Isaac Brock's Tilapia

TILAPIA SIMMERED IN COCONUT CUMIN SAUCE

In a shallow saucepan, cook a handful of garlic cloves in olive oil over low heat until soft. Pour in 1 can whole coconut milk, stir and let simmer. As the coconut oils separate, add approx. 1 cup unsweetened, shredded coconut. Cook for 10–15 minutes, stirring often until sauce thickens. Add salt to taste.

Gently lay tilapia filets into the pool of sauce, add a dash of cumin and let simmer for 15–20 minutes. (Due to the flaky consistency of tilapia, halibut cheeks—which are firmer in texture and therefore hold together—may be substituted.)


CABBAGE CRUNCH

In a shallow pan, roast 2 cups whole almonds in 2 Tbsp. sesame oil over low-medium heat.

Add red cabbage, garlic, green onion, Sri Racha chili sauce and Bragg’s Amino Acids to taste in large Cuisinart.

Once almonds are through roasting, remove from heat and add to Cuisinart.

Dice well.


CUMIN BLACK BEANS

Add 2 cans organic black beans with juices to medium saucepan, cook over low-medium heat.

Add approx. 2 Tbsp. cumin, a dash of Old Bay Seasoning, and a handful of diced, fresh cilantro.

Cook for 15–20 minutes, stirring consistently.


COCONUT CUMIN RICE

Add 1 can whole coconut milk to 1 cup white rice, stir.

As rice absorbs coconut milk, add 1 Tbsp. cumin.

Once all components are prepared, dish even portions onto plates, serve hot.

Serves 4–6.

2 poems, what i found on the internet by a guy.


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Japanese Tea Ceremony
by R. Beef Kazenzakis
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Observe the ancient tea ceremony
It is a good ceremony
Watching it on Discovery Channel
Because your girlfriend wants to
Is a bad ceremony

Crap, dude. Honestly.


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Corned Beef Sandwich
by R. Beef Kazenzakis
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Corned beef sandwich?
Think again.
This is one meal
You will not win.

The beef replaced
With pure beef taste
Brushed onto
A meat-like case

Close your jaws
Depress the plunger
Your head explodes
Inside-out hunger

oh shiiiiiiiiiiit!

attention attention

as you can see we have short attention spans. therefore we need new things to amuse us. things get boring very easily. so im going to chalk the lack of updates to this fact.

because blogging is just like fashion. things go out of fashion and then decades later they come back in. in our case, the novelty of blogging lasts for a couple of hours and then you have to leave it for a while. then you feel like you want to blog again.

Blogging takes a lot of work to try and think up a subject to write about and try and find some witty things to say to make your blog more entertaining because i mean seriously who wants to know about what we did on the weekend.

unless someone is secretly an alpaca farmer who just recently defected from the league of llama breeders im sure we are all really boring people. (in terms of our social lives)

luckily our minds are pretty wacked up so i guess that makes up for our social awkwardness.

IAMEWY

HEY SCENESTERSSSS

hey anonymous, ima just gonna start posting replies in this space now, on account of cbox has as terrible a word limit as twitter. so um

well, define Love VS Obsession. what's the difference between intense affection and unhealthy preoccupation (w/ someone you revere). imo they're just requisites for the sort of stalking i'm trying to rustle up.

oh and uh, just in case you don't enjoy being restricted by a small rectangular box, you can post here if you want.

email - XXX
password - XXX

or um, you could just comment on this post, i guess.

EXAMS!!!

Seeing as it is currently exam week, I am going to chalk up the delay in posts to me "studying" therefore unable to update.

I just wish that selective school did not have such high expectations of their students. It's like because of their high expectations, that the majority of people actually try and go get your shovel, and we'll dig a deep hole, to bury the castle bury the castle get good results so then the minority that don't really care or can't be bothered to study end up looking bad. so then everyone is inclined to study which means you have to try even harder so that everyone can get above the average.

ARGG. this is reason I don't go on msn often. trying to blog and still reply to people often enough that doesn't make them think I'm ignoring them. I'M BUSY PEOPLE. IT'S ON MY STATUS.
I'm not like Stuart and is permanently busy so you don't know if i really am busy.

And then its just an endless cycle of acting like STRESS. And then you get people like Maggie who looks so relaxed but do so well. I HATE YOU MAGGIE... in an endearing way. you also have people like Dietrich who really don't care and it's like "I want to be like that" but you can't because of the high expectations that the school has which then transfers to you parents because they look at your report and go all "Ewy, you're maths is 2% under the average" i want you to do better. NOT EVERYONE CAN BE ABOVE THE AVERAGE!!!

End of "well it's true that we love one another" - white stripes is people talking in a cockney accent.

And now I'm off to make Mi Goreng!!!

man, alright sorry for completely destroying the whole once-a-day thing, gonna go right ahead and blame ewy for not posting on the 1st though. also i'm blaming her for being away which made me lose direction i guess. and motivation? basically, i blame her for every recent shortcoming of this blog.
so yep, im basically out of things to say. um, let's talk about (my) current affairs
A) gonna get my L's, i guess
B) got some formal pants, i suppose
C) they dont do the EpiValveJunior no more, so never going to get that, i am disappoint
D)maybe get a haircut idk, really racking my brain here but it's not exactly yielding a lot of results

alright we're done.

yeah i dont even know

so some crap lady is gonna be away for 8 days, so seriously, fuck this shit, no way im gonna make daily actual posts for 7 (or 8) days. so um, i guess you can have some crap that does not really count.
alright w/ that in mind, post for today is Paramore Dissemination (incomplete and wrong in parts)
also um dont read this i am terrible at thinking of a way to format this so that it will not be terribly confusing

26/Sep (Saturday) - 3 copies bought at parra, all brought to kalana's.
Exposure=0 (stereo speakers at kalana's were terrrible)
Sunday - Copy A at kalana's, Copy B and Copy C at my place.
Exposure=2 (the 2 of us obv)
Monday - Copy A at kalana's, Copy B at my place, Copy C given to Some Crap Lady.
Exposure=1 (though Some Crap Lady was already listening to it on monday)
Tuesday - Copy A to Owen, Copy B to Ihita, Copy C to Maggie. Copy C burnt for Alyce. Actually maggie burnt like 5 copies (inc. alyce's copy)for like people like piranivan ans stuff so there was more exposure. i don't know where it went from there - ewy ("crap lady")
Exposure=4 + 4 (though Ihita had already properly listened to it on tuesday)
Wednesday - No New Exposure for A & C, Copy B to Stuart. Copy B USB'ed to Jeffrey.
Exposure=2 (yeah, doesnt really need exposition from here on)
Thursday - No New Exposure for A & C, Copy B to Tim.
Exposure=1
Friday - Copy C returned to my place.
Exposure=0

Total Exposure=10+4, way to forget to change this part as well Some Crap Lady (also man now you are back from camp i cannot even use that name anymore =/ ) (p good i guess, i mean i wasnt burning copies of the CD to turn everybody into tween Paramore fans or anything)

so yeah this is my post i know it is strange and i dont know why i made it, i hope you find a way to like it.

middle child syndrome is NOT children being dramatic and subsequent tangents

I HATE BEING THE MIDDLE CHILD.

the middle child is always the last to be recognized and the first to be called out for doing wrong. What's worse is that I am the middle, FEMALE child with two brothers.

Also, i am not blowing things out of proportion.

The oldest always gets to do more stuff and the youngest doesn't get in trouble because "they are young and don't know the ways of the world yet.

What i hate most is when both my brothers gang up on me. It is so frustrating because they back each other up and I am left with no-one in my corner.

But whatever the matter, I still love them... and i HATE that.

I was actually sad that I missed out on my brothers high school graduation ceremony. So much stuff I've missed out on. The school principal had mentioned my brothers name in her speech and he had been ecstatic about it all day (and by all day i mean the last couple of hours in ehich he had been home, but i would guess that he was like that for most of the day).

High school graduations makes you look back at you high school life. Being in year 10 there are going to be drastic changes when tranferring into year 11. Like choices in subjects and a whole new school uniform.

Many people are reluctant to change over to the new uniform. I'm excited about it. Now people will recognize that i am in fact a senior and not just some reandom year 7. I REALLY NEED TO GROW TALLER!

Apparently there are stretches and yoga positions that will increse your height when done for a period of time. I should probably look into that seeing as how you have to be a minimum of 5'2'' to get into the Australian Army.

Though I should be careful. What with all the get taller fast schemes where you pay $60 for a book/DVD that "teaches" you how to grow taller. It's like some of those bogus weightloss programs but for short people.

I don't get how some poeple can be desperate enough to pay money for a product that would probably not do anything. I mean, short people can do all the things tall people can. It's just that some things are easier for taller people than not as tall people.

This is a remic of most of the things i would be blooging about had I not had camp this week. I am stopping it here beacuse i am getting tired plus the fact that I have to wake up at 0430 and be at school by 0545 so the buses can leave at 0600.

the next 7-8 days is going to be a pain :( FUN PAIN! but pain all the same

Also today i missed out on my brotheres graduation because i had a touch competition and the details of this when i come back from camp. But i am so pooped from that. Hills Sport should really not be allowed to play against regular schools. It's just UNFAIR.

--> I AM EWY <--
ヽ(´ー｀)ﾉ

um feel free to just gloss over this

alright so brand new eyes is great so i have to make a really bad blog post about it.
um compared to their last 2 albums, singles are tighter and better and more singalong, the 1 ballad is acoustic and properly restrained, the filler is a lot more interesting.
musically they sorta combined the formulaic sound of their 1st, the superpop sound of their 2nd, and tweaked it a bit. biggest change here is that they have learned that not EVERY SINGLE SONG has to be close to full energy, and that sometimes acoustic guitars work better than electrics
biggest progression though is w/ the lyrics i think, i guess hayley learn that there is more to poppunk than being Avril Lavigne (acutally this is already apparent on Riot!, but it is much better done now), but yeh nearly breaking up means they have less U2-platitudes and more Looking Up/Where the Lines Overlap, and overall there is less repetitious textbook angst

so yeh everything is better this time round, though the lack of guitars doing anything other than fairly predictable riffs/chords/PM chords is holding them back imo.

I need a handicap for ninja skills

My ninja skills are getting under par.

I am finding it harder and harder to evade people that i don't want to talk to. Not to be mean or anything, but there are just some people that you don't really want to start up a conversation with you because it's just going to end bad.

I am going to use this as a way into venting about people who just assume that you want to do something. Just because i/we said yes to do one thing does not mean that i/we automatically want to do other things that are somewhat related to what i/we said "yes" to previously.

So all in all, watch National Treasure 2: book of secrets and listen to Diane Kruger's rant and you'll understand vaguely what I'm talking about.

--> I AM EWY <--
ヽ(´ー｀)ﾉ

what, even?

yeh so idk what else ima gonna do, but im definitely gonna kill ewy's attempt at "continuity" right here and now, this place ent becomin no pretentious artsy life-as-poets-who-force-themselves-to-eight-syllables-a-line-just-because-it-looks-educated-to-do-so joint, no no, no way, not on my watch.

um ill put some stuff here in a minute.

*a bunch of hours later (it's 10 p.m.)*

alright so i think i've worked it out after a bit of thinking, the only way to sustainably (/spl?) blog is to include posts about what is on your mind, which is, a lot of the time, what the haps w/ you life are. now, there's no way i can do this half as eloquently or one tenth as fascinatingly as She can, but this is a blog and i will do my darndest to keep postin on it.
so yep, i think i've worked it out, and fleshed out my Mission Statement.
this is good enough post, right?

when you're 15

So i have decided to
change the layout of
my posts in order
to have some
continuity in this



So my birthday is in 2 weeks.
I was listening to
fifteen by Taylor swift.

I have found that
when Taylor
obviously
doesn't know what
it's like to be 15
at BHHS.


"It's your freshman year and you're gonna be here
For the next four years in this town."
WRONG!!! I'm in year 10 (we use actual numbers!!!)
And I'm here for FOUR years!

"You sit in class next to a redhead named Abigail
And soon enough you're best friends"
There are like 4 redheads in the entire school
ans NONE of them are call Abigail

I am greatly
disappointed with
Taylor swift
and her lack
of making
this applicable
to all people
especially with
her making the
song in 2nd person

William Williams

to everyone, with love:

I have stolen
the style
that you employ
when blogging

and which
you were probably
saving
for youtube

Forgive me
your posts were perfect
so sweet
and so cold

I'm a lady?

Well I'm not in love with Kathy Tran so I don't know why I'm starting things off.
I'm only here to balance the obsession with some non-kathy related posts.



Well my parents are hounding me about cleaning up my room again. My mom is actually warning me that if i don't clean it by tomorrow, she will do it for me. I don't know whether thats a good or bad thing.

What I don't get is why my parents are having such a hard time with my room being... "disorganized". I mean it's not like they are sleeping in there. If i can live with it and it's not affecting my studies, then i don't get why they are so adamant about it. It's not like it's affecting my hygene either. I've gotten sick the least amount of times in my family.

Their also using the whole "you're-a-lady-and-ladies-are-neat" speech. Just because i have a vagina, that doesn't mean I have to be all clean and organized. I hate it when they do that. They give leniences to my brothers, but when it comes to me their all like "Oh No, you can't do that, you're just a girl."

For example they let my older brother go to an evening concert at Luna Park when he was 15. But when I ask to hang out with my friends in the city - during the day! - thy're all like "NO, you'll get raped!" Sif that will happen to me. That'll probs happen to my bro before it happens to me.

--> I AM EWY <--
ヽ(´ー｀)ﾉ