Fun recipe series chapter one - my Pecan Caramel baked corn candy · Sunday January 31, 2010 by colin newell
I made this on a random whim last night – and I guess all whim’s are unplanned… some not so much.
24 Cups of popped corn (1 cup of your favorite kernels)
1 Cup Butter (margarine for the faint of heart)
2 Cups Brown Sugar – the darker the better – I use Demerara)
1/2 Cup Corn Syrup
1 Teaspoon Salt
1 Tablespoon Vanilla
1 Cup Whole Pecans
Preheat Oven to 250 degrees (F) – In your largest pot melt butter, stir in brown sugar, corn syrup and salt.
Bring to boil stirring constantly. Boil for 5 minutes more without stirring.
Remove from heat. Stir in vanilla. Then pecans.
Pour in all the popcorn. Stir and stir (with a wooden spoon) til all the popcorn is coated with the sugar-nut mixture.
Put all of this mix onto your largest cookie sheet or roasting pan.
Put it in the oven for 1 hour, stirring occasionally.
Store in airtight plastic or tin container.
Great with tea, or coffee or single malt scotch.
Insulin not included.
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1st ever Latte Art throw down for Haiti - in Victoria at DISCO · Monday January 25, 2010 by colin newell
I had the pleasure of watching all of Victoria’s coffee passion packed into one room at Discovery Coffee on Discovery Street…
and I got to judge a round. How about that.
Tonight in Victoria.
Everyone was there and the love was in the air.
There was enough zippy coffee groove to knock small planets out of their orbits. But that is not why we were there.
A good dozen or so of the Island’s best baristi duked it out for the Earthquake ravaged country of Haiti – and we raised almost $1000.
The winner was one of the lovely and charming gals from DISCO on Oak Bay Avenue – runner-ups included Geir Oglend of the Drumroaster in Mill Bay.
More photos here
Google Rant #1 - don't steal my books Mister Google · Sunday January 24, 2010 by colin newell
My first thought is…
If I created a series of Google rants…
Would google index them?
Well. Let’s see.
Anyway.
Imagine a World where you could lose everything at the whim of a giant corporation… in a future World where there were no borders… only corporations that took what they wanted, when they wanted.
Your money. Your ideas. Your family and friends.
Sounds crazy.
Would it make it ok is the corporation tossed you a bone for your most cherished possessions? Like 64 dollars? For your life’s work…
Oddly, this is the present World. Google appears to want to steal all the books on the Planet and pay the authors 64 bucks for their trouble.
Sound odd? Sound outrageous? Sound like a scary future World.
Sure as f*ck does.
Read more about it here
Shit like this staggers me. And we all need to be on guard.
Coffee in Victoria B.C. and the lower Island EAT Magazine · Friday January 22, 2010 by colin newell
I will let the article do the talking… or the reading I guess.
Many thanks to Rebecca Baugniet of EAT Magazine for kick starting this.
