my favorite spice is definitely pepper and chili peppers, by a long shot! i LOVE spicy food, whether it's the "dry" heat of black pepper, or the different flavors of various chilies from around the world (although you couldn't pay me enough money to try a Butch T!!!) although over the past couple of years, my stomach has become sensitive to spicy food and i get cramps...but i found out that it's often the seeds of chili peppers that cause an upset stomach, so i try to remove as many seeds as i can when cooking. unfortunately, this also removes a lot of heat (because capsaicin transfers directly from the ribs into the seeds), so i've got to use more chilies. i have to be careful not to damage the ribs when i remove the seeds, but overall it works pretty well and i get far fewer stomach problems when i cooks spicy food now (i just have to remember to buy a few more chili peppers to make up for it).
and as far as peppercorns go...there's absolutely nothing like FRESH-GROUND black pepper! i think most people are used to buying that pre-ground dusty stuff in the rectangular can, which has virtually no flavor and is pretty much worthless...it's DEFINITELY worth it to spend a couple more dollars to buy a container of whole peppercorns and grind them yourself. most people don't realise that spices lose their flavor pretty quickly after being ground/grated/whatever, so that pre-ground stuff that people buy barely tastes like anything other than flavorless powder!
my third-fave spice is one that wasn't mentioned...cinnamon. cinnamon has a long and varied history (that i won't go into here), but it's delicious with everything from hot chocolate to orange-glazed chicken and all sorts of other stuff.
i've been getting into the whole "small living space" mentality over the past year or so, and i absolutely LOVE this!!! i could easily see myself living in that train car (especially cos i was fascinated with trains when i was a little girl. my grandfather used to take me to a local train museum when i was little and i thought the caboose, with its cuppola, was the coolest part of the train).
that is AWESOME!!! i've done one or two pretty entertaining "quittings" in my time, but this one is MILES above anything i ever did!! it's as close to job-quitting perfection as i think you could get (and based on the story, totally justified in my mind), and i'd love to buy this guy a beer!!! FANTASTIC!!!
this is a pretty awesome example of Scottish frugality (a trait i certainly did NOT inherit from my ancestors;)!
i wonder if we could do the same with the leftovers from beer breweries? i mean, we've got hundreds of them all over the US (not to mention all of the distilleries we've got that pump out millions of gallons of crap liquor every day).
methinks some US scientists and energy-types need to look into this!
FrankieFan beat me to it: the shirt should always say "Frankie Say...", not "Frankie Says...". even though it looks grammatically incorrect at first glance, it's not, because in this case the shirt is referring to Frankie as a band, not an individual person. it makes more sense if you think of it saying "The [Band Members] Say Relax".
thanks for sharing! i've always had this (some might say slightly morbid) fascination with the Cold War. the one thing that surprised me the most about this video, compared to the other similar videos i've seen (whether training footage or "hypothetical" like this), is how overly-simplified and matter-of-fact they made the process look. whether it's a result of the political climate at the time or the fact that they only had 12 minutes to make their point (probably a lot of both), it still leans way more towards anti-Communist propaganda rather than accurately showing what the actual process would entail (which is extremely complicated). most of the other declassified footage regarding this tends to be much more realistic and "scientific" in its presentation.
on a lighter note: the guy at the beginning had an AWESOME necktie-microphone!
the "castle" is pretty cool, but Mr. Bishop is, how shall we say, a bit off his rocker. like others have said, try to avoid contact with him if at all possible.
you can use almost any type of fat or grease as a "candle" or lamp. i've been doing it for years (vegetable oil works too). get a ceramic container and fill it with your fat of choice, cut a slit in cork and insert a woven cotton wick into it (and long enough to dip down into oil/fat). light wick and enjoy.
"fat lamps" have existed for thousands of years, and i'm not sure why anyone is questioning it.
and as far as peppercorns go...there's absolutely nothing like FRESH-GROUND black pepper! i think most people are used to buying that pre-ground dusty stuff in the rectangular can, which has virtually no flavor and is pretty much worthless...it's DEFINITELY worth it to spend a couple more dollars to buy a container of whole peppercorns and grind them yourself. most people don't realise that spices lose their flavor pretty quickly after being ground/grated/whatever, so that pre-ground stuff that people buy barely tastes like anything other than flavorless powder!
my third-fave spice is one that wasn't mentioned...cinnamon. cinnamon has a long and varied history (that i won't go into here), but it's delicious with everything from hot chocolate to orange-glazed chicken and all sorts of other stuff.
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i wonder if we could do the same with the leftovers from beer breweries? i mean, we've got hundreds of them all over the US (not to mention all of the distilleries we've got that pump out millions of gallons of crap liquor every day).
methinks some US scientists and energy-types need to look into this!
on a lighter note: the guy at the beginning had an AWESOME necktie-microphone!
"fat lamps" have existed for thousands of years, and i'm not sure why anyone is questioning it.