Feb 15
- 8-10 pieces of older bread
- 6 eggs well beaten
- 1 cup of sugar
- 1/4 cup of milk
- 1 tsp Vanilla
- 2 freshly sliced peaches
- Cinnamon to flavor
Mix eggs, sugar & milk well then add the vanilla. Heat skillet after spraying with oil. Take the bread and coat well in egg mixture then put in a hot oiled pan & cook one side at a time until golden brown. Sprinkle with cinnamon to taste, place 2 wafter slices of peach on each to serve.
Feb 05

- 4 egg yolks
- 1/3 cup sugar, plus 1 tablespoon
- 1 pint whole milk
- 1 cup heavy cream
- 3 ounces bourbon
- 1 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg
- 4 egg whites
In the bowl of a stand mixer, beat the egg yolks until they lighten in color. Gradually add the 1/3 cup sugar and continue to beat until it is completely dissolved. Set aside.
In a medium saucepan, over high heat, combine the milk, heavy cream and nutmeg and bring just to a boil, stirring occasionally. Remove from the heat and gradually temper the hot mixture into the egg and sugar mixture. Then return everything to the pot and cook until the mixture reaches 160 degrees F. Remove from the heat, stir in the bourbon, pour into a medium mixing bowl, and set in the refrigerator to chill.
In a medium mixing bowl, beat the egg whites to soft peaks. With the mixer running gradually add the 1 tablespoon of sugar and beat until stiff peaks form. Whisk the egg whites into the chilled mixture.
Nov 15
Here is an unfinished rough cut video of the photos I took while in London for a week working with a Art Fair. Depending on the amount of free time I have will determine if it gets finished but since that is a commodity in small amount right now it is unlikely, so I figured I would post what i had so far.
I can say this about London though, comparing it to Tokyo and the entire US, it comes off looking like the city that is the bank to the world and has little to no litter, crime & the graffiti is kind of cute and is in no way menacing in a odd way. That and they love them some rugby…. more on that later.
Sep 28
Two weeks in Tokyo gives you a lot of stories but even more photos. Sometimes they are bad, sometimes they come out better then you even have the skill to take, all the time it can annoy the friends you are with, haha. Stopping every few steps, taking multiple shots, forcing them to be in the frame for multiple takes & worst of all having them stand still when the temple your in has so much stagnet water that mosquitoes the size of jawbreakers eat them alive.
This isn’t the end of the series, but wanting to have a post of the most visually interesting shots of Tokyo here is the top photos out of the 1,450+ photos that were taken. I am not exaggerating that number either. The Finalist is at the bottom and please correct me in the comments if you feel I am wrong.
Warning this is image/bandwidth heavy
Quarter Finalists
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Sep 27
While I was in Tokyo for two weeks in the middle of July there were two natural disasters that kept us on our feet.
Man-Yi

The first was the landfall of Typhoon Man-Yi which struck the island of Okinawa then made it’s way up the east coast of Japan to Tokyo. At it’s peak it was a category 4 Typhoon that left surprisingly as far as I can find only around 9 dead and in many reports less then 150 missing at any given time. I am not sure what the final numbers were since I can not find a summary report.
Chu-Etso-Oki
The second was 2 days later as the Chu-Etso-Oki Earthquake struck the northwest part of Japan with a 6.6 magnitude shock with aftershocks 5 hours later. The total damage cause by the earthquake can be read in this report.
In Summary:
1. The first known case of a fire in a nuclear power plant resulting from an earthquake
2. A water leak led to the release into the sea of 2,432,432 pCi worth of radioactive water
Damage that in perspective is very little and very safe in comparison to oil refinery explosions or any number of other power plant failures.
Summary
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