 chicken, about two cups worth. You can cook your own and cut it up if you like, or get it canned like tuna, but I leave that to you. You’ll also need rice, a carrot, and celery, which annoyingly ALSO comes in wrong-sized packages. Go home, Mother Nature, you are drunk… who ever needs that much celery?
Ok, now get out your big pot.
Ok, ok. I’ll wait. STOP GIGGLING.
Pour the broth into the pot and heat it until it’s almost boiling. Don’t ask me how you’re supposed to tell if it’s “almost” boiling, I just saw the teeny bubbles sticking to the edges of the pot and figured that small bubbles are almost big bubbles, and so that was the pre-explosive-boil stage.
While you’re waiting for the broth to almost-boil, slice up a stalk of celery and a carrot, the thinner the better. Luckily I was only cooking soup for myself, because apparently I really like to use my thumbnail as a finger-guard. Yep, I’m dumb: I kept getting too close to my thumb, cutting the eentsiest nick into my thumbnail, and JUMPING BACK AND FREAKING OUT OH MY FSM I’M GONNA SLICE MYSELF OPEN. Repeatedly.
Judging by how many little tiny nicks there were in my thumbnail, I don’t think I got any into the veggies, but just as well that it’s only me eating this batch. Maybe I should get one of those “As Seen On TV” chopping thingies. Because there’s always more if you wait, but call in the next 30 minutes.
Put the carrot, celery, and a half a cup of rice or orzo into the broth. I don’t know what orzo is, aside from it being apparently more Greek than rice, but I also don’t have any so I used rice. Once I tried brown rice, and that didn’t work so well… so yeah, white rice it is until my friend Evans arrives this weekend with his stockpile of Greekness that will inevitably and magically transform my rice into orzo. Keep the whole thing “under” a boil (just don’t let it get TO boiling, I guess… I really hope an ‘under’ isn’t actually some obscure kitchen utensil I also don’t own) until the veggies and the rice are all nice and tender and not-hard any more. Recipes say 10-ish minutes, but YMMV.
Add your chicken and stir it up a bit. Keep up the heating-but-not-boiling, and throw a couple of eggs in a blender for a few seconds. WOO YEAH POWER TOOLS.
Um, please do not throw the whole egg in the blender. Crack it like a normal human being. Sheesh.
ANYWAY, put 3 tablespoons of lemon juice into the blender with the eggs and zap it again. Freshly-squeezed lemon juice is seriously worth it here, folks. Plus, I feel all healthy buying things from the produce section. I like smushing things, too, so win-win.
Now, I’m not sure just how the heck you’re supposed to do this without making a monstrous mess, but the recipe says to add 2 cups of the soup to your blender while it’s running. My blender kinda… um… isn’t really a blender, so perhaps that’s the issue, but this just seems like you’re asking to wear soup. You want to try anyway… it does good things for the soup.
Once you’re done painting your kitchen in blended soupy eggs, pour what’s left back into the soup pot and stir it in. Cook it a few minutes longer and do that weird “salt and pepper to taste” thing that so many recipes vaguely suggest. *handwaving* Personally, I just eat the soup.
You can always add more lemon juice if you want. I usually do, if there’s more lemon to smush.
So good and warm and lemony-fresh! (Wait, that’s not a phrase that’s associated with nom-tastic food, is it? Damn.)
Are any of you guys cooking? Trying any of the stuff I’ve suggested? Would you like to? Tell me about it in the comments!
*(“OPA!” is Greek for “Oh, shit, your cheese is on fire!”)
**(Yes, I am aware that Chicago has a Greektown. I went to school down the street, it’s hard to miss. However, their restaurants do silly things like either A) close all early and stuff or B) have not-Greek folks dishing out meh-tastic Kronos and frozen fries. Perhaps I am missing something.)
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This sounds so good and really easy. I think I’ll try it myself this week. I’ll let you know how it goes.
Two things:
1. Where is the part where you “pour some water over it”?
2. This:
1. That was my previous assumption about how soup was made. It seems the “water” was the broth, and “it” was the pot. *rainbow*
2. You’re doing something wrong. Food shouldn’t hurt… unless you want it to. THE SAFEWORD IS BANANA.After losing a contract, Omniplex World Services, a firm that provides background investigation services to the federal government, said it must terminate 344 people at its Hanover office by May so they can apply for work with the new contractor, a spokeswoman said.
The company, a unit of Constellis, a Reston, Virginia-based security services firm, notified the the Maryland Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation that those workers would lose their jobs April 30.
“Omniplex lost the contract at Hanover and the 344 employees have the right of first refusal with the new company,” said Suzanne Piner, director of marketing and communications for Constellis. “In order for the employees to apply with the new company, they need to be termed from Constellis.
“It is not a layoff, it provides them the opportunity to stay on the contract with the new company.”
In addition to background investigations for federal employment, Omniplex provides security services including armed and unarmed security to the federal government, particularly the intelligence community and Department of Homeland Security, according to its website.
Constellis acquired Omniplex in August 2017 to expand its security services work with the federal government. At the time, Omniplex reportedly employed about 3,800 people.
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11:30 a.m. Wednesday: This story has been updated with the company’s statement explaining it lost the contract and the employees need to be terminated so they can apply for work with the new contractor.<issue_start><issue_comment>Title: SyntaxError: expected XrefList
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Benoist Grossmann (France Digitale): "Entrepreneurs and investors: it's a mutual seduction"
This article was originally published by Céline Tridon.
As the 9th edition of France Digitale Day takes place on Wednesday 22 September 2021, the co-president of the organisation Benoist Grossmann looks back at the relationship between entrepreneurs and investors. How should it be built? What makes the difference? Explanations.
If we talk about investment, what is the current context?
Investment in France is very dynamic, thanks to the entrepreneurial ecosystem, which is doing well. There are some great entrepreneurial profiles and we are even starting to see more and more serial entrepreneurs. After all, serial entrepreneurs are the heart of Silicon Valley: they are people who start a business for the second or third time and who get better and better each time.
Thanks to this ecosystem, which is gaining in quality, there are more investors than before (seed funds, business angels, series A, series B or series C investors and even journalists who are interested in the sector).
Is this a dynamic that is boosted by digital?
Today, everything revolves around digital technology. In this sense, Covid has been a formidable accelerator of the digitalization of the economy. Experts agree that we have gained two years in the digital efforts of companies.
98% of the start-ups created come from the digital sector, which is not very capital intensive.
So is it easier to get started and create a business?
In this context, you need very little money to create a Poc (proof of concept). Starting up in the semiconductor or health industry, for example, requires several million euros. A digital company, on the other hand, can start with 500,000 or 1 million euros. You just have to see how the business performs and if it does well, then you