This is my very first cooking recipe I am writing about. And it is actually one of the very few recipes I am able to cook. For your information: I am not a great cook at all (and my name is not Jamie Oliver). But I am patient and I am learning, especially from m-c’s cooking magic (obviously inspired by Jamie… LOL).
So let’s get started with the TCR recipe (=Tofu Curry with rice). It’s really easy to prepare and healthy too… and veggie-friendly… and even vegan-friendly for really complicated people .
The ingredients:
We need one onion and some potatoes and broccoli and coconut milk and basmati rice and tofu and some garlic and one carrot (sorry no photo, just try to imagine how carrots look like) and some curry powder (it looks similar to that: ::….:…:::..).
Try to buy organic vegetables, for example here! So you can make sure that your vegetables did not soak up any pesticides.
The cooking process:
1 ) Cut the onions in small pieces and put some sunflower oil into a pan (I am using a Wok with a cover, which is practical for cooking vegetables) together with the onions. Cut the broccoli into small pieces.
You see some carrots in the background, right? Please cut them as well. And don’t forget to peel and cut the potatoes. BTW, I love cutting vegetables and I spend a lot of time on it. It has a relaxing effect on me.
2 ) Heat the pan with the onions. Add some roughly cut pieces of garlic to the onions. Wait until the onions become “golden”, but not brown. In the mean time, please cut the tofu in 3D cubes.
3 ) Put some curry powder into the pan and stir the onions and garlic with it.
4 ) Now put the potatoes, the broccoli and carrots into the pan. Close the pan and let it broil for a while.
5 ) Pour the coconut milk into the pan and mix the vegetables with it. At that time I add some salt’n'pepper. Close the pan again and let it cook, at small heat for 5 minutes.
6 ) If you are organized than you could have prepared the rice already. I did not, so I have to do it now. I use 1 cup of rice and 2 cups of water, if I eat alone.
7 ) Put the 3D tofu cubes into the pan. Let it broil for 2 more minutes, or less if you think. The target is to not get soft vegetables. I like them crisp!
8 ) After the rice is ready, you can eat. I am always very proud if I cooked something by myself. Bon appetit !
I was immensely inspired today by Etsy founder’s announce about new funding coming their way. Through his personal approach, his announce summarize how Etsy started, the details about the new investment, and where is the company heading to.
I’m sharing here parts of this announce, which i found myself inspired by for two reasons: first because it shows the power of a simple idea put in place by friends together, and second, for the way corporate information is shared here – with heart, authenticity and passion – something the old’corporate world will probably never learn how to do.
In early April of 2005, I sat in an orange chair facing an open window. It was nighttime and the lights were off. I was back in Brooklyn after a brief residence in Paris, and I was about to sketch the initial ideas that would become Etsy. Working with three friends – Chris, Haim and Jared – Etsy went from these ideas to a site live on the Web in about two months.
Then the story of Swimmy is used to explain the big idea behind Etsy…
So our vision is to be the eye — to be a kind of organizing principle. We do not want Etsy itself to be a big tuna fish. Those tuna are the big companies that all us small businesses are teaming up against.
Those big companies are holdovers from the days before the Web existed. And any company that is being run the same way now as it was before the Web came about is due for some massive restructuring or deflation.
Etsy is a company born on the Web, literally. I see the company itself as a handmade project, and we’ll continue to build it this way. There’s much more to do, and we’re up for the challenge. But we need more than people to get there.
And at last but not the least, in the many points explaining why Etsy needed these all brand new 27 Million dollars:
We believe that the current economy, favoring megacorporations and supersizes, is unstable. People who make a living making things, especially those we have on Etsy, will play a key role in revitalizing and stabilizing the world.
This photo is for you to daydream. It was created by Austrian architect and artist Hundertwasser and it is called Waldspirale (translated it means “spiral forest“).
Here is Chris, freezing, as you can see by the way he’s trying to hold his teeth from clapping together. Hard to believe, but as an Austrian, he loves our cold Quebec winter!
One cool way to relax after a hard day of paper work (!) is to virtually overfill a shopping cart on Etsy. At least, that’s something i like to do, and etsy is perfect to grab all kinds of goodies and art to fill-your-cart-till-you-drop. By the time i reach the counter to pay, the compulsive envy to buy has often left – yes, virtual shopping can save you lots of money.
Today i have found this artist who’s creating beautiful custom made naked couple sculptures in clay. To get your own clay avatar, you must send him a description of hair and skin color, sizes of body parts (!) and some more information such as tatoo images. Looking forward to see mine – aren’t you?
“Amidst all the attention given to the sciences as to how they can lead to the cure of all diseases and daily problems of mankind, I believe that the biggest breakthrough will be the realization that the arts, which are conventionally considered “useless,” will be recognized as the whole reason why we ever try to live longer or live more prosperously. The arts are the science of enjoying life.”
End of the month, time for tax papers. You are now reading words written by the worst procrastinator ever when its time for paper work – even if i know this will take me just a few hours, i dont like numbers, so anything will distract me from getting going.
The ones i like most are ‘Take frequent, smaller breaks‘ – this is your chance to nap often dear at-home-worker, and ‘Switch activities constantly‘ – its just like that, i work better if i switch of activities often, and no, dont blame the attention disorder, i’m just like that!
Enfin fière d’annoncer les prochaines dates de Creacamp pour cette nouvelle année! Les voici, les détails se trouvent sur creacamp.org:
Off Creacamp le 20 février 2008, de 18h à ++
Présentations Creacamp le 3 Mai 2008, comme d’habitude nous sélectionnerons 4 présentatrices pour cette édition, alors contactez-nous si vous aimeriez présenter vos créations, parler de votre cheminement créatif. Svp d’abord consulter le guide de présentation!
Avec pour thème principal la créativité au féminin, creacamp est une rencontre regroupant les créatrices DIY d’ici pour que ces dernières présentent et échangent sur les projets dont elles sont à la tête.
Elles confectionnent des vêtements à partir de matériaux recyclés, documentent sur le web le grouillement de leur communauté, créent leurs propres magazines, receuils de poésie, bijoux. Elles utilisent le web pour partager et étendre leur créativité, et documenter leur processus.
L’événement se déroule avec de courtes présentations qui ont pour but de faire valoir les talents, idées, et expériences de chacune, et de promouvoir la création de liens entre les créatives d’ici. Les présentations sont données par des femmes, mais tous sont invités à faire partie de l’audience.
To learn what is Creacamp / Pour plus de détails sur ce qu’est Creacamp: Creacamp Infos.
In the line of the great female acts of my generation stands the very talented Chan Marshall, known as Cat Power, who launched a new album this month after publicly coming out of a hard time, recovering from a life of drug and alcohol abuse.
Jukebox features covers from Billie Holiday and James Brown, and is now available in stores and on iTunes.
Unfortunately, no MP3s will be made available for podcasters, as said in the conversation taking place between the label and Cat Power’s fans on Matador’s blog – “No MP3 coupon though – with all the publishers involved for the many cover songs, we can’t get permission.”
Vu d’ici’s topo on Cat Power:
- Watch Cat Power as she openly shares about her recovery in a NYT interview,
- young Cat Power video – lovely dance gestures, how sweet she looks in this video!
- Lived in bars video,
- New York New York cover which is on her latest album, Jukebox.
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and some potatoes 
and broccoli 
and coconut milk 
and basmati rice 
and tofu 
and some garlic 
and one carrot (sorry no photo, just try to imagine how carrots look like) and some curry powder (it looks similar to that: ::….:…:::..). 
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