This may be the next project I take on!
PREP TIME: 30 minCOOK TIME: 45 minSERVINGS: 12 INGREDIENTS CAKE 1 ½ cups plain white flour 1 cup caster sugar ½ cup cocoa powder 1 ¼ tsp baking soda ½ tsp salt 1/3 cup neutral oil 1 tbsp vinegar (balsamic or white) 1 tsp vanilla 1 1/2 cup cooled coffee CHOCOLATE GANACHE ICING 2x blocks (200g) Whittaker’s 45% Rich Cocoa Chocolate 1 cup Cream METHOD CAKE Preheat […]
Whittaker’s Moist Chocolate Cake Recipe — Good Magazine
***Not all psychopaths are criminals, however, it is a frequent trait of a serial killer***
3/20/1999-(Vigil) came face to face with a sexual sadist and survived. (Vigil) was a 21-year old prostitute and heroin addict. One morning while walking to the restaurant, a guy she knew came up to her to tell her (Ray-59-years old) was asking…
View original post 822 more words
Big MLB moves this week
Source – Tigers, Baez Agree to $140 Million Deal – The Detroit Tigers have agreed to a six-year, $140 million deal with free-agent shortstop Javier Baez, a source told ESPN’s Buster Olney on Tuesday. The deal also includes an opt-out, according to the source. It would be the second-largest free-agent deal in Tigers franchise history. (Prince Fielder signed a nine-year, $214 million deal with Detroit in January 2012.) While he struck out a league-high 184 times last season, Baez hit .265 with 31 homers, 87 RBIs and 18 steals. He also brings Gold Glove defense to Detroit with his signature no-look tags. The Cubs selected Baez in the first round of the 2011 draft. The two-time National League All-Star had been close to signing a long-term extension with Chicago before the 2020 season, but the COVID-19 pandemic put negotiations on hold. Those contract talks never resumed, and the Cubs traded Baez to the
View original post 5 more words
Expectations
Deadlines
Reckoning
Unfair and not achievable
Thrust upon us by countless plastic gods
Clueless to what they are doing to us
Anxiety
Depression
Anger
To process our feelings means to fall further behind
To validate them assumes weakness
The world has no time for self rehabilitation
Selfishness
Hatred
Ignorance without the desire to learn
Fighting each other instead of the inflictions
The world requires us to be that way
But I’m fed up with having to be this way
Thursday, December 2:
Dallas at New Orleans
The Cowboys have fallen on hard times. The Saints are a mess.
Dallas 21 New Orleans 16
Sunday, December 5:
Indianapolis at Houston
The Colts were surging until they ran into the world champs. They get back on track here.
Indianapolis 24 Houston 14
Minnesota at Detroit
I bet Kirk Cousins lines up under center this week. It may not matter.
Minnesota 34 Detroit 17
NY Giants at Miami
The Dolphins are playing well of late.
Miami 18 NY Giants 13
Tampa Bay at Atlanta
Are the Buccaneers heading toward home field advantage throughout?
Tampa Bay 27 Atlanta 16
Philadelphia at NY Jets
Just when the Eagles were getting some attention, they lose to the Giants. They split their back-to-backs in the Meadowlands.
Philadelphia 15 NY Jets 14
Arizona at Chicago
The Cardinals return to their old stomping grounds.
Arizona 21 Chicago 16
LA Chargers at Cincinnati
The Bengals have become an offensive juggernaut. They keep it going here.
Cincinnati 33 LA Chargers 21
Jacksonville at LA Rams
The Jags show up on the schedule just in time for the sliding Rams.
LA Rams 23 Jacksonville 13
Washington at Las Vegas
Which Raiders team will show up?
Washington 20 Las Vegas 19
Baltimore at Pittsburgh
Is this a must win for the skidding Steelers? Can Lamar and company hold onto the ball? The league’s most intriguing division gets a little tighter.
Pittsburgh 19 Baltimore 17
San Francisco at Seattle
The Niners are quietly in a playoff spot right now.
San Francisco 23 Seattle 21
Denver at Kansas City
The streaky Broncos will be no match for the streaking Chiefs.
Kansas City 31 Denver 9
Monday, December 6:
New England at Buffalo
First place in the AFC East is on the line. The Bills end the Patriots’ win streak here, but the Pats will have a shot a revenge in a couple of weeks.
Buffalo 24 New England 21
Another incredible looking dish I stumbled across!
The fried cod is a dish based on fish with an unmistakable and truly special flavor, if you love this fish. Crunchy outside and soft inside, it is great for holiday tables, especially during the Christmas period.
Fried cod is prepared with salted cod soaked for at least 12 hours to be taken into account when preparing the recipe. We write a precise explanation about the soaking in the recipe Italian Baccalà=Salted Codfish with chickpeas .With a lower soaking time you risk a salty and hard cod.
You need about 600 grams=21 oz. of salted cod for 4 people, which corresponds to about 400 grams =14 oz.of desalted product.
| 400g “Baccalà”=14 oz. (codfish preserved in salt) flour 150g=5 oz flour Black pepper seed oil (grape, sunflower, grape, peanuts) garlic parsley tomato sauce |
Drain the cod and dry it with a piece of kitchen paper.
Slice it into regular…
View original post 94 more words
It was horrible crime. To date the killer and the victim remain unknown.
This may be the easiest and the most difficult column I’ve ever had to write. Easy, in the fact that I don’t have to sift through a never-ending pile of details and situations. Difficult, in that the piece should have some substance to it, however, there is little substance to go around. Mercifully, the rifle season for whitetail deer (are there any?) has ended.
I hunted nine out of 16 days. I saw zero deer. None. Zilch. Nada. This is the first time this has happened to me. To make matters worse, my dad did not see a single deer either. It’s like they cease to exist.
We hunted hard. We found good buck sign in the preseason. I hung cameras over these locations and had some nice bucks cruise by. The problem is that most of the bucks showed their face under the cover of darkness. Only once, did I get a picture of a buck during daytime hours, and of course it was a day I went into the woods a little later in the morning. There’s nobody to blame on that but myself.
The weather did not cooperate for much of the season. Opening day ended early in the afternoon due to a downpour. A snowstorm that night created a squall of melting snow from the stand of pines I was sitting in on the second day and forced me elsewhere. The third day was interrupted by rain. Another day in the first week saw temperatures rise to sixty degrees. This final weekend produced more than a foot of snow, making walking conditions almost impossible even to and from our stands.
The deer did not cooperate either. It seems they have adapted to going strictly nocturnal. One good thing about the snow was that it gave us the opportunity to see their travel patterns a little more clearly. The problem here was that there was no one pattern that they would follow. There was no smoking hot trail that was evident one of us needed to park ourselves at. They would cross this wood road in one spot one evening and another spot 200 yards away the next. They simply go here and there, meandering. That said, I do not think there are many deer at all. A couple of deer can make an awful lot of tracks when they travel in this manner.
All of this has me wondering how we are supposed to get our youth interested in the sport of hunting. I have a pre-teen. It is a tough sell to get him to look forward to getting up in the middle of the night, freeze our butt off, and not see any deer. At least when I took him turkey hunting this spring, we had some action. He’s fired up about chasing longbeards. Deer, not so much.
At mid-morning yesterday, I did make a point to head down to my old stand where Dad and I have taken many bucks over the years. And wouldn’t you know, the place was torn up! Before the season, there was little sign here and it forced me to make the inevitable decision to hunt elsewhere. I should have known. When there is snow and the acorn crop is substantial, the place holds deer. Want to guess where I’ll be in muzzleloader season?
Welcome to a new weekly post that I will call Metal Mondays, where I will rank the albums of a certain artist in the metal and hard rock genre from worst to best. As I am a list and ranking person, I am unable to have a simple discussion on what a band’s good albums are, as well as their not-so-good ones. I must rank them in some sort of order, or I will not be able to participate! This also makes for a fun debate, don’t you think?
NOTE: I will rank full length STUDIO ALBUMS only. There will be no live records, greatest hits, or EP’s here.
This week we are discussing the British sensations, Def Leppard. Originally upstarts in the New Wave of British Heavy Metal (NWOBHM) movement in the late 1970’s, Def Leppard has transformed their sound throughout the decades, first hitting the mainstream has a hard-driving unit, before exploring with a variety of genres, including grunge and straight-up pop. The band has experienced their share of hardships along the way, including the car accident in which drummer Rick Allen lost his arm, as well as the untimely death of guitarist Steve Clark.
#10:
Do you remember the grunge and alternative rock movement of the 1990’s? I do. I hated it back then. It took away the feel-good, party rock and roll that I grew up on. Today, I have grown in my musical taste and have accepted, and now even enjoy, some of the bands that thrived during this time. However, it is not a good sound for Def Leppard.
Best Song: Blood Runs Cold
Best Deep Cut: Blood Runs Cold
#9:
Now, You’re Beautiful, Cry, and Scar are decent tracks, but still too much filler on this release.
Best Song: You’re Beautiful
Best Deep Cut: You’re Beautiful
#8:
This album marks a return towards the sound that most Def Leppard fans came to love, however, like X above, there is still too much filler on this record. As I have lamented before, I would much rather listen to an album with 8-9 good tracks, than one with 13-14 songs just to fill a disc. The hit, Promises, Demolition Man, and the wonderful, Paper Sun are the highlights here.
Best Song: Paper Sun
Best Deep Cut: Paper Sun
#7:
This first album without Steve Clark has its moments, however, it was the first Def Leppard record that disappointed me overall. While there is a collection of solid songs, such as Let’s Get Rocked, White Lightning, Stand Up (Kick Love into Motion), and Tear It Down, the album comes across as a little formulistic, with most of the material failing to stand up to previous releases. Tonight has the potential to be a Def Leppard classic, however fizzles in the end.
Best Song: White Lightning
Best Deep Cut: White Lightning
#6:
I must admit, I don’t believe I had ever listened to this record until I was preparing this column. I had to scramble this weekend, as for some reason, this one slipped through the cracks. I was pleasantly surprised once I did listen to it. The album is full of catchy choruses with big hooks. While impossible to compare to the brilliance of its earlier releases, the band delivered in a way few thought one at this stage in their career could.
Go, Nine Lives, C’mon C’mon, Tomorrow, and Gotta Let it Go are the highlights.
Best Song: Tomorrow
Best Deep Cut: Tomorrow
#5:
I had heard Def Leppard’s self-titled release from 2015, although I needed to take the time to refamiliarize myself with it. Much like with Songs from the Sparkle Lounge, this album is an overlooked surprise in the band’s catalogue. Let’s Go, Dangerous, Man Enough, Forever Young, and Wings of an Angel are worthy of your time.
Best Song: Let’s Go
Best Deep Cut: Let’s Go
#4:
You’re about to see where my allegiances lie regarding Def Leppard, seeing as the top four albums in this ranking are from the 80’s. On Through the Night is the debut release and show a band who is raw and hungry to break out of obscurity. While lacking the polish of future records, you begin to realize that Def Leppard was a band about to break out.
Rock Brigade, Hello America, and Wasted are criminally underrated DL classics in my book.
Best Song: Wasted
Best Deep Cut: Wasted
#3:
We go from the obscure to the ginormous opus with 1987’s Hysteria. Released four years after the previous record, due, in most part, to the accident and amputation of Allen’s arm, the album brings to light the poppier side of the band, no doubt due to the electronic drum set-up Allen utilized. The record spawned seven hit singles, and really took off when the third single, Pour Some Sugar on Me, hit the airwaves.
Obviously, the hits are there, with Animal, Rocket, Armageddon It, Love Bites, and the title track all enjoying success on the charts, while the deep cuts are plentiful and fruitful, such as, Gods of War, Don’t Shoot Shotgun, and Excitable.
Best Song: Hysteria
Best Deep Cut: Excitable
#2:
Under the direction of hit maker Mutt Lange at the controls, the band catapulted into superstardom with this album. There are plenty of hits, including, Photograph, Foolin,’ Rock of Ages, and the amazing, Too Late for Love. Meanwhile, there is plenty more to knock your socks off with, Rock Rock (Till You Drop), Stagefright, Die Hard the Hunter, and Comin’ Under Fire.
Best Song: Too Late for Love
Best Deep Cut: Comin’ Under Fire
#1:
One of my favorite albums of all time, High ‘n’ Dry features Def Leppard for the first time with Mutt Lange. While only Bringing on the Heartbreak broke through as a major radio hit, the rest of the record is an absolute masterpiece. One of the rare albums that has no bad songs, very similar to the debut Van Halen release. I could name off the highlights, but I’ll save you some time and tell you to listen to the whole thing.
Best Song: Lady Strange
Best Deep Cut: Lady Strange
Whipped Owl 