ask_birdmad .fallen will the bathtub filled with tofu be more fun than the bathtub filled with chicken parts and jello? 040226 ... not birdmad tofu_is_sexier 040226 ... bird yeah, i'd have to say the tofu although the jello WITHOUT the chicken parts would win if it were an option (those of you who have ever had food poisoning will understand) 040226 ... jimmy i think tofu would also be more comfortable to share the bathtub with. although, is the tofu warmed? 040226 ... .fallen do you have an amazing salsa recipe to share with the class and if so, would you please? 040301 ... birdmad not so much a recipe as a general guideline it makes a pretty good sized amount at this rate so it's best to use it when and where you know it'll get eaten in fairly short order as all ingredients are pretty much raw I'll list the base ingredients first since everything else will be a matter of taste and relatively fine adjustments from there it will not have the big chunky consistency of some cooked salsas but will have a more defined taste Main: • 5 or 6 large tomatoes • 1 large onion • juice of 1/2 lemon (or 2tbsp of bottle lemon juice) Adjustable • 2 or more cloves garlic • 1 bunch cilantro ( add in to taste) • salt (to taste) • Chile of your choice, (Jalapeño, Habañero, etc) - you can use fresh or jarred/canned peppers in this case...for the sake of not causing any sudden deaths, i will go with fresh jalapeño in this case - again, add according to what you and anyone else eating it can withstand. be aware that the seeds are the source of much of the heat Start by cutting up all of your ingredients, placing some of the cut tomatoes on a paper towel to absorb some of the liquid and keep your salsa from becoming too watery take all of the tomatoes and the onion and put them in a blender or food processor on one of the lower settings, occasionally pulsing it higher to even out the consistency now let it rest and move back to your cutting board coarsely chop a portion of the bunch of cilantro and begin adding it in along with 1 jalapeño and whatever percentage of the seeds you feel safe throwing in, take a clove of garlic, slice off the hard ends, and mash it with the wide part of your knife blade, disposing of the peel and the tips and throw in just a pinch of salt now blend/mix this on a slightly higher speed and taste. if it is good right there, you have just made salsa, if not, keep tinkering with the variable ingredients until you think you've got it right NOTE: If you are going for very hot/spicy you may want to give it a few minutes to stand before tasting as it sometimes takes a little while for the active ingredients in the chiles to saturate into the salsa even after a good blending and it becomes very easy to overcompensate based on a premature taste test... i learned this the hard way Also, if you are using a blender, be sure not to run it at high speed for too long or the heat of the blade and motor may cause some of the salsa to partially cook and discolor slightly, which is harmless, but will take away some of the aesthetic quality of your end result which should be a red-pink colour with green flecks of cilantro and chile and chile seeds Cut the total volume of tomato by 2/3 and you will have your basic pico de gallo (pEEk-oh de gai-oh) if this sounds terribly inexact, a lot of my family recipes fall more into the "inexact science" category than anything else and are basically a matter of fine tuning it as you go... it's trial and arror for sure, but once you get it, you know it my grandmother's recipe has fewer ingredients, but is actually a little harder to prepare and involves the use of a coarse stone mortar-and-pestle called a molcajete (mohl-ca'HET–eh) ... lacking one of those, i have yet to try that method myself and can't offer any instructions as a result 040302 ... stork daddy sounds muy (moo-EE) delicioso (dee-lee-see-oh-soo) 040302 ... x i find salsa i make is best the next day not that you asked me 040303 ... bird yeah. that is actually true. a day in advance and then set in the refrigerator gives the flavors time to permeate the mixture yesyes good point. 040303 ... u24 have you ever read Dr Who books? 040315 ... silentbob i'm doing it again what should i do? 040315 ... birdmad sorry bob, no good answers here. 040322 ... silentbob how do you make the crossing out effect on your name 040329 ... birdmad technically, it's just some quick html: (s)birdmad(/s) figuratively is a whole other story 040330 ... Doar are you the instigator? 040330 ... birdmad of what? 040330 ... Death of a Rose whatever you want. 040330 ... u24 where did you come from? please interpret any way except geographically. 040402 ... notme what were you doing? 040402 ... birdmad U24: somewhere between parts_unknown and the vanishing_point notme: when? where? 040402 ... minnesota_chris if I called you, what would we talk about? M-C Hey, I just wanted to say I like your blathers. It was pretty funny when you wrote that your town didn't need another baldheaded psycho looking Latino. Bird: Hey, thanks man. M-C But sometimes your blathers are kinda sad. Bird: Yup. Kinda. (awkward silence) Bird: You still there? 040407 ... The Spork Man, Where the hell are you and may i ask why you've been putting that strike-mark through your name? 040407 ... birdmad MC: good question spork: i'm not saying 040407 ... whitechocolatewalrus what's your favorite kind of bird? 040407 ... birdmad ravens, crows, members of the corvid family in general 040407 ... sab if i were to give you a handful of dirt, a typewriter that took autumn leaves instead of paper, three kilos of the best chocolate chip buscuits, 4 miles of rope and 42 bucks what would you do? 040407 ... birdmad share the biscuits with whoever passed by (except maybe for the last kilo) buy 21 dollars worth of autumn leaves if anybody's selling, give seven bucks to a homeless person, spend seven bucks on 2L bottles of Mountain dew , spend the last seven on a small flowerpot and a pack of some sort of flowering seeds to use the dirt and type up things like blathes on the leaves and fix them to the rope and string them like a garland all over the center of the city 040407 ... sab that's so beautiful it made my heart bleed. thank you babe 040414 ... elegance how did you grow so wise? 040617 ... kookaburra how do you fall asleep when your head wont. shut. up? Its too late now, i only got an hour of sleep. but for future reference? 040617 ... puredream Do you see how beautiful you truly are? 040617 ... birdmad i's a yin-yang thing, i suppose, though if the things i think and sometimes say are the yin, my corporeal self must clearly be the yang 040617 ... once again Do you know why it is important to Live when we all die eventually anyway? 040617 ... puredream Once again...do you believe that we stop living after death? 040617 ... once again I do not ask for me. I know why it is important to LIVE when we may die tomoro, but to be honest... even if we did stop living after death I would not mind. 040618 ... kookaburra hey. did you keep up with the learning of the japanese? 040718 ... sab erm all the words swirl and i am drowing in places ive already been im being tangled by a whirlwind girl not of my making picture if all the dust in a desert was connected and caught in a tornado and i somehow keep ending up in the middle. when one is lost in the desert at night its too dark to see and theres no light anyway what should one do? 040718 ... rambling meandering bird if you are stranded in the desert if you know them well enough you can use the stars to find your way (unless it's cloudy out) in summer, listen for the sounds of the road, find a high place... look for trails or scout from any height or distance for the glow of city lights or any distant light too low to be a star try to be somewhere where you can be seen before the sun is too unbearable in winter, do the same, look for a path out, but do it carefully and wait for the sun to give you your bearings back. if you're on the road, stay on it. if you're off the road find it 040719 ... puredream How do you bleed audio blood? 040719 ... no reason? what do you think of interpol? (the band, that is)? 040809 ... bird bleeding audio blood? depends on the sounds you've got in you. Interpol? i was just listening to them last night, i like the way their sound fills the room. it seems contradictory to say it like this, but i like their sound seems both expansive and close at the same time. 040810 ... Cardiac Arrest When do you think you might get published Mr. BirdMad? . 040902 ... sameolme Are turkeys and peacocks closely related? They both do that tail feather display thing. In the human realm it seems that "peacocks" are "turkeys". Whats the expert opinion. 041105 ... emmi what are your three favourite animals and for what reasons? (this is a psychological test) 060705 ... bird cats - because as kittens they are by and large unspeakably cute and as adults it in interesting to see them behave as minatures of their larger cousins in the wild birds - especially ravens both because of their freedom to fly and ravens especially because of how they are presented in the ancient and marginalized religions we have relegated to "mythology"... the trickster snakes - again because of their mythological significance, The Winged Serpent of the Aztecs, the Serpent in the Garden of Eden 060705 ... emmi cats: how people see you (cute or a miniature tiger) birds: what you really are. snakes: what you aim to be (you want to have mythological significance?) interesting... 060706 ... Death of a Rose madbird, one question for you. 1. If...and I repeat If I ever happen to be in the nearby vicinity, care to hunt together? . 060706 ... Doar guess this went by with a whoosh sound. 070221 ... bird not that, but for a while the stupid_goddamn_firewall they put up last summer would randomly block me from some blathes (still does, but not as ridiculously) and i totally missed this one, but in answer to your question yeah. 070222 ... u24 do you take photos? 080613 ... u24 and I love ravens/corvids too. 080613 ... bird occasionally, though i am a rank bloody amateur with a digital camera. there is just something gleefully "off" about ravens and crows, isn't there? 080613 ... .. .. 090119 ... Lemon_Soda What made the bird mad? 090120 ... grendel so many flavors of madness all pouring at me at once i tasted some of the right ones and i tasted some of the wrong ones and when it is all said and done, i wonder if my particular flavor of madness is not some perverse reflection of the assumed sanity of others 090120 ... fghio fghio 101116 ... Doar No question catman. Just a statement. I respect you. . 140430 what's it to you? who go blather from