Now, I may have made a misconception here but I saw from one television program that states: "our bodies are used to butter and is therefore able to break this down compared to using margarine." I may have mixed up to two but I had evidence - from National Geographics' Seconds from Disaster - that butter is the better of the two.
In the aforementioned episode, combustible margarine had caused the freaky accident in the English Channel underwater tunnel.
Now I may be confused here because if margarine is easily combustible, does that mean that our bodies can easily "burn" it?
Oh hell... let me check our fridge...
Well, we are using margarine. With out cholesterol. So I guess it's "our bodies are used to margarine and is therefore able to break this down compared to using butter."
Happy eating!
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Monday, September 10, 2007
Chain of ideas - cooking with garlic
It is said that garlic is able to reduce incidence of high blood pressure.
There was a time that every morning I would go to our office clinic and have my blood pressure checked. We are issued a green card where we put our blood pressure readings for the day. For almost a month or two, I had recorded blood pressures as high as 140/100 and twice or thrice was I made to take medicines for hypertension.
Every time I get a high blood reading, I always tell the doc that it is caused by my walking for about 2 kilometers to the office (1+ miles).
Later on, I heard from a friend that garlic helps maintain a level blood pressure. Level in the lows that is.
I have also noticed some of my friends cook their meals with sauteed garlic.
Henceforth, I took interest in cooking food using garlic. This food ranged from veggies to meat to pork all sauteed in, unfortunately, high fat oil. It ended when I saw from an episode of Oprah where the doctor-guests said that vegetable oil has less cholesterol compared to other types of oils.
So it came to me changing from using regular cooking oil to vegetable or coconut oil.
Healthy and delicious.
There was a time that every morning I would go to our office clinic and have my blood pressure checked. We are issued a green card where we put our blood pressure readings for the day. For almost a month or two, I had recorded blood pressures as high as 140/100 and twice or thrice was I made to take medicines for hypertension.
Every time I get a high blood reading, I always tell the doc that it is caused by my walking for about 2 kilometers to the office (1+ miles).
Later on, I heard from a friend that garlic helps maintain a level blood pressure. Level in the lows that is.
I have also noticed some of my friends cook their meals with sauteed garlic.
Henceforth, I took interest in cooking food using garlic. This food ranged from veggies to meat to pork all sauteed in, unfortunately, high fat oil. It ended when I saw from an episode of Oprah where the doctor-guests said that vegetable oil has less cholesterol compared to other types of oils.
So it came to me changing from using regular cooking oil to vegetable or coconut oil.
Healthy and delicious.
Tuesday, September 4, 2007
Chain of ideas - resale of public utility
List of resellable public utility items:
1. water meter - got wrench? will steal. water meters are often removed from their attachments for resale by thieves.
2. electric power line - black outs are not that bad. enterprising individuals take this opportunity to steal power cables. with some courage and some luck, they get away without being electrocuted.
3. cable television line - no need for blackouts here.
4. telephone line - copper wires are best sold on a per kilogram/pound basis.
5. electricity - just tap in to somebody's power line or even from the mains. other venture capitalists allow other people to tap in to their power lines and charge them a fixed monthly rate.
6. water - a rubber hose here, a t-connector there, tap into the main water line and voila! free water.
7. telephone - all you will need is a plier, some telephone wires, and a cheap phone unit.
8. cable connection - a more sophisticated connection is needed here. it is called a signal splitter.
NOTE: these are illegal activities and are punishable by law.
1. water meter - got wrench? will steal. water meters are often removed from their attachments for resale by thieves.
2. electric power line - black outs are not that bad. enterprising individuals take this opportunity to steal power cables. with some courage and some luck, they get away without being electrocuted.
3. cable television line - no need for blackouts here.
4. telephone line - copper wires are best sold on a per kilogram/pound basis.
5. electricity - just tap in to somebody's power line or even from the mains. other venture capitalists allow other people to tap in to their power lines and charge them a fixed monthly rate.
6. water - a rubber hose here, a t-connector there, tap into the main water line and voila! free water.
7. telephone - all you will need is a plier, some telephone wires, and a cheap phone unit.
8. cable connection - a more sophisticated connection is needed here. it is called a signal splitter.
NOTE: these are illegal activities and are punishable by law.
Sunday, September 2, 2007
Chain of ideas - Filipino and Italian
One day, I was asked by my wife to cook some food. I have no idea what to do then. It was a good thing I was tuned in to one of our favorite cable channels in the office - The LifeStyle Network.
The show was featuring Italian cooking at that time - the pizza. Then I suddenly remembered one episode of another show from that channel where the "bachelor" cooked pasta for his friends. In that same instant I thought "hey! if Italians eat pasta and Filipinos eat rice, it can therefore be concluded that pasta to Italians is rice to Filipinos!" And so came the answer to my previous problem: what to cook.
I went to the kitchen after the show and looked at what I can conjure from the fridge and cupboard. I found the following items:
1. left over rice from last night
2. tomatoes
3. tomato sauce
4. garlic
5. onions
6. left over fried beef strips
7. butter
I began then began dicing 1 tomato, 4 cloves of garlic, and 1 bulb of onion while I thawed the left-over rice with tap water and the beef strips at room temperature.
I then proceeded to sautee the diced tomato, garlic and onion in a small slice of butter. After such time that I believe the tomato was cooked enough, I added the beef strips. I drained the water from the rice pot and mixed the rice with the sauteed ingredients as if cooking fried rice.
I poured a bit of soy sauce on the concoction and sprinkled some salt.
After I am satisfied with the way the rice was cooked, I added some tomato sauce on the pan and mixed the contents in low heat.
In under 15 minutes I have the Filipino version of the pasta ready for munching.
It tasted good and was among the best "inventions" I have made along with my mechado-adobo cross.
I will share that recipe once I get my thoughts organized on how I did it then.
The show was featuring Italian cooking at that time - the pizza. Then I suddenly remembered one episode of another show from that channel where the "bachelor" cooked pasta for his friends. In that same instant I thought "hey! if Italians eat pasta and Filipinos eat rice, it can therefore be concluded that pasta to Italians is rice to Filipinos!" And so came the answer to my previous problem: what to cook.
I went to the kitchen after the show and looked at what I can conjure from the fridge and cupboard. I found the following items:
1. left over rice from last night
2. tomatoes
3. tomato sauce
4. garlic
5. onions
6. left over fried beef strips
7. butter
I began then began dicing 1 tomato, 4 cloves of garlic, and 1 bulb of onion while I thawed the left-over rice with tap water and the beef strips at room temperature.
I then proceeded to sautee the diced tomato, garlic and onion in a small slice of butter. After such time that I believe the tomato was cooked enough, I added the beef strips. I drained the water from the rice pot and mixed the rice with the sauteed ingredients as if cooking fried rice.
I poured a bit of soy sauce on the concoction and sprinkled some salt.
After I am satisfied with the way the rice was cooked, I added some tomato sauce on the pan and mixed the contents in low heat.
In under 15 minutes I have the Filipino version of the pasta ready for munching.
It tasted good and was among the best "inventions" I have made along with my mechado-adobo cross.
I will share that recipe once I get my thoughts organized on how I did it then.
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