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09/11/2010 13:15 #52707

Pork chops and pear sauce
Category: food
I got to use the pear sauce with the organic grilled pork chops and Rosemary.

I topped it off with these amazing grapes. This type of grape is my favorite. They are dark green and similar in texture to Concord but the seeds aren't as bitter.

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paul - 09/12/10 10:40
Ya, I love concord grapes, these green ones are pretty similar.

(e:lilho), you were right about almost everything but the sausage was steamed japanese eggplant. The skin turned brown when streamed.
janelle - 09/11/10 20:30
Someone brought us concord grapes grown in their backyard and they just blew me away. The best tasting grapes I've ever had. I think it's because each grape was a mini burst of tartness and sweetness all at the same time. Like the skin was tart but the inside was sweet. Yummy.
lilho - 09/11/10 20:17
k, i'm so bored at work, i am now going to list the items i believe to be on your plate of food which makes it the most odd combo ever. i would prob eat that combo though because i will really eat most anything... pork chop, olives, pear sauce, rice, fancy little pickles(which i love), sausage?, cucumbers, and grapes. i love how you are going to eat it all with a spoon, i love eating with sppons!

09/11/2010 11:29 #52705

pear sauce
Category: food
At around 10PM I started to clean the kitchen and make pear sauce. I didn't finish until 3am but the pear sauce looks and smells so yummy. I didn't have much choice about waiting because I was working with the broken pears that fell from the tree in the wind storm the other day and got damaged.

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09/10/2010 23:49 #52703

Giovanni hot chocolate sugar scrub
Category: chocolate
I don't even know what this stuff is for but it smelled more amazing then anything I ever smelled so I bought it.

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Ingredients: organic sugar, Safflower seed oil, Theobroma Cacao (cocoa beans), honey, polysorbate 20, Silica Dimethyl Silylate, Kukui nut, shea butter, vitamin e, Walnut shell

Instructions: Scrub. Under a warm shower, dip into jar and then rub across body to exfoliate all over. Rinse.

Cost: $10.99 but I think it seems like it would last a long time and the smell is so good.

lilho - 09/11/10 16:45
its for exfoliation, if you have dry skin, scrub over slightly moist skin then rinse off and follow with a moisturizer after shower.
paul - 09/11/10 11:09
It at wegmans in the natures food section by the shampoos and stuff. Its $10 but I think from testing it that it seems like enough to last a long time.

I added cost, ingredients and instructions to the post.
tinypliny - 09/11/10 07:41
Gets rid of rough skin and calluses? Some sort of exfoliation mix.
tinypliny - 09/11/10 07:39
I recently got a cream made of 70% cocoa beans and cocoa butter. It smells like I have smeared chocolate all over. The trouble is I am now tempted more by the small chocolate pieces they have in the reception office of the department - especially this devious brand called butterfingers. I hope the office people keep thinking I have taken a shine to them and not the goodies in the bowl.

Where did you get this?? I want it too! How much is it?

09/10/2010 23:03 #52700

dragonfruit
Category: food
Has anyone ever tried a dragon fruit. I could not get myself to spend the $6.50 but now I feel like I might have missed out on something magical.

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These ones came from vietnam, but how crazy that is really native to central america and was brought to vietnam by the french.

The dragonfruit is native to Central America. According to Aztec literature, Pitahaya fruits date back to the 13th century. In Vietnam, where it is extensively grown, Pitaya fruit is known as thang loy. It is believed that the fruit was introduced to Vietnam by the French and today, the average yield per hectare is 20-25 tonnes.



More info can be found here:
metalpeter - 09/17/10 16:55
I have had drinks that say they taste of dragon fruit, SOBE used to make a dragon fruit flavor with a dragon on the bottle. Often though juice and fruit don't taste the same, let alone some drink that claims the fruit..........
paul - 09/11/10 11:15
Oh wow, it is pretty cool: :::link::: Now I feel like I missed out.
paul - 09/11/10 11:14
Its not a cactus pear. I and the tortoise love cactus pears, which are called prickly pears here. This is much bigger, more the size of a software, softer and the outside has layered leaves like it is the base of some sort of palm plant.
tinypliny - 09/11/10 07:45
I have had this before (only it was not called dragonfruit). It looks like the cactus pear from Mexico. It's mildly sweet, doesn't really smell like a pear and rather pleasant. If it is indeed the cactus pear, these must be old ones; the skin is a lot more tighter in fresh "fruits".

09/10/2010 16:15 #52696

I was programming today
Category: music
...and this song randomly came on. I thought it was funny in light of (e:paul,52411)

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tinypliny - 09/10/10 20:18
Nevermind the sound of silence. The first 10 seconds are the sound of two words.