R.I.P Useless Corner

• 2 cups milk
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 1/2 cup biscuit mix (Bisquick, etc)
• 4 eggs
• 1/4 cup (1/2 stick) butter
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 1/2 cups flaked coconut

Preparation:

1. Combine milk, sugar, biscuit mix, eggs, butter and vanilla in blender.
2. Cover and blend on low speed for 3 minutes.
3. Pour into greased 9-inch pie pan.
4. Let stand 5 minutes then sprinkle with coconut.
5. Bake at 350 degrees for 40 minutes.
6. Serve pie warm or cooled. Store in refrigerator.
   

   

1. McDonald’s opens a new restaurant every four hours.
2. Antarctica is the only continent that does not have a McDonald’s restaurant – yet.
3. Ronald McDonald is “Donald McDonald™” in Japan because it makes pronunciation easier for the Japanese. In Singapore he’s known as “Uncle McDonald.”
4. McDonald’s international restaurants occasionally develop other items which appeal to local tastes, such as McSpaghetti™ in the Philippines.
5. Sälen in Sweden opened the first SKI-THROUGH McDonald’s in the world.
6. More than 50,000 students from all over the world have graduated with “Bachelor of Hamburgerology” degrees from McDonald’s “Hamburger University.
7. In India the “Big Mac” is changed into the “Maharaja Mac”, a mutton burger in deference to religious injunctions against the consumption of beef and pork.
8. 40% of McDonald’s profits comes from the sale of Happy Meals.
9. Every day, McDonald’s serves more than 46 million people.
10. The busiest international McDonald’s restaurant is located on Pushkin Square in Moscow, which serves 40,000 people every day.

The blind are leading the deaf towards a series of unacceptable events ranging from: discarding justice for the sake of “red carpet” recognition, to bribing the youth with the latest distractions. Nevertheless, there are a number of individuals who are determined to provoke change and to shift the gears on what has been a slow and undesirable evolutionary process. Yet, the human race has taken its collective brilliance for granted and has chosen to settle for the crust rather than the whole pizza pie. We forget that we belong to the universe and not just this wonderful planet; therefore, it must be in our greater interest, to implement strategies for space colonization. We are all fully knowledgeable of the fact that the earth is, or will be overpopulated, and many regional disputes and ethnic conflicts are unlikely to vanish; based on these two arguments alone it would be wise to assume that the human race needs to expand its territory. Obviously, there needs to be a fair amount of global consensus and investment in the fields of education and technology, as well as intelligentsias to orchestrate the proceedings successfully. The plan is feasible but unapproachable since we don’t care or want to spend time caring about the possibility of space colonization. It is useless to preach when your audience consistently refuses to act, so the alternative is to pick up our shovels and perform our duties for society and conformity. We continue to punish ourselves by acting like hamsters with a wheel fetish, constantly placing ourselves in cycles that infest our lives with mundane routines and broken record clichés.

I’m tired and you should be too.

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Ingredients

• 1 clove garlic, minced
• 1/4 teaspoon cumin seed, ground
• 6 whole clove, finely crushed
• 1 tablespoon curry powder(or to taste)
• 1/4 teaspoon ginger, ground
• cayenne pepper
• 1/4 cup unsalted butter (1/2 stick)
• 1 roasting chicken, cut into serving pieces (4 to 4 1/4 lb)
• chicken giblets, coarsely chopped
• 3 stalks celery with leaves, thinly sliced
• 2 large onions onions, chopped
• 2 carrots, diced
• 1 leek, thinly sliced (white part only)
• 11 cups chicken stock, defatted (preferably homemade, 2 quarts plus 3 cups)
• salt & pepper freshly ground
• 2/3 cup long grain rice long grain rice
• 2 medium-size apples peeled, cored and diced (tart)
• 1 cup plain yogurt plain yogurt
• 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice (or to taste)
• 2/3 cup whipping cream warmed
• chopped fresh parsley, to garnish
• lightly toasted sliced almonds to garnish

Directions

1. Combine garlic and spices.
2. Melt butter in large skillet over medium-high heat. Add chicken and saute until lightly browned on all sides.
3. Add giblets and saute until cooked through.
4. Transfer chicken and giblets to stockpot. Drain all but 1 tablespoon fat from skillet. Add celery, onion, carrot, leek and spice mixture and blend well.
5. Add a small ladle of stock and cook over low heat, stirring constantly, until vegetables are tender.
6. Add to chicken
7. Stir in remaining stock and season with salt and pepper
8. cover and simmer 30 minutes.
9. Remove chicken with slotted spoon and set aside. Add rice to soup and continue cooking 15 minutes.
10. When chicken is cool enough to handle, cut meat into bite-size pieces, discarding skin and bones.
11. Return chicken to soup and blend in apples and yogurt. Simmer 10 minutes.
12. Degrease soup if necessary
13. Stir in lemon juice then blend in cream
14. Taste and adjust seasoning.
15. Pour into heated tureen and sprinkle with parsley and almonds.