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Fish + Batter

• 1 pound sea bass fillets, cut into 3/4-inch-wide slices
• 3 tablespoons cornstarch
• 1 cup all purpose flour
• 4 tablespoons vegetable oil
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup water

Sweet and Sour Sauce

• 1 cup pineapple juice
• 6 tablespoons sugar
• 1/4 cup red wine vinegar
• 1/4 teaspoon hot pepper sauce (such as Tabasco)
• 1/8 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon grated peeled fresh ginger
• 1 teaspoon grated lemon peel
• 1 red bell pepper, cut into matchstick-size strips

• 4 cups vegetable oil (for deep frying)

For frying the fish:
Toss fish pieces with 2 tablespoons cornstarch in medium bowl to coat. Mix flour, 3 tablespoons oil, baking powder and 1/2 teaspoon salt in small bowl. gradually add water, whisking until batter is smooth. Pour batter over fish and stir to coat. Let stand 15 minutes - Mandatory!

In the meantime, let’s make the sauce:
Whisk remaining 1 tablespoon cornstarch, pineapple juice, sugar, vinegar, hot pepper sauce and 1/8 teaspoon salt in small bowl to blend. Heat remaining 1 tablespoon oil in heavy medium skillet over medium-high heat. Add ginger and lemon peel and stir-fry until fragrant, about 30 seconds. Add bell pepper and stir-fry just to heat through, about 30 seconds. Add pineapple juice mixture and cook until sauce is thick and clear, stirring constantly, about 1 minute.

Finally! Frying the fish:
Heat 4 cups oil in wok or deep medium saucepan to 375°F. Add batter-coated fish pieces to oil in batches and fry until crisp and golden, about 4 minutes. Using slotted spoon, transfer fish to paper towel-lined dish and drain. Reheat oil if necessary between batches.

Verdict:

It’s actually a whole lot easier than it sounds. Prep work is simple. Aside from cutting the fish into nuggets, you are basically cutting up one veggie and grating some ginger and lemon. Love the flavors. I used Sriracha and Chipotle pepper for a milder kick. The batter on the fish came out really well though I probably wouldn’t use sea bass next time. A cheaper fish would suffice - even catfish.

Made this with some packaged asian rice - horrible and black bean edamame. Tip. If you are making black bean edamame. Make it last. If you make it in the beginning, it’ll dry out.

You know. I really hate it when a guy is asked a simple question like, “Do you like a cute face or hot body?” and they answer with, “Neither. It’s the personality that counts.”

Oh gag me with a cock.

First of all, it’s an “A or B” question you pussy and secondly, we live in a world where it’s so shallow that it’s supposedly right to be ‘anti-shallow.’ Please find a healthy medium.

If you’re THAT guy, please note the following:

There is something intensely self loathing and selfish about a person if you’re too good to work on your outer appearance.

It’s like when girls want to wear sweatpants or not match. It’s not being “low maintenance”. It’s called lazy. It takes the same amount of time to put on a matching shirt than a non-matching one. Or are you too pretentious and soooo above it that you can’t make the effort? Because you have a heart of gold?

A partner with a “great” personality would want to look and be the best on all accounts - mentally, emotionally, and physically. Because that’s why people with great personalities do - strive to be the best they can be.

That’s the problem. You want to deny looks have anything to do with personality. You want to write off anything regarding looks as ‘superficial’ and you’re SO above it. But when in reality. it goes hand in hand. You read books, go to school to improve your mind and inner self. You go to the gym, eat healthy, dress well to improve your outer self. Why would anyone be so pretentious to value one over the other when it’s truthfully equally important to being a well balanced being?

If looks didn’t matter, I’d dare you to take a smart, funny, and kind five legged midget over a equally smart, funny, and kind lady that you find gorgeous.

Cobra Starship FANWANK. Gabe is hot and the video is great :D

Official Video for (I Make) Good Girls Go Bad.

Before you point out everything wrong with my planned night. Don’t tell me. I already know.

#1. Watching a movie at Universal Citywalk is equivalent to .. say getting herpes. I know.

#2. Going to a 10:30 IMAX Screening of Transformers 2 at 10:27 and expecting decent seating is retarded. I know.

#3. Expecting a good summer blockbuster. HEY now. I take complete offense to that.

I went in with zero expectations. I enjoy action movies. Hell, I LOVE Van Damme movies and you KNOW how retarded the plotlines are. I thought the first Transformers was kinda slow but enjoyable. I enjoy nice fun campy summer movies like Star Trek. So what went wrong?

I have never been so disgusted and sad after watching a movie. Not even Push which was equally retarded but at least I was pissed off and not sad. In fact, I felt like I got kissed by a dementor (Harry Potter reference. Look it up) and wanted to rock back and forth in a fetal position.

Usually I would summarize the plot but I can’t, so I’ll go Negative Nelly and point out everything that is wrong with the movie aside from the fact that they don’t know whether to gear this toward 10 year olds or 25 year olds.

Lame LOLS: A 20 minute sequence of Shia’s mom getting high off weed brownies? Another 20 minutes of the mom acting like a bimbo? Another 30 minutes about how his roommate is a wuss and a pussy? We get it. And really? Dogs humping? Megan Fox falling from the sky on someone’s crotch? “Hip” robots? “Old man” robot? WTF.

Dialogue: Why did they try and make every single line ‘epic’? Every three minutes Shia or someone else would say something corny and *cough* meaningful like, “THIS IS NOT MY WAR.” *cue slow mo shot* *cue rising orchestra music*.

Chemistry: Um. “NOOOO Shia don’t die!” “Oh son, we’ll never leave you!” It doesn’t matter if it was a Shia death scene or a Megan/Shia fight. It’s non believable. No one cared about each other in the movie. I didn’t believe the parents cared about Shia and I damn sure didn’t believe the romantic pairing between Shia and Megan.

WTFMoments: The afterlife “Elder Primes” scene? Oh really? Now God is a robot that have powers to grant life? And WTF at Isabel Lucas’s character. You have to send a teenage girl against Shia really? To seduce him? Why couldn’t she smashed on him in the car or just slice his head off. Jesus.

WTFAction: Sure. I can overlook plot holes. Who cares. But the action scenes? Way too close cropped! All I could see was screws swirling, lots of parts moving… why don’t you pan out and let us see the robots transforming or at least show us whose fighting who.

Lame.

[via]

“The President has a whopping new food safety problem: Hundreds of thousands of pounds of contaminated beef in the food chain & little hope of rounding up all the poisoned product…

The June 24 Class 1 (you could die) recall of 41,000+ pounds of beef primal cuts from Colorado firm JBS Swift Beef Company for E coli 0157:H7 contamination has just been expanded to an incredible 421,000 pounds.

It’s incredible from a poundage standpoint, but not incredible from a food safety standpoint. The original USDA advisory noted that the cows slaughtered for the beef had been processed in April, so food safety experts spotted the potential for a massive expansion of the recall the moment they received the first notice. E coli 0157:H7 is an incredibly toxic bacterium which can cause everything from violent stomach upset to permanent renal failure to death. To date, there are 24 illnesses in multiple states, of which at least 18 appear to be associated. And keep in mind that for every one person who is a verified food poisoning victim, the CDC has an algorithm that estimates that there are 35-50 more cases that never get tracked. That’s between 630 and 900 people already ill. The numbers will grow. A “traceback” investigation has begun, run jointly by the Centers for Disease Control and USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service. This means investigators will be contacting state and local health authorities to see if there are any more reported illnesses.”

[cute food is misleading :(]

Last time I came into Milk. I genuinely felt like I got the wrong things. In fact, I felt SO wrong that I only blogged it and didn’t yelp it cuz I felt it would have been unfair since I only nibbled on a horrible Shanghai salad and picked up a sandwich to go.

But as God intended. I am right. again.

Milk is the slightly better version of Joan’s on 3rd. Luckily and to their credit, u nlike Joan’s they actually make their sandwichs and food in the kitchen rather than give you nasty food that’s been sitting out in a glass case.

This time I tried the 1/2 crispy chicken special ($12) and the potato leek soup ($6) and an iced tea ($3).

I don’t understand.

Why don’t places season their food? Sure the chicken was crispy but what happened to loving flavor? What happened to salt? The potatos were equally bland with bits of real bacon. The green beans were over cooked. The only seasoning that was offered was a ice cream scoop of mustard on top of the whole meal. Mustard? Really? You want to flavor my food? Try Gravy. With Lard.

Before you get your panties in a bunch over how cute the place is. Remember this. Just because it’s cute doesn’t mean it’s good. Just because I’m ridiculously good looking doesn’t mean I’m a nice person. You get the picture.

And I’m not bashing Milk. 2 stars equals “Meh. I’ve experienced better.”

And yes I have.

Milk

7290 Beverly Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90046
(323) 939-6455

www.themilkshop.com

I hate it when people put titles on themselves. Whether its a guy or girl reading maybe one book and saying that they are ‘such a nerd.’ or some girl playing video games and calling her a ‘dork.’ It’s neither endearing or cute. We can see right through you.

My biggest pet peeve is when someone proclaims themselves as difficult or complicated. I had exes, friends, etc say it and i must say its annoying as all hell. We, humans, only have a certain range of emotions. We all have 15-20 sets of reactions. If I slap you in the face, I can pretty much guess what you’re going to do. If I break your heart, I can pretty much guess you’re going to play emo music, pretend you don’t care, or maybe stalk me. It’s like do you REALLY think that you’re soooooo confusing and complicated? Really?

Confusing would be reacting to a car accident by masturbating in a clown suit. Confusing is not seeing the same behavioral patterns from the last week/month/year. If you want to classify yourself, then yes you are difficult and probably bitchy but not complicated. And you need to get over yourself.

If this was any other group, I’d probably hate this song but I have a love affair with Chelsea Korka (brunette hottie with the bangs.) She was originally part of The Search for the next PCD but got put into another group by Robin Antin - the Paradiso Girls.

There is another version of this song that Keri Hilson did with T-Pain (btw. you guys HAVE to watch the Taylor Swift + T Pain video off my blog. TOO CUTE!) But the producers decided to give it to the Paradiso Girls who incidentally dropped T Pain off the hook.

Before you say they are another corny pop group.

Chelsea Korka can really sing. See below :D