OK,
I just did a google search of the term "One Man Electric Blues Band" and I found another dude is using the same name for his music act. I know this wouldn't bother most people but most people didn't put all the time and effort into the creation of the "one man electric blues band". Also, "other people" didn't work as the equipment manager for Marc Twyman's One Man Electric Blues Band.
It is actually something I copyrighted in 2005 and I have a digital time stamp showing that I used the term much earlier than that also. It is a trademark that I have established on the world wide web and is unique to me.
Used to be that if I googled "one man electric blues band", I was the only one who came up as an exact hit.
I am not as upset about it as the bass player (my left toe). It it was just up to me, I would let it go but I really don't think the rest of the band will feel the same way.
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Not from the Shrimp's persective
Hola, Aloha, and Como Estas?
I just cooked some shrimp and they came out right.
Back sometime around 1984, I got the idea that I wanted to open a Seafood Restaurant. I worked for a short time at several different Seafood Restaurants and I started making a book of Recipes based on things I learned at each kitchen. I had recipes for Fried and Broiled Fish, Shrimp, Oysters and also the various ways to prepare and serve King Crab, snow Crap, soft shell Crab, Blue Crab, Dungeonous Crab, Crab Claws, Detliff Crab and more. I had a good recipe for Seafood Gumbo and also Clam Chowder. I determined which place had the best way of cooking French Fries, onion rings, and also baked potatoes. Then at some point a very dear friend to me decided that they would help me by offering me a job so I kind of lost my direction with the Restaruant idea. One thing I did learn about restaurants is that the owner has to be there all the time in order to watch the way customers are treated, food is prepared, and also make sure that food is not walking out the back door to feed the employees and thier friends. It is a real art to keeping food cost down. It costs money to throw away food also.
Fast forward to today:
I decided to cook some Fried Shrimp and I used the same basic recipe as a place called the "Crazy Crab". They have long since gone out of business but were located in the Westwood Mall area in Southwest Houston. Thier philosopy was to not put spices in the breading or on the shrimp but instead to have all the spice be contained in the "Cocktail Sauce".
Start out with Fresh Shrimp (if possible) but frozen will work.
Butterfly the shrimp and then after rinsing with water,
drop them into a bowl of flour.
After that dip them into milk/egg wash(Just mix an egg into a small bowl of milk),
Then coat them with Cracker Crumbs. It takes a little work to crunch up the saltine crackers (i used unsalted) Use something like a pie or layer cake baking pan and press then place the shrimp on top of cracker crumbs and then drop a handful of the cracker crumbs on top of the shrimp also. Press them down to make the crumbs stick but not hard enough to deform the shrimp too much.
Once you have all the shrimp prepared for frying, Then fry them in some cooking oil that is hot enough but not too hot. You want them to be golden brown and it is a good Idea to put enough oil in the frying pan that the shrimp will be submerged.
Then serve them with some good cotail sauce.
We ate ours with some green beans and microwave baked potatoes. It works better in the real oven but just clean some taters, punch holes in them with a fork (about 4 or 5 stabs) so they don't split and then coat them with olive oil.
I also have some dieting tips but I will share them in another post at a time of my choosing.
Rock Onward
I just cooked some shrimp and they came out right.
Back sometime around 1984, I got the idea that I wanted to open a Seafood Restaurant. I worked for a short time at several different Seafood Restaurants and I started making a book of Recipes based on things I learned at each kitchen. I had recipes for Fried and Broiled Fish, Shrimp, Oysters and also the various ways to prepare and serve King Crab, snow Crap, soft shell Crab, Blue Crab, Dungeonous Crab, Crab Claws, Detliff Crab and more. I had a good recipe for Seafood Gumbo and also Clam Chowder. I determined which place had the best way of cooking French Fries, onion rings, and also baked potatoes. Then at some point a very dear friend to me decided that they would help me by offering me a job so I kind of lost my direction with the Restaruant idea. One thing I did learn about restaurants is that the owner has to be there all the time in order to watch the way customers are treated, food is prepared, and also make sure that food is not walking out the back door to feed the employees and thier friends. It is a real art to keeping food cost down. It costs money to throw away food also.
Fast forward to today:
I decided to cook some Fried Shrimp and I used the same basic recipe as a place called the "Crazy Crab". They have long since gone out of business but were located in the Westwood Mall area in Southwest Houston. Thier philosopy was to not put spices in the breading or on the shrimp but instead to have all the spice be contained in the "Cocktail Sauce".
Start out with Fresh Shrimp (if possible) but frozen will work.
Butterfly the shrimp and then after rinsing with water,
drop them into a bowl of flour.
After that dip them into milk/egg wash(Just mix an egg into a small bowl of milk),
Then coat them with Cracker Crumbs. It takes a little work to crunch up the saltine crackers (i used unsalted) Use something like a pie or layer cake baking pan and press then place the shrimp on top of cracker crumbs and then drop a handful of the cracker crumbs on top of the shrimp also. Press them down to make the crumbs stick but not hard enough to deform the shrimp too much.
Once you have all the shrimp prepared for frying, Then fry them in some cooking oil that is hot enough but not too hot. You want them to be golden brown and it is a good Idea to put enough oil in the frying pan that the shrimp will be submerged.
Then serve them with some good cotail sauce.
We ate ours with some green beans and microwave baked potatoes. It works better in the real oven but just clean some taters, punch holes in them with a fork (about 4 or 5 stabs) so they don't split and then coat them with olive oil.
I also have some dieting tips but I will share them in another post at a time of my choosing.
Rock Onward
Sunday, January 17, 2010
Relgion vs Darwin???
I understand that back when people thought the earth was flat it would have been considered herecy to say the world was round.
Personally, I think Ben Franlin would have understood. Ben is one of those guys that even though everybody in the world knows they were amazing, my typical reaction when I read about him is to be astounded at how incredible a dude he was. Just like listening to Mozrt. Ben is the kind of guy who could do all the different things he did and at the same time do everything that you or I did and do it better.
If you want to share in my Amazement, then do a Google Search and read up on him.
I mention Ben because he was a scientist and it is quite evident that he did not see that as an attack or even in conflict with his personal religious views. I don't think Darwin was trying to make any kind of statement about religion when he did his science & I am pretty sure he "got" that. He was just being a scientist.
I got started thinking about this after watching a PBS special about DNA. I think it was an "episode" of Nova.
To me, It doesn't attack the idea that God made the world in "seven days" to consider that he may have done it using "evolution". If you think about it, a "day" is how long it takes the world to spin around one time. But when God made the world, it wasn't spinning. Who are we to assume how long a "day" was for God? Why is that Shakespere didn't have to just lay everything out? When they made me read Shakespeare in English, I had no idea what the story was about. We had to write a book report about it and everybody pretended like they just got it. I didn't. Why shouldn't God be allowed to write like that? Why would it be sacrilege to assume that God would write in his own astoundng style. He is afterall God.
OK, Back to the Sunday School Science Lesson:
Wait, I see the bell is fixing to ring and I don't want you to be late for Churh and we will pick up where we left of last week.
Personally, I think Ben Franlin would have understood. Ben is one of those guys that even though everybody in the world knows they were amazing, my typical reaction when I read about him is to be astounded at how incredible a dude he was. Just like listening to Mozrt. Ben is the kind of guy who could do all the different things he did and at the same time do everything that you or I did and do it better.
If you want to share in my Amazement, then do a Google Search and read up on him.
I mention Ben because he was a scientist and it is quite evident that he did not see that as an attack or even in conflict with his personal religious views. I don't think Darwin was trying to make any kind of statement about religion when he did his science & I am pretty sure he "got" that. He was just being a scientist.
I got started thinking about this after watching a PBS special about DNA. I think it was an "episode" of Nova.
To me, It doesn't attack the idea that God made the world in "seven days" to consider that he may have done it using "evolution". If you think about it, a "day" is how long it takes the world to spin around one time. But when God made the world, it wasn't spinning. Who are we to assume how long a "day" was for God? Why is that Shakespere didn't have to just lay everything out? When they made me read Shakespeare in English, I had no idea what the story was about. We had to write a book report about it and everybody pretended like they just got it. I didn't. Why shouldn't God be allowed to write like that? Why would it be sacrilege to assume that God would write in his own astoundng style. He is afterall God.
OK, Back to the Sunday School Science Lesson:
Wait, I see the bell is fixing to ring and I don't want you to be late for Churh and we will pick up where we left of last week.
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