Category: holiday
12/18/09 12:11 - 24ºF - ID#50590
More xmas lights, birthday
Happy birthday, (e:hodown)!
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: school
12/16/09 09:55 - 21ºF - ID#50579
4 p.m. tomorrow
My fat lazy China Cat Sunflower isn't very helpful although she doesn't interfere, either.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: weather
12/10/09 04:52 - 21ºF - ID#50532
more white stuff
Allen & Elmwood around 2:15 p.m. today
My Santa Claus Tims
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: school
12/09/09 11:53 - 43ºF - ID#50510
Studying studying studying
First final is tomorrow morning- Corporations (e:heidi,49944). I hate the Wall Street Journal. Here's a study limerick:
Walkovszky v. Carlton
Walkovszky was hit by a cab
Would Carlton pick up the tab?
No, limited liability
Has social utility;
Undercapitalization is fab!
- Jeremy Telman
Second final is Friday afternoon - taxation of nonprofit organizations - where I'll get to discuss the fine points of 501(c)(3) qualification and the Unrelated Business Income Tax (UBIT).
Sunday is the estrip potluck!! (see how bad I need it?)
Last final is next Thursday - federal individual income taxation. I'm looking forward to it because it's multiple choice, the test will be considerably easier than it could be, and the prof (whose name happens to be Heidi!) doesn't like gray areas so the exam is very clearly black & white.
And then I'm done! Halfway through my JD. Yea!
In other news, the Save Our School coalition packed the Mansfield High School auditorium (at least 450 people) Monday night to express its hope that the Southern Tioga School Board will renovate North Penn instead of closing it (e:heidi,50116) Newspaper article The crowd sang the North Penn alma mater, did crowd cheers, the girls volleyball & basketball teams read off one fact about the potential impact closing... Jill said it was a very moving experience.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: geek
12/07/09 03:26 - 32ºF - ID#50492
Chrome vs. Firefox
Have you tried Chrome?
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: pets
12/06/09 10:54 - 31ºF - ID#50486
Cutest puppy
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: estrip
12/06/09 05:02 - 35ºF - ID#50483
Birthday wishes!
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: tourism
12/05/09 10:43 - 30ºF - ID#50474
photo backlog: Lockport Locks
If you need to take your great-grandmother on a tourist adventure and she's not up to the Falls, you should take her on the Lockport Locks & Erie Canal Cruises. Other than a pair of great-grandkids, A and I were the youngest people on the boat. The lock and lift bridge engineering is pretty neat but other than that the cruise was a snooze. Luckily I had acquired the tickets for free. Every time I sat down I got queasy so I took about 400 shots of the 2-hour cruise. The light was gorgeous that day.
Map of the Erie Canal
The cruise boat.
A full lock opening up to meet the level of the downstream canal.
Under the Big Bridge - at one point it was the widest bridge in the world On the top, it's hard to tell that you're even on a bridge.
Captain/owner
Another Big Bridge shot
It's 26 miles to the Black Rock Lock.
Notification lights on the lockhouse
Old warehouse, two lift bridges, a barge
Lift bridges are cool. One guy operates them both - he drives the quarter mile between them many times a day to lift & lower them for boat traffic. You'd think they'd provide something more energy-efficient (segway? 4-wheeler? scooter? skateboard?) than a truck.
Looking at waiting traffic from under the lift bridge
Duck.
The great-grandkids on the boat.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: tourism
12/05/09 10:23 - 30ºF - ID#50473
photo backlog: Niagara Falls fireworks
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: food
12/01/09 07:43 - 42ºF - ID#50429
Curried Apple and Sweet Potato Soup
Curried Apple and Sweet Potato Soup
1/4 c. dark raisins
1 12oz bottle of a light pilsner (most recently, some Blue that (e:Terry) left in my fridge!)
3-4 c. well flavored veggie stock
2 medium sweet potatoes, peeled, finely diced (~1/4" cubes). (Since A was shopping at Price Rite, we actually had real yams - they cooked up a little quicker than sweet potatoes.)
1 cinnamon stick
1/4 c. apple juice concentrate or more to taste (we used 1/2 c. + cider most recently)
1 t. tamari (or soy sauce) or more to taste
1/4 c. butter
1 onion, diced
2 tart apples, unpeeled, cored, diced
1 t. cumin *
1/2 t. ground mustard *
1 t. turmeric *
1 t. ground coriander *
1/2 t. cayenne *
- curry spices
Salt & white pepper to taste (I never have white pepper so I use black.)
1 red-skinned apple, cored and cut into large julienne for garnish (I've never bothered with this)
Creme Fraiche (highly recommend!! but you can use sour cream or plain yogurt)
Thin lemon wedges
1. Put beer & raisins in a bowl to soak. (They need to soak at least 30 minutes but the rest of the stuff takes a while until you need them so it should come out about right.)
2. Chop the sweet potatoes.
3. Put the stock, cinnamon stick, apple juice concentrate and tamari on to boil in a stock pot. Add the sweet potatoes. Simmer partially covered until potatoes are tender (about 30 min)
While the stock is simmering...
4. Chop the apples & onions.
5. Compile the curry spices.
6. Melt the butter in a frying pan.
7. Saute onions in the butter until softened (3-4 min).
8. Add the apples and saute for a few more minutes until a bit soft (3-4 min).
9. Add the curry spices.
10. Turn down the heat to medium-low, cook apple mixture, stirring often. (8 min or so - the apples should be getting pretty soft by now).
11. Separate the beer & raisins, keeping both.
12. Sprinkle the flour over the apple mixture and cook over low heat, 1 min.
13. Gradually add the beer, stirring to smooth any lumps, and cook until hot, smooth, and free of a floury taste - 5-7 min.
14. Put all or most of the apple mixture, plus the raisins, in a food processor or blender. Buzz till smooth. (All or most - depends on how you want the texture.)
15. Fish the cinnamon stick out of the stock.
16. Stir the apple mixture (all of it) into the stock.
17. Season with salt & pepper. Add more tamari, apple juice concentrate, and/or cayenne to taste.
18. Simmer over low heat for several minutes to meld the flavors.
Ladle into bowls, sprinkle with julienned apple, top with generous dollop of creme fraiche. Pass the lemon wedges at the table; a squeeze sets off the soup nicely but also good without.
The original recipe calls for only 1 t. of "best-quality curry powder" which would seem really weak, I think. My version is intense. I find that I want some hearty bread with this soup.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
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