Cooking with Coolio (pt. 1)

I received quite the going away present from my dear friends Dr. David Dick and Erin Jensen; a cookbook. It’s name? “Cooking with Coolio

001-3923.jpgAnd before I go on, yes it is that ridonkulous. For example, after bragging about his ‘over two million hits of his youtube cooking, Coolio goes on to explain just how he became the king of the kitchen pimps, and how you can become a kitchen pimp too. 
Apparently the key is to follow the Ten Cool-mandments.
At any rate, upon receipt of this gift I had to promise to make use of said book, and report back.  This was a promise easily made, and here we are today. 
I chose a simple recipe to start out on my foray into kitchen pimpdom, “Cool-a-cado”, a simple recipe involving an avocado, tomatoes and onions, drizzled with olive oil and balsamic, then sprinkled with salt and pepper.
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First you chop the avocado halves length and width-wise leaving it in its skin. Chop the tomatoes and onions in the standard way.
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The rest is mere preparation, put the chopped tomatoes in the pit hole, sprinkle the onions on top of that. Then drizzle balsamic and olive oil, and salt n’ peppa and you’re done. Coolio doesn’t say to squeeze the avocado to loosen the flesh, but I find this works well to let the liquids seep in. He does say to poke cut the flesh to allow for the absorption of the vinegar and oil, but after you’ve done all the other stuff it seems like all it would do is ruin your plating…
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So that looks alright, except that even cutting Coolio’s ingredients down to half an onion and a small tomato leaves us with quite a bite of leftovers, so we plate again.
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So that’s the cool-a-cado. Now, don’t forget your dime bag of salt, and nickel bag of pepper.
There’s more info on Coolio’s cooking after the jump.

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On what the future pertains to this space

As some, if not all, of you dear readers are aware, I have up and moved to Amsterdam for academic pursuits. (One can read more about the program here)

I’ve been challenged by some of my cohorts back in Calgary to do the following:
1) Actually update this blog on some sort of frequent basis
2) Swerve away from just music, and actually recount my life in my new city.
3) Somehow make it worth your while to read.
#3 may be tricky, but I think I can manage the first couple.
I have also decided to start a Project 365 to chronicle this first year in Amsterdam. I started snapping a picture a day on Septermber 1 and I can say that it’s tougher than you think to actually manage a picture a day, every day without fail. Check it out here: http://365.theomniarch.com 
If you really just want more tunes, have no fear I’m working on setting up category specific RSS feeds. I fully acknowledge that unless I really amp up the pace of these posts it seems moot to do this, but the IT nerd in me sees an opportunity to fiddle…
And just in case you were looking forward to tunes, here are a couple of music videos that I stumbled upon this week:
The first is from Gare du Nord a dutch Jazz band who are apparently coming to town October 1st, so perhaps you will hear more about them in a few short weeks. The video is a lovely little stop motion number, though truthfully I found the audio more compelling, and ‘watched’ the video a number of times throughout the day, behind other windows…
The other video is really quite well done. Its a sort of moving sketch style. 
More info after the jump.
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