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dresser at home, Falmouth, VAClass today was about Virtual Worlds. Here are some of the links i saved for the hands on activities and explanation. It is put together in Thing 7: Virtual Worlds

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2010 05 28 ernie Interesting Web Sites
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Two recipes. One made and one to try.

dresser at home, Falmouth, VAHere is a recipe for Strawberry Coffee Cake, that is very close to the one I just made. It turns out to be a very delcious and satisfying cake. The second recipe is for pizza dough from the NY Times. The ‘trick’ in this one is to let the dough rise overnight. I always figured that’s what happened at a pizza shop because they were always working with balls of dough that had been made up previously.

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A Place to Bury Strangers reviews in UK 2010-05-25

pedals at a show

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<div class=”delicious-link”><a href=”http://drownedinsound.com/in_depth/4140051-in-photos–drownedinsound-presents-a-place-to-bury-strangers-the-harley-sheffield”>In Photos: DrownedinSound presents A Place To Bury Strangers @ The Harley, Sheffield / In Depth // Drowned In Sound</a></div>
<div class=”delicious-extended”>photo from a show in may 2010</div>
<div class=”delicious-tags”>(tags: <a href=”http://delicious.com/ernestackermann/aptbs”>aptbs</a> <a href=”http://delicious.com/ernestackermann/photos”>photos</a> <a href=”http://delicious.com/ernestackermann/uk”>uk</a>)</div></li>
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APtBS links for 2010-05-22

APtBS on the road

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A Place to Bury Strangers links for 2010-05-19

Ticket for a APtBS show

  • Listings 17/5/10 – 23/5/10 « Pigeon Post.
    “One of the loudest bands about, but also one of the nicest, A Place to bury Strangers are firmly rooted in a My Bloody Valentine-esque assault of noise, tempering it with the propensity to actually put out some brilliant songs. “
    (tags: aptbs)
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Social Security – when to start?

sepia dresser at home, Falmouth, VAWe’ve been thinking about when each of use should start collecting Social Security. This seems to help.

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Facebook and Privacy

Bird house across the creek at home, Falmouth, VAFacebook updated its privacy settings making lots more public than the public thought would be public! Here are some links addressing that.

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2010 05 15 ernie About the Internet and the Web
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Penne with Spring Onions, Asparagus, and Peas

This recipe is slight modification of one from  Frank Stitt’s Bottega Favorita: A Southern Chef’s Love Affair with Italian Food, another impulse check-out from our local library, CRRL. We enjoyed it and will definitely make it again.

I used:

  • 1 tablespoon organic Spanish olive oil
  • 2 tablespoons organic butter
  • 1 heaping cup of sliced spring onions or leeks
  • 3/4 pounds of asparagus, the hard ends snapped off
  • one carrot cut into small pieces
  • 1 cup of peas
  • 1 small bag of fresh snap peas.
  • 1/4 cup or more as needed of heavy cream
  • 1/2 pound of whole-wheat penne
  • 1/4 cup chopped mint
  • 1 tablespoon chopped fresh chives
  • 2/3 cup grated parmigiano-Reggiano or pecorino romano
  • finely grated zest of one lemon

Heat the olive oil and butter in a large skillet. Add the onions and leeks and cook gently until very soft – at least 10-15 minutes.

Bring a large pot of water to boil for the pasta.

Bring a large sauce pan of water to boil for the vegetables. Add the asparagus and cook fro 1 minute, then add the carrots and cook for 1 minute, then add the peas and cook for another minute.  Strain and add to the pan with the onions. Add the cream and put it aside until the pasta is done.

When the pasta is al dente, drain and add them to the pan with the onions, vegetables, & cream. Heat for a couple of minutes and add the mint, chives. 1/4 cup of the cheese, and the lemon zest.

Serve in bowls with cheese for sprinkling, some nice bread, and good drink.

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2010 05 15 ernie food
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Minty Strawberry Shortcakes

This recipe is from Organic and Chic: Cakes, Cookies, and Other Sweets That Taste as Good as They Look by Sarah Magid. I checked the book out from the library on a whim. The shortcakes turned out to be very good, with mint from the garden, local strawberries, and some nice cream from a good dairy.

Here is the recipe I used. it has some variations from the one in the book.

For the Shortcakes:

  • 2 cups organic whole-wheat pastry flour
  • 1/4 cup of fair-trade, organic sugar
  • 2 tablespoons baking powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1 1/2 cups organic unsalted butter, chilled and cut into small chunks
  • 1/2 cup organic buttermik or keifer
  • 1/2 cup organic heavy cream, plus more for brushing
  • lemon zest from one organic lemon (about 2 teaspoons)
  • Organic raw sugar for sprinkling

In a food processor, pulse the flour, sugar, salt and baking powder

Add the butter a few cubes at a time, pulsing between additions. Continue to pulse if necessary  until the mixture looks like coarse meal. Put it in a large bowl and set it aside.

In a medium bowl mix the buttermilk, cream, and lemon zest. Add the liquid to the dry ingredients and stir with a fork just until a dough forms.

Turn the dough out to a floured surface and gently knead it until it comes together. Using a rolling pin or your hand, make a 3/4 inch level disk. Let the dough chill in the fridge for at least 20 minutes.

Heat the oven to 400 degrees.

For the Strawberries:

  • 3 pints fresh or organic strawberries, hulled and quartered.
  • 2 tablespoons thinly sliced fresh mint.
  • a scant 1/4 cup of sugar
  • 1 teaspoon of fresh squeezed lemon juice.

Let the strawberries it in the fridge.

Remove the  dough from the fridge. Using a glass or a cookie cutter, cut circles/squares/hearts that are about 2-inches in diameter. Place them on a cookie sheet that has been lined with parchment paper. Brush each with cream and sprinkle with sugar. Bake about 15-18 minutes, until they are pale brown.

Whip more cream. When the shortcakes come out of the oven, put them on a rack to cool. When ready to eat cut each in half horizontally and put a layer of cream then a layer of the strawberry mixture, then more cream (if you want to) Put the top on, add more cream or strawberries as you desire.

Enjoy.

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A Place to Bury Strangers – interviews, reviews, photos. Mid-May 2010

APtBS poster 2009

  • Five Minutes With: A Place To Bury Strangers

    S] How important is the atmosphere (created by the distortion and visuals you utilise) when it comes to an APTBS show, and will this develop in the future?

    O] I think it is important to what we are doing but you have to work with what you have so even if it were a flashlight and a piano you have the means to bring it just in the feeling and what you do with what you have. We are always developing more and more interesting effects and things we can work with to create something really special. For this tour, I made a mixer that mixes six iPods projecting video which can be manipulated in real time as well as other light controllers and such which we are constantly implementing to make something previously unseen.

    (tags: aptbs oliver interview uk)
  • Preview: This week’s gig guideGoing Out – EveningNews24
    They have been around for several years in the US but the band’s first UK release came in 2008 when they played a handful of UK shows, a support slot with MGMT, and garnered strong praise from the NME and Kerrang! It’s bound to be all amps up to 11 when they take to the Arts Centre stage.
    (tags: uk tour aplacetoburystrangers aptbs)
  • Review: A Place to Bury Strangers’ “Exploding Head” | This Kind of Music
    “While many could mistake the music of A Place to Bury Strangers for the loud angry noises of demons, Exploding Head offers a paradoxically cleaner and more sophisticated sound with their paranormal bass chords and drums that hit you like bullets in the chest. Oliver Ackermann’s effects pedals get the MVP on this album; without the psychedelic spins taken on every track, Exploding Head would have lost the manipulative qualities that make it exceptionally innovative.”
    (tags: aptbs explodinghead review)
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