Category: buffalo
06/11/11 07:20 - ID#54478
Citybration balloon ride and cheerio breakfast!
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If I can take one of the earliest balloon rides, I then want to dash to the city hall and watch the rest of the balloons and the sunset at the city hall sunset reception!!!
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Who wants to do this with me? It's on Friday, June 24th, 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM. (e:matthew)? :-)
And OoooooH! Downtown-Buffalo made authentic Cheerio Breakfast on Sunday! Wooohoo! June 26, 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM, Erie Canal Central Wharf.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 06/11/11 09:14
Category: science
06/10/11 07:51 - ID#54468
Wash your produce well!!
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After wild allegations against the whole Spanish salad produce industry, the unmasking of the organically grown sprouts as the culprits comes as a bit of a eye-opener about the health risks of organic farming. Are we really sure that the human and animal refuse used as fertilizers in organic farms do not leave behind cysts and eggs of sundry virulent bacteria and parasites? Do we always make sure that we wash our produce well before eating it raw?
In the past, I have been guilty of trusting apparently fresh-looking greens and produce too much and eating them after a cursory wash. However it pays by the spadefuls to remember that cysts/eggs are hardy and can survive mild non-abrasive washing. It is up to us to make sure that our food sources are not contaminated.. and even if they are, that we do the utmost that we can to prevent superficial parasitic and bacterial cysts and eggs from entering our system.
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Words: 221
Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 06/10/11 07:53
Category: eating in
06/09/11 07:45 - ID#54461
Raw Applesauce as butter substitute
1. Chop apples
2. Blend it like hell.
Will work as well as regular applesauce as a substitute for butter? I have successfully used store-bought applesauce almost completely as a butter substitute but I don't feel like buying those small sealed applesauce plastic cups. And I don't want to take all the time to make "authentic' boiled-in-a-saucepan applesauce.
What do you think? Has anyone tried just using raw applemash as a butter substitute?
EDIT:
The Original Recipe of the Speculoos for 6 biscuits contains:
8 oz Unbleached All-purpose Flour
5 oz Sugar Dark Brown
5 oz Butter
4 tbsp whole milk
1 tsp Baking Soda
2/5 tsp Cinnamon Ground
2/5 tsp Nutmeg, Ground
2/5 tsp Cloves, Ground
2/5 tsp Ginger, Ground
2/5 tsp Ground Black Pepper
with these crazy Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1 speculoos
Amount per Serving
Calories..................324
Calories from Fat.....168.8
% Daily Value for a 2000 calorie diet
Total Fat..................18.76g (28%)
Saturated Fat...........11.93g (59%)
Cholesterol...............51.46mg (17%)
Sodium..................180.47mg (7%)
Total Carbohydrate...36.22g (12%)
Dietary Fiber..............0.18g (0%)
Sugars....................20.51g
Protein......................2.37g (4%)
Estimated Percent of Calories from:
Fat====52%
Carbs==44%
Protein==2%
That would be like eating 118% saturated fat in ONE biscuit.
Alternative ingredients to the Belgian Speculoos
2 cups all purpose flour
1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
1 1/2 teaspoons ground ginger
1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 1/4 cups (packed) dark brown sugar
1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, room temperature
1 large egg
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 06/10/11 02:44
Category: i-tech
06/09/11 12:05 - ID#54457
What do IE tab extensions for Chrome do?
1. IE Tab Classic:
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2. Chrome IE Tab Multi:
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The questions is how do these extensions manage to load the fully featured OWA while native Chrome cannot? Is using these extensions as risky as using IE? How are these extensions working?
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 06/09/11 12:07
Category: i-tech
06/09/11 08:14 - ID#54456
Guitar Google Doodle
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Go ahead! Play it! And I can't believe someone (Zack Bernardin) created this masterpiece with a mouse... or a keyboard sequence!
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I couldn't create a coherent tune even if I tried!
From:
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 06/09/11 08:19
Category: the odes
06/08/11 11:29 - ID#54453
In love
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I found it through colr.org and then through flickr but alas I can't locate the original page again. I usually change back to my solid black in around 3 days but this desktop feels so much more awesome than any I have ever had. The greens are so perfect and the yellow is just so happy!
EDIT: Located the original, after some crooked-logic searching:
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Words: 79
Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 06/10/11 10:08
Category: eating in
06/07/11 05:49 - ID#54442
Calcium! Calcium!
I can get 80% calcium in one little 8oz serving of Yogurt! I am going to burn this figure into my teeny brain. So the next time I am making excuses about there not being an ideal calcium source, I can come here and see plain facts staring me in face.
Plain low fat Yogurt
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 8 oz (227g)
Calories.......................150
Calories from Fat.......30
Amount Per Serving and/or % Daily Value for a 2000 calorie diet
Total Fat........................3 g (5%)
Saturated Fat.................2 g (10%)
Trans Fat.......................0 g
Cholesterol...................20 mg (7%)
Sodium.......................190 mg (8%)
Potassium...................560 mg (16%)
Total Carbohydrate........17 g (6%)
Dietary Fiber...................0 g (0%)
Sugars.........................17 g
Protein.........................11 g (22%)
Vitamin A.....................20%
Vitamin C......................6%
Calcium........................40%
Iron...............................0%
Vitamin D......................35%
Riboflavin......................20%
Vitamin B12..................15%
Phosphorus..................20%
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 06/07/11 05:57
Category: opinion
06/05/11 12:10 - ID#54426
Neutral Samaritan?
a) ignore it and hope no one is injured
b) go out with phone in hand ready to call 911.
c) ignore if it is in the small hours of the night/morning but go out and investigate if it is earlier.
What do you do? I often hear terrible sounds from my flat. Sometimes I have gone out with phone in hand and found nothing and sometimes I have ignored them and felt terribly guilt-wracked when I have heard fire-trucks a whole 15 minutes after.
What do you all do?
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Location: Buffalo, NY
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Category: the odes
06/04/11 12:56 - ID#54421
Is it still raining, my love?
Yes, and I am bored to death of rains in what is supposed to be summer.
PS: If you have not watched Bleak House, you should. There are fewer series as wonderfully done as this adaptation and Gillian Anderson is absolutely flawless as Lady Dedlock.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 06/04/11 01:26
Category: eating in
06/03/11 08:24 - ID#54418
Best Dark Chocolate Bar at Walgreens
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It is probably the only chocolate bar at Walgreens (@Delaware & North) that does not have cloying amounts of sugar and soy lecithin and whatnots that yuck-ify all dark chocolate.
It would have been awesome had they carried the 90% Lindt or even the 85% Valrhona, but they don't. So in their whole dark chocolate inventory, Lindt 85% easily stands heads and shoulders above all the rest.
And yes, I have now sampled each and every single dark chocolate bar they carry or have ever carried (some of them multiple times) so I declare myself a Walgreens (@Delaware & North) dark chocolate expert.
PS: I admit that I am not a Walgreens (@Delaware & North) expert in chocolate bars other than the dark ones - because I think all non-dark chocolate is mediocre by definition.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 06/03/11 08:39
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AAARRGRGH. I swear someone is always waiting and watching to spoil whatever little fun I plan!!!!!!
Making it an (e:strip) event would be cool.....
That being said I have a thing with heights.... Sometimes they freak me out a bit and sometimes they don't... Top of city hall is high and amazing if you haven't been up there it makes me wish I had one of those big cameras with the big zooms like at least 7x and 13x or even a 26x would be great think I'm thinking of those ashton camera ads....