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Has anyone played around with Indonesian cuisine at home? Most of the common ingredients are very similar to thai, vietnamese, and indian cuisine. Lime leaves, galangal root, tumeric root, coconut milk, corriander, cumin, cinnamon, lime, chilies, etc. However, the one standout ingredient that seems to define it is Kecap Manis (pronounced Ketchup - read about origin of Ketchup). So right now, I've got some beef cubes marinating in a mix of kecap, garlic, chilies, ginger, and shallot. Later, I will be skewering these and grilling them. I fully expect a gorgeous caramelized exterior. With this, we're also making an Indonesian rice dish that is made with mostly ingredients that we usually have, with the addition of the magical sweet soy sauce called kecap manis. may see photos if my wife hasn't packed my camera for dessert, we're going to try out an indonesian treat called es cendol that looks gross, but is probably delicious. Green "worms" (some kind of green bean flour thing), coconut milk, palm sugar syrup and crushed ice.

http://www.forbes.com/business/2008/07/26/satellite-radio-merger-biz-wash-cx_bw_0726xmsirius.html finally approved! i think the stock market was closed before the decision so their still sitting at $2.25. It'll be interesting to see what happens on monday.

http://percyboyd.com/ love this site. nice little streams too. This SMMD show from Narrows Center for da Arts is fan-fucking-tastic. On Fire! http://tuxie.mcquillenart.com/mp3/smmd2008-04-22.zip

follow my lead and use youtube vids to make this thread a keeper Simon and Simon

what a great movie that is. it was pretty fun to watch outside with a bunch of strangers, laughing and clapping.

holy shit. sMMD had some fantastic lighting . great photos!

Cheers to Luke on your birthday!

If I was in TO, I'd totally go. I'm really interested to see him without a band. It probably goes something like this... Original vid from the 80's

bring it to the movie and we'll hook it up to the flex capacitor.

UNION!!!!

Looks like Bryan Adams is doing a rather intimate solo acoustic show at The Carlu (444 Yonge) in Toronto on sept. 4 and 5. Tickets on sale on July 31 at 10:00 AM. $95. nice looking venue if this is it

I didn't notice that I had the waiter's olive juice on my back until it was pointed out to me. That was my "there's something about Mary" moment of the day. FUcking TASTY ma'fucking sandwich. I think the portion was just right for a healthy lunch. The elk salami and house smoked ham were both lightly warmed in a pan so extra flavour points there. I had a taste of our friend Tina's creton, and I loved it. She wasn't to keen on it though. Here's Ollie with a sandwich, and another shot with my platter.

Basher, just buy a flight somewhere and get some VIP tix for some event.

it doesn't read like velvet is the one getting slammed.

you know what it means if you're shaping doodies like a penis eh?

Cool PC backup, and file sharing, computer synching software called dropbox. Works on both PC and Mac. You basically drop a folder in your Dropbox on your home PC, and your work PC's dropbox will sync up with it. I've got a few invites if anyone is interested. You can even share a dropbox with other dropbox users. Great for filesharing! http://www.getdropbox.com

a mean ass?

haha. i don't think they allow puppies to be outside at night in ottawa.

I just posted a question on betterbidding yesterday. I wonder if anyone here has an answer. I need to get 3 rooms over 3 nights. Problem is, it starts on a thursday (aug 21) in quebec city with checkout on sunday. That means the thursday real rate is way below the weekend rate. Has anyone here ever managed to pull off one bid for 3 differently priced rooms? Or even pulled off 3 rooms at once over a few days. I'm wondering if I have to split up the bids and risk having to move around.

Is that what you kids call it these days?

nah, I think around that time I was downstairs with Ollie and Freak By Night on a break. I commented on how dark it was out. The concourse had no daylight coming in. that may have been the right time.

is that bad or good?

you got a webcam?

we came home to a mostly destroyed gazeebo and some fence stuff ripped apart. rain came in through the doggy door! I didn't notice anything at work today for some reason.