Some major magazine headlines

After last week's Texas Shooting controversy...some major magazines reported the story in their own way...Here are they:

Field and Stream: Lawyer season open.

Lesbian Magazine: How to avoid Dick?

National Enquirer: The bullet wound resembles the young Elvis.

Ebony: Whites on Shooting....it's damn time.


(As reported by Craig Furgson of Late Late Show on CBS)

Pasta - (Name undecided)

I have been fooling around in kitchen and created something. This is a pasta-bread-dessert recipe that was also for dinner tonight.

Pasta - Name Yet Undecided

Ingredients:

Tomato pesto
Sun dried tomatoes
Oregano leaves (1/4 tea spoon)
Basil leaves (1/4 tea spoon)
Olive oil
Dates (ripe) - 5/6
Garlic - 2 big leaves
Mushrooms - 2/3

Spaghetti or farfalle dried uncooked pasta
Salt, red pepper, black pepper as per taste

Recipe:

Sauce: Pour 1/8 cup of olive oil in flat cooking pan and start heating oil on low seam. Add garlic and mushrooms when oil is semi-heated. Saute this until garlic is pink in color. Then add dates and saute the whole mixture until dates are fried from all sides (all low heat). Now add tomato pesto, sun dried tomatoes, oregano and basil leaves to add some water to it. Continue to stir the mixture while being cooked (otherwise tomato sauce may stick to pan from bottom). Do this until water has vapored off and pasta sauce has just hint of dates ' sweetness. I noticed that garlic leaves very strong scent quickly but dates take long time to really get flavored in (first time I did it, I left this pasta sauce overnight). Let the pasta sauce cool now.


Pasta: Heat the water to boiling temperature. When water is boiling add some salt and then add choice of pasta to it. Let it get worked up until pasta is cooked thoroughly. Drain the pasta using a drainer or other easy and convenient method.

Serving:

Serve pasta sauce over hot pasta in a flat dish like china-ware. I added cooked chicken to pasta sauce. Alternatively, cooked chicken can be added when pasta is being served. Grate hard Parmesan cheese (I personally don't eat lot of cheese), but I preferred freshly ground pepper.

Wine/drink:

Serve with wines for spicy foods and the ones with especially go with chicken, for example, Merlot or Cabernet. I had chilled lager beer and Cabernet Sauvignon (I think, it's pretty new 2003 or so). I personally hate orange juice or sodas with pasta and is big no-no for me.

Home-made Garlic Bread:

Use sourdough or baguette only, wheat bread leaves wheatty aftertaste. Sourdough is best since its sour taste complements with spicy garlic.

Toast slice of bread in toaster. Grate fresh leaf of garlic on it with hands (use a little on center only). Apply olive oil and bake/toast it again. Viola, garlic bread is ready!!!

Dessert:

I had custard-caramel ice cream.

Controrian

Not surprisingly, St. Valentine's Day is also celebrated as National Condoms Day.

Feb 14, 2006

John and Jen - Elements 2

Jen was young, beautiful, intelligent girl from a small town. How would she know all the tricks of the trade? John was rude, big mouth and an under-achiever. His arrogance smashed everyone who tried to cross his path. His was the hero of the family.

Jen found a corner of his heart which she could own. Which she could mould just the way she wanted. What she realized was an eye opener in that tender age. She was in love. He reciprocated. He also wanted to get away from that life. He wanted to be cared. He unearthed solace in that relationship and he responded. Love started blooming between his visits for Easter, Thanksgiving and Christmas to her town.

Her talent and aspirations took her to explore new horizons. She moved in with his family in the new town. It was blossom and a spring that would never end. It had a touch of that long summer day when everything seems possible.

Years passed.

They grew in each other. They grew under each other's skin.

It was now time to name the relation. Jen's blind love could not see John's incompetency for all these years. But now, her whole life without all worldly comforts that John's love could not buy flashed in front of her eyes. Reasoning took over the reign of the heart. She questioned him, his abilities. Complications did not stop here. They were already bonded by blood.

They parted their own ways.

Last time I talked to John, he is much mellowed and much successful, if I measure by society's scale. Jen is (happily) married with a kid who has never seen John. They both live in same city now.

Who went wrong? Jen, for loving someone who is already related by blood or for not showing confidence in John and not living up to all the promises that they exchanged under full moon and setting sun or John, for not having a confidence in himself?

True love can not feed hungry mouths but can money feed lovelorn heart?

(unedited, unscripted)

John and Jen - Elements 1

John was young, almost adolescent, brash with boiling blood of early youth. At the same time, he did not mind helping people who were merely using him for their own interests. Jen was younger, almost childish, not so good looking, pampered by her parents as she was their only child. John and Jen lived right across each other, their lines crossed only when John thought so, their eyes met only when John turned his head in her direction, their lips opened only when John accepted thanks for his gratitude.

John was like soaring eagle, sky was his limit, John was Jen's sky. Every move that John made flipped like a coin for her. Every word that he said sounded like love strung symphony to her.

Inevitable happened. There was love and thus there was possibility of ecstacy or rejection.

John had his intentions clear and rational mind in place. Jen was in love and she knew everything except rationality.

She asked him if he can own her forever, but how can you expect for wind to stay in one tree? How can you expect a bee to enjoy just one fragnace? How can you expect the sea to stay at one shore?

Who is wrong?

...

I have nothing to say at the moment.