Comic books are serious business. To demonstrate this, here is Bruce Wayne (and his bat shaped eyebrows) fighting crime by trolling people on the internet while his former sidekick and former sidekick's current sidekick watch and drink coffee.
I noticed there were a bunch of food pictures on my camera when I was uploading pictures of stuffed peppers. Lets just say I'm even more excited for summer now that I am reminded that Summer means BBQ and BBQ means grilled meat for fajitas!
These pictures were taken over a year ago. I think the delay in posting them means I need to start making grilled fajitas post haste.
Despite not using a recipe and knowing next to nothing about Turkish cuisine, I thought these came out pretty well. I was worried that the rice was going to be undercooked, but aside from some al dente pieces here and there, that wasn't a problem. The spices and everything really work well, though I think I'll add more cumin and parsley next time around.
The fragility of the peppers is an issue I wasn't really prepared for. Using tongs to get the peppers out of the pot caused a few of them to implode, which meant that a lot of the stuffing fell into the water. A more careful approach (spoons and patience) is probably necessary.
Since it is almost summer, I've been thinking about how to make these on the grill. I'm thinking that pre-cooking the filling (the night before maybe) then roasting some peppers on the BBQ would work well. It would certainly do more to preserve the spice flavor than boiling everything. I saw a stuffed pepper recipe online that features grilled sausages, so I might get distracted and just make that.
I've decided to start cross posting the "How Research Works" posts to a Tumblr blog. I'll be revising and updating the posts I've already made on here for awhile, but I'm sure posting will sync up eventually.
The last "How Research Works" post is based on an actual conversation that occurs often in my lab. I've participated in it multiple times, both as the junior grad student and more recently as the bitter senior grad student. In a couple of months I'll be the senior-most student in the lab which means that bitterness and cynicism will be expected of me.
This week's mix is a bunch of stuff that has been kicking around my iTunes for awhile. No real theme this week, I'm thinking that the next mix will have to be something a bit more light hearted.