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Dude Dude Chick at Zille this Wednesday Y’all

Dude Dude Chick at Zille 17.02.10

We got a nice write-up in the SAX for our next gig. Click to enlarge, sucka.
 

Veggie Burger Revolution

Red Bean Veggie Burgers

This is a recipe I came up with last July 4th in Paris.

1 can red beans, drained (but keep the liquid)
Approx 1/2 – 1 Cup bread crumbs (about 1/3 of 4 day old baguette)
1 onion, diced
1- 4 Garlic cloves, cut up way tiny
1 small hot pepper, minced
approx 1T cumin
Salt and Pepper
Worchestershershirestershire sauce
Oil
Flour

I wanted to add egg, but they were 86ed and it turns out weren’t necessary anyway.

Take half the beans and pulse them shortly in the processor to make some chunks — don’t puree. The other half can be chopped up quite nicely with the garlic, onion and chili, cumin, adding just a tad of the bean can liquid to help things along.

Those, along with the breadcrumbs mix very quickly with a spoon in a large bowl, adding the salt and pepper, a little splash of Worchestershire and maybe a tad of olive oil. Just a little sprinkling of flour helped make it stick together a bit more.

This mixture makes about 4 or 5 patties, which you can let chill for a few minutes while getting a few other things ready.

We had a few red potatoes that looked pretty pitiful, so I made fries out of them. Hamburger buns are more readily available in Paris than, say, Dresden, but they are not very good. I used a pack of four small mini chiabata rolls, the prebaked kind. Liberally sprinkling them with milk before baking them makes them not quite as tough.  If you have time, the best buns you’ll ever have are homemade ones: use a regular bread recipe and half – half bread flour and whole wheat flour.

The patties fry on each side for maybe 6 minutes, but handle them carefully as they are somewhat fragile.  Or brush with olive oil before grilling.

We didn’t have much in the way of standard condiments, but this turned out to be a good thing. After all, no matter the recipe, veggie burgers will never be the same as real meat, so why not take it in another direction? We had them on the toasted ciabata rolls with strong mustard, sliced cornichons (there were only 3 left) and lamb’s lettuce (Mache, Feldsalat)

The 11 Second Club

Rad.   Every month, animators compete by completing an eleven second clip using the given sound material. 
The 11 Second Club

BD Boum

One of the more endearing things I find about France is that comic books are broadly accepted as a form of art. 

This weekend in Blois there is the 25th annual BD Boum, with all sorts of things happening all around town. 

I don’t think there will be a lot of cosplay going on, though.

bd BOUM – Festival de Bande Dessinée à Blois

Itinerar

I’ll be taking the night train up to dickes B (oben an der Spree) on the 21st, maybe say hi to T and catch a Mitfahrgelegenheit on the morning of the 22nd into DD. Crashing at big O’s in exchange for watering the crops and keeping Sheldon out.

And so it was written

The mornings come sooner,
The days will be longer,
More time to get things chewed.
More time for trekking,
More time for pecking,
And checking for left over food.

“There are too many spelling or grammatical errors”

Julie gets this message quite often while working on her thesis. “There are too many spelling or grammatical errors”. Therefore your paper won’t be able to run the automatic spell checker.

This problem seems to be complicated by writing a work in multiple languages. What we did to fix the problem was first select the entire text, then double click on the language down at the bottom, select the language, deselect automatic language detection. The kicker is you have to do this once selecting the main text, and then again selecting the footnotes.