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      The Acclaim to Fame

      January 9th, 2007 by mike d. in Phoenix, Acclaim To Fame, Quickthoughts

      Tomorrow, the Acclaim to Fame will be taken to a better place. A place where the sun always shines, the gas tank is always full, and oil changes are free.
      My dearest Acclaim, I salute you.

      Tomorrow, the Acclaim to Fame will be taken to a better place. A place where the sun always shines, the gas tank is always full, and oil changes are free.

      My dearest Acclaim, I salute you.

      Authored by: mike d.

      Class

      January 9th, 2007 by mike d. in school

      currently drinking: orange juice

      Last night I had my new Mechanical Engineering class. I’m taking “The Theory of Elasticity.” It has some potential to be interesting. From the sound of it, this class will be an all encompassing trip into the world of correlated theories. It sounds like with the things learned in this class I will be able to derive equations of solid mechanics, fluids, and thermodynamics! Aww yeah!

      In equally as exciting news, my sister Alicia may have found one of my lost socks yesterday.

      Authored by: mike d.

      Spicy (?) Fried Fish!

      January 9th, 2007 by mike d. in Food, Features

      It was tasty

      Sunday evening post climbing (tomorrow’s feature) Pete, Jesse, and I returned to the House of Rock to make some food. We opened up my new Essential Asian cookbook, flipped to “Laos and Cambodia” and found a recipe for Spicy Fried Fish. The basic premise was such. Cut up some white fish, coat with egg and a flour-cumin-coriander mix and then fry in oil. Separately make up some hot sauce and serve.

      The strange thing was, the sauce wasn’t spicy. It didn’t even have any spicy ingredients in it.
      Sauce Ingredients:

      sesame oil
      garlic
      ginger
      onion
      spring onion (scallions)
      fish sauce
      soy sauce
      brown sugar
      water

      please tell me where the ‘hot’ is suppose to come from.

      Anyway, here are some photos.

      No reason to be concerned, Pete is at the Helm
      Pete taking control of the frying pan.

      huh?
      A shot with strange perspective that looks more like a mini-mike d standing on the counter next to a giant Jesse. Jesse meanwhile is contemplating the inner workings of a cheese grater.

      aint no spicy here
      This is the start to the spicy sauce that wasn’t very spicy.

      The final delish
      The final product in all its glory!

      I would give this dish the following rock climber ratings:

      Difficulty: 5.9
      Deliciousness: 5.8-

      Really, the ‘difficult’ rating might be biased. The dish wasn’t hard to prepare, it was just annoying. I really don’t enjoy putting batter on fried foods pre-frying. Maybe there’s a better way to do it, but my way always ends up with my hands covered in batter and my egg and flour mixtures running out prematurely.

      It was tasty, but I don’t think I’ll try it again.

      Authored by: mike d.
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