was well known for being one of the game's most colorful characters with a memorable wit, but he was also amongst its most loyal,'' Commissioner Bud Selig said.
Selig later released a statement after Musial's death at age 92.
''Stan's life embodies baseball's unparalleled history and why this game is the national pastime. As remarkable as `Stan the Man' was on the field, he was a true gentleman in life,'' Selig said.
A three-time MVP and seven-time National League batting champion, Musial helped the Cardinals win three World Series championships in the 1940s. His popularity in St. Louis can be measured by the not one, but two statues that stand in his honor outside Busch Stadium. After his death Saturday, Cardinals of more recent vintage began offering condolences almost immediately.
''Sad to hear about Stan the Man, it's an honor to wear the same uniform,'' said a message posted on the Twitter account of Cardinals outfielder Matt Holliday.
Albert Pujols, who led St. Louis to World Series titles in 2006 and 2011 before leaving as a free agent before last season, offered prayers for Musial's family via Twitter.
''I will cherish my friendship with Stan for as long as I live,'' said a message posted on Pujols' site. ''Rest in Peace.''
Weaver was born in St. Louis, but his greatest success came as a manager in Baltimore. He took the Orioles to the World Series four times, winning one title in 1970.
Never a fan of small-ball strategies like bunting and stealing bases, Weaver preferred to wait for a three-run homer, always hoping for a big inning that could break the game open.
''No one managed a ballclub or pitching staff better than Earl,'' said Davey Johnson, who played under Weaver with the Orioles.
Johnson now manages the Washington Nationals and ran the Orioles from 1996-97.
''He was decades ahead of his time,'' Johnson said. ''Not a game goes by that I don't draw on something Earl did or said. I will miss him every day.''
While Musial could let his bat do the talking, Weaver was more than willing to shout to be heard. His salty-tongued arguing with umpires will live on through YouTube, and Orioles programs sold at the old Memorial Stadium frequently featured photos of Weaver squabbling.
Former umpire Don Denkinger remembered a game in which the manager disputed a call with Larry McCoy at the plate.
''Earl tells us, `Now I'm gonna show you how stupid you all are.' Earl goes down to first base and ejects the first base umpire. Then he goes to second base and ejects the second base umpire. I'm working third base and now he comes down and ejects me,'' Denkinger said.
Musial was a quieter type who spent his career far removed from the bright lights of places like New York and Boston. But his hitting exploits were certainly on par with contemporaries Joe DiMaggio and Ted Williams.
''I knew Stan very well. He used to take care of me at All-Star games, 24 of them,'' Hall of Famer Willie Mays said. ''He was a true gentleman who understood the race thing and did all he could. Again, a true gentleman on and off the field - I never heard anybody say a bad word about him, ever.''
Dave Anderson of The New York Times recalled growing up in Brooklyn, rooting for Musial. Those Dodgers crowds helped give Musial his nickname, Stan the Man.
''I thought he was going to knock the fence down in Brooklyn, he'd hit it so often,'' Anderson said.
Musial did it despite an odd left-handed stance - with his legs and knees close together, he would cock the bat near his ear and twist his body away from the pitcher before uncoiling when the ball came.
If that was a lasting snapshot of Musial, the images of Weaver will stay just as fresh - the feisty manager, perhaps with his hat turned backward, looking up at an umpire and screaming at him before kicking dirt somewhere and finally leaving the field.
None of those histrionics should obscure the fact that in the end, Weaver often had the last laugh - to the tune of a .583 career winning percentage.
''When you discuss our game's motivational masters, Earl is a part of that conversation,'' Hall of Fame President Jeff Idelson said. ''He was a proven leader in the dugout and loved being a Hall of Famer. Though small in stature, he was a giant as a manager.''


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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Say goodbye to the NASCAR era when a driver, fresh off a satisfying, top-10 finish, climbs from the car and raves about what a good points day it was.
Winning is all that matters under the latest and most radical change to the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship.
NASCAR's overhauled championship format announced Thursday is a 16-driver, winner-take-all elimination system designed to reward "the most worthy, battle-tested" driver at the end of the season.
"Riding around and being pleased because the (previous) format rewards consistency, those days are going to be pretty much over," NASCAR Chairman Brian France said.
The field, expanded from 12 to 16 drivers, will be whittled down to a final four through eliminations after every three races of the 10-race Chase. The remaining four drivers will go into the season finale with an equal chance to win the championship: The first of the four to cross the finish line will be crowned Sprint Cup champion.
"No math. No bonus points. It's as simple as it gets," France said.
It's the fourth change to either the points or championship format since France created the Chase in 2004. For 28 years prior to the Chase, consistency reigned as the champion was the driver with the most points at the end of the season.
That ended a year after Matt Kenseth won the 2003 title with a single victory, and France began his pursuit of creating "Game 7 moments." Along the way, he has pushed his agenda of wanting aggressive drivers chasing wins.
He'll get that under the new format, which makes settling for points pretty much pointless.
Why? Because a win in the 26-race regular season virtually guarantees a berth in the Chase. Then, eliminations begin, and a driver can guarantee a trip to the next round with a victory.
Last August, Brad Keselowski chased Kyle Busch around Watkins Glen and declined to aggressively move his rival out of the way. Keselowski settled for second, racing for a good points day and declining to inflame his touchy relationship with Busch. But in doing so, he failed to win a regular-season race and missed the Chase, making him ineligible to defend his title.
Under the new format, a winless Keselowski would have no choice in that same situation but to bang fenders with Busch and go after the win.
That's exactly what France wants to see on the track each week.
"This is pretty clear: You have to win, you have to compete at a higher level, you have to take more chances," France said.
France said he expects contact among cars.
"Obviously there are some limits, but that's always part of NASCAR, to have some version of contact late in the race," he said. "Will this bring more of that? I'm sure it will."
The changes were lauded by Julie Sobieski, vice president of league sports programming for ESPN, which will broadcast all 10 Chase races this year.
"We have long felt that there was a greater opportunity within the Chase and are in favor of an elimination format, which has been most effective in American sports," she said.
Teams and drivers were briefed by NASCAR on the changes, and reaction was mostly positive.
"This took guts, this is a big deal," said team owner Joe Gibbs, who saw his three Cup drivers combine for a series-best 12 wins last season.
Busch, who won four races and finished fourth in the standings, wasn't as effusive.
"I don't like to always be the Debbie Downer ... but some of the things they are doing, I'm not in agreement with," Busch said, declining to be specific because he spoke before NASCAR unveiled the format.
He noted that Keselowski would have had incentive to wreck Busch at Watkins Glen, and said there are other scenarios NASCAR must now consider. He referred to last season, when, Kenseth opened the Chase with a win at Chicago, where Busch followed his teammate across the finish line for a 1-2 finish for Gibbs.
They again went 1-2 at New Hampshire the next week. But in the new format, that's not necessarily good enough. Busch would instead be looking to win in such a scenario to ensure a trip to the next round.
"I'm chasing him down to try to get to him, and if I got to him, I could have moved his (butt) out of the way to get a win and knock me into the next round of playoffs. Matt didn't need it," Busch said. "Those situations are what NASCAR is looking at. They are not wanting, 'Let's just race to the checkered and not cause any drama and have a good points day.'"
Another twist: In the Kenseth-Busch scenario, it would have been in the best interest of Joe Gibbs Racing for Busch to win and, because the points reset after each round, meaning multiple victories by a driver in the Chase has no benefit — the team would have incentive to orchestrate a Busch victory over Kenseth.
"That would be a NASCAR gray area that they'd have to make a judgment call on," Busch said.
NASCAR last year issued severe sanctions against Michael Waltrip Racing for trying to manipulate the finish of the last race of the regular season. The scandal led France to angrily warn teams they must all give 100 percent at all times, and laying down to help a teammate or technical partner would not be tolerated.
NASCAR President Mike Helton said nothing will change in race control and how officials enforce the rules.
"We'll officiate the sport the same way," Helton said. "We get the fact that this puts pressure on us officiating, and we feel like we're capable of stepping up to it."
France said extensive research done by NASCAR showed the new format appealed to fans because it eliminates points racing.
"The avid fans like it because they don't particularly care for points racing, even though they understand it," France said. "The casual fans don't understand points racing ... often, with all the mathematicals, you've got to have a computer next to you to figure out who is in and who is out at a given moment. (This) clears all that off and then emphasizes winning, which everybody understands."


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Chris Capuano vs. (0-2, 10.38!) vs. Tom Koehler (0-0, 3.18).
Happy Mama's Day! The Dodgers' winning streak currently stands at one, and only Toilet Boy Koehler stands in the way of their first series win since 1961. Koehler is the Marlins' jack of all pitching trades, relieving there and starting here, his first of the season.
"You almost feel it was champagne time," said Don Mattingly after last night's win. Who knows, Donnie, a win today and your team might just scribble on your nuts!
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VARIOUS: Big Ears - Fitzgerald's Manifesto
You want this. Between March 2003 and December 2004 London's Sonic Arts Network ran an extremely eclectic programme for Resonance FM, purportedly adhering to Fitzgerald's Radio manifesto of 1931 (How to make your own radio programme). This CD is compiled from these broadcasts (by Tim Steiner) and includes material from Otomo Yoshihide, Hugh Le Caine, The Mills Brothers, Sol Hoopi, Fluxii Ben Vautier, Philip Corner and Nam Jun Paik, The Chopins (Frederick and Henri - simultaneously), Leon Theremin, The Beau Hunks, Halim el Dahb, Louis and Bebe Baron, a couple of children's choirs (one recorded 1939 in Russia praising uncle Joe), Harry Champion, Glenn Miller and the Rhythm Rats. There are also jingles (means very short snatches of sound), competitions: guess that sound/speaker, cut-ups and a lot else. It's very nicely put together and makes a fascinating listen - as well as containing some useful, historic material. Imaginatively packaged in an EP sleeve with a booklet full of information, relevant and (maybe irrelevant) detail, references and data - enough to keep you entertained for a week, including references to the letter of Fitzgerald's manifesto so you can try to figure the logic, mysterious charts, lists, games, scoring cards. Then there's a poster - of the manifesto itself, with small print annotations and comments, information about the Sonic Arts broadcasts in relation to it, and a list of 'casualties'. I won't explain, you can read it yourself. This is a priceless package and highly recommended. This CD was created by Sonic Arts Network, a national organisation that explores and promotes the art of sound.
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This handout discusses the pros and cons of feeding a raw food diet to your dog. Topics included are nutritional imbalances, potential bacterial contamination, the risk of foodborne illnesses involving both you and your pet, and other concerns that may arise from feeding a raw food diet.
There are many environmentally friendly ways that owners can care for their pets. Waste disposal can involve biodegradable or compostable bags or careful composting. Cat litter can be transitioned to recycled newspaper or sawdust pellets. Any toys, beds, houses and other accessories can be biodegradable and/or recycled such as cotton or rubber. Cats should be kept indoors to reduce their impact on the ecology of their surrounding environment. A nutritionally adequate diet composed of organic food can be provided.
An unplanned weight loss of more than 10% of a dog's body weight is considered abnormal. Weight loss occurs because calories absorbed from the diet are less than the calories being used by the body. This can occur due to many factors, including decreased appetite (anorexia), excessive cold or physical activity, disease states that heighten the metabolic rate, insufficient calories or poor diet, inability to ingest the diet, inability to digest and/or absorb the nutrients from the diet, and loss of nutrients from vomiting, diarrhea, or increased urination. As well as a thorough history and physical exam, your veterinarian may perform testing such as bloodwork, urinalysis, and imaging to determine the underlying cause and institute targeted treatment.
Abscesses are firm or compressible, often painful swellings that contain pus. They can develop in many areas of the body including around tooth roots, anal glands, under the skin, or in the liver. Abscesses are caused by the introduction of bacteria through wounds, injuries, or bloodborne in the case of an internal organ abscess. Any area of the body that becomes infected can eventually cause an abscess to form such as anal gland abscess, bite wound abscess, prostatic abscess, or brain abscess from inner ear or sinus infection. Treatment depends on severity and location and usually involves removal of the pus either through drainage or surgical removal, the use of antibiotics based on the type of bacteria and location of the abscess, and pain control medications. Monitoring after initiating treatment includes watching the site for additional drainage if the abscess was superficial or monitoring the pet for improvement of clinical signs. Delayed treatment of abscesses can lead to chronic draining tracts or worse.
Acepromazine is a sedative/tranquilizer used primarily in cats and dogs as a pre-medication for anesthesia or for chemical restraint. It is given by injection in the clinic or by mouth in the form of a tablet. The most common side effect is low blood pressure. Acepromazine should not be used in conjunction with certain toxicities, or in pets with heart disease or low blood pressure. It should be used cautiously in pets with mild liver or heart disease, clotting problems, or in pregnant, debilitated, or young animals. If a negative reaction occurs, call your veterinary office.
Acetaminophen (Tylenol®, Paracetamol, APAP, N-acetyl-p-aminophenol) is a pain relief and fever-reducing medicine people use for many types of pain. Acetaminophen is available in many forms including tablets, capsules, gel caps, melt away tablets, rectal suppositories, and liquids. Acetaminophen is often found in homes with pets. Poisoning may happen when pets get into the owner's medications.
Acetaminophen, a common human drug used to control pain and fever, is toxic in dogs. Acetaminophen is occasionally recommended by veterinarians and should only be given under their direction. Young and small dogs have a higher risk for toxicity.
Acetazolamide is a diuretic used off label and given by mouth to treat glaucoma or alkalosis. The most common side effect is stomach upset, but other side effects of the central nervous system, blood, kidneys, electrolytes, blood sugar levels, liver, or skin are possible. Do not use this medication in pets with liver or kidney disease, or low sodium or potassium blood levels. Use with caution in pets with acidosis, diabetes, pregnancy or lactation. If a negative reaction occurs, please call your veterinary office.
Acetylcysteine is given by mouth, injection, or topically and is used on and off label to treat toxicities or to break up mucus. It is usually a prescription, but some forms may be found over the counter. Give as directed by your veterinarian. The most common side effect is an upset stomach. Do not use in pets that are allergic to it. If a negative reaction occurs, please call your veterinary office.
Canine acne is an inflammatory disorder of the lips and the skin of the muzzle. Dogs with mild cases of acne often have red bumps or pustules on their skin. This can, in more severe cases, lead to generalized swelling of the lips and muzzle, bleeding wounds, or scabs on the face. Commonly affected breeds include Boxers, English Bulldogs, Great Danes, German Shorthaired Pointers, and others. A variety of treatments are available and depend on the underlying cause of the acne.


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"I never want to be told that I can't do something." - Kurt Pellegrino
For decades the mantra "Yes we can!" and its Spanish equivalent "Si se puede!" have served as rallying cries for union workers, civil rights organizations and rabid Mexican soccer fans and players. Those three empowering words even became a theme for President Barack Obama's 2008 campaign for the White House.
It so happens, a slight tinkering of the popular phrase has also anchored the defiant psyche and lofty overachievements of New Jersey's Kurt Pellegrino. "Yes I can" conviction has been a staple of the UFC veteran's internal dialogue dating back to childhood. "Yes I can" was not something Pellegrino stumbled across in a self-help book, but a natural instinct, his soul's response to the ruthless stigma and ensuing hurt that accompanied being placed in special education classes from the 5th grade until graduation.
"I had teachers, principals and adults tell me I would never make it in life. I was treated like a (reject) and a loser," said the 31-year-old, who fights Brazilian bulldozer Gleison Tibau on March 19 at UFC 128 in Newark, New Jersey. "I remember a kid who I was friends with -- his mother called my mom and said 'We don't want our child hanging out with your child because we don't want him to catch his disease.' Here I was a young kid and nobody knew what I had. I had to live with that my whole life and deal with people telling me, 'No you can't.'
"So my whole life I always said, 'Yes I Can.'"
Pellegrino relied heavily on those affirmations after being diagnosed with severe forms of ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) and dyslexia. As a result of the learning disabilities, he said, he only learned to spell his last name in the 7th grade and has long been functionally illiterate.
"I was bullied," Pellegrino continued, hearkening back to his childhood. "The kids that picked on me and called me (reject) would come to wrestling practice. I used to hear them say, 'Oh I'm going to go wrestle with The (Reject).' But that (reject) beat them up. That's how I became popular."
Pellegrino wasn't just any wrestler. He and his elder inspiration, Dan O'Cone, represented the two finest grapplers ever produced in Point Pleasant Beach, NJ. Driven by dogged determination, Pellegrino twice placed second at the New Jersey State Wrestling Championships, an unprecedented and never duplicated feat for a Point Pleasant Beach High School wrestler. It is a truly remarkable accomplishment, especially considering that the tiny town included less than 5,000 residents and that New Jersey – routinely one of the premier producers of wrestling talent in the nation – only crowns one state titlist per weight class. The system puts smaller schools at a considerable disadvantage compared to more populated ones, who obviously reap the benefits of drawing from deeper talent pools.
Dominance on the wrestling mat altered many people's perceptions of Pellegrino, catapulting him from ridiculed misfit to town hero status. Signs began cropping up on area billboards with his picture on them and the words "Go Get 'Em Kurt!" Young Kurt proudly dined with the town's mayor. So high rose his stock that the teenage Pellegrino sometimes parked his car at remote locations and ran to avoid a swell of well-wishers.
"As unbelievable as it sounds, that really happened," Pellegrino said. "I mean, who am I? I'm a wrestler and I'm having lunch with the mayor of Point Pleasant!? It was very surreal. I was so fortunate to grow up with all of that support in my hometown."
Pellegrino became a champion off the mat as well, to both his bullied peers and those who tormented them. Armed with this new found clout, young Pellegrino took a stand.
"Kurt, why are you in those classes?" high school classmates sometimes inquired.
"Because I can't read. I have a learning disability just like these kids that you're calling a (reject). Am I a (reject)?"
In time, Pellegrino noticed a change in the climate in his school. He was not the only one who had become bully-proof.
"The kids in my classes stopped being beat up and called scumbags and (rejects)," he said.
More than a decade later, Pellegrino continues to uplift children with learning disabilities in his hometown and beyond. One of MMA's most comical and outlandish characters, Pellegrino is a frequent visitor to high school classrooms and gymnasiums packed with kids who might be either the potential victims or perpetrators of name-calling and bullying. He has teamed up with a national anti-bullying organization called "Kickin' It," which is spearheaded by Rocky Marciano Jr., son of the late, great boxer of the same name.
"I've always had to deal with negative people. That's why I always reach out to kids and tell them, 'Yes You Can,'" he said. "If you have the will to do something, you can do it. People close to my family told me I would never make it in fighting. I had jiu-jitsu teachers and instructors telling me I would never fight in the UFC or Abu Dhabi (Submission Wrestling World Championships). I competed in Abu Dhabi and I'm an 11-time UFC veteran."
Winner of four of his past five UFC fights, Pellegrino (21-5) is coming off a loss to highly-touted lightweight George Sotiropolous, a gutsy performance that featured Pellegrino tearing an anterior cruciate ligament in the first round yet gamely going the distance on one good leg. That was eight months ago.
"I thought I would never fight again," Pellegrino said.
Naturally, there are questions about the soundness of that repaired knee and whether it will compromise Pellegrino against arguably the most gigantic lightweight in the world (I once interviewed Gleison Tibau immediately after his victory over Jeremy Stephens in 2009 and he claimed to weigh 194 pounds, and looked every bit of it). Like Pellegrino, Tibau (31-7) is a Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt. He excels at taking opponents down and smothering them on top like a boa constrictor.
Pellegrino conceded that, deep down in his heart, he did not want to fight Tibau.
By his own admission, Pellegrino is a fighter prone to slacking in training if he doesn't fear the threat of a future foe.
"I need to wake up and say, 'I have to train today,'" he explained.
So when Joe Silva called him a few months back, Pellegrino said he made a bold request: "Give me someone you think can beat me."
Silva served up the suffocation machine that is Tibau. Pellegrino has been complimentary of his muscle-bound opponent, but his initial doubts have eroded.
"He shouldn't have taken the fight against me," Pellegrino said with palpable intensity. "He should never have signed the paper to fight me. Because the fight is in my state and I'm coming off a loss, and I'm pissed off."
Despite skepticism from outsiders, Pellegrino hailed his injury and subsequent recuperation as an "awesome experience" and praised the knee as freakishly stronger than ever. Kenny Florian, his close friend and regular training partner, agrees.
"This is the best Kurt there has ever been by far. All fighters say that, it's cliché, but it's truly the case with Kurt," said Florian, who will be cornering Pellegrino for the bout. "We changed a lot of things for this training camp and he's followed it."
At first glance, Florian and Pellegrino appear to be MMA's odd couple. An on-air commentator for both the UFC and ESPN's "MMA Live", Florian typically projects an earnest public aura. But a growing trail of videotape evidence revealed a wackier KenFlo. The Boston College graduate and son of a thoracic surgeon has appeared in several YouTube videos with his trusted sidekick, and low-brow humor is unabashedly unleashed.
"We're both goofballs and have a passion for training," Florian said of the connection. "We both like to joke around. We both act like idiots. We're constantly doing dumb stuff."
Florian's favorite Pellegrino skit shows the New Jerseyian spontaneously rapping to Michael Jackson's 'Beat It.' And Pellegrino's antics are not simply him playing to the cameras. It is him being himself.
"Kurt is a guy who thinks differently. What you see in the videos is really him," said Eric Samson, sports marketing director for ECKO, a Pellegrino sponsor. "Kurt is nuts and he's funny. In my opinion Kurt and Rampage (Quinton Jackson) are the two funniest guys in MMA. Forrest Griffin would be right up there with them. Kurt hides behind his joking but he's a serious competitor. He is an incredibly driven competitor and he hates to lose."
You will be hard-pressed to find another fighter who raves about his hometown more than Pellegrino, who can euphorically break into a filibuster on the subject. Point Pleasant Beach is a 25 minutes or so car drive from the part of the Jersey Shore where the popular MTV sitcom is filmed (Pellegrino professes to be a huge fan of "Jersey Shore," by the way, and said he has met JWoww). In his mind, however, his own town is 'the real Jersey Shore.'
"I grew up surfing, I grew up tan and good-looking, and I'm Italian, so life in the Jersey Shore is awesome," he said. "I have cops in my town that pull me over just to talk with me. When they drive by my house I feel so protected. This town is my strength, my roots, it's everything."
Nearly 14 years after graduating high school, Pellegrino is married and the couple has one child and another on the way. He said he still keeps in contact with the 12 other students who were in his special education classes. He credits them for changing his life and hopes the defiant spirit that guided his incredible journey will be contagious to others.
He is living proof of the upside of stubbornness.
Said Pellegrino: "I never want to be told that I can't do something."
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - "Star Trek" fans, rejoice.
An online vote to name Pluto's two newest, itty-bitty moons is over. And the winner is Vulcan, a name suggested by actor William Shatner, who played Capt. Kirk in the original "Star Trek" TV series.
All of the potential names had to come from Greek or Roman mythology, and deal with the underworld. Vulcan was the Roman god of lava and smoke, and the nephew of Pluto. Vulcan was also the home planet of the pointy-eared humanoids in the "Star Trek" shows. Think Mr. Spock.
In second place was Cerberus, the three-headed dog that guarded the gates of the underworld.
In all, more than 450,000 online votes were cast over the past two weeks.
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Gozleme |
Part of the wonder of blogging is coming across recipes that you have never heard of previously. I was browsing sites one fine morning when EMJ of Blog From Our Kitchen caught my eye with a post about gözleme. Her original post is here .Not knowing what it was I had to Google it and am now fascinated with this Turkish street food. EMJ described watching the Turkish ladies prepare them at the market. According to Wikipedia Gözleme is a savoury traditional Turkish hand made and hand rolled pastry. Fresh pastry is rolled out. The thinly rolled out dough is filled, sealed, and cooked over a griddle. It is served hot with a slice of lemon.
The Filling
2 cups finely chopped silver beet or spinach leaves (no stems/panned and squeezed as dry as possible)
½ cup chopped fresh mint leaves
½ cup chopped flat leaf parsley
½ cup chopped spring onion
½ cup diced brown onion, mixed with the following:
1 tsp white pepper
1 tsp allspice
1 tsp mixed dried herbs (e.g. oregano, sage)
½ kg minced lamb
2 cloves minced garlic
½ tsp ground cumin
½ tsp paprika (hot or mild)
pickled or fresh red chillies (to taste)
1 medium carrot grated
½ cup of pureed tomato or juice
olive oil for frying
Place the flour and salt in a bowl. Slowly add water while you're kneading. Put the dough on a lightly floured surface and knead well for about 10 minutes until it becomes smooth. Cover the dough with a damp paper towel, let it stand for 15 minutes.
Cut the dough in 4 equal pieces with a knife. Roll out each piece about 25 cm in diameter with a roller.
Spread the filling ingredients equally in the middle of the dough. Sprinkle on the filling sparingly – as you would for a pizza topping – but on half of the square only. Start with a layer of cheese. Mix the spinach, mint, spring onion and parsley together in a bowl, and add some of this as the next layer. Top with some of the herb-spice-onion mixture.If desired, add a little of the cooked savoury minced lamb mixture, as the last layer. (For the lamb – pan fry the mince in a little oil until browned, add the other ingredients and continue cooking until the carrot has softened. Add the tomato juice as the mixture begins to dry out. Continue to cook on a low heat for another five minutes.)
First fold the opposite sides to cover the filling. Then fold the 3rd side and lastly the 4th side to cover up the filling. Heat up the Teflon pan just under medium heat. Cook one side of Gozleme until there are some "brown eyes*" on it. Then turn it over and brush this side with butter. Also brush the other side after cooking.
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New Senior Research Fellows
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We provide attention in Broward County: Weston, Fort Lauderdale, Hollywood, Pembroke Pines, Miramar, Pembroke Park, Davie, Dania Beach, Lauderdale Lakes, Parkland, Coconut Creek, Deerfield Beach, Coral Springs, Margate, Pompano Beach, Lighthouse Point, Hillsboro Beach, Tamarac, North Lauderdale, Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, Sea Ranch Lakes, Oakland Park, Wilton Manors, Lazy Lake, Lauderhill, Sunrise, Plantation, Southwest Ranches, Cooper City, West Park, and Hallandale Beach.
We are located in Miami FL, we have all legal permissions and each of the regulations required by the Florida authorities. We offer the latest technology and equipment to ensure customer safety and the success of our treatments.
We provide attention in Miami-Dade County: Miami, Miami Beach, West Miami, Miami Lakes, Miami Gardens, North Miami, Hialeah, Aventura, Doral, Homestead, Key Biscayne, Coral Gables, South Miami, Sunny Isles Beach, Coconut Grove, Bal Harbour, Bay Harbor Islands, Cutler Bay, Hialeah Gardens, Indian Creek, Miami Shores, Opa-Locka, North Miami Beach, Biscayne Park, Florida City, El Portal, Golden Beach, Brickell, Medley, South Miami Beach, Miami Springs, North Bay Village, Palmetto Bay, Pinecrest, and Virginia Gardens.
3408 W 84th St STE 112,
Hialeah, FL 33018, USA
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