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Monday, February 28, 2011

Leftover Meat Mondays: Pasta with Sausage and Baby Broccoli


Mr. MVP and I talked about being part of the "Meatless Monday" movement. We didn't have to be convinced that going meatless at least one day a week can be good--for the environment, for your health, for your wallet. So we enjoyed a few consecutive meatless Mondays. But then we had extra chicken from a Sunday barbecue and wanted to make tacos with the leftovers on Monday. And then we had some remaining steak from another Sunday dinner and decided to make bolognese sauce the next day with the leftovers. We grill a lot on the weekends and don't like to let leftovers go to waste, so now we're going to try for Meatless Tuesdays or Wednesdays and we're going to make sure we compose leftover meals that don't feel like leftover meals--making them good enough to be prepared and enjoyed any day, even if you aren't trying to use what you don't want to waste.

Yesterday: 
Italian sausage on the grill, part of a mixed grill and pizza dinner

Leftovers: 
Sausage

Today: 
Pasta with baby broccoli and sausage. While pasta of your choice is cooking, cut the leftover sausage into bite-size pieces. In a saucepan, saute several cloves of garlic in olive oil until garlic is soft but not browned. Add 1/2 cup vegetable stock and baby broccoli and cover until broccoli is tender but still firm. Remove broccoli and add sausage bites to the saucepan with a splash of some more vegetable stock and cook on medium until heated. Toss pasta with sausage, broccoli, and parmesan cheese. Enjoy.

Dreamy Inspiration


Photo taken at Will Rogers State Park.

Saturday, February 26, 2011

3D Graffiti Alphabet Letter J

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Friday, February 25, 2011

MOTIF BATIK KENDAL

Batik Tulis Witro Kendal, diambil dari http://batikwitroemas.blogspot.com/search?updated-min=2010-01-01T00%3A00%3A00%2B07%3A00&updated-max=2011-01-01T00%3A00%3A00%2B07%3A00&max-results=11

MOTIF BATIK KENDAL

BATIK TELAH DI AKUI DUNIA SEBAGAI HASIL KARYA BANGSA INDONESIA

UNESCO pada tgl 2 0ktober 2010 telah mematok palu mengakui bangsa Indonesia dengan hasil karya batiknya sebagai Made In (buatan) Indonesia tulen, dan tak terbantahkan. Setahun sudah pengakuan itu dapat dipertahankan sebagai hasil karya paten nenek moyang bangsa Indonesia. Zaman sekarang juragan-juragan batik tidak membatik lagi, batik dikerjakan oleh orang-orang kecil yang membutuhkan kerja untuk memenuhi kebutuhan kesehariannya. Juragan batik hanya memberikan upah pada para pekerjanya. Hal ini memang telah mengalami pergeseran dalam perkembangan batik dari satu era ke era lainnya. Semoga eksistensi batik Indonesia dapat dipertahankan, terutama untuk batik tulis yang telah diakui keberadaannya di mata dunia dalam hal ini pengakuan dari UNESCO.


Batik Kendil Wesi yang menjadi ciri khas motif batik Kendal, diambil dari http://batikwitroemas.blogspot.com/search?updated-min=2010-01-01T00%3A00%3A00%2B07%3A00&updated-max=2011-01-01T00%3A00%3A00%2B07%3A00&max-results=11

Motif Batik Kendil Wesi (Batik Khas Kendal)

Batik Kendal melalui wadah pemasaran dari produksi Batik Witro, mempopulerkan kembali lewat beberapa motif yang telah ada pada masa yang lalu. Batik Kendal mulai berkembang kembali setelah Bupati Kendal Dr. Widya Kandi Susanti mencanangkan untuk mulai memunculkan kembali batik yang pernah menjadi cirri kekhasan daerah Kendal. Motif yang menjadi cirri khas Kendal adalah motif batik Kendil Mukti. Motif Kendil Mukti ini mempunyai bentuk khas berupa kendil yang merupakan sebuah gambaran sebagai penunjang ekonomi daerah

Kendal. Kendal mempunyai hasil dari kekayaan laut, yang digambarkan berupa bentuk sisik ikan’ kemudi perahu,dan jangkar. Kursin\kapal, mesin penggiling padi, juga terdapat gambar yang berupa motif berasan.,tebu dengan motif daun dan kembang,juga tembakau dengan daun dan bunganya. Motif batik ini juga terdapat bentuk kendil tumpang dan tumpung kendil .yang cocok untuk motif batik lajuran.batik kendil. Lajuran batik Kendil dilengkapi dengan motif bunga 4 kendil, terdapat lajuran besar dan juga yang kecil. Motif Gulu Kendil bagus juga untuk plataran dan isen


Batik Tulis Sutra ATBM yang bermotifkan ciri khas Kendal, diambil dari http://batikwitroemas.blogspot.com/search?updated-min=2010-01-01T00%3A00%3A00%2B07%3A00&updated-max=2011-01-01T00%3A00%3A00%2B07%3A00&max-results=11

Batik Canting di Weleri Kendal

Sebagian daerah Kendal, seperti di Weleri kerajinan batik juga berkembang. Orang Weleri dapat juga membuat batik dengan hasil yang cukup baik dan halus. Hal ini membutuhkan pengarahan terhadap para pengrajin supaya dapat menghasilkan karya yang baik. Mereka di sediakan alat-alat untuk membatik di rumahnya sendiri oleh para juragan Batik.

Para pengrajin dapat mengerjakan batik sambil momong anak di rumah masing-masing. Mereka bisa berkarya dengan perasaan senang demi untuk membantu mencari nafkah suaminya.

Memory Lane: Coach's Lessons Part 2


I love finding inspiration in unlikely places, like on the side of a cookie box. I posted last week about a Teddy Roosevelt quote I learned from my high school track coach. The quote is printed on a box of Bart's cookies I found at Whole Foods. I bought the cookies because of the claim on the front of the box that they're "The Best Chocolate Chip Cookies in the World." Them's fighting words--and then I spotted the real fighting words on the side. Good cookies, but I still believe homemade ones are best.

BUDAYA BATIK TRADISIONAL CHINA 3

Batik China bermotifkan gambar Budaya Mesir Kuno, diambil dari http://www.startupspace.com/profiles/blogs/chinese-tradition-culturebatik

MISTERI KELEMBUTAN WANITA, Motif batik Tradisional China, diambil dari http://www.startupspace.com/profiles/blogs/chinese-tradition-culturebatik

Cita dan Asa Kelembutan Wanita, motif Batik Tradisional China, diambil dari http://www.startupspace.com/profiles/blogs/chinese-tradition-culturebatik

Melukis Batik, Motif Tradisional China, diambil dari http://www.startupspace.com/profiles/blogs/chinese-tradition-culturebatik

Keanggunan Kewibawaan Ketangguhan dan Misteri Hidup Wanita, Batik Tradisional China, diambil dari http://www.startupspace.com/profiles/blogs/chinese-tradition-culturebatik

Merenungkan Hidup, Motif Batik Tradisional China, diambil dari http://www.startupspace.com/profiles/blogs/chinese-tradition-culturebatik

Thursday, February 24, 2011

Graffiti Alphabet Letter J Bubble Design

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Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Graffiti Alphabet Letter J Sketches Design

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Monday, February 21, 2011

Graffiti Alphabet Letter J

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Sunday, February 20, 2011

Graffiti Alphabet I

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Saturday, February 19, 2011

Graffiti Alphabet Letter I Bubble Style

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Friday, February 18, 2011

Memory Lane: Coach's Lessons









I had the voice of my high school track and cross country coach, Frank LaBianca, in my head today. This is always a good thing. Coach was also the school's print shop teacher and he printed pearls of wisdom for us on cards; a sampling of ones I have saved are posted above. These are wallet-sized, but Coach also printed banners and posted them on the walls of the print shop, where we held team meetings. The one I memorized was a quote by Theodore Roosevelt that began, "Far better is it to dare mighty things...." I remember surprising him one day by finishing the quote for him when he began it. (I still know it by heart.)