If I could buy more hours in a day, sometimes I’d be fully willing to do it. I would also love to pay for someone to study for me, then transfer the knowledge into my head. Studying is one thing I am horrible at. I have the attention span of about five to ten minutes and then I drift off onto some other project. For this reason, studying for a test on Friday basically means I have to start Monday, studying maybe 1 page worth of text per day.
I also wrote down a new recipe I made from scratch, so I figured I’d put it here. It’s nothing that complicated, just pan-friend red skinned potatoes.
First, you will need:
1 large or 2 smaller redskin potatos
1 frying pan
2 tablespoons olive oil
2 teaspoons rosemary
1 teaspoon thyme
fresh ground black pepper and salt to taste
2-3 tablespoons other seasoning (I use Emeril’s)
Cut the potato into 1/4 inch thick slides like potato chips.
Season them with the seasoning, salt, and pepper. In a hot pan (medium high, NOT HIGH), heat the olive oil, rosemary and thyme. When the herbs begin to freely float around and move, you know the oil is hot.
Add the potatoes seasoned side down. Season the other side. Cook for 5 minutes per side, sometimes 3-4 minutes on the 2nd side. Flip after 5 minutes for the first side.
When done the seasonings should start to blacken, remove the potatoes and put them on paper towels to drain. Let sit for 3-4 minutes and serve.
hope you guys enjoy
Got some work done during the day, studied for a test for all of an hour, took a nap, took the test, went home. I haven’t checked my grade yet as of typing this, but it’s probably online…. let me go check.
A 75, not bad, lower then my usual test scores for this class, but oh well. I have 8 extra credit points to add to that for various things so an 83 isn’t so bad. Tonight for dinner I came home and didn’t want to turn on the grill, as I thought it would take too long and be too boring to cook chicken yet again. I ended up taking 2 large redskin potatoes and slicing them to about a 1/4 of an inch. I put about 2 tablespoons of oil into a pan on medium high heat (right below the setting that would result in the olive oil burning and smoking) and threw in some rosemary and thyme. I also added a pinch of salt and a good amount of fresh pepper. I let that get hot until it was slightly popping. I added the potatoes in two batches. The first was pretty experimental as I had NO idea how long this would take to cook. I waited until they were golden brown on one side, flipped them and cooked for a little less then the first side. At the same time as they were starting to cook I looked for my source of protein. I dug through my fridge, nothing. I looked in the freezer and found a talapia fillet from probably… 5 months ago. It looked fine, but I didn’t want to wait to thaw it so I said the hell with it and threw it in a hot pan with about 1/2 a tablespoon of olive oil, some lemon juice, some pepper and Emeril’s seasoning. I then covered it and let it go for about 5 minutes. It was looking good and actually thawing and cooking, I had no idea how it would turn out though. After another 5 minutes I flipped it, cooked my 2nd batch of potatoes in the other pan and the fish looked great. Another 5 or 10 minutes and I drained the potatoes on paper towels to cut the grease and put the fish on a plate with a cover to keep it hot. When the potatoes were dry I put them on the plate with a little ketchup. The meal was actually REALLY good, better then previous potato and fish dinners I’ve done.
I sat and watched “Locked Up Abroad” which is an amazingly addictive docu-drama about US and UK citizens that get roped into smuggling things into other countries and get caught, spending YEARS inside foreign jails such as Nepal, Venezuela, and Columbia. The people in these jails (the inmates) actually carry guns and such, it’s freaking insane. 5 or so prisoners are killed every week. It’s on the National Geographic HD channel, watch it. Next showing is Monday March 31, 2008 at 9pm.
So I decided I think I’m going to start updating this in true blog fashion whenever I can. I’ll most likely write about things that are going on that no one may care about. I also plan to post some business type discussion here. If you don’t know, I run a golf company and a online clothing promotion company. They are both sucessful, making money. I love business, it’s one of the most dynamic things on the planet that draws from every facet of life.
Today I went to the pool with some brothers but it was pretty cloudy out, only letting the sun through at most, 25 percent of the time. I’m also going to the gym 5 days a week since last month. I hope to continue this and look better by the end of summer. I already immediately feel better. I go when I first wake up and I have a ton more energy and really get more work done during the day.
Hopefully I’ll keep writing.
