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Marios’ version of Kimchi

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This is my version of Kimchi. There are gazillion versions of Kimchi and this is mine.

Since I’m lazy and don’t want to browse a special Asian store, I changed some ingredients to fit what I can buy and have a similar result.

Paprika powder
Cayenne pepper powder
120g Salt
2 medium sized Onions
4 Garlic cloves
1 thumb sized piece Ginger
1 kg Chinese cabbage
1 tablespoon sugar
2 tablespoons Rice flour
1 small pot
1.5 Liter Jar mit a closing lit
1 Large bowl

Fill the bowl with2  Liters / 8 cups of water and mix  in the salt. Stir until the .salt is resolved
Cut the Chinese cabbage into 1 inch / 2.5 cm size big pieces. Put it into the bowl and leave it there for 3 to 4 hours.

Chop the onions, the garlic, and the ginger very fine.

The Marinade:

Put 250 ml / 1 cup of cold water into the pot. Stir in the rice flour and the sugar. Cook it for 5 minutes with constant stirring. Now let it cool. Add some paprika powder and the Cayenne pepper. Add as much until it fits your spice level. Add the chopped ingredients. Mix it well.

After the 3 to 4 hours drain the Chinese cabbage as much as possible. Add the marinade and mix it well with your hands. You might use gloves as it might be too spicy for your hand. Fill the jar with the result. Push it down so that no air bubbles are inside. Leave a space about an inch / 2.5 cm, otherwise the jar might explode or the juice will come ot of the jar. Close the lid. Let it stand in your kitchen or wherever, but keep it away from sunlight. Once a day open the lid and let the fermentation gases out of the jar. Push the Chinese cabbage down, that nothing is floating on the surface. After 3 days see if it is sour enough for you. You can wait up to 5 days. Now put the jar into a fridge. After 7 days in the fridge the Kimchi is ready to eat. Kimchi can be stored up to 3 month in the fridge. The fermentation process will continue in the fridge, but much slower.After you took out some of the kimchi to consume it, push the rest of it down into the jar. Never use a spoon or something that has your saliva on the to get something out of the jar, your kimchi would spoil very fast.

Zucchini sweet and sour

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What you need:
paprika
salt
pepper
white Vinegar
sugar
crème fraiche (if not available use sour cream / heavy cream with at least 50% fat)

500g aka 1 pound minced meat.

1 red bell peper
1 Zucchini
1 white onion

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Start with bell pepper, zucchini, white onion. Cut them into pieces of your choise.
Braise one after the other in a saucepan.
Season with salt, pepper, paprika, 2 – 3 tablespoons of vinegar and half a teaspoon of sugar. Peel off a 1/4 liter (one cup) of water and cook for 15 minutes with the lid on.

Fry 500g mince in a pan. Season with salt, pepper and paprika.

Then add the mince to the pot. Mix in one tablespoon of crème fraiche.

Traveling through time isn’t enough

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Some people think traveling through time is easy. It might look that way. But they don’t consider that you need to travel space, too. Wait, why space, too?
Let’s start easy. If you want to meet me at work you need 4 dimension. You might think it is just an address, but it isn’t. The first dimension is the street. To make is easy the street goes from east to west in a straight line. Well the street is very long. In order to find me you need the house number. That is like drawing another line from north to south (second dimension). If you think that you are able to meet me yet, you are WRONG! I work in a skyscraper. You need to also the number of the have the number of the floor. Now you can meet me!? WRONG! You might show but at the correct place, but at the wrong time. You might be there in the night or during my lunch break. So you need also the fourth dimension the time.
When it comes to GPS navigation you need those information twice, because you need to know from where and when you are coming.

Now with time travel it is even worse. You are standing on the earth. It rotates with about ~ 464 m/s. If you try time traveling while visiting me, and miss the correct time only by a split second you might fall down a long way down from the height of the skyscraper. But it doesn’t end there. The earth orbits the sun. That is 29.85 m/s additional movement to the earth’s rotation. Our solar system rotates in in our galaxy the milky way. The milky way rotates, too. The galaxy is moving through the universe / space. Plus the universe is expanding. And it the expanding speed is increasing. Good luck with time traveling!. Do the math and meet me in my skyscraper, yesterday! I think this the point most science fiction authors didn’t tell you. So next time you travel through time and space and you are very good. Don’t forget your parachute. If you are not so good in math don’t forget your space suite, just in case…

Remember:

  1. The earth rotates
  2. The earth orbits around the sun
  3. The solar system orbits around the in a rotating galaxy
  4. The galaxy is moving in the universe
  5. The universe is ever expanding. Faster and faster.

You Know You’re a ChileHead if

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  1. You don’t have to worry about your roommates stealing your food
  2. Your toilet paper spontaneously combusts after use
  3. You’re tired of people asking about those dried Thai peppers floating around in your breakfast cereal.
  4. More than half of the souvenirs from that last tropical vacation were hot sauces and spices
  5. You never go in to a food store without checking the price, or selection of hot peppers and hot sauces.
  6. The door of your refrigerator has more than ten bottles of hot sauce.
  7. The sissy salsa you made, accidentally, seems to set most of your coworkers on fire.
  8. “Ring of fire” and “burns twice” actually mean something to you.
  9. You have ever sent/received contraband Chile seeds from a foreign country
  10. you sweat, even in the middle of winter.
  11. You carry one of those little Tabasco bottles around with you. Just in case.
  12. When cooking, you often start sneezing. Just because.

For female geeks

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der verückte Taxifahrer

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Heute morgen auf dem Weg zum Flughafen. Der Taxifahrer war heute morgen um 3 noch nicht so ganz wach oder nicht mehr. Auf jeden Fall fuhr der Taxifahrer ziemlich oft von der einen auf die andere Spur (bei 2 Spuren pro Richtung). Irgentwann hatte er sich mit sich selber wohl geeinigt und fuhr mit dem Mercesstern zielend mittig auf der gestrichelten Linie. Als die Straße sich auf eine Spur verengte hat er wohl 3 oder 4 mal den Bordstein mit den Reifen und oder Felgen geditscht. Ich habe das nicht weiter kommentiert. Es war schon ein wenig wie fliegen bzw. Achterbahnfahren.

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