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Leftover wings went for lunch today and I managed to abstain from decorating my shirt with it. So continuing my tour of Asia, we look farther East to Thailand on the map and farther back in my pantry for ingredients.

Tools:
Large sautee pan with lid, high sides preferred.
Knife
Can opener
Stirring spoon

Ingredients:
114g Can of Maesri Masaman Curry Paste
1/2 to 1 lb peeled, deveined shrimp
14 oz can of coconut milk
1″ fresh ginger, sliced into 4 pieces then smashed
5 small green chilis, stem removed and smashed
1/2 lb potatoes, .25″ dice
1/2 cup warm water
2 tbs cooking oil

1. Add cooking oil to cold pan and heat medium low.

2. Add curry paste and stir for 2 minutes to evenly coat the bottom of the pan.

3. Add half the can of coconut milk, ginger & chilis and slowly stir through curry paste to evenly combine.

4. Heat until lightly simmering, add potatoes, remaining coconut milk, water and potatoes. Stir to combine.

5. Cover and simmer 15 minutes.

6. Add shrimp, stir through to coat with curry and cover again for 5 minutes.

Serve with bread or rice.

Makhani Butter Chicken Wings Closeup

Wings have gotten expensive. $2.59/lb at Publix including a $.20/lb discount is pretty high. These prices seem like nearly double what I was paying a couple of years ago. At that time, I was trying to do wings in the oven which is really good when you don’t want the grease and mess of deep frying.

Tonight’s recipe starts with a packet of Shan’s Butter Chicken mix (if you were inclined to buy online from MyEthnicGrocer). Instead of using the instructions, I took the leftover uncooked wings over their option of bite size pieces of chopped chicken and reworked the recipe a touch.

Ingredients:
1-1.5 lb separated chicken wings
1 box Shan Butter Chicken mix
2/3 cup milk
1/3 cup melted butter
1 large onion, halved lengthwise and sliced about .25″
2 cups of pureed tomatoes, no skins or seeds, passed through a sieve once more.
Cooking oil (I used olive)

Tools:
Large saute pan with lid or dutch oven with lid
Tongs
Wooden spoon
Knife

1. Marinate the chicken in a large ziploc bag using the entirety of the spice packet, with a tablespoon each of oil and water. Seal the bag and mix until all of the chicken is coated. Marinate overnight in fridge.

2. Brown the chicken wings in between medium-medium high till crispy on each side, probably in two batches.

3. Remove the wings and add the onions, saute momentarily until soft.

4. Add the milk, melted butter and tomato puree and bring to a light boil.

5. Add the wings back in, lower to medium and cover.

6. After 10 minutes, spoon the sauce on top of the wings, cover 15 more minutes.

7. Serve with potatoes or rice and spicy naan.

Makhani Butter Chicken Wings with Potatoes and Spicy Naan

Down low rappers. Watch your back [||].

Internets wannabe sexy men aka guidos. Watch your back [||].

The Pause Police are out to get you.

Oh, and especially if you’ve ever worked for Cash Money records.

Houston Rocket + Tru Warier + Funny Dude aka Ron “Ron-Ron” Artest

crossed with

Iconic Ethiopian + South Park Lesson Teacher + International Man of Man of Hunger aka Starvin’ Marvin

equals to

Tormentor of Rafer Alston and Anthony Johnson + Seeming Heir to Andre Miller’s Hair Throne aka Louis Williams

Amare’s no dummy. A player of his stature knows when his time is short for that team, ’specially a really bright guy. From my perspective, Amare fell out of love with the Suns when they traded Marion for Shaq (though I have no clue if he and Marion were down) and possibly before that when Phoenix couldn’t figure out if they wanted to run.

Ken Berger @ CBS discusses a Stoudemire to Portland scenario that makes a solid case for both teams.

Phoenix gets LaMarcus Aldridge, Jerryd Bayless and Raef LaFrentz’s expiring $12.7M Golden Phoenix Sizzling Wor-Bar Surprise contract.

An NBA trade…that actually makes sense for all parties as it is the rarest of rumors that fulfills my “To whom, for what?” standard.

Phoenix is solid in the center position with the lesser Lopez (though they are equally inconsistent which is endearing and odd) in development and Shaq doing whatever he does every other game. I’d say that by this time next year, Shaq would be entirely more effective off the bench, playing against 2nd team centers and putting up starter’s numbers in more limited action.

Aldridge does present the same problems that Amare does in a mirror image. L.A. likes to keep it on the perimeter and beyond, adding some post moves to his game this year, still suffering from Rasheed Wallace Syndrome. This afflicts players 6′10″ or taller and keeps them from regularly driving to the basket and easily breaking down their man off the dribble. Currently, the only known cure is video of Kevin Garnett presented by Malcolm McDowell.

The Steve Nash Express is about to go local. Dude was exhausted after his 21 dime performance last week and it’s not going to get any better. Remember, Steve’s rookie year was 1996/97 and out of that draft class, not too many guys are looking so fresh right now. Even Kobe is playing through injury and has added a whole lot more old man to his game in recent seasons.

Bayless is a smallish dude that has more Barbosa [||] in him than Nash, but does a whole lot more to solve their pending problems than Dragic or Leandro do. And attacking the basket is contagious, this is an important trait on a team that often settles for jumpers. I genuinely dig the idea of a Shaq and JB 2nd team dominating their scrubby counterparts and an eventual move to starter.

The expiring contract? Who knows. It could be a pure salary cap move since Sarver loves saving that $$ (re: Deng, Rodriguez).

Portland immediately toughens up their front line, but will have to force Amare to be a POWER forward. Bring back the nasty. Dunk on people’s heads. Everything about the change should be a positive for him. Nate McMillan does an exceptional job getting big results out of his players, the rest of the team has a great attitude, he would be one of the oldest and most experienced players on the squad and would not have to be the star, but could ascend back to that position.

I endorse this trade…unless the Magic have a shot at him.

Jesus said, “Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, to God the things that are God’s, and to Evan sane drivers and a clear left lane…” (Mark 12:13-17)

Rarely do I ever feel like I’m better than another person because we all have deep flaws and a tendency to forget them in light of others’. On the highway, this enlightenment has not reached so far into my brain. Each day I commute with my co-worker J the twenty-five odd miles each way to The Office, alternating weeks and paying $2.50 a day in tolls. It’s a time for small talk or kvelling on the batshit driving scenarios we encounter daily.

Though I’ve done the dirty dance with a guard rail last May 07 (no parties harmed and my car was returned in under 2 weeks), I consider myself an adept driver who is genuinely distressed about the driving habits of others. Riding in the passenger seat half the time allows me to observe and maybe understand the reasons that people lose their minds on the road (Orlando is annually a Top 10 Worst Traffic Champion).

Our country is currently in a thick malaise, emulsified by dirty politics, a lack of direction, no firm goals and bad enough credit that everyone’s lights get shut off. Giving someone the finger in response to dissatisfaction in their driving habits should be put tossed in the garbage at the next gas station. International variations, I admonish you to sleeve the “V” in the UK and pocket the chin-hand-flippy deal in Italy.

One pissed off man’s “V” is the same as a protester’s Peace sign here in the states. Lord knows every Asian person on vacation poses with a Peace sign for the camera.

I present to you, The Thumbs Down. A symbol that leaves no room for interpretation, none for appeal and ripe with knowledge that the presenter condemns your most recent action. An emotional gallows for your lack of turn signal during an exciting session of Driving Whiled Crackberried.

I’ve field tested this and have seen dramatic results. Recipients are immediately surprised as nothing like this has ever been sent their way, as they’ve been in the right, and only assholes give people the finger. But this?





This is a regal judgment. Someone has taken the time to consider your action and has rendered a verdict. This has been a rational process, tenths of a second long and you now bear the mark of being thrown back into the lion’s den as an ancient goyim would.

Friends and readers, drivers, subway riders, bus takers, boarders, take this with you. Employ it. Spread amongst the masses. Take the offense out of telling your fellow travelers that they indeed have fucked up and need to watch that ass in the future, lest I be given reign at the DOT. Peace be with you.

And it was all that could be glorious.

Heath must = Oscar Nomination.

Can’t wait for you to enjoy it, too.

Just fiddling while Kobe is letting Rome burn down. I’ll try to watch an entire WNBA game this summer afterward and am already happily looking forward to the Draft. Brandon Jennings is like high school Marbury but way over the top.



The Music : A svelte Ronald Jenkees, freshly posted.





Baron Davis aka B-Diddy aka Boom Dizzle aka Donovan McNabb practices what he preaches. The Magic would be nice with him at PG and even Battie at F/C.






Brandon Jennings highlights from the Jordan Classic.






Chris Bosh reporting for the Tonight Show






You can count on Dave Letterman. Obama/Old Man 2008.

After his accounting fraud arrest, Ryan is now locked up or out on bail in NYC. This opens up the position that Jim interviewed for, as well and allows Pam to either move into that office or pursue art school. Aziz Ansari is the only new person confirmed so he could be there to counter main character Jim. A combination of Ryan and Dwight would be ok, but kind of easy so a former spelling bee champion turned MBA asshole blogger gives plenty of latitude. I could dig this show with more of the coke references in Ryan’s story arc.

Scranton will need to elevate people : Kevin – now thought to be particularly slow by new HR Rep Holly Flax, she gives Michael romantic aspirations while he works with Jan + othersperm baby and is the comedy foil to the stiffs (Dwight, Angela, Stanley) which will hopefully result in more Dwight and more Cousin Mose (FEAR!). I’d also like to advocate for more Darryl and meetings of the 5 Families of the Business Park.

Since the gays will get mad if bloggers continue to use the terms “outed” or “coming out” for the event in which an aliased blogger has their real name and profession revealed. The first I can think of is Michael Schur who is Cousin Mose, a writer for the show and Ken Tremendous for #1 Super Terrific Happy Dragon Phoenix Web Blog Fire Joe Morgan. More severely, Michael Tunison (Christmas Ape @ Kissing Suzy Kolber), outed himself on KSK and fired from the Washington Post.

As the original term was thieved, I’ve found legitimacy in a co-opt. My entry [||] for the updated version is : Born Again.

If you are a fellow viewer of network television since the new season started and especially those of us interested in the NBCees on Monday/Thursday, ([||] no ER) you have also been haunted by the constant presence of Jerome aka Jerry aka Tightpants Puffyshirt aka I made $60 million last year mostly off royalties Seinfeld.

This man has been promoting his movie in every possible venue that will allow him in and I can’t help but think that something is awry while he shows up on NBC every few moments, even giving stop to commercials from the War Machine itself (n. Don Geiss).

Does GE really think that anyone is swayed by their cartoon commercial (intentional, eases processing of images) showing great advances in “clean coal” right in my backyard or that they’re equipping Chinese planes with anything more than a flourescent? These aren’t positive things. I think every time that NBC/MSNBC/CNBC/BRAVO/etc mentions the war in Iraq, they should have to display a line of disclosure noting their business involvement as a defense supplier and the money they’ve made so far. Could be fun. Completely unlikely.

My reasons for Seinfeld being everywhere, all the time:

1. The guy has to have made at less $500M over the course of his career and possibly far more. Plenty of loot to buy airtime and get endorsement deals that don’t necessarily pay that much, but allow for plenty of promotion opportunity.
-HP fancyhands commercial during the World Series? Pimps himself, his movie and his wife’s cookbook? Pretty tight arrangement and he’s endorsing nothing specific besides former corporate espionage and criminalities.

2. Network executives are like sports general managers. Eventually, they reach a point where their brains stop remembering new player names and can’t help but recycle the same veterans and coaches annually. Es posible that people hear the name Seinfeld and that it will translate to lots of new viewers. Mondays and Thursdays have to be NBC’s youngest overall night of viewing besides football (but not Notre Dame!!!) and we all love the show Seinfeld, but if you’ve had a chance to checkout anything made by the team since…then you probably regret it.

3. We jooz do have a bit of sway in the entertainment industry. Really, no kidding.

See marketeers, this is how you do it on the lowest level.