Requested Recipes: Coconut

Requested by Amanda.

Coconut Pancakes from Thai: The Essence of Asian Cooking, by Judy Bastyra

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Requested Recipes: Ube (Purple Yams)

Requested by Kelsey.

That is indeed a tricky one. None of my recipes seem to feature specifically Ube, so you get one of the few recipes I have that calls for true yams at all. It's from The Joy of Cooking.

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Requested Recipes: Ground Fennel

From The Spice Bible, by Jane Lawson

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Requested by Maren

I learned a new word.

So, while I was in Rome a couple of weeks ago, I picked a couple of the excellent Getty Imagery Guide books - Angels and Demons in Art (_not_ about the Dan Brown book), and Old Testament Figures in Art. Both extremely cool, fun to look through, and fascinating to me even though I've never been much of an artophile (whatever, that's totally a word now). Both guides are so excellent that I'm adding some other interesting ones from the same series onto my Amazon wishlist.

But! In the Angels & Demons guide, in the section about Charon, I learned a new word! An esoteric, rare word used to describe only a very particular thing, but a very interesting thing. This, for me, is the best kind of word. One that will set my heart to beating if I ever encounter it in print again, one that I will keep hidden in a side pocket in case I should ever chance to have a legitimate (ie not manufactured) opportunity to use it.

An obolus is a specific Greek coin, but it also means the coin put into a corpse's mouth during burial in order that they might pay Charon the passage across the river Styx. Obolus. I like it.

All Caps Scores & Answers

Thanks to all and sundry who played on the blog, on buzz, or on facebook. The very fact that I have my blog content propogated elsewhere made tracking scores a bit more complex than it should have been, and there might be an error or two in the final scoring, but I'm pretty sure it holds to the standard of everyone getting points for first mentions in their chosen mediums. If, not, they're only Fake Worthless Internet Points, right? Without further delay:

1. (43 Fwips) Davey Cruz
   
2. (40 Fwips) Eric Cooper
3. (32 Fwips) Rob Greene
4. (31 Fwips) Michelle Younce
5. (25 Fwips) Kenneth Yee
6. (20 Fwips) Anne Austin
7. (15 Fwips) Geary Younce and Matthew Crowley
8. (13 Fwips) William 'Wam' Atkins
9. (10 Fwips) Frank Manna and Nick Renfroe
   
10. (9 Fwips) Gabriel Soll
11. (6 Fwips) Karen J Cordano
12. (5 Fwips) Don Corcoran
13. (4 Fwips) Agatha Jenkins
14. (3 Fwips) Nathan Grow
15. (1 Fwip) Tona Hangen, Kelly Bresnahan, Akaemi Barnett

Congratulations to all of you! Many of you had correct answers that were just a little too late, and all of you would have scored higher if you were just taking it as a recognition test rather than a competition. On the whole, I was highly impressed with your abilities - I chose some pretty obscure frames from some of those films, and very few went fully unanswered. Here are all the answers from all the rounds, in case you care to go back and check yourselves:


Round 0 (No Fwips Awarded):

1. Brad Pitt in Troy
2. Olivia Hussey in Romeo and Juliet
3. Arnold in Conan the Barbarian
4. Cary Grant in North by Northwest
5. The end sequence from You Only Live Twice

Round 1:

1. Buster Keaton in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
2. Michael Caine and Sean Connery in The Man Who Would Be King
3. George Hamilton in Zorro, the Gay Blade
4. Eric Bana in Black Hawk Down
5. Sebastien Foucan in Casino Royale
6. George Lazenby in On Her Majesty's Secret Service
7. Yuji Okumoto and Brian Imada as the Howard Cosell racers in Better Off Dead
8. Kate Magowan in Stardust
9. Christopher Walken in Last Man Standing

Round 2:

1. Bob Hoskins in The Long Good Friday
2. Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon in Some Like it Hot
3. Carole Boquet in For Your Eyes Only
4. Sam Rockwell in Galaxy Quest
5. Rex Smith, Kevin Kline, et al in The Pirates of Penzance
6. Deep Roy in The Neverending Story
7. Sam Elliot in The Golden Compass
8. Emily Blunt in The Young Victoria

Round 3:

1. Nick Cage in Raising Arizona
2. Bing Crosby and Grace Kelly in High Society
3. Tim Curry, Mike McKean et al in Clue
4. Steve Martin in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
5. Richard Harris in The Count of Monte Cristo
6. Robert DeNiro in Ronin
7. Phoebe Cates and Rik Mayall in Drop Dead Fred
8. Ken Marshall, Liam Neeson, and Alun Armstrong in Krull
9. Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Nora Zehetner in Brick
10. John Goodman and John Turturro in Barton Fink

Round 4:

1. Audrey Hepburn in Roman Holiday
2. Tim Curry in Legend
3. Humphrey Bogart in The Big Sleep
4. Gabriel Byrne and J.E. Freeman in Millers Crossing
5. Arnold in Predator
6. Peter Weller in The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai: Across the Eighth Dimension
7. John Leguizamo in Romeo+Juliet
8. Stanley Tucci in A Midsummer Night's Dream
9. Sean Connery in Goldfinger

Round 5:

1. Russell Crowe and Ron Rifkin in LA Confidential
2. Rutger Hauer in Ladyhawke
3. Christian Bale in Empire of the Sun
4. Eric Bana and Brad Pitt in Troy
5. Sean Bean in Patriot Games
6. Tim Roth and Gary Oldman in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
7. Cory Feldman, Martha Plimpton, et al in The Goonies
8. Sir Ian McKellan and Jane Seymour in The Scarlet Pimpernel
9. Bogey again in The Maltese Falcon
10. Cate Blanchett in An Ideal Husband
11. Rupert Everett in The Importance of Being Earnest
12. Madeline Stowe in Last of the Mohicans
13. Paul Newman in The Sting
14. Owen Wilson and Jackie Chan in Shanghai Noon
15. Grace Kelly and Cary Grant in To Catch a Thief
16. Pete Postlethwaite, Steven Baldwin and Gabriel Byrne in The Usual Suspects
17. Al Pacino in Heat
18. Harry Hamlin, Burgess Meredith, et al in Clash of the Titans
19. Christopher Walken and Grace Jones in A View to a Kill

Any that you're kicking yourself for not recognizing? Which of these movies that you've seen do you enjoy most? Is there one that you want to see now based on this contest?

ALL CAPS FINAL MEGA ROUND

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Scores going in:

1. (24 Fwips) Eric Cooper
2. (23 Fwips) Davey Cruz
3. (22 Fwips) Michelle Younce & Rob Greene
4. (21 Fwips) Kenneth Yee
5. (20 Fwips) Anne Austin
6. (10 Fwips) Frank Manna
7. (8 Fwips) William Atkins
8. (6 Fwips) Karen Cordano
9. (5 Fwips) Don Corcoran
10. (3 Fwips) Nathan Grow
11. (1 Fwip) Nick Renfroe, Kelly Bresnahan, Gabriel Soll, Akaemi Barnett
    

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Fake Worthless Internet Points (FWIPs) after Round 4:

1. (22 Fwips) Michelle Younce


2. (19 Fwips) Kenneth Yee


3. (16 Fwips) Anne Austin


4. (15 Fwips) Rob Greene and Eric Cooper


5. (7 Fwips) Frank Manna


6. (6 Fwips) Karen Cordano


7. (5 Fwips) Davey Cruz and Don Corcoran


8. (3 Fwips) William Atkins and Nathan Grow


9. (1 Fwip) Kelly Bresnahan, Gabriel Soll, and Akaemi Barnett

CAPS ROUND 3 (Blog edition)

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Scores after Round 2:

1. (10 Points) Kenneth Yee & Michelle Younce & Anne Austin


2. (7 Points) Frank Manna


3. (5 Points) Don Corcoran


4. (4 Points) Davey Cruz


5. (3 Points) Rob Greene


6. (2 Points) William Atkins


7. (1 Point) Kelly Bresnahan, Nathan Grow, Gabriel Soll, Karen Cordano, Akaemi Barnett


8. (0 Points) Everybody else!

CAPS ROUND 2

Rules change! You may only participate by Commenting, Buzzing, OR Facebook - no checking others' answers outside your method please. Points will be awarded separately. Lets see how that works. Still, here are the standings from Round 1:

Don Corcoran: 5 points
Davey Cruz: 4 points
Michelle Younce: 3 points (I thought Jeff would've gotten the Buster Keaton pic first, but M got to it before he did!)
Anne Austin: 3 points
Rob Greene: 2 points
Frank Manna: 2 points
Akaemi Barnett: 1 point
Karen Cordano: 0 points under the old rules, but would've been 3 under the new. Thus: 1 point
Gabe Soll: 1 point (again, zero under yesterdays rules, but he deserves one)
Wam: No points for just saying you think you know sommat without proving it!

MORE CAPS

same rules: no internet searching. You may, however, pop a movie you own into your player and play it if you think you know but aren't quite sure. Lets say one point each for actor or movie, three points awarded for getting both right for each pic. First person to put it in comments either here or on FB gets the point(s). Davey Cruz is the man to beat from round 1. But since that was a warm-up round, no score awarded. This time it's for fake worthless internet points!