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A Weekend Full of Favorite Things

     

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Saturday went for a quick bike ride (no photos), then went to our end of season "jamboree" for the soccer team my wife and i coach (the FLYING CHEESE NINJAS)

       

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then went to run an Iron Chef competition through the community I serve at my church. The secret ingredient was apple, and the food from all 3 teams was A M A Z I N G ! and it was just a lot of fun. We had teams of 10-11 shop, cook, eat, and judge each others food.

               

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Then Sunday (unphotographed) was followed up by church (the highway community), then lunch, then sunday soccer (a weekly pick up game i run), then a newcomers dinner for our church, then a photo group (again through my church) critique meeting (i had this one critiqued, because i had questions about how to make the skater POP more- any ideas), then frozen yougourt with friends.

Phew. A long weekend, but really good.

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The New Ryan Adams- Cardinology

Been listening in on the new Ryan Adams & the Cardinals disc- Cardinology. Its a great record; as with most RA albums, the first listen was good- the second great- the third fantastic- the fourth ridiculous- the fifth.... you get the point.

Really enjoy Born Into a Light, and the first single, "Fix It." There's a really cool version of him doing a super cooled out mellow version of it that I almost like better than the full band version on the album (hat tip to fuelfriends.blogspot.com). Its from Ryan's visit to KUT in Austin, TX (public radio rocks!).

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CULINARY ADVENTURES XIV: Homemade Oven Ribs w/ Homemade BBQ Sauce

Had a few friends over for dinner. This is a great oven spareribs recipe I have from America's Test Kitchen- the secret is letting it rest wrapped in foil and in a paper bag for an hour at the end. Also this time i think i got the BBQ sauce down. Added liquid smoke (which smells funny, but i think cooks in well), some of the spice rub, and brown sugar instead of molasses. Also this time let the spice rub sit on the ribs over night and all day. definitely added to the flavor! PORK PORK!

             

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the FLYING CHEESE NINJAS!

                                       

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YEEEEEESSSSSSS!!!!!

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CULINARY ADVENTURES XIII: Stuffed Portobellos, No Knead Bread (also paella and salad)

For my dad's birthday, amy and i made stuffed portobellos, no knead bread, and salad. my brother and his fiance made paella, little panini's.

The stuffed portobellos were a surprising amount of work- however, this was compounded by the fact we were cooking in my parents kitchen. its a nicer kitchen than ours for sure, but its really hard to cook in a kitchen when you don't know where things are, don't have the same equipment!

but it was done, and very good! i did learn though, that with a broiler, you have to make sure your stuffed mushrooms aren't too high and don't ignite!
the bread was a show stopper as usual!

The paella was fantastic- my brother and his fiancee also added some korean chllli powder to give it a Korean twist for my folks!

pictures courtesy of my brother   http://www.flickr.com/star5112

               

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My Soccer Team in East Palo Alto

Some of you know that my wife and I coach in East Palo Alto. We coach a under 8 year olds boys team in the Ravenswood Youth Athletic Association. (www.ryaa.org), which was started 2 years ago by a friend of ours- its amazing- they had 500 kids sign up the first year! it's run to provide recreational and competitive soccer to east palo alto (ayso folded)- and also to provide relationships and opportunities for kids to develop character skills, life skills, and faith.

Not only do I love soccer (which i do, for longtime readers of this blog you know i was mostly blogging about soccer before the whole cooking thing kicked in).... but amy and i also love kids... and we also love east palo alto.

This is a picture of one of our players that i took this saturday. We have a few more saturday games, and we need assistant coaches to help us out as we do split squad small sided games for this age (this saturday, amy is out of town, leaving me to coach 2 games!). Any takers?

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So True....

as seen leaving Memphis Minnie's, a superb BBQ place in San Francisco.

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i'm a maverick!

this is funny only because it hopefully won't happen. 

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CULINARY ADVENTURES XII: Pasta, Tamarindo, Biscotti, Bread, Thin Crust Pizza

Tamarindo! this is my favorite drink when i go to central america. not too hard, just need to strip the sticky beans out of the shell, then a boil w/ sugar, then a long steep and filter.

   

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SPICED BISCOTTI!
I was bored one night and made this- great in that they don't go stale because they are already pretty dried out. This needed almonds, but i didn't have any on hand. Has ginger, cloves, pepper in it.

     

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NO KNEAD BREAD.
VERY good, very easy. i used a quick recipe, which only had a 4 hour rise. the better kind rises all night- but the crust on this is AMAZING. am definitely going to make it again, and again, and again....

THIN CRUST PIZZA:
Have been doing pizza a few times and finally figured out how to do a thin crust. Used Alton Brown's recipe, which rises over night with not that much yeast and a good amount of salt, and is a pretty dry dough. then, with a lot of flour you roll it out. SUPER thin... very nice. Pizza stone is also a must!

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