Once a part of The Bahamas, the Turks and Caicos Islands are a British Colony with superb diving and water sports. These low-lying mostly undeveloped island and cays have some of the finest beaches in the world. Dolphins leap offshore. Whales playing in the open sea are as popular an attraction as in the Hawaiian Islands.
Best Beaches in Turks And Caicos
The beaches on this island chain are pristinely beautiful thanks to the third-largest coral reef system on the planet. The reefs surround Turks and Caicos, protecting the beaches from ocean surges and keeping the coastal blue calm and clear. Grab some SPF and a pair of shades, we?re taking you to Turks and Caicos? best beaches.
Grace Bay Beach: This beautiful beach was named the World?s Leading Beach at the 2007 World Travel Awards. An increasing number of resorts and condo hotels have sprung up along the shore. Like much of the Turks and Caicos islands, the beach is fringed by a coral reef system with fabulous snorkelling and diving.
Pine Cay Beahes (Caicos Cays): The money shot in Caribbean Travel & Life?s coverage of the 2005-06 winter season? A pic of this private island?s perfect crescent of pale white sand rimmed by azure seas. The island is also home to The Meridian Club.
Best Resorts in Turks and Caicos
Rated Number One In A Recent Conde Nast Readers? Poll, The Sands At Grace Bay Is An Exceptional All-suite Resort Situated On One Of The Most Exceptional Beaches In The World. The Sands Is A Beautifully Appointed Intimate Resort With Air Conditioned One, Two And Three Bedroom Suites.
Caribbean Paradise Inn: This intimate, cozy inn is a real find, just a short walk from Grace Bay Beach. It?s also a hub of activity these days: In 2007 Chef Paul Newman moved the popular restaurant Coyaba from its longtime location in Coral Gardens to the bar/patio area here ? and the lively dining scene has given the place a jolt of electricity.
Before you make your decision on where to go on your holidays visit Cheap Caribbean Holidays for a detailed insight on the various island in the Caribbean and our special feature on Cheap Turks and Caicos Holidays
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By Rick Nauert PhDSenior News Editor Reviewed by John M. Grohol, Psy.D. on August 30, 2011
We all know that we need to exercise to improve our physical fitness, yet rarely do we think of the need to perform fitness training for our brain.
The subject becomes important as we age. Normal age-related memory decline affects more than half of all seniors, with those over 80 being the most vulnerable.
A new UCLA study has found that a memory fitness program offered to older adults in their senior living communities helped improve their ability to recognize and recall words, benefitting their verbal learning and retention.
Researchers found the program improved seniors? self-perceived memory, an important factor in maintaining a positive outlook on life while aging.
The average age of participants in the study was 81. It is not clear whether these improvements would be found in younger adults, as few brain fitness studies have been conducted on younger adults.
?It was exciting to see how much older adults participate in a memory fitness program and improve,? said study author Dr. Karen Miller. ?The study demonstrates that it?s never too late to learn new skills to enhance one?s life.?
As people get older, it takes longer to learn new information and to retrieve it, including names, dates, the location of household objects, meetings, and appointments, according to the study?s senior author, Dr. Gary Small, UCLA?s Parlow-Solomon Professor on Aging and director of the UCLA Longevity Center.
The six-week, 12-session program was different from other cognitive training courses in that it offered not only memory-training techniques but also education about lifestyle factors that may impact memory ability and overall brain health.
As part of the curriculum, participants received health education on the value of a diet rich in antioxidants, the importance of daily physical exercise and stress reduction.
?Lifestyle and environmental factors may play a role in cognitive decline, so our program included education about healthy living in addition to memory-training techniques,? said Small.
The study involved 115 seniors living in two full-service continuing-care retirement communities in Maryland.
Participants lived in the ?independent? level of care in these communities and had memory complaints, but they had not been diagnosed with dementia and were not taking any medications for memory loss.
Half the participants were enrolled in the memory fitness program and received memory testing before beginning the program and after completion to assess improvement. The other half were placed on a waiting list for the program and acted as study controls.
Miller and Small developed a scripted curriculum for trainers (who possessed a health background), and they provided a companion workbook for participants.
The one-hour education sessions included content on how memory works; quick strategies for remembering names, faces and numbers; and training on basic memory tools such as linking ideas and creating visual images.
Trainers also discussed the role of a healthy lifestyle in protecting and maintaining memory.
Among the older adults attending the classes, the researchers found marked improvement in verbal memory, as well as improvements in how they perceived their memory, compared with the controls.
?The study suggests that the memory fitness program may be a cost-effective means of addressing some of the memory-related concerns of healthy older adults,? Parrish added.
The study is found in the September issue of the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry.
Source: University of California ? Los Angeles Health Sciences
Hurricane Irene: Scientists collect water quality and climate change data from huge stormPublic release date: 29-Aug-2011 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Cheryl Dybas cdybas@nsf.gov 703-292-7734 National Science Foundation
Researchers pursue new information from East Coast hurricane
While Hurricane Irene had officials along the East Coast preparing for mass evacuations, scientists at the Stroud Water Research Center and the University of Delaware were grabbing their best data collection tools and heading straight for the storm's path.
It was a rare opportunity for the scientists to learn more about climate change and water quality, as Irene threatened to be the biggest hurricane to hit the Northeastern United States since 1985.
Center scientist Anthony Aufdenkampe explains, "It rains on average once per week, or 15 percent of the year, but streams and rivers move most of their annual loads on those days.
"The bigger the storm, the greater the disproportionate load, so you might have a single 100-year storm event move 25 percent of the material for an entire decade," says Aufdenkampe.
"This is important because fresh waters and the carbon they transport play a major role in the global cycling of greenhouse gases."
Irene could reveal much about how soil erosion into rivers might eventually bury carbon and sequester it from acting as a greenhouse gas in the atmosphere.
That's a primary goal of the Christina River Basin Critical Zone Observatory (CRB-CZO), funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The Stroud Water Research Center and University of Delaware scientists are affiliated with the CRB-CZO.
The CRB-CZO is at the forefront of scientific research on integrating how human effects on the hydrologic, mineral and carbon cycles might have feedbacks to climate change.
"One of the motivations for NSF Critical Zone Observatories such as the CRB-CZO is to obtain time-continuous observations that would document and help us understand infrequent events," says Jun Abrajano of NSF's Earth Sciences Division.
"Some of these events are extreme enough to have major cumulative effects on the overall processes and fluxes in watershed systems. The track and magnitude of Hurricane Irene may prove it to be such an event."
We're hypothesizing, says Aufdenkampe, "that big storms are a major player in determining what happens to the carbon in a leaf, for example.
"Does it go back into the atmosphere or does it get buried for decades, centuries, or millennia? That's the key to global warming and climate change."
Aufdenkampe and colleagues visited sites along White Clay Creek and Brandywine Creek to set up equipment to collect floodwaters throughout the storm.
And with innovative tools developed with relatively inexpensive open-source electronic hardware, the researchers didn't have to wait around.
Engineer Steve Hicks of the Stroud Water Research Center put together automatic water samplers that may be triggered remotely via cell phone. "By watching real-time sensor data streaming to the Internet, at precisely the right moment we fill the barrels of water we need for our analyses."
"Had a storm like this hit five or ten years ago, we wouldn't have been able to gather this type of data," says Aufdenkampe.
"But now with open-source hardware and software, anything's possible. We're only limited by our imagination."
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Hurricane Irene: Scientists collect water quality and climate change data from huge stormPublic release date: 29-Aug-2011 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Cheryl Dybas cdybas@nsf.gov 703-292-7734 National Science Foundation
Researchers pursue new information from East Coast hurricane
While Hurricane Irene had officials along the East Coast preparing for mass evacuations, scientists at the Stroud Water Research Center and the University of Delaware were grabbing their best data collection tools and heading straight for the storm's path.
It was a rare opportunity for the scientists to learn more about climate change and water quality, as Irene threatened to be the biggest hurricane to hit the Northeastern United States since 1985.
Center scientist Anthony Aufdenkampe explains, "It rains on average once per week, or 15 percent of the year, but streams and rivers move most of their annual loads on those days.
"The bigger the storm, the greater the disproportionate load, so you might have a single 100-year storm event move 25 percent of the material for an entire decade," says Aufdenkampe.
"This is important because fresh waters and the carbon they transport play a major role in the global cycling of greenhouse gases."
Irene could reveal much about how soil erosion into rivers might eventually bury carbon and sequester it from acting as a greenhouse gas in the atmosphere.
That's a primary goal of the Christina River Basin Critical Zone Observatory (CRB-CZO), funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The Stroud Water Research Center and University of Delaware scientists are affiliated with the CRB-CZO.
The CRB-CZO is at the forefront of scientific research on integrating how human effects on the hydrologic, mineral and carbon cycles might have feedbacks to climate change.
"One of the motivations for NSF Critical Zone Observatories such as the CRB-CZO is to obtain time-continuous observations that would document and help us understand infrequent events," says Jun Abrajano of NSF's Earth Sciences Division.
"Some of these events are extreme enough to have major cumulative effects on the overall processes and fluxes in watershed systems. The track and magnitude of Hurricane Irene may prove it to be such an event."
We're hypothesizing, says Aufdenkampe, "that big storms are a major player in determining what happens to the carbon in a leaf, for example.
"Does it go back into the atmosphere or does it get buried for decades, centuries, or millennia? That's the key to global warming and climate change."
Aufdenkampe and colleagues visited sites along White Clay Creek and Brandywine Creek to set up equipment to collect floodwaters throughout the storm.
And with innovative tools developed with relatively inexpensive open-source electronic hardware, the researchers didn't have to wait around.
Engineer Steve Hicks of the Stroud Water Research Center put together automatic water samplers that may be triggered remotely via cell phone. "By watching real-time sensor data streaming to the Internet, at precisely the right moment we fill the barrels of water we need for our analyses."
"Had a storm like this hit five or ten years ago, we wouldn't have been able to gather this type of data," says Aufdenkampe.
"But now with open-source hardware and software, anything's possible. We're only limited by our imagination."
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Unauthorized changes to projects can add unseen risks, create delays and incur extra costs, so make sure your project changes are controlled.
That?s according to Alan Wren, a professional services expert in England, who says that the need for ?change control? in project management implies that routines are in place to ensure that changes to project deliverables are controlled.
?Allowing unplanned extra work on previously completed outputs can leave the project manager with a poisoned chalice when a project that does not deliver that which its customers really needed or is late or over budget,? Wren wrote. ?As the guardian of the plan, a project manager needs to resist the temptation of following a seemingly easy option, and exercise control by only allowing properly authorized and funded changes.?
To help out, Wren outlined the difference between ?change control? and ?change management.?
Change control, he says, is the term for micro-level monitoring and regulation of the status of a project?s deliverables and is the subject of this article. Use this to control authorized changes effectively and to exclude informal and unauthorized alterations or additions to planned or already completed deliverables.
Change management, however, seems better related to the macro level, as it describes planned major undertakings, such as a migration from one business or technical state to another, through a project or a program.
?It?s an extension to change control in that it should provide procedures and personnel to take care of project deliverables, to ensure that each is uniquely identifiable, protected from harm or loss, that only the most recent approved version is used and that any proposed changes to it are authorized, managed and recorded,? he said.
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If getting a credit card is a rite of passage for college students, choosing the right plastic and learning how to use it responsibly is a matter of life and debt. Young people age 18 to 24, carry an average credit card debt of $2,002, according to CreditKarma.com. Before you end up as a debt statistic, learn to pick the right card and manage your credit before getting your hands on plastic. Here are five things every new credit cardholder should know:
- Justine Rivero,?Contributor
1. Shop selectively
Think of your credit score as a compass to steer you toward which credit cards you are most likely to be approved for. You can check your credit scores for free at Creditkarma.com and other sites. But if you're scouting for your first credit card, chances are your credit score is low. You have two options:
1. Student credit cards:Designed just for college students, student credit cards help new cardholders build credit and throw in some perks like cash-back bonuses. Some cards even offer credit-building incentives, like the Journey Student Rewards Card from Capital One, which gives a 25 percent bonus on cash back for paying your bill on time. Just keep an eye out for high interest rates and annual fees.
2. Secured cards:Secured cards are great for consumers with poor credit because they guarantee approval. But they require a security deposit of at least $200. Also, nearly all secured cards have an annual fee and additional application fees. If you have limited options, this is your first step to building credit. Just make sure your card, such as the popular Orchard Bank MasterCard, reports your activity to all three major credit bureaus so you can build your credit history.
When federal agents eavesdropped on the telephone conversations of several drug trafficking suspects, they heard talk of marijuana sales, money transfers and cross-country drug shipments.
They may have also detected something far more surprising: a Los Angeles County sheriff's captain.
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Because I?ve been battling colitis, I?ve switched to a gluten-free, wheat-free, milk-free, beef-free, corn-free, non-GMO, organic diet.? I was already avoiding some of these food ingredients for previously discovered sensitivities and intolerance, but now I?m a complete food hippy.? I decided I would clear out the top shelves of a particular cabinet and keep all my special food items in one place.? I moved my mom?s ?regular? food out and placed it in a different cupboard where I found some bottles of beer that had expired last year.? I had actually bought the beer approximately two years ago.? Obviously I?m not a big drinker, or it would have been gone a long time ago!? I told my mom that I was going to pour it down the drain.? She went into the old alarmist panic mode and started giving me one of her familiar speeches about food/drink which is past pull date.
Mom:? That?s still good!
Me: Uh, I don?t think so.? It?s probably kind of flat and stale.
Mom:? It?s not flat because the bottle?s never been opened.
Me:? Well, I?m not going to ever drink it and I know you aren?t going to.
Mom:? See if Debbie wants it.? I?ll bet she?d be glad to get it.
Me:? She?s not going to want it.
Mom:? I don?t see why not.
Me:? Because it?s old.
Mom:? Well, I think she will want it.
Mom left the room because she was getting ready to go drive over to see Stella and take her out for dinner.? After mom left the house, I sent Debbie an email.
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Debbie?s reply:? Hell no! Good grief!
Reply to Debbie:? Ha ha.? I knew you wouldn?t want it, but you know how Mom is ? relentless with her obsessions.? She went to see Stella, so I?m going to pour them down the drain and throw the bottles in the recycle while the coast is clear.
Debbie?s reply:? More hoarder mentality..
So I emptied all the old beer bottles down the drain and took them out to the recycle bin.
We go through this routine every time I find some old food or drink and make the mistake of mentioning it to her.? She freaks out, declaring how someone will want the particular item.? Then when she isn?t looking, I have to stealthily dispose of the item.? Now I remember why I used to just get rid of the food or drink when she wasn?t around without bothering to ask her.? It?s to avoid this tiresome routine with the complimentary dramatic freakout over the thought of something being thrown out.
SAN FRANCISCO ? It's easy to forget now, but Apple's magnetism was once confined to a cult-like following of geeks seduced by the elegance and simplicity of the company's computers.
Over the past decade, though, Apple has emerged as a trendsetter and a wealth-making machine ? the rare company that appeals to the cool cats hanging out in hip cafes and the fat cats looking to make another killing on Wall Street.
In the process, Apple has left an indelible mark that extends far beyond that first personal computer Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak introduced 35 years ago. Since then, Apple has transformed the music, retailing, marketing and cellphone industries. Now, it's engineering yet another evolution in computing with the increasingly popular iPad tablet.
Those achievements have endeared Apple to the masses, turning its product announcements into the technology industry's latter-day version of a Beatles concert and turning its familiar logo into an emblem of exquisite taste.
Part visionary, showman and uncompromising taskmaster, Jobs assembled a team that had an incredible knack for anticipating consumer trends and popularizing them by designing devices that were easy ? and delightful ? to use. It seemed as if the second coming of Walt Disney and the rest of the "imagineers" who built Disneyland during the mid-1950s had come to Silicon Valley to lead the way into the 21st century.
In the past decade, the iPod, iPhone and iPad have transformed society, enabling people to bring along their favorite music, books, videos and websites almost everywhere they go. In the process they inspired countless imitators and ensured that Jobs, who resigned Wednesday, will be remembered as one of the most successful CEOs in American history.
None of it would have happened if Jobs hadn't returned to Apple in 1997 after being pushed out of the company in the mid-1980s by John Sculley, a CEO that Jobs had lured away from Pepsico Inc. by asking, "Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?"
Jobs' wizardry rescued a company on the precipice of bankruptcy and elevated it into the second most valuable business in America. It now has a market value of nearly $350 billion, behind only Exxon Mobil Corp. ? a company whose fortunes are tied to wildly fluctuating oil prices rather than the beauty of a good idea.
Anyone who had the foresight to dip into their retirement accounts to buy $100,000 worth of Apple stock on the day Jobs became the company's CEO in September 1997 would be set for life: that investment would be worth more than $6.8 million now. When he took the job, Jobs foreshadowed the marketing hook for a new product line by calling himself "iCEO" to reflect his initial role as Apple's interim leader.
Just as many love affairs can be fleeting, so can the aura of seemingly invincible companies. It happened to IBM Corp., the computer monolith that Jobs likened to an Orwellian "Big Brother" in a 1984 TV commercial. More recently, auto maker General Motors Corp. needed a bailout from U.S. taxpayers ? a far cry from its heyday as the biggest company in the world.
The last test of Jobs' genius may come as he tries to pass on his magical touch to his successor. He believes he has found the right guy in Tim Cook, with whom he has worked closely since 1998. The collaboration doesn't necessarily have to stop because Jobs will still hold an influential role as Apple's chairman.
By all accounts, Cook is a top-notch executive who has proven that he knows how to pull the levers of Apple's mystique. He has run the company during Jobs' three leaves of absence since 2004.
Still, it's hard not to shake the feeling that this may be the beginning of the end of an era ? both for technological zealots trying to figure out when the iPhone 5 is coming out and nervous investors wondering whether to buy or sell the company's stock.
"Oh my goodness, I was terribly shocked!" said Chris Perez, 32, as he stood outside an Apple store in north Phoenix on Wednesday night. "He was the man that came up with everything `i.'"
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AP Writer Michelle Price in Phoenix contributed to this story.
INDIANAPOLIS ? Graham Harrell's big finish ruined Curtis Painter's timely flourish.
Harrell led Green Bay to 11 points in the final 35 seconds, rallying the defending Super Bowl champion Packers to a 24-21 victory over the Indianapolis Colts on Friday night.
Harrell hooked up with rookie tight end Ryan Taylor for an 11-yard TD pass with 35 seconds left, then connected with Taylor again on the 2-point conversion play to tie it at 21. After Green Bay recovered an onside kick, Harrell quickly moved the Packers into position for Mason Crosby's 50-yard field goal as time expired.
While Green Bay (2-1) won the game, Painter made the biggest impression.
Just two days after the Colts' signed Kerry Collins, presumably to replace Painter as Peyton Manning's primary backup, the backup had his best game of the preseason. He finished 11 of 21 for 171 yards with two touchdowns, no interceptions and had the Colts (0-3) in position for their first preseason victory in nine tries since Aug. 20, 2009.
No, Painter wasn't perfect. He needed almost 18 minutes to find his groove, was sacked twice and lost a fumble.
But it was a drastic improvement over last week when he managed only one first down and couldn't get the Colts past their own 29 in two quarters.
That prompted the Colts to sign Collins. Five-time Pro Bowl receiver Reggie Wayne vociferously defended Painter after the signing and backed up his words by catching six passes for 105 yards, including a 57-yard TD reception that gave Painter a needed confidence boost.
It was impressive enough to even get Manning to smile.
But the Packers' starters looked every bit as good.
Aaron Rodgers was 19 of 23 for 204 yards and one touchdown.
He took the Packers 81 yards on their second series, throwing an 18-yard TD pass to Jermichael Finley, over the arms of linebacker Pat Angerer. Green Bay went 61 yards on its next series, settling for Crosby's 26-yard field goal to make it 10-0.
Then Painter struck back.
He read Green Bay's blown coverage perfectly down the left side of the field, then threw the strike to Wayne, who jogged the final 30 yards for the score.
On the next series, Painter ran the 2-minute drill perfectly, threading a nifty 36-yard pass to Pierre Garcon down the right side. Painter followed that play with a gentle 7-yard lob to the back corner that Chris Brooks hauled to give Indy a 14-10 halftime lead.
Indy thought it had finally broken the losing streak after Dan Orlovsky's 3-yard TD pass to David Gilreath made it 21-13 with 3:52 left, but Harrell rallied Green Bay with the late scoring flurry.
BERLIN ? These should be promising times for Germany's Left Party: a stubborn financial crisis, an unpopular center-right government, and upcoming regional elections in two longtime strongholds.
Instead, an effusive birthday message to Cuba's Fidel Castro and some members' defense of the Berlin Wall have drawn unflattering attention this week to a party that can't quite escape its ex-communist roots.
It has struggled with weak leadership and discord recently as other opposition parties benefit from government discomfort over the eurozone debt crisis, nuclear energy and more. Once-frequent talk of it joining a future German government has ebbed away.
"The situation in our country, the social situation in Europe, is such that we should be clearly ahead in polls ? but we're not," conceded the Left's parliamentary group leader Gregor Gysi.
With demands centering on reversing welfare-state cuts and also including strict opposition to German military involvement in Afghanistan, the Left Party prides itself on standing apart from more established parties.
Still, in elections next month, the party looks likely to be voted out as junior governing partner in Berlin ? one of two regions it helps run. Its chances in another eastern state, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, are uncertain.
It flopped badly in two regional votes in western Germany in March ? in which its center-left rivals, the Social Democrats and Greens, triumphed.
Nationally the Left Party has slipped to 8 percent support, down from 12 percent in 2009's election.
Not the best time for the Cuban Embassy to publish a message from co-leaders Gesine Loetzsch and Klaus Ernst congratulating "dear Comrade Fidel Castro" on turning 85.
"You can look back full of pride over a life full of battles and successful work at the head of the Cuban revolution," the letter said, praising his "political far-sightedness" but making no mention of human-rights issues.
The letter, which surfaced last weekend, was sent Aug. 13 ? the 50th anniversary of East Germany's building of the Berlin Wall. At a regional convention that day, a few delegates refused to stand for a minute of silence to people killed at the communist country's fortified border.
The hard-left Junge Welt daily, in which the party has advertised, marked the anniversary with a front-page headline saying "Thank you" for the wall's construction ? prompting many members to protest.
That all fed long-standing doubts about how far the Left Party has put behind it the communist past ? although its leaders now indicate they regret the style of the Castro letter, which it emerged was composed by party workers and automatically signed in the leaders' names.
Greens leader Claudia Roth called the Left Party "a retro party that hasn't come to terms with the real challenge of a lively democracy."
That underlined sinking chances of it entering national government, something Oskar Niedermayer, a political science professor at Berlin's Free University, said is now "extremely unlikely."
These days, "when it makes it into the media, it's because of internal squabbles or dubious remarks about the past with which western German voters, above all, of course have gigantic problems," Niedermayer said.
The Left Party was born in 2005, when the ex-communist Party of Democratic Socialism ? which had made no inroads outside former East Germany ? joined forces with western leftists angered by a welfare-state reform drive.
Ex-communist Gysi and Oskar Lafontaine, a charismatic ex-Social Democrat, led the Left Party into parliament that year, then into a string of regional legislatures across Germany.
That fed speculation that the center-left might be unable to regain power without its support.
But Lafontaine stepped down last year due to illness, and the party has struggled under less charismatic successors Loetzsch and Ernst ? an east-west duo that reflects the party's still-fragmented nature.
Loetzsch has drawn criticism for penning an article on "the ways to communism," while Ernst made few friends by saying he enjoys driving a Porsche.
Gysi said the party has made great progress in overcoming the communist past.
But he conceded that "we have been too preoccupied with ourselves in recent months ? that's never good."
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Firefighters pour water on a burning a rail car loaded with 29,000 gallons of liquid propane in Lincoln, Calif., Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2011. The fire, which started Tuesday, forced the evacuation of about 4,800 homes in the area. Firefighters have set up four fixed hoses to soak the tanker and to keep down its temperatures while the propane burns off, a process that could take several days. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)
Firefighters pour water on a burning a rail car loaded with 29,000 gallons of liquid propane in Lincoln, Calif., Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2011. The fire, which started Tuesday, forced the evacuation of about 4,800 homes in the area. Firefighters have set up four fixed hoses to soak the tanker and to keep down its temperatures while the propane burns off, a process that could take several days. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)
Leslie Reyes comforts her dog, Maton, a 2-year-old Rat terrier as the wait at an evacuation center in Lincoln, Calif., Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2011. Reyes and her family were among the thousands of Lincoln residents who were forced to evacuate their house, Tuesday, when a rail car carrying 29,000 gallons of liquid propane burst into flames near their homes. Fire fighter have been pouring water on the rail car to keep it cool as the propane is burned off. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)
Danielle Bacus checks her cell phone for messages as she waits with her sons, Izaiah Smith, 2, left, and Kaiden Bacus, 9, at an evacuation center in Lincoln, Calif., Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2011. Bacus and her family were among the thousands of Lincoln resident who were forced to evacuate their homes, Tuesday, when a rail car carrying 29,000 gallons of liquid propane burst into flames near their homes. Firefighters have been pouring water on the rail car to keep it cool as the propane is burned off. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)
Water is poured on a burning a rail car loaded with 29,000 gallons of liquid propane in Lincoln, Calif., Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2011. The fire, which started Tuesday, forced the evacuation of about 4,800 homes in the area. Firefighters have set up four fixed hoses to soak the tanker and to keep down its temperatures while the propane burns off, a process that could take several days. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)
Lincoln fire chief Dave Whitt said that authorities will try to drain the propane from a burning rail car in a maneuver to prevent an explosion, during a news conference in Lincoln, Calif., Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2011. Between 4,000 and 5,000 homes were evacuated Tuesday, when a rail car carrying 29,000 gallons of liquid propane burst into flames near their homes. Fire officials initially said the blaze could continue for 21 days, but Whitt said that scenario was unacceptable. .(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)
LINCOLN, Calif. (AP) ? Thousands of evacuees began returning home early Thursday after fire crews allowed a burning propane rail tanker to burn itself out, ending the threat of a major explosion, authorities said.
The raging blaze from the tanker burned out before midnight, but then crews reignited it to allow vapors caught in the tank to also burn away, Lincoln Fire Chief Dave Whitt said.
But he told The Associated Press that the threat of a major explosion no longer existed and an evacuation order for Lincoln was lifted around midnight.
Between 4,000 and 5,000 homes in the northern California city of 40,000 people had been evacuated, and more than 6,000 students missed their first days of classes after the tanker caught fire Tuesday.
"Most of them are en route (home) or are there," he said.
Whitt said the tanker was being filled with water and a small amount of foam. He expected the vapor fire to burn out before dawn.
After preparing to undertake a bold maneuver to drain the propane from the burning car, Whitt said crews opted instead to let the fire burn itself out after determining the car held less propane than previously thought.
"They saw the flames on top get lazier and lazier," he said. "They said, 'you know what, this may be out of product.' Sure enough that's exactly what happened."
Officials had worked throughout the day Wednesday in trying to head off the potential failure of the 29,000-gallon tank. Whitt said crews were concerned at the time that a buildup of heat could lead to an explosion that could produce a fireball several hundred yards wide.
An explosion also could throw metal shards up to a mile away. Officials on Tuesday ordered mandatory evacuations within a one-mile radius.
It was unclear how the tanker caught fire in the Northern Propane Energy yard in Lincoln, about 30 miles northeast of the state capital. It was surrounded by trucks, other rail cars and storage tanks containing at least 170,000 gallons of additional propane that Whitt said were at risk as the fire burned. A gas pipeline also runs through the area.
One worker at the rail yard was injured in the initial fire and suffered flash burns but has been released from a hospital.
A similar fire in 1973 in the Arizona town of Kingman killed 11 firefighters and a gas company worker when a rail car carrying a propane tank exploded. The resulting fireball injured more than 100 others and showered the surrounding area with shrapnel. The propane tanker flew a quarter of a mile and its impact dug a crater 10 feet deep.
Whitt, who was the first to respond to the fire, said crews were successful in keeping the tanker cool since it caught fire Tuesday.
"If we didn't put water on tank, and protect integrity of tank, outcome would not have been as positive," he said.
He added the crews used up to 5,000 gallons of water per minute to keep the tank cool.
Earlier, the American Red Cross said 270 people had taken shelter in three evacuation centers.
Leslie Reyes and her husband, a city maintenance worker, spent the night in their van outside the Lincoln Community Center, one of the three shelters. Her oldest son slept outside next to the van while three other children were placed with family and friends.
She said they chose to stay outside because they were not allowed to bring in their 2 1/2-year-old toy rat terrier.
Reyes, 35, said she got a call at home Tuesday from her husband to evacuate. A short time later, an officer came to evacuate their street.
"At that point, I told my kids grab your memorables, pictures, things that are near and dear to your heart," Reyes said.
She said she appreciates the precaution despite the inconvenience. Reyes said she plans to relocate her family to her mother's in Antelope, about 15 miles away.
"Of course I would rather go home but it's better to be safe," Reyes said.
Roza Calderon, who lives with her family about a block away from the propane yard where the tanker was burning, described flames as high as utility lines before she evacuated.
"It was a big flame. It was getting worse," she said.
The 26-year-old accountant said she was staying with her husband, daughter and mother at a hotel in Sacramento.
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Associated Press writers Sheila V Kumar in Sacramento and Michelle Price in Phoenix contributed to this report.
Concerns and Solutions About Cooking Q: Do you know the very best apples for baking? A: Cortland, or Ida Redor Paula Red. You need a significant apple which will maintain its texture (and its taste) in the course of the very long baking approach. Apples which might be good for applesauce, which include Macintosh, are worthless for baking mainly because they'll turn to mush.
Q: Are you able to substitute baking soda and baking powder for an individual yet another? A: Not immediately. But baking soda??"sodium bicarbonate??"is an excellent leaven in pastries that consist of acid for instance buttermilk, sour cream, or yogurt. If you can find tiny or no acid within a recipe so you would like to use baking soda (or you've got run from baking powder), blend 1 teaspoon baking soda and 2 teaspoons cream of tartar. This functions due to the fact cream of tartar is acidic and removes the want for added acid in the batter. You can use this as a replacement for business baking powder??"on an one-for-one basis??"but you will need to do the job swiftly after you merge wet and dry ingredients.
Why? Because this homemade baking powder can be a single-action baking powder and commences to accomplish its function the moment it is coupled with liquid. Business baking powders are double-action; they partly begin to function when uncovered to liquid, but a further component will work only when subjected to heat. It is possible to see this: Minor bubbles form involving the time you blend substances and transfer the batter into the pan, but the batter continues to rise in the oven. Industrial baking powder, as a result, is much more efficient compared to home made sort. Nonetheless it is just not always additional desirable because it incorporates a distinctive taste. (That is specially accurate of people that contains aluminum.) What's more, it gets much less successful above time. You ought to exchange your baking powder, regardless of whether it isn't utilized up, no less than once a year. Q: What sort of teaching do I want to become an expert chef? A: If you want to coach to get a sensible chef??"the type of man or woman who runs a hotel restaurant, a restaurant that is portion of a chain, a considerable catering operation, or anything corporate??"it's very best to check out an accredited cooking college. They exist in practically just about every big metropolitan center and at lots of universities. If you would like being a celebrity chef, on the other hand, all you'll need are ambition, individuality, creativeness, expertise, about 15 several years of challenging get the job done, and also a whole lot of luck. The ideal method to start off should be to apprentice underneath an old-fashioned chef and stick to it. Q: Once i roast a whole chicken, what is the ideal method of testing no matter whether it is fully cooked? A: Being confident, you will need two approaches: The first is definitely an instant-read thermometer inserted to the meatiest a part of the thigh; it need to go through not less than 155 degrees (some individuals say 165 or even more to insure fantastic security). The second is usually to ensure the juices with the cavity and on the bone joints run very clear, not bloody (a touch of pink might be okay). Commonly, the thermometer is ample, as well as the second system merely a precaution; it is determined by your degree of paranoia. In time, you'll know when a chicken is finished by simply searching and touching. Q: If a cake recipe involves three 8-by-2-inch cake pans, could it be Ok to work with a few 9-by-2-inch pans as a substitute? A: Yes??"as prolonged when you retain an eye on factors; the cooking time will be appreciably shorter, but as no cooking times are ironclad it should be fine. Q: Does searing a big minimize of meat including tenderloin before roasting it really 'seal in' all the juices and taste? A: Not at all. You cannot seal the juices inside a bit of meat any in excess of you'll be able to seal the blood within your physique (sorry, but it truly is the most beneficial analogy). When you poke a hole, several of many juices will arrive out, and searing will do nothing at all to alter that. (However, poking a hole will not be the identical as popping a balloon but additional like reducing all by yourself; some juices will arrive out, but around the total the harm will not be visible.) On the other hand, searing??"or browning, a more understandable word??"adds taste to food items, by creating complex flavors. So you can find however a superb purpose to carry out it, if time permits. If time isn't going to make it possible for, it's a move that could normally be skipped.
Q: If a recipe calls for dim brown sugar, can I substitute mild brown sugar? Is there any authentic difference? A: Absolutely you'll be able to substitute; the sole distinction may be the quantity of molasses they every single incorporate. The taste of darkish brown sugar is considerably far more sophisticated (and bitter, while in the way that molasses is bitter), but not noticeably in many recipes. Try to remember that generally both is but a single of several substances in a given preparation. Q: Is there any advantage to applying a cast-iron skillet somewhat than an everyday or nonstick skillet? A: Cast iron is economical and lasts permanently; it's virtually indestructible. It has a couple of negatives, on the other hand: A single, it's weighty, and, especially when loaded with food, needs energy to handle. Two, it's not nonstick right up until it develops the patina that arrives with use. (You are able to promote this nonstick area to create by washing cast-iron pans with minor or no soap and wiping them dry; wiping them which has a tiny little bit of oil every now and after that also will help.) But all in all it stays a very good material for skillets and sautae pans.
Q: What exactly is 'deglazing,' and the way does one particular get it done? A: If you've manufactured gravy soon after roasting a turkey, you have 'deglazed.' If you cook meat, fish, or greens in fat oil or butter, usually some with the taste (and, if you're not employing a nonstick pan, some of the meat, fish, or vegetable) stays guiding from the pan. This taste may be recaptured and became a sauce by incorporating a certain amount of liquid??"typically wine or stock, but genuinely any liquid, like juice, coffee, and even water to the pan and stirring above substantial heat right until the liquid reduces in volume a tad. (Another term for deglazing is 'making a reduction.') The resulting sauce could be enriched by stirring within a tiny butter or olive oil, however it just isn't necessary. Here is a recipe, with a great deal of choices (in the Minimalist Cooks at your home): Fundamental Reduction Sauce Complete time: twenty minutes Helps make about 2 cups 2 tablespoons minced shallot, onion, or scallion 3 cups stock or water 2 tablespoons softened butter or olive oil (optional) Salt and freshly ground black pepper to flavor 1. Eradicate no matter what meat, fish, or poultry you've got cooked on the roasting pan or skillet and pour off all but 1 or 2 tablespoons from the cooking unwanted fat (if you'll find non-fatty juices with the skillet or roasting pan leave them in there). Put the pan more than substantial heat (use two burners if your pan is huge). Create the shallot and cook, stirring, until finally it softens, about 1 moment. 2. Create the liquid and cook, stirring and scraping to loosen the brown bits with the bottom on the pan. Permit the liquid to boil for about 5 minutes, or right up until about a third of it evaporates. (It is a superior time for you to carve the meat, if that is essential, when the boiling liquid have to have not be stirred besides quite occasionally.) 3. Turn the warmth to medium-low and include the butter or oil, a bit at a time, stirring properly soon after every addition to incorporate it. Style and year or so if required with salt and pepper, then serve with all the meat. There are lots of approaches to include bodyweight to the reduction: Minimize 1/2 to 1 cup of wine, fortified wine, or fruit or vegetable juice to only a number of tablespoons ahead of including the stock or drinking water. Make the taste even more powerful by stirring in the teaspoon or maybe more of ready mustard, horseradish, soy sauce, or other condiments. Include minced refreshing or dried herbs towards the combination coupled with the shallots: a couple of tablespoons of parsley or smaller amounts of sage, tarragon, or thyme are all superior. You are able to also include capers, anchovies, chopped bell pepper, or minced garlic. Q: What type of consistency can I count on for gravy if I use flour and butter? Cornstarch? Cornstarch could be the best: A tablespoon or two of cornstarch, blended that has a tablespoon or two of cold drinking water, and stirred into a cup of simmering liquid, will thicken it instantly (the more cornstarch you use, the thicker it's going to get) and with no any lumps. Butter and flour is more difficult, simply because flour does lump. You will discover techniques all over that, but they're considerably more intricate than utilizing cornstarch. Or skip the thickening totally, as it is effectively beauty; if it is really taste you might be soon after, just stir within a minor bit of butter.
Q: What exactly are some ideas for purchasing fish? A: It could possibly be very simple: Superior fish looks and smells superior. If it smells poor, it are unable to flavor superior. Some fishmongers at supermarket seafood counters may perhaps not make it possible for you to odor fish prior to shopping for it. If this can be the scenario however the fish passes the overall look test, you could look at getting it, opening the deal about the spot, and??"if the scent is at all off??"handing it ideal again.
Steaks and fillets are ideal cut to order from complete fish. Full fish maintain far better than precut steaks and fillets. Furthermore, reducing to purchase helps you dictate the dimension and thickness from the steak, at the same time as to ask for fillets from your best-looking fish. High quality might be a major priority to get a keep that supplies this service. Having said that, most fillets and even steaks are cut from fish before they reach the fish counter. So right here certainly are a very few basic principles: *Start using your eyes: The surface of the fish should glisten; it ought to be brilliant, crystal clear, reflective, and practically translucent. Usually, you do not want any fish whose surface appears brown, uninteresting, opaque, or muddy. Remember, fillets and steaks ought to be on??"not in??"ice, and there really should be no puddles of drinking water. *Use your fingers: Most fishmongers won't permit you touch fish??"it's normally against regional wellbeing standards, and moderately so. But you can question the counterperson to press his / her finger in to the fish's flesh; it will need to appear firm and elastic. If it appears mushy, or when the finger leaves an enduring impression, move on. *Finish using your nose: As mentioned over, if fish won't odor sweet, if it does not odor such as the sea, flip your nose up. Q: What is the ideal strategy to cook pasta? A: The most crucial thing is usually to get started with beneficial pasta, manufactured from 100 percent durum wheat; the region of origin is significantly less crucial, but you might be most likely to locate superior pasta at a good value from Italy. Cook the pasta within a gallon and even five quarts of well-salted drinking water per pound. Boil the drinking water, and hold it boiling because the pasta cooks; stir the pasta so it does not stick (you don't require oil). Never overcook the pasta, but will not undercook it both. Drain it rapidly, but depart some drinking water on it; sauce it perfectly, but will not destroy it with sauce; and set it within a warm bowl so it stays sizzling. Q: What is the very best technique to cook a turkey? A: The very best approach to cook a turkey is Quickly, as during this recipe: Roast Turkey (through the Minimalist Cooks in your house, by Mark Bittman) Time: 2 hrs half an hour Would make no less than twelve servings, with leftovers 12-pound turkey Salt and freshly ground black pepper to style Preheat the oven to 500 degrees F. Rinse the turkey and clear away the giblets; help save the liver for virtually any stuffing you select to create. Loosely pack the turkey cavity with stuffing if you would like, then tie the legs in concert to enclose the vent. Area the turkey on the rack in a large roasting pan. Create 1/2 cup h2o for the bottom from the pan, in addition to the turkey neck, gizzard, and some other trimmings. Location inside the oven, legs first. Roast twenty to half an hour, or until finally the top starts to brown, then turn the warmth down to 350 degrees. Continue on to roast, checking each half an hour or so; in case the top rated threatens to brown as well a great deal, lay a bit of aluminum foil immediately onto it. If your bottom dries out, create h2o, about 1/2 cup in a time. The turkey is done when an instant-read thermometer inserted in to the thickest element of the thigh actions 165 degrees. If, when the turkey is just about done, the very best has not browned adequate, flip the warmth back again as much as 425 degrees with the very last 20 to half an hour of cooking. Remove the turkey from the oven. Take off the rack and make pan gravy or other sauce whilst the bird rests (allow it sit for about twenty minutes before carving). Q: In good cooking is it additional crucial that you be artistic or to become specific? A: It's essential to differentiate among cooking and baking. In cooking, anybody by using a modicum of knowledge and experience??"and I'd personally assume cooking fifty meals through a six-month time period would get you into this category??"would achieve enough practical experience to begin improvising, while using the enable of recipes. Just after 5 years of continual cooking, couple of persons depend upon cookbooks while in the same way they are doing after they are start. Baking is an additional tale: It truly is chemistry. It will take a great deal of talent and encounter in order to bake, in particular desserts, without having adhering to a recipe. ?? Q: How can you cook an artichoke? A: It is possible to start by reducing the pointed recommendations from artichoke leaves in advance of cooking, but you don't have to. It really is most effective to make use of a paring knife to peel across the base and reduce off the bottom one-quarter inch, then break off the roughest and darkest layers of exterior leaves. Artichokes consist of an enzyme which makes them discolor once they're reduce and cooked; this won't have an impact on the taste. If you want to protect their coloring, drop them into a combination of 1 tablespoon of lemon juice or vinegar for each cup of water while you prepare them, and add a splash of vinegar or lemon juice to the cooking water. It is also ideal to employ nonaluminum knives and cooking utensils when operating with artichokes. Steaming would be the least difficult way to cook an artichoke??"just make sure the pot doesn't boil dry. Here is a recipe: Simple Steamed Artichokes Time: 45 minutes Would make 4 servings 4 significant or 12 pretty small artichokes Numerous sprigs contemporary tarragon or thyme (optional) Salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste With scissors or even a substantial knife, trim the top 1/2 inch or so on the artichokes. Employing a paring knife, peel around the base and minimize off the bottom 1/4 inch. Break off the roughest in the exterior leaves. Place artichokes bottom up in the steamer. Cover and cook 20 to forty minutes. Sample an outer leaf; when it pulls absent simply and its meat is tender, the artichokes are executed. Drain the artichokes upside down for a minute or two lengthier in advance of serving hot; keep the wrong way up should you intend to serve them afterwards. Serve scorching with melted butter, at place temperature with vinaigrette, or cold with mayonnaise. Or serve at any temperature with lemon or salt.
Q: Once i make scones, they often crumble??"but I am hesitant to help keep including much more fatty butter to the blend. Is it possible to advocate a low-fat scone recipe? A: Scones are wealthy muffins, or ultra-rich biscuits: You can't make them without having eggs, and they're finest with cream or butter. You could substitute oil for the butter (even though that does not reduce the fat, just the cholesterol) and skim milk for your cream, but if you get issues any further more than that it isn't a scone any extra! Here's a recipe for Cream Scones I especially like (from How you can Cook Anything; Hungry Minds Publishing, 1998): 2 cups (about 9 ounces) all-purpose or cake flour, in addition a lot more as essential 1 scant teaspoon salt 4 teaspoons baking powder 2 tablespoons sugar 5 tablespoons chilly butter 3 eggs 3/4 cup hefty cream 1/3 cup dried currants or raisins 1 tablespoon h2o 1. Preheat the oven to 450 degrees F. 2. Blend the dry substances with each other in the bowl or food processor, reserving 1 tablespoon on the sugar. Lower the butter into bits and possibly pulse it inside the food processor (this can be the simplest system) or pick up some the dry components, rub them while using the butter among your fingers, and drop them all over again. Every one of the butter must be extensively blended before you decide to shift towards the up coming action. 3. Conquer 2 on the eggs with all the cream; having a very few swift strokes, blend them together with the dry elements. Use only a few strokes more to stir with the currants. 4. Flip the dough out onto a lightly floured surface area and knead it ten instances, but no far more. If it's really sticky, include a little bit flour, but really tiny; don't be concerned in the event the dough sticks in your fingers a tad. 5. Press the dough into a 3/4-inch-thick rectangle and slice into 2-inch rounds by using a biscuit cutter or even a glass. Spot the rounds on an ungreased baking sheet. Gently reshape the leftover dough and minimize once again. 6. Defeat the remaining egg with 1 tablespoon of drinking water, and brush this combination about the top rated of each scone. Sprinkle every that has a minimal with the remaining sugar. 7. Bake 7 to 9 minutes, or until eventually the scones are a wonderful golden brown. These scones maintain greater than biscuits, nonetheless they really should nevertheless be eaten the identical day you make them. Would make 10 to 14 scones Time: twenty minutes
Q: Do you have a recipe for your good macaroni and cheese? A: I think so: Baked Macaroni and Cheese (from How to Cook Every thing by Mark Bittman, 1998). That is macaroni and cheese for grown-ups; not that young children won't like it, but it's far from sweet and gooey. Somewhat, it really is fragrant and just about sharp, thanks to the bay leaves and Parmesan. Time: about 45 minutes Would make 4 to 6 servings 2 1/2 cups milk (low-fat is high-quality) 2 bay leaves 1 pound elbow, shell, ziti, or other reduce pasta 4 tablespoons (1/2 stick) butter 3 tablespoons flour 1 1/2 cups grated cheese, for example sharp cheddar or Emmenthal 1/2 cup freshly grated Parmesan cheese Salt and freshly ground black pepper to flavor 1/2 cup or maybe more basic bread crumbs, ideally contemporary Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. Carry a sizable pot of h2o to a boil. Cook the milk while using the bay leaves within a smaller saucepan about medium-low warmth. When smaller bubbles appear alongside the sides, about 5 minutes later, flip off the warmth and permit stand. Salt the boiling water and cook the pasta into the level where by it's just about executed but even now wants a further minute or two to be tender. Drain it, rinse it promptly to stop cooking, and put it in a very significant bowl. In a compact saucepan about medium-low warmth, melt 3 tablespoons of the butter; when it is foamy, include the flour and cook, stirring, right until the mixture browns (about 5 minutes). Get rid of the bay leaves through the milk and include about 1/4 cup in the milk into the scorching flour mixture, stirring each of the though which has a wire whisk. As soon as the combination develops into easy, include slightly much more milk, and continue on to do so until all the milk is utilized up as well as combination is thick and sleek. Include the cheddar or Emmenthal and stir.
Pour the sauce about the pasta, toss while in the Parmesan, and season with salt and pepper. Use the remaining 1 tablespoon of butter to grease a 9-by-13-inch size baking pan and flip the noodle mixture into it. Prime liberally with bread crumbs and bake right up until the crumbs turn brown (about fifteen minutes). Serve piping hot. Q: What exactly is the main difference between mixing and folding components? A: Whenever a recipe states to mix, you could assault the ingredients and merge them even so you like, even working with a blender. Folding is a procedure that enables components that contains large amounts of air??"most usually beaten cream or egg whites??"to retain their volume when blended with thicker substances, like batter. To fold, scoop the bottom in the batter above the top in the beaten compound utilizing a rubber spatula, a wood spoon, or??"the finest tool??"your cupped hand. Normally, the mixture will need to be blended only adequate to integrate, not till it truly is properly sleek. Q: Could it be really worth the larger value to utilize natural food items for cooking? A: This is an individual decision more than anything else. Natural meals are becoming well-liked ample that they are no more a great deal more costly than 'regular' foods. Do natural and organic foods style greater? On the whole, they don't style any improved than high-quality nonorganic food items. Are they more healthy? I believe so. Personally, I invest in natural meats, greens, grains, and legumes once i can, but I'm not a fanatic about this. Q: We have a youthful daughter, and I am anxious about her consuming uncooked eggs due to the health pitfalls. Is there any substitute for uncooked egg whites in recipes for food like cake frosting? A: Although I'm not a wellness skilled, my comprehension is usually that the risk of an individual egg that contains salmonella is about 1 in 10,000, so I might not be too concerned. The chance is multiplied when substantial numbers of eggs are combined together??"as occurs in business kitchens??"because a lousy egg would contaminate the entire batch. However, the simplest issue to accomplish should be to avoid the problem fully by earning a frosting that doesn't incorporate any eggs. Sweetened whipped cream could be the easiest substitute for eggs. Here is an additional option: Vanilla Butter Cream Frosting (from Ways to Cook Almost everything by Mark Bittman). Time: 10 minutes Makes plenty of frosting and filling for a person 9-inch layer cake, or two dozen cupcakes 8 tablespoons (1 stick) unsalted butter, softened 4 cups confectioners' sugar 6 tablespoons cream or milk, moreover a little additional if wanted 2 teaspoons vanilla extract 1. Use a fork or electrical mixer to cream the butter. Slowly work within the sugar, alternating with all the cream and beating well right after each addition. 2. Stir inside the vanilla. If your frosting is too thick to spread, create somewhat far more cream, one teaspoon in a time. If it really is too thin (unlikely, but feasible, specially just after the addition of lemon or orange juice being a variation), refrigerate; it'll thicken because the butter hardens. Q: Could you notify me the way to make a straightforward salad dressing that only uses fundamental elements normally identified at home? A: It's a breeze, and you have two options. One will be to toss the salad with extra-virgin olive oil and superior vinegar (sherry vinegar, balsamic vinegar, or beneficial wine vinegar), just to flavor; just take it quick on the vinegar. Lemon juice, which is a smaller amount acidic (strain out the seeds), is yet another different. Or do a thing like this: Fundamental Vinaigrette Time: 5 minutes May make about 3/4 cup 1/2 cup extra-virgin olive oil 3 tablespoons or even more great wine vinegar Salt to flavor Freshly ground black pepper to style 1 heaping teaspoon Dijon mustard 1 large shallot (about 1 ounce), peeled and cut into chunks, optional Blend all elements, except the shallot, in a very blender. A creamy emulsion will sort within thirty seconds. Taste, and create vinegar, a teaspoon or two in a time, until finally the balance tastes right to you personally. Add the shallot and turn the device on and off a few moments until eventually the shallot is minced in the dressing. Flavor, change seasoning, and serve. (This really is very best manufactured new but will keep with the refrigerator for your few days. Return to area temperature and whisk briefly previous to working with.) Q: Wherever can I buy a handheld sausage-stuffer like my Dad employed a long time in the past? It was so simple, but I can't come across it wherever. A: You could possibly discover one particular in Cook's Catalogue, but your finest bet is surely an old-fashioned store or state market place in Italy. Q: I'm searching for your recipe for smoothies. Can you assist? A: The phrase "smoothie" usually means different things to distinct individuals, but right here are two recipes I like very much. The 2 smoothies, both equally cold and sweet, are adapted from my book The best way to Cook Everything. Banana-Yogurt Shake When your bananas develop into overripe, peel them and wrap them in plastic wrap, then freeze them. Use them to produce this fantastic smoothie. Time: 5 minutes Helps make 2 servings 1 frozen banana 1 cup orange juice, ideally freshly squeezed 1 cup plain or vanilla yogurt Mix all substances in the blender and mix right until smooth. Banana-Vanilla Shake Time: 5 minutes Helps make 2 servings 1 ripe banana (frozen is alright) 1 cup milk 1/2 cup crushed ice Sugar or sugar syrup to flavor 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract, moreover a lot more if essential 1. Blend all substances within a blender and mix right until smooth. 2. Flavor and alter seasoning by incorporating additional vanilla or sugar syrup if important. In place of vanilla, you are able to also use a grating of nutmeg as well as a tiny cinnamon. Q: Do you have a tasty recipe for spaghetti that's simple for teens to generate? A: It is a very good recipe that is a bit various, and most young people like it. (Excerpted from The way to Cook Almost everything.) Penne with Ricotta, Parmesan, and Peas The butter is optional with this recipe, nonetheless it lends a pleasant richness and creaminess. Create a certain amount of minced saut??ed ham or mushrooms to this sauce should you like. Would make about 4 servings Time: 30 minutes 1 cup freshly shelled or frozen peas 1 pound penne, ziti, or other reduce pasta About 1 cup new ricotta, out there in Italian and specialty food markets 1 tablespoon softened butter (optional) 1 cup freshly grated Parmesan cheese Salt and freshly ground black pepper to flavor 1. Bring a substantial pot of water into a boil. 2. Cook the peas in boiling salted drinking water to cover, just right up until tender, about 3 minutes. Drain and rinse in chilly h2o to prevent the cooking; drain and put aside. 3. Salt the boiling water and cook the pasta. Though it is actually cooking, mix together the ricotta, butter, cooked peas, and half in the Parmesan with the bottom of the warm bowl. When the pasta is just about accomplished, take away about a cup of the pasta cooking water and use as a great deal of it while you have to easy the ricotta mixture right into a sauce. 4. Toss the pasta while using the ricotta combination, create more pasta cooking h2o if needed, and serve, passing the remaining Parmesan with the table.
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Unauthorized changes to projects can add unseen risks, create delays and incur extra costs, so make sure your project changes are controlled.