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1 day ago

Thanks to my friend Natalie, I’ve discovered something called Favela Chic Postonove. I don’t quite understand it, but it a compilation of sweet Brazilian music. And it features this song.

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Notes: 31 / 2 days ago from attnkatdaley (originally from bicyclerelated)

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Notes: 151 / 2 days ago from otter-chaos (originally from rjthecunning)

May 25, 1932 | HAPPY 80th BIRTHDAY, GOOFY! A-HYUCK!

TIL I share my birthday with Goofy.

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Notes: 2 / 3 days ago

Happy Birthday to me.

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Notes: 62 / 1 week ago from fuckyeahcycling

fuckyeahcycling:

Tour of California 2012 | Stage 5

Second for Jens!

(via 2012 tour-of-california photos stage-05)

Rule 5, footnote 14: You will never observe Rule 5 as much as Jens. The diamond industry is currently petitioning to move the standard measurement of the hardness of a diamond from “carat” to “Jens”. Preliminary studies show that the most perfect and hard diamond known to be in existence is 0.125 Jens.

Notes: 1 / 1 week ago

My attempt at copying a food truck meal

In Orlando, we have a food truck called the Korean BBQ Taco Box whose food is just as strange as it sounds, and twice as delicious. It is hands-down the best food in Orlando for under $8. I try to visit them as often as I can. If you live in Orlando, do yourself a huge favor and go find them for lunch today before you try these recipes. They’re a local business, which I’m all for supporting.

My favorite meal from the food truck is their teriyaki chicken taco box, pictured above. It comes with the chicken taco, a salad with ginger dressing, a spicy wing, two cheese rolls, fried tofu with teriyaki sauce and an egg…thingie. I’m not going to try to recreate all of it (I didn’t have ready access to tofu or chicken wings and the egg perplexes me), but I am trying to copy the best parts. Apart from the soy and teriyaki sauces, everything I try is from scratch.

The hardest part about this was finding out what the special sauce the food truck puts on its tacos and cheese rolls is. After a good amount of research, I found one comment saying it was like shrimp sauce from a Japanese steakhouse, so that’s what I went with.

Here’s my guide to the taco, salad and cheese roll:

First prepare the sauces. I used the exact recipe for the ginger dressing found here. I didn’t have access to a food processor I used a simple cheese grater to mince the carrots, ginger and lemon, and I substituted onion powder for actual onion. I made the shrimp sauce (which to my relief doesn’t contain actual shrimp) from the recipe here. I figure if someone is dedicated enough to a recipe that he makes an entire web page for it, his recipe must be pretty good.

Prep these early so the flavors can combine in the fridge. Marinate a chicken breast in teriyaki sauce at least four hours before you need to cook it.

The next step is to make the rice and dough for the cheese rolls. I use a rice cooker to make things easy. Just make a cup of rice the normal way. Prepare the dough using the egg roll wrap recipe found here. About 20 minutes into making the dough, pop the chicken breast in the over at 350 for 45 minutes.

Putting it all together is the easy part. Combine a spoonful of rice with a slice off of a chunk of mozzarella cheese and wrap it in an egg roll shell. Then do the same for the rest of the egg rolls. Fry those suckers in canola oil for 2-3 minutes each side, then set them aside. When you’re ready to serve them, cut them in half and drizzle them with teriyaki and shrimp sauce.

The chicken taco is also simple: in a soft taco shell, spoon in some chopped teriyaki chicken, some lettuce and a good amound of shrimp sauce. That’s all there is to it.

The salad is the easiest: add the dressing to lettuce, carrots and whatever other veggies you want.

I have no idea how this will taste, as I’m writing this while I wait for the dough to rise. But I’ve already gotten requests for recipes (along with a marriage proposal) on Facebook for posting about it, so here you go.

Edit: Here they are. My drunken roommate has already scarfed down two of the cheese rolls. I guess that means they’re good :)

MOAR edit: The verdict is in: the shrimp sauce needs more sugar and less paprika, the salad is perfect and teriyaki is a good marinade but a terrible topping.

Notes: 120670 / 2 weeks ago from erinthedrowsy (originally from carlop)

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literally the best commercial I’ve ever seen

Happy Mother’s Day.

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Notes: 1 / 2 weeks ago from eldergreene

eldergreene:

A HUGE shoutout to JustinSanak who came out last night to see the Pajama Game. The last time he saw me in something was when I was a disembodied head as Chip in Beauty and the Beast.

And a shoutout to Eldergreene, who absolutely blew the crowd away with her performance last night as the leading lady. I had no idea such a tiny Asian girl could fill up a theater with her voice like that. What a Babe.

If you’re in Clearwater anytime between now and May 27, support the local theater and go see the play. It’s well worth the price of admission.

Notes: 2 / 2 weeks ago

Dear Three Kings Hookah Lounge

Dear Three Kings,

I don’t know who’s in charge of your marketing, but you should probably get rid of them. I walked out to my car this morning to find a flyer for your business under both my windshield wiper and the wipers of all the other cars in my apartment complex. And since it rained the night before, that flyer was pasted directly in the driver’s field of vision for my car. I had to spend ten minutes scraping the thing off my car with a pocket knife. There’s still a sticky residue
Your actions with the flyer do not make me want to give you my business. In fact, I’m going to go out of my way to badmouth your business, both in person and via my social media, because of the inconvenience you have caused me. And I’m sure that most of the people in my apartment complex will be doing the same.
You have just spent a decent amount of money to make a couple hundred people in your customer demographic curse your name. This was a terrible investment in your marketing dollars. Please don’t make the same mistake again. Take your flyers somewhere else.

Sincerely,

Justin

Notes: 8 / 3 weeks ago