Dinner in half an Hour #2 By Milton Laene Araujo

Tortellini de La Nona, Jojo potatoes and Garden Salad

 

The secret of this Dinner is the Sauce for the Tortellini…

SAUCE de La nona – (De La nona is from Portofino Restaurant in Queens, NY.)

1-      In a sauté pan add 1 spoon of butter and small pieces of ham, ½ cup or less

2-      Cook it to taste… add a pinch of sugar – leave it aside.

3-      On another sauté pan add 2 spoons of butter and let it melt, (low fire)

4-      Add one cup of Half and Half – (or heavy cream –less in quantity and add milk)

5-      Mix it on butter and add grated cheese parmesan to that mixture and  keep stirring

6-      Taste it for salt (cheese is somehow salty). Turn off before it boils

7-      Mix drained sautéed ham into the mixture

8-      Mix half cup of peas (cannot be string beans, for it changes the taste too much).  

9-      While hot, mix it with Cooked-drained-tortellini.

10-   Decorate it with parsley when serving or leave it in the pan.

JOJO Potatoes

1-      Cut potatoes in large pieces – Quantity is up to you!

2-      Bring it to boil and cook it half way

3-      Drain it and place into a sauté pan with one spoon of butter

4-      Brown potatoes all sides (here you can add rosemary and any seasoning)

5-      Make sure it gets cooked completely here.

6-      The best way is to fry the potatoes in a deep fryer after it was boiled, then sauté with information on 4.

7-      Place it on a Pyrex and sprinkle grated cheese

Pasta and potatoes are two starches – therefore this Dinner is very fattening, but good! Eat with a garden salad to accelerate digestion.   

 

Garden Salad – Anything you can mix raw – such as the picture above

Bon Appetite

Milton Laene Araujo

Dinner in half an Hour #1 by Milton Laene Araujo

 

 

DINNER 1 by Milton Laene Aaujo

Potato Salad, Rice and Grilled Sausage

 

 

 

WHAT TO MAKE FOR DINNER?

Let’s make Rice, Potato Salad and grilled sausage…

RICE:

To make the best rice in the world one needs to follow these directions:

1-      Wash and rinse well (very well) 2 cups of rice.

2-      On a cooking pan add 2 spoons of vegetable oil.

3-      Add fresh garlic chopped finely into the heating oil.

4-      Add half soup spoon of salt

5-      Add rinsed rice into the pan and stir

6-      When it starts to sizzle, add 3 and half cups of water. (cold water is fine)

7-      Stir well and try the water to taste for salt. Add salt if necessary.

8-      The flavor of the water will be the end flavor of the rice.

9-      When it boils, turn the heat low and let it cook until without opening or stirring.

10-   With a spoon check if the bottom is cooked. If so, turn it off and let it sit covered.

POTATO SALAD:

To make the best potato salad in the world follows these directions:

1-      Peel four potatoes and cut into small cubes

2-      Meanwhile place a pan with water and a pinch of salt to boil

3-      Add potatoes into the hot water.

4-      Once cooked to softness desired, drain the potatoes and save the water

5-      Use the same water to cook one carrot in cubes.

6-      Boil an egg. Hardboiled egg in a separate pan

Dressing for Potato Salad

A-     Separate the yolk (cooked) and place it in a small bowl

B-      Add 4 spoons of vegetable oil

C-      Add one spoon of lemon juice or one lemon squeezed.

D-     Add 2 spoons of vinegar

E-      Stir constantly and add a pinch of salt

F-      Add to the mixture on spoon of mayonnaise Hellmann’s.

G-     Mix it well and taste it. It must be somehow strong.

This dressing can be made without using Hellman’s. In this case oil needs to be added little by little, but I recommend to add mayo to obtain the consistency, without any separation.

 

Preparing the Salad:

A-     In a small cut board dice some onions, green paper, or anything you have in the fridge that could be added to the salad.

B-      One spoon of corn and one spoon of peas will make it tasty  (optional)

C-      Mix all ingredients into a bowl.

D-     Add chopped egg white into mixture

E-      Add dressing and mix it well.

F-      Check for flavoring and add salt, pepper or paprika.

G-     Place the entire mixture into a nice bowl and serve it cold.   

 

SAUSAGE ON THE GRILL

1-      Have some fresh sausage ready for grilling

2-      If it is frozen, boil it for five minutes and drain it

3-      If it comes from another country, boil it before grilling. It will kill bacteria

4-      After it is boiled, place on the grill and observe

5-      ENJOY

6-      The secret of a great sausage is obtained by boiling it before grilling.

 

FAROFA

1-      Add on a fry pan one spoon of butter along with one spoon of white chopped onions. Salt and one small piece of bacon. Cook it until onions and bacon are done.

2-      Add Yucca Flower (Farinha de Mandioca) and stir constantly, so it will not burn.

3-      Taste it for salt, and enjoy it…

Milton Laene Araujo -

The perfect being

Science is knowledge! And as such, it must be taken very seriously.

After I read an article about down syndrome on Wikipedia I discovered that "Individuals with Down syndrome differ considerably in their language and communication skills. It is routine to screen for middle ear problems and hearing loss; low gain hearing aids or other amplification devices can be useful for language learning". ^86] For partial glossectomy (tongue reduction), one researcher found that 1 out of 3 patients "achieved oral competence," with 2 out of 3 showing speech improvement.

Why don't we have all children with down syndrome exposed to partial tongue reduction? If it will better their quality of life. If it may even help with thyroids problem, which of, in consequence brings obesity and all  sort of other problems.

On another related article, it stated that 91–93% of pregnancies in the United Kingdom and Europe with a diagnosis of Down syndrome were terminated.^[73] Data from the National Down Syndrome Cytogenetic Register .
In the United States a number of studies have examined the abortion rate of fetuses with Down syndrome. Three studies estimated the termination rates at 95%, 98%, and 87% respectively.^[73]

Medical ethicist Ronald Green argues that parents have an obligation to avoid 'genetic harm' to their offspring,^[76] and Claire Rayner, then a patron of the Down's Syndrome Association, defended testing and abortion saying "The hard facts are that it is costly in terms of human effort, compassion, energy, and finite resources such as money, to care for individuals with handicaps... People who are not yet parents should ask themselves if they have the right to inflict such burdens on others, however willing they are themselves to take their share of the burden in the beginning."^[77]

 Peter Singer argued that "neither haemophilia nor Down's syndrome is so crippling as to make life not worth living from the inner perspective of the person with the condition. To abort a fetus with one of these disabilities, intending to have another child who will not be disabled, is to treat fetuses as interchangeable or replaceable. If the mother has previously decided to have a certain number of children, say two, then what she is doing, in effect, is rejecting one potential child in favour of another. She could, in defence of her actions, say: the loss of life of the aborted fetus is outweighed by the gain of a better life for the normal child who will be conceived only if the disabled one dies".

This is far too much to digest in a simple page. It seems that science, capable of detecting a fetus with "abnormalities", jumps the gun in selling the tool of "detection" and prevention, forgetting that it needs to fix the abnormality.
For now, science needs to create a device that reverses the entire process of development of the chromosome that carries the abnormality.

Down syndrome disorders are based on having too many copies of the genes located on chromosome 21. In general, this leads to an over expression of the genes. Understanding the genes involved may help to target medical treatment to individuals with Down syndrome. It is estimated that chromosome 21 contains 200 to 250 genes. Recent research has identified a region of the chromosome that contains the main genes responsible for the pathogenesis of Down syndrome, located proximal to 21q22.3. The search for major genes involved in Down syndrome characteristics is normally in the region 21q21–21q22.3

If abortion is ever to be considered legal, from a law point of view, it would bring a pandemonium into people's lives, that can not ever be fixed. To begin, science and abortion will work side by side, eliminating from the face of the earth every fetus that has this or that abnormality. Scientists would become greedy and forget their principal objective, which is prevention of abnormalities by scientific means of resetting the DNA configuration of that particular abnormality.

Science needs to change its gears from corrective maintenance to preventive maintenance. Science now is stagnated in finding how to correct this or that disease, caused by this or that abnormalities. Scientists are more concerned in creating pills. For now science is working side by side with free market or capitalism. 

Science should only be used for the benefit of humans, and not for enrichment of enterprises. 

It is fair to say that scientists are able to manipulate an allele, which  is one of two or more forms of a gene or a genetic locus (generally a group of genes).^[1][2] The form "allel" is also used, an abbreviation of allelomorph. Sometimes, different alleles can result in different observable phenotypic traits, such as different pigmentation. However, many variations at the genetic level result in little or no observable variation.

A number of genetic disorders are caused when an individual inherits two recessive alleles for a single-gene trait. Recessive genetic disorders include Albinism, Cystic Fibrosis, Galactosemia, Phenylketonuria (PKU), and Tay-Sachs Disease. Other disorders are also due to recessive alleles, but because the gene locus is located on the X chromosome, so that males have only one copy (that is, they are hemizygous), they are more frequent in males than in females. Examples include red-green color blindness and Fragile X syndrome.
Other disorders, such as Huntington disease, occur when an individual inherits only one dominant allele.

Science needs to put more effort into modifying the composition of a defected allel. Science needs to get its priority straight.

By now we all - I mean, every individual should have a DNA identification, which would refer to a central global communication for all means related with law enforcement, forensics, and medical. Along with our identification, a daily reading of our blood content would indicate which nutrients are necessary for that day. Science should be more advanced than what it is now. We need good scientists. We need to praise the good ones, who are studying  prevention of abnormalities by manipulating genes, and not those more interested in creating a new pill to make this or that go away.

I am not against progress. I just do not appreciate when progress come in such a high cost for everyone.

By now we should have humans beings immune of any diseases, that can live at least 300 years with only one appearance, perfect weight, and controlled mood, etc. A perfect human being who was perfected to live in this environment by his fellow human, who used science to manipulate genes, creating pure-breads from within hybrids.

Can we get there, finally?

Milton

Texting and killing - Teen issues 2011 - by Milton Laene Araujo

The Internet was commercialized  in the 1990s and became an international network due to its popularization and its incorporation into virtually every aspect of modern human life. Coincidentally, at the same time cell phones emerged. Instant messaging became popular and so did texting, which refers to the exchange of brief written text messages between fixed-line phone or mobile phone and fixed or portable devices over a network.

Teens are text messaging at least forty times per day. Today, text messaging has been extended to include messages containing image, video, and sound content, therefore becoming a lethal weapon, and a necessary evil. Defamation, also known as libel is the communication of a written statement that makes a claim, expressly stated or implied to be factual, that may give an individual a negative image. Teens are sharing innuendos and defamation on twitter, also, sharing pictures of themselves nude, event worse, videos or anything of self risk.

Teenagers retaliate to groundless criticism with more vehemency.

Just recently, a teenager boy, 18 was arrested for making threats to his girlfriend via texting. After being bailed out of jail, he went back to his high school and killed his girlfriend, 17.

It has become common for teens to " text their anger away"  to whom and where they may. This is not only a teen problem, for it also includes parents of teens who are not up to date with technology, and parents and teens who experience the same technology advance. When parents lack Internet knowledge, teens are free to do whatever they want. When parents are aware of technology, both parents and children get wrapped up into all novelties of technology.

We are living in a society of selfishness. Families are broken and the lack of togetherness has battered the population.

Teens are learning everything virtually.

Internet laws are still trying to mature and gain shape. Whenever we are focusing on one hand-held device, and writing with the other hand, we are ready to ventilate.

 Both parents and teens are NOT in fault today but both need the same schooling, however, this school is in transition, or cannot keep up with technology. Schools of disciplining, and good manners is available online, but doesn't fit with with this change we are about to face.

In the near future schools - or a building for students to meet - will be available, but all classes will be virtual, therefore many will choose to take classes at home. More room for texting -.  Classes will be pre-recorded, and teaching will become a marketing for the fit.

How does one know the damages a text message can cause to another human being? Kids can be very cruel at times. Texting is a weapon that should be used to share information, and NOT to ventilate agony. But teens do it. People use texting to ventilate - or to promote themselves, like celebrities who text and share their whereabouts. This is a tool for a stalker. Yet, celebrities always want to share where they are, what they ate, etc. This is bad. People in general, (This year 2011), share via twitter wherever they are doing - I checked on the word bath just to check what was happening, and most of the people said that they were going to take a bath and go to wherever they were going. This is crazy, for any stalker or killer simply need to follow your messages...
Another teen caused brain damage to a classmate after she texted something related to his brother's suicide. He reacted to his emotions, and did not think.  Like texting - no need to think - whatever comes to mind can go there now!

When we refer to High Schools, they need a cell-phone tower as part of their building. This way any call will be connected with this same tower and communication will be controlled and semi-restricted.

Be careful if you are a teenager. Do not send "hating" text messages, for it can be the only thing the other person may have from you. Written word is immortal, and when used to defame, it can be hard and costly to repair. Be careful if you are a parent. Anything posted in any social media will stay there, and when one human being is exposed by others in a negative manner to the entire world, it is something we have no idea how disturbing can be. In this texting era, where grammar lost its power, and words became a gizmo of letters or abbreviations, is hard to let go off the past, It is hard to embrace an era where words get distorted, and start to live today.

Now we are collecting the fruit of what we planted in our society. It is an almost lost harvest. We can prepare for the next harvest by teaching moral examples to our kids and the truthfulness in the sentence " Treat others as you would like to be treated". Do not text hate messages. to anyone .

Milton Laene Araujo
Milton@ibt-eft.com

A good customer in a restaurant

A good customer expects good service. However, to be a good customer in a restaurant, or a good guest, one must be familiar with the ambiance and the required attire, and dress properly. To go out for dinner is supposedly a ceremony. It is to enjoy the company of a partner, the ambiance, the food, and the service.

• A good guest would not stop his conversation to pay attention to the waiter. A good guest knows what he wants. He clearly states to the server his needs, and understands that the server has other tables to take care of, simultaneously.   
• A good guest place his order and forgets about the server. A good guest doesn't have the need to worry about anything, other than enjoy his time.  
• A good guest doesn't request a selected server in a restaurant.
• A good guest expects everyone to serve the same way, with the same courtesy.
• A good guest returns to the same restaurant whenever possible.
• A good guest is gold.

In fine restaurants, servers would approach the table immediately after the guests are seated, and have a feel about the guest by informing them that bread and butter is on its way, and that he is interested to know if the table is going to drink still water, tap, or sparkling water with their dinner, and right after, the server asks if they would like to order a cocktail now, or if they prefer to look the wine list, or menu before deciding.  If a good guest is interrupted, they will not become a good customer. So, to be a good guest it is necessary to inform your server about the service you received. Not only when it was a positive experience, but all times. It is part of paying for a service. It is a "customer satisfaction information" done at that time verbally. 

In summary, to be a good guest in a restaurant one needs to dress up to have a great experience, where you would enjoy your time, without interruptions, and be served adequately, and not be forgotten. When tipping, take in consideration your experience, and be generous accordingly.

Milton