Cookbook Project-Ginger Snaps

By Tarihçi at 07:00 Cookbook Project, Cooking No comments

As you can see the original recipe is a little vague in directions and oven temperature. But I didn't let that stop me! Beware though! This makes about 10 dozen cookies! I ended up freezing about three quarters of them. Another interesting aspect of this recipe is the strong tea. I have never seen this before and am not quite sure what the purpose of it is. In the finished cookies you can't tasted it, but in the dough I could. I hadn't heard of boiling molasses before either. As most of you know, molasses and baking soda create a reaction! I didn't really think about this and used a small saucepan to boil the molasses. So when the baking soda went in, I almost had an overflow and had to quickly dump it in the bowl!! Word to the wise-use a regular size saucepan.

Ginger Snaps-Updated Recipe

1 cupful sugar

7/8 cupful shortening (weird huh? I just eyeballed it.)

2/3 cupful cold strong tea (I used two black tea bags to make it strong)

1 teaspoonful ginger (the family thought there could be more)

1/2 teaspoonful cinnamon

1/2 teaspoonful cloves

1 cupful molasses

2 teaspoonful baking soda

5 1/2 cupfuls flour

In a bowl cream together sugar and shortening; add spices. Put molasses in medium size saucepan and bring to a boil. Carefully add baking soda, stir in. Combine molasses/baking soda mixture with sugar/shortening mixture in bowl. Stir in flour one cupful at a time, remembering "too much flour makes tough ginger snaps"! Let sit for an hour or more. Roll thin (about 1/8"). Bake in 350 degree oven for about eight minutes. (You can't really burn ginger snaps, the more they are cooked the more crispy they will be.)

Makes about 10 dozen crispy crunchy cookies!

Very comparable to Swedish ones bought in the store. If you notice I even cut them out in a flower shape!

enjoy!

And don't forget to wear an Apron!

1.000.000 "iyi" İnternet Kullanıcısı Aranıyor!

By Rohat Fatih at 05:59 Anlatımlar, İnternet No comments

Son günlerde İstanbul, Ankara ve İzmir'de billboardlarda sıkça görmeye başladığımız bir slogan var: "1.000.000 "iyi" internet kullanıcısı aranıyor!"

Altına da şöyle bir not düşülmüş: "Adayların ekranlarından 1 satır verecek kadar iyi olmaları yeterlidir."

Aslında bu son derece yenilikçi bir sosyal projeleri destekleme yöntemi. www.ekledestekle.com adresinden bilgisayarınıza bir program indiriyorsunuz. Bu program araç çubuğunuza bir "satır" gibi yerleşiyor. Bu satırda görüntülenecek reklamlardan yaratılan kaynakla, projede yer alan sivil toplum kuruluşlarına destek veriyorsunuz. Böylece hem cebinizden 5 kuruş harcamadan sosyal projelere destek vermiş, hem de internette geçen zamanınızı "iyi" şeylere harcamış oluyorsunuz.

Kullanıcı sayısı ne kadar artar ve mecra reklam verenler için ne kadar cazip hale gelirse, o kadar çok sivil toplum kuruluşu ve sosyal projenin desteklenmesi mümkün olacak. Dolayısıyla her şey aslında sizlerin, yani internet kullanıcılarının elinde.

Projeye katılmak çok kolay. www.ekledestekle.com adresine girip, "İndir, Ekle" butonuna basıyor ve basit bir programı indirip, kullanıcı kaydınızı oluşturuyorsunuz. Kaydınızı oluştururken de hangi projeyi / projeleri desteklemek istediğinizi seçiyorsunuz.

Tüm vereceğiniz 3-5 dakika vakit ve sonrasında da ekranınızda sizi rahatsız etmeyecek kadar küçük bir alan…

Bakalım Türkiye’de kaç tane "iyi" internet kullanıcısı var…

Tasarımda Ufak Değişiklikler Yaptım!

By Rohat Fatih at 04:24 Kişisel No comments

Bildiğiniz üzere İstanbuLove temamı tamamen değiştirip Grozi v1 yapmıştım. Şimdi Grozi v1 ile ufak çaplı ama etkili değişiklikler yapıp Grozi v1 Temasını "tam sürüm" yaptım. Tasarımda neler değişti; hemen anlatıyım. Logomuz artık sayfa yenilendikçe farklı bir türde veya renkte 10 adet değişik logo ile değiştirildi, temamızın yorum alanları küçültülüp renklendirildi, sitemizdeki cufon font tamamen yepyeni bir cufon font ile değiştirildi, temamız genişletildi ona oranla sidebar (sağ taraf) ve content (içerik kısmı) bölümleri genişletildi, Copyright kısmımız yenilendi ve son olarak da Ocabbaroglu.blogspot.com mobil servisimiz yepyeni teması ile hizmetinize girdi. Bu değişikliklerden sonra Grozi V1 Teması artık tam sürüm olarak adlandırıldı.

The Very Hard Leg

By bayramcigerli at 03:00 2012, Races, Relay Races, Running, San Francisco, The Relay No comments

I mentioned a while back that not only was I planning on doing the 12 in 2012 Running Challenge this year, but I also have another couple of races on the horizon. One of them, I am very excited to say, is The Relay, which is a two day, 199 mile relay run from Calistoga, California to Santa Cruz, California. The very coolest part is that the race is run over the Golden Gate Bridge at midnight on Saturday.

Here’s some info from the website: CALIFORNIA'S LONGEST PARTY - YOU'RE INVITED! Gather your friends (12-member teams). Decorate your vans. Dress your best (costumes optional). Run (or walk). "It's the most fun 24 feet can have in the best place on earth." From Napa Valley to the Pacific Ocean, 12-member teams run 36 legs (3 legs per runner, 3-8 miles each) through 36 cities and across the Golden Gate Bridge at midnight in support of Organs 'R' Us("ORU") and 100,000 Americans waiting for organ donors. Contact info.

This run has a special meaning for us, since our team, Jonnycat’s Dirty Dozen, is running for our close friend Jon, who is currently on the donor list for both a kidney and a pancreas. There are twelve runners, who each run three legs each, each ranging from 3 – 8.1 miles and ranging in total from 12.9 to 18.5 miles. You can see on the chart below what I am talking about. As you can see, they rate the legs (on the right column labeled “difficulty”) by harder (#1) to easier (#12). You can also see that the “more data” section below states that legs 34 and 35 are the hardest.

Now, I am going to give you three guesses as to which runner I am. Nope, it’s not number 1, the easiest runner. Nope, it’s not number 6, the cool runner that gets to run across the Golden Gate Bridge. Did you say that I should probably try one of the harder runners? That’s what I thought you said. Well, I guess you are right. Why don’t I pick number…11?

Actually, I “picked” number 4. I know. What a copout right? Right smack dab in the middle of the difficulty scale. But, I will tell you why I picked that one. I picked it because it was the second highest amount of miles. And I can run a lot of miles. But my friend who is organizing this emailed me a week after I sent her the email saying which leg I wanted and ~~begged me, pleaded with me, told me I was very strong and brave and good looking~~ asked me to switch to number 11. I said yes right away. Then I looked at what I had gotten myself into. This is what it looks like.

It “looks like” a 500 foot elevation gain over 6.2 miles! So it’s a difficult 10k race, which I will run after running two other “races” that day (6.9 miles and 3.7 miles) and probably getting little sleep. Phew! I am going to be a mess! I guess I should be glad I am not number 10!

I’m actually very excited about this race, even though I am joking around about it right now. I am, as always, nervous, even more nervous than normal, because I wouldn’t only be letting myself down if I do badly; I will be letting my team down! I am looking forward to a few things. One, Dean Karnazes has won the Ultra portion of this race (yes you can run it by yourself. Maybe next year) several times and will be hosting the Friday night pre-race dinner in Napa County. Two, it’s on my home turf. I have relatives north of the city who will be able to watch as I run leg 11. I have friends south of the city who can watch 23 or 35! The weather is going to be great; the scenery is going to be awesome; I will meet 11 new people! Plus, I get to sleep in a van with five (smelly) other people (down by the river). How can you beat that?

Have you ever run a relay race? Have you ever been to Napa County? Have you ever walked across the Golden Gate Bridge?

Paris Under German Occupation During WW2: Color Pics By Andre Zucca

By Tarihçi at 23:48 Andre, color pictures, France, german occupation, images, Paris, ww2, Zucca No comments

France had a relatively easier time under German occupation during World War Two. That is because Hitler did not consider West Europeans as 'Untermenschen'. The infamous German brutality was reserved for the Russians.

It shows in the following images of Paris under German occupation.

“These images were taken in Occupied Paris during WWII by André Zucca for Nazi German propaganda magazine Signal using rare Agfacolor film supplied by the Wehrmacht. Zucca was arrested after the 1944 liberation but never prosecuted. He worked until his death in 1976 under an assumed name” When exhibited in Paris in 2008, Bertrand Delanoë, Mayor of Paris, ordered a notice to accompany the images stating that the pictures avoid the “reality of occupation and its tragic aspects”

From New York Times

Controversy about the exhibit began building shortly after it went up in mid-March at an annex to the Paris Historical Library, in the Marais district, and escalated sharply last weekend, when Mayor Bertrand Delanoë's chief aide for culture, Christophe Girard, told Le Journal du Dimanche, a leading Sunday newspaper, that when he first saw the display it made him want to vomit.

Girard ordered posters around Paris advertising the exhibition to be taken down, while Delanoë - no stranger to controversy - went into damage control. He acknowledged at a media lunch that the way the exhibition had been organized left plenty to be desired but said it would stay up, declaring that he did not wish to add "a wrong" - censorship - to the errors already committed. He added that debates about the photos would be organized.

Even before Delanoë spoke out, organizers of the exhibition began making small changes after complaints from historians, visitors and groups like the French Human Rights League. On April 2, a panel headlined "Warning" went up, and a few days later leaflets reprinting the warning began being handed to visitors as they entered.

The leaflet describes the photos as exceptional: "The only color pictures taken in occupied Paris by a French photographer" who was not only accredited but also used German Agfacolor film - "almost impossible to get hold of at the time."

It adds: "What André Zucca portrays for us is a casual, even carefree Paris. He has opted for a vision that does not show - or hardly shows - the reality of occupation and its tragic aspects: waiting lines in front of food shops, rounding up of Jews, posters announcing executions."