1. In search of a Men's hair care philosophy; Barber Shop versus Salon. 1000 words. I found a couple of really charming Pakistani barbers, but of the three chairs only one has a tenuous grasp on english. I asked him what advice he had for balding men and he said, "no problem, if less hair I charge less."
2. How t0 make a marinade, featuring Ricardo's Mom's Chicken Adobo by way of Nate Dalton. 250 tiny words. Nate has some advice of his own for balding men, which he offers in protest to the trendy Kojak look: "Be a man, just be bald."
Here's the first draft:
Ingredients:
Whole Chicken, cut into pieces
1 10 oz. Can Coconut Milk
1 Bay Leaf
1 clove Garlic, smashed not cut
1 cup 7-Up
2 cups Soy Sauce
Dutch Oven
Measuring Cup
Cut up one whole chicken making sure that the resulting pieces will all fit in a standard casserole dish without peeking over the lip of the container. Use a plastic cutting board, and make sure to wipe down any surfaces that the raw chicken comes into contact with.
Fill the casserole dish with 500 ml of soy sauce. Peel one large garlic bulb, and add the smashed (not cut) cloves to the dish. Also drop in one whole bay leaf. If you prefer a sweeter taste add 250 ml of 7-up.
Cover the dish and place it in the refrigerator over night.
Remove the chicken from the marinade and pat dry, preferably using a non-linting type of towel, you don't want to be picking lint out of your dinner. Fry the chicken on medium high heat in a Dutch Oven until browned. If you don't have a traditional ceramic dutch oven, any pot that has a cover and is suitable for baking will suffice.
Strain the solids from the remaining marinade and pour it into the dutch oven and place the whole thing in the non- dutch oven at 350 for 15 minutes or fully until cooked. Once the chicken is through, set it aside and add one can of coconut milk to the marinade, reducing until proper viscosity is achieved. Serve the chicken over rice, ladling on the final marinade as desired.
3. Must have gadget's. This one's pretty self explanatory, I will definitely be promoting the Nikon D-40 which is an amazing value. By the way, if you click on the pictures a high resolution version will open in a new window, then you can see what I mean. 650 words.
4. Sustainable Developments in the Gulf Region. In which the solar powered oil derrick final gets some good press. I think all PR people might be part of the same huge inbred gene pool, because they so often seem incapable of dredging up the very basic resources that their clients have tasked them with providing. Individual realtors are always better at getting back to me than developers, whose PR toadies are too busy setting up facebook pages. Maybe it's my common-man circa 1998 hotmail address that gives me that faint whiff of blow-off-ery. 1500 words.
Also, I somehow missed the towering Christmas Tree at MOE when I was there for my home stereo assignment. The tree is surrounded by a pink clad polar bear santa and his ice skating penguin chums, who whiz by excitingly on an electric rail.
I don't find any of this the least bit perplexing, in fact I've decided that the commercialism of the holiday is actually less worrisome in a Muslim country. The decorations surely arrived with the malls, and now they're here to stay. This is afterall, a country that has it's own shopping mascot, a distant Pac-man cousin by the name of Modesh.
Anyway, two trips to the mall in one week proved to be too much for me, and I was forced to hide out in MOE's movie theater, leaving Ness to shop for boots on her own, although I did assist in the final decision once I'd seen all the lovable Zoo escapees settled in Africa. Madgascar 2, which was the only film with an appropriate start time, is either a work of great cinematic charm, or I was just extremely relieved to escape the mall. I didn't even really mind the catered event taking place in the seat next to me, although short ribs seem like a strange choice for movie food, even if it is TGIThursday's signature dish.
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