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June 15, 2010, 9:17pm Comments
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Seven Million American Children disappeared…
1987: Seven million American children suddenly disappeared, the worst kidnapping wave in history? Hardly. IT was the night of April 15Th, and the IRS had changed a rule. Instead of merely listing the name of each dependent child, tax filers were now required to provide a Social Security number. Suddenly, seven million children, children who existed only as a phantom exemptions of the previous year’s 1040 forms vanished. Representing about one in ten of all dependent children in the United States.
- An excerpt from freakonomics - to deminstrate the cheating nature of the average person when incentives are available.
April 15, 2010, 12:00am Comments
Anyone else sick of the cooking shows on TV who tell you how to make something but it takes about $40.00 worth of rare ingredients?
I’m single and on a budget of about $10.00-$20.00 a day for Dinner/Lunch. I decided I was sick of processed fast foods and wanted to start eating as natural as I could when it came to cooking meals…I figured if I made something worth sharing, I would post it up:) Oh and did I mention I’m going for quick and easy?
Sausage and Roasted Vegetables with Penne: Cooking time 30 Minutes.
What you need:
1 Bag of Penne or Spirali pasta - I went for whole wheat.
2-6 based on portions: Spicy Chicken or Regular Sausage
Olive Oil, Kosher Salt, Pepper.
1 onion, 1 cumber, 1 package of cherry or grape tomato’s, 1 Red Bell Pepper, half or whole pack of button or half mushrooms.
Grated pre made Parmesan Cheese
Bottle of White Wine
Garlic Bread(Optional)
(You can either make a small or up to 4 portion of this, I ended up feeding 3 single guys on this meal for 4 - we all walked away full.)
Lets get started:
Step 1: Chop up the sausage into thick pieces - add to a medium heated pan. I then cook them until brown on all sides, after that I added about a 3rd a cup of white wine to glaze the sausage and add flavor.
Bring another pan to boil for the pasta - add the pasta in and cook for 13-14 minutes.
Step 2: Heat your oven to 400. Chop up the onion, Cumber (long ways), Bell Pepper, and Mushrooms. When you cut, they can bit a bit chunkier in the pieces - and I looked up on Youtube directions on how to cut each one.
After I was done - I put them all into a bowl, added about 2 tablespoons of olive oil and used my hands to mix them up. After that I laid them out on the tray and added Salt and Pepper until seasoned…I like a lot of Pepper on my food, and less salt. After, place in the oven for 13 minutes, I used the timer on my iphone…I then added the tomato’s and cooked another 12-13 minutes.
Step 4: Once the Veggies are cooked, add them to the pan with the sausage and cook a bit more mixing everything together. Drain the pasta, add the pasta to a plate and load up with the veggie and sausage mixture…I add some parm cheese for flavor.
Guys - the meal was amazing, and very simple - not a lot of measuring ingredients.
ENJOY!
April 06, 2010, 4:42pm Comments
