August 2015

Macadamia crusted Mahi with Vanilla Rum Butter Sauce

Ever since I retired, I have picked up cooking as a new hobby. Here is one the better recipes I have come up with:

Nut Crusted Mahi with Vanilla Rum Butter Sauce


Prep time: 15 minutes
Cook time: 40 minutes
Serves: 4

Nut Crusted Mahi

4- 4 ounce pieces of Mahi
1/2 cup Roasted unsalted Macadamia nuts
Sesame oil
1/4 cup Panko Breading
1/2 cup Flour
salt
black pepper

Grind Macadamia nuts in a food processor, and mix with Panko, salt, pepper, and Flour

Rub fish with sesame oil, and then roll the fish in the breading mix. Place on a baking sheet, and bake for 35 minutes at 375 degrees. Fish coating should be brown.

Vanilla Rum Butter Sauce

1 shallot sliced thin
2 tsp vanilla extract-pure
1/8 cup white wine (cheap will do)
1/4 cup Rum (cheap rum will do)
ΒΌ cup granulated sugar
1cup heavy cream
1- 4oz stick of unsalted butter (room temp)

Place the rum, shallots, white wine, sugar and vanilla extract into the sauce pan and stir
Place the pan on the stove with high heat and bring to a boil
Reduce heat, simmer until the mixture starts to thicken
Add the heavy cream and reduce by 1/2
Turn off the heat and whisk in the softened butter

Mashed potatoes:
5 medium sized potatoes, peeled and chopped
1/4 cup of sour cream
2 table spoons of butter
1 cup raw spinach 
Boil potatoes for 10 minutes. With hand mixer, stir in sour cream and butter.
Boil Spinach for for 2 minutes in salted water. 
To serve:
Place mashed potatoes on plate, cover with cooked spinach. Spoon several tablespoons of rum butter sauce on top. Place a piece of Mahi on top of that, and top with another tablespoon of rum butter sauce.
By Divemedic, ago

Bluffing

I teach classes on my days off at various health care facilities around the state of Florida. This brings me to quite a few of our states’ hospitals. When I entered Winnie Palmer hospital (part of Orlando Regional Medical Center), this is the sign that they have posted outside each of the entrance doors of the hospital:

If you look, they have made an attempt to make the sign appear to have the force of law by placing a statute number at the bottom of the sign. That particular statute is the guns in parking lots statute and has exactly nothing to do with carrying a weapon through the door.

Then, at a hospital in the Ocala/Gainesville area, there is this sign on the door:

The statute referred to here is the statute for trespassing and burglary. There is no provision in the law for conditional access. That is, a business is either open to the public, or it is not. There is no case law which allows a business to place conditions on the people who they allow to enter. In a business that is open to the public, a person must be personally asked to leave. This sign means nothing.

By Divemedic, ago

Boyscouts

Three men, two of whom are convicted felons, shoot a cop who attempts to pull them over. This will be used as an excuse for certain people to claim that I cannot be allowed to have a weapon, or as an excuse to some other restriction on my rights.

Just in Orange County, Stephen Dantzler, has been arrested/convicted three times for operating a motor vehicle without a license, once for leaving the scene of an accident, once for petty theft, and once for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon (charges dropped). There are more records out there somewhere, because he is a convicted felon, and there are no felony convictions on record for this guy in Orange or Osceola counties.

I see that he followed the law about carrying a weapon just as diligently as he did the laws about having a drivers’ license, proving that more laws will not fix the problem.

By Divemedic, ago