Credit me this much:\u00a0 tonight, I did the food preparation thing without a recipe.\u00a0\u00a0 Yup, workin’ without a net.<\/p>\n
No don’t go getting too excited, it wasn’t anything terribly complicated.\u00a0 Tonight’s offering was tandoori chicken, which I made by lathering a pre-mixed tandoori paste (store bought) with some plain yoghurt (as per the directions on the tandoori paste bottle), marinading a couple of chicken breasts in the resultant mixture and then cooking the breasts in the oven.\u00a0 That last thing is what I did without recipe details;\u00a0 not exactly Sorbonne material, but a significant step forward in terms of my own self-confidence in the culinary arena.\u00a0 I chose 375 for the oven temperature, principally because that seems to be a common request for chicken-cooking recipes, turned the breasts after ten minutes and tested them for completion after twenty-two.\u00a0<\/p>\n
There was still a wee hint of redness internally, which could have been a signal of “not cookedness” or could have been a result of the hue of the tandoori paste.\u00a0 I took no chances and fired the breasts back in the oven for another six minutes.\u00a0\u00a0 When I removed and checked them that time, they were moist – and obviously done.<\/p>\n
I think it was quite delicious.\u00a0 I augmented this small culinary victory by hitting the (new) elliptical trainer for twenty minutes tonight.\u00a0 This was my first attempt at completing an entire exercise routine program, and I am proud to say that I managed to finish up without throwing up.<\/p>\n
I apologize for things being a little slow around here – the last few days have been busy at work and all my leisure time is being taken up, believe it or not, writing a script for an educational video that is going to be made by a committee that I sit on.\u00a0\u00a0 The screenplay that I have to come up with is simple and prosaic in the extreme, but I am learning about the tyranny of the blank page nevertheless.\u00a0\u00a0 I am using an awesome freeware tool to help me organize the project and format the script – it’s called Celtx<\/a>, and it’s available (for free) here<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 The package seems quite powerful – it has features that allow you to organize all the various elements of an audio\/video production (like the characters, props, locations, sets, shots and so on) as well as automatically formatting the finished product\u00a0according to\u00a0an industry-standard template.\u00a0 It’s even got tools for converting stageplays to screenplays (and vice versa) and tools for compiling a comic book script.\u00a0 Well worth exploring, if you’re at all interested in creating your own audio-video content.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Credit me this much: tonight, I did the food preparation thing without a recipe. Yup, workin’ without a net.<\/p>\n No don’t go getting too excited, it wasn’t anything terribly complicated. Tonight’s offering was tandoori chicken, which I made by lathering a pre-mixed tandoori paste (store bought) with some plain yoghurt (as per the directions on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,658],"tags":[663,1213,660,1218,662,1217],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":531,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530\/revisions\/531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}